Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-04
PICKED UP.


$50 feet in height.
The temple of Belus at Babylon is
said to have been 666 feet high.
The tower of Babel is supposed to
have reached the height of $50 feet.
A PEAT deposit, forty acres in ex-
tent and seven feet deep, has been
found near Neigh, Neb.
EVENING high schools are now pro-
vided for cities of $4,000 or more in
habltants In Massachusetts,.
EIGHTEEN bumblebees, twenty-five
wasps, or thirty eight ordinary honey
bees contain poison enough to kill an
adult.
THE plenisphone, an instrument
that unites the tones of the violin,
viola, cello and double bass, is re-
Cent invention of q Buffalo musician.
THE highest monolith is the obeliak
at Karnak, in Egypt. The obelisk is
ascribed to Hatasu, sister of Pharaoh
Thothmes Ill, who reigned about
1900 B. G. The whole length is 1872
feet and it's weight 400 tons.
A CONSIDERABLE industry is now
carried on in Europe in the manu-
facture OF picture frames from paper.
Paper pulp, glue, linseed oil and car
Donate of lime, or whiting, are mixed
together and heated into thick
cream, which is run into molds and
hardened. The frames are then gilded
or bronzed.
The female lace-makers of Saxony
are wretchedly underpaid, the best of
oh %0 10
than about so cents q week. And yet
great many easy-going, prosperous
people IN Saxony are surprised at the
audacity of these poor artisans in
presuming to complain, and call them
Anarchists.
The largest library is the Biblio-
theque National in Paris, founded by
Louis XIV. 1t contains 1,4OO,O 900
volumes, 100000 pamphlets, 49,
600 manuscripts, 100000 maps and
charts, and 100000 coins and med
ais. The collections and engravings
exceed /, 100000, contained in some
10000 volumes.
J. N. PEED of Jasper, Mo-, had 12O
acres of corn adjoining a. wheat field
which had been devastated by chincE
bugs. He ploughed G. trench around
the corn field, and for fourteen days
hauled q log through the trench, and
thus saved the corn. The bugs
but they never got out. The log did
the business.
FORTY years ago Josiah Mccoy left
his home in Portsmouth, Va, and his
parents never heard of him again.
Twenty-Five years later his brother
Frank settled in Savannah. The
other day the brothers, who are now
so and 81 years old, met for the first
time in forty years. The runaway
Josiah has become O. fourishing orange
grower in Florida.
A YOUNG tornado went through q
Danbury, Conn, bayfield, the other
diameter, but it caught young man
on it's outer edge, carried him several
feet, and dashed him to the ground.
Then it seized q good-sized haycock
fairly in it's clutches, turned it upside
down, and then carried it, spinning
like q top, at least $50 feet into the
air, landing it on an adjacent hill.
Two months ago a buck broke it's
leg on New York farm. Adoctor set
the leg, and the bone knitted together
all right, but the igament Of the knee
which was injured, failed to heal, and
it was decided to try amputation to
save it's life. The operation has been
performed. The deer was chloro-
formed and theleg taken off two inches
above the knee. The animal will
no no
three legs.
A SMALL New England negro named
j Johnson ran away several years ago,
slept in the woods, and froze both feet,
so that one had to be amputated and
the other was mutilated. Some char
liable women of Pittsfeld, Mass, COL
lected g. sum of money and put it in
the savings bank, subject to his or
der when he became OF age. Johnson,
who now lives in Danbury, drew the
money a few days ago. 1t amounted
to $1,7OO.
IF Florida mas many more boys like
Mortimer and Roland Bunting, of
Madison, her future is assured. These
little fellows-they are 13 and IL
years old-nave this year rented
twelve acres of land and planted it
with corn and cotton, have worked the
crops carefully, and have good pros
poets of AN abundant yield. This be-
sides raising enough vegetables to sup
ply the large family of their father,
who is an invalid.
IT is told in Waterbury, Conn.,, that
g. well known business man of that
town prepared to build g. handsome
dwelling, and awarded the contracts.
During &, recent kirmess there his for
tune was told by one of the alleged
gypsies, who warned him to give up
the project, else death would claim
him. If the house should not be built,
long life and happiness awaited him.
Next day the merchant withdrew the
contract, and nothing further has been
done about building the new house.
MISS FEANY WHEEL, of Sacramento,
asked Jacob Kline, a cornet PLAYER in
the First Artillery band, to marry
ner. Although he ought to have done
30, he refused, brutaliy, and laughed
when in despair she threatened him.