Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-06-02
Breuittes.
General Items,

"OhCR hi 1lCiflSs
/ Anna Dickinson is worth, pecuniarily,
nearly 100000. toGae e.
Pats, divine as she is, has had q boil
on her face and Nelaton lanced it.
"A family of garbage pickers IN New
York report SO, 1000 in bank.
Cleveland, Ohio, proposes to build a
| ''lake tunnel at a cost of 100000.
The managers of the Peace Jubilee
have concluded not to dead-head the mem
bers of the Massachusetts Legislature
1t is estimated that 1920, 900, 900 are
spent annually in festivities to appease the
souls of the dead.
Boston gives each one of her posts of
the Grand Army of the Republic 500 aid
IN decorating soldiers graves.
1t is believed that the new Paris Grand
Opera House will be finished at total cost
of not much over $4,000, coo francs
An extensive iron ore mine has been
discovered in Dallas county, Iowa, over
seven feet thick, which is assayed ut ninety
per cent. pure iron.
The veil is now taken in France on q
lease, so to speak, terminated at the end of
y L
laid it aside for orange blossoms.
The grain elevator now in course of
erection at Boston will have a capacity of
800, 900 bushels, and can handle $4,000
bushels an hour.
The advocates of the whipping post
IN New Castle are almost apopletic with
rage over the recent reports of the cCnse-
Grafton of the new engines of justice.
: 1t is singular fact that no president
OF the United States, up to the present
time, has had a child born in the white
house 1t is understood, however, that
this fact will not exist long
Gen. August WiIlick, who commanded
Union troops at the battle of Mill Spring,
and declared ''dat vos shoost goot fighting
vot wants, is at the Cleveland Water
Cure for treatment
"A. T. Stewards income for 1868 was
$2,O1O, 218. 1t paid him So, 247.17 day.
$343. 63 minute, and 81 cents a second. :
Every time his watch licked, night and day,
in 1868, dime fell into his pocket.
Two children about six years old. sons
of A. G. and Fl. Davenport, of Hallowell
Maine, who had been missing from their
home for week, were found drowned on
Saturday last, in we'll near SIMPSONS
factory in that city.
Advice by writer in the Paris Jour
nal Amusant: 'Jf a lady says to you / can
never love yOu,' wait n little longer; all
hope is not lost. But if she says No one
has more sincere wishes foryour happiness
thanI I, take your hat"
1t is said at Athens that King George,
recently while out on hunting excursion,
shot a man whom he mistook for q deer
The King vas almost in despair when he
found out what he had done. The family
of the man was literally provided for and
the matter was hushed up.
"A young and very pretty girl, a little
! proud OF her good looks, had a quarrel with
! her lover, who reproached her for caring
more for her beauty than his love- To
prove to him how much she loved him, she
/ broke off her four front teeth, and thus dis
! figured, cast herself at his feet. She lost
her lover.
The Princess Metternich's wardrobe is
said to consist of 100 silk dresses, 1914
morning gowns, 60 walking dresses, &C
cloaks. so shawls, 152 petticoats, $50 che
misses and other under garments, 365 Isairs
of stockings, 1855 pairs of gloves, so pairs
of boots and shoes, 76 belts and sashas, GA
brooches, 72 pairs of earrings, 81 fans and
"a parasols.
The wife of one of the candidates for
the French Academy went to NJ. Guizot to
solicit his vote for her husband. 'Impos-
sible, was the reply "My vote is already
promised to NJ Haussonville; but on the
next vacancy promise you [ will vote for
NJ. L" N. Guizot is 80 years of age.
Rafting lumber is done on such stu
pendous scale in Minnesota that the lum-
jbermen cannot wait for the slow processes
of eastern logmen. They place steamer
/ behind the raft to push it and propeller
is fastened across the front, which by 60
| ing forward or backward steers the long
raft. r...-.
"A French lady returning from Havana
carried with her pretty little negro boy,
| for whom she very tenderly cared One
day Bamboula said to his mistress: s'Papa
told me when 1 was big must kill you and
carry him all your money. I'm going to
kill you, but I shan't go back to him, for
he would take all the money away" Bam-
boula is on his way home.