Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
PICKED UP.

FKCAED UP.
BALTIMORE people read by gas that
costs only fifty cents per thousand
| feet.
THERE are twenty lime-kilns
Alabama that turn out 81 900 barrels
daily. 0''
ABOUT three tons of yarn are used
every year in the manufacture of base
| balls.
THIRTY-FoUR salt wells have been put
down IN Wyoming County, N, Y, this
| year.
SUGAR-CANE has been successfully
raised near San Luis Obispo, CAL, this
season.
SEVENTEEN out Of the thirty eour can
dldates for aldermen in New York were
liQuor-dealers.
THE raisin growers of California ex-
| peet to make an average of $500 an
acre this year.
AN Ohio widow accuses her son of
having sold the body Of her dead hus-
band to medical college.
For the first time in thirty-three
years the city of Concord, N. H, has
| SAOOOSOA " DChAOOA cbC4O lACyO1s
On the Dalrymple farm, in Cass
County. Dakota. $50 acres of land are
being plowed over every day.
SOME ladies' boots shown in Bog-
ton shop window are 500 q pair.
The buttons look like diamonds.
| JUSTICE MANSFIELD, of Verona, n.
Z, is the Oldest justice of the peace in
the United States, being 81 years old.
! ANOTHER large ostrich farm is to be
established in California, this time at
Coronado Beach, San Diego County.
| The last one of the famous herd of
Arizona camels have been captured
and is now in confinement at Phoenix.
CUBAN planters keep g. snake called
the mals for the purpose of catching
rats, which duty IL faithfully performs.
ACCORDING to q recent estimate there
are twice as many pet dogs owned in
New York City as there were one year
ago.
WHY is it that a woman always
takes g. joke seriously, and yet is fain
to giggle at a remark intended by the
speaker in sober earnest ?-L0WeH
(Mass.) Courier.
So far as the morning glories are
concerned, it is a we'll known fact that,
I instead OF opening in the morning.
they open during the early hours of
the night-not later, as q rule, than
10 o'clock.-New Orleans Times Demo.
crat.
AN elderly lady returning to Santa
Cruz on the narrow gauge train the
other evening lost her hat while look
ing out Of the window, and when she
again looked out to see where her hat
went to her false teeth dropped to the
ground.-San Francisco Alta.
SwARMs of whiting, Or, as they are
sometimes called, presidential fish, be-
cause their visits occur once in four
years, are now in the river and are
being caugh in large quantities. They
have remarkable appetites and bite at
anything --Providence Journal.
EIGHT millions of umbrellas are made
in this coantry every year. Half g.
million are imported from France.
This makes about one umbrella TO
every seven persons. One person buys
the umbrella; the other SIX steal it
| from him and use it.--Pittsburg Dis
patch.
RICHARD KNOWLES, of Milton, has in
his garden g. tree which he grated
some four years ago and which in 1884
bore pears on one branch, Craven
stems on another, and Bishop Pippins
on another. This year the branch
that bore pears is laden withsmall APP
ples.-Liverpool Nova ofal Times.
THE boy said: "The man at the lit
tie end of the horn has the advantage,
for he can blow it," But political
candidates who have emerged from
that orifce do not usually feel like
| blowing for some time afterward, and
| that is where the public has the ad-
vantage Chester penny News.
TIE division of labor and improved
machinery are doing away with the
thorough learning of trades. When
the present generation of shoemakers
and blacksmiths are dead it will be
hard work to find g. man who can
make complete boot or make
| horseshoe and nails and then shoe the
horse properly.
| A LADY and her husband in Green
wicn entertained some friends O. few
evenings since. When they were at
| tea they were talking about children,
and made the discovery that of the
Blk couples pr0ocut dii vi WuCm were
married and ranged from 30 to 65
years of age, none had ever had chill
dren.-Cambridge Post.
| A NURSE girl in Newark desired to
walk with her beau, and SO she left
2-year-old baby in it's cart in q park.
The mother came along and took the
child in, and when the girl returned
she simply said: ga man chlOBoformed
me and run off with the Child. but you
can probably get it back by advertis-
| ing, Can 60 to the ball tonight Pr
| Detroit Free Press.
ABNER PHILLIPS, a former citizen of
this county, now deceased, had born
to him 10 sons, to aii of whom hegave
names beginning with the letter A, as
| follows: Alpheus, Andrew, Albert, liv-
ing In Colorado; Allen, Aston, Armand,
Ambrose, Abel, living IN this county;
Alfred, living In this county, and
Aaron. All except Aaron lived to
manhood.-Mllton (Ga.l Democrat.
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