Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-02-09
Miscellaneous TtpDnS

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Deaths in New York last year number
ed 25, 1876.
There are 70 Telegraphs published in
the United States.
A lodge of female masons has been or
ganized in Chicago.
The Maine Legislature is discussing
the abolition of capital punishment
-Heber L. Godfrey, au old Albany Jour
nalist, died suddenly few days ago.
The Sandwich Islanders are importing
building stone and bricks from Japan.
Eggs retail at so cents per dozen in
Boston, though they wholesale at 81 cents.
Wards Turn Out is the name of the
last postofice established in South Caro-
lima.
Duchess Co., N. Y, has produced four
yearling calves, the lightest of which weighs
8, 300 lbs
"A Berlin professor says that all child
rem are born with blue eyes; the darker
hues come later.
Two young women in Ohio refused to
be baptised in water used to immersea a col
ored brother.
Rubber pens are manufactured which
are said to combine the good qualities OF
all other pens in use.
Maryland has 3S3 square miles of oys-
ter beds, 80 of which are closely covered,
and the rest scattering.
"A cesspool in Worcester became so
overcDarged with foul gas as to burst up
the brick sidewalk which covered it,
The town of Hatfield Mass, raises
800 acres of tobacco, yielding an aggregate
product of / 100 900 pounds
Eastern journals are expressing fear
that the ice crop will be short this season,
owing to the mild weather.
One hundred and ninety-two persons
were killed in the streets of London, last
year, by horses or vehicles.
New York sewing women make Bal
moral skirts for seven cents apiece, and
thereby earn about fourteen cents q day.
Mr.. William B. Ogden is to lecture be-
fore the Lowell Institute in Boston, on the
1.-The Material Growth Of the Northwest.
"A rat weighing six pounds, and twenty
one inches long, was lately killed at Cape
Girardeau, Mo. The Chinaman S paradise!
There is firm of female Stock Brokers
doing business in Wall ST., New York, IN
der the firm name of Woodruff. Clafiin
| & Co.
Glastonbury recently called meeting
and voted to substitute the letter go" for
the ''e" in its name. Hail Glastonbury
One great cause of rheumatism and
neuralgia affections in this country, is
SAID to be the evaporation from stoves and
cooking utensils.
The editor of the Meriden Conn Re
corder was recently sued for $50. 600 dam
ages for libel, and verdict of SO was
rendered.
There are at present in the docks of
the river at Saginaw about so, 900, coo feet
of lumber, and about. 100 600 900 feet of
| logs in the booms.
The new explosive, daaline, has been
successfully tried at the Hoosac Tunnel.
1t has the force Of nitro-glycerine without
any of its danger. It is to be regularly
used in that work.
"A few days ago wild boar was killed
near Duvall's Bluff, Ark. The boar q III
ed, when dressed. 356 ponnds, q its
tusks were nine inches long.
In New Orleans tl,r," is O man, of
whom the papers say: III commenced his
career as a pirate 102 years ago, and now,
at the age of 118, he is dock rat and river
thief"
According to a San Francisco statisti-
clan, our commerce with China amounts
to this: We send to that country. annually,
50, 600, 900, and receive 81 600, 000-the
balance against us being just $4,000, 900.
The London Directory for 1870 con-
tains the names of eight hundred Browns,
nine hundred Joneses while the Smiths,
Smyths, and Smythes muster eighteen
hundred strong. -.
The population of the Feeiee Islands
has increased i'll thee years from 400 to
| l, 800. Englishmen from Australia and
New Zealand are arriving in the Islands in
large numbers to engage In cotton planting.
Fannie NJ Ingham, aged twenty-four
years, died in New London, Conn, on Fri
day, of lock-iaw, caused by running pin
| into the palm of her hand on the 18th in
slant. She was to have been married on
. Saturday.
1t is reported that the New York cock
fighters and swill milk dealers have enter
ed into combination to put down Mr..
Bergh and his Humane Society They pro-
pose to do it by bringing influence to bear
on the Legislature.
Evansville. Ind, is plagued by goats.
When they merely monopolized the streets
and upset pedestrians, they were tolerated.
But when they went further, and began to
eat up the newspapers served from door to
door by the carriers, then there was rebel
lion.
A party of English hunters have lately
returned to Grahamstown, on the Cape,
after baggiug in the way of game, during
the last season, 80 elephants, IL white rhi-
nocel oS, 6 giraffes, % butfaloes, 4 koodos,
9 orvyx, II Glands, q sea-cows, leopards,
10 lions, and a host of smaller animals
In the realistic play at the Paris Chat
elet Theatre, in which is a real train OF
cars with real people, just as the train
emerged from the side wings all the passen-
gers leaned to one side to look at the
people in the boxes, and over went the
cars on the stage, spilling the whole
crowd. .--s .a
In 1851 the people of Star Island, now
Gosport, Isle of Shoals, gave a call to Mr..
John Tooke (or Tucke), to settle there as
their minister offered him one hundred
and ten pounds in money, as an annual
salary In 1913 fifteen pounds were ad-
ded: and in 1850 when there was not
much money! it was voted to pay him in
| fish.
Music is to be introduced as a curative
treatment for insanity, hypOchOndrlasis,
and other chronic diseases of the mind in
| some of the great asylums of Paris. Sew
i efal OF Inc greatest PhS SoioAf'iio nH'0 Go"loct
that, in their opinion, music, if well and
skiltully applied will cure, or at least mod
crate or check, insanity and kindred dis
eases.
Rufus Choate was the worst penman
ever connected with the Boston bar. He
could not decipher his own manuscript,
and made it out only by recalling the sense
of the subject matter in hand. After his
death his friends could make little or no
use of the manuscript matter which he left,
and to this circumstance is mainly due the
fact that no complete volume Of his life,
writings &C., has yet been published.
"A song that is just now very popular
in the London Music Halls has the unusual
feature of funniness in the idea. The Choir
us runs thus
saw Esau kissing Kate,
A,adt he &c is all three saw: