Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


II GAINESVILLE Ella furniture COM
pany has completed table composed Of
4, 900 pieces of wood of different kinds
and colors.
WE have the authority of Dickens
for it that not the door-nail but the
eofdn-nail is the deadest piece of iron
mongery known. In some parts of the
West cigarettes are called coffin-nails.
AT Small Point, Me-" reports a
Boston newspaper, 1.-The prospectors for
coal are contemplating exploring the
bottom of the sea. A large scow has
been engaged, and on it Will be pl ced
the engine which will drive the electric
dynamo to furnish light for diver,
who is to explore the submarine depths
at Small Point"
"A prisoner in Bohemia recently con-
structed watch eight centime tiers
three and one-quarter inches) in diam
ieter, with no tools or materials except
two needles, spool of thread, a news
paper and some rye straw. The wheels,
posts and cogs are of rye straw; the
watch runs six hours with out winding
and keeps good time.
"A middle-aged woman stepped into
drug store in Westerville, O., one day
recently and purchased five sets of rub
bers for the purpose OF making sings
for her five boys. She says they are
more useful and less expensive than
shotguns, as her boys can kill birds on
the wing, knock rabbits silly on the run
and pick squirrels from the tops of the
tallest trees in the woods with a single
shot.
The man who blows out the gas has
a rival. He recently stopped over n ght
at Cadillac Mich hotel and the smell
of burning cloth prompted a search for
him. After rapping up several guests,
this man finally peered out of the dark
ness of his room and confessed that he
had tied a towel around the electric
light, and the latter had scorched it. 81
tried to blow it out" he said, ''but it
wouldn't go OUT
I'm Switzerland and other mountain
Gus countries the goat leads long strings
of animals daily to and from the mount
aims. but it IS in South Africa that it is
regularly kept and employed as leader
of fiocks of sheep Should binding
lstorm of rain or hail drive the silly sheep
before it, or cause them to huddle to-
gether in corner so as to suffocate each
other, the trained goat will wake them
up,and, by a method best known to him
self, will induce them to follow him to a
place of safety.
"A miserly bachelor, who died at
Newton, Conn, recently, could not bear
the idea of leaving his wea. tn behind
him, but when he found that he was
obliged to do so he willed the property
80 that no one can spend it for fourteen
years. At the end of this time it will
go to his brothers grandchildren. The
estate is valued at 100000. He once
walked from New York to Newton to
save the dollar for passage, and during
his entire lifetime denied himself every
accumulate fortune.
Two German engineers propose rap
i'd transit by means of three continuous
platforms moving along the street side
by side. The lowest of these platforms
fs four inches high and moves at a uni
form speed of five feet per second Any
ordinary pedestrian can, they state.
mount this platform from the ground
without difficulty, and from this he can
with equal ease step on to a second plat
form four inches higher than the first
taad moving twicl as fast The passen-
teer thus acquires a speed of ten feet per
second, and stepping on to the third
platform in the same way, he is carried
at speed of fifteen feet per second, or
ten miles per hour to his destination,
where he steps off by degrees as he got
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