Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-07
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Misce Iameams ItemS.

Iowa plants forrest of 5000, 0u0 tree:
every year.
BALTIMORE arrests boys for selling Sun
day papers.
PTTTsBURe LADIES are building home fol
aged women.
DAYTON wants anew National Bank; cap
ital, $500, 900;
The Universalists have five elergywo.
men in America.
FRANCE proper is not so big thing on
the map as Texas.
The Geumenieal Council will reassem.
bic on November II.
AN Indiana woman is building o $50, O0C
hotel in New Albany.
CALIFORNIA Is manufacturing fine, stout
rope from milk-weed.
e the population of California is estimated
at six hundred thousand.
The number of Odd Fellows lodges in
New Hampshire is twenty-nine.
THE Nathan mansion, in New York, has
been sold to gamblers for SO, 900.
In Troy, N. T., thirty housekeepers have
united to import Chinese servants.
THE exhibition of 1871, in London. viii
not be postponed on account of the war.
THE first national census was taken in
1880, and has been continued each decade.
CENSUS returns from ten parishes of Lou
lslana show population of 94,O95, q de-
crease since 1860 of 2,151
AN oil well has been discovered within .
short distance of Quincy, Mo-, which is
expected to produce largely.
A GENTLEMAN of Oswego, being saved
from drowning the other day, rewarded his
preserver with fve-cent piece.
MEN in Saratoga aspire ina business way
to be known as ''the man who lest $50 600
or STU, 600 at Morrissey's s last night"
The farmers in the neighborhood of
Mount Morris, New York. are raising a
large an excellent crop of broom corn.
Mr.. BEssEMER, of England, is engaged
In building vessel, the passengers in
which will be free from seasickness, The
entire cabin is to be moveable.
HE French funded debt in the sixteen
years from 1852 to 1868 was more than
doubled. In 1862 it was 81, 1O3, ,235, 900;
in 1868 it was s2,766, $40, coo.
DURING the past year, 1,75O, 0GO pounds
OF zinc were turned out by a COMPANY at
st. Louis. The capital required for such
an enterprise does not exceed $3.50, ,000.
TRAcK-LAY1NG ON the Maysville (Ky.) &
Paris railroad has reached the North Fork,
eight or nine miles from Maysville, and is
proceeding at the rate of half mile o day.
HE German population of Paris exceeds
that OF any city in Germany with the ex.
ception of Berlin, Vienna and Ham burg.
1t has German population of over 200, 900
souls.
A CITIZEN of Lancaster, Pa, recently pur-
chased 2, 168 shares of Lancaster and Clm,
ION River Oil Company stock for S5. The
Investment is cheap, even if it does not
prove valuable.
GRANVILLE, Licking county, Ohio, enjoys
blg snake. 1t was discovered few days
ago IN the feeder of the canal, and is report
ed as beng about the size OF section Of
hose-not Red Stockings.
In is remarkable fact that the only two
Journeymen Tailors Associations in Phil
adelphla, are named, respectively, Adam and
PARADISE Lodges. It would be hard to
hnd two names less suggestive of the bust.
ness.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Tri-
bune, writing from San Francisco, saws he
has good authority for stating that the 5th
OF September has been decided upon for
the massacre OF the Chinese in that city BIZ
the Irish.
The weather at the top of Mount Wash
ln8t0n has been the warmest known for
years, thus summer, and in many ravines,
where the snow has not melted within the
recollection of the oldest inhabitant, none
is now to be found.
A CoURE in Michigan has decided that a
physician is not warrant or insurer of a
case, and he is not to be tried by the re-
suit of his remedies. His only contract
and duty is to treat the case with reason
diligence and skill.
PARIS bookseller having applied to q
Berlin publisher of photographic prints for
q great number of copies of the portraits
Oh the more lllustrious Prussan Generals.
received the reply: "There are no copies
left; we send you the originals"
FRANCE will have by the first of Noven-
Der, 10000 Chassepots in store. The
production has never slackened for o. mo-
nent, In July, 10000 per week were
/; in August the number will
reach AZ, 600 /; in September, 1000, and
in October. 10000.
The French War Administration has
contracted at Toulon for the supply of o.
million litres of wine for the troops. One
house at Beziers and another at Narbonne
are to deliver, within a fortnight, 500, ,OOU
at Oherbourg and 400, 900 at Brest.
IF fruit growers will but take the trouble
to remove the windfalls from beneath the
trees, and feed them to the swine, very
great check may be placed upon the in
crease OF that great pest to the apple grow
ers. the eodling moth.
The New York Post prints the following
KIND OF news item: ''Young ladies should
not go rowing with gentlemen unless they
are capable of managing boat. A lady
was upset IN the water recently, and dress
costing six dollars yard was completely
ruined. The lady was drowned"
IMPORTANT documents are said to have
been found In repairing the cathedral in
The foundation stone was
lifted up and under it was discovered q
chest containing some very interesting
Of the cathedral by the Emperor Charlema-
gee.
A PARIS newspaper We are receiving
heads its correspondence from the French
army, "From Paris to Berlin" The cor
is by this time finding the road
4 long one.
'SHoo FIX" says Mr.. Wm. Winter, in
the last number of the Weekly Review,
''has Ee less a paternity than that of Homer
himself, In the fourth book of the IIiad
we find that bothersorne fly; and this is
the way IN which he is treated by the trang.
ators:
$50 from her babe when sIunnber seaIs his eve.
fhe watchiul mother waits the envenom'd flg."
-Peps
Par as the mother waits the fy aside.
That haunts her slumbering babe"
-Co.ptT.
'As when a mother with her child enwrapped
Il sweet slumber scares away the ly."
Bryant Not Dan, but Tm @.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Opinion Nation
lie says that, grand as is the effect of the
'Marsaillaise" when sung by Afdme. Sass
'r III. Faure. it is tame compared to the
he heard close to Forbach. A
'egimental band was playing before head
quarters snatches of operas, &c. when