Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-16
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Miscellaneous Items,

| lniottiidHSOuS 1te1eSs
| The open winter permits spring to come
in without knocking.
''SHoo Fly was sung by the Southern
negroes many years ago.
ROLLER Skating Kinks are coming into
fashion in the South.
''SHoo Fly bonnets are out. They re-
semble in form an elongated beet
The SAKE horn is said to take its name
from Marshal Saxe's favolite drink.
A METHODIST church has been built in
three days in Chuton county, Iowa.
A CINCINNATI policeman is preparing to
change his vocation to that of an actor.
A $50, 900 libel suit has been COM
menced against the San Francisco Bulletin.
THE Thames was so blocked with ice on
the 18th of Feb. that navigation was almost
suspended.
MANY prominent citizens of Chicago are
preparing to visit the Rocky Mountains
this spring,
A NEGRO woman of Lexington, KY, fifty
ears of age, has just given birth TO three
nfants.
A NEGRO boy, twelve years old, recently
hung himself to an apple tree in Howard
county, Mo.
IT IS said that Mesdames Clafin and
Woodruff, of New York, have sued the
Chicago Times for libel; fer $4,000
In breach of promise case at Nashville,
Tenn, the female exhibits two hundred
letters written her in three years by the de-
fendant
WINCHESTER, truly Vjrginian town DUR
ing the war changed hands eighty-seven
times; sometimes as many as three times
in single day.
NEW and original weekly publication is
announced in London,-a "gastronomic
journal" of a high class to be called ''The
Knife and Fork"
BETWEEN thirty and forty large ships
have passed through the Suez Canal since
its opening. The amount of tolls received
from them was about 100000.
OMAHA has o first-class divorce case on
hand, a leading church member being
sued by his wife for a dissolution of the
marriage band,
IT IS feared the Louisiana orange crop
will be a total loss this year. It is esti-
mated the loss il. Plaquemines parish alone
will amount to $500, 900.
The London Globe says that an invita-
ton will probably be offered to American
rifemen to visit Wimbledon for an inter.
national rife match this year.
SOME of the English laws seem queer to
Americans. Thus, at Leeds the other day,
a stoker at a mill was sent to prison fer q
month for neglecting to fire his furnace
properly.
The Bombay Government Gazette re-
ports that in India there are 8, 253, ,060 acres
devoted to cotton culture, showing an in
crease of thirty per cent. during the year
1869
TIE President of the Fenian Brother
hood of the United States has issued an Or
der for the meeting of the annual congress
of the Brotherhood, in Chicago, on the
11th of April.
SOME excitement has been created in
Knoxville, Tenn, by baby which has de-
parted from the old established rules gov
erning cutting teeth" by cutting it's back
teeth to start with.
ACCORDING to the Revolution there is a
faro bank on Fourteenth street, Washing
ton, kept by a woman, where the women
clerks ofthe Treasury go to gamble their
salaries away.
A PROJECT to establish shelter for lost
dogs has recently been grated upon the
operations of the Woman's Branch OF the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, in Philadelphia.