Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


"A subscriber has presented the edit /
or of the Dawson, Ga, News with a beefs
weighing 20 pounds. 5
An ordinary elephant produces 100
pounds of ivory, worth $500. England
consumes $50 tons. for which it is neces1
sary to kill IL, 900 elephants year. /,
Not one island has risen or sunk ina
the Pacific Ocean for thirtyfour years.
and geologists declare that the earth isl
resting for some mighty effort in thAl
future. !!
During marriage ceremony in al
church at Christianburg, Va, goat
walked in and broke up the party bY
giving the groom grand send-off withi
his head. The bride fled to the pulpia
for safety.
The clock recently removed froml
the exchange tower in Savannah, Gas
has marked off time there for eighty
seven years. 1t was removed because
it had become too unreliable. A modern
timepiece is to take it's place.
AT Springfield, o., Arthur Basinger,
a farmer, was struck and killed by light
ming while in his hayfeld The bolt.
which killed him also excavated hole,
like grave Immediately behind him.
into which he fell. A man at work with.
him was badly shocked.
Mrs. Catherine Sharp, of Philade1s-
phia, says that when she was twelvei
years old she sold milk to Genera1
Washington and his staff from heH
fathers farm. She is now one hundre0
and twelve years DID, and her mentan
faculties are unclouded, though hen
veracity is probably trifie palsied.
The Franciscan monks recently
opened their first Canadian monastery
in Montreal. These monks live entirely
by aims and are allowed to touch no
money. If victuals are not supplied
they go forth and beg They preach.
penance and conversion, and their prin--
cipal occupation is prayer meditationl
and penance. Their doors are alwaya
open to the poor, and with them the
monks share such as they have thennl
selves.
Alliance, n. j., the settlement OF
refugee Russian Jews has during the
past eight years grown into prosperf
Gus village of six hundred and twelves
inhabitants. Eight years ago severaaI
thousand acres of wild brush land ind
Salem County were purchased and givenl
to the refugees by the Hebrew Aid So&
ciety, the land being then valued at
about S12 per acre. 1t is now WORTH
over $100 per acre and the Jews areA
prosperous and happy citizens
"A London theatrical costumer writes
to the Times to say that he DISCUSSES
people every day, mostly jealous hus-
bands desirous of watching their wives"
They every one of them wear wigs mott
necessarily because they are bald,
though they often are, but as the best
means of destroying their identity. II
has long been understood that we do
not know how half the world lives, but
that any considerable portion of it'd
should occupy themselves in this way Isl
rather startling.
The Boston purists have broken
loose again and are protesting vigorous
ly against the term artificial ice.~
They assert that the product of the ice-
making machines is 'ice"-neither TAR
tifcial' nor 'imita ton" ice Guess they
are about right: yet how is the stuff to,
be distinguished by name from natural
ice?" The term machine ice" seems
to meet the case, for manufacture 6
ice' would apply equally to that pro-
duced by human agency or by natural
process. It will be cold day when
Boston finds nothing toscarp at.-New4
ark News.