Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-30
NO. 4.
CURRENT PARAaR APHs
Miscellaneous Items.

Memphis is anxiously inquiring for NOR
cotton pickers.
SAVE your cats. Silk hats are now mad
from their hair.
NOVEMBER, in the olden time was ealle,
the "wind month.
A CLEVELAND paper writes "Fe.ninary
for Female Seminary.
TIE iron-clad feet of England is valued
at $40, 1856, 900 in gold.
! A SUSCEPTIBLE IND1ANIAN tainted st tn
performance OF drama.
The Cossacks have bsen converted into
regular Russian cavalry.
The original number of cannon on the
forts around Paris 1926.
The depth of cowardice-Fearing to
strike a balanoe-sheet. FIN.
THE bishops of Adelaide and Melbourne,
Australia, are in New York.
| LONDON is to have new illustrated
weekly called the ''Grumbler."
The foundation stone of new city Ii
brary has just been laid at London.
CHRIST Church, on Fifth avenue, New
York, has been sold for 100000.
The great county for butter manufacture
| in Pennsylvania is said to be Tioga.
THREE Massachusetts churches pay
their pastors salaries of $1,000 each.
DENVER has fish with head like cat,
body like lizard, short legs and fms.
HARTFORD is anxious for what it styles ssa
preventive rather than detective police.
The friends of technical education in
London are endeevoring to open q uniyer-
sity.
ENGLAND complains of the great expense
and trouble her Australian colonies are to
her.
A WESTERN editor is raving about the
'1amblent pastimes of boreal oorrusca-
cations"
A CHILD at Knoxville, bitten fatally
by spider, swelled to twice its natural
size.
TIE Boston Transcript advertises d
"Mind d.your-own-b business Society" in that
town.
LOVES ssother name" is subject to ortho-
graphic mutations. Before marriage it is
''afsction;" afterwards, it becomes "a-tic-
tion."
BLACK and colored velvet ribbons are as
much used as bias bands for trimmings.
Shaded velvets and moss trimmings are
very fashionable.
THERE was silver wedding in Massa-
chusetts some time ago, at which about
sixteen thousand ounces of silver were pre-
sented to the parties.
TwENTY-oNE car loads of grain were
shipped from Grand Island Nebraska, in
ten days ending September last. So says
the Independent.
TIE Maine lumber dealers are preparing
their teams for the winter logging expedi-
tions. The teams will go into the woods
early in December.
The Nova Scotia Annexation League
contemplate large meeting at Halifax, to
forward the plan of annexing the province
to the United States.
AN Illinois candidate denounces the ad-
ministration for ''taking the tax off on pi-
anners wot we don't use, and keepin' it on
whisky, wot we do"
TIE Office of City Chamberlain in New
York is said to be worth $3.50, 600 year,
$40, 900 of which he gets for the trouble OF
drawing one check.
The brig Antecello, from New York to
Aspinwall, was wrecked recently, and her
crew brought back to New York by the
ship Horatio Harris.
NERVOUS burglar in Michigan was pre-
vented from ransacking lady's trunk the
other night by coming into sudden contact
with an artificial snake. uE
IT is said that the Kaw Indians salt the
railroad track, in their country, IN order
| IN, 10 in Of q
they can get the caroasses.
A PROUD and loving Missouri father, in
setting forth the accomplishments OF his
daughter, said she could ''everlastingiy paw
ivory and howl like mule" !"
DRoUYN DE LHUYs is still on the island
of Jersey. making speeches at railroad eel
ebrations, and praising the hospitality of
the isle which has proved harbor of ref
uge to him.
As AN evidence of the value of the new
invention for consuming sparks and Gin
ders on railroads. we are informed that on
recent trip of As miles, in Massachusetts,
IA bushels of this stuff were accumulated.
AN Irishman, in Recommending COW,
remarked, "She will give milk year after
year without having calves, because she
came of COW that never had calf /"
MANY a man thinks it's virtue that
keeps him from turning rascal, when 1t g
| only full stomach. One should be care
| full and not mistake bread for principles.
| in that city few evenings since, and
found it to contain diamond ring worth
$85
FIJI. MCCLURE & Co., Bankers, having
an Office in the Emigrant Depot, Mil
waukee, during the past sumn er, paid out
| to emigrants arriving at that port, over one
hundred thousand dollars in exchange for
specie and drafts.
A BRIGHT little fellow was travelling iu a
crowded stage coach, and had been taken
on the lap of fellow passenger. The con
versation turned on pickpockets and theu
great skill. "Ah ! my fine fellow" said
| the gentleman who had the little one on
his knee show easily l could pick youl
pocket" as it lay open near his hand. mo
| Won couldn't, neither" answered the boy
with sharp twinkle in his eyes, " cause
I've been looking out for you all the way.
ONE evening near the first of last month
several gentlemen at the Virginia Military
Institute saw q strange fight of butterflies
The column was fifty yards wide, anC
stretched across the horizon as far as th'
eve could reach. They were of the large
broad wing kind. They seemed weary
and several lighted on the buildings, rest
ed, and then resumed their journey. Thi
brilliant bow of winged flowers, spannet
the evening sky, attracting much attention
and comment from the wondering specta
tors.
/ MARK TWAIN produces one of the mos
striking cases of meanness on record. III
says he knows a society which hired MAJ
to blast rocks, and as he was pounding tn
powder with crowbar an explosion tool
place, sending the man and crowbar out o
sight. Both came down all right, and thu
man went to work again promptly. Blu
though he was gone only fifteen minutes
the company ''docked him for lost time.
Mrs. ELIZA GREATERcx, who sailed to-
Europe last spring, spent the summer a
Nuremberg, making drawings of the fin'
old buildings and places of interest abou
the city Several of her drawings have
been received recently, and will be ex.
hibited at the winter exhibition of the Ma
tional Academy of Design. Among tht
We've are the sombre old "Sternhof on Tia
Neuen Thor" the more sparkling ''Waar
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