Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-24
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General Items.
IT is said that $780, 600 will buy the
famous trotting stallion Hambletonian.
FIVE hundred love letters were read
in the Fair trial
The ostrich is still found wild in
Syria, Arabia and Mezopotamie.
We import about three-fourths OF
our lead from England and Spain.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT is announc-
ed as soon to start daily paper in New
York with $80O,00O capital
A MINE of antimony, used for making
type, has been discovered in Cedar
county, Mo.
The whest-growing district of the
Red River Valley, in the Dominion,
covers 0,000 square miles.
A BUOY which was missed from it's
station on the Hudson River, has
turned up on the English coast.
AN exchange says the Cleveland
Plaindealer is the best paper in Ohio.
Even the editors head is red.
CHERRY trees in the vicinity of New
York city have blossoms this year
earlier than for twenty y-seven years past,
A WEALTHY New Yorker has invested
$1G0, 600 in mill at Augusta, Me-, for
making paper pulp of poplar.
A PORTABLE barber-shop, wheeled
from house to house," is announced
from Troy.
ONE of the old Boston biographies
stated that the only brass mine in the
United States was in Connecticut.
THERE is q man in New York now
who owns 1900 acre dairy farm in
California.
The Roman Catholic Church is re-
ported to own $50,O00,OOO worth of
property III the State of New York
NASHVILLE is going into the egg
cTystalizing business extensively. 1t
fits them for transportation.
A GLOUCESTER schooner brought in,
one day last week, a halibut weighing
547 pounds. 1t was the largest ever
landed there.
IHE English sparrows haye not only
established themselves in New York,
but they have driven all the other small
birds out.
If your house is mortgaged. insure
your life in The Mutual Life Of Chica-
go ior sufficient amount to cover the
mortgage.
The French, who are artificial in al
most everything, are now manufactur.
ing large quantities Of artificial butter
for use in Paris.
A AoAN containing counterfeit coin was
recently found in stone quarry, neal
Franklin Springs, Pa. It had evidently
been hidden some years
LAST year Pennsylvania farmers
raised 68,OOO,OOO bushels of oats, the
largest quantity of any state in the
Union.
A BROOK trout, recently caught IL
Kelsey creek, Lake county, Cal, meas
ured 80 inches in length, and weighed
12 pounds.
A Boston paper apologies to a wor
thy Archbishop because the type
made it call him miserable instead O
venerable, as was intended.
A CONCLUSIVE argument against sui
cides is that it IS the height of impolite
ness to go anywhere till you are sen
for.
The Wilmington Commercial contin
ues to publish good reports of the
prospect for peaches from all portions
of Delaware.
IT has finally been decided to put tn
) steamer A. Neff on the route betweel
, Oshkosh and Gill's landing, making tn,
round trip each day.
ONE California grape grower has
vineyard valued at $250,000 It yield
annually from $50, 900 to $35, 900 wort
of grapes.
IT Is predicted that the fruit crop c
California will this year be unprecedent
ed. Ten millions gallons Of grape win
will be made during the coming season
: A BLACKSMITH in Lawrence, Mass
| has been cruelty deceived by a fair, br
| false young woman, and has becom
, raving mad in consequence.
l The famous rebel iron-clad Merrima
/ is likely to prove of some value to tn
j. world after all Hebrew, the wrecke
is going to work on her in few days
SINCE the editor of the Montgomel
Mail bit off mans ear in a sanctu
l. fight, the circulation of his paper b;
h wonderfully increased.
It A NEGRO minstrel employed vii
k Carncross & Dixey comes into posse
n sion of $109,0 900 in January, but wi
), continue in the burnt-cork line unit
: then.
Il A CITIZEN of Reading, Pa, is said
( have mourned the death of 36 of h
e children He is now 55 years old, h
e had three wives, and has four ch1ldrt
y living.
- - "THE last word" is the most da
= gerous of internal machines. Husba1
" and wife should no more strive to get
's than they would struggle to get posse
4 sisn of a lighted bomoshell.
# 'NEwsPAPER ROW." in Washingto
it is to be demolished, and new building
d adapted to the wants and requiremen
,e of the knights of the Quill, " to
,r erected.
D. A BUREAU school-ma' am in Georg
id thrashed one of her pupils, a color
IS boy of so, for holding his book botte
v up, and his grand children looked
lie and applauded.
at AN Indiana man has sendered Bal
le nnm furious by killing sixlegg
colt which he thought would be of
use to him. His ignorance of
Y. world is surprising.
in CALIFORNIA has at last condescen6
bv to adopt nickels, and has sent to t
id side for large stock of one, two 6
ey three cent pieces.
L. GAs-wELLs have been struck by
nut gers in Cleveland, Ohio, and in v
to thereof local papers are carrying i
St practice the advice which says, CDR
Sc, deep or touch not the Pierian spring
try r.