Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-05-22
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New spring dresses are generally worn
with an elastic step.-BaHimore Aaneri-
can.
A SLEEPING policeman is one of the 81
lent watches Of the night.-Rochester
IGdings.
A WILD turkey was killed in Madison
County, Florida, recently, which
weighed sixty-fve pounds. One of it's
drumsticks lasted the family for two or
three days.
A GEORGIA paper records tie death
Of Moses Austin. colored, OF Butts Coun-
ty, aged 10 years. The most wonder
full part of the item, however, is that he
never saw George Washington.
SUMTER COUNTY, Georgia, had the
most destructive hail storm it had ever
seen last week. The hail was said to
be the size of hens eggs, and the fruit
trees, corn and cotton were utterly de-
stroyed.
j. w. GRIFFIN living near Rochelle,
Ca. has been bitten twice by rattle
bite. In 1887 he killed 377 snakes, and
the next year 1872. He expects a bigger
record this year.
JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS, the funny
editor OF Harper's Bazaar, was asked why
it was that his work always appeared on
the last page of that journal. He thought
for a moment and then said: "Why, OF
course, the wag has to be in the tail."-
New York San.
A WASHINGTON woman, prosecutor in
an assault.and battery case, who called
the courts attention to the marks on
her face, the result, she said, of the
beating she had received, almost faint
ed when the judge ordered an officer to
closely examine the injuries. He
rubbed a handkerchief over her face,
when the marks instantly disappeared,
having been made with paint. The
case was then dismissed.
A SMALL boy in Springfield lost his leg
by the falling of a slgnpost belonging to
a railroad, and sued the companies for
damages. The company, of course, re-
sisted, perhaps thinking that the loss OF
their post gave them the right to take a
stand, but the contested value of the
lost member was decided at a second trial
to amount to over $685. O TINS putting
the boys leg OF a better footing.
In a Tarrytown sanitarium is a petri-
fed prehistoric lizard, IL feet and l
inch long, Is inches broad at tho shout
ders, and 9 inches at the head, and
weighing 800 pounds. Its color is gray
and its substance sandstone. The
| specimen, which is almost perfect, was
exhumed On the shore of Charleston
Lake, five miles from Farmersvil1e,
Province Ct Ontario, in July last.
Two dogs, a Newfoundland belonging
to John Halland, and a fox hound
| owned by a man named Mason, fought
| at the shore of Highland Lake, near
| Winsted, Conn.,, the other afternoon.
The fight ended by the big Newfound-
land dragging the hound into the lake
and holding his bead under water until
he was dead. The fox hound was
owner of the Newfoundland dog, which
was the aggressor, for the value of the
drowned hound.
AN unusually large number of vipers
infest the neighborhcod of WardnelI
Wood, Newington, Eng, near there,
where several of these dangerous rep
tiles have been killed during the past
few days. No less than ten vipers, in
Guiding one or two snakes-the less
dangerous specimens of its species
have been killed, and the cottagers who
live in the neighborhood eagerly seek
after the vipers when dead, from which
they extract oil, which they declare TO
be a sure antidote to a bite from a vi
per.
WILLIAM COLLINS, who died at his
home, three miles from Toccoa, Ca,
with dropsy, the other day, was rather
a noted man in some respects. He is
said to have owned more Jokes of oxen
and hauled more loads of wood TO town
than any other man in the country.
He has owned 1O4 yoke of oxen, and
the loads OF wood that he has hauled
are innumerable, but it is safe to saw
that he has averaged a load a day since
Toccoa has been in existence.
MRS. GEORGE COPELAND, of Wild Neck,
Ca, was burned to death a short time
since. She vas cooking supper when
her clothing caught fire. She rushed
to put out the fire but she fell, over
come with the heat. After her clothes
were all burned off of her she dragged
herself into the house and lay on the
bed until her husband came home, at
which time the soles of her shoes were
still afre. She died after twenty-four
hours of torture.
SPoRTsMEN in India are attacking a set
of rules lately promulgated by the chief
commissioner of the central provinces,
the effect of which is to put g practical
ly prohibitive tax on big game shooting
in that part of the peninsula. The CEN
trail provinces contain many thousand
square miles of forest land, which has
been the happy hunting grounds of the.
ADglo-lndians. The result is that tig-
ers, panthers and other beasts have
been getting scarce, and the local
officials have determined o'preserve''
the game for their own amusement.
The returns for accidents on the rail-
ways of the United Kingdom during
the year 1888 are interesting. Eleven
passengers were killed and 594 injured,
as against twenty-five passengers
killed and 538 injured in 1887.
There were ninety-six injuries from
other causes than those due to col
lisions and mechanical defects. Of
servants Of the companies there were
3S9 deaths and 2,10O injuries. Fifty
three persons persisted at grade cross
ings. The total is nearly 1000 killed
and 5000 injured in connection, one
way or another, with the railway sys-
tenn. There were thirty-ive collisions
between passenger trains and fifty-four
between passenger and freight trains.
There were 28S failures of sxles tho