Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-09-04
ALL SORTS.


A LETTER can now be sent around the
| world In sixty days, via Vancouver.
BUFFALO has to spend $4,000 to build
new foundation for her soldiers monu-
ment.
The highest number of admissions to
the Paris Exposition in day has been
29S,000.
A WHITE kangaroo, the first ever
known, is on exhibition at an English
aquarium.
AN intelligent horse in Rome, Ca,
starts the hydrant going whenever the
water IN the trough gets low
A PHILADELPHIAN fed peanuts to the
polar bear at the zoo, and the migrate
tul animal bit one of his fingers off.
A KANSAS minister SAYS: 81 have
been more useful man since the Lord
| revealed to me that I was never to be q
| great man."
"a PALE red and green luncheon" was
given to some friends by one of the
| guests at summer hotel. A water
melon party?
JACOB CoovER an undertaken of Cham
bersburg, Pa, who had just died, stated
that be had buried in nineteen years
$500 persons.
NEAT boxes of what look exactly like
seashore pebbles, but are really fine
candies, form one of the latest tricks of
the confectioner.
The Des Moines Register calls atten-
ton to the fact that for the last eighteen
years every other governor of Iowa has
been Union soldier.
BILL has been introduced into the
| Georgia Senate making it a INSIDE
meanor tor any person to get drunk ex-
| cept on his own premises.
IT is stated that tie fossilized hand of
| gigantic man, recently found at Kear-
ney, being broken open, was found to
| contain mum Der of diamonds.
In Jersey City, smokers must ride on
the rear end of street cars. People who
get on the front end of the cars to smoke
are sternly told to 60 to the rear.
A CoLoRED man at Ottawa, Kas. re-
ceived back pension the other day of
81 200. He celebrated by buying a
mule, melon, razor and catfish.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
| Union OF Oakland, Cal, has cigarette
committee" the business Of which is
the suppression of the cigarette habit.
| A STRANGE animal was killed by
farmer in Belmont County, O., the
| other day. It resembled a ground hog
/
long.
| INCITED by bounties the bows of Grand
| Rapids, Mich, have slaughtered 10000
OF the pesky sparrows and the bird pop
ulatiOn is noticeably smaller than it
was.
| A COW walked into a Wheeling store
the other day, but not seeing anything
she wanted proceeded to another shop.
She smashed two boxes tull of hats, but
made no purchase.
| ELIJAH BULL, of West Nantmeal town
| ship, Pa, has held a commission as
| justice of the peace for forty-two years,
and this week took out his commission
for five years more.
SEAMLESS boiler tubes are now made
from solid ingots of metal by process
that twists and stretches the fibers, and
Is said to make tube much stronger
than the ordinary ones.
MRS. HELEN RAY, OF Columbia County,
o., has the silk dress which her great
| grandmother wore when she was mar
ried. It is still a handsome garment,
| but rather old-fashioned.
| A PROCESS has been invented by
means of which photographs can be
| printed almost as fast as a newspaper.
and without dependence on sun or light.
They are said to be of the first quality.
"KU-rA-Mo' NING-sHA-HoU-To-1U-r is
from a new Chinese phrase book, but it
isn't Chinese, it is English. It is the
| way the Chinese are taught to say
Good morning, sir; now do you do ?''
THOMAS TURNER, who keeps a cigar
| store in Chester. a few days since
| placed in his window plaster of paris
duck which proved to be SO life-like
that two dogs crashed through the plate
glass to get at it.