Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-10-19
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Miscellaneous Items.

CURIoUs.-The seasons not only alte
nate, but alter-nater.
THE nation which produces most ma
riages must be fascination.
INDIANAPOLIS has organized Labor RI
form Club.
In Idaho, carpenters receive from 81 t
Sc per day in gold.
ABOUT $500 mulberry trees are no
growing in California.
| A NORTH CAROLINA writer tells of littl
brook that "giggles over the rocks.
ALL women are kleptomaniac to a cel
tain extent. They will hook dresses.
i WHY have you right to pick photo
grapher's pocket? Because he has pict
ures.
STAND OFF City is the name of o new o.
town in Pennsylvania.
WHEN is tombstone like q taIlow dip
When it is set up for late husband.
! IFa man gets up when the day breaks
can he be said to have whole day befor
him ?
| THE bed of the ocean is covered with
sheet of water, and pillows take the plac
of pillows.
New ZEALAND has 10000 inhabitants
| and public debt of $3.50, 900, 600.
BROWN and salmon color are fayoritt
combinations for bonnets this season.
DELAWARE has shipped 1,100,000 bag
kets of peaches to New York this season.
In Richmond, Va, there are 81 white
and SO colored schools.
A BRUSSELS carpet factory is to be start
ed at Worcester, Mass.
The colored people of Nashville are te
have fair ground of their own.
The Bible is printed in twenty five diff
fereut dialects for circulation in India.
THE Emperor of Brazil is said to con-
template visit to the United States.
ST.. LOUIS is making sewer investments
of $25, 900 a month.
WHEN is butterfly like G. kiss? When
it alights On tulips.
The cultivation of the sweet potato is
being introduced in New York.
A MEMPHIS poet describes dueling as
"this wart on Christian age"
The Union Hotel, at Saratoga, lodged
and fed 26, $50 persons the past year.
Now that the star of the Empress has set,
the Paris fashions will have to set them
selves.
taken mp and impounded for kidnapping.
CANADA wants the United States to pay
100000 damages for the recent Fenian
raids.
THE lat, st song out is Sc Father VIII Set
tie the Bill" Itisv very popular with young
ladies.
BOSTON las sent frolicking committee
of her Council to st. Louis to inspect the
market houses there.
ONE Of the finest Catholic church es in
the south is in process Of erection in
Greenville, Tenn.
CASEY, Collector of the port of New Or
leans, is reported to be an asplrant for the
office of Solicitor General.
THE convicts in the New Jersey State
Prison have started paper. 1t supports
the policy of protection"
WHEN Paris was found to be too tight q
place for the Bank of France, the bank was
taken to another place-Toulouse.
A REVENUE COLLECTOR in Missouri recent
ly tried TO collect fifty cents head in q
ballroom the tax on hops.
ONE-FFTH Of all the iron made in the
United States is made from Lake Superior
ore.
MANY q former exploit of Colonel Fisk
has been naGgaus, but his last was mGgisaatss.
N 7. World.
THE Bessemer Steel Works Of Albany
turn out on an average seventy tons oi
steel a day.
The manufacturing establishments OF
A Ind
month in wages alone.
The mammoth cave has been visited by
more people this season than for number
of years past.
WITHIN the past seven years, the savings
banks in Maine have increased from 1f
teen to thirty-six.
THERE are 6, 416 cotton, woolen an6
other clothing manufactures in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain.
Most of the salt used in California is i'm
ported from Mexico, and is sold at an aver
age price Of S8 per ton.
BEEF packing is becoming heavy bust
ness in Omaha. One firm there will pacf
| 20, 600 head Of cattle this season.
For FARM1NG-The only commonplace
thing you need not be afraid of ''runnip.
into the ground"-The plowshare.
"HoNEsr industry has brought that mai
to the scaffold," said wag, as he saw
a carpenter upon staging.
| IT is nearly as impossible to get none
out OF miser as it would be for butehe
to get lamb chops cut Of a battering-ram.
'sAH, parson, I wish I could take m
gold with me-" said rich old aDeaco
Swipes. 'It might melt if you did" gu
city replied the parson.
GRAPES never were SO cheap as they ar
this year in the east. They have been sol
even as low as q cent a pound.
VALUABLE silver mines, yielding rich orc
have been discovered in California, abou
seventy five miles from San Bernardo.
At NORTH ADAMS, Mass, last week,
young girl, while riding to fair with he
lover, was thrown from the wagon and il
stantly killed.
NORFOLK, Virginia, has revived IL
oyster that it takes six men to swalio'
whole. The one in question was % inehe
long.
z BROOKLYN nurse says: "'Taint muc
trouble 10 take care of sick pussons; mos
they DON'T git IT,
QurTE number of ladies have apple
for admission to the medical and law d,
partments of the Michigan University tn
fall.
AKRON, Ohio, is one of the smartest NAL
ufacturing towns in the interior. Machil
} cry and agricultural implements a.
: specialities.
The Work Woman is the name of ne
weekly paper, to be started next month,
New York, in the interest of the HON
stead League.
, The Spaniards have q saying: cat thi
teen marry your daughter to her superio
at twenty to her equal; at thirty to anybo6
that will have her.
; A LEARNED doctor has given his opiniC
that tight lacing is public benefit, ina
much as it kills off all the foolish cir
! and leaves the wise ones to grow into W
l men.
A LODGE of the Supreme Order of Il
Knights of tue Sun, to which only m
chanics are admitted, has been formed
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