Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-08
THINGS LITTLE AND BIG.

Dorothy means Gift of God
There are eleven varieties of jasmine
Fear is frequent cause of disease.
Italians are extremely fond of toma-
toes
The skin of rabbits is used for felt
| hats.
One of the best selling vegetables is
| the onion.
1t is unhealthy to stop up tireplaces
in summer.
Lowell, Mass, is called the City of
| Spindles
Edward is a Saxon name, and means
happy keeper.
Americas export amounted to 1892
| Ill $50 last year.
Chicago is the greatest railroad CEN
ter in the world.
A girls curling iron started $780,
600 fire in Ell Paso.
lanes Buchanan was called The
Bachelor President
The island of Cuba is called The
Queen of the Antilles"
The established church of Scotland is
the Presbyterian.
Diamonds are cheaper now than they
have been for years.
Gray and blue. are the colors worn by
Norwegian peasants.
| siXty-siX gales a. year.
The longest telephone line is that
| from Boston to Milwaukee.
A Scenery Preservation society has
| been started in Melbourne.
-Freckles may be removed by sat
urated solution of citric acid.
-Belham represents the fuller and
more euphoniOus Bellehomme.
The Prince of Wales visited the Unit
ed States i'll the autumn of 1859.
In Alabama all school and church
property is exempt from taxation.
Feather beds are not healthy to sleep
on either in summer or winter.
The average height of clouds above
the earth is between one and two miles.
Almost one-twentieth of the popula-
ton of the United States is widowed.
"A nugget of gold weighing 100 ounces
was recently found in an Australian
mine.
The United States has a greater rail
road mileage than any other country III
the world.
Water pipes of wood stand a high
| pressure do not rust, and cost much less
| than iron.
The name of the petrol is derived
! from Peter, because they appear to walk
on the water.
-Vondel, the great Dutch dramatist
was poor all his life, and was finally
buried by charity.
-Eoltaire was rendered miserable by
his envy of those more fortunately stu
ated than himself.
George ". was greatly vexed for
years by carbuncles on his face, caused by
secret drinking.
Nine. Sevigne wanted to be very
beautiful, and often lamented her lack of
personal charms.
-Paderewski wears his hair long be-
cause he believes it makes his naturally
weak eyes better.
Edward [. of England was annoyed
by his great height. His subjects dubbed
him Long Shanks.
Mrs. Hannah Chard of Gassboro. n.
J., who is said to be 105 years old, has
$50 grandchildren.
Criminals have discovered a way of
removing facial marks and place detec-
tives completely at sea.
Infinite God, to Thee We Raise"
was a translation by Charles Wesley of
a part of the TIE D6um.
The humming bird, which is so quiet
in the East, is a very noisy little rascal
in the Rocky mountains.
The Persian sheep accumulates fat in
its tail during summer on which it lives
during its winter Information.
The fortune of the new French presi-
dent is variously estimated at from 75,
COOS to 1O0,O0O,000 francs.
The Manchester ship canal is 3511a
miles long and cost $75, 100000. Its mini
mum depth is twenty-siX feet.
There are clubs of girls in Sydney,
\. S. W., the object of which is to attend
the theaters without male escort.
Milk disagrees with many persons be-
cause there is not enough acid in the
stomach to cause it to curdle.
The theory that the remains of ami
mails form the raw material from which
petroleum is formed by nature is still
held by some prominent scientists.
Emperor William has new carriage
lighted inside and out by electricity. The
horses also bear small lamps on their har-
ness.
The Persians first gave cavalry the
Importance it held in all Oriental armies
until the Introduction of European tao
tics.
A Washington jeweler says the regu-
larity Of the running of q watch depends
upon the magnetism of the man who car
rieS 1t.
Spartan officers taught their soldiers
to march in step and to execute several
eyolutions by facing to the rear and
wheeling.
The largest police office in the world
is the new one at Scotland Yard, Lon
don, in which 1000 officers can be ac-
commOdated.
in beginning to teach deaf mutes the
art of speech they are first placed before
a mirror and taught to form with their
lips the vowel sounds
Bicycle riders in Southland, Austria
liza, are required to dismount twenty-five
yards from an approaching horse and
draw their wheels past.
in ancient warfare the phalanx failed
when opposed to the legion because il had
no tieXibility and could not operate on
broken ground.
There is 100000 unclaimed money
in the treasury at Washington to the
credit Of the Afro-American soldiers who
served in the Civil War.
In Chattanooga a man rs years old
kissed the hand of young lady by way Of
compliment, and she has sued him for
breach of promise.
Smoke is continually issuing from the