Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-28
MtSCELLAN EOUS.

GREEN LAKE, Colorado, is the highest
lake in the world. The surface is 10,-
$50 feet above the sea level.
A FoX-sQUIRREL, killed near Seymour,
| Ind, is said to have measured three
| feet and nine inches from nose to tip of
tail.
A GENTLEMAN in Tacoma recently gave
dinner to twenty eight people, t he
dining-room being the interior of the
| trunk of a tree on his estate.
| In Northern Vermont the tempera-
ture last week rose to go in the shade,
and on Monday morning stood at $50 i,
the lowest point reached since last
March.
THE list of powerful explosives for
purposes of war now includes roburite,
bellite, forcite, emmensite, lyddite, mel
mite, ecrasite, heliofte, americanite
and tOnite.
IN Africa there are 500 missionaries
and 1000 converts. An average of
q, 1000 year become converted and in
five years more than 200 martyrs have
lost their lives there.
A DEALER in al tificiai limbs says that
an arm will last a lifetime if properly
cared for, but that after five or six years
leg gives way to the weight and strain
and has to be renewed.
A ST. LOUIS physician recalls the case
of a young man who had been dumb for
five years, but who, while out hunting
one day began, in the excitement of the
chase, to yell at the top of his lungs.
Afterwards he was able to speak with
perfect articulation.
THERE are said to be more widows in
New York than in any other city of the
world outside of London. Paris comes
next to New York.
LEEDS finds employment for 500
women and girls as rag-sorters. They
earn S shillings week and sing merrily
In chorus during their work.
CONS of low denominations circulate
very rapidly, thus it is calculated that
every penny in circulation changes
hands dozen times a week:
THE first steamship to fire a gun in &C.
ton was the Royal William, a side
wheeler, which crossed the Atlantic in
1888. She was built at Quebec
POLAR bears are reported to be I'M
usually plentiful in Alaska this season.
They are found further south. which is
said to be sign that the winter will be
very cold.
ENrERPRIsING people in San Diego,
Cal, are building up a profitable bust
ness on the sale of wiId-fowez seed,
from which there is an extensive de-
mand from tourists and in the East.
AUSTRIA, the principal matchmaker
of the Old World, produces no less than
$500 tons Of them every year for ex
portation merely. In England the in
divldual average is about eight per dav
STEwARTsvILLE, Mo-, reports a pump
kin weighing los pounds. BY little
kitchen calculation this will make at
least 200 pies, and these cut into great
big quarters will make 800 people hap
Ply.
AN English lady is reported to have
recently killed in a river in Scotland,
five salmon, which averaged over 20
pounds each. The fish were ali cap
tured, it is said, with an artificial fly and
unasslsted.
THE railways of India at the COM
mencement Of the present year aggre-
gated 1927 miles in operation, with
2,272 miles under construction. The in
crease during the previous year was SIS
miles.
To prevent accidents from the Lauf-
fen-Frankfort cable, which transmits a
deadly current of $4,000 volts, all the
skulls and cross-bOnes surmounted with
a warning notice.
A FLAT and clean piece of yellow leaf
gold, 80 bright and perfectly etched
and scalIoped by nature that old miners
could hardly believe that it came from
mine in that shape, was found in Col
umbia HILL 1t is about the size, shape.
and half the thickness of a woman's
hand, and is worth $130.
THEg gauge of the Roman chariots 1000
years ago was 4 feet 8 inches, same as
standard railroad gauge of to-day.
AN ignorant old woman living at Au-
gusta, ILL.,, who was supposed to be very
poor, recently sent for the township
supervisor, and slipping bag from un-
der her dress asked him to count the
money in it. The amount was 81 sol.
and it represented the accommodations of
years that she had been storing in her
hustle. Having ascertained the value
of her property the old woman made
will.
AN old miner went to Candelaria, CAL.
the other day to lay in camp supplies.
While there he saw can of yeast DOW
der with the elephant brand on it and
said to his partner: Jim, are they can
ming elephants? Let's take some back
with US"
A BRocKToN man, it is reported. has
invented a machine to prevent snor-