Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST

THERE are SIX Do0C'Sugar factories IN
the United States.
The price Of ivory billiard balls has
doubled in fifteen years.
ENGLISH farmers use horseshoes made
of compressed leather.
THE despised razor back" of the
South yields the finest hams.
A FARM home reading circle has been
organized In Michigan.
CHICAGO claims the finest collection OF
old violins in the world.
A MoBERLY, Mo-, man sawed two
cords of wood to secure $1,000 life in
surance.
INDIA RUBBER is the newest paving
material 1t is more durable than as
phalt.
A SAN FRANCISCO women owns 200 cats,
each having pedigree Of many gener-
atoms.
The hair of Nancy Garrison, colored,
of Hobby Springs, Miss, is said to meas
ure feet in length.
JONATHAN MCCLURE has been setting
type for the Madison Tnd.) Courier
since 1887. He is now IA years old.
AN automatic timekeeper lately in
troduced in factories gives a record by
MIKE COLLINS, of st. Louis, has agreed
to eat three pigs feet day for thirty
days for $40 and the championship of
Missouri.
The animals of the sea are the oldest
species In existence. Scientists insist
that the original vertebrate man was q
worm in the bottom Of the great deep.
HARRISON SHEARER, of Valparaiso,
Ind, claims to have found an elk horn
in the hollow of tree, where he sup
poses it to have been for a hundred
years or more.
A BosroN man has demonstrated that
he can furnish 1000 20-candie electric
lights at cents an hour. By ordinary
dynamos the cost of the illumination
would be $40.
AN insane man who travelled through
Northern Missouri three years ago has
reappeared. He drives horse and an
OK and wherever the OK chooses to go
the man follows.
beard in existence is attached to the
chin of the French sculptor, Louis
Coulon, of Montlucon. It measures p
feet in length and is still growing.
A PHILADELPHIA confectioner, being
curious as to the weight of 500 pennies,
placed them in paper bag on coDfec-
TONERS scales, and found that they
weighed three pounds five and a quar-
ter ounces.
LITTLE Una Davis, daughter Of Elder
M. NJ. Davis, of Dallas, Tex, met with
a singular accident lately. In suddenly
turning her head she injured her spine
so that she is now obliged to carry her
neck and shoulders in a plaster of paris
jacket.
A HOG killed at Scio, Ore, last
week was found to have two perfect
stomachs and two complete sets of in
testines. The owner never noticed any
thing unusual about the animal when it
was alive, except that it had wonder
full appetite.
SPoRTsMEN in Southern Egypt have
not untrequently met with accidents to
their barrels, owing directly or Indirect
ly to using nitro cartridges charged for
the damp atmosphere of England and
sent out tor use in the dry, rareied air
of the desert.
QUEEN VICTORIA, since the beginning
of her reign, has only signed one death
warrant, which was tor an execution in
the Isle Of Man, the act passed for re-
lieving Her Majesty Of signing death
warrants having by an oversight not in
Guided that part of Her Majesty's do
minions.
IN the streets leading to the quays at
Alexandria, Egypt, almost every other
shop is drinking bar, where the most
poisonous and maddening compounds
a glass or two of which will often pro-
duce insensibility-are retailed. I'm
fortunately these places are largely
patronized by English sailors.
PROF. HUXLEY declares that the proper
weight of a man is 154 pounds, made up
as follows: Muscles and their APP
purtenances, IS pounds; skeleton, "a
pounds; skin, 109 pounds; tat, % pounds;
brain, 3 pounds; abdominal viscera, II
pounds; blood (that which would drain
from the body, pounds.
A RAFT of logs was brought down the
Skagit River and sold at Tacoma re-
Gently which scaled an average Of $4,000
feet of lumber to each log. 1t is said by
lumbermen to be doubtful if larger logs
were ever put into Puget Sound. The
same dealer sold raft last July which
averaged $4,000 feet in each log.
THE late NJ. de Quatrefages, the
French ethnologist, said all mankind
came from central mass in
NOrGnern ASH, ana InaI Inere were
three fundamental types-black, white
and yellow. These three types scat
tered over the world and intermingled,
forming, in course of time. seventy-two
distinct races of human beings.
A MOST wonderful mechanical toy has
been on private exhibition in Paris
lately. 1t consists of seven life-sized
kittens covered with real skin, but with
ewes Of emeralds set in white enamel.
Each kitten is provided with some mus
ical instrument, all perfectly harmon
lied. With these the kittens play the
most difficult pieces Of music, operas
and such. The mechanism is similar to