Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-12-18
PECULIAR FACTS.

One thousand silver dollars weigh
Il pounds.
THERE are five New Yorks. nine Phil
adelphiss and twelve Bostons in the
United States.
JOHN HORN, of Orrville, O., is feet 4
inches high, weighs 335 pounds, and is
y years OF age.
A WHEELING inventor is at work upon
watch which is expected to run a
month without winding.
The term "speak easy" applied to a
drinking place without license, has be-
come popularized in Philadelphia.
THE Nellor & Rittenhouse Company,
q Philadelphia concern, has failed on
account of the low price of licOrice.
A WEST VIRGINIA paper advocates the
using of the public school money for
two years to build roads and bridges.
GEO. MoLLENKoFF, of Pendleton, Or,
found on his ranch the bones OF a mas
todon that must have been IA feet high.
HICKORY nuts were never 80 abundant
in Missouri as this year. Five car loads
were recently shipped from Montgom-
cry County to New York.
FORMER, the Riley County (Kas.)
treasurer who skipped to Canada, had
forty bondsmen, and he stuck them for
an even thousand apiece.
AN auctioneer at Bath, Me-, disguised
at the low price offered for his goods,
sarcastically put up a 80 bill, which
was promptly bid off at $3.50.
THERE is farmer in Kansas who has
received 81, 65O in premiums this year
on agricultural exhibits which he has
made in three different states.
In ii little town of Schleswig-Hols
Germany, there is a tax exemption for
dogs "that sleep with their masters and
mistresses and so preserve them from
govt, rheumatism, and like palms,"
Two Beatrice, Neb., men have patent
ed portable cora husker, which is
drawn through the fields and husks the
corn as clean as could be desired. 1t
is claimed it will husk twelve acres a
day.
THAT Athens, Ca. brother who left
SlOO to every clergyman who would off,
than he supposed. Thirteen dominies
managed to drop a chaplet on his
bier.
The big dog he was fondling in bis
arms saved the life of a gunner at Pitts
burg by Interceptlng a stray bullet
which would have entered the mans
body had not the dog received it. The
animal was killed instantly.
LITTLE BESSIE KEN, of Philadelphia,
some time ago wrote q letter to King
Leopold of Belgium, asking him to re-
lease her uncle, Frank S. Moore, who
had been imprisoned for deserving his
ship. Bessie has received q letter an
nOunclng that her request had been
complied with.
WHAT is said to be the largest organ in
the world is building at the Roosevelt
Organ Works, Boston, for the Audi
forum building, Chicago. It will be
operated by electricity. Electric motors
are now used for pun ping the organs in
eight churches in New York City at
cost of 80 per month per horse power.
The water motor consumed too much
water, and the gas engine was too
noisy.
4 NOVEL cure was effected by the use
of the dynamo recently at West-gate-
on-Sea, England. A Mr.. Brown was
fitting false bottom to CRATE, and
while chipping it to make it fit, a very
small splinter of iron flew off and
struck him In the eye. An electrical
engineer who met him shortly alter,
seeing mis- plight, took him to dynamo
that was working near by. Brown placed
his eve as close as possible to the
machine, and the magnetic attraction
was sufficiently intense to withdraw the
splinter Of iron from tine eye, which
was instantly relieved and which gave
no further trouble.
s'IFy you whish to see medical curiosi-
ty," says Cincinnati paper, "step into
Appraiser Klimper's Office in the
government building and ask him to
show you a Chinese pill. He has
dozen or two of them. They are as big
as large marbles, in fact they are just
the size Of crab apples, and are coated
with asemitransparent sugary substance
covered with flowers and gilt letters.
Some of them have this sweet covering
broken, and you can see beneath the
pill proper. black as ball of india ink,
and the very thought OF masticating
that mass in order to get it down is an
emetic. BIT it must take an unusual
amount of moral courage IN Chinaman
OF tackle pill.