Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-14
NO. 45.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.

Boston has public debt of s12. 600, $50
NEBRASKA calls itself the middle West
New HAMPSHIRE promises an enormou.
apple crop.
AT Waco, Texas, they have a stray hors,
! association.
A FINBAcK whale was recently caught of
Block Island -.l0
TEXAS has discovered silk worm, native
to that section.
HARTFoRp he's new $50, 600 industrial
school for girls.
A liberal translation OF "Tsnapus F,tqg'
Is 'few get time"
The orange groves in Florida ere in g
fiomlshing condition.
| OREGON is about sending a largo ship
ment OF wool to Boston.
SAN SALVADOR promises very abundant
indigo harvest this year.
KENTUCKY expects to raise SIS, 900 hogs
heads of tobacco this year.
UNDERTAkERs are said to be mean set,
always wanting to screw you down.
The Albany coopers are still on a strike.
fhey should so IN for co-operation.
THREE hundred children danced at -
ball atIong Branch the other evening.
AIR is a dish one feeds on every mo-
mont, therefore it should always be fresh.
a MIssoyRT woman recently drowned
herself for fear she might die of n cancer.
ALL the Freshmen class at Amherst Col
lege this year We're conditioned on spell
in8.
CoRNELL University owns 300, 600 acres
OF land in the Wisconsin Chippewa terri
tory. - -
Two Chinese bava been Tecavad into
Congregational church III Oakland, Cali
fornia.
The Jardin, at Paris, has received an
orangoutang that washes itself with soap
and water.
AN Illinois cheese factory has had Sc, 600
worth of cheese spoiled by the hot weather
this summer. -
DIAMONDS in the rosettes of her slippers
arc the attractions of Saratoga bellies
''twinkling feet"
CHESAPEAKE College, Virginia, has been
purchased by the government as home
for INDECENT soldiers.
FoRTY-EIGHT ont of the eighty-three
applications at West Point, were rejected
because they could not spell correctly.
THE United States troops are busy erect
ing substantial buildings at the Rio Grande
posts, In Texas, which are being enlarged.
OF the 22O conViets of the Alabama State
Penltentlary, ali except thirty-fye are en-
ployed throughout the State building rail
roads. es E> a @
ILLINOIS has a Unitarian minister who is
said to be perfect fac-simile of Abraham
Lincoln IN face, form, limb, feature and
language. aI
MRs.JoHN WooD will return to this cour-
Try during the coa,ing season, appearing
IN 8 new play by the author of the oTwo
Roses"
CLARA ScHUMANN accepted the invitation
TO take part ID the Grand Beethoven Fes-
1yai only on condition that Wagner did
not conduct
In one county in California nearly every
one is sick with fever, so that there are
hardly enough well persons to attend to
the ILL.,
MARGARET BINDEN, the original Prec;osc
oi Neber,s opera, died On the Sth of july
and was buried at Hosterwitz, where the
German master wrote his work.
A. w. RANDALL, Ex-PostnasGer General
and wife. ron Elmira, New York, arrived
IN Omaha Saturday, and are stopping at
the Cozzens Hotel.
The war is sending many Americans TO
london, who are gladdening the hearts of
brltIsh shopkeepers by their profuse ex-
penditures.
Two ladies. are engaged in the Foreign
department at Washington translating
German. French, italian and Spanish COR
respondence.
A FRENCH statistician estimates that since
the departure of the Garde Mobile from
Parls there Is but one able-bodied man to
eighteen women.
A sEAsoNABLE occupation for hot weather
is that OF divers engaged in taking a cargo
OF railroad iron out of thirty-five feet Of
water, at Cairo, Ill.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, has the largest water
wheel ever manufactured in The United
States. 1t is ten feet in diamese,f, and
weighs 10000 pounds.
The Pacific Railway Company employs
instead of Chinese laborers.
for the reason that the former build per-
manent habitations.
che steeple-chase horse Colonel. re-
Gently presented to the King of Prussia,
was purchased a few months ago in Eng
land for $13, 900, gold.
SAN Francisco is to have grand music
ai jubilee. The room will be lighted with
Chinese lanterns, and the air perfumed by
q fountain throwing cologne water.
CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gentle
man planted few acres of turnips which
were large enough to begin TO feed the FIRST
week In July, when they were fed to pigs,
no other feed given until the last week in
September. No lot OF pigs could have done
better, growing and keeping in good con-
dihon all the while.
TO CLEAN Floor CLOTHS. Sweep and
clean the hoor-cloths with broom and
damp tlannel, IN the usual manner, then
wet them all over with milk, and rub them
till bright with dry cloth. They viii thus
look as well as if they were rubbed with
waxed flannel, without being so slippery,
or so soon clogged with dust or dirt
CoCoANUT RoCK.-Three pounds of loaf
sugar, the meat of two cocoanuts, and the
milk of one. Chop up the cceoanut very
fine; boil the sugar alone first till it viii
crystalize on plate, then add the put and
the milk, and boil till it thardens, then drop
on plato.
THE FRENCH WAR CORRESPONDENTS APP
pear to be sharing very largely in the dan
gers they record. Katrow of the Gaulois,
vas wounded; Carbon Of the Figaro, aud
ChaIbriilat OF the G.ulois were taken pris-
oners, and owe the good treatment they
received to the Duke Of SAKE Coburg.-
Ciaretie and About narrowly escaped the
Prussian rife balls, and it is feared that
D'Ayian de Piolant of tho Francais, is a
prisoner. The Tribune correspondents in
both armies, have, as their reports show,
experienced similar dangers.
GERMAN FUN. - Among the popnIar
chants with the German soldiers, Is sat
Irical song at the expense o. Dir. Chase
pot. which was brought out by Kladdera-
datch, the Berlin Punch. It goes to Kill
ken's gay tune. ''fhe Little Recrait, ,"
which has had the run OF the world, and
is sung by the French soldiers as well as
IN this country. Kladderadatch has ira
vested it admirably, and. adorned with
the refrain
Give 1t them On the Chassepot
On the Cnassepot-pot-pot,
1t Is sung everywhere.
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