Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-12-07
NO. 5.
Miscellaneous Items,

A man who will raise disturbance in
church because somebody gets into his
seat is little better than a pugulist
IHREE-CENT street car far is promised
In Chicago if the compressed air motor
tested In that city the other day works
all right.
DURING the earthquake last month an
oil well at South Olive, Ohio, threw ND
set of tools that had been buried in it
for months.
DoNKEY's flesh ranks very high among
the new species of food adopted by the
besieged Parisians. It is said to re-
semble veal with poultry flavor.
A CITIZEN of Northampton, Mass,
whose education had been neglected,
having been sent out to post bills last
week, carefully stuck them rall upside
down.
THE sleeping car attached to an eastern
bound train ran off the track near Knox
vile Sunday night. There was general
waking up.
HAS any man right to be at the head
of the family without having his life in
sured9 We have answered by insJlring
in the Washington.
For over thirty years and old gentle
man at ST. Albans, VT, has made
practice of getting out of bed every
night at IL, 12, 2 and 4 o'clock, to enjoy
Comfortable smoke" s#
The different societies in the North
organized to aid the negroes in the
South, are said to have donated $4,000
to build normal school for negroes ip
Memphis.
A CONTEMPORARY proposes the estab
hshment of training colleges" where
in young women may be taught how to
rear infants according to the latest lights
of medical and social science.
NICARAGUA vaunts the virtues of
medicinal lake, which, if one drinks
enough of it, takes away, for time at
least, all desire for any otker kind of
liquor.
THREE casks were received lately at
the wine-cellar of Kelley's Island, from
Cincinnati, with capacity for holding
sixteen hundred and sixteen gallons
EACH + ~
TENNESSEE papers in the interior con-
tinue to urge upon farmers the impor-
tance of raising more corn and less cot
ton, in view of the probability of long
continued war in Europe.
A New HAMrsHIRE magistrate is under
Indictment for having married matron
of 40 to youth of Is, whom she had
captured, and who states that he was
afraid to say emo" when asked the mo-
mentions question.
THE revisionists Of the New Testament
now in session in London, have voted
that the literal translation of the phrase,
"deliver us from evil" is, "deliver us
from the evil one. y"
AS an evidence of the tenacious ma
tional spirit of the Ere 1ch, we hear of
chasseur who was recently shot at In
gletadt, for an attack ON lieutenant
who had him in charge. Hefel waving
I his cap and shouting, 1Vivela France !"
The position of an Indianapolis po-
iceman must be lucrative one, to
Judge from the statement that young
man, recently appointed on the force
gave the City Marshal and about doz-
en- of his political friends grand ban
| quet in honor of the event.
The editor of well-to-do Tennessee
paper, not having space for the whole of
good story which he found in one of
the magazines, re-wrote it in condens-
ed form and published it. The infuriat-
ed author has challenged him.
A MUsoALoNGE weighing over thirty
pounds was caught in a seine just north
of the Big Sandy Greek, Jefferson coun-
~, ~ of ,c4
This is the first fish of the kind ever
caught t-on those grounds.
ONE of the most accommodating of
men lives in Elk township, Noble coun-
ty, Ohio. The other day he walked
over thirty-two miles, through the rain,
for the sole purpose of paying a neigh
boris tax. The tax was eighteen cents,
and with the delinquency amounted to
forty-four cents.
The new freight depot of the South
western Railroad Company at Fort Val
night, together with one hundred and
amount of freight. The loss is estimat-
fire is unknown.
A PAIR of bloody pants and other arti-
cles, recently found in Burt cave, Jack
son county have been identified as be-
longing to man named John Beard,
who has been missing since earlyin Sep
tember Detectives are on the trail
suggested by the suspicious circum-
stances.
-Foa the convenience of railroads adj
dicted TO accidents, an arithmetical indi-
vidual computes the value of a mans
life in dollars. The amount that a Ia
borer receives for one years labor, at
$50 per day, is $476. go, which amount
is 6 per cent on 81, 989, and the latter
is therefore the cash value of the man to
his family.
OUT OF $4,000 passengers carried by
the Guion Line last year, there were
only Is deaths, which is much smaller
per centage than that of any other line.
Skillful and competent surgeons accom-
pany each steamer F. H. Mcclure &
Co., Milwaukee, are the agents for the
Northwest, to whom all orders for tick
cts should be addressed.
This is what California paper says of
the Legislature of that State: ''This mud
volcano of ours, which sets in operation
b1enn1ally and poIlutes the WhOle atmos-
phere by its foul exhalations, throws up
more laws atone eruption for the unhap-
py half million of people who reside
within the limits of California than the
British Parliament, which has to regu-
late the concerns of an empire that con-
tains rising one hundred and eighty
million souls"
A NORTHERN company have purchased
the charter of the Florida Railroad
Company, and have bound themselves
to complete the track as far as Ocala
within six months from the date of the
purchase. The iron has been purchased
for the road between Ocala and Waldo.
The same company has obtained char
! ter from the GEORGIA legislature for a