Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-11
Miscellaneous Items.

w. R. Cole caught in Skunk River,
the other day. a gar fish four and half
feet long.
Hope Markins of Marysville KY, is
the colored mother of five children at one |
birth.
Motto for rejected suitor-He wood, |
and she wouldn't He cooed, but she
couldn't,
Illinois has 400 newspapers published
within the state. OF these, 81 are publish.
ed in Chicago.
"A pauper recently left a Massachusetts
almshouse because she could not have
sirloin steak and green tea served up at
midnight.
-.'EThe American Farm Book" mentions
a horse that died at sixty-seven years OF
age, and another that was quite coltish in
his forty-ffth year.
The collection Of bones on the battle
fields of Virginia, TO be used as fertilizers,
is now prosecuted as a regular business by
the people.
A hen in Newport has laid an egg
which upon one side has an accurate dial
of clock, the entire twelve figures being
very plainly defined.
/ Professor Castle, of Upper Alton, has
invented an 'tinterest table" and has sold
the patent for the same to Charles T. Mills,
of St Louis, for the sum of $4,000.
"A mastodon's tooth, three inches long
and over an inch square at the crown, has
been dug up in Corning n. Y. One five
inches lonS was found near the same place
a few years ago.
IL. 4 L
Company in New York the safe alone cost
$4,000, is seven stories high and would
make quite comfortable little residence
for a small family.
-Cassopolis, Mich, has vigorous old
man, in the person of Mr.. David Histed,
now 70 years Of age, who cut one acre of
wheat with a cradle in one hour and forty
three minutes.
The surviving Yale College graduates
of the last century are Hon. E. Bacon. Uti-
ca N. Y, class of 1894; T. Bishop, class of
1877, and the Rev. Chas. Goodrich, Penn
Town, Pa, class of 1898.
The sea serpant was seen on the eve
ming of July 4th, off Cape Ann. He was
from go to 80 feet in length, lifting himself
up out of the water a good length, and
took things very coolly.
John Vann, of Webber's Falls, Ark,
plowed out keg of 5000 Spanish dollars
recently, the keg having the rotted appear
ance of long burial, while the coins have as
sweet a ring as ever.
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
has just decided that intermarriage between
member of the colored race and a member
of the white race is unlawful and therefore
void according to the laws of the State.
"A lady whose watch had unaccountably
stopped, carried it to Stamford jeweller
who discovered that an enterprising bed
bug had found it's way into the interior and
become stmixed up" with the delicate ma
chinery. I'D
-Four companies of the San Francisco
military have been mustered out of the
service for disobedience to orders in refus-
ing to march in the Fourth of July process
sion, in which colored men were allowed
to take part.
The daughter of John G. Clark, of
New York, who mysteriously disappeared
! six weeks ago, and for whom q reward of
! 50, 900 was offered, has been discovered
in Ireland, where she had gone with an
actor.
The business portion of the town of
la Bay, was entirely destroyed by fire a
few days ago. Very little of the destroyed
property was insured The county records
were all lost. Z
The New York Tribune is responsible
for the almost incredible story that Max
| Maretzek, the world renowned hero of
hundred operate companies, is now dill
gently and proftably employed IN the man
! ufacture of brick
Reports have been received from the
General Land Office, showing the compile
! ton of the survey of twenty additional
townships lying between Saline and Salo-
mon Forks on the Kansas River, embrac-
ing an aggregate area OF 460, 900 acres.
Jennie June sums I'D an article on
! the woman question in these words: '"The
modern wife, who demands everything
but gives nothing III return, is libel
upon womanhood, and has q claim upon
nothing but federation or contempt"
Mr. OConnor Superintendent of the
| Newsboys' Lodging House in Park place,
| New York, proposes an excursion and PIC
nic for the five or ten hundred newsboys
and bootblacks that gather from week to
week at his home, provided the benevolent
public viii furnish the means.
Said Lord John Russell to Mr.. Hume,
at social dinner: ''What do you consider
the object of legislation p ''The greatest
good to the greatest number" what do
you consider the greatest number = ;, con con-
tinued his lordship. Number one, was
the commoner's prompt reply.
"A bow while angling in the canal at Gin
cinnati, q few days since, got what he
thought d very promising bite He cau-
tiously drew in his line, when he found on
the hook small tin box, which he opened
and found to contain $50 in silver, $40 IN
greenbacks, and two gold rings, worth $40
each.
| The Sacramento Union of July IA,
/ says: <sJ R. Brown, freight agent OF the
Central Pacific Railroad, in this city, yes
ter6iay received o package inclosing rose
plucked in Central Park, June "a, attached
to which was slip bearing the sentence:
New York sends f0oyer to San Francisco
-- The Seymour, Ind, Times tells of a
curious case wherein bed clothing infected
4 seventeen years ago, recently commu nicat-
ed smallpox to a family. The bed clothing
had been plastered up in wall, and the
wall being recently opened, the family in
cautiously handled the infected clothing.
The famous ''haunted house in Water
4 town, Mass, of which q highly sensational
4 account, with illustrations, was given III n
magazine a year or so ago. has been trans
formed into quiet, pleasant home, gen.
ueman who was not afraid of ''ghosts"
having purchased it at a bargain and i'm
proved its surroundings
"A COW belonging to Mr.. George Ames,
near Independence, Jackson county, No.,
was killed on the 10th inst by lightning.
This makes ten head of stock Mr.. Ames
has lost in the last three months-two
COWS by lightning, one horse stolen, five
sheep killed by the fallingof large tree,
and two mules from disease e.
"A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger writes that relative, youth, who
had been afflicted with epilepsy for the
neriod of three wears. from the age of Ia to