Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-04
Miscellaneous Items.

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ATLANTA is to have new medical
Journal called the Georgia Medical
Companion ~ 80
CONNECTICUT men have made large
tacks.
NINE members of the English House
OF Commons have died during the pres
: ent year.
The New York type-setters are agi-
tating the question of o cooperative
boarding house.
CoLoRED JURIEs are very severe.
Ihey seldom let q prisoner escape with
out some kind of punishment.
DAVID MclLvER was killed in the
Flecher mines, near Central City bv
the falling of a rock.
The idiots throughout the country
SEND one hundred thousand dollars per
month to the swindling firms in New
York. a
\ The prospect Of building an airline
railroad between New York and Wash
1ngton has better prospect than ever
before.
The hari-kari, or stomach-slashing
mode of suicide, is on the increase in
Japan, despite the efforts of missiona-
rles.
A LEADING clergyman in Montgomery
county, Ohio, is under arrest for de-
frauding the government in liquor
shipment.
A BROOKLYN EDITOR seized q child
in payment for q debt of thirteen dol
lars, and held it until the police got
after him.
SAVANNAH wooden pavement cost her
twenty thousand one hundred and ff-
teen dollars and fifteen cents.
DOMESTIC economists of Paris now
utilize the blood of the slaughter houses
by making it into puddings, of which
about 5000 pounds are daily manufac-
tured
The number of Congregational
churches in Nebraska, is twenty-five,
ministers twenty, church members 6O3.
Seven churches have houses of worship
and two are building.
SIX HUNDRED Chinese-male and fe-
male-recently started for the Flowery
Land to participate in the festivities of
the New Year.
IT is the proudest boast of the 30, 600
people of Columbus, Ohio, that they
maintain 800 rum and beer mills-an
average of one for every hundred of the
population. They are entitled to the =
bottle as the champion saloonatics of
America.
A LETTER written from Nevada, pub
Hshed in the Aurora Beacon, states
that Philip Mullen, .pioneer settler in
that region, and formally from Syc-
amore, is the lucky owner of O silver
mine whose net profits are 500 per
day.
COFFEE was introduced among the
fare of the prisoners in the Connecticut
State Prison, on Saturday, for the first
time. 1t was introduced as a stimulant
to do more work and a preservative of
the general health.
ALL bonds issued for the new Liver
pool and Philadelphia Steamship Com
pany, amounting to $4,000 900, have
been placed, and great progress is MAX
ing in the stock subscriptions Some
persons have subscribed for $4,000
worth each
In Ohio there has been war between
pork and whisky. The pork dealers at
Cincinnati needed all the money avaih-
able to move the pork crop; there was
none to lend the whisky dealers, and
hence the recent whisky failures in Gin
cinnati.
PERSONS VINO prefer oysters cooked
in their own liquor may be interested
in knowing what the fluid contains.
The Journal of Microscopy says:
"Open an oyster, retain the liquor in
the lower or deep shell, and, if viewed
through microscope, it will be found
to contain multitudes of small oysters,
covered with shells and swimming
nimbly about-one hundred and TWEEN
ty of which extend but one inch. Be-
sides these young oysters, the liquor
contains variety of animalcllle and
myriads of three distinct species of
worms. Sometimes their light re-
presents blush star about the center
of the shell, which will be beautifully
luminous in a dark room. !"
A COMPANY of responsible Parkers-
burg gentlemen have leased a tract of
land near the left Fork of Sandy, in
Jackson county, West. Virginia, on
which there is a spring strongly impre-
gnated with arsenic The company
have employed competent man to
mine for that article at the spring, who
will commence operations immediately.
Prof. Noble, distinguished scientific
gentleman of New Jersey, having analy-
zed the water of the spring, pronounces
it rich in arsenic. Mr.. Summerville,
the proprietor, has kept fence around
it for years to prevent the cattle from
drinking the water and thereby poison
ing themselves to death Great results
are anticipated from the new enterprise.