Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-04-13
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Facts and Figures.


A CINCINNATI lady has hair ten feet long
AMAToRIoIDE is the latest word coined il
, Boston.
The Gentiles in Utah call bigamy Brig
hamy.
A VIRGINIA gentleman killed whiterobir
a few days ego.
Flowers are in bloom at the Capitol
Grounds at Washington.
WAIsTooATs made from towel crash will
be the correct thing this summer.
Two of the Professors in Cornell Uniyer.
sity are Swedenborgians
THE Susquehanna raftsmen have form.
ed union called the Rock Dodgers Asso.
citation.
Boston clergyman, last Sunday, an
nounced that the 'twhole New Testament
was his text.
/ OVER one hundred young ladies are es
tlmated TO be at present studying law in
this country.
The University of Virginia contains 464
students, of whom only Is come from North
ern states. &5i
A New York paper says that not one
pound in ten of the honey sold IN that city
ever knew bee.
LOUISVILLE has a bloodhound which
measures eight feet from the tip of his
nose to the end of his tail.
Two Cairo Nimrods recently shot 1913
ducks in nine days, among the lakes IN
Ballard county, Kentucky.
WOMEN are employed on the police force
of Constantinople. The pretty ones never
fail to arrest attention.
AN artesian well at Morrison, ILL.,, has
been drilled to the depth of l, 180 feet with
out finding pure water.
A DOZEN Cinnamon transported 200 tb.
| safe slung to q pole from one California
town to another, the other day. la#
SINCE the Avondale mine disaster su-
perstitious miners discover strange lights
and hear groans of distress.
AN English treasury return shows that
the amount of the funded debt of the
United Kingdom is e727, $50, 956.
The sheriff of Omaha captured horse
thief last week just as the fellow had made
application to join church.
| A RECENT English critic says Cooper's
novels delight boys more than nine-tenths
of the books written expressly for them.
A FREE school of telegraphy for young
men has been established at Cooper Insti-
tute, New York, by the Western Union Co
! Our of forty arrests made in Des Moines,
recently thirty-nine were for drunkenness
and one for selling intoxicating liquors.
THE death rate in New York city is abo ut
"a. % per / 200; in London 80, in Paris 38,
in Berlin 80, and in Vienna about 80 per
| 1000.
| A YOUNG Westerner who fell heir to
| large property, few months since, has
peruriously starved himself on $40, 900 of
it since.
THE Jews of Algeria have been admitted
to all the rights and privileges of French
citizenship. That creates about $4,000
more French citizens.
The original Greek Slave of Hiram Pow
ers was lately sold in Paris for SO, 600 francs,
or more than six times the price paid to the
sculptor.
| SENATOR WILSON says there is not one
fifth the liquor drinking in Congress that
there was fourteen years ago, when he
made his advent in the Senate.
The Sandwich Islanders, after having
killed Captain Cook and eaten his body,
are about erecting monument to the
memory of the great navigator.
| THE Yale Freshmen have received a
| challenge from the Harvard Freshmen to
play match game Of base ball on the 18th
of June next, at Providence, r. [.
THE New York Evening Post recommends
Horace Greeley to investigate the bleak
March winds as a raw material for con-
sumption, with view to protection.
THE Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals have suc-
cessfully prosecuted fifty-three individuals
the past year for brutality to the brutes.
DURING it's seven open months last year,
/, the Erie canals freights exceeded by 700,-
900 tons the joint transportation of the
Erie and N. Y. Central railroads.
A LADY in Maine has been left by sne war
with thirty-one orphan grandchildren, and
wants either pension or another war to
provide for them.
| MARYLAND proposes to punish prize
| fighters and their trainers by Imprisonment
tor from one to five years, and spectators of
prize-fght by fine of from SlOO to 81, 900.
A LARGE FISH of an unknown species
was recently caught on the English coast.
It weighed seven hundred pounds and was
twelve feet in length and ten feet in circum-
| ference.
| The fare on the London horse railways
! is one penny mile. The cars are made to
convey twenty eight passengers on the out
side and twenty-five inside, and are very
elegant. ....=.-
A MAN keeping a store in San Diego
writes tnat the gold excitement is fraud;
that the rich quartz exhibited there was
brought from Arizona to get up an excite
ment for trade.
AN exchange says, lately, that a preach
er, having lost his child called in neigh
boring minister to attend to the funeral,
and heard, in his own house, one of his
own sermons, published over ten years be-
fore.
The. New York Mail says the beautiful
daughter of well-known dry goods mer
chant of New York will make her debut in
"Martha" before metropolitan audience
early in the fall.
A THREE-HUNDRED- POUND colored woman
in Bucktown, Ind, has been frightened in
to spell of sickness by report that the
medical students had offered reward of
5000 for her.
The Gazette says there are only three
persons in Nevada City, Cal, who have
energy enough to leave the place, and
those, very fortunately, are locked up IN
ljail.
In the recent debate in the Canadian
Parliament, Sir George E. Cartier said -
Individually the Americans are kindly
neighbors, but as nation they are the
most illiberal in the world, except the CHI
nese."
THERE are 200 varieties of grapes and
about 25, 600, 900 grape vines in California;
These make yearly 100000 gallons OF
wine and 100000 gallons of brandy annu
ally. The country could be made to pro
duce wine enough to supply the world.
ONE of the arguments in favor OF di
vorce bill now pending in the Massachu
sets Legislature is that men being inclined
to be wicked, it does harm to restrain then
by martial ties.
| RECENTLY an addressed man was seel
helping another man, well-dressed ant