Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Miscellaneous Items.


THE funded debt of England is no
about So, 900, 100000.
PHILADELPHIA has about ten thousan
stone and iron houses. ae5a
The Nova Scotia gold mines produce
about 1926, 900 last year.
THERE are 146 different religious demon
nations in Great Britain.
PosTING bills on the side walk has beel
prohibited in New York
Nor THE CHIMNEY FOR A STUDIO.
that won't Draw.
| EIGHT Atlanta merchants sold last yea
81, $50, 900 worth of goods.
NEWFOUNDLAND has now population O
1856 In 1867 it had 124, 28S inhabi
tants.
The commerce of the Ohio river figure
up the immense sum of 1894, OOO, 900 pe
annum.
HUMPHREY MARSHALL is spoken of as
candidate for Congress in Kentucky dis
trict.
THERE are 92 counties in the State O
Indiana, and 80 Of these are reached b.
railroads.
The production of petroleum in Pennsyl
vania for the past month averaged IL, 20(
barrels daily.
LOUISA ALooTT and her sister May viii
dispense with male escort during their Eu
ropean tour.
IRELAND has $500 acres under crops
1893, 1893 grass or pasture, %, ITO fallow
aud 322, 258 woods.
CONNECTICUT man who has worn hal
for forty years says il has been in fashion
seven times.
Four thousand five hundred glasses Of
beer were drank in q Cleveland beer garden
ON Sunday afternoon last.
SINCE 1856 the city debt of Philadelphia
has steadily increased from SIG, 7S1. 40 to
$40, 401, 1888 in 1870.
The strike of the New York ship carpen-
tiers and caulkers is over, and has turned
out favorably to the workmen.
The Sultan's family consists of 900 wives
and 1, 400 other people, at meal times, and
be is thinking of giving up housekeeping.
A BELGIUM ship has arrived at New York,
fitted up to carry petroleum in bulk, Just
as the brig Novelty of Boston carries mo-
lasses.
In the shop window of Richmond mil
l1nery establishment, may be seen this
card: "Wanted A secondhand seam
stress"
THERE Is a woman in New York who
makes handsome living by renting out
dresses for parties, receptions and other en-
tertainments
The total number of fires in PHILADELPHIA
during 1869 was 632. Total loss, SIS, 0e7,-
125; insurance, 81, 172, 304; clear loss OYER
insurance, 1894, 821.
The amount received from tariff duties
in England, last year. was e21, 529, 900.
tobacco furnishing e121, 900, and tea e55, ;
900 more than last year.
The Peoria (Ill.) Transcript says three
men IN that city have been experimenting
upon perpetual motion machine-one for
twenty and another for twenty-five years.
A BLooDLEss duel was recently fought
near New Orleans between an opera house
manager and the editor of French paper.
Several shots were fired but nobody s'kilt :"
In defence of the antiquity of female suf-
frage, 1t is urged that Shakespeare describes
how
''The imperial vot-ress passed on
In maiden meditation fancy free.
IT is reported tlat the Madame OlliS ier
fashion OF dressing in simple toilettes, high
neck and long sleeves, and minus jewelry,
is to be adopted by our frst-class sensible
American ladies.
In Paris there is current saying that
where a Frenchman spends five francs an
Englishman will spend twenty, an Ameri-
can fifty, and 1t holds true all over the con-
tinent.
DIR. STRAUsBERG, the Prussian railway
king, has purchased the Elector of Hesse-
Cassel's estate of Horzowitz, in Bohemia,
with the adjoining grounds, for three and
half million forins.
The ghost that has been creating q SEN
sation in Atlanta has been discovered. It
proved to be skeleton-hoop-skirt at
tached to string, by which it was raised
or depressed at the will of the operator.
The number of destitute persons in
Paris is 101, $40, or one in sixteen of the
total population. OF these, q, 1865 are men,
35, ,432 women, 21, 996 male, and %, 277 fe-
male children under Ia years of age.
SOME person 'tgood at figures" furnishes
the Davenport Gazette with the estimate of
the amount of water at present flowing in
the Mississippi river at that city, and places
it at 1000, 900, 900 gallons hourly
DURING the month of March, the people
of the city of New York paid for stage fares
$50, l6S, for street-railroadf fares 81, 064 296,
for ferry fares SIS, 456, for amusements
1886, 488, and consumed 213, 251, 757 feet of
gas.
HE colony that went from Holland,
Mich, to Virginia, under Rev. Mr.. Van
Raalte, are represented as in deplorable
condition, suffering fl ON hunger, compelled
to live in huts abandoned by negroes, and
anxious to get back to their old homes,
REV. A. L. BIAcKF ORD, missionary in
Rio Janelro, says that nearly every Bra
zil1an who wishes to be thought respectable
belongs to the Masonic order, and even the
priests are Masons, in spite of the Pope's
accommodation.
The best matches used in Italy are man.
ufactured at Viterbo, near Rome, and are
called ttanamJeri iJalli5isi, or infallible
matches. Pho Mono, happening recently
to see this inscription waxed wroth at the
thought that it was intended as combusti-
bic allusion, and the consequence is that
the sale of the match boxes has been pro-
hibited in the Eternal City.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Cambridge, has led the
way in the resto tation of the ancient Eng.
lish and present continental mode of pro-
nounclng Latin. The change in the sounds
of the vowels was one of those n ade at the
Reformation, and it has made English
Latin unintelligible to the rest OF the
world. Now, England is going back il
this, and other matters, to the olde, fashion
which has been adopted.
WEATHER Song.
When the weather is wet
#.H We must not fret;
When the weather is cold,
| We must not scold; .eilf
When the weather is warm, --
We must not storm;
| But
| Be thankful together, i9
| Whatever the weather.
OF THE Chicago Base Ball Club, Lev
Myerle is the youngest nineteen years
and w. G. Fisher t'ie oldest-twenty-si
years. The heavie. man is Marshall Kins
one hundred and eighty-fve POUNDS, ant
the ightest is Edgar A. Cuthburt, one hun
dred and forty-one pounds. The average
weight of the club is one hundred and sixt.