Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-16
By THE WAY.

a Riverside (Cal.) firm.
| A PENNSYLVANIA schoolboy defines
the word "barnacle" as ga tramp who
sleeps IN a barn."
| A SOUTH CAROLINA man drank a quart
of whisky to deaden the pain while
having tooth extracted.
A SPRINGFIELD, O., man has been
making the rounds of the pawnshops
trying to pawn set Of false teeth.
A New YORK snake dealer says that he
has sold l 200 snakes this season, rang
ing in prices from $50 to 5000 each.
| A HORSE that was sick with lung fever
at Manchester, n. H., was fed on milk
Tor week. He came out all right.
A TON of ropes made from the hair Of
the women of Japan, is used in building
the S3,OOO,0 900 Buddhist temple at KiOto.
IF man received So day, and saved
every cent of it, 900 years would elapse
before he could be master of 81 900 900.
TwENTY-oNE suicides have taken place
from Clifton Suspension Bridge, En-
gland, since its opening in December,
| 1864.
A BOY II years old died in Tamaqua,
Pa, recently from enlargement Of the
heart caused by excessive cigarette
smoking.
| an dCIOHIO COF0TluS ItO dCI0S Is re-
| ported by telegraph from Litchfield,
Grayson County, KY. Joe Mulhatton is
evidently abroad.
| MASSACHUSETTS has a new law which
prohibits the sale of liquors on Fast
Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day
and Christmas Day
| A BARBER at Suez, Ariz., while shaving
man was seized with an attack of
| hOmicidal mania and cut MS customers
| throat from ear to ear.
| AT Tilton, ILL.,, there was man who
lived outdoors under an umbrella all last
winter, even when the thermometer
touched 22 degrees below zero.
THERE are seventy-seven pupils, of
whom thirtytwo are boys, in the In
| dian school at Wabash, Ind. Nearly all
of them are members Of the Sioux tribe.
THE latest substitute for the rabbit
| foot, the buckeye and the other curious
charms the possession Of which is sup
posed to insure good luck is the bat liv-
er.
A PUBLISHER, who uses 100000 en-
! velOpes year, has sailed for Germany
after 20, 000, 900 envelopes, with which he
| proposes to crush the envelope monop-
| oily.
THERE is said to be only one survivor
of once powerful Indian tribe in Cali
| fornia. When he dies the language
spoken by the tribe will become ex-
! tinct.
THREE old ladies of Xenia, O., have
met their death during the past few
weeks in the same manner. Each fell
and dislocated her hip and died from
the injuries.
In Dawson County, Georgia, man
while out fishing caught a six-pound
trout, an eel three and one-half feet
long, and killed rattlesnake six feet
| long, having 6fty-six rattles.
| SCIENTIFIC American: One of the best
and simplest remedies for torpid liver
or biliousness is glass of water with the
no sugar, night and morning.
LAWRENCE CoRCoRAN and wife, a hard
working couple at South Orange, n. j.,
| have proved up their claims 10 $780,,
900 interest in an estate of 81 800, 900
left by E1rs. Ellen Blake, of England.
A Swiss engineer named Ritter wants
the city of Paris to adopt his plan for
! obtaining an ineXhaustible supply Of
water from the lake of Neufchatel,
| Switzerland, 312 miles away. The cost
would be $6O,000,000.
EDWARD FARNHAM, lad of fifteen, at
North Newport, Me-, got a shot at
| number of crows few days ago and
| killed six at one discharge Of his gun.
| This, it is said, discounts all previous
records at crow killing.
A HANDSOME relic of the Mound
Builders, consisting of a piece of car
nelian beautifully carved in the shape
of boat. was recently dug up near
Alton, ILL., It is about five inches long
! and a gem of artistic lapidary work.
A New YORKER who has been staying
at Saratoga hotel was asked to step in
| to strange lady's room and turn on the
steam. She locked the door, demanded
| 500 or threatened to scream, and he
handed over the cash and walked
| humbly out.
A HUMAN skull was disinterred by well
diggers in Haskell County, Kansas, re-
| Gently at depth of 1876 feet beneath the
earths surface. Remains of fish and
sea reptiles have been found on several
occasions at various depths in the same
neighborhood.
A FEW DAYS since A. Bolton, of Mala-
bar, Fla, found fine large deer tightly
wedged in deep sluice used to drain
the muck beds a few rods back of his
residence. The drain was only about
two feet wide, but very deep. and the
animal had been unable to extricate
himself
AN anniversary thief, as he has been
termed, invades Portland, Me. On April
%, 1884, he broke into store in Port
land, but was captured and put away.
On Sunday last-four years after to the
day-he again set about robbing the
same store. For a second time he fell
into the hands of the police, one of
whom assisted at his first arrest.
BALKAN HARDIN, serving upon the
grand jury of the Dawson, Ga, superior
Court, wore broadcloth dress coat of
the Prince Albert style, bought by him
in the city of New York on his way
home from California in 1860, % years
ago. Mr.. Hardin has worn the coat Oh
occasions regularly ever since. The
coat presents a neat appearance, being
sound and scarcely break upon it. 1t
cost him then $25.
A CALIFORNIA tramp has novel meth
Cd of getting money. He fixes up his
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