Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-07-12
General Items.


A DETROIT man is trying to invent
self adjusting door bell with six-shooter
attachment for the benefit of pedlers.
PIoNA-MAKING at present takes the
third rank among the manufacturing
interests in the United States.
An Illinois gentleman has taken a
gold medal for raising l, 900 varieties of
apples
10 cure the cats from scratching up
your nicely raked flower beds, cut off
their heads.
HE famous and important battle of
Bunker Hill lasted only about al hour
and half.
A TEXAS paper records a marriage in
which the lady was Is years old and
widow
HE war losses sustained by South
Carolina are estimated at $500, 0OO 900.
about two-thirds of her former great
wealth.
The New Testament Company for
the revision OF the Bible is now at
work on the 9th chapter of ST. Mat
thew
SOME Southern ttlrnouts will be seen
at Saratoga this year, for the first time
since the commencement of the rebel
lion
MARRIAGEABLE young ladies are re-
ioicing because next year will be leap
year, and they will have chance to
make their backward lovers come up to
time.
A BILL F'for the further protection
of the rights Of married men y was in
troduced III the New Hampshire Legis-
lature last week.
A sHOPKEEPER having advertised his
stock to be sold under prime cost,
neighbor observed that it was impos-
slble Tor him to do SO, as he had never
paid anything for 1t himself
A MAN has invented new and cheap
plan for boarding. One of his dodgers
mesmerizes the rest, and then eats a
hearty meal-the mesmerized being
satisfied from sympathy
THE occurrence of the recent earth
quake on Staten Island is explained by
local meteorologists on the theory that
as the fever analogue season commenced
this year all the inhabitants happened
to have their chill at the same time
RATTLEsNAKEs are particularly num-
erous and dangerous in North Carolina
this year. They attack people at all
points, and the bite is pronounced I'M
usually yenemous and death-dealing.
IT is believed at the State Depart
ment that the stories to the effect that
the Russian Grand Duke Alexis pro-
! poses visiting this country the present
season are without foundation.
RIsToR1 cancelled an eng0 cement in
Madrid because a company formerly
engaged III the theatre, of which her
| cousin was q member, had been I'M
paid.
A REMEDY OF sun-stroke, which has
proven elfectJlal IN cases where it has
been tried, is to battle the hands, head
and face with lemon Juice The effect
! is Immediate.
An eccentric man, who recently fur
nished an elegant residence in this city,
| bought handsome camphoE-wJod cot
lin and placed 1t on a pedestal in his
study as a reminder to him in the midst
OF his wealth that he was but mortal.
FIVE young men who last July were
engaged III tar1ng and feathering q
man and a Young woman in Cohocton,
Steuben County, have just been tried
| and sentenced to the county Jail for
six months.
y GLOUsTER young lady was about
| throwing away withered bouquet,
lately, when she discovered in it q note
containing an offer Of marriage from a
bashful but really exemplary young
man eff her acquaintance.
THREE Americans intend to open
large hotel at Cronstadt, near st. Pc
tersburg a place which it is generally
believed III the commercial cities of
Europe, viii soon assume great i'm
portance and rapidly increase in popu-
lation.
PRoF. OPPoIzER, the celebrated Wen
ma physician who died few weeks
ago, received af one time fee of 100
GOO florins for saving the life Of the
Emperor Ferdinad, of Aust1a. He
was also for nearly 20 years the physi-
clan Of Prince Clemmens de Meter
mich.
SINCE the ratification of the Treaty
of Washington, the State Department
has been busy preparing list of the
Alabama claims for the United States
Board of Arbitration. The whole
number of vessels DESTROYED is givcn at
234, and their estimate value at the
time of destruction is set down at SO. =
100 384.
The spoken language of China so
differs III every separate province, that
people living within hundred miles
can no more understand each others
dialect than an Euglishman can under
stand q Spaniard. The Mandarin or
court dialect is more common than any
other, and is used at the capital and
among officials throughout the empire.
A PATENT perpetual tobacco-pipe has
been made by gentleman in Missouri,
who doubtless has been often troubled
to light his pipe in q high wind His
invention consists in making the bowl
reversible, SO that when a charge of to-
bacco is nearly smoked out the bowl
may be charged again and then reyers-
ed, SO that the fire may Ignite the new
charge.
AT Maury, Tennessee, a few nights
ago, a young man went to bed leaving
a burning candle and pistol on his ia,
bic. The dripping sperm ignited the
table, the table ignited the pistol, the
barrels began to explode, and when the
young man awolxe he was nearly burned,
smothered and shot to death His pill
low received the balls and saved his
head
4 MAN near Oswego has invented a
potato bug trap. 1t is made of zinc,
some four feet long and two feet wide,
fashioned like a tray, with one side two
and half feet high and the other four
inches. The front end is opened, and
the rear end closed. It is drawn bv
means of rope through the rows. An
attendant walks along the low side of
the trap and with stick or broom
sweeps the insects into the tray.-Thev
are gathered from the hills with the
rapidity of which man can walk.
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