Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-06
POINTS OF FACT.

1dHS May
IT is said about 10000 type writer's are
sold yearly.
OLIVE oil is being made Of California
mustard seed.
PEARL and silver whistles, for calling
ones dog, are for sale.
THINGS to take the 'sbag'' out of panta-
loon knees are being peddled.
An apple tree II feet Z in girth is
shown in Seneca County, ONO
A CONTRACT is about to be let for
100000 cathedral at Chattanooga.
4 TIGER weighing $50 pounds can car
~ off a horse weighing 1850 pounds.
A CAT became mad and bit several
people in Decatur, Ala, quite badly re-
Gently.
THE custom for ladies to carry walk
inc sticks is once more becoming fash
ionable.
THERE is a clergyman in England
named Straight whose curate is named
Crooked.
THE egg product of this country is
estimated to be 457 100000 dozens, 40
eggs to each fowl.
THERE is said to be popular dime
novelist who has killed one million In
dians-in his stories.
i FORTY pound beaver was captured
near Cimarron last week-thought to be
the last of its kind in Kansas.
PHOSPHATE beds twelve feet in thick
ness have been discovered on lands in
the Alligator Greek (Fla.) vicinity.
A SPANISH priest recently inherited
G3O. 900, and gave it to the Vatican in
exchange for plenary indulgence.
A MAN in Connecticut, who built a
fancy barn, stole eight tombstones
from q grave yard to build his managers.
IN the state of Maine there are $4,000
pounds of ground wood fiber and 1885,,
900 pounds of chemical wood fiber made
daily.
THERE were 26,945 students in the
twenty German universities during the
last session. Of these, 1,643 were for
eigners.
THE bar steward of the steamship
Alaska says that on one trip from the
United States last summer his receipts
Melted s., 500 in seven days.
A CARELESS messenger boy lost two
checks on Wall Street. New York, the
other day. The checks aggregated &c.,
600, but were not Endorsed.
IT may be interesting to chess players
TO know the origin of the word check
mate" 1t is literally the Arabic es-
claeik mat. the sheik king is dying.
A CURIOUS Jewish tradition reports
that Adam was entirely clothed in a
hard, horny skin, and only lost it and
became subject to evil spirits on losing
Paradise.
FRED w. AVER, of Bangor, Me-.
caught a magnificent 27-pounder, the
largest salmon which has ever been
caught there with fly He also took
another weighing % pounds.
JUsT as the doors were about to be
opened at the Theater de PAlham bra.
in Brussels, the enormous chandelier
fell with a fearful crash. No one was
hurt, but the performance had to be
postponed.
4 YOUNG lady in Atlanta stepped to
window to look at young man passing
by, and just then large piece of plaster
ing fell down on the chair she had va
Gated. Had she kept her seat she
would have been killed.
A NURSE recently cleaned a glycerine
bottle with nitric acid, and the bottle
exploded, inficting several severe in
iuries. Nitric acid and glycerine form
a lively compound called nitro glycer-
inc which won't be pounded with i'm
punity.
4 CHICKEN was killed at the farm of
Mr.. McFadden, on the Big Potlach,
near Cameron, Idaho, last week, and
when the craw was opened piece Of
gold was found about the size of a pea.
A turkey was also killed having pieces
of gold in its craW.
THE new Inman steamship, the City
of New York, is warranted by her build
ers to be unsinkable. That is one con-
dition laid down in the contract by the
company was that she should be I'M
sinkable, although she is of iron and has
capacity oil 10, $50 tons.
GABRIEL NAN-WoG-GYAH, a chief of the
Pottawatt0mies who died at the Sacred
Heart Mission the other day, was re-
puted to be 125 years old. Some of the
most aged members of the tribe remem-
Der that when they were children he
was the father of a grown-up family.
PERHAPS the wealthiest woman in her
own right west of the Mississippi is Mrs.
Warren, a Colorado lady who really de-
serves the title of cattle queen. A cor
respondent says that her fortune is at
least Sl0,0000O0, IN "hard, solid cash,
every cent of which she made on cat
tle.''
A NEW YORK business man has novel
method of refreshing his memory.
When he has something important to
attend to the next day, he writes him.
self postal card, reminding him of the
matter, and, finding the card among the
mali the next morning, ATTENDS 10 1t the
first thing.
SOME lads who discovered bird S nest
under the roof of railroad bridge IN
Findlay, O., found that il contained not
eggs, but silk handkerchief, in which
were wrapped three dozen plain gold
rings. The jewelry was given to the
chiei of police so that he might, if posi-
bic, discover the owner.
THE smallest circular saw in practical
use is a tiny disc about the size of Brit
ISL shilling which is employed for cut
ting the Sits in gold pens. These saws
are about as thick as ordinary paper,
and revolve some 1900 times per min
ute. The high velocity keeps them
rigid, notwithstanding the thinness.
Mrs. FRALY GooDIN, of Sharpsburg, n.
C., was poisoned in a strange way the
other day. She was taken violently i'll
after drinking cup of tea, and an ex-
ordination chouoI dead snIdQr in the