Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

| MISSOURI has set apart $2 900 for wolf
scalps for 1889 and 1890.
IT cost 5000 to cable speech by the
President Of Chill to Europe.
A VERY popular wedding present now
at Hutchinson, Kas., is a barrel of salt.
Four hundred monuments have been
erected on the Gettysburg battle field.
A RAM recently sheared at Metamora,
Mich. yielded 38f pounds of wool at
one clip.
A SPRING near Bagtown, Col, throws
stream of scalding water to height Of
thirty feet.
A NOVEL use of electricity is about to
be tested in sharpening the shoes Of car
horses in icy weather.
A BLUE racer was killed near Decatur,
Mich, the other day which measured
IL feet and inches in length.
UNDER the laws of China the adult
who loses his temper in discussion is
sent to jail for five days to cool off.
A 12-YEAR OLD boy Of Fitchville. Conn.,,
drives them daily about the village.
| WHEN the British Museum is opened
in the evenings the additional cost per
annum WILL it is stated, be $4,000.
WALTER CROKER, an Allen County
(Kan.) man, has recovered S2,654.8O
from the Southern Kansas Railroad, as
damages for the loss of one of his eyes.
THERE are five girls in one of the
Humphries families of Fleming Coun-
ty, KY, and their names are Arkansas.
Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and Vir-
ginia.
ONE of the "sure cures OF consump-
ton" sold in Philadelphia was analysed
the other day, and found to consist of
rum, molasses, and extract of dande-
| lion.
A WHALE was driven ashore on the
coast of Labrador last month which had
a dozen wraps of chain about his body,
and big anchor to tote around with
him.
THE eophone, an instrument for de-
termining the location of the source of
sounds for the benefit of navigators,
has been successfully experimental
with.
An exhibition of monkeys was opened
at Alexandria Palace in London recent
| ly. At least a thousand monkeys from
various parts of the world are being
shown.
The Calumet & Hecla copper mine
| still offers $4,000 reward for informa-
ton leading to the conviction Of the per-
son who set fire to the mine on Novem-
Der 20. 1888.
A SEWING circle at Somesville, Me-, has
bought an organ for the church, pro-
vided hearse, built sidewalks, and
raised $500 to put an iron fence around
the cemetery.
"L1NoTYPEs" are Photographic prints
mounted on linen. Washes of color are
applied to the back Of the prints, so they
can be used as colored transparencies
with excellent effect.
| LEBANON, Conn, refuses to accept the
old homestead of her revolutionary gov
ernor as free gift, because the taxes
would have to pay them.
| Two steel blocks, one weighing 15O, 900
and the other 10000 pounds, to form
part of the armament of an Italian iron
clad, were recently shipped from the
Gruson Foundry at Magdeburg.
LYONS, Neb., claims the champion wolf
hunter In the person of l.. ID. Higley,
who in the past three weeks has killed
sixty-six of the "varmints." The boun-
| ty on their scalps will net the hunter
$246.
Ten thousand eight hundred and ten
persons assembled to the top of the
Washington monument Iast month,
making total of 1l0,8S2 since October
| 8, 1888, when the structure was opened
to the public.
| A PROMINENT Turkish official in Con-
stantlnople laments the spread of Chris
t1anlty among the women of Turkey, on
the ground that it will soon lead the
Turkish ladies to dress as immodestly as
Christian ladies.
| OF sixteen applicants for charity, who
were followed about by an officer in
1 Mi L.
| lmpostOr, and twelve Ofthem had stolen
articles from houses where money had
been given them.
| 100 common schools, with an aggregate
of 4,059 pupils, and high school for
boys, with I'll students. They are just
completing seminary that will accom-
! mOdate 100 students.
A CINCINNATI father fixed big rock
| ing chair in the parlor to upset if a
greater weight than 40 pounds rested
| IN 1t. On the very first night afterWard
| his daughter got a broken shoulder and
| her young man had his nose skinned.
DR.. ]. TAFT, dean of the dental school
at Ann Arbor, Mich, is the proud and
| happy pOssessOr of a jaw taken from a
2, 50O-year-old tomb at Rome, on which
"bridgework" was done similar in char
acter to that done by the dentists of the
| present day.
A PORTLAND, Ore, man pulled out bis
pocketbook, when the wind seized the
contents and scattered them broadcast,
| and $3.50 in bills were blown about the
street. Fortunately, everybody in the
vicinity proved to be honest, and the
money was all recovered.
THEY have new way of planting
orange trees near San Diego, Cal. They
bore small hole and drop in dyna-
| mite cartridge, the explosion of which
makes hole big enough tol the tree,
and loosening the soil to depth of sew
eral feet, enables the tree to take root
easier.
A REMARKABLE phenomenon was wit
messed at Cardiff lately. After a tall of
rain it was noticed that the pools of
| water in the thoroughtares were tinged
with red. The phenomenon is what is
known as ''bloody rain," and was in
ancient times regarded as sure pre-.
cursor of plague.
| A CURIOUS discovery has lust been