Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-31
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Miscellaneous TiemS.

y A 700-PoUND sword fish is on exhibition
, IN Boston.
The monastefies in England hold 2432
acres OF land
PIFTsBURG has seven blast furnaces in
operation.
THomAsroN, Georgia, has raised 2s-
pound beet.
The volcano of Ceborneo, near CoIIraar,
nexico, is in active eruption.
TIE Newark Common Council has just
authorized Sunday horse cars.
THE Connecticut is so low that teams
, ford the river at Hartford, just above the
toll bridge.
SINCE thair arrival in America, the China
men have learned the science Of striking
for higher wages.
THE Maynard family. five generations,
anu 1oo stfonG. had reunion not long
since, at tNorthhorougn Mass.
RoUNDoUT was last week favored with an
elcpenent, o golden wedding, and an ap-
ple-dumpling eating match.
4 In Baltimore the police recently. shot 3
maniac in the street. They were endeay-
o1igg TO capture him.
THE New York Express is very anxjons
that the Fat men Of Connecticut" should
play game Of base ball.
A guest at hotel in Loavenworth, Kan
sas. ate over dozen ears of green corn at
one meal the day before his funeral
NITRO =eLYcERINE hos been in use brt
five years, yet over seventeen hundred per-
sons have been killed or MANNED by il.
THERE is q wild man in Orarga county,
n. Y, whose attention is devoted chiefly
to the destruction Of frogs and snakeB.
TIE census of Sioux City, Iowa, is COM
pleted, and shows population of 3, All -
an increase in three years of 1881.
FIVE dollar cravats, emblazoned with let
ter portraits of King William and Bis
marck, are the latest Boston notion.
THE name of Brigham Young appears
among the contributors to the exhibition
OF textile fabrics at Indianapolis.
TEE hut on Mount Washington, known
as the Tip Top House, rents for So, GOO the
season-about six weeks usually.
In the twenty-six days of war, European
| public debts and securities have fallen in
value $500, 600, 900, it is calculated.
| ON q gate-post in front ola farm house
| out west IS q sign reading: ''No life insur-
anee or sewing machines wanted here"
FRENCH sympathizers in Washington,
including the French legation, do not be-
| lieVe Austria and Italy will assist France.
AN exchange is circulating o horrible ru.
NOR to the effect that the present magnif-
cent crop of hotel clerks was raised from
bell boys.
THERE are eight girls in the Michigan
Agricultural College, who have to work in
the field three hours daily, just as the
young men do.
A COMPANY has been organized with
capital of $500, 600 to work q coal field of
/, 200 acres, at the confux of Vermillion
river, near Danville Illinois.
VEIN of soft sandstone has been discov-
cred near Greenfield, Missouri Tt sme!ls
like petroleum., and en- effort is being made
to extract oil from it.
A nugget Of one hundred and six pounds,
containing ninety-seven pounds Of gold
and nine OF quartz, wa8 found near Au-
burn, California, short time since.
The Fishkil Journal tells of rattle |
snake that was killed by farmer in that |
vicinity that had 49 rattles and could |
drink a pan Of milk at one meal
AN eagle was shot few weeks ago, in1
Austria, III Bellye, bearing collar with the
date 1648, and some arms partially efaced |
by time and exposure to the weather.
A young man in Georgia eloped with al
young lady. Her father and brother wait |
ed for them on their return and began |
shooting. The bridegroom replied, and |
he now has no brother-in-law.
THE work on the Lincoln monument at
Springfield. Illinois, is progressing rapid
ly, Several carloads of granite have been
received, and the blocks are now placed in
the wall
GHE committee Of relief for sufferers by
The recent East Boston fire is amazed at
the number of poor families who claim to
have lost large sums of money in their
houses which were burned.
A TERRIBLE pestilence is said to be
spreading over the lowlands bordering on
the Illinois river. About and below Can
ter Landing, as far as the eye can reach all
along the banks Of the river, the putrid
carcasses Of many thousands of fishes are
fast decaying beneath the summer sun,
and the tream itself is full OF the dead fish.
IT IS said that the attachment between
Commodore Vanderbilt and his youthful
and recently welded wife is exceedingly
strong, md quite demonstratiye-thouc
not foohsbly so-when alone. Mrs. Van
derbilt is admired more for her hatear and
| modest dignity than for any dazzling
beauty or society accomplishments She
is fne-looking, exceedingly lady-iike,
tasty in dress, and quite charming IN con-
yersatlon.
A ROMANTIC story of an aged woman who
offered her services as cd1lti'aiere is told by
a French journal. She WAS found aband-
oned in . hut on the field of Jena, and was
adopted by French regiment, who named
her Tenette. She married O wealthy young
officer, who subsequently lost his property
in speculations, and died in 1927, leaving
his wife in destitute circumstances. Her
offer TO join the army was accepted, when
her history became known.
The war, says Figaro, has brought 3 new
industry to light, that Of the parlor strate-
! glst. map, with little red and white
flags, Is all that he requires as his stock in
trade. One of these generals, who was
| dining out, brandished his fork in the heat
OF discussion, crying out: 81 shall fall
| upon the right wing and the left flank - To
which the mistress of the house, whose
whole soul was absorbed IN the task of
carving chickens, answered, ''Why, then.
! you want at least half fowl
IHE CITY OF Cleveland i8 annoyed by bhe
Nicolson pavement royalty. 1t appears
that the city purchased the right 10 use
| the pavement for So, 300 cash, to be used
during the term OF the patent which then
had two years &c run. They supposed. of
| course, that at the expiration of the patent
there would be no trouble about If. and
| that they would have nothing more to pay
but the patent was extended, aud as the
city only bought the right for two years.
royalty was demanded, and the CITY Coun-
ell have found after an investigation that
the law will compel the payment or toe
abandonment of the pavement.
METz AND NANCY have both successfully
| withstood sieges in their time. In 1852
the former town was beleagured by the
armies Of the Emperor Charles Y ; but the
garrison under the Duke OF Guise managed
Co hold the place against them, and the
seige was eventually raised. Nancy was