Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-27
HERE AND TIL e RE.

The earth is the greatest distance
from the sun on the morning of July
9th.
AS long ago as 1866, Benin, leading
German authority. estimated the popu
lation of the earth at about 400, OOO,0 900.
A DIVER recently stated that he once
slept an hour and half at the bottom
of wreck where he was laying pipe.
ELECTIONS in France are always held
on Sundays in order to suit the con
venience of the workingmen and peas
ants.
FROM an ancient account book found
at Eastport, Me-, it appears that in
1897 tobacco was sold by the yard in
that settlement.
THE largest sailing vessel atioat, the
France, Of 6,16O tons, recently entered
the port of Dunkirque with 5000 tons.of
nitrate Of soda from Iquique.
BLANCHE KING, aged Is, was married
in St. Louis, last week, for the second
time, having been married and dl-
vorced in 1890, when she was but ID
years old.
AT the present time the Shah Of Per-
STA is the owner of o Shetland pony
which is but II inches high. 'Chis pam
pered pet Of royalty wears gold shoes
worth e3 each.
A New York colored man cleared
himself of charge of larceny by prov
ing that at the time of tie alleged Of
Tense he had his hat in one hand, and q
cane in the other.
The largest shipment Of apples ever
made from the United States left Port
land, Me-, last week in the steamship
Labrador, which carried more than
$4,000 barrels of fine fruit to England.
A BRIGHT New York boy has set him
self up in the business of exercising
fine bred dogs for rich men, whose
time is too much taken up with money
making to properly look after their
canine property.
MORE than 100 writer's in Britain,
male and female, have written the life
of Gladstone, and have the manuscript
all ready so that they can rush to q
publishing house with it the moment
his death IS announced.
RUSSIA has become infected with the
vice of ether drinking, and the PERM
cious habit has spread SO rapidly that
the government has judged it necessary
to prohibit the free sale Of ether and
of certain Of its compounds, and to sche-
dule it among the poisons.
EMIGRATION from Ireland fell off con-
siderably in the last few months Of 1891.
The number of emigrants who left Irish
ports IN that quarter was 6,SO3, being
l ,427 less than in the corresponding
quarter Of 1890, and 2,439 under the
average number for the fourth quarter
of the ten years 1SS1-9O.
JOHN HOPKINS, of South Bend, oldest
inhabitant of the northern part of
Indiana, celebrated his 104th birthday
recently. He yet does manual labor
about his house. and is as we'll pre-
served as the average man of 20. He
has three children living over so years
Of age and fifteen great.grandchildren
GERTHA NJ. PRIOR, of Bristol, Me-, %
years old, knows the alphabet entire,
what state, county and town she lives
in, what the largest city IN Maine is,
who IS President of the United States,
can tell her name and how old she is,
| and can count to twelve, and spell nine
words, four of which contain four let
| tiers each.
THE Scandinavians, in their story of
creation, tell us how Odin, Will and We,
| the three sons of Bor, while walking
along the seashOre found two sticks Of
| wood, one Of ash and one of elm, and
sat down there in the sand and shaped
them into living, intelligent beings,
known in the after ages of the world as
the first man and the first woman.
A FEW days ago ]. L. Heath, a reputa-
bic farmer near Marshall, Ind, while
removing clover hay from a NOW, I'M
covered live hen which he claims had
been there since last June, when the
hay was stored. There was no possible
chance for the fowl to have crawied
into the place where found after it was
once closed.
A HAWK flying over the premises of
G. w. Flythe, near Buck Greek, Ca,
CHANGED to see goose grazing afar off
from the flock. Thinking this would
make him nice meal, he flew down and
attempted to carry the goose off to his
long home. But the goose resisted. and
the other geese hearing his cries flew to
the rescue, and the hawk soon lay dead
upon the ground.
A PROMINENT horseman says that a
horse can conveniently eat twenty
four hours every day, the reason being
that 'its stomach is really small
in proportion to the size of it's
body, and, therefore, it require 8
feeding often, not less than four times a
day, two Of which should be early in
the morning and at night, while hay in
the stall should always be within it's
reach"