Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
Miscellaneous Items,

Marrying women for their beauty is
like eating bird for its sweet singing.
Mark Twain soon issues book en-
titled "The New Pilgrims Progress"
In Sequin, Texas, butter is sold for
10 cents a pound, and eggs at 5 cents per
dozen.
"A large trade in turtles is being car
ried on between Florida New York and
European cities.
"A COW in Watson, Lewis county, re-
Gently gave birth to a calf with two sets of
nostrils and three eyes.
"A street railroad has been constructed
in Brussels by single Englishman, with
out company and without shares.
"A turkey -gobbler belonging to Philip
McLaman, near Nashua, has been setting
for two weeks upon six hens eggs.
The total valuation of the real and per-
sonal property of Nebraska exceeds $40,-
600, 600. Last year it was 100000.
An exchange says that ''mule-driver
on the Miami Canal proves to be young
woman, who took this means TO keep near
her lover.
There are only two daily newspapers
in Massachusetts which advocate the Pro-
hibitory law-the Boston Traveller and the
New Bedford Mercury.
AT Stratford, Conn, a few days ago, as
a farmer was sharpening his scythee with a
rifle, a swallow flew between the rifle and
the blade, and his head was severed from
his body.
"A Vermont farmer paid 5000 for
blooded bull, and he hadno sooner got him
home than the animal proved his worth
by putting his horns through a $1,000
horse.
1t is estimated that 224, 900 more acres
of wheat have been sown in Iowa this year
than were before, and that over the whole
United States the increase is more than
100000.
Mamma Z" said precoeious little boy
who, against his WILL was made to rock the
cradle of his baby brother, off the Lord
has any more babies to give away, don't
you take EN-"
An Irish lad complained the other day
of the harsh treatment he had received
from his father. "He treats me-" said he,
mournfully, ''as if [ was his son by another
father and mother"
"A Miss Jackson, an heiress, of Glen
Cove, L. L. lately fell in love with her faith
er's coachman, got married on the sly, and
on Saturday last the pair took French leave
for parts unknown.
"A young man named VIM. Scott, of
Bethel, N. Y, oyerheated himself playing
base ball, a short time since, and became
insane in consequence. He twice attempt
ed to commit suicide.
Greeley was run away with at Long
Branch on Wednesday afternoon, by pair
of fiery horses, and thrown from the car
riage. This is not the first time. He has
frequently been run away with by hobby
horses.
The first negro girl who ever received
a diploma from the Boston Girls High and
Normal School is paragraphed in the pa
pers of that city. Her name is Browne,
and the press worshipers state she is the
daughter of Richard S. Browne, Esq.
"A Louisville gentleman offers to give q
splendid building site for house, with ten
acres attached, within four miles of Louis
vile, provided $4,000 are subscribed to
erect residence. 1t is proposed to pre-
sent the property to Jeff. Davis. Kentucky
is his native state.
At the late ordination in Illinois of a
son of the Rev. Edward Beecher, D. D.,
the candidate was solemnly 'Fcharged" as
follows: Il charge you never to forget
that you are the son of your father, the
grandson of your grandfather, and the
nephew OF your uncle"
The Albany Journal says: tIt is sor-
ry child that curses his own mother. %
af fhaX ,bo Io;I R.o D !, Jo
Island, Express Brooks from Maine, Storey
of the Chicago Times, and Paul of the
Milwaukee News, both from Vermont, all
rival each other in abuse of New Eng
land.
The herb and root business proftably
employs many people in Catawba, Alexan-
der and Caldwell counties, n. G. Several
kinds of roots, leaves and berries ere col
lected and packed in bales, weighing from
800 to $50 pounds, and shipped mostly to
Boston and Philadelphia. From one sta
tion the shipments average carload per
day.
"A party of Muncio (Ind.) ladies, head
ed by Mrs. Frame, the revival lady, recent
ly visited the saloons of that city for the
purpose of holding prayer meetings. Be-
ing unable to effect an entrance at q certain
Mark Walliags, they organized on the side
walk, whereupon the ungsllant proprietor
proceeded to pump water on them through
a garden engine.
"A young man named Powell, while
mocking deaf and dumb person on the
cars, between Belleville and Galloway's,
Tenn, a few days ago. was suddenly struck
totally deaf and dumb He returned to
BelleVille, and wrote as follows: "God
has sent this awful punishment upon me
to teach man never to mock at the infirmi-
ties of his fellow man."
An aged lady in Philadelphia, whose
failing sight rendered necessary O. PRAYER
book of great size, recently called on her
friends on her way to church, and upon
starting again, unwittingly picked up a
music box instead of the prayer book.
During the sacred ceremony, the old Iadv
attempted to open her prayer book, whel,
TO her surprise and the astonishment of the
congregation, the machine struck up
"Lanigan's Ball, with great clearness and
force.
The Central (Col.) Herald says: ssThe
solid chunks of silver still keep coming
up from the Cooley or Gilpin county mine
This is the most remarkable deposit of na-
tive silver we have ever heard of. The ore
vein is now two and a Lalf feet wide, and
the vein of native silver is in places an inch
and a half thick. An inch and half of
silver is not very much, but when miners
keep digging it out for weeks, and it still
holds out, it begins to be worth talking
about"
The artist returning the largest in
come in New York is Eastman johnson,
SO, 769; the editor, J. G.. Bennett, s186,-
EOO. ,o17bIicbaP .Tapoc- ETor,on,- eSO 6r1 L..
the actor. Edwin Booth, $83, 736; the
banker, J. N. Benedict, S311, 7S9; the
preacher, E. Fl. Chaplin, $13, 149; the sa-
loon-keeper, L. Delmonico, S125, 931; the
hotel proprietor, Paran Stevens, S24, 1856:
the judge, T. W. Clerke, S13, 588; the law,
yer, David Dunley Field, $40, ,284; the
merchant, A. T. Stewart, So, ,019,2 ,218.
We learn from statistical article in
the Lowell News that in 1859 the capital
stock of manufacturing corporations in that
city was S13, 900, ,000 number of spindles.
399. 064; hands employed, 13, 300; weeks
work cotton cloth, 2,394,00 yards; wooden