Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-10
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Misceilan, Ous Items.

LIE aLheficah consul at Havana Is sic
with yellow fever.
PoRPoIsFs abound in great quantities i
the vicinity of Cape May.
! The Canadian Press Association made
raid on Buffalo, Wednesday
Two THOUSAND sheep crossed the river a
Omaha last week for the East
AN exchange has coined new word
as bad as it is long, viz: newspapertorial
The Prussian laws forbid ''bird-catch
lpg." Napoleon will be considered an ex
ception.
| Four BOXES govern the world-the cart
ridge box, the ballot box, the jury box, anC
the band box
CHICAGO claims 400, 220 population, 6
hint to the census takers to make the
number no less.
MAN is like river. No deep spot evel
occurs III him without revealing a shallow
little further down stream.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has obtained leave ei
the President to go with his staff to Eusope,
and watch the progress of military events.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT is said to be
preparing volume of Recollections. -
which will not be published until after his
death.
ONE OF the most alarming features of the
war is the threatened revival of the great
European s'What is it?"-the Schleswio-
Holstein question.
AT the late session of the Hawaiian leg
lslature at Honolulu, a bill was read, taking
the road tax off poor laborers and putting
1t on horses carts. &c.
The prospects of good harvest in Aus.
trla and Hungary are said to be even great
er than was anticipated, and q very large
export trade is relied upon.
The latest style in qold bracelets is in
the shape Of futed muslin cuff and is
made of FURNISHED gold with diamond
button, and ruby button hole.
4 NEWLY discovered Chinese poem Ii Sqo-
written three hundred years before Christ,
Is said to prove that the existence of Amer
lea was known to the Chinese at that time,
TERRIBLE sCREAMs, agony and funeral
Irom the Cathedral, were some of the results
OF Letter Blerston's pouring kerosene on
lighted kindilng wood last week, in Marys-
vile. California
RUSSIA doesn't say much, but doubtless
keeps up tolerably lively thinking, and
her 566, 49l new breech leaders, and her
half million per day cartridge factory,
entlUle her thoughts to Importance
ORDERS Will be issued from the Postoffice
between now and the 1st of
August, for the creation of three hundred
and e1ghty-two additional money order Of
fees. The total number W y then be about
two thousand one hundred.
IT would seem that F1ance got in not
only good supply of grain before the war.
buC gold also. The Bank of France has
S26O, 0OO,O 600 in specie and bullion. For
a long time France has been draining all
Europe and the United States.
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce
has resolved to present petition to the
House of Commons complaining ofthe pro.
posed transfer of Gambia to France, and
that memorial to the same effect should
be addressed to the Colonial Secretary.
WITH the prospect of war with France.
it is not surprising that the Bavarians are
excited by the declaration of the King of
Prussia that he takes command of the
army. And yet we believe it is clearly in
accordance with treaty stipulations made
with Prussia after the battle of Sadowa,
A PoMPoUs individual walked up to the
office Of the Stockton House, Cape Nav,
one day last week, and with considerable
hourlsh, signed the book and exclaimed,
m lieutenant governor of -" '"That
don't make any difference" says the polite
clerk, you'll be treated just as we'll as the
9th ers'
1T IS said here that the failure OF the in
trlgue by the Empress Eugene to marry
her niece. the Ouch Sss Of Alba, to Prince
Leopold OF Hohenzollern, is the real
source Of the present trouble between
France and Prussia. The father of the
Duchess is IN Madrid, drowned in debt
and generally despised.
A LOT OF Chinese medicines, seized at
the San Francisco Custom-house, were re-
ceived at the Treasury Department yester-
day. Various kinds of snakes, among
them the cobra de capello, bugs and roach
es the skin OF the poreupine fetus of an
antelope, &c, are among the collection.
These things are used as medicines by the
Chinese doctors.
A TRAVELLING insurance agent had been
to a western pioneer the advan-
tages of an insurance policy. Pathfinder
mused a moment in grave silence, and then
said: ''See here, mister, [ have lived out
in this country now twenty-five years, and
[ have 'bucked agin most all the games
they've started, but darn me eff want to
play game where you have to die to beat
the bank"
AT Winoanton, Somerset, a young man
named Lamb, fancying that certain
young woman, Mary Crees had bewitched
him, rushed upon her, seized her by the
throat, and pulling out his penknife, at
a1 tn wound hor Tn, raY11u To hn
bench, he said: ''She overlooks l; that's as
true as the hats in my hand, and wanted
to draw blood to stop her." Two years
ago he fell down in fit on seeing her
AT THE Hotel du Nord, Omaha, can be
seen genuine horned toad from Califor-
MIA. 1t was left there, few days since, by
some gentlemen travelling to the east His
toadship is one of the queerest specimens
of the Brachian family we have yet seen
real beauty-differing in this respect very
materially from his kindred. He is liter
ally covered with horns, and is provided
with one of the neatest caudle appendages
imaginable.
AN INTERESTING relic was recently found
near Cincinnati. The object is the image
of ram, three and half inches long,
carved IN VaTleRaLeu marble. Inc carving
is tolerably well done, though there are
some minor differences between the image
and the rams OF the present day. Nomar-
BILE of the kind in which the image is
C rived is known to exist in the part of the
country where it was found. The image
is relic of that mysterious people who
inhabited the country ages ago, traces of
whose work are found scattered all over
the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi
and their tributaries.
A SCOTTISH clergyman, happening to go
into the churchyard while the beadle was
employed neck deep in digging grave,
thus accosted him 'eWell, Saunders,
that's work you're employed in we'll cal
culated to make an old man like you
thoughtful wonder you don't repent OF
your evil ways" The old worthy, resting
on the head OF his spade, and taking a
pinch of snuff, replied, II thought, sir, ye
ken'd that there was nae repentance in the
grave"
RATHER TOUGH ON OUR WINE DRINKERS.
"A good story is told of an American
travelling in Paris Having occasion TO