Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-18
General Items.


ard.
New YORK has female medical so,
ciety.
A PIANO without strings has been in
vented.
A CHICAGO man has o saw mill for his
coat of arms.
SECRETARY SEwARp's life is insured
for $1,000
MACON, Ga, is building her first
street railroad.
STEAM omnibusses have been intro
duced in Paris.
SOUTHERN winter tours are to be
popular hereafter.
The navy of Brazil is said to have
never yet lost vessel.
NEARLY 200, 900 sheep browse on the
summit of the Ca1averas mountains.
Lo! the poor Indian, numbers just
375, 900, according to the last census.
A VISITOR at Niagara Falls has been
fined S5 for lnsolence to hackman
| there.
The Philadelphia voting lists show q
total of 155, 656, or an increase of 6, 532
since last year.
A CALIFORNIA milkman apologies for
having left a can of water by mistake at
a customers house.
The Florida papers all agree that not
more than half cotton crop Will be
gathered in that State.
CAROLINE RIcHINes is soon to COM
mence three months tour under the
management of J. t. Ford.
SHOOTING with bows and arrows is
now the popular amusement and exer-
else among the New York ladies.
THE best preventive against the rust
ing of iron and steel tools is thin
coat of crude Iubricating petroleum.
HoN. E. JOY MORRIS, late American
Minister to Turkey, has just returned
to Philadelphia, after 10 years absence.
New YORK State canal tolls for the
third week in September were $123,
COS. 60 gain over last year of $19, S15.-
80.
ENGLISH experience is said to show
that, out of every thirty colts from
thoroughbred stock, but one proves
fast.
AN exchange wishing to speak of the
"Lost Heir. was surprised to see that
1.-THE compositor made it the "Lost
Hen
THERE are twenty eight gravestones in
the Laramie cemetery, and on nineteen
of these the epitaph is the one word,
sFKilled"
HAWTHORNE said that Miss Bremen
Hwas most estimable little woman,
worthy to be the maiden aunt of the
whole human race.
SINCE the Hospodar Of Roumania
went to that country he is said to have
spent his entire private fortune, es-
timated at 81, 100000.
AN effort is being made to establish
an institution in Albany, where poor
young girls and women may be taught
the use of the sewing machine.
AN Enoch Arden case is in process of
settlement in the San Francisco courts
in a truly American style. Each of the
three parties sues for divorce.
ONE of the houses in the Rue des
Commines, destroyed during the reign
of the Commune in Paris, is said to
have belonged to Christine Nilsson.
The composer of the famous musical
refrain, "Die Wacht am Rhein" (The
Watch on the Rhine) has received $3.50
from Prince Bismarck, with promise
that it shall be annually paid him.
IT appears that the gallows has, dur
ing the present year, been introduced
in Japan. The CONSERVATION OF the
people is said to be quite appalling, and
it is hard to tell what the result may be.
The Duchesse du Plessis d'Areme-
cey, noted during the First Empire, and
prominent in the reign Of Louis PHI
Iippe, has just died at Vitry-ie Francais
in her 10th year.
The largest rope in the world was
lately made in Birmingham, England.
It is about six miles long, five and
quarter inches in circumference and
weighs over sixty tons.
THE crew of the Norwegian propeller
caught nearly fourteen thousand seals
in the Arctic Ocean this season. The
Norwegian fleet engaged. in seal catch
ing numbers about twenty vessels.
PHILADELPHIA is the great drug and
chemical market. Her productions in
this class of goods are enormous, be-
ing q little more than seven-eights of
ali manufactured in the United States.
The daughter of wealthy gentleman
in Ireland, who was recently, after the
death of her mother, sent to Louisville
to be educated, has been made insane
bv inconsistencies and grief, and has
started on her return home, in charge
of friend.
A BULLET settled disputed point in
game of croquet in Virginia the other
day. The funeral of the gentleman
who got on the wrong side of the argu-
ment-and the wrong end of the pistol,
was one of the most fashionable
events of the season.
WE lately learned that hair-dresser
in this city has on sale double braid
of pure gray hair, twenty-elght inches
in length and about the thickness of
ones wrist, on which he places the
modest price OF $500 and expects to
get it, toc.-Nea0 York Mail.
The new Greek church in New York
will cost $500, 900. Its location will be
on Lexington avenue, above Fifty-frs
street. A superb and costly altar SER
vice will be sent over from St. Peters
burgh for the use of the church.
A FAMOUS judge came late to court
one day in busy session, whereat the
clerk, in great surprise, inquired of
him the reason. "a child was born, :"
his honor SAID, "and am the happy
SIRE" An infant judge2" ooh, no, !"
said he, cas- yet he's but crier.
A DISEASE, which is said to attack the
lungs and fill them with worms, has
broken out among the Shropshire eng
land) sheep, and is playing sad havoc
with the focks. The loss in one dis
trict already is announced as having
been from twelve to twenty-five per
cent
The Polish Jews have the reputation
of being among the longest-lived peo-
pie in Europe. One of their number,
Lesser Chamanower, died recently in
Prussian Poland, near Tamotschau, in
his 117th year. He is said to have two
brothers still living, aged respectively
1O5 and 100 years.