Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-11-16
lTEMIZED FACTS.

One of the most interesting exhibit
tons in connection with the recent
Orientalist Congress in London is col
lection of tools used by workmen in
building the pyramids of Egypt
II is pointed out by a scientist that
the worlds most precious gems are
composed of the commonest substances,
the diamond. Tor instance, being pure
carbon-that is to say, charcoal devoid
OF impurities.
TIE Norman-English ladies dressed
their hair in two long plaits, and, when
nature was not liberal, heightened the
plaits with braids of wool, tow or horse
hair.
In 1910 Europe produced four times
as much grain as this country; IN 1887,
a normal year. the United States pro-
duced nearly half as much grain as the
whole of Europe.
A RECENTLY married Kansas couple
spent their honeymoon IN the depths OF
an old coal mine.
The dorking fowl is the only living
bird that, in the adult condition, pos
sesses five-toed loot.
THE first American flag was unfurled
at the camp of the Colonial troops, in
Cambridge, Mass, on January l, 1776.
In the reign of Henry VIII. it was
enacted that no person should keep
above 1000 sheep nor hold more than
two farms.
A SOCIETY was organizedin New York,
| 1865, for the encouragement of Amen-
can woolens. The society's rules for
! babe eating Of mutton or lamb or the
! slaughter Of sheep.
THE cultivation of the pineapple in
the Bahamas is a very profitable under
taking. At 2 pence each an acre OF
pineapples returns 5000 to 1925.
1T is cabled as an indication of wide
spread European interests in the Column
bian Exposition that $500 students of
the Regent Street (London) polytechnic
| have engaged passage for the early
weeks of nextsummer.
The new variety of sugar cane re-
ported from the Upper Niger is of gil
gantic size, and very rich In sugar.
| Moreover, it differs from the ordinary
| sugar cane in possessing seeds, from
which the plant can be raised.
PARIS GREEN sprinkled with salt and
scattered by the hand of some heart
less poisoner carried off eight valua BILE
horses near Colon, Mich, within two
weeks.
SHERMAN, Tex, has 500, 900 jail from
which ten prisoners recently escaped
| by saving through iron bars with a 80
cent file.
Coal mines employ ], 800, 900 men.
IN Japan every child is taught to work
| with both hands.
Ten days per annum is the average
amount of sickness in human life.
A MAN in Steubenville, found a
penny dated 1893 in al old sewer.
THE British isles comprise no fewer
than 1, 200 separate islands and islets.
IT is stated that 10000 900 Of the
| Queens subjects in India never know
what it is to eat enough.
A PIECE of frogs skin not larger in
| diameter than the rubber tip on lead
| pencil has more pores IN it than there
are meshes in the mosquito netting on q
screen door.
DIR. RILEY calculates that there must
| be at least between 5000, 900 and l0,000,.
600 insects in the world.
a CUTLERY factory in Meriden, Conn.
! recently completed a wonderful toy-a
| perfect pocket knife, with thirty blades
| plncers, shears, avis, ETC., which is said
to weigh but one-eighth of an ounce.
CABLE railroads are now features OF
most of the leading American cities.
| The first cable railroad in New York
City was built on Tenth Avenue by
| Lewis Lyon, an Engiishman, recently
| deceased.
| A PORTLAND, Me-, woman, who has a
mania for cancelled postage stamps, has
over a million of them.
The woman employees OF the Chicago
telephone companies are to be attired
| in black uniforms.
THREE times as many herrings are con-
sumed as any other kind of fish.
SOMEBODY claims that an electric plant
| has been discovered ia India, which will
| influence a magnetic needle 20 feet
| distant.
The highest price yet paid for violin
was FL 400 given for the instrument
known as the Belts Stradivarius. 1t
gained this distinguishing title through
| a remarkable incident.
A 9-YEAR-oLD son of John Benton,
while attempting to place nail on the
track in front of an engine, was struck
| and instantly killed at Muskegon, Mich.
AIgh-priced Drugs.