Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-20
CURIOUS CONDEN SATIONS.

CURIOUS CONDEN Stations.
CLEAN piano keys with soft rag
dipped in alcohol.
JAPAN has no fewer than 700 earth
| quake observing stations scattered over
| the empire.
To be perfectly proportional a man
should weigh IS pounds for every foot of
his height.
THE king clam Of Penobscot Bay was
taken at Islesboro recently. 1t weighed
Is ounces.
WHILE endeavoring to swallow 8
mouse an owl choked to death at Nocka-
nixon few days ago.
On an average there are 100 boys born
to every 100 girls, but more boys die in
infancy than girls.
MASSACHUSETTS has more cities with a
| population of %, 900 or over than any
| other state in the Union.
NINE young men are about to walk
| from Americas, Ga, to Chicago, Ill.,, q
distance of 1,0U0 miles by road, on a
| wager.
The boiling water fad at meals is dy-
ing out. Thousands of people are glad,
and now some doctors who recommend
ed it say it's all nonsense.
THE people Of Paris have consumed
within the year q ,291 horses, 299 don
keys and 40 mules, the meat weighing,
according to returns, 1918 tons
| A LARGE cave was recently discovered
| in Montana, which contained the
| bones of hundreds of animals that
had fallen into it and we're unable to
escape.
IT is an accepted fact that America is
more lavish in the matter of hospitality
and entertaining than any other coun-
try. In the matter of flowers alone at
entertainments the Americans spend
small fortunes.
JOSEPH FRoTHINGHAM, of Exeter, n.
H., is 90 years old, and relates that he
was at church at Salem, Mass, on the
Sunday when the United States ship,
| Old Ironsides, was chased into Marble
head Bay by three British trigates.
ONLY two congregations of the Arme-
MAN Church are in this country-one at
Worcester. Mass, and the other at
Hoboken. That at Worcester grew out
of what was perhaps the earliest i'm
migration of the Armenians to Anne
RIGA.
| In distance the moon is 240, 900 miles
away from our earth, around which she
gravitates like satellite. Her diameter
is about 2, 1853 miles, she has solid sur
face of 100000 miles and solid con-
tent Of about 600 Of cubic miles.
THOUSANDS of books in the Magyar
and Slavish tongues are sold in New
York. The books extend over the
whole range of literature, from the
simplest fairy stories to the classics.
Prayer books, hymn books and Bibles
in the various languages spoken in
Hungary have large sale.
THE yearly fair in the Carpathians is
still vigorous, and on the feast day all
| the manageable maidens Of the
regions round about assemble on the
summit Of the Gaina, 5000 feet above
the level of the sea, in order that they
may be wooed and won by bachelors
who can afford to keep wife.
SOME doctors say that flowing boards,
in addition to tempting tornadoes to
blow through them, undoubtedly at
tract and retain the grippe microbes.
From inquiries 1t seems that beWhisk-
cred gentleman have suffered more
from the disease than those who walk
about with clean-shaven faces.
LEWISTON, Me-, has twenty-eight ply
slclans and thirtyOne drug stores, while
Bangor, with about the same pOpula-
ton. has fourteen drug stores and thir-
tyfour physicians. A few of the Ban
gor drug stores do as much, or more,
business In liquors as in medicines, but
nearly all Of Lewiston's establishments
are poorly disguised barrooms.
THE bicycle has been introduced into
Central Africa. Two Englishmen ar
rived at Tabora few weeks ago with
two Of the latest improved BICYCLES.
They had travelled large part Of the
way from the coast, more than 300
l6-n hnI 4 1<D, L.
worked finely along the well-trodden
native paths.
SEVERAL additions have recently been
made to the appropriations made bv
the states and territories to the Worlds
Fair, which now aggregate So, 10000.
A BROOKLYN inventor proposes to tap
the earth'E interior for heat, and thus
save fuel.
DIR. LIVINGSTONE once said he had
walked for weeks though a region in
Africa where a lake ought to be, accord
ing to the maps, and he never saw the
lake.
UMBRELLAS are rarely used in Alden.
Arabia. Rain has fallen there only
twice IN tWenty-nine years. Previous
to the last rain, which occurred in 1888.
there was period of dry weather
which lasted twenty-six years.
A MONKEY in the PHILADELPHIA Zoo
tried to commit suicide by cutting its
throat with piece of glass, after mis-
mother had whipped him. He made
frightful cash before his mother took
the glass away.
IN the South of Europe the rosemary
has long had magic properties ascribed
to it. The Spanish ladies' used to wear
1t as an antidOte against the evil eye,
and the Portuguese called it the elfin
plant and dedicated it to the fairies.
Mr.. GLADSTONE IS the owner of the
largest lead pencil in the world. 1t is the
gift of a pencil maker at Keswick, and
is 80 inches in length. In place Of the
customary rubber cap it has gold cap.
Its distinguished owner uses it for
walking stick.
GOLD is weighed by troy weight, while
feathers are weighed by avoirdupois;