Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-03
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Misce laneOus Items.
IoRToTsE-sHELL fans are thehandsomes
ana most costly fans that can be bough
with the exception of the point lace an
ivory ones.
A Great Fact Crops Up-Amateu
gardeners are the most generous of men
IL is pleasure with them to ''Iurk over
their grounds.
IHE latest style IN gold bracelets is in tn
shape OF huted muslin cuff, and is mad
of FURNISHED gold with diamond button
and ruby button-hole.
The st. Crispins, of North Adams, hav
SHOWN their malice by attacking, with vol
leys Of stones, an American EMPLOYED t
teach the Chinese our language.
AN ARMY of belligerent feas recent
made descent on the County Court Il
session at Faston, Del, and put lawyers ant
witnesses to flight.
The ownership of Thomas Jefferson
home and tomb is contested in the courts
Wn1le the estate goes to ruin. Shutter
and gates are unhung, and weeds and hog
thrive IN the neglected cemetery.
The Jefferson Medical College, Pennsyl
vania University and Philadelphia Univer
sity are all holding summer sessions of lee
lures, and offer fine opportunities to medi
cal students to prosecute their stddies.
The dredging machine has completed
the work so well performed by nitro CIV
cerine in the removal of Blossom Rock il
San Francisco harbor, and the largest yes
sells now experience no difficulty in passing
over it's site,
The 250th anniversary of the landing OF
the Pilgrims will be celebrated at Ply,
mouth, December 81, by an grafton, dinner
and ball. The date has been rectifed &C.
cording to new style, and is a day earlier
than previous celebrations
A sUN-sTRUoK pig is the latest curiosity
of geological kind. An ingenious farmer
in Minnesota had porker afflicted in that
way short time ago, and restored him to
health and happiness by splitting the skin
on the top Of his head and filing the cash
with salt. Here is a suggestion for the
surgeons.
A FAMOUS usurer of Paris being on his
death bed, his confessor presented a silver
crucifx to him, with view to awaken him
to sense Of his situation. The dying
miser, after examining the cross with the
most minute attention, suddenly exclaim-
ed, ''Sir, [ can lend you but very small
sum on such pledge"
Mr.. BEssEMER's plan for obviating sea
by means of an oscillating cham
Der, supported on bearings similar to those
of compass, will shortly be put to prac-
teal test. A chamber of this description
is now In course of construction, and will
be fitted, when completed, to steamer of
about 800 tons.
The Emperor Napoleon wears but one
ring, containing a valuable amethyst, which
Gen. De Beauharn9is after being impris-
oned during the reign of terror sent to his
this ring after Josephine's death, and Louis
Napoleon has had it on his hand ever since
his mothers death.
TIE treaty provision negotiated between
the United States and Great Britain, a
number of years ago, which required each
Government to keep up mixed courts for the
of the slave trade, II IS lust been
and half dozen sinecure offices,
with 81, 600 salary each, are consequently
abolished.
MORE people are killed by lightning
than is commonly supposed. According
to some recently published statistics, more
than 10000 people have been smitten by
the electric fluid within the pasB@ thirty
years, OF whom 2, 252 were killed outright.
The fiery bolts, however, seem to make a
distinction on account of sex, for of the
$50 killed within the last ten years, only
243 were females =
IT IS remarkable the number of strange
stories which have been furnished by
snakes from the temptation of Eve down.
The latest is Of reptile killed in the
of Fort Scott Ind ''six
feet long and as thick as d man arm, "
with an immense head and long hooked
5eeth 1t is said to have given a warming
similar to that Of a rattlesnake, but instaad
Of rattles to have had a tail like sharp
ron spike.
Mr.. FARRAR, of Dover, N. H., was firing
4 small cannon at the side of the river, on
5he Fourth, and by some freak took no.
ton to put his watch into the muzzle of
the gun, holding on to the chain. Bang
went the gun, and off went the watch, the
owner knew not for time whittier, but it
'1o P4OANo uP Ol bu6 Obu6I
side of the Cocheco, with no other damage,
It is said, than being minus crystal, and
s now doing good business as time
keeper.
LADY at Winsted, Connecticut, was
struck by lightning, a short time ago, and
ay several hours apparently dead, so that
nearly all of her friends were prepared to
nave her buried. Her brother, however,
insisted upon waiting and working for her
ard his faith was finally re-
Tarded by her complete restoration to life
md health. During her trance she dis
lnctly heard the remark of friends that she
vas ''unquestionably dead"
THE Paris Journal reports the following
conversation between two young girls
'If you only knew how badly papa treats
mamma and me p' 'Indeed p Eyes, in,
Iced. You can judge for yourself. When
was ready to be brought out in society
le might have gone with me, might he
lot? Well, instead Of that, when mamma
md [ went to his room to find him, we
discovered he had been absent from the
house whole year."
DURING the great fire at Constantinoplea a
woman darted into a friends house at
distance from the flames, hugging some
hing in her arms, and exclaiming: ''1hank
God I've saved my child! My plate is
DOWN in the we'll, and can be got at when
he fire is over" A piercing shrek imme-
lately followed, for, looking down, she
found that what she held in her arms
was only her plate tied up in her kerchief,
md that in her bewilderment and hurry
she had throw into the we'll her own in
ant
Wit and HumOr.
WHY are types like criminals? Because
It amt proper to lock them up without
proof
YOUNG LADY in the rural districts likes