Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-15
TENTED FACTS.

THERE are said to be over 90, 900 Amer
lean visitors now in Mexico.
AN Atchison street car has been paint
ed black for funeral purposes.
A FRENCHwoMAN proposes to walk on
stills from Paris to Moscow.
FEArHERY snowfakes as large as silver
dollars fell in New York the other day.
Two acres of land adjacent to the Lon
don Houses of Parliament have been
advertised for sale at 81 100000 ster-
ling.
THERE is living in Centerville, KY, a
blacksmith who has just learned his
correct name, though he is over 80 years
old.
1T is estimated that there are 50000,-
600 feet of saw logs moored to the banks
of the river between Cattlesburg, KY,
and IrOnton.
In its half century of business not
single passenger of the millions who
have crossed the Atlantic in the Gu
narders has been lost.
ABOUT the only farm work that cannot
now be successfully done by machinery
is husking corn. 1t is still done about
the same old way.
A DOUGLASS COUNTY, Kan, farmer was
compelled to use four horses the other
doy to haul twenty bushels of corn to
Lawre nee, but he got 81 a bushel for it.
WHEN the carpet has been soiled by
ink instantly apply blotting paper, then
milk, then biotting- paper, and SO on
until the spot is out, as it will be. Don't
rub
AN Atchison woman recently refused
the present of handsome set of books
because they did not match the color of
her front-room furniture.
THE day after the last of the whaling
fleet had departed from San Francisco
large school OF whales appeared in the
bay and "cavorted" audaciouslv.
A NEEDLE, after devious experience
of thirty-siX years in the body of
Springfield, Mo-, woman, came out
through her side the other day. The
needle had lost it's temper and was as
pliable as a piece of wire.
A vERITABLE curiosity has been cap
tured in Africa 1t is an elephant,
larger than the late lamented Jumbo,
pea-green in color, trunkless, and has
tusks that branch out something like
the horns of deer. 1t is in possession
of native king, who will not part with
it.
4 SALIVA, Kan, family is eating
fresh ripe tomatoes from vine which
was taken into the house last fall and
carefully nurtured during the winter.
At the prevailing price of coal in Kansas
the tomatoes are supposed to represent
value Of about 81 apiece.
THE largest and heaviest building
stone ever Quarrled in England was
taken from the Plankingtop quarry,
near Norwich, in February, 1889. 1t
was one piece, without crack or flaw,
and weighed over SO tons; it was Is feet
long, 3 feet high and feet wide.
FLOUNDERs replenish the ocean at
very rapid rate. In season one houn-
der produces many millions of eggs,
scattering them broadcast through the
water. The sole produces 200, 900 eggs,
a plaice not less than 1000, 900, while
large turbot has been credited with the
deposition of II 100000 or 12,000, 900 Of
eggs.
LARGELY because of the electric light,
the average time of transit through the
Suez Canal goes on diminishing steadily
from year to year. Last year it was a
hours minutes, whereas in 1889 it was
% hours 80 minutes; in 1888, 81 hours Is
minutes; in 1887, 33 hours 50 minutes,
and in 1856 not less than SO hours.
A DOG belonging to a resident of Cor
dell, Ga, got his head Wedged in
hollow tree one day while chasing a
rabbit, and, failing to release himself,
remained IN that position for eleven
days without food or drink, when the
master found him and got him out. He
was alive, but it IS not known what be-
came of the rabbit.
A PHYSICIAN who died in Philadelphia
on Wednesday, aged y, wa a very
eccentric citizen, so much SO that he
regularly paid his board at high-priced
hotel but very rarely lived there. AL
though himself doctor, he would never
allow a doctor to be called in when he
was i'll, and would not take medicine Of
his Own.
A MAN in Vermont who neglected his
wife finds himself confronted by petit
ton signed by over 100 of the best
known women in the town and ad-
dressed to the Court, asking for his dis
mlssal from the office of county clerk.
This kind of suffrage made him sick,
and the judges have postponed action
until he gets well.
A NOVELTY in the washing machine
line has just been invented. 1t is con-
nected with a child's swing, and after
the soiled garments, with the proper
quantity Of soap shavings have been put
in the tub, a child is placed in the swing,
which is set in motion, and moves auto
matically, and turns the washing ma
chine.
SALMON generally attains a length of
of from Y to 80 pounds, but these limits
OF size and weight are frequently ex-
ceeded. The heaviest Tay salmon re-
corded weighed 20 pounds, and the big
gest fish taken with rod and line was
94pounder, which fell to a former
Earl OF Home.
THE smell of paint may be taken away
by closing up the room and setting in.
the center Of it a pan of lighted char
coal, on which has been thrown some
juniper berries. Leave this in the
room for a day and a night, when the
smell of the paint will be gone. Some
persons prefer pail of water. in which
a handful of hay is soaking. This is also
etfectual IN removing the odor of tobacco
smoke from room.
A GEORGIA veterinary surgeon has per
formed quite slzillful operation on a
mule. The animals hoofs had grown
out about eight inches long, and had re-