Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-24
TENTED FACTS.

BOHEMIA miners wages average Sl32a
year.
The celery crop of Kalamazoo, Mich,
will be worth $1,000,0OO.
IT takes a sailing vessel 125 days to
sail from Philadelphia to San Francisco.
A MODERN EvE.-Pansy Ann (aged 10)
Hey Jimsey, yer mudder's gone
out and left de pantry door open. Yer
wouldn't hook an apple, would yer ?'-
NeeO York Recorder.
A CHILD was born at Nautmeal, near
Reading, recently, which measured 81
inches in length and inches across the
shoulders. The mother and child are
both dead.
THERE is a spring in Bear Valley, near
Chambersburg, Pa, from the surface of
which bubbles Of sand and air ascend
about ten inches and then burst The
spring is ten feet in diameter. The
water is pure and refreshing
THE hens of Bridgeport, Me-, have
taken liking to their own eggs, and as
soon as they lay one they turn and eat
it. If this continues there will be a
dearth CT eggs in the market. This is
case where the theory of "home con-
sumption" doesn't work to perfection
SUE SHo, a Chinese laundryman at Pa
ducah, KY, married bis assistant, Miss
Ida Rutledge, a pretty American girl.
The ceremony was American and the
groom was disguised in a dress suit
The bride says it is not a matter of bust
ness convenience, but pure, unadulter-
ated love.
A WATERv1LLE, Me-, photographer on
his travels the other day ran across a
school-house. when the summer term
was in session with one pupil and the
schOOlma' am. The schoolma'am had
insisted upon being the teacher, and
parents had become disgusted and taken
the "young uns'' right out.
A STORY comes from Parkersburg, w.
Va, that young man of that place adj
vertised in matrimonial bureau publ
cation for wife, and his sister answered
the advertisement. They wrote affec-
Tomato epistles to one another for some
tine and then appointed a meeting,
when the denoument came.
THE largest man in the South died at
Elm Spring, Ark. He was 20 years old,
and weighed $40 pounds. He had his
coffin made two years ago, and has
since used it as a granary. 1t held
quired twelve pall-bearers at the fu-
neral.
A REMARKABLE freak that is making it's
way toward Paris, having originated in
Bohemia, is built on the Mile Christine
plan. 1t is a two-headed maiden,
joined at the waist, having four arms.
but somewhat handicapped by having
only two legs.
A PHILADELPHIA surgeon says that by
three strokes of the lancet he could
paralyze the nerves acted on to make a
man get mad, and thereafter anyone
could pull his nose, cuff his ears and spit
on his boots and he would simply smile
a soft, bland smile.
THE custop. of clipping" is declining,
according to the testimony Of the secre-
tary of the Amalgamated Society of
Railway Servants before a parliament
airy committee investigating the hours
of labor on railroads. People give less
than they used to give, and hence less
is expected.
THE American psychologists who are
at work at Platea, in Greece, have come
upon the remains OF an ancient temple,
parts of which apparently go back to
the sixth century, B. c., or within 100
years of the authentic beginning of
Greek history. Developments of great
interest are expected.
An Englishman has invented an APP
paratus through which, he declares, he
can see the soul leave the body. He
arranges lenses that SO magnify the
particles of dust in the air that their dis
turbance by anything passing upward
can be detected. How he is to see
those souls that pass downward is not
explained.
claiming to have been a monk for thirty
years. He visits Protestant ministers,
usually Baptists, and, after making a
profession of his faith, asks to be bap
TIED. He is known to have been i'm
mersed seven times, six times in
Detroit and once in Newport, Ky. He
bor-ows money.
THE elevated railroads in New York
City, which cost less than SIT 100000,
are stocked and bonded for more than
$50 10000 The steam railroads in the
country cost, on paper, Sc, 931 ,453, l46, of
which two-fifths represent water. The
cable and electric, have not cost over
$4,000 per mile, but they are stocked
and bonded up to about 100000.
THE building of the contagious disease
branch of the Health Board, New York
City, becomes like great nursery dur
ing the afternoon. 1t is then that the
mothers take their babies to be vacci-
mated, and there are babies everywhere
ON the staircase, the steps in the hall,
in the basement, on the sidewalk
there are babies, babies, until one Won
ders where they hail from.
AN Albany butcher upon arrival at
his shop the other morning missed his
favorite cat. While looking for it he
glanced into corner when he saw
huge rat snake and about half the cat.
The other half occupied a portion of
the snake. The reptile was killed by
the police and measured eight feet. In
moment more it would have sue
ceeded in getting outside the cat with
out much difficulty.
IN 1890 the foreign importation of
prunes amounted to 5S,OO6,00o pounds,
trifle heavier than in 1885, while in
1887 the shipments from abroad reached
total of 100000 pounds California
produced in 1887 100000 pounds,
against 1000, 900 for 1890. The foreign
importation of figs has increased steadi-
ly for the past three years, and the
annual shipments amounted to about
100000 pounds. In California this
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