Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-14
General Items.

General Items.
Two-oENT cars are run upon the
street railways in ST. John, New Bruins
wick.
STRAW has become luxury. It is
worth from $32 to $33 per ton in Albany,
and last week sold in New York for
$36 per ton.
EVERY member of The Mutual Life
of Chicago is equally interested in it's
success.
DUE1s are fought in New Orleans
with mustard-seed cartridges.
A LITTLE BOY, two and a half years
old, lunched on friction matches, in
Elmira, few days ago, and was buried
on Sunday.
ALL the ladies of Cincinnati are say
ing, ooh, my |" over female infant,
born in that city on Wednesday, and
weighing precisely one and a half
pounds at its birth.
A GERMAN mechanic in Ingoldstadt
claims to have invented printing
press superior to the best power presses
now in use.
The good people of Calais, VT, have
sold their town house for 500, which
is believed to be little more than it
was worth.
No question about the reliability of
the Washington Life-Try it.
HE Christian Young Men, convened
at Washington, have rashly resolved
that smoker need not necessarily be
declared an atheist nor held excommu-
nicate from the Church.
A TEXAS paper prints list of 100
persons murdered by Indians In eleven
years in one county i'll that state.
Among the killed were many women
and children.
A SACRAMENTO paper records that
Gov. Stanford's horse made, on the 10Th
inst, half mile in 1:079, and mile
in 2:22aa, ON slow track.
Coal of excellent quality is said to
have been discovered near the rich sill
yer mines of Caracoles, Bolivia, about
twelve miles from Calama.
A BLOCK of granite weighing ninety
tons has been quarried in Rhode Island
for the basis of public fountain in
New York. Another block or so of the
same size, and there won't be much of
the state left.
New method of curing balky horse
pour water into his nose A West
field man tried it the other day, and it
proved effectual in five minutes, and
killed the horse.
The largest salmon ever caught in
the Sacramento river was sent East on
the 7th instant. Its weight was fifty
five pounds.
WHILE excavating near the old fort
in Saybrook, Ct, recently, the laborers
exhumed two bushels of ounce balls in
one heap.
NEWTON, CT, cannot have its high
school any too soon. A pupil being
asked what A. M. stood for, responded
with alacrity, "Amen."
AS o lady was looking at burning
building in Brockville, Canada, few
evenings ago, and fancied that she saw
man fall through the roof into the
flames, and so greatly was she shocked
that she fell to the sidewalk dead.
A MAN, commenting upon the ruins
of Pompeii, said that it was very
imposing city but very much out of re-
pair.
A CHICAGO boarder complained of the
fare at the supper table. The doctor
thinks his nose will be serviceable again
by July.
The girls of Athol, Mass, whipped
the boys of that burgh at base ball, the
other day, and are now recognized as
the coming women of that section.
The Northfolk Virginian says that
during q storm there last week many
drops of hail had in them grains of
rice.
Mk. STEWARDS new hotel for women,
at the corner of Fourth avenue and
Thirty street, is rapidly pro-
crossing toward completion Two mil
lions of dollars have been appropriated
! for it, and another million Will be re-
quired to complete it. This is the
largest sum ever given by any one man
for any one edifce for benevolent pur-
| poses.
BooT leather from anaconda skins is
Boston manufacture, single estab-
lishment having tanned, last year, fifty
such skins, the largest of them being
forty feet in length. The tanning pro-
cesses are similar to those in the manu-
facture of alligator leather, and the pro-
duct is very beautiful and highly
finished quality of leather, glossy, mot
tied, pliable and exceedingly dura BILE.
The boots are valued at $50 pair.