Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-16

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The population of Kentucky is stated at
1928, 264.
They sell grapes in Chautauqua county
by the ton this year.
THE patent Office issued patents on five
mop-handles last month.
BUFFALO claims to have had an earth
quake thirteen years ago.
AToHrsoN Kansas, is about to be illu-
minated with gas.
WESTERN, Missouri, is bothered with
wolves and Wildcats.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, has line of street
cars, just started.
but one thunder storm.
The melancholy days of confidence men
have come in Memphis.
The Cabinet-makers are hard at work il
Washington.
A BAND of Swedes have settled down in
the vicinity of Austin, Texas
1t is estimated that only about 300 Amer
leans remain in Paris.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY raises forty
bushels of corn to the acre.
In California they manufacture service
able rope from wildwood.
PREPARED chalk, it is said, is the best
thing to use on the face to whiten it.
BLACK and white lace is worn in the neck
of dresses, instead OF collars.
YOUNG man SAYS that the new ladies
bonnets look like an upset soup plate.
ONE HALF the slate pencils used in the
world are made in Vermont.
The TENNESSEE State Fair has as one of
its attractions 'short race"
The brewers of New York are about to
form "Vat Mems Association"
BANGOR, Maine, was first settled one
handred and one years ago.
OscA1oosA, Kansas, has a new school
house for colored children.
The Pensacola (Fla.) Observer has ceas-
ed to be a matter of observation.
STOKES county, North Carolina, has forty.
two tobacco factories.
A PIECE of calico mile long has been
made at d New Ehgland mill.
The latest style for shirts is to have q
| single pjait four inches in breadth.
| The National Real Estate Agents Con-
vention will be held in New Haven next
year.
They have had ''hog-slaug htering
A MARYLAND paper notices that kerosene
is a very popular hair oil in that section.
A MILLION dollars is Mobiles estimate of
her loss by the yellow fever. There have
been 134 deaths.
Two steam shingle machines have recent
ly been put up IL Morgan county, Georgia,
near Madison.
A cRAwF1sH two feet long and covered all
over with moss, has been caught in Texas
CANADA has t'paper shinplaster frac-
tional currency" according to correspon-
dent.
FURNITURE is now being covered with
/ damask for parlors to match the color and
design of the carpet.
The Knoxville (Tenn) Iron Company
recently shipped ten car loads of spikes to
Mississippi.
IT is estimated that so, 600 pieces of bag
gage were handled at the depot in Saratoga
during the summer.
IT is said that the best and most exten-
siye deposit of slate in the United States
is in Polk county, Georgia.
AN absent-minded man attempted to
whistle his valise out of baggage car at
st. Joseph, Mo-, the other day.
IT is not good taste for q gentleman to
stay after ten o'clock when he is visiting a
young lady in the evening.
LONG, black silk mantles, lined with fur,
and tluned-over collars Of fur, are to be
very fashionable next winter.
Our West, when man is sent to Jail for
a mis0emeanor, they say he has ''departed
for another cline"
TwENTY-sEvEN corns On one foot is the
J extraordinary crop of which Richmond
I gentleman boasts.
IT is said an earthquake took hall
hours run from the Middle States to Up.
per Canada. 1t is shaky story.
| INVENTIVE genius has as yet done but lit
tie to improve buttons, though IL ha
brought continents within speaking dis
tance.
IT is said that the British authoritie
have decided to introduce the Gatlinl
, small bore mitrailleuse into the service.
8 The Rocky Mountain Herald predict
/. that the buffalo will be extinct in tWent,
L years rst rsrGtIs ss ss.ssa .
A BLACK bear, weighing nearly 400 lbs
: was caught in trap last week In Holder
L ness, N. 81. m
j. r. GooDENoUeH, proprietor OF a hote
. at Meadyille, Pa, has absconded, leavlni
" unpaid bills amounting to 81, 300, and n'
~ assets to speak of.
IS IT is nobler to be sincere than to wea
. the escutchen of knighthood Or to boas
the blood of line of kings.
- A LAFAYETTE lind newspaper says thf
I the lanes and alleys of that city are III sue
10 sad state of filth that the street commits
y sioner has to wear clothes pin On his nos
a when going his rounds.
= Mrs. KATE G. HYATT, sister of Goyernt
le Hoffman, of New York, was married Q
lg Wednesday, at Sing Sing, to General va
~ liam II. Morris.
=, KING WILLIAM promoted the two sons
"a Bismarck on the day of Sedan, one
- them to the rank of Ensign, and the oth'
" to Lieutenancy.
g. HEREAFTER Henry Brooks Adams, tt
e new Professor of History at Harvard, is
u edit the North American Review.
h. e.'A' -
es AMONG the many grotesque means
ed saving the country now resorted to or p,
in posed in France, the formation OF acerta
", new corps of defense in the department
sir Gers is one of the most remarkable.
d. members are all dressed in black, and
" all under the vow of strictest silence.
NJ commands are given by signs. At press
,ry the corps consists of fifty men, all pick
Sc, shots, armed with the Minie rifle. III
be banner is a skull. No one knows the nal
.th of their leader, who has paid ali the
penses of their equipment.