Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-09-27
General Items.

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ST. AnBANs, VI, is the greatest but
ter and cheese market in the Union.
A DETROIT restaurnt keeper dishes
up lager beer in champagne glasses.
AMERICAN bellies now promenade in
company with maid, like the French.
A RURAL Virginia couple walked thir-
ty miles III a hot dusty day to get mar
ried.
NINE miles were run in seven minutes
by q train between Macon and Colum-
bia Ga.
SOMEBODY proposes that bald-headed
men have their monograms painted on
the exposed spot.
The United States Lake Survey oper.
ations will be continued this year as
ate as November.
A CALIFORNIA editor having bought
mule, cotemporary speaks oI 1t as re-
markable self-posession.
An Alabama newspaper speaks of a
colored orator having "dislocated his
shoulder in peoration.
A MAN in Atlanta, Ga, takes his dur
nal dram in fourteen bottles of porter,
and calls it light drinking.
A CEMETERY in Rhode Island is so
prosperous that dividend of seven per
cent has just been declared.
| A CALIFORNIAN worth $270, 900 fell in
love with q lady in a Columbus (Ohio)
street car, and married her.
| Suffers FoRT, the scene Of the first
discovery of goldln California, is to be
converted into public park.
The Mississippi took new depart
Ilre and cut off thirty-six acre lot at
Arkansas Bend the other day
SEVEN young ladies from Oregon have
| just entered their names as students at
the Boston Conservatory Of Music.
1t is said that the channel at Cape
Hatteras is constantly improving, by
the action of the tide through the in
| let.
PIrTsFEbD, Mass, has had a ''baby
party at which fifty guests attended,
and the belle was young lady aged 8
days.
A HEN killed at Belmont, Allegheny
county N. Y, few days ago, was found
to lave fifteen dollars in gold in her
gizzard.
THIRTEEN thousand seven hundred
and seventy-one miles of railroad were
in use in Great Britain and Ireland
August II.
A CONTEMPORARY thinks that the best
way to improve the lot of woman is to
put good house on it and a good man
IN the house.
A 1ABoR1NG man in Dover, N. H,
who works for 41.2o per day, has just
GE00 4Cv,rapI Roman Catholic
church fund.
THE number of new works and re-
prints which appeared IN Germany in
1870 was 10, 108, a falling off Of l, 200,
compared with SO.
The suit which Mrs Laura D. Fairs
counsel brought against her for their
| fees, to the amount Of %, 100, has been
settled out Of Court.
The largest single coal operator in
Pennsylvania IS A. Pardee, Of Hazel
ton, who began life a poor man, and is
| now worth $5, eco, 900.
AFTER chasing q man and his wife 200
miles through Arkansas and Missouri,
a deserted husband discovered that he
was after the wrong woman.
TWENTY-FIVE miles an hour is shown
by signal service observation, to be the
average velocity of storm when it
has twice that velocity it becomes tor
nado.
A POUND of turnip seed contains three
hundred and one thousand two hun
dred and eighty eight. You can easily
test the accuracy Of this by getting
pound and counting the seeds
A. T. STEWARDS new Fifth avenue
house, in New York, is completed at
last, and described as much the finest
in America. With furniture, pictures,
etc., it will cost about $2,000,000.
A GERMAN in Missouri has ploughed
up 81, 700 in gold, in field, supposed
to have been buried there by Mormon
settler, who ran away when the solid
parts were cleaned out by the Missouri
ans.
THE diamond crop from the Cape of
Good Hope fields continues to increase
in the richness Of it's yield. Diamonds
are in danger Of becoming drugs. It
would be better were drugs to become
diamonds.
To illustrate the correctness of his
opinion in dispute, Texan thrust his
pistol down a kansan's throat and
threatened to fire. The Kansan admit
ted the truth of the Texans statement
Immediately.
lNoREMATIoN has been practiced up
on large scale on the battle-fields near
Sedan. Tar and petroleum oil were the
combustibles used The novel work
was done by q commission appointed
by the Belgian Government.
AT the late West-German chess-play-
ers' convention, held at Crefeld, Will
fried Pauslen played simultaneously
six so-called blindfold games, that is,
without looking ION the boards He
won five games, and the sixth was drawn
The playing lasted from to 10 o'clock
P. M.
ELGIN now boasts of two base ball
clubs, composed entirely of ladies.
They are known respectively as the
"Originals and the g Independents, -
their uniforms being green and scarlet
alpaca, made something after the
Bloomer cut.
In London an arrangement IS COM
pleted to utilize the contents OF their
sewers. An aqueduct has been con-
structed whereby the sewerage is con-
veyed to farms in the vicinity and
spread On the land. Such farms are
producing enormously, and land which
has long since been worn out now yields
the finest wheat.
Four scoundrels on Smith Island,
Pa, induced girl to drink six glasses
of beer and attempted an outrage, but
failed. They thenleft her and started off:
A second attack was made, and one of
the fellows placed his hand over her
mouth to prevent her screaming, when
she bit two of his fingers off, and has
; them to show her friends.
The Egyptian Messenger says: GA
horrible occurrence took place last week
in Cairo. The wife of certain Marcel
l Ii, an Italian, having lost her sight, af-
5 ter long and painful ophthalma. in