Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-23


q KENTUCKY man opposes life insurance,
as 'trying to bluff the Almighty out of
sure hand"
FoR the first time in thirty years, the
New Haven county jail is without d female
prisoner.
INDIANA has about five hundred regular
Quakera, besides those who quake occa-
sionaily.
The manuscript Of ''Hunted Down." in
the Holiday collection, was sold at Clinton
Hall for $102.50.
At Lagrange, Indiana, the other day,
q gentleman Inadvertently leaned against
a flying buzz saw.
THEsannual production of spirits in the
United States is stated at 11S, 642, 600 gal
Ions.
FIFTY Cinnamon are soon to be settledin
Shelby county Iowa, TO open up farms.
INFANT parties for babies of one year, old
are now considered to be quite the thing in
Worcester.
The Prussians have new kind Of shell,
which is three feet long, and ''sings" like
q Whole anvil chorus.
THE census of the South shows a gener-
al increase in the colored population since
1850.
THE new census shows that Connecticut
has one voter for each 5.43 of the popula-
ton.
| A GANG of burglars not one of whom ex-
ceeds the age of 16 years, have been COM
mitting depredatiOns at Iowa City for z
| months past.
ONE million six hundred thousand lbs.
of pepper was lanely received in enc day
by New York firm.
| A sMA1n. dog with 8 ffty-dolIar enlbroid-
cred cover is an essential item in the outfit
of New York dandy.
The penal statutes of California are in
the hands of a revision committee, which
has nearly finished its work.
A PORTSMOUTH man, who had saved sev-
enteen persons from drowning, couldn't
save himself from going under.
4 CHICAGO glazier was arrested by two
police the other night for 'tairing" whole
schoolhouse.
The cash profits of the Massachusetts,
Penitentiary for the past year amount 30
S31, ,750.
Ever since that Tennessee man ooughed
up o musket ball, every home guard in
the country has commenced coughing.
THREE hundred thousand grape boxes
were m manufactured by two factories in Ma
pies, Ontario county, Ohio, this season.
a VALUABLE salt mine was recently dis
covered at Ki5taning, Penn. by workmea
who had bored to depth Of 1925 fest, in
quest of Oil.
A New HAVEN widower didn't consult
with his children about bringing home q
new wife, and they fred the house to show
their grit.
THE coIored Baptists of Kentucky are
to have theological school at Frankfort,
and have bought fifty acres Of land for the
purpose.
THE Clevelend ladies have taken to the
trick of asking their husbands for money
in the presence Of strangers.
SHOULD misfortune overtahe you, re-
trench, work harder, but never ay; con-
front difficulties with unfinching persever-
anee,
A KANSAS CRY artist committed suicide
the other day because he could not pay his
tailor. The tailor wants TO know how that
helped matters
NEW style of rocker, 'svhich will make.
the rocking. chair 6 greater fayoTite thsSs
ever" is sannounoed as a recent New Ha-
| ven invention.
A SANDSTONE has been discovered in Clay
county, near Brazil, Indiana. that is suita-
BILE for hearths for iron and glass furnaces.
TIE Tammeny prize banner has been
awarded to the Seventh Ward, which
turned out 5000 men, and spent $14, 900
on uniforms, fireworks and music.
TIE use Of opera glasses at weddings in
church es suggests to the New Yore Mail
that the next thing viii be fence-posters
heralding the performance, and G moderate
admission-fee.
THE new italian ambassador at the court
os Vienna, Cavaiere d'Artom, is en- Israel
II - !
esteemed agents of Cavour, and is deemed
one of the sharpest diplomats of Italy.
Hon. GEORGE H. PENDLEToN and Hon.
Benjamin e. Curtis viii represent Virginia
/ in tie proposed arbitrament with West
Virginia 30 settle the latter's proportion OF
the public debt incurred before the war.
A FOSSIL. feather has been found by DR..
Hayden, in Wyoming Territory, and is
said to be the first specimen on record.
Scientific men have not decided whether
it belongs to a resi- bird or TO some link
between bird and reptile.
F. II. McCLURE & Co., Bankers, having
: aE ofioe IN the Emigrant Depot, Mill
waukee, during the past summer, paid out
to emigrants, arriving at that port, over one
hundred thousand dollars in exchange for
specie and drafts.
, WHEN man and woman are made one,
the question is, Which one? Sometimes
3 there is long struggle between them be-
] fore the matter is settled.
A BILL proposing an increase Of the rate
of legal interest in Vermont from 6 TO 8per
cent has been defeated in the legislature
of that State.
DURING the past year nearly 500, 600
Young cottonwood shade trees have been
planted in the thoroughfares Of Denver
City, Colorado.
. THERE are nournfuI reports from Louie
a lana about the rice crop, but it is quiGe
y probable that speculators are the chief
: ause Of them.
= THERE will be ffty-three Sundays in the
year 1S71-the year beginning and ending
on Sunday. 1t ought 80 be good year
y and a happy one.
le A Mobile policeman found barrel OF
4 earbolic acid obstructing the pavement and
re took the thing to the guard house.
II The Prussian field post Office depart
10 ment receives about 10000 letters, and
% sends to Germany over 200. 900 every day
COLORADO TERRITORY has three hundred
ii miles of railroad, but no taxpayer was
D. taxed cent to build them,
A deeayed punster came rushing into
the Office Of Chicago paper al haI-pasl
y, twelve o'clock in the morning 10 lnqu1rt y, II
el 'swhy local politics are like ohaElfy4 rs rs
ID wes kicked out, but hurled oacA tI'ih eLls
u stair-foot, the obvious an9"0f'
ut they begin to hum.
he RpoBsrLY, in removing the piles from
Browns wharf, Portland, greet quantity
Of enonps was found adhering 50 the wood
"a If an apparently fine quality. The growtl
90 90 al sponge in this latitude is very rare, tn
se' 70 coarsest kinds generally not being founC
north of the Bahamas.