Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-06-15
HERE AND tn ERE.

A PETRIFIED canoe is SAID 10 DE the lat
est find in Wyoming.
THE first folio 1923 edition Of
Shakespeare" is under process of re-
production by means of photography.
THERE are seldom more than 5000
stars visible in the heavens to the eye
from any one point of observation.
AN astronomer of Rochester, n. Y,
thinks that the latest arrived comet has
been 100000 years in getting here.
Two mahogany tables that are souve-
Mrs Of the illustrious highwayman, Jack
Sheppard, were sold in London recent
lv for guinea.
JAPAN has 700 earthqus ke-observing
stations, and the records of the 500
shocks that annually visit that country
are accurately noted.
A PHILADELPHIA has educated a
house fly to respond to q prolonged
"buz-z-z," which brings it from its
Granny any time of day for its supply Of
sugar.
GERMAN railway directors are expert
menting with rails made of paper
which are said to be as superior to steel
rails as paper car wheels are to those Of
iron.
AT Marshall, Mo-, rat has made up
with them every day, but it is without
the knowledge and consent of the kit
tens mother.
No one knows when whisky was first
made. but, according to Mr.. Ashton, it
was hardly known until the time of the
Pretender, being drink strictly of the
Highlanders.
COTTON is now grown in Turkestan
and the Russian provinces Of Central
Asia, the quantity produced being 81,
$4,000 pounds, or say $4,000 bales, in
1888, and 81, $4,000 pounds in 1889.
ANDovER. O., has quite natural curl
ositv in the way Of a boy, II years old,
who is about two feet and a half tall
who can kick his own hat Off and can
stand Oh one foot and tickle his ear
with the other.
In Burmah it is a rather suspicious
thing to give money for a charitable OBJ
iect. It is supposed to mean that the
donor has been very wicked and is de-
sirous to make amends.
A COMPANY was organized at Phoenix,
Ariz., recently for the construction of
what is claimed will be the largest arti-
fetal reservoir in the world. 1t will be
Is miles long and contain los ,0oS, O4O, 500
cubic feet OF water.
IT is claimed that German family
living out West have in their possession
tame fox, with beautiful bushy tail,
with which the animal has been trained
to dust the parlOr furniture every morn
ing.
THERE are engraved stones in the Brit
ish Museum showing that the fashions
| in garments and headgear of the women
of Babylon at the time of the deluge
oh ho
vailing
A WIFE in Kansas became a mother
and a mayor on the same day, and a
wife in Kentucky took back to her fam
lily week-old babe with diploma from
the medical college where she gradu-
ated with honor.
IT is stated that there is scarcely a
| living fish in any of the creeks or rivers
in Sweet Home. Tex, or vicinity, in
consequence Of the late rain, which
| washed down so much sediment from
| the black land that the water became
so thick the fish could not breathe.
The steamer Ems, which arrived in
New York the other day, reports pass
ing IN iceberg in latitude 430 on which
were seen two large polar bears. The
steamer did not stop to interfere with
them, but left them to continue their
voyage and give the sharks taste Of
bear meat.
A RECENT issue of London paper con-
tains business-like advertisement an
nouncing in behalf of the advertiser
that 1.-The charge of cremation has been
changed to S25." It's promoters have
business sense enough to advertise, and
their rates are attractlvely cheap.
A DEER IstE man has a curiosity in
the shape of an egg which had on one
end a cap-like excrescence, which,
being lifted, showed a full-sized cram
berry bean between the cap of the
shell and the inner lining membrane of
the egg.
TT is said that fully million copies of
Com rades" have been sold. For this
and others of his popular songs-such
as "That Is Love" and ooh, What a
Difference in the Morning v'-the au-
thor, who lives in London, receives
about 81 900 a month from America
alone in royalties.
THE Municipal Council of st. Etienne,
France, has decided upon an interest
| ing experiment, which is to distribute
electrical power to $4,000 looms, scat
tered about in the homes of the inhabi-
tants, 10000 of whom are engaged in
| the ribbon industry. The power is to