Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-25
Miscellaneous TONS

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-serrano has begun to decorate and
has conferred the order Of Charles III, on
Lessep, the Suez digger.
"A Boston tooth-pick factory has
monopoly of the business, and sells 4. &C.
GOO or 1000, 600 per day.
--Barreda, the Peruvian minister, has %
$500, 600 cottage at Newport, the bestlmd-
out and most extensive there.
Mike McCoole and O'8aIdwin, tha
Irish giant had sparriIlg match at the
| Opera House in Buffalo on the 18th.
Mr.. Lewis Longstaff formerly of Bea-
yer Dam, in this state is on trial at Glasgow,
Mo-, for the murder OF John B. Jones.
-Forty-fve thousand baskets of peaches, .a.
ninety car loads, arrived in New York,
| yesterday, by the New Jersey Railroad. Et
Mr.. James Miller has in praparation 3 @
reprint of ssPeter Parley's Thousand ana
One Stories, which have long been out of 5
print. @
The true sign of great poet, or of any
great author, is not that he is without faults,
but that he makes you love his faults, in
spite of yourself
| There is an increase of nearly fifty
millions of dollars in the assessed value of
real and personal property in Boston since
the last financial year.
a K Bailey, of the Decorah Iowa)
Republican, does the apologetic as follows.
''Onr paper is retarded slightly by the ar
rival of an extra male.
"A 'snigger" baby was found on stone
in Syracuse. The city adopted it, and
named it August Stone, because it was
found in August.
Chicago has sensation in the kidnap-
ping OF a policeman, who was entieed by g
''wail' on board a vessel, which put off as
soon as he was on board.
George Brookes favorite comedian
died on the 11th in New York. He was one
Of the fayorite attractions of the Bowery
theatre, in its palmy days ten years ago
The father of deserted wife, Of Sioux
City, has obtained judgment against the
recreant husband for bed and board for
the las two years, amounting to 81, 380.50,
+ The capital invested in the publication
of sheet music and musical " orlzs IN the
United States is estimated at SIS, 100000.
There is comparatively little music import
ed.
Max Strakosch has secured the SER
vices of Carlotta Patti for the coming sea- ..,
son, and is making preparations for an ex-
tens1ve concert tour through the country in a-
the fall. s..-e... ..-..
A young man of sixteen, the son of a
Cincinnati lawyer, is writing a tragedy
founded on the fresh subject of the st.
Bartholomew massacre. 1t will be brought
out at one Of the Cincinnati theatres next ~
winter. -ar IF szu7
Powers, the sculptor, who knew Old
Hickory Well says his terrific fsBy tho
Eternalp md ralnpagious howling vas a.
ways purely acting for effect, and that hes--
could be cowed down easier than mogtmen
who make less noise
The total pumping capacity of tlls
three pumps which furnish Chicago with
water is 3S, 000 900 gallons pel dav The
actual consumption of water during. ti3lr-
teen consecutive days in July. vas q, ,000,
600 gallons per day.
Two new companies have been formed Fl
for the purchase Of lands in Virginia aud
their settlement by emigrants from Eutops.
The aggregate ofland already pJrcha5edby
companies in Virginia and the Carolin8s 8se-.-rzf
ceeds 100000 ofacres.
Postmaster General Creswen's housa.
near EiktGn, Md, was entered by bu ,gt.s,
on Tuesday evening, and a quantity 0E
clothing stolen. One Of the robbers wa
caught with a full suit of Mr. Cresveiis-
clothes on. The other escaped.
Mr.. J. J. Watson is writing O. Life Of
Ole Bull. Mr.. Watson spent the summer
of 1868 at the home of Ole Bull, in Norway.
and otherwise, through long acquaint
ance with Ole Bull, has come into posses
Of unique material for his purpose
The correspondents say that Bulwer is
now seldom seen in the House of Lords.
lie is an Old man, looks gone, as if his day
was done. He has quit writing come down
from the clouds of romance, and walks She
PLAIN Old earth, gloomy and unhappy
An exchange says: The stump tailed
Latin used by half-hedged physicians in
n jyJT1rr v07t0rI1 TNf5<Nr
OF numbering many persons lately. Would
it not be well enough to use the English
language, or don't they underestimate?
--sIhe total quantity Of land devoted to
the growth OF cotton throughout the whole
OF India does not exceed $500, 900 acres.
Ii this quantity of land was as productive
III India as 1t IS IN thee United States, it
would yield something like 1000, 600 bales,
or half bale per acre.
+ The gentlemen of society at SARATOGA
are epltomized follows: Greatest lion.
Gen. sherman; luckiest man, John G.
SAKE; ladies' faYorite, Ensign Mason; most
d!stangae, W. II. iravers; danced the most,
Sheridan; best dressed Charles LELAND;
poitest, Joe, of the Clarendon.
Gen. Thomas Jourdan, now in com
mand of q division of Cuban troops. was
written to by the officials of the Treasury.
asking him to refund 1922 600 which he
owed the government before he Joined the
rebellion. He replies: s'Your letter re-
ceived. Any further communication will
reach me if sent to Newark, N j."
"A question for solution: Two ladies
were walking along Chicago street the
other day, each having her child with her
Soon they met two gentlemen. '|rhere,
said one, 'are our husbands" s'Yes'2
said the other: 'and our fathers" sAnd
our grandfathers, said the children. All
were correct IN their statements. Who can
solve this relationship sphynx?
An old lady in Iowa, complmented on
the beauty and preservation Of her teeth
ascribed it to having +" bitten the snake
She explained that in childhood her father
held a rattesnake by the head and tail and
each of his children bit along the whole
length OF the backbone Just indenting the
skin, as preventive of toothache and
decay and the old lady believes to the
present in the efficacy of such an opera
ton.
-Oppenheim, the Egyptian banker, who
made, recently, sensation in Paris by his
magnificent entertainment given in honor
of Ismail Pasha, began his career in the
East as peddler during the Crimean war
when he ingratiated himself with an
Egyptian Pasha, who on his death left him
vast property, the possession of which
however, has been more than once con-
tested by the legitimate heirs of Oppep-
heim's benefactor.
The cotton and sugar crop of Ionisi-
ana will be the largest and best ever rro-
duced there The cotton crop is SO far aF-
Vanced that the worm can do no harm
even though it should make its appearance.
The city of New Orleans Is said To he 7,yoc
porous beyond the most .sancuine expeeta-
tions The people generally have ceased
to talk abOut the late yvav an1 o. Jo,- 49,