Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-09
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.

THERE is Chinese class at the Cornell
University.
ALL the Paris fashion papers have sus-
pended publication.
In India the Royal Artillery now wear a
cork helmet
The Rectangular Review" is a new
London magazine.
i The new half dollars are becoming plen-
titul in Canada
AMERICAN flags are now largely manufac-
tured in Paris.
In Memphis the dentists are charging
So pull.
WHAT is home without a piano2 Very
quiet.
LONDON averages 200 births and /, 200
deaths week.
A KnoMErRE is about three ifths of an
English mile.
The chills and burglars are devastating
Americus, Georgia.
New crop peanuts are appearing early
In market this year.
A TEXAN will walk three miles to catch
horse to ride mile.
CHICAGO has 539 miles of sidewalk, light
ed at night by 5,3S8 lamps.
CENsURE is the tax man pays to the
public for being eminent.
A NEBRASKA wool grower has a flock of
200 Cashmere goats.
The Pullman palace cars are to be intro
ducsd to Europe.
| The coolies are making successful cotton
| pickers in Texas.
CINCINNATI has Norwegian giant seven
feet ten inches high.
PoTAToEs and pumpkins are growing on
the Bull Run battle field.
A New HAMPSHIRE man burned his
woods up smoking a coon in tree.
MICHIGAN University has abolished the
"marking" system.
NEARLY every city of Europe has a char
liable ''home for consumptives.
COMMERCE in the West Indies is paralyzed
on account of the European war.
The latest description of a liar -one who
presents things in rose colors.
CALIFORNIA has recently imported s, 600
chestnut trees from Japan.
SMALL silver pieces are scarcer in France
than with US.
A LITTLE boy was recently sent by ex-
press from Boston to Pittsburg.
DETECTIVES are very apt to find FOLKS
out, but they never seem to feel badly
about it.
FRANCE is experimenting upon two-story
railway cars for steam roads.
The sugar-producing seclion of Louis
lana is known as the Sugar Bowl"
The State House at Boston is called, by
a critic, the '1inchpin of the hub"
The national real estate agents conven-
ton will be held in New Haven next year.
A TENNESSEE man has invented self
acting churn, which winds up like watch.
The Cleveland Board of Trade favors the
proposed Ontario and Erie ship canal.
A.TURTLE weighing 467 pounds was lately
captured on Coney Island beach.
NHAnr.= oil the western railways, it is
said, show increased receipts this year.
Houston, Texas, announces that it has
had only one case of yellow fever this year.
a CANADIAN HAS Idu5cu Two CROPS OF
raspberr1es from the same bushes, this
year.
The dressmakers suit for an unpaid bill
in Boston is to be revived. The lady for
whom the dresses were made declines to
pay, ON the ground of extortionate charges.
LODGING house keeper advertlses ssto
furnish gentlemen with pleasant and COM
Portable rooms; also, one or two gentlemen
with wives"
THE Philadelphia Press describes Gen.
trail Park as ''circumscribed, sun-beaten
sand heap" and the lake as sits swan-cov-
ed mud puddle"
The neat thing in dog robes this season,
is to have the family monogram in gilt up
on the blanket. A dog without a mone-
gram blanket is of no account.
A MISGUIDED mule in Springport, Mich,
swallowed his owners pocket-book, con-
tanning S400, the other day, and the man
is in doubt whether to hold post mortem
or not.
81 SAY, friend, your horse is a little con-
trary, is he not?' s:No, sir p "What
makes him stop then?" SO, he's afraid
somebody II say whoa, and he shan't hear
it."
IL Is nCtlCOdUlO ti1fst tASIO nOW OPCIl
in New York more places of amusement
than ever before, It is further noticeable,
and matter OF congratulation to every one,
that there has probably been no time at
which the amusements Of the city have
been on the average of so high tone.
A GERMAN, Hungarian and a Bohem-
ian met in the parlor of an inn, over the
! chimney piece of which hung watch
After leaving, the German said, "That was
| a nice watch; am sorry did not buy 1t.
| Il am sorry I did not take it, )" said the
Hungarian. 81 have it in my pocket, said
the Bohemian.
& SILVER coin in his vest pocket saved
the life of a man in Cincinnati the other
day, He had got into a dispute with an
ether man, which finally resulted In his
opponents drawing knife and making
violent thrust at his side, but fortunately
the coin turned the weapon aside, without
its doing any injury to him.
An ill-humored English wife, abusing
her husband on account of his mercenary
disposition, told him that if she was dead
he would marry the Devils eldest daughter
if he could get anything by it. "That's
true" replied the husband, "but the worst
of it is, in England one can't marry two
sisters"
A FAsHIoNABLY attired young gentleman,
| named Parks, has turned up in Chicago as
q diamond smuggler. He has contrived to
eiude the vigilance OF the custom house
officers for several months by wearing a
number of beautiful rings, made to contain
several diamonds each. When undergoing
an inspection by the officers he managed
to turn the rings on his fingers SO as to
conceal his jewels.
In consequence of the risk attending the
transmission of letters for Paris under
, present circumstances, the French post
office. have begged that no registered let
ters for Paris may be sent The French
postofice, viii, however, take charge of all
ordinary letters, and do their utmost to
send them into Paris on the first favorable
opportunity Postmasters will therefore
J be instructed not to receive for registra.
). ton any letters addressed to Paris.
ONLY those whose opportunities brought
L them in close contact with Charles Dick
d ems can know the full beauty and purity o