Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-04
Miscellaneous Items.

boston OoMMoN has produced Ethres
; crops of hay this season.
One OF Barnum' sea lions, which had
been an invalid for some time, died at
Black Rock, the other day.
A New BEDFORD man owns a black
and tan terrier which he carries in his
vest pockets.
The largest Crispin lodge in the cou.
try, at Lynn, Mass, has over 1000
members the smallest, at Danville, N.
Y, has six members.
A LMLIPUTIAN bride, only 27 inches
in height, was recently married in
Rochester to a gentleman Of medium
height. = 20
AN old lady died last week at Kings
! ton Pa, who had not crossed the thresh-
old of her house for thirty years, except
when once drowned out by food.
4 The -hazelnut crop in Iowa this year
is wonderfully immense,
A PITTsBURG young man took matri-
mony and smallpox at the same time.
The honeymoon wasn't success.
RARER than the phoenix" said De
/ Quincy, 'iis the virtuous man who will
consent to lose good anecdote because
it is lie"
THE latest foolish dodge in advertis-
4 ing is to print advertisements on sugar
plums and send them to farmers chill
dren.
PROFESSOR PORTER viii be inaugerat-
ed President of Yale College on the 18th
of October. g'a zqa
TINTs of autumn are beginning to app
| :
DELAWARE has this season shipped
78,904, 800 pounds of peaches. The
number of baskets is 2,649,1 173.
The head of Rulloff was exhibited to
the members of the Medico Legal So
ciety IN New York last Thursday night,
/ by DR.. Burr, of Binghampton, who
cherlshes that ghastly relic as fine
addition to his cabinet
A WESTERN paper complains of new
pest, a worm in the flour intended for
family use. A black bug, a quarter Of
which are Matched in ten days.
THE finest botanical garden on this
continent is at ST. Louis-privatep prop
erty, which is to revert to the city after
the death of the present owner.
JOHN G. BREoKENR1DeE, say the Lex
ington papers, is now one of the hard
est working lawyers in Kentucky, and
is likely to make good deal of money
| by his profession.
THIS is said to have been the worst
season for mosquitoes ever known in
the Southern States.
A VOLUME of ghastly storiesand spec.
ulations. by Mr.. Owen, entitled 's The
Debatable Land Between the Two
Worlds, " will soon be published,
JERSEY CRY has nice Police Commits
sioners. One Of them had to be locked
up by one of his own officers the other
night, for forcing himself into the
house of an alderman, supposing it was
house of Ill fame.
A GOOD wife always takes care to have
herself and her dinners nicely dressed.
A FRENCH chemist asserts that if tea
be ground ike coffee before hot water
is poured upon it, it will yield nearly
double the amount of its celebrating
qualities. --....
A BOY in Nashua, New HAMPSHIRE,
who three years ago swallowed a tin
whistle, died on the 8th inst, after
presenting all the symptoms of con-
sumption.
A CORRESPONDENT who has been sail
ing along the Massachusetts, coast
wonders why Gloucester is spelled the
wayit is and if that is right, why
shouldn't lobster be spelled "lobces-
ter !" He thinks of consulting Mr..
Wholesalers dictionary on the subject.
AN old gentleman ofa7O wanted to be
married to a girl of H. One day
friend surprised him tenderlv embrac-
ing his intended CT don't wonder at
your astonishment,r said the young Ia
dy, !" You don't generally expect to find
old heads on Young shoulders.
THE local paper said "Never since
our residence here has Iowa Falls been
SO cursed with an influx of the scum of
crime" A circus was referred to.
OUT in Pennsylvania, bad boys go to
q church door, beckon to the usher, and
ask for seats. While he, is solemnly
marching away down the aisle to put
them close under the pulpit, they slip
into the seat nearest the door and sit
down
THE aboriginal agriculturists of the
Cherokee Nation are to have q cattle
next. A long list of premiums is offer
ed to induce fulldisplay of live stock,
fruits, vegetables, domestic manufac-
lures, and agricultural implements.
THERE is a melancholy story going
about of white captive held by the
Apache Indians who SO amuses them by
his funny songs and comic dances that
his captors will not ransom him for any
quantity of rum or beads. He is sup
posed to be q negro minstrel.
A MAN armed only with double-bar-
relied shotgun loaded with buckshot,
encountered an infuriated grisly bear
in a ravine in Los Angeles county, CAL,
one day last month, and had the singu-
lar and.exceeding good fortune to come
out Of the fight first-best. The beast
weighed 1,200 pounds.
WINNFMUcA, California, has been
visited bv an immense bird supposed
to be member Of the condor family
The attention Of the editor OF the VIM
nemuca Register was called to the VS.
itor by his hearing some one exclalm,
"Howly Mother, see that COW with
wings -
A WRITER on monkeys tells us story
of one of these female undeveloped
species of humanity, who, having lost
her infant, adopted kitten. One day
the kitten scratched this afectionate
baboon, who, much astonished at being
scratched, Immediately examined the
kittens feet and without more ado bit
off the claws.
On the cabin table of one Of the Hud,
son river steamers is Bible, upon
which some sarcastic observer has writ
ten: a Z
I" This holy book neglected Les,
No soul with it com1nunes;
While scores Of souls sit round about
With HsrGlds and TTib,Ines,"