Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-08
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Johnny, is it right to say
measles are contagious or measles is
contagious? p" Johnny (who has had it,
Measles is mighty bad.'- Pittsburg
Chronicle.
A New YORK merchant estimates that
100000 bushels OF peanuts were con-
sumed in this country last year The
cost to the consumers was 100000,
fully half of which was profit.
A TRAIN on the Alabama & Great
Southern Railroad dashed through a
drove of fifty mules at Akron recently
and killed eight of them outright. The
locomotive kept on its way without leav-
ing the rails.
A STRANGE freak of nature was noticed
| recently III Gainesville, Fla. An orange
tree with dead and decayed limbs, from
| which the leaves had fallen months ago,
suddenly put forth new leaves and full
set of blossoms.
QUEEN VICTORIA owns the largest book
] ever bound. 1t measures eighteen
| inches across the back and weighs thirty
| pounds. 1t contains the jubilee adj
dresses of congratulation from members
OF the Primrose League.
New Boarder (who has got into wrong
room )-'Thish izh very ext'r'or-r-rd'
nary, for if thish izh my room an that
lzh my bed an there | am in my bed,
then who the devil izh carryin' 'roun'
thIsh lamp, 1 want er know Texas
Siftings.
The Hollencamp family, of Zenia, O.,
have pet coon. They also had lot of
fine chickens, but woke up the other
morning to find 80 of them stiff in death,
with their Threats cut and their blood all
gone. The coon was about looking
of hot
family could not make up their minds
whether he was guilty or not, and even
yet they think it might have been the
work of a weasel.
A WELL-KNowN artist of New York
tells story which will be of interest to
any one fond of psychical Investigations
He was sitting in his sleeping chamber
late at night reading a French novel,
when his wife, who had retired some
hours before, suddenly awoke and re-
lated dream which she had just had.
The dream was an exact counterpart
even IN detail-of the plot of the novel,
which the lady had never read.
SOME experiments have been made on
the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louis
vile Road on the use of natural gas on
locomotives. The gas under the natur-
al high pressure, $50 to $50 pounds to the
square inch, is stored in cylindrical
steel reservoirs and carried on special
car behind the tender. It is stated,
however, that natural gas, however
much compressed, is enormously more
bulky than coal for an equal heating
power.
A YOUNG man in Randolph County,
Mo-, wanted to marry Tyler OsbOrne's
daughter, but Mr.. Osborne objected. A
few evenings since, while there was
party at Osborne's house, the young
lover drove up to the door, and while
his friends held the old man, seized and
carried away the daughter. The pair
went to Marshall, were married and
started East on their wedding trip while
the old gentleman's wrath was still at
white heat.
S. L. TooKER, of Sag Harbor, n. Y.
has fine dog. During a recent biz
zard he and the dog were walking along
the beach when the wind suddenly cap
tured Mr.. lockers hat and sent it
whirling over the thin ice. The dog went
after the hat and broke through the ice.
Mr.. Tooker went after the dog and
shared the same fate, but he persevered,
although the thermometer was nearly
down to zero. and rescued the drowning
animal and swan ashore with him.
THERE died recently at Glenwood
Springs, Cal, most remarkable dog.
He was a Newfoundland and St. Ber-
nard, very large, weighing It's pounds,
and was Is years and months old when
he died. He used to carry his master
his dinner distance Of two miles, and
his mistress vouches for the feet that for
three years before he died he kept the
wood box filed with wood all the time.
He had great faith in the hot spring,
and would daily go for drink of hot
mineral water.
A 16-YEAR-oLD boy of Saunders Coun-
y, Neb., by his presence of mind saved
the lives Of five children during the
storm week ago. He went to the
school house after them with a sleigh.
On the way back the team he was driv
ing, mules, refused to go. He I'M
pitched them and turned them loose
and dug hole in the drift and put the
children in it and covered them up with
blankets and turned the box of the
sleigh over them. They passed the
night safely and got to the house
next day all right.
A CASE just reported in London papers
shows the possibility of spontaneous
combustion of the body of drunkard,
or at least that such body may be set
on fire by the mans breath coming in too
close contact with lighted candle or
AH'ICh. liz case JuoG II PO1 lCu 10 tudI
of the body of drunkard being
brought into Guys Hospital London.
His body was very much bloated. and
when punctured and lighted match
applied the gas which escaped burned
with the ordinary flame of carbureted
hydrogen. AS many as dozen of these
flames were burning at the same time.
A PRETTY young lady of Jamestown
has sealskin sacque and muff which
she is quite proud of, as they are the re-
suit of her own labors. After receiving
them she had full figure photograph
made, representing herself as out in a
snow storm, with her muff up to her
face, etc. A travelling representative of
a soap manufacturing firm saw the pic
ture, admired it, got acquainted with
the lady, secured a copy OF the photo
graph, had Autograph made of it,
which is now used to advertise his
goods.
NICHOLAS VINCENT, who lives near Lon
donville, o., has been a soldier in his
time and carried several musket balls
in his BODY which he received in differ