Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-24
PICKED UP FACTS.

FRANCES last torpedo boat made 2333
knots in bad sea.
OVER $4,000 meals are served in the
House of Commons every season.
ANNE ROONEY is dead. She was a
Nevada race horse of considerable local
fame.
/ A BOISE. Idaho. man has discovered,
it is said, that good paper can be manu-
featured from sage brush.
A BILL before the Illinois Senate pro-
Vides for only women jurors in
coroner,s inQuests on women.
A LARGE and brilliant meteor recent
" tell IN a gap of the Mcdowell Noun
tains, about thirty miles northwest of
Phoenix, Ariz.
SINCE january five applications have
been made by Cinnamon in different
parts of California for licenses to marry
white women.
As soon as native Alaskan gets q s.
sold piece, or SO bill, he Immediately
trades it for silver, having no faith in
gold or paper money.
A CARSON, New, hen recently laid an
egg, which, according to the Appeal,
measured 81 inches in circumference,
the long way, and 81 inches the other
Ar baptism in the river, near Plain
field, Conn, last Sunday, the floating
ice was SO thick and plentiful that two
men were constantly engaged in keep
ing it away from those being immersed.
In Birmingham, England, there re-
Gently died detective named
Black who had in his life discovered
over 5000 criminals, and at race near
Rugby he once arrested eight pick
pockets in thirty-five minutes.
4 TRAVELLER reports that there is a
spring in st. Tammany parish, Louisi-
ana, which pours forth clear cold water
ali day long, but at sunset goes sudden
ly dry, discharglng no water until the
sun rises again.
THE last few relics Of the Maine min
ing craze are disappearing, and soon
nothing will remain but the many holes
in the ground which disfgure the
countryside and serve as pitfalls for I'M
wary cattle and sheep.
Ii was said at recent gathering in Chi
cage by an interested woman that there
are 10000 children in the city under II
years of age who are not in the schools
at all, and 10000 more who only attend
half a day for want of room.
ACCORDING to a survey made on Janu-
airy IA last by Major of Engineers d. G..
Heap, Z. S. A., the extreme point Of
Sandy Hook has made out westerly
about $50 feet beyond the point shown
on the latest coast survey chart
printed March Z. 1891.
IN the last sixty years horses have
increased lO4 per cent, cattle, 127,
sheep, 139, and pigs 50. This is much
greater Except as regards pigs) than
the increase of population in Europe,
United States and British colonies,
which has been just 20 per cent.
PARSLEY is poisonous to many kinds of
birds.
A REQUEST of 5000, 900 has been made
by DR.. Ignaz Hoppe, of the University
OF Basel, Switzerland, for the investiga-
ton of the nature of the soul.
THE Egyptian fellah is apparently the
worst taxed man in the world. Even
on the palm tree, which gives him food
and shelter, he pays so cents year.
CHILDREN are not numerous in France.
Out of 100000 families in the re-
Pile one-fitth have no children at all
and another fifth have only one child
each.
THE sugar insect is of interest to the
physician, as it may possibly be that the
larger numbers found in raw sugar
would make it injurious to the health of
the consumer, and moreover, there is a
skin disease produced by handling I'M
refined sugar.
Ii we'll could be dug to the depth of
forty-six miles, the density of the air at
the bottom would be AS great as that Of
quick silver. By the same law cubic
inch Of air taken 900 miles above the
earth's surface would expand sufficient
ly to fill a sphere 1000, 900 miles in
diameter.
CLOVES are the unopened flower of a
small evergreen tree that resembles in
appearance the laurel or the bay. 1t is
q native of the Maiacca or Spice Islands,
parts Of the world, and it is now cult
waited in the tropical regions of Ameri-
ca.
IT is said that two poor Partisan wom-
en-, who earn a livelihood by making ar
tificial flowers, have hit on a process for
dyeing natural flowers in brilliant hues.
Public attention was called to the mat
ter by florists who received in a lot Of
flowers some Sweet Williams Of bright
green color.
THE throwing the shoe is relic of an
AnglO-Saxon custom. In those early
DAYS the brides father delivered her
shoe to the husband, who touched her
with it on the forehead, to denote his
authority over her. The custom was
probably founded on a possible misin-
depreciation of Ruth w., Z.
A MAN weighs less when the barome-
ter is high, Notwithstanding the fact that
the atmosphere pressure on him is
more than when the barometer is low.
Ag the pressure of air on an ordinary
sized man is about 10 tons, the rise of
the mercury from 90 to 81 inches adds
about one ton to the load he has to car
ry.
MALARIA invalids who consume great
quantities of quinine will be panied to