Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
BY THE WAYSIDE.

the name OF Bad Luckee.
In Yuma CAL, watermelons are sell
ling for three cents apiece.
JERSEY city requires itinerant street
musicians to pay license of $5 apiece.
HENRY HOSPITAL is the unpleasantly
suggestive name of New York drug
gist.
THERE are 237 German singing socie-
ties (Gesang Verein) in the city of New
York.
COSTA dark leather lady's pocket
book" is an advertisement in a Buffalo
paper.
THE tax rate in New York city this
year will be but 81. 95-the lowest in
thirty years.
twenty-five cents has led to law suit
in Pittsburg.
KANSAS has lis creameries, and the
oldtashioned pale butter is gradually
going out OF fashion.
In Ohio county, w. Va, man and
his wife, both passed fifty years of age,
are sick of the measles.
A FORD county (Kas.) man made l.
600 barrels of vinegar from watermelons
raised on patch of twenty acres.
CHESTER (Pa.) shoemakers complain
that so many residents of the to wn go
barefooted that it makes business dull.
A CLERK in Wheeling discovered the
other day that he had been dating his
books and letters 1883 every since Jan
uary l of that year.
DIR. A. G. MOVER. Of Bethlehem, Pa,
has 100000 heads of cabbage under Gull
tivation, and among minor crops two
acres of horseradish.
Mrs. ELMER NEAL, of South Chester,
Pa, dreamed that her little boy was
failing downstairs, got up in her sleep
and fell downstairs herself.
A SAN FRANCISCO jeweler has just re-
ceived 500 tor diamonds which he
sold twenty-five years ago. The pur-
chaser was honest, but he had bad
luck.
THE multiplication of 9S7 ,654 ,321 by as
gives a, AZ, 444 445. Re versing the
a result equally odd is obtained-5, $685.
555, 500.
SILAs WILSON, cripple who sold soap
for living, died in New York the other
day. 1t is said he looked enough like
Jay Gould to have been his twin
brother.
"A BEAR tIlSO W UCNOuI AllSS6b CuSlG
Feney and Jennie Martin in Butte
County, California, the other day, but
Miss Feney's brother arrived on the
scene just in time to keep Bruin from
taking his first bite.
CHARLESTON, it is said, leads the other
cities Of the country in respect to mi nj
ature painting. For4O0 years this has
been a peculiar distinction of the city.
Thomas Coram, an English artist, was
the instructor who introduced the art
In South Carolina.
GEO. w. EATON, of Torrington, Conn,
with the assistance of his hired man
slaughtered thirty-one blacksnakes in
a few minutes the other day. The
largest was over nine feet long. The
reptiles had their nest under an old
barn in sheep pasture.
A SINGULAR bird was recently shot on
the Kissimmee river in Florida. 1t was
black, with a body smaller than an
ordinary chicken, long, slim neck,
small head, large beak, about five inch
es long, straight to the end, where both
upper and lower turn down; very small,
short legs, with feet half webbed; long
forked tail, and immense wings that
measured seven and half feet from tip
to tip.
A JUSTICE of Blair county, Pa, has
perplexing case. A blacksmith built
wagon for another citizen, painting it
brown and refusing to change the color
to green. In the night the citizen en-
tered the shop and gave the vehicle a
coat of paris green. Early next morn
ing the blacksmith's cow, spying the
verdurous tint, licked it off and died.
The blacksmith now wants damages for
his cow.
EAST Vassalboro, Me-, was the scene
of peculiar area of atmospheric con-
dition one day this last week. Within
a radius OF One-fOurth OF a mile rain
fell In torrents from the east and hail
stones of large size from the northwest:
while at the south there was not enough
rain to prevent getting in hay. All of
these. points were not over one-fourth
of mile from the village, at which
place there was but little rain.
The first and best sponges in the
world are obtained along the Florida
Keys. Native Floridians do the princi-
pal gathering. There are some Bahama
Islanders also. The sponge fishers are
called Cooks. Thy do not dive, but
tear up the sponges with three tined
forks on long poles. A bed which has
been fished clean will be covered with
a new growth In six months. The pro-
duet amounts to nearly half million
dollars annually.
Mrs. STIvERs, who lives near the Hill
man collierv, in the vicinity of Wilkes
barre, was in her yard stringing beans a
couple OF days since, when the ground
suddenly caved in, and she, the beans
and the chair on which she had been
sitting. went out Of sight. Her daughter
rushed to the spot and found great
hole ten feet across. She got help and
a ladder, and the mother was gotten out
unhurt, but badly scared.
A"wILD woman of the mountains"
who lives on Blue Mountain, MARYLAND.
was arrested the other day after giving
the daughter of Senator Butler, Of
South Carolina, a severe fright. The
old woman is well-known characteri in
those parts. She is described as being
but three feet tall and her face the
acme of ugliness. She has led her
strange life in the mountains for We ars
and her name is a terror to all the chill
dren in that region.
A DEAD oak tree was taken up on
Wraggmall, Charleston, S. c., last week,
and under the roots, about four teet
deep, was found an 18-pounder solid