Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
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IN Searsport, Me-, are 131 sea
captalns-one to every three voters.
The last week in Januerv 90 oee
persons received parish relief in Lon.
don. -1o'i
CINCINNATI will put down 81 ,Ooo 600
worth OF granite block street pave
ment the coming summer.
The ''gold bugs in New York are
represented by 1,165,OOO depositors
IN savings banks, having $4OO,OOO,-
600.
OUIDA says if the Venus de Medici
could be animated into life, woman
would only remark that her waist was
large.
THE only countries in Europe which
are governed by native rulers are Port
ugal, Turkey, and the several German
kingdoms.
SOME parts of Georgia are so infested
with deer and wild turkeys that the
people have to drive them out of the
fields to preserve their crops.
A GIRL in Cedar Rapids, Neb., 9
years old, the other day wrote an &C
count OF q children's party, set it up
In type and corrected the proof.
The Nebraska City saloon-keepers
have all signed an agreement not to
sell liquor to any man who is known
to have signed the temperance pledge.
The names of the 'efour Americans
recently ordered out of Germany do
not have an altogether Plymouth-rock
sound. They are Barren, Jens, Jurgen-
sen and lessen.
AN officer of the United States court
says that not more than one in TWEEN
ty of the illicit distillers arraigned be-
fore that court can write their names.
ATLANTA Constitution.
THERE is q gun owned by gentle
man in Athens, Ca, that was captured
by Sergt. Jasper from the British in O.
fight in South Carolina. The gun has
1775 marked in the stock.
AN English conservative member of
parliament is in great trouble, because
he invited the leading ward workers
to dinner, and then forgot to provide
the dinner or to be present himself.
SUNLIGHT has been put to an odd use
in Brussels. Failing on small shaft
the rays cause an upward draught of
air which sets fan in motion, and
that, in turn, starts machinery that
winds g. clock.
THERE are q vast number Of houses,
both old and new, in London and it's
moment upon very slight provocation,
and whose collapse would be attended
with the most serious results.
The Popular Science News asserts
that the average length of life is con-
stantly increasing, and the time may
yet come when persons 100 years old
will excite no more curiosity than one
80 years old at the present time.
THE following figures show the total
arrivals at the Jacksonville, Fla, ho-
tells for the five months ended March
1 during the seasons of 1928,
1884-'85, 1866, in the
order named: 24,911, 31,357, &c.
O72, 1880.
On new fire alarm bell at Cuthbert,
Ca, will be cast the names of the may
or, council, and city officers, together
with "Beck and the cart" Beck, the
faithful mule, has served the city for
twenty years, and this is a memorial
OF her services.
EsOTERIC BUDDHISM is said to be get
ting firm foothold in Boston, says
the Savannah News; not that the Bos-
ton people really believe in any of it's
but they are charmed
with it's mysterious learning and
splendid jsrgon.
A FORMER resident of Wolfe Island,
says the Toronto Mail, who settled in
Kansas returned last spring to Canada,
driving the entire distance He has
just started with his wife and family
on his return Journey in the same man
ner, equipped with q horse, cutter and
wagon.
ONE of the most remarkable pictures
in the Paris "salon" this year will be
an episode of the English campaign IN
the Soudan. 1t represents the Mehdi
seated in his tent receiving thehomage
Of his chiefs, who have brought with
them load of British soldiers heads
freshly decapitated.
MRS. CRAWFORD, the Divorce in the
Dixie case, is g. very pretty woman, as
is her sister, the widow of the late
Ashton Dixie, Sir Charles brother.
Sir Cha1l les first wife was also a re-
beautiful woman, an Irish
lady, a Miss She'll. He has an only
son by her, now IL years old.
JOHN SIMMONS, of Forsyth, Ca, in a
sudden fit of insanity, thinking he was
being pursued by enemies, jumped into
the Ocmulgee River, and remained
there, with the water up to his neck,
until discovered by duck hunter,
5wenty-four hours later. He seems to
suffer little inconvenience from his
bath.
The statement is made that all the
varied machinery of Great Britain now
operated by steam power Is capable
Of performing more work, and hence of
creating more products than could be
produced by the labor Of 4OO,OOO,OOO
able-bodied men, a greater number
than all the able-bodied men on
earth.
THE general detailed map of the
United States, proposed and already
begun by the Geological Survey, will
De upon the scale of about four miles
+bo inch