Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-12
Late Items of News.

Late items of News.
The present endowment Of the Yale
! scientific school is S400, ,0G0
"A Baffalo lad of seventeen years is on
trial for having a surplus of wives
/ The fremen of Atlanta. Ga, hayetheir
lives insured for %. 900 each.
They use daily $50 pounds of nitro
| glycerine at the Hoosac Tunnel
Ohio has /, ,O28. 675 children between 5
and Il. There are %, 372 more boys than
girls.
"A young man in Schenectady had his
skull fractured by colliding with another
while skating.
"A German sqcom predicts that the
Suez Canal will be perfectly useless in less
! than two years.
The police of Philadelphia have orders
to arrest every saloon keeper who sells
liquor to minors.
Hereafter the public debt statement
will be printed in French and German as
well as in English.
In 1868 England drank 18, ,457, 500 GAL
Ions of ardent spirits, Scotland 5,8lS, ,583,
and Ireland 5,131, 0S7
Seven thousand Saxons, living in
Transylvania have determined TO emigrate
20 the United States next spring.
"A negro at Alexandra, Va, stole q two
hundred and fifty dollar horse, killed i in
a ravine, and sold the skin for SIPS.
--''No cards, no cake, no company, no
body's business, was recently appended
to the marriage notice Of young cynic.
The whole npmbsr Of negro schools of
every description in the South is 5, 454,
with 9, 503 teachers and 256, 353 scholars
Large numbers Of miners, mostly of
the better class, continue to leave Corn
WALL England, on account of the low rate
of wages. ...s
"A respectable farmers wife in Illinois
was in the habit, until caught, of dressing
IN male habit and stealing apples from q
neighbor's cellar.
The National Intelligence, at WASH
ington, again nominates Salmon P. Chase
for President and Robert Z. Lee for Vice
President, in 1872.
Three brute8 introduced a skunk into
the room OF q lyceum at Boston, Mass, and
the point Of the joke is the S132 fine they
were called on to pay.
"A little girl looking at picture of Eve
IN Boston gallery exclaimed, 80, mother,
should think that woman would be
afraid of the grasshoppers r'
"A Canadian Postmaster had keg of
damaged powder, and to see if it was good
for anything, he threw a lump into the fire.
place 1t cost MS widow $3.50 to put new
roof on the Post Office.
There is in Akron, Ohio, it is said,
man who courted his wife in Jail, married
ha- 1oJ1 i,oI Il I
in jail Yet withal, he moves in respecta-
BILE society and is in Government employ.
q wish you would not give me such
short weight for my money" said custo.
mer to grocer, who had an outstanding
bill against him. 'tAnd l wish you wouldn't
give me such long loait for 1nine" replied
the grocer.
While a bar of iron one inch in dame
ter will sustain twenty-eight tons, and
bar of steel of the sarse size will sustain
fifty tons, bar of spiders silk of the same
dimensions viii sustain seventy,four tons.
This is based upon q calculation that
fibre of silk one four-thousandth of an inch
in diameter will sustain tifty-four grains
The people Of Omala propose 10 build,
in 1870, a S150,000 hotel. S12O,000 Ma
sonic temple. q $50, 600 opera house, a
$1,000 high school building, $60 600
grammar school house, LOCO private resi-
dences and two railroads. The United
States Government will also begin a $780,
900 stone courthouse and postcffice build
ing.
The Toronto Globe has no hesitation
in saying that it is evidently the duty of
the Government to Withdraw Mr.. MeDou-
gal at once, and to send in his place one
who. by his position and personal qualities.
will command the sympathy and confidence
of the mass of the people of Red River
The Toronto Telegraph expresses similar
views.
-Matrimony is hot cakes, warm beds,
comfortable slippers, smoking coffee, round
arms, red lips, kind words, shirts exulting
in buttons, redeemed stockings, bootjacks,
happiness, etc. Single blessedness is
sheet-iron quilts, blue noses, frosty rooms,
ice in the pitcher, unregenerated linen,
heelless socks, coffee sweetened with ici-
cles, gutta-percha biscuits, rheumatism,
corns, coughs, cold dinners, COLES, rhu-
barb, and any amount of misery.