Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-09-20
Miscellaneous Items.

chusetts
CATTLE are dying in considerable
numbers, in Madison county, Ala, from
the murrain
A MILLIoN-AND-A-HALF bushels of ap-
pies are promised in Iowa this year.
Mrs CRoLY (Jennie June), has, with
the profits of her pen, bought q fine
. house on 3Sth street, New York.
PITTSBURGH has 20 foundries and so
rolling mills. She made $4,000 tons of
steel last year, two-thirds of the amount
used in the country, and exported fifty
million bushels of coal.
A MILL for the manufacture of steel
rails, which is the largest in the world,
is being erected at Bethlehem, Penn
sylvania. It's destined working power
is 800 tons of steel ingots per day.
NEW Republican daily paper is to
be started in New Orleans, which, it is
promised, shall represent the party, and
not a ring or petty faction.
JUDGE UNDERWOOD, of Virginia, has
published his opinion (unofffciaD that
all women will be permitted to deposit
their ballots in the Presidential contest
IN 1872.
GA Boy explains the thinness of the
milk he carries this hot weather on
the ground that 6he s'oows sweat SO.
-Erchange.
! LoUIsIANA's sugar crop is estimated
at 225, 900 hogsheads. The plantations
have capacity for growing one million
hogsheads.
The people in Omaha go fishing in a
| LII 1Io,,
rocks $500 or 5000 feet high, and re-
sembling solid masonry.
TEXAS expects this year to build 500
miles of railroad The state in three
years has given SIS, 900, 900 to railroad
corporations.
"Salt is the subject of the late
school-boy's latest composition. Thus:
''The salt is the spice which spoils the
potatoes, if you forget to put it on
D. NJ. CARTER, a New York artist, is
painting memorial picture 1ilustrat-
ing the last verse of the well-known
hymn entitled "Nearer. my God, to
Thee
The California fig crop is ripe, and
some of the growers will dry consider
able quantities. Last year one grower
sold 2, 600 pounds of figs from one tree.
| The Davidson fountain, recently cast
in Munich, and intended for Cincin-
natl, is pronounced ''the most beauti-
full and complete fountain yet cast III
Europe"
A BROOKLYN mother advised her
daughter to oil her hair, and tainted
away fiat when that candid dansel re-
piled, ooh, no, ma; it spoils the gen
tlemen's vests !"
THE quantity of coal used in the
United Kingdom for domestic purposes
and manufacture other than iron, is
about so, coo, 900 tons per annum, the
manufacture of iron consuming between
100000 and $4,000, 900 tons.
The births in England exceed the
deaths $40 every day AS the popula-
tion is already overcrowded, and the
poorer classes sinking into pauperism
at a fearful rate, it is obvious that the
only possible relief must come from
wal, pestilence or forced emigration.
AN international exhibition is to be
held in Peru III December next. 1t is
the first affair of the kind ever held in
South America. The chief prizes, open
for competition to all nations, are two
gold medals, valued at 9200 and e100,
respectively.
A FENIAN over the water was called
upon for a toast He gave the follow
ing:
'sAIl hail the American aige
| Proud bird of Freedom all hail
The bird that invaigle
Or put salt on his beautiful tail"
"FELLow TRABLERs,' said colored
preacher, "ef had been eatin' dried
apples for week, and then took to
drlnkin' for mont, [ couldn't teel
more swell'd up dan L am dis mint wild
pride and vanity at seein' such full
tendance har dis evenin'.'
A GIANT bird, the largest creature
ever seen in this country with wings,
and, it is believed, unknown to Ameri-
can ornithology, suddenly appeared in
the town of Winnemucca, Nevada, a
| few DAYS since, and remained several
minutes quietly perched on q house
top to be gazed at by the astonished
multitude.
PARTIES are now engaged in dragg-
inc the Anacostia river off the Navy
Yard at Washington, for the recovery
of anchors, chains, &C., which were de.
posted for safe-keeplng in the bed of
the river in 1914, when the British IL
vaded the city. Aconsiderable amount
Of chain and large anchor have, thus
far, been recovered, which viii be rem
ovated at the yard.
The numismatic experts are consid-
erable excited over coin lately picked
up IN Boston gutter. A boy brought
it to his employer as queer looking
button, when, upon cleaning it with
acids, It was discovered to be genuine
New England sixpence of 1862. The
words 'New England" and Massach-
uetts (snelt Mastichvetts) and the date
are very distinct.
Mr.. Theophilus Popp, of Popville,
in Popp county, fancying himself TO be
very popular with his lady love, popped
the question to her under the poplar
tree, when she referred him to her
poppy, who, when asked for his con-
sent, laboring under the influence of
ginger pop, popped him out OF the
door, to the tune of "Pop goes the
weasel!'
A SINGULAR and beautiful Incident
occurred at a funeral i'll Cape Ann the
other day. Just at the conclusion OF
| the services over the remains, white
dove suddenly made it's appearance,
and after making the circuit of the
apartment, alighted upon the head of
! the rector who had conducted the ex-
ercises. There it quietly remained I'M
til removed and properly cared for. 1t
did not belong to the family, but was
the property Of neighbor, who resid-
ed on the same street.
AT the capture of Detroit by the
British in 1912, the records of the town
were carried off. Most of them got
bsck again, but, for some reason three
valuable books of county records, be-
longing to the Office of the Register OF
Daads were not recovered They have