Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
HERE AND TIL ERE.
DIRK has 1000 Indians,

IWENTY-EIGHT thousand patents were
granted last year.
SIX million dollars are invested in the
manufacture of dynamite in the United
States.
IT is the fad of English women of the
arlstOcratlc set to dress SO as to look as
tall as posi- BILE.
KENTUCKY'S name is derived from
kentuckee, an Indian name, meaning
1.-The head of river."
AN impulsive Gillian has been SEN
fenced to ninety days Imprisonment for
kissing a young woman in the Plaza of
Valparaiso without first obtaining her
consent.
A New YORKER has made clock from
81, 900 pieces of wood. comprising over
800 varities For sixteen years he has
had sailors bringing him rare woods from
every quarter of the globe.
A WILL recently probated in the sur
rogate's court at Albany contains
this clause: ITO my son Simeon | give
the sum of so cents for the trouble
he has taken to i'll treat me-"
THE Grand Trunk Railway men are all
being vaccinatcd at the company's eN-
pense, against the possible spread of
disease contracted from the hordes of
emigrants which the company handles.
LIKE some of the rim 90 of to-day, the
signets worn by the Israelites bore in
scriptions. The breastplates ofthe high
priests were set with twelve precious
stones, each one representing a tribe of
the Children of Israel.
A MAN at Macon, Ga, has a $40 note
of the state of North Carolina, printed
in 177S. On one side is the inscription,
Persecution the Ruin Of Empires"
while on the other side appears the
words, Death to Counterfeiters."
A GERMAN naturalist enumerates the
following birds and mammals as de-
serving of projections: Shrews, bats,
owls, cuckoos, swallows, swifts, night
jars, tree-creepers, woodpeckers, wrens,
robins, whitethroats, water wagtails
and titmice.
A TULIP show has been held annually
at the Orange Tree Inn, Butley, a small
village near Macclesfeld, England, for
the past sixty-seven years.
A NUMBER of Brooklyn's wealthy men
have raised a fund to build a church in
New York where services will be held
for deaf mutes.
AN eminent scientist has discovered
that in shape and general appearance
Ike head of a Turk is most like the head
Of an American.
THE weeds on the monitor Monad-
mock, which vessel has been lying for
some time past at the Mare Island dock
yard, were found the other day to be
from to II inches long.
NUMEROUS experiments to determine
the best fre-resisting materials for the
construction OF doors proved that wood
covered with tin resisted the fire better
than an iron door.
THE latest form of steamship propeller
is an English invention. 1t is designed
so that when in motion there is no
weight of water on the blades on the
rise and fall Of the propeller, due to the
pitching of the vessel.
AN ingenious Frenchman has invented
a continuance for removing the hair by
machinery. 1t is said that it operates
with as great precision as DR.. Guillotin's
and does not remove so much of the
man with the hair.
THREE Roman graves we're found by
workmen lear Hagneau, in Alsace,
Germany, short time ago, in good con-
dltlOn. Each grave contained a Roman
warriors skeleton, his arms, armor and
many Roman coins.
AT Colmar a lawyer bequeathed the
sum OF 100000 francs to the madhouse
in that locality. II earned this money!"
said he in his will, "lrom those who
spent their lifetime IN lawsuits. This
legacy is only restitution"
THE oldest armchair in the world is
the throne once used bv Queen Hatafu,
who f1ourished in Egypt 1900 B. G. 1t
Is made of ebony, beautifully carved.
and is so hardened With age as to appear
to be carved from black marble.
PHOTOGRAPHY has determined the
cause of the recent glacial avalanche in
the Alps. 1t was hydraulic pressure
beneath and behind the glacier, pro-
duced by masses of ice falling into con-
Meeting water above and at a consldera-
bic distance
A MAN in Indiana has a plan for revo-
lutlonizing naval warfare by building
India rubber ships.
LoTTIE BLAIR, the author Of "White
Roses" Is writing a comedy for Daniel
Frohman's Lyceum company.
THE Prussian Minister has ordered
that hereafter all contracts with women
teachers shall be cancelled in the case
year.
NEAR Astoria, Ore, there is an an
ancient deposit of clam shells which
covers an area Of over four acres.
A CLOTHEs-WAsHING contest was a
novel attraction at a colored church
picnic at Westminster, Nd, recently.
RICHMOND, Ind. has an organization
known as the 1927 Society" composed
entirely of persons born in 1927.
THE fourth cable across the Atlantic
was laid by the Great Eastern, from
ireland to Newfoundland, in the year
1873.
THE official title of the governor Of
Rhode Island is Captain General Of
Rhode Island and Providence Planta-
tons.
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