Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-09-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


THE royal standard Of Persia is
blacksmith S apron.
OF the twenty-seven royal families of
Europe, two-thirds are Germans.
In Spain an infants face is brushed
with pine tree Dough to bring good
luck.
THE annual coffee crop of the world is
estimated at over II 100000 900 pounds,
worth in first hands over S135, 100000.
The Alaskan Indian depends upon his
suuaw in the selling of an article. She
having better idea of its worth. fixes
the price.
IT is proposed to build Moorish pal
ace for the Chicago Fair, with labyrinth
in which everyone who enters will be
hopelessly lost.
THERE are said to be over $4,000 In
dams in the United States who can read
English, and over 10000 who can read
Indian languages.
THE Worlds Fair power plant will be
of $4,000 horse power, and Will require
| the services of $50 engineers, hremen
and attendants.
THE cotton worm is creating great de-
vastation in many counties IN Mlssls-
sippi. One field of twenty-five acres
has been entirely stripped of its leaves.
IN New York City the quantity of
huckleberries sold is ten times that of
any other berry Dried huckleberries,
in winter time. always bring fair
price.
OsKALoosA, Ia, has a threshing ma
chine haunted by spooks, which put out
the fire in the engine and distracted
tools from the workbOX which four men
were watching.
IT is the intention of European engi-
neers to store the waters of the Nile to
such an extent as to enable a greater eX-
tension of the cotton and sugar-cane
crops in that region.
Coal equaling that of the finest Lee
high Valley grade has been discovered
in Brazil, the veins being from to %
| feet in thickness. The mines are sltua-
! ted at and near Sonora.
| THE forest areas of Germany are re-
! turned as follows: Prussia. 100000
acres; Bavaria $500, 900 acres; Wurtem-
| berg, 100000 acres; SaXony, 4l6, 900
acaes, and Baden. 235, 900 acres.
A LYONS anatomist has examined the
skeletons of eighty monkeys-chim-
panzees, gorillas and orang-outangs-
and has found diseases of the bone to
be as frequent as in man, and Of strlk-
ingly similar character.
THIRTEEN years ago student in Berlin
was mobbed in the streets for appearing
| on bicycle. Now the German Union
of Bicyclists, which has just held its
eigth annual conference at Breslau, has
| 1000 members.
| The granting Of permission to the
| starving Russian peasantry to use the
imperial forests has led to many burg
laries and depredations on the imperial
farm, the furnishing people fighting and
in some cases shedding blood over the
spoils.
In Africa when an army of ants moves
for food the still forest becomes alive
with the tramping of the elephant. the
| of the leopard, of snakes, all the living
world, in the same direction where the
other animals are fleeing away.
The Corsicans are not the only people
in the world VINO would believe in the
evil eve, for the Turk is so affected by it
| that he thinks it extends its Influences
| to whatever animals belong to him.
Strings of coral are sold on the streets
| and said to be a preventive against the
evil.
| AN insect which promises to be of as
great benefit to Washington hop grow
ers as the Australian lady-bug was to
| the orchardists of Southern California
| has been discovered on the sound. 1t
siders most desirable delicacy, and by
its help it is hoped that this pest can be
| kept under in the future.
A FAMOUS German restaurauteur went
into the bankruptcy court the other
| day. Judge Of the sensa tons of his
customers when they learned that he
| owed bill Of $4,000 marks to knacker
for supplying him with the carcasses of
/ horses and donkeys To the ingenious
question as to what he wanted with
! these animals the man had to answer,
"Why, my customers ate them as ven
| is,on."
A 100000 SALE Of whisky recently
| took place at Lexington, ky.-the
largest on record.
The damage to the cereal crops in
| Canada by insects has been estimated at
$38, 100000.
In Ball. an island in the Indian Archi-
pelago east of Java, the burning of
widows still goes on.
| IN Corea sheets of paper pass for
money; one sheet brings one quart of
rice or twenty sheets piece of hemp
cloth.
THERE are still fourteen different
places on this globe where cannibalism
is practiced, but the custom is gradually
dying out.
OF the 80, 226 children of school age
in Louisiana only 5000 attend the pub
lie schools, and many of those go for
| but one month.
| A WOMAN who fell into a swollen
creek, near Lowtonville, Ga, was res
cued, and the first thing she said to her
preservers was; "Do you know where /
! can hire cook ?"
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