Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
HERE AND THERE.

THE Indian chiefs on the Umatilla
reservation have been reduced to the
ranks.
THE Lombards were the first money
changers in Paris, and one Of the his
toric streets in London was named for
them.
DELAWARE still preserves it's whipping
post. Recently batch of chicken
thieves received doses of the cat at New
Castle.
1.-THE size of a tower" saysa Chinese
proverb, sis measured by it's shadow,
and great men by the number of their
enemies"
A LOCOMOTIVE has just been built at
Northwestern Railway which is capable
of drawing a train at the rate of 100
miles miles an hour.
Esop's fables were not written by
their author. They were related and
handed down until the Fourteenth
Century, when they were collected and
published by monk.
IN Europe red hair is associated with
deceitfulness. A German proverb
printed in 1912 says: ''The short in
statue are naturally proud; the red
haired are untrustworthy."
THE form, one Of the most famous of
modern coins, originated in France. 1t
was called ''forin," however, not from
the name of the city, but from the fact
that il had on its f1eur de lis.
THERE are more coral reefs in the
Central Pacific Ocean than elsewhere,
though they abound in the Indian
Ocean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Mad
agascar and Mauritas and near the
shores of Florida.
A SOUTH AMERICAN proverb says: GA
cocoanut tree is a brides dowry," and
really the many uses to which its palm
and it's products are put are wonderful.
They provide family with food, shell
ter, fuel, house, utensils and, if need
be, clothes.
The Anarchists of France boast CT
about 40.000, and the Socialists number
about l 100000.
THE wealth of Baron Hirsch is just
about equal to that of Jay Gould.
THE priests of P'tah at Memphis were
great glass makers. They not only had
factories for common glass but they
initiated precious stones.
A CRIBo snake is one of the interest
ing pets at the Central Park, New
York, menagerie. 1t has taste for de-
vouring other snakes, and it is feared
THE European leech has driven the
native American out of the market.
The foreign are said to be the better
blood suckers.
The famous blarney stone is about
five miles west of the city of Cork.
THE hen so common in these days
originated N the Bankiva jungle, where
wild chickens are still to be found.
IT would take AS 900 cars of 400 bush
els each to haul the wheat grown in
Kansas last year.
IN Canada four sons of one family
married four daughters IL another on
| the same day.
THE first diamond in South Africa was
found by two children who were play
ing near a stream in 1867.
THE waters Of the Indian Ocean no
flow over the site Of old Calicut, the
place from which calico takes its name.
THE first coins made on this continent
were made in Mexico in 1885. They
were called the "real' and are now
| worth Sc each.
In Missouri the majority of the
| churchgoers are females. Out of a con-
gregation of $50 there the other day
only were males.
ATCHIsoN, Kas., has a skirt dancer
who is teacher in the public schools
| So far she has not been molested by the
| School Board.
GIPsIEs first appeared in Western Eu-
rope in 1447, when several hundred en-
| tered Germany and rapidly spread over
| the country.
THE Dutch homesteads of Long Isl
and have yielded many curiosities in
the shape of furniture which has been
preserved as heirIooms.
IN England an American diploma Of
medicine does not entitle its possesso1
to call himself NJ. D. If he does be
may be prosecuted.
| One of the trees in the Sequoia Park
in California is 345 feet in diameter and
80 feet high. Another tree is 81 feet
around and $50 feet high
| THE salt lake in the Sandwich Islands
becomes nearly dry in summer. Crusts
of salt nearly six inches thick are then
deposited all around the edges.
| A CHINESE cook in California decor
ated wedding cake with these words:
| '4e generation of vipers, who hath
warned you TO flee from the wrath 10
come ?"
| New YORK real estate agents have
great difficulty in renting buildings said
| to be haunted. 1t is estimated that
there at least thirty Of these houses now
vacant.
An old French proverb says "Salute
nearer than 80 feet off with three
stones in thy fist to defend thee in thy
need"