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

know that in the manufacture of this
drug there is quite as much misery as III
the disease which it alleviates. The
making produces cutaneous eruptlons
accompanied by a fever, the vapOr
from boiling solutions being the chief
cause.
THE Timber Indians use to bury their
dead in very curious way, selecting tor
the purpose living sepulchers. They
left the corpses of defunct persons to be
devoured by beasts or birds of prey. A
similar custom is said to have been fol-
lowed by ancient Persians, who threw
out the bodies of their dead on the
roads.
In Africa floating bridges have been
constructed of trees and bambOOs bound
together and forming a continuous and
flexible roadway. There are examples
Of bridges of boats upon the Chinese
rivers, some with two or three boats re-
er traffic, and one which carries also a
custom house.
THERE are between 1000 and ZOO
lawyers in Boston, with scarcely bust
ness for 200.
MORE than / 200 varieties of flowers
were gathered in Colorado last summer
by Miss Aida Z. Lansing.
DEER horns, flint, bOars' tusks and
bone of all sorts were made to serve
the purpose by anglers of the neOHthlc
period.
In the 'first families of Philadelphia"
it continues to be a gastronOmic boast
that they have always paid 81 a pound
for butter.
THE prejudice against the wearing Of
whiskers is reported to be becoming
very marked in the leading clubs and
restaurants Of New York City.
IN the cemetery of Wall Street, New
York, the unmarked financial graves
outnumber 200 to | the monuments
erected TO the successful Spectator.
THE blood vessels in the white Of the
eye are SO small that they do not admit
the little red cOrpuscles to which the
ordinary real appearance Of the blood
is due.
AMONG the latest patents issued in
! Washington is one foran electro prOpel~
| ing tricycle., which. it is claimed, will
run at the rate of 8 to 2 miles an hour
at nominal cost.
FARMERS near Leeds n. D., are com
| planning of the depredations Of a herd
Of antelope that is destroying great
quantities OF the unthreshed grain, flax
| seeming to be their tavorite food.
AN old gentleman from keokuk, Ia. ,
met an old lady for the first time, fell
desperately in love, proposed, was ac-
| cepted, secured license, and married
| the lady in twenty minutes after meet
| ing her.
THE Pratt (Kan.), Times, voicing the
Indignation of the people at repeated
| fail deliveries, advises the county to sell
| the steel cages and cells and hire q cow
! boy to herd the prisoners in the city
| park.
FROM an early date the Chinese seem
to have constructed suspension bridges
| of considerable magnitude, one in the
| Province of Junnan, constructed In the
year So, A. D., being the most cele-
| brated.
| AN ancient sword was dug up recently
| in the piney woods in Georgia, near
| the forks of the Savannah River and
| Brier Creek. The hammer marks on
| the blade stamp it as having been OF
! home manufacture.
| An absent-minded Toronto woman in
! her hurry to start for church, took from
closet pair of her husband S
trousers for her dolman, threw them over
| her arm, and did not discover her mis-
take until she had thrown them over
the back of a pew in front of her.
A GHOST eight feet tall and having a
sepulchral laugh, is reported to be ter
rorizing some of the inhabitants of
| Williamsburg, n. Y. A policeman, a
| fireman and milkman are among those
said to have been FRUSTRATED with fright
| through this ghostly visitant.