Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-25
General Items.

i General Items.
NUMEROUS bears are reported to have
been killed in Adams county.
: How to "turn peoples heads"-
, late to church .ss
THERE are 1856, 900 acres of corn re-
portedi in Livingston county, III =
A SAN Francisco firm is shipping
: cured salmon to England
The Mayor of Marion, Ala, is serv-
: ing outh official term in the peniten-s
J tiary.
ANNA DICKINSON has new lecture,
entitled Demagogues and Working
q men. .e- ssi ssfess
A New YORK grocer imports Vest
phalia hams and sausages wrapped in
tin foil
CALIFORNIA has brandy factory
which turns out six hundred gallons
per day
4 THE Florida papers all agree that not
more than half crop of cotton will
be gathered III that state.
THERE are more newspapers pub
hshed in California for the number of
inhabitants than in any other state in
the Union.
/ SOME of the old orange trees in Flor
ida have suffered so much from insects
that many groves have been burned
down to get rid of the pests.
ORDERS have been issued at the
Treasury Department at Washington
for the construction Of twenty or more
new life-saving stations on the coasts
of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
KANSAS CRY, Mo, claims to be the
wealthiest city III the West. With
! population of 35, 900 it has property
valuation of 1000, 900, or nearly
81, 900 for every man, woman and
child
In one county of Kansas alone there
are 121 acres of castor beans under cr1l-
tivation, and Greeley thinks it needs no
mathematician to show that the crop
will supply castors to every bedstead q
/ in the United States q z@s
! The farmers of California prop ose to
cultivate the italian sunfiower It is
raised for it's root, which is represented
to be as nutritious as the potato. One
thousand five hundred bushels to the
acre is good crop.
ANY hard steel tool, says the Boston
Journal of Chemistry, viii cut glass
with facility which is kept freely vet with hes
camphor dissolved in turpen tine. The
ragged edges of glass may also be thus
smoothed with fiat file.
BIG, burly, rugged, gray-haired, I'M
couth in feature and manner, eccentric
in dress, bearing and theory-a huge
baby III all the ways of the world-such
man is Charles Reade, looked at
through the spectacles of Justin Nc
Carthy- 9a
The author of "The New Gospel of
Peace of which there were circulated
more than half million of copies few
years ago, is out with a satire
on the Darwin theory of sexual develop
ment, entitled "The Fall of Man, or
Loves of the Gorillas. " 20
Fifty thousand dollars worth of ami
mails, not belonging to the city, are now
in the New York Central Park at the -
risk of the owners. So many animals =
have been offered the Department. of
Parks for free board during the winter,
that the offer Of one large menager1e-
owner has been refused. ha
Col. WILLIAM L. SHUTLwoRTH, a vet-a
eran of the Mexican war, died on theqa
| 9th. He was brerevtted captain for
gallant and merious conduct in the
| bombardment and capture of Vera
4 Cruz. At the time of his death he
! held the rank of colonel IN the United
States Marine Corps.
IRA MILLER of Sleepy Hollow, whose
farm adioins the property OF the MUIR
derer Buekhout, sold his farm last
week for $34, 600. The same property
was bought twelve years ago for $5,
500. If Buckh out gets off and goes
back to that neighborhood to reside,
property will probably go down again.
THERE is story going around that
Prince Albert was one day telling his
seapegrace of a brother, Alfred, what y
4 he would do when he should be King.
90" retorted Alfred, "before that time
comes there will be competitive ex-
animation for Kings, and you will not
ct certificate -
AN almost broken-hearted widower
in Elmira, New York, has at last found
consolation. His wife believed he did
not love her. and found surcease of sor-
/ row in a flowing bowl of laudanum
! The bereaved husband first collected
the insurance on her life. and then sued
and recovered damages from the drug
gist who sold her the Lethean draught.
A BOSTON paper says that new car
coupling has been invented which uses
the common link, but instead of pin
has tumbling hook pivoted in the
lower lip of the drawbar head, which,
when the link is inserted, passes up
/ through it, and is held in place by
gra Vitating catch. This is disengaged
by a lever ON the platform or top of the
| car.
i A RELIABLE Californian has produced
story which rivals that of the famous
Kilkenny cats He speaks of two dead
water snakes which had partially swal-
/ lowed each other Each snake had
commenced swallowing at each others
tail, and swallowed until their heads
met. Had not death interfered it is
suppoed that each snake would have
entirely devoured the other. @
LITTLE Annie was very anxious to
: possess string of gold beads which
belonged to her grandmother, who did
not consider it expedient to give them
to her.. One day the child went and
stood at the old ladys knee, and after
looking alternately at her and the
beads, said, with great solemnity,
!" Grandma, think if you were to~lie
should be perfectly satisfied"
IHE reports or The Board OF Tnal
cy of New York city shows that, out OF
$50 druggists and 100 clerks examined
by the Con missioners, sixty druggists
and eighty-one clerks failed to give
sufficient proof of the quallflcat104nsl lS4 s
necessary, and were rejected; Inc
majority Of the leading drugs1sts, IN the
city have been examined, and the re-
=, suit shows that a large number of both
} druggists and clerks could not read the
, Latin prescriptions.
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