Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-12-12
MORE LOCAL.

Congressman Guenther is a candi-
date for appointment as recorder of deeds
of the District of Columbia, place worth
$4,000 year.
Gen. E. S. Bragg, who, many persons
supposed, had gone back TO Mexico, still
fingers in Wisconsin,. He arrived at his
home at Fond du Lac, Saturday, from
Washington and on his way stopped in
Milwaukee to have bis disabled eye
treated.
Carl ,Schurz has accepted the offer of
the Hanburg-American packet line, to
become its resident director in this coun-
try. This will be more satisfactory in its
results to Mr. Schurz that the partnership
be formed with Cleveland in the civil-ser-
vice reform business.
AT the annual meeting of Henry Ber-
tram corps, No. So, of Oconomowoc, last
Wednesday, high compliment was paid
to its past officers by their unanimous re-
election. The corps large efficient men,
bership, numbering go, is owing largely
to the harmonious and intelligent CO.
operation of their president, Mary G. Mil
Ter, and the head of their executive COM
mittee, Electa Hadley. Over 800 was
raised by the ladies to fit up the post hall
for their "boys."
Edward Keogh, assemblyman-elect
from Milwaukee, will introduce a bill
in the coming legislature for the abolish
ment of con Vict labor at present in vogue
ir the state prison. At present the state
prison inmates are farmed out to Wells
& Co., Chicago, for the manufacture of
boots and shoes. Their present contract
expired year ago, but they will run un-
der the old contract until it is decided
whether the system shall be continued
The prisoners manufacture 100000 pairs
of boots and shoes each year.
An ordinary person is feet inches
high, weighs 136 pounds, has 5000 ac-
quaintances, walks miles a day, earns
$40 week, has eighteen ounces of brain
matter, breathes Is times minute taking
in one pint Of air each breath, is good
looking, can lift $50 pounds, lives so
years, lays by a small fortune, can write
% words minute, can live five minutes
without air, 10 days without sleep, 6 days
without water. is subject to 1000 different
diseases, certain of nothing, and very
likely to miss street car when in hur-
ry.-Er.
As this is the time of the season when
nimrods are cunning for rabbits it may
be of interest to those who eat them to
know that they are not all right this year.
A special from Abrams says that four out
of every five rabbits killed and marketed
here this season are unfit for the table,
A close examination will reveal large ul-
GERS somewhere on the carcass, sometimes
in the region of the kidneys and in others
in the hams next to the bone or along the
backbone, often located in the flesh where
they would not be noticed unless thor
oughly dissected. A contagious disease
has been known 70 exist among the rab-
bits the past summer and the scarcity of
rabbits this fall is attributed to it,
Columbus Democrat.
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