Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-09
Miscellaneous Items.

circumference.
THE horse disease has broke out il
Louisville, Ky.
A BOY IN Utica, who was shot through
the hand while firing small cannon on
4th, died of lockjaw on Thursday.
FIVE columns was the length of Al
exander II Stephens political leade,
III the Atlanta Sun of the 18th inst
A New JERSEY man takes revenge on
his neighbor by fling saws under his
window.
A STYLISH bonnet in San Francisco
costs more than mule.
CAIIFoRNIA estimates its crop of cas-
tor oil at thirty thousand gallons
A SNAKE may change its skin, but
yet preserve it's sting.
FALSE eyebrows are quite in vogue.
They are made so that they bristle
with indignation, or droop IN sympa-
thy. They are said to hasten propo-
! sails.
NAPLES large enough to make three
tenfoot rails each with four thousand
trees to the acre, have been raised from
the seed in seven years IN Monroe coun-
| ty, Iowa
AT the last meeting Of the California
! Academy of Science, the desert ship
was declared to be a myth by the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
matter.
sADAMANTA'' and " Diamondia'' are
the euphonious names of two new set
Elements in the diamond fields of South
Africa.
! j il
lunch on raw oysters, at twenty-five
appetite was satisfied. It amounted to
! S. so.
In very hot weather you may be as
| disagreable and disobiging to your
friends as you please. IF GOODNESS
arises so much the better
A DAILY paper recently contained an
advertisement for large blacksilk
umbrella, belonging to q gentleman
with a curiously carved wooden head. "
THEY have a young lady in New York
who has been to Europe five times and
yet has never seen Niagara. Poor lit
tie thing!
PHILADELPHIA's S municipal taxation is
at the rate of only $13.73 per capita,
while New Workers pay 500. 81, and Bos-
ton S36 TO-
SALT is said to be very distasteful to
cut-Worms. A tea-spoonful put at the
foot Of an infested plant, is recon-
mended.
The bloom of youth will fade away,
the brightness of the eye will grow
dim with age, but miserable little
corn will never pass away.
The microscope is no longer to be
devoted exclusively TO the inyestiga-
tion of the attributes cf bugs and
things. Dealers in iron and steel are
using it to distinguish the various
shades Of quality of those articles.
'tNoT if [ know it" is new play in
which Sothern finds character which,
it is thought, will rival his Lord Dun
dreary He is now creating a sensa-
ton in London with it.
A HEN III the vicinity of Jeffrey, N.
FL, got shut in behind some farming
tools, and staid there for twenty-seven
days, by which time, says the Cheshire
Republican, 'Fshe shrunlz so from lack
of food and water, that she was able to
come out +"
A BURGLAR, who attempted TO enter
house in Germantown Pa, through
window, few nights ago, startled a
little girl Who was sleeping in the room.
Half awake, she exclaimed, "Dont
touch that candy" and the burglar fed.
The United Presbytery OF Keokuk
has instructed a committee TO enter
complaint before the Illinois Synod
against the Presbytery of Rock Island,
for ordaining Rev G.. t. Tompkins,
pastor elect of the y. ?. congregations
of Grandview and Harrison.
The number Of horses IN Russia is
greater in proportion to the popula
tion than 1t is in our greatest horse re-
Kentucky Russia has one
horse to every three persons Ken
tucllv has one horse 10 about tour and
a half of its population.
An impudent boy in Canada, who
chanced to hear young lady playing
g Put Me in My Little Bed, > on con-
certina, likened the music to the grunt-
ing of a pig. He was straightway
dragged into Court and fined IS for his
impertinence
THERE being no cable to lay just
now. the Great Eastern steamship Is
about to FIJI up her time by bringing
across the Atlantic party OF 1000 ex-
cursionists, who will be brought for
$25 each. The vessel will, probably,
arrive in American waters in about
three weeks.
A WOMAN in Albany, who has been
made insane by her husbands cruel
desertion of her, on Saturday seized one
of her twin infants, and rushing In to
the street threw it as far as she could
from her on the pavement. The child
was much bruised, but not seriously
injured The woman has been taken
to an asylum.
A STEAMER Just arrived at San Fran
cisco from japan brought a cargo val
ned at two and half million of dollars,
including $4,000 chests of tea 1000
bales of raw silk, $4,000 in treasure,
and fifty tons of choise Japanese works
Of art and manufacture, designed Tor
the San Francisco Mechanics Fail.
The settlers in Nebraska still retain a
bitter feeling of antagonism toward
Texas cattle and drovers. A son OF
Judge FAINT, the earliest and warmest
advocate of Schuyler's claims as q cat
tie market, was recently met by an
armed force of sixteen men, who en-
deavored to stampede his drove, with
the design of stealing.
CouNcIb BbUFFs has a crazy prophet,
who goes by the name Of "Potter
Christ" who conceiyes himself to be
the Savior of the world Oddly enough,
there are those who believe in his pre-
tended prophetic powers. He and his
disciples, with Il crowd Of irreverent
youngsters, had parade on Sunday
| last.
A WESTERN preacher explained the
passage through the Red Sea by saying
| that the Israelites crossed on the ICE.
An auditor interrupted, remarbnng there el! e
is no ice under the equator. or,
said the excited preacher, glliS nap "a
pened thousands of years before the
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