Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-15
Miscellaneous Items.
FoRr WAYNE boasts of 80 churches.

lHE I1OlOuto OIL region Turns OUT
$40 barrels of petroleum day.
AN Italian opera company is organ
izing in New York for Mexico.
Moss AGATE of rare quality has late
ly been found near Reading.
FACT in natural history-The beard
of the oyster is always forked.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, manufactures
about 200, 600 pairs of shoes week.
ILLINOIS now has four watch facto-
ries, and is to have one more.
Sr. PETERSBURG is said to be slowly
and surely sinking into the swamp on
which it is built.
MIsFoRTUNEs are to life as cayenne
pepper is to food-more pungent than
pleasant. ~ ~
Mr.. LoRrLhARD's new yacht, tho En-
chantress, arrived in the East River on
Saturday.
A ROASTED onion bound upon the
pulse on the wrist, it is claimed, will
stop the most inveterate toothache in q
few minutes.
ANOTHER elevated railway is proposed
In New York City, the novelty of which
consists in the fact that horses can pull
the cars by running on the street be-
meath the track.
THE time for holding the Interna-
tional Convention of Young Mems As
sociations in Washington has been
changed from June 10 to May "a.
A RAILWAY train broke loose in New
Orleans, recently, and went through a
warehouse and dwelling. In the latter
family were sleeping, but happily no
one was injured.
WYOMING produces quantities of pre-
cious stones The topaz, amethyst,
agate, opal, jasper, chalcedony, garnet,
and several others abound there, of the
finest quality.
THE canary bird has been an object
of traffic for five centuries; 500 years
ago there was but one kind of canary
bird, but the original stock has been so
crossed that the varieties are now at
least so. So b FlTas a
MISS IRENE MATTHEWS has sued the
corporation of Kansas City, Mo-, for
damages sustained by her falling
through defective sidewalk, estip,at-
ing her injuries at $4,000.
A JERsEYMAN exhibits with pride
tray on which Mrs. Richmond carried
to Gen. Washington his breakfast, as
he was sitting on horseback in Trenton
before leaving for Princeton.
THERE are in the United States sew
oroI y,oi1J;Oro of ,,oor1o xrbo oonnok rooJ
their Bibles. This is shown by the
census returns. There are exactly ten
times as many who can read them and
do not. This is proven by observation.
AYoUNa lady of Troy, N. Y, in little
less than four years earned with a
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine
2,3OS in stitching 638, 652 collars,
equal to 216 miles and 1923 feet of
seam, making III, 102, 800 stitches, at
100, ,0OOp day and II, 500 per hour.
A WESTERN woman has invented
esprit bride photographs, in which
the bashful bachelor sitter's physiog-
nomy is surrounded by those of the
maids who would not be averse to be-
coming his bride.
IT is suggested by the College Cour-
ant that Saratoga lake will be the best
match with Harvard College, as the
race is to be what is called " straight
away race.
The Americon House, in Lebanon,
Pa, was built in 1771, just 100 years
ago. On one of the stones is an in
scription in German, which, translated,
reads: tGod bless this house, and ev-
cry person that goes in and out"
A YOUNG man named Ebert Livery,
while examining pistol on the piazza
of his fathers house, at Carlingville,
ILL.,, on Monday, accidentally dis
charged it, shooting his brother, aged
sixteen, who died in a few hours.
On the night of the 18th inst Mr..
John Jackson, formely of Lincolnshire,
England, but who recently purchased
farm in Culpeper county, was frozen
a neighbours house.
AN exasperating organ-grinder in
Boston church has lately perpetrated
parody on "Home, sweet home," run
ming in this fashion: "Prayer, sweet
PRAYER, be it ever SO feeble there's moth
ing like prayer This is actually sung
by snowy quartette choirs.
THREE or four months ago, an italian
fisherman climbed Vesuvius and threw
himself into the burning crater Since
then five or six Neapolitans have COM
mitted suicide in the same way, and
the plan threatens TO become fashiona-
BILE = p
M. MARINoNI, a well-known maker of
printing machines in Paris, was can
didate for the National French Assem-
bly,, and struck out new notion in the
way of canvassing. He caused all his
posters to be adorned with his photo
graph.
THE cottage of Anne Hathaway, where
Shakespeare wooed and won her, is of
fered for sale. The Shakespeare Club,
whose members own the poets house
at Stratford, talk of buying the cottage
also, which is not more than two miles
distant
A LADY in Sterling, ILL.,, won ten dol
lars of her brother the other day by
shovelling the snow from a sidewalk,
n1Gy 1eeb IN leng6n ana elSnI Ieet W1ue.
She was to do the job in two hours but had
it completed in an hour and a quarter.
That brother had better never allude
to "poor weak sisters again.
A CLERGYMAN was once indeavoring
to get subscription in aid of some
charitable Institution out OF a close
listed parishioner, who attempted to
excuse himself on the ground that he
already owed o great sum of money,
"But," said the minister, "you owe
God larger debt than you do any one
else" "That is so, parson; but then
he amt pushing me, like the balance