Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-29
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Z Wnen IL Is empty A Dig hoe.
Il CHICAGO is to have special court
for the settlement of claims to titles
o arising in consequence OF the fire.
: 1T is mistake to suppose that the
4 4 sun is supported in the heavens by its
= beams.
J The government will have to pay q
: royalty of two dollars and half for
: every Sibley tent in use in the army.
! In Minila $4,000 women and girls
I work at cigar-making, at average wages
> of seUe,e cents per day.
| The first newspaper issued in Chica-
go was the Chicago Democrat, published
| by John Calhoun, Nov. 26, 1888.
POULTRY for the Grand Union Hotel,
> in Saratoga, during the year just ended,
cost not less than $25, 900.
The New York Mail says the we'd
dings this season are to be quiet 1t
says nothing about the honeymoons.
A sHREwD old lady compares her hus-
band to a tallow candle; he always
sputters and smokes when he's put out.
The total amount of Salt manufac-
tured in the Saginaw and Bay City
regions during October, was SO, 72S
barrels.
"SooTHED with the left hand of a
mule is the way they record the sud
den demise of four Savannah men.
/ PARIS has imposed tax on cats of
60 cents per annum. This is as out
rageous as the Infamous English bread
tax.
THE Norwich Bulletin thinks that
the chief advantage of roasting chest
| Il, I'll. HOY NJ
gives the worm.
IT is announced that the French gov
ernment pays the Swiss Confederation
2,00e, 900 francs for the maintenance OF
Bourbaki's army in Switzerland.
Louis NAPOLEON recently planted, in
the park attached to his English resi-
dence, young shoot of weeping will
low from Longwood, st. Helena.
WHEN Horace Greeley is asked what
kind of music he prefers, he answers,
'sThe song of the harvest; three beats
to the measure.
Down in the secluded wastes of VIII
son county, Tenn, they have a sweet
potato seven feet long, and they do
talk of raising the tubers for building
purposes.
The revised edition of the Bible in
! Chinese, which for some time has been
preparing at Pekin, is now nearly ready,
and will soon be issued from the Amer
lean mission press, with wall of the cap
ital
! NATURAL gas wells are becoming very
thick in Painesville, O., and one has
:. been discovered near the seminary
there which tfItIn sufficient to
, supply that institution with light and@
heat
Mrs. DIANA VIoK, aged 115 years,
died recently in Williamson county,
Tennessee She was twice widow;
both husbands were Revolutionary SOL
diers, and up to the time Of her death
she was drawing two pensions from the
government.
! SAMUEL F. BUTTERwoRTH, who fig
ured as Daniel E. Sickles' chief advis-
er in the killing of Key, and who after
wards betook himself to San Francisco,
where he became wealthy, has turned
up in Paris.
The editor of the New York Journal
of Commerce received the following
note: 'sPlease find enclosed S5 for the
Chicago sufferers from a new born baby,
the mother wishing to mark its entry
/
charity"
The New York Evening Globe has
died again. Though one of the most
sprightly of the New York evening pa
pers, it could not make it's way. It's
death is the fifty-sixth which has over
taken New York daily journals within
brief period
CALIFORNIA has been unfortunate in
the selection of names for her towns.
She has a town which she calls Los
Angeles (the City of the Angles), but
whenever a Celestial shows his face
there, every body turns out to hang
him.-LouisuiHe Courier.
The Emperor William has conferred
the newly-founded cross of merit upon
Baroness Charles de Rothschild for
meritorious services in tending the
sick and wounded during the war The
! insignia of the order are accompanied
by the autograph letter from the En-
press Augusta.
"MAY it please your honor" said
| lawyer, addressing one of the Judges,
ssI brought the prisoner from jail on
hobeas co1pus.' Well" said far
mer, in an 1lndertone, who stood at the
back of the court, "these lawyers will
say any thing [ saw the man get out
of cab at the court door."
A PENNSYLVANIA paper gives the follow
ing direction for useing the new patent
hen pills, From one to ten boxes of
pills is a dose for young fowls; the
best way to give the remedy is to tickle
the chicken under the wings until it
laughs, when the pills can be shot
II ~ L.
pistol.
went into one of the New Haven church
es and listened intently while the
soprano was singing solo. After she
had finished he got on the seat, and
waving bis hat, shouted, Bully for
youm The CONSERVATION of the audi
ence can be imagined The fellow was
elected by the sexton.
The dressing room used by the Lydia
Thompson troupe, in Brooklyn, the
other night, was on the basement floor,
and was provided with thick, ground
glass windows, and no shutters. The
consequence was that some two hun
dred spectators on the sidewalk were
treated to a most extraordinary shadow
pantomime. Many people left good
seats in the house to witness it.
ONE of the good results of the Chi
cago fire is said to be the destruction
of the fraudulent vouchers, etc, of the
bogus Monta war claims, to the amount
of $500, OOO These were for supplies
furnished at exorbitant prices for a
'swar'' where there was not hostile
Indian. The Evening Post will wager
an antique title that the fEGallatin Val
ley claimants will reappear as lively
as ever, with the original bill and ex-
emplary damages added, as ''Chicago
sufferers -
PINKERToN, the detective, had in his
Office before the fire, some invaluable
records which, having been destroyed,
can never be replaced. He claims that
for the mere clerical work upon them.