Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-27

Miscellaneous Items.

ATLANTA is to have a 1926, 900 hotel
TENNESSEE owes nearly S41, 600, 900.
New YORK has about 10000 horses.
A NEW street in London has been named
Lothian.
RUSSIA possesses at present 566. 23
needle guns.
THERE were 83, 900 violent deaths il
England last year.
A LADIES newspaper is published in In
dia, edited by woman.
FIJI SHU is the name of one of the oldes
of the Chinese deities.
KENTUCKY counts on 45, 900 hogsheads o
tobacco this year.
SAN FRANCISCO harbor has received s
call from genuine whale,
AT Port Austin, Michigan, grindstont
weighing 4,800 lbs. was recently quarried
Miss Syfnes, a wealthy lady of Montreal
now IL Rome has given the Pope $4,000
SEyENTY-FIvE pet cats is the stock il
trade of q maiden Indiana lady.
TIE Cincinnati police grumble because
they are no longer allowed to smoke while
on duty.
OLD Aunt Tabby of Harrodsburg. Ky..
the black woman that turned white, is
dead.
BETWEEN three and four thousand Amer.
lean boys are studying in European schools
and colleges.
| HE loss to Great Britain in the destruc-
ton OF her Embassy by the recent fire at
Constantlnople was 100000.
THREE hundred brigands are about to be
tried IN Hungary, of whom probably two
thirds will be sentenced to death.
ONE of the sable orators of old Virginia
made good point when he said, ssDe oys-
ter got mo, sense dan some folks, cause
he know when to keep his mouf shet''
The champion jumper of America is
Loomls, of Jacksonville, ILL., This is his
score: Single jump, 13 #. in.; three
jumps, 40 it. ten jumps, 140 #.
A LADY. in reply to some guests who
praised the mutton on her table, said:
ooh, yes, my husband always buys the
best; he is great epioac.
A LADY in Keokuk was asked to buy a
hat, and replied, "No, I have only been
no boys yet.2'
The London Athenaum says that Mr..
Woolner is to execute, by request, bust of
Mr.. Charles Dickens, and that he has the
advantage Ct mask which was cast for
the purpose,
SOME of the ''posters" advertising anti
coolie meetings in New England, are
adorned with figure of q Chinaman with q
half-dozen rats hung to stick resting on
his shoulder.
SINCE Queen Victoria took her place on
the English throne, thirty-three years ago,
every other throne In Europe, from the
least unto the greatest, has changed occu-
pants.
MOUNT HoIYoKE SEMINARY is expecting
$40, 600 worth of books, the gift OF Mrs. Fl.
F. Durant of Boston. They are on their
way from Europe.
AT very select school in New York, the
Principal refuses to take the daughters of
trades people into his establishment.
They must either be the daughters of
brokers, bankers, or retired merchants.
A New ENGLAND pickpocket has recently
accomplished the most astounding feat of
hght-ingering on record. He has picked
Methodist minister's pocket and realized
500 therefrOm.
FoR several weeks past the New York
papers chronicled the results of Sunday
drinking in that city in series of horrible
butcheries; but last Sunday the excise law
was enforced, and the difference in favor of
good order was simply wonderful.
AK erring Indiana hen was recently found
in the back parL of hardware store, where
the misguided fowl had struggled for three
weeks, trying to hatch out half dozen
white porcelain door-knobs. She was very
much reduced
AN Irish girl at Erie, day or two since,
caught another girl on the sidewalk, who
had on a hoop skirt and white skirt,
stolen from the party of the first part, COM
PEELED her to take them off and surrender
them then and there. The affair created
genuine sensation.
1.-THE harp that once through Tara's
half still hangs over the door OF the pre-
sent mansion, which is occupied by Cardinal
Cullen's brother, Garrett. Tie site of the
old hall is still preserved in an open field
near by. The ancient kings of Ireland
used to be crowned there.