Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-08
Miscellaneous Items.


TEN thousand acres of land in Fiji
were recently purchased by Scotch
man for sizpence an acre.
The OLD MANS DRUNK AGAIN, - is
the title of the latest temperance song
in San Francisco.
| IT IS painful to see how many men
wind up the week by reeling home at
midnight on Saturday.
A FPIeHrFUL amount of drunkenness
is complained of in both Liverpool and
Manchester, England
Mss EM1IA SWAN, of Indianapolis,
extensively known as lecturer, is
studying for the ministry.
A MEMBER of the Illinois Legislature
wants law passed to provide for teach
ing plain sewing in the public schools
A MEMBER of the Virginia Legislature
is demanding legislation to protect the
people against paper aad chip-bottom
shoes.
In 1859 sixteen of the English rail
ways carried each upward of five mill
ions Of passengers, exclusive of season
ticket holders.
THE Chattanooga Times asks:
Whittier are we drifting2" To which
the Knoxville Wing replies; at would
be profane in us to say.
Some youths affect a boutonniere on
each lapel Of their double-breas
coats. They ought to be spoken to.
Az aboriginal usurper has assumed
the crown Of Abyssinia, calling himself
/ the Enperor EeguE.
| GEyERAI. RoBlBT B. VANCE has been
elected Principal of the North Carolina
/ State Institution for the deaf, dumb
and blind
EsgoI1su ladies wear plain skirts of
| quilted satin as lower skirts for walking
costumes A few have been worn here,
bordered with fur.
PRoF. HUxLEY has been elected to
succeed Mr. Charles Dickens as Presi-
dent Of the Birmingham and Midland
Substitute.
The Fourth Presbyterian Church of
Chicago has been organized by the
union Of the North and Westminster
churches. They elected Prof David
Sweeney pastor, with a salary of $4,000.
TIE latest invention in mutfs consists
of small circular mirror placed on the
back. Very convenient to IA arrange
crinlps by.
/ A EBAR-sIaHrED friend of ours tried to
walk through valuable mirror while
calling the other evening. He is hav-
ing new glsss made for his eyes, of
+ course.
/ Gov. GE,R1 has signed the death
warrant Of Lloyd Britton, convicted of
numbering Jacob Bay on November
10th last Ife IS to be hanged at Viii
Transport, March 22d.
! A snrEpISe-cAR on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was burned Thursday morn
ing near Lockport, Pennsylvania, the
tram having run On a broken rail. All
the passengers escaped unhurt.
Ex-Gov. Michael Hahn has with
drawn from active duty as editor of the
New-Orleans Republican, but still re-
tains his interest rs part oWaer Of that
prosperous journal.
ANOTHER new village has been plan
ned on the line OF the Kalamazoo and
South Haven Railroad, Michigan. It
is called Irvington. At present the
town consists of a grocery and large
quantities Of hemlock stumps.
GEx. G. W, CURTIS LEE will be for
nally inaugurated as President of
Washington and Lee College this morn
ing, and viii at once enter upon the
discharge of the duties of the Office, as
successor Of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
/ The San Antonio Herald, one OF the
most Democratic Of Texas newspapes,
election of Gen. Joseph J. Reynolds as
United States Sen ator has its cordial
approval, and il earnestly hopes that
be will accept the position.
lIR. JOHN GRUMMET, an old Califor-
nian bear hunter, had good luck one
day last week While hunting near tho
north fork Of the Arroyo Salado he en-
countered four grizzly bears, all to-
gether, and killed them ali before
| breakfast with his Spencer rifle.
At small party, the other evening,
every lady present wore black silk.
| The general effect was intensely sombre
and funereal The only reliefs were
the neck ribbons = all the bruettes
wore bright scarlet, all the blondes
| light blue, which gave variety.
| A NEW machine for taking off the hide
Of dead cattle viii shortly be tried at
Buenos Ayres. The operation is short
| sharp and decisive, requiring only q
minute for each hide. Cold air is forced
by a pump between the flesh and the
hide, and the thing Is done.
TIE California pitcher plant is said to
resemble in shape the upraised head
| and body Of an excited cobra. It pos
esses an extraordinary attraction for its-
sccts, especially flies, who enter the
hollow body, and being unable to extri-
cate themselves, die there.
AT one time It seemed as if the pre-
dictions Of bad dancers were going to
| be fulfilled and that the German was
goingout. It has not been much danced
| till lately, but now IN the th;ckest of the
season it has regained all it's old popu-
larity, and 10 party is complete with
out it
] CRINoLINE, OF rather the hoop-skirt,
/ is superseded by the tournure. This
tou1nure, on bride, is made very large.
rising high about the hips, and extend
ing the dress skirts to such size that
] they hang away from the person, and
! look rs if hoops were worn. Dress
skirts, TO fall gracefully over the tour
nure, must be made very full behind
and it The sides.
JAMES R. RASDA1L retires from the
control of the Augusta (Ga.) Constitu-
/ tionalist with the remark: My ear
/ Hest editorial writings commenced
about the time the Federal soldiery
insulted Augusta with their presence;
nv final contributions close with the
grandest victory for the Right ever won
III Georgia y
A rev days ago in New Orleans, as
boy, eighteen years old, was wading
along Melpomene street, in that city,
which was deeply flooded at the time
he suddenly felt an acute pain in one of
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