Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-30
Connecticut ChantIcleers.

| The most interesting birds in the late
poultry show at Hartford were the roos-
: ters. Queer specimens many of them
were. Some of the largest breeds were
! bouncers. 1t must take an extensive COM
missary department, says the Courant. to
furnish supplies for even small number
of the best developed of the lot. AS a
choice between taking six of the healthi-
est kind as permanent boarders in 6. small
family, or having ten men to feed,
ordinary housekeepers would prefer the
latter. 1t would be almost safe to
give odds in bet that four
roosters could be selected out of
this show that would destroy more Cruel
in half day than any five men in the
same time, even if it were a good day for
Cruel. Some Of these roosters, properly
trained, might be successfully used to run
phaetons for shopping purposes, and
hitched to baby carriages they would be
very useful. If you should kill one of
them to eat, nothing short of barbecue
could dispose of him. The price of
old iron would double in week were Il
known that kettle big enough to cook one
| in was being manufactured. One leg would
make q roast for a country hotel, and
| rooster steaks would be drug in the mar
! ker.
| But aside from the enormous size and
| loftiness OF some of the male birds IN
the show, the spectator has been particu-
| larly attracted oy their hen talk. 1t has
been most interesting study to watch
| the paternal fowls when responding TO
each other In one coop, was mon
strous rooster, whose growing In clear
! day might be heard a mile off, and he ap-
| peared 10 enjoy himself great deal bet
/ l IrI ba al
could in the quiet of his own yard. After
| throwing his heft into frightful crow, ex-
tending, figuratiyely speaking, from his
throat down into his boots, he would wait
patiently till he caught the note Of some
| inspired brother, and then gather his
| whole nervous system, SO to speak, into
the smallest possible space and fire it
| off to the full extent OF his open jaw.
| He WAS none of your secondhand growers.
The GUIoN LINE has eight large and pow.
erfuI steamCfs, which are very fast, the
line carrying The United States Mail, and
such has the management been that there
never has been life lost on any of their
steamers. 1t offers the best advantages to
passengers going to or returning from
| Europe the fare being as low as that OF
any first-class line. L. II. Mcclure u Co.,
| Bankers, Milwaukee, are it's General
| Agents tor the Northwest, and viii be hap.
| DIV to answer all communications.
| ACCORDING to the statement of the Adju-
tar,t General of Virginia, the organized and
commissioned force of the State consists oi
| 107 regiments of the line. The arms
amount to 81 muskets and is rifles He
says we. have just claim on the United
States for 5000 small arms, several pieces
of artillery, including four bronze guns at
| tached to the cadets battery at the insti-
tute, and gun-carriages and component
parts thereof, and other munitions of war,
which, when carried of, were the property
of the State of Virginia, and never belong
ed to the Confederate government.
CALIFoRNIA boasts OF acorns as large al
horse chestnuts.