Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-09
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Miscellaneous Items.

The snow is 10 feet deep in Nevada.
Memphis runs five keno rooms con-
stantly.
-Snow-shoe races are favorite amuse-
ment in Montreal.
New York, according to the Sun, has
''Board OF Death"
The petition for papal infallibility has
finally Al" signitures. III.
Baron Haussman spent S423, 500, 900 in
Paris during his rule. "a
About one-third of the inhabitants of
Cincinnati are Germans.
"A beef condensing factory will cram
large OK into twenty. pound can.
Over six thousand emigrants have ar
rived in New York since January 1.
Five young aud beautiful girls are among
the Long Island'conyerts to Mormonism.
-Mauna Loa is smoking, and the Sand
wich islanders are looking out for an erup-
ton. a
Nineteen babies week are left in the
basket of the New York Founding Hos
pital,
A New Haven man has half million
of young trout in a-hatching pond in his
cellar.
Eight murder cases are to be tried at
the MAJ term Of the Yazoo (1Tiss.) Circuit
Court.
A New York paper estimates the number
of colored voters in the United States at
$50, 000
The farmers in the neighborhood OF
Fort Scott, Kansas, are plowing for oats
and corn.
-Narysville, Tenn, has q colored con-
servative newspaper Marysville Re
publican.
AT Minneapolis on last Sunday morn
ing the mercury was from 25 to 80 degrees
below zero.
The average depth of the Atlantic
Ocean has been found to be twelve thou
sand feet.
The West Side elevated railway, in
New York city, will be opened to the pub
lie March 1. .........
New York estimates the worth of the
meat consumed in that city every year at
$50, 900, ,0O0.
"A conscientious gambler of Chicago
gives ten per cent. of his plumber to an or
phan asylum.
- In Baltimore 5000 women find steady
packing oysters.
"A deceased citizen of Nashville has left
six widows So 600 each, conditioned that
they never marry. a sae
"A New York paper has begun to de-
scribe the toilets of the ladies a the fash
ionable churches
Blossom Rock, in the harbor of San
Francisco, is being ''blown out' by means
of nitro-glycerine..
The banks of New York city have in
creased their specie about S21, 000 900 in
the last three months.
"A new journal called Food, and devoted
- 'al and sanitary economy, has just
i'oe', W aool - blished i'll London.
- VI. Clay's new candles are said
to hnrr: ;'o of . cost Of only one cent for
m twentv-fonr hours OF light.
The Bazaar. Z 'erman periodical j., is
translated into eleven ID " u''Ese9' ''ii' jill
culates nearly 800 900 cop. 'eS. o1z :,
Five hundred mules haze oeeA - sou III
Albany. Georgia, since the frsV Oh Noyoin-
Der last, at an average of $225 per ,neao.
There is a rumor in New York thaI c
the Evening Express has been sold loi
$500, 900, and will be made republican,
paper.
Dorchester, Mass, boasts of having
made the first public provision for fee
school IN the world by direct tax on the
Fleetwood Park race course is being
near Morrisiana, n. Z, at
cost of $50, 600. 1t will be rival of
Jerome Park.
The cost of telegraphic dispatches in
Australia has been reduced to one shilling
for twelve words, and one penny for every
additional word.
The Commissioners ,f the New York
Central Park intend to uDply pure milk
for infants from the cows at the Park, at
cost, next 81 ing.
William Willis, well known as the his
torian of Portland, Maine. as an able law
yer, and from having filed, many honora'
ble offices, IS dead.
Orders have been received at the u 5
Armory at Springfield, Mass, to manu- &C.
ture TO- 600 Remington breech-loAders tol
the use OF the navy. ......
An economical railroad in France is
making its Old rails do service as T. allway
sleepers, and the plan is said to be n, IT un
worthy Of experiment
r Oregon has three so da springs, one o
which has been analyzs d by an experien, -
mlneraloglst, and prop sounced equal, if Il y
superior, to the Sarato ga Springs.
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