Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-12-11
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A South kENs1NeToN Or. II turkey
weighs AZ pounds.
MoNTEzUMA, Ga, boasts of a dog with
five well developed feet"
THERE are more duels in Hungary
than in any other country.
NEW YoRK's Washington Memorial
Arch iund has reached $60,U00.
Mr.. SNAP is the lessee of a new hotel
in Texas called the American.
IT is estimated that one half the popu-
lation Oh Washington is colored.
CYGNET, O., uses a wheelbarrow in
imitation of police patrol wagon.
AN Ottawa congregation froze out it's
rector 10y reducing his salary to 81 per
year.
RIVERSIDE (Cal.) markets showed a
272-pound potato and a 40-pound turkey
last week.
THERE are now sixteen Browning So
cletles in the various provincial towns
of England.
Two hearts and two livers were taken
from chicken killed at Lock Haven,
Pa. recently.
GENEVA is said to be the cheapest of all
cities in Europe for place Tor perma-
nent residence.
In some French laundries boiled 20
tatoes are preferred to soap for the
cleansing of soiled linen.
IN Idaho, floating paragraph states,
"a deer was recently shot by hunter
having horns with forty-two prongs."
Topeka has built 1920 houses TINS
year, and is figuring on a Chamber
OF Commerce which will cost $50O,UJ0.
IRWIN A. STETLER, merchant at Fred
erick, Pa, during the Iall has shipped
1000 barrels of shellbark hickory nuts.
OF the half dozen French cooks
imported by American miiiionaires
two years ago, not one has kept his
place.
THE watch dogs owned by w. E.
Lesher, of Pottstown, Pa, were chioro-
formed by thieves. who robbed his
store.
CREMATION is coming more and more
into vogue in Germany. At Gotha 100
bodies have been cremated since Janu-
airy |.
PossUM are very plenty in Manayunk,
Pa, and vicinity. Policeman Ames
killed one at the railroad depot on Mon
day.
THE 2.months-old son Of Salem, Ore,
Chinaman was baptized in the Presby-
terrain Church of that city last Sunday
night.
A GREENsBURG, Ind, man, having been
sued for $4,000 for breach OF promise,
compromised the matter by marrying
the girl.
ROBBED and betrayed by a trusted
friend, Sioux City young man went to
a lunatlc asylum on the day set for his
wedding.
The Missouri doctor couldn't decide
what was the cause of a clothing clerks
death, so they LAID it to raw turnip
which he had eaten.
THERE is young giantess feet s
inches high, said absolutely to be only
II years old, on exhibition in London.
She is Don Cossack.
AN Ottawa Enoch Arden, returning
a ter twelve years, quitclaimed his wife
and family Tor $40 to the Philip whom
he found in possession.
THE Eiffel tower is a paying invest
ment. 1t has already paid the cost of
its construction. and the concession
still has nineteen years and half to
run.
O.. S. LOWER of Auburn, went out hunt
ing last week and bagged a 900-pound
wild boar. Its tusks measured thir-
teen inches long and were as white as
ivory.
Ex-PREsIDENT WHITE, of Cornell Uni
versity, just back from extensive
European travel, says Vienna has
been made the handsomest city in the
world.
THE Brooklyn horse-car conductor
calls out the churches in his announce
ment of streets, seeming to know that
l. L Il. Il.
that city.
man Academy, like the french Acade-
it shall be to preserve the purity of the
German language.
A CLEVELAND chemist says that people
who use kerosene lamps for number
OF years become so permeated with the
oil that their bodies ter death scarcely
need any embalming fluid to preserve
them.
A BUFFALO husband, whose wife in
variably winters fifty cents worth of
scraggy geraniums at the cost of SO
worth of coal, has asked Tor q commits
sion of doctors to pronounce on her
sanity.
4 DRAMATIC company that started out
some weeks ago to show the country
(under cover OF a stage play) the New
Nork law for executions by electricity in
supposed practical operation, has gone
to pieces.
A PECULIAR situation is described in the
last novel of a well-known novelist.
While the hero is sitting at the feet of
the heroine she is said to look up into
his face and to draw his head down to
her own.
GROVE CHADWICK, living near Morgan.
town, w. Va, the other morning dis
covered large fox in his chicken coop.
The animal had effected an entrance and
destroyed all the poultry, but was I'M
able to retreat.
A NOVEL result of the temperance
meetings at Noblesville, Ind, Is report
ed. So many have signed the pledge
and received badges that the supply OF
blue ribbon IN the stores of the town
has been exhausted.
SOMETHING like the miracle of the
loaves and fishes was recently per-
formed at Oakland, Me. The managers
OF church supper prepared tor seventy
five guests, but had an unexpected
crowd and made their supplies spread
to the enter ainment OF l25 people.