Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
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Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
WORDS that burn-Rejected communica-
| tons.
The grasshoppers have disappeared from
| Utah.
UNION COLLEGE had four presidents dur
ing its first decade.
The New York apple crop is very large
and very good.
ILLINOIS is the fourth American state in
population.
Da,JvlLLE, Pa, is to have a cooperative
rolling mill.
New ORLEANS has cotton factory run
ming 8, 800 spindles.
Mrs. HENRY WooD has published o novel
entitled 'sBetsy Rane.'
AUSTRALIA has an import and export
! trade OF S375, ,000 600 annually.
WASTE nothing, neither money, time nor
talent.
A New HAVEN gambler died suddenly at
the faro table on Saturday,
PROSPERITY is blessing to the good, but
curse to the evil.
The census-taker in Usage. Mo-, found
nineteen pairs of twins, all Germans.
I A NATIONAL gold note bank, with 81 ,0O0,-
| coo capital, is to be established at San
francisco.
SOME !, ,04O babies nestled in the basket
crib of the New York Founding Asylum
last year.
IF you want to keep dry, eat freely of red
herring and salt beef, and dent drink.
4 VELVET smoking jacket is considered
indispensable to the wardrobe of the swell
Of the period.
THE emigrant nee. not go west for a
farm; the moment he touches Castle Gar
den wharf he's landed man.
The Hampton mills, in Caldwell county,
Missouri, have been purchased by a Con-
necticut man for So, 500.
Or course the ice-cart drivers are totally
blind TO the interests of customers when
they put their ice out.
AN English savant is endeavoring
prove that the earth is fat, and on
makes folks believe that he is fiat.
IT is estimated that 40. 10000 cod
fish are caught on Newfoundland shores an
nualy.
AMONG the stock displayed at the state
fair at Utica, n. Y, is bullock weighing
A, coo pounds.
SPIDER in Tenr essee caught a snake
the other day by spinning his web around
the reptips head.
The more one tries the better he suc-
ceeds. This is especially true of whaiemen
and lard manufacturers.
THE herring on the Scotch coast are SO
plentiful this year that the salt and barrels
for curing them are exhausted.
A NEWARK rough finds his amusement in
knocking people down and stuffing their
mouths with gutter mud.
WHY does the fool who never laughs re-
mind you Of the wisest man? Because he
is solemn 'un.
At Newark, n j., various manufacturers
are making substitute for woolen cloth
out of BAN boo cane.
THE Nebraska City Advertiser says that
one-seventh of the grain grown in Nebraska
is shipped from that city.
TIE gold mines of California yield an
nuaily $23 900, 000-the quicksilver mines.
] 81, 500, 900, and the cOai-helds 81, 600, 600.
The Baptist church, North and South,
have taken one step toward CO operation
their Bible and publishing houses have
united.
RHODE ISLAND has 166 population to the
square mile. Massachusetts, has 157. New
York, which stands third on the list, has 81
Roor HOG CITY claims the champion sick
man of the oil regions They have q man
there that has been sick for forty two years
JET ornaments are used on bonnets this
fall, and make them so heavy that it feels
like lifting 8 smaL-sized hat-iron to take
one up.
STEEL. needles first came into England
from Spain and Germany. They were first
manufactured in London by German in
1865.
SOCKET HASH, as a vegetable, and sliest
apple pie, as pastry, appeared IN the list
! Of esculents on bill OF fare at one OF the
hotels in Louisville.
AUSTRALIA has an import and export
trade of 1915, 900, 600 annually, and last
year there were go, 900 frst-class passen-
gers between England and Australia.
The New York city chamberlain will mol
allow political assessments to be made on
the clerks in his office, but pays them ou'
of his own pocket.
! "A MAN in Chicago has a pair Of boots
that were made for him when he was mar.
ried, thirty years ago. He has only useo
them for wedding-boots since; but he has
kOSI 81 IldIy TlFto, dEu WO0dOA co A1oOAi
that they are badly worn. He says they
can't stand more than three more wed
dings, nor he either.
ALL SORTS of what Mrs. Partington Gar
ticles of virtue and bigotry" are made o
Russia nowadays. Some of the pretties
are naoucboir and work boxes made with
heavy plate glass tops. and engraved witt
large monogram. Cigar cases are made
of this material, with space arranged fol
an imperial carte of the owners "brigh
particular.
THE Crystal Springs (Miss.) Herald re
ports the following strange occurrence
s'Mr. O. D. Newman, of this place, wa
STABBED some thirty years ago in the bacl
with knife, by a man with whom he hat
) difficulty. A few days ago, while in hi
; field, he felt something sticking out of hi
back, and called a gro to see whatlt was
The negro looked, and told MIR. N. that
; was knife blade. Mr. n. reached aroun
and pulled cut piece of dirk blade owe
two inches long, which had been ther
since 1886"
Origin CT the Phrase 81 Ackn0wledg
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