Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-22
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AN elastic tire for car wheels has been
ried and found to be of great value.
PERSIAN fathers are selling q nice
manageable class of daughters at So q
head.
:. IT is estimated that one burning gas
Jet will consume as much air as five
persons. Sro a
One thousand ladies recently at
tended political meeting in Stockton,
California.
A CITIZEN of Lowell announces that
ga fue borders or meallers can be COM
dated hear.
A MISSOURI musician sat down upon
a keg of powder and began to smoke.
They found one button.
I ORDERS have been given to replant
the Bois de Boulogne and Meudon with
trees fifteen or twenty years of age.
FoRTY-oNE cases of school slate were
recently shipped from Danielsville,
Northampton county, Pa, to Japan.
The great Strauss, it is reported, is
soon to come to this country with his
celebrated orchestra of 62 musicians.
A SPAN of horses, forty-two years
old, and in excellent condition, are
j daily seen in the streets of Watertown.
N. Y. as# tff1'-ag $500 ,
| AT a Memphis show two bruisers ap-
i peared for set-to betwee1fthe scenes of
the panorama, CA Journey to the Holy
Land " 5i.'a
| COMMODORE Ashbury has mistaken
! his vocation. He ought to have been
a notary public. He was born to "pro-
| test y 7<s
| A STEAM fruit preserving establish,
ment at Niles has an order from the
War Department for 10000 pounds of
preserved apples. 5 .e1a -4ift
A FRANKFORT sporting man now owns
the ex.Emperor Napoleon formerly fa-
vorite horse Malek. The animal is
dark bay and an Arabian.
A New ORLEANS lady boasts that her
hair is five feet ten inches long, It. is
not stated whether or not this vast ca
pillary adornment is a grated article.
A PIG, with one eve in the center of
it's forehead and a trunk similar in
shape to an elephants, growing directly
over it's eyes, is the boast of Califor-
MIA town.
DIR. Willard Parker, of New York
on his visit to Amherst. gave the stu
dents a lecture on the use of alcohol
and tobacco, arguing that they increas-
ed sickness in life 10 times, and, be-
sides, shortened life on an average
from 10 to 20 yerrs.
IT has been observed in England
that in a certain class of cases major
ity of persons signing she marriage re-
glster of the parish make their marks.
which Liverpool curate g rises to
explain" does not arise wholly from
inability to write, but from the fact
4hat often the parties are too drunk to
write.
The last unreeognized victim of the
Revere railroad disaster has been
identified as Mrs. Locke, aged fifty-fve,
of Lowell, Mass. She left Lowell to
visit relatives in Lynn, and while her
friends in Lowell supposed she was in
Lynn, here relatives in Lynn were not
aware that she had left home
DIR. FRoEMING, who was hired to
poison Mr.. Barnabas Wagner at Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, for 5000, and the
wife of the murdered man, and her
brother, Robert Gastner, have all been
held to bail in SO, 900 each. The evi-
dencer of Froeming at the inquest con-
frmed the previous reports as to his
agency in the affair, and the refusal of
the confederates to pay him after the
deed was committed.
THE United States coast survey, un-
der the authority of Congress, has made
for distribution to the different States
of the Union, fifty accurate copies of
French metre, brought from Paris last
year by the American commission to
the International Congress on weights
and measures The standards brought
back are metre bar of gilded brass
and one of platinum. ee -o-
ARvID AUGUST AFzEITUs, the celebrat-
ed Swedish historian and pastor, died
on the 25th of September, at the rect
or's house at Enkoning, in Sweden,
where he had resided for over half a
century. A week previous to his death
he had celebrated his golden wedding.
The historical work by which his name
has become celebrated wherever the
Scandinavian tongue is spoken, is the
ssSvenska Folkets Sagohalder, or
'sSWod1Sn CnrOn1CIoS. ul rtIlf-EJ 5Ef
The Khedive of Egypt, says the Cor
respondance Europeenne, is threatened
with a new difficulty with Turkey.
The death of All Pacha, his best and
almost his sole friend at the Divine, is
serious blow to him. The newly APP
pointed Ministers are dissatisfied at
the ideas of progress matured by the
Khedive, and are devising plans to de-
throne him, and give the Pachalic of
Egypt to .Halem Pacha, or another of
! their friends.
| A coRPU1EtT and red-faced man was
walking a street in Paris, the other day,
accompanied by his niece, when he
suddenly fell to the ground. and mo-
ment after was bathed in blood, while
the niece bent over him with a glitter
ing instrument The bystanders all
! cried, Assassination !" but the man,
it seems, had been stricken with apo
plexy, and his niece, with great pres
ence of mind, had bled him, thus saw
ing his lie.
A NEW style of entertainments this
season is called High Teas" or IheS
D07eS07ateS, which are very popular.
! The invitations specify eight O'Clock as
the time you are expected to arrive,
and punctuality is insisted upon. The
number invited never exceeds twenty
five or thirty, and all sit down to ia
BILE beautifully decorated, and where
everything eatable and drinkable, hot
and cold. is served, with the exception
of tea and bread and butter After
ward they adjourn to the parlors,
where there are three or four musi-
clans, and dancing is freely indulged
in until twelve o'clock, at which time
every one is expected to take their
| leave.
| AMONG the curious phenomena no
ticed in boring the Mont Gents Tunnel
was that scarcely drop of water was
| found. Water to drink for the work
men had all the time to be bought