Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
SMALL BUT INTERESTING.


jack rabbits that are killed in the
street.
The richest negro in the West is
Edward J. Sanderlin, of Denver, who has
made a fortune of $2JO,OO0 out of his
barber shop.
The advent Of triplets in North Da-
kota famly.the other day. absorbed the
appellations of Faith, Hope and Charity,
as the nomenclature.
WITH snow five feet deep at Schome,
WASH, the people are still obliged to
fight forest fire that has been raging
near town for several weeks.
The largest pelican ever shot in the
vicinity of st. Augustine was killed by
Theodore Thomas. The pelican meas,
ured 81 feet from tip to tip.
On March /, 1890, the treasurer Of
Humboldt County, CAL, had in the
vaults 1919, S32.42, the largest amount
ever in the treasury at any one time.
ERNEST REMAIN, the French philoso-
pher, INDUCES in hobby Of not riding
in vehicles of any kind, preterring to
walk. although his health is feeble, and
| stout cane ls necessary to support him.
A CHINESE leper was employed in
picking fruit near Florin, last sum mer,
tor white man. A few days ago be
died, and was buried on one Of the
ranches.
AN insane man is roaming around
loose in Kalamazoo, Mich. He appears
at houses, smashes the windows, lays
some orange peel on the sill. and then
departs.
THE curious discovery has been made
that every governor of Iowa since 1859
is alive, and hale and hearty, and the
only Democrat among them ls the pres
ent executive.
A PRosPECToR in the San Bernardino
Mountains killed mountain sheep,
few days ago. that weighed dressed 400
pounds. Its horns measured 163 inches
round at the base.
Nor Friday passes but what some
ship sails from some pert for some other
port. Yet thous ands of intelligent peo-
pie prefer to believe that no sailor goes
to sea on Friday. Why Columbus
sailed on Friday.
SINCE the Oldest woman of Vienna
died, a short time ago, most animated
competition has been in progress for
recognition as her successor. The COM
petition shows that the Austrian capital
has several women over 100.
AN electrical strengthening machine
has been brought out in Australia. 1t is
said that by the new method sheep
may be sheared in from three and one
half to five minutes. From one to 100
shears can be operated at once, accord
ing to the power used.
A JEwELER of Rockford, WASH, recent
ly presented the public school with a
clock. This was followed by more
expensive one by rival jeweler, and
by the time the enthusiasm had sub
sided every room in the school had a
clock.
LAST October Mrs. H. T. Holdridge,
who lives near Bangor, Mich. broke
one of her ankles, and has never been
other night she slipped and fell, break
ing the other member in the same
place.
AT low tide the clam diggers are busy
on the flats in front of Ilwhco, Wash,
where the clans are numerous and fat.
A few years ago no such thing as clam
was to be found in Bakers Bay, while
now the supply seems to be inexhausti-
BILE.
SWEDEN probably enjoys the distinc-
ton Of being the only Maine town, this
year, where the people do not have to
pay taxes. No tax is to be assessed,
there being surplus on hand, which
the town voted to use to defray it's ex-
penses.
w. S. RAwLEs, of Peru. has silver
spoon which was among the plumber
taken from British gunboat by a party
of American soldiers. among whom was
his grandfather, in 1881, and the spoon
mas been in the possession OF the family
ever since.
A GROCER at Lynchburg, Va, who had
been IN business for thirteen years
without making cent, couldn't figure
out how it was until his head clerk was
taken sick. thought he was going to die,
and owned up to having embezzled
about 81 900.
The famous mountain fortress of
Asirgarh, which was formerly regarded |
as one of the principal defenses of Cen |
trail India, is about to be dismantled. 1t |
stands on the summit of an almost mac |
cessible mountain, and has many inter |
esting historical associations.
DURING the trial of Nicholson, the Bad |
Axe, Mich, saloonkeeper, for the muir
der of Woodrow,a sensation was pro- |
duced by the introduction of the MUIR |
dered mans skull. Two bad fractures |
were shown, either of which was suffi- |
cient to produce death.
ONE farmer CT Big Bend, WASH, lost |
all his stock except one COW. lie |
keeps her alive by feeding her with |
-four. A mail carrier from that country |
reached Walla Walla, recently land said |
he did not believe there was 100 head |
left in the whole country
Mrs. HANNAH DAVIS, colored. died at |
the residence of her son, near Lincoln |
University, one day last week, at the |
age of IS years. She was the mother of |
IL children. and lived to see "A grand
children, IS great grandchildren, and |
8 great great grandchildren.
FARMERS in the neighborhood of |
Kan, propose to salt the |
earth, this spring, for the purpose of in
creaslng the yield of crops. They will |
buy crude salt by the carload and scat
ter it over their fields. They expect to |
get some remarkable results.
The crown of the late Sultan of Perak
was sold recently at Singapore, by order
of his estate, after having done service
for long line of Malay Sultans. 1t is
of gold, studded with thousand jewels,
and was valued at $37 900, but tie price
it fetched was not announced.