Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-20
3reuHies.
NiSCELLANE0US ITEMS.

"A daughter of Archbishop Whately
keeps girls school at Cairo, Egypt.
ga--N Ninety bushels of apples have been
gathered from. one Tennessee apple tree. e
Lieut.. Middleton, of the English army,
is circumnayigetip the globe i'll a yacht OF
three tons and single-handed.
g --Eugenie has inventeda sstoilet car" in
! which she can beguile the irksomeness of
travel by continually changing her dress.
Tho New York Times reportress is
named MILDLY Morgan, and she is an Irish
lady. Hence her judgment Of bulls is re-
liable.
! Mrs. John J. Astor and her son, VIM.
/ ". Astor, sailed for Europe on Saturday.
The latter intends to study sculpture in
Rome.
Prince Napoleon's private secretary is
a Spanish ex-priest, who left the church in
order to get married to beautiful French
ballet-giIl. - sA'a a1a-ss
Admiral Farragttt has been superin-
! tending the construction of several dwell
ling houses he is building in Vallejo, Cali
] fornia. ss q. easEg ra..F .srensf -
rs Madame Rachel is sued again by a
lady in London, England for g. 900 for
! having failed to make her customer beauti-
| full forever. $3.50 a#f Ha HaFsFa4. j
Fifteen physicians figure in the last
quarterly police report OF Chicago. The
city is SO healthy, they say, that they had
nothing to do.
Gilbert NJ. Dawson, an old and lead
| ing citizen of Saratoga, N. Y who started
the first newspaper in that town in 1918,
| died Thursday, s. a .s
SIR Charles Dixie will become editor
of IL g Ath ,noeum on the 1st of January
1870. me paper will then be enlargedan and
otherwise changed.
= Bill Pennwealth, an Englishnnan, living
| in Boston, ON a wager Of $50, eat in success
sion three dozen hard boiled eggs without
drinking any liquid whatever. +gE
Mouse soup is a Nevada luxury. It is
| served up as a pleasant surprise, the mouse
not being on the bill of fare, but lurking
privately in the soup kettle. t-- Aa
Elias J. Crosby, formerly highly re-
spected citizen of Dearborn county, Ind,
has confessed to charge OF forgery COM
mitted while he was drunk, and gone to
the penitentiary.
-Tupper is out against Mrs. Stowe as
follows:
''No we denounce thee; by that Widows bed
Thou safest, Ineanly, pruriently prying. a T.
Bribed by scribber's fee to damn the dead, ,s
And blab the slanderous secrets of the dying.'
-Bayard Taylor viii retire from the lee
/ ture field at tho close Of the coming season,
and devote himself thenceforth exclusively
to literature. He begins his farewell course
at Cincinnati about the beginning of Nov
ember.
IT, Io,x
from the head of young lady, in Evans
and beautiful locks of native growth. Sew
eral outrages of similar character have
been perpetrated in that city.
The British princes are great travellers.
A wag mentions that Prince Leopold is
travelling in Scotland, Prince Alfred round
the world, Prince Arthur in Canada, and
tho Prince of Wales is going to the devil
all at the expense Of the British public.
"A bookseller, who has been twenty-five
years in the business writes to one of the
papers to say that he has sold two copies of
Burns to one of Byron, and forty copies of
Burns to one of Scott. WordsWOrths poe
try and ScotPs, he says, meet with very
poor sale. -. sd s5 1903 a s
Mr.. Jabez Bacon, the oldest man in
Winthrop, Maine, aged SO years, appeared
on the streets last week with q horse %
years old, wagon IS years old, and har
ness 48 years old. 4 gentleman engaged
his attention while his photograph was sur
reptitiously taken. .r
One hundred and ten thousand pill
grims are estimated to have assembled at
Mount Ararat in the late Mecca pilgrimage,
or about 25, 900 more than in 1868. The
/ ic,1. 70
fectly good both among the pilgrims and
in the neighborhocd of Mecca.
Miss Walker, s. young lady, daughter
of VIM. Walker, Of Orange county, Virgin
ia, endeavored on Friday, Sept. 10th, to
wrest pistol from the hands Of her father
as he was about to shoot himself, and re-
ceiyed wounds from the effects of which
she died on Sunday night.
California is suffering from the Texas
cattle disease. On one ranch in San Luis,
Obispo county, fifty head are infected. A
bill for the defense of the grazers was
killed in the last Legislature by a far-seeing
Democrat, who denounced it as penal
measure, got up by Radicals for the punish
ment Of Texas secession! ...
/ Mr. Jeffers0ns recent engagement at
; Booths theatre netted the management
525, 600, after paying actors, advertising
and all incidental expenses. Mr.. Jefferson
himself received $27, 900 for the seven
/, weeks, he having been paid at the rate of
$500 night and one-half the gross receipts
of tue matinee performances.
8 "A young woman in one of the rural
towns of New Hampshire was desrous of
teaching school in neighboring village,
and got this document from the selectman:
This is TO certify that Tamar Noyes stands
On q medium with other girls of her age
and sex, and for what I know is as good
IS folks IN general" Tamar got the
school.
William Penn's old family carriage has
come into the possession of the Michigan
Central Railroad. The relic is over 160
years old. A gentleman of jackson, Mich
igan, either purchased or fell heir to it, but
on its arrival he failed to pay express
charges, and SO the company took posses
sion in default.
Rev. VIM. Fl. Green, the wife poison
er, was found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree, at litchfeld, Connecticut, last
f week, and on Saturday was taken to the
, State prison, where he is sentenced for life
He was found guilty Of murder in the first
f degree, but new trial was granted in his
case.
New York has commenced the con-
struction of state capitol at an estimated
cost of $4 000 U00 but it is quite safe to
say that its cost will be double that figure
when completed. The new court house in
New York city was only to have cost three
millions, but over seven millions have been
expended.
, "A proposition has been made to the
= I I Of 4 OF
by the liquor dealers, that if they (the
! Good Templars) will send q list of their
members to each one of the establishments,
! they will not sell to any one whose name
is on the list. They consider this fair, and
e if the Good Templars comply, there will
9 be chance of saving some of those who
. are liable to fall into error.
= Geo. Francis Train sums up the result
i, of his Pacific tour as follows: ALASKA bare
!. ly lives. British Columbia dead. Wash.
ington Territory alive. Oregon sound.
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