Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
PICKED UP.

A SAN DIEGO, CAL, man prophesies q
second deluge in 1892. Who will take
the place of Noah?
A FATHER of a large family has con
cluded that sleep is the only item of
living which costs nothing.
In Philadelphia, the center of quinine
manufacture, the price of that drug
has dropped 10 cents an ounce.
BY recent act of the Oregon legis-
lature women are admitted to the bar
and can practice in all the courts.
IT is proposed in Paris to erect g.
velodrome, covered track for bicy-
cles and their three wheeled kindred.
THE gin palaces and beer shops of
London, if placed side by side, would
form row seventy Eight miles long.
AN Irish Wesleyan preacher lately
informed his congregation that in
future their annual contributions
would be taken up quarterly.
SINCE the Brooklyn bridge was
opened, May rs, 1883, 38,418,366
persons have dropped their pennies in
the toll-box to pay for crossing.
IT is said to cost 10Y cents per
bushel more to ship wheat from Port
land, Ore, to Liverpool than from
Tacoma to the same destination.
THE prematurely weary youths of
fashionable society now call the after
noon teas ''gimlets," because don't
you know. "they are such BORE"
Nor more than one-ffth of the iails
of Georgia are supplied with fires, even
in the most severe weather. Conse-
quently the mortality in them is large.
A MILLION dollars, it is said, will
weigh q tons in gold, Is tons in sub
sidiary silver coin, 26% tons in stand
ard silver coin, and 100 tons in nickel.
AN effort will be made in the Wash
ington Territorial legislature, now in
session, to repeal the woman suffrag
law.
A BOSTON schoolma am pasted paper
over the mouth of little girl who so
far forgot the rules as to sing during
school hours.
A MASS of granite, 100000 tons in
weight, was displaced by single blast
not long since on the Iron Mountain
Railroad in Missouri
HE is bold explorer who essays to
reach the summit of Mount Owen
Stanley, thirteen thousand feet high,
and hitherto untrodden by the foot of
man.
A PEAR that weighs 21a pounds and
measures 14Hb inches the short way
round and 18H inches the longway has
been raised in Shasta County, Cali
fornia.
THE Galveston Civilian, the oldest
newspaper in Texas, was sold at auc-
tion the other day, and ended it's ex-
istence after a. career of thirty.fve
years.
OF the 966 bills which became laws
in the last congress, $50 were of a
strictly private character and could
have been disposed of in the court of
claims.
CREMAToRY is usually mispro-
nounced. The first syllable is pro-
nounced krem, with the short sound
like gem. But it is just as hot one
way as the other.
A MAN who died recently in the Sum-
NIT County infrmary near Akron, o.,
had for a long time prior to his death
been in the habit of taking q pint OF
laudanum every four days.
READING, Pa, is an old and rich
town, where most families own houses
and everybody is comfortable and
happy, but there is not millionaire
residing within it's corporate limits.
AS late as 1888 a child of 9 was
sentenced to be hanged in England for
poking stick through a patched-up
pane of glass and stealing pence
worth OF paint, but he was not exc
cuted.
THE young lady, Miss Jones, of High
land, Ulster County, N. Y, who re-
ceived $4,000 for an act of kindness
to an elderly lady in New York City,
has received eleven letters asking her
hand in marriage.
WHEN the king of the New Zealand
Maoris was in England he promised
to work for temperance reform among
his people. He seems to have kept his
word, for it is now announced that
more than IL 900 of his subjects wear
the blue ribbon of teetotalism.
A RESIDENT of Western territory
recently sent East to charitable or
ganization for a toothbrush. He said
it was impossible to purchase such an
article in his region, and, to show his
ability to buy inclosed sufficient money
for the much-desired luxury.
THE other day man wanted to bet
that u half dozen men could not be
found in Waycross who knew which
was the fourth commandment. On
passing the question around it was
answered in ten different ways ard
only one was right.-Maeon (Ga.) Tel
egraph.
A NEW HAVEN boy recently, 'sfor
fun," inserted an advertisement in
local paper for husband. A Western
farmer answered it, and the young
man wrote at length, describing HIM
self as a handsome, middle aged VIC
man, with long bank account. The
Granger came on last week to see the
woman. He is now after the young
man with suit for fraud and loss of
time and money.
YESTERDAY afternoon while playing
Qt tho oohno1 uOnrn