Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-24
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GARLIC butter IS a dehoacy in Spain.
METZ. France is ITO miles from Paris.
THE Norfolk oyster feeG has gone to th
banks. .e..-.
THE only church at Ogden is the railroa
station.
CALIFORNIA ohves are more plenty tina
ever before.
IN q Georgia school the head boy isage
9 and the tail boy 40.
Hay Is said to be in great demand fc
the European markets.
The yellow fever has made its appeal
anoe in Philadelphia
CALIFORNIA is being blessed by neav
rains, that were long needed.
THE New York papers complain of tn
defects Of the detective system IN that city
WASHINGTON complains that it's organ
grinders begin their operations before day
break
AERRAPN Tower, the old lookout at Ma
CARA, is partly undermined and must soo1
i go. over the Falls.
/ The power of committees in Congress,
IS stated, lar exceeds anything recognized
| by English Parliamentary custom.
A NEW traction engine has been intro
duced into Scotland, which for cheapness
is said to be superior to horses on the rail
way. t
/ AN extensive business IN cement is car
ried on IN Clarke county, Indiana, on The
banks OF the Ohio, and large quantities art
exported.
The last rail Of the New Orleans Mobile
u Chattanooga hallway was laid on Satur
day. The road will be open for traffic al
once m ......- 6e5-a. -.. .
! An American, now travelling In Europe,
reports that Sweden is the only country he
has visited where the sleeping apartments
are lighted with gas.
A CoLoRED student has been admitted to
Yale, having passed very good examina-
ton. He is said to be as black as ink
black ink we suppose they mean.
The Darmstadt Gazette, the official or
gan or the Government of Hessee, COM
menttng on the French Emperor S declara-
tlon that he mad no idea Of aggrandizement
said that only born idiot would believe in
Napoleon
The small pox and hot weather in Paris
springs and Switzerland this summer.
Those who went to Germany are now going
elsewhere
In South Bend, Ind. the home of Vice
President Colfax, according to the Bible
agents report, there are one hundred and
thirty families without the Scriptures, and
OF this number sixty-one refused to receive
a copy. Ha
SUCH is the habit of borrowing money in
Chicago, that the Michigan Central rail-
road have TWO large painted signs in their
depot, as follows: caution to passeng-
ers. Do not lend your money to stran-
gers.
CHICAGO is said to have a divorce case
now IN which the happy couple mad only
been married four days. They are improv-
ing on 1T all the time, and will soon have
1t so you can get divorce the first night
FRENCH accounts declare that the needle
gun recoils SO badly that the marksmen are
soon compelled to fire from the shoulder;
but the latest telegrams show that this
hitting from the shoulder" is a very dis
astrous piece Of. business for the party hit.
A LADY writing in the New York Mai
says 10 husbands: ''The fresh air of the
country, the relaxation from. toll which
will inspire you with new life and hope,
will also bring back the roses TO your
wife's pale cheek, and the old CLEAN OF
loyelight to her eyes"
The desire for liquor drinking seems to
be on the increase in Philadelphia. The
Clerk OF the Court of Quarter Sessions has
just issued 3,849 tavern licenses. It is a
pity the PhIladelphians can't contrive to
enjoy their "nrotherly love" without the
aid OF liquor.
AT Kingston, Canada, dry goods clerk
was recently accommodated with the loan
of a revolver to blow out his brains with,
in order to spite lady who had rejected
him and married another. On sober sec
ond thought, he sold the revolver and got
drunk.
The progress in marine guns during the
last decade has been very great. Ia 1859,
the 6S-pounder oast-lron gun was the most
powerful weapon. AT present there are
6O0-pounder, 25 ton guns, bes1d eB 18-ton
l2-ton, 8-ton and 63-ton guns. The light
est Of these guns is more powerful than the
68-pounder, and could pierce A inch arm
ox on ships side at 200 yards, while the
25-ton gun would probably pierce most
iron -clads st a range of two miles,
DURING the prevalence of the cholera
in the summer of 1882, the old artillery of
Troy was sent down on the road between
that city and Albany to fire cannon to keep
off the epidemic. AS cannon firing I'M
pregnated the cir with sulphur, the philos-
ophers of that day supposed that the dis
ease could be successfully resisted with
siege guns. The firing did not amount to
much. The cholera was not frightened
by the artillery. The pestilence invaded
Troy and remaine" there for over two
months.
The youngest elopement on record took
place at Hudson, Mich, last week. Master
Frederick Tubbs of that town, aged five
years, took Miss Schermerhorn, aged three
years, combed her hair, put the dolls
things in box, and proceeded with her to
che depot, where they got on the rear plat
form of the western bound train without
being noticed till the conductor received a
dispatch for them. They we put off at
Osseo, and returned on the next train well
pleased with their trip.