Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-03-22
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Thirty men were killed last year in
duels in the United States

All drop letters are to be prepaid
hereafter with postage stamps.
They are opening up oil wells in Can
ada, in the low lands near Port Sarniar
A lap dog recently brought $4,000
in London at auction.
A son Of DR.. Blake of Oshkosh, aged
nine years. was drowned in Fletcher's ca
nal few days since
"A young man was severely burned at
Dopere by the taking fire Of matches in his
pocket
There are In England and Wales S.
900 lunatics under treatment in public aud
private establishments.
A single mass of copper weighing 49,,
600 pounds, was recently taken out of the
national mine on Lake Superior.
In Java, where they raise excellent
poultry, the fowls are fed exclusively on
rice.
"A child of Mr.. Edward Colver, resi-
ding in Newark, n. J. died from eating
lucifer matches.
Several students of Dickinson College
Carlisle. Penn, have been arrested for
burglary.
"A woman aged ~ years attended the
funeral of her eighth husband in Ports
mouth, England.
A young lady living out West is char
ged with putting on airs, because she refu-
sed to 90 to a bah barefoot,
The list of shipwreoks kept at Lloyds
reveals that five vessels were wrecked up
on an average each day of the past year.
The Charleston Mercury is now dated,
Charleston, Confederate States of Amer
ica"-a long stretch of ''make believe"
The British Horticultural Society in
their catalogue enumerates 400 different
sorts Of apples grown in England
Firth, the English painter, has had
an order for picture, for which he will re-
ceive $43,750. It is Life at Railway Sta
tions.
Henry Dow, a lad IS years of age,
has been sentenced by Judge Vredenberg,
of New Jersey, to be hung on the 4th of
April, for murder.
A San Francisco paper reports the
arrival at that city Of apanese merchant
who came to purchase goods to be sold in
his own country,
-The Legislature of Ohio has passed
an adj guaranteeing the bonds of the Fed
eral Eovernmont to the amount of So
100000.
-Spriggles says that his appetite for
coffee is always ap-PEAsED by cup Of
that hnJ-nTooo rs ~ - cor1,o1
lodgings
An unsuccessful lover was asked by
what means he lost his divinity. s.Alas -
cried he, Il fattered her until she got too
proud to speak to me.
The placing of pieces of rattan in
ordinary brooms to expand the brush, is
said to be an economical improvement just
introduced
In fit of detection from lack of EN-
ployment Martin Boggs jumped overheard
from steam boat near Cairo last week
and was drowned.
Body snatching by the Montreal, Ca.
medical students, has created small riot
III that city among the friends of the Ia
mented deceased.
Hood and ore of his friends happen
ed to come to bridge. ''Do you know
who built this bridge?'' said he to Hood
mo, but if you go over you'll be tolled. =
-Messrs Gurley, of Troy, N. Y, are
Sling an order from the U. s. for 2,O0C
brass fuses for bombshells. They are con.
ical in shape, about four inches long. and
weigh nearly pound each.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial says that the dis
loyalty of the South is far greater thar
Mr.. Lincoln ever believed before coming
here.
An English hairdresser denounee.
the custom Of ladies covering their ear,
with their hair. He says it is productiy,
of the diseases of the ear, preventing til,
circulation of the air essential to it's heal
thy action.
"A lady belonging to Jersey city hai
her feet frozen short time since while
skating, and on her return home was iano
rantly advised to place them in warm watel
which resulted in modification and the los:
Of her feet, and eventually death ensued.
III odI!eo oudN Ol barnet, ' C., has
received intelligence of the death of his sol
who was killed by an Indian on the plain,
of Kansas in January last. while endeav
orlng to recover a horse which thew bac
stolen. y comrade Green was also Killed
On the farm of J. S. Morrison, !:
miles from Louisville, Ky, there is plo
OF ground about two rods square, on whiol
the magnetic needle refuses to acknog !
edge its allegiance to the pole. No min
eral deposits are known to exist there.
During a rehearsal Braham said t.
Tom Cooke who was the conductor. :. Nov
Tom, keep the piano quiet here, becaus,
just at this part. to give effect, I INTEND
dropping my voice. DO you BY the
powers, said Tom, whereabouts : 70,
it's just the sort of voice l should Ike te
pick up!'
The artificial propagation of fish has
proved complete success in Europe. The
lay breeding boxes turn out 500, coo
young Salmon every year. The Irish pla,
ces have also succeeded admirably. The
artificial lake at Huningue, near Basic.
covering near seventy acres, is doing much
to re-people the exhausted rivers of France
with fish