Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-15
General Items.

DISRAELI was once a newspaper edl-
> tor.
Coop oysters now cost 81 per dozen
in England.
GERMANY is to adopt the decimal
, money system.
ALAMEDA county, Cal, raised 13, 900
pounds of figs this year.
Miss ROSE HERsEE is singing at the
Royal National Opera, London.
BALLsToN, N. Y, has neither hose,
water schools, charter, nor Insurance.
Two thousand circulation is now con-
sidered enormous for Madrid newspa-
pers.
A GRANVILLE IN Co tobacconist ad-
vertises boldly C Ku-Klux smoking to-
bacco."
largest wall paper manufactory in
America.
: Two girls, ten and twelve years old,
got into fight at Charleston, and one
was killed.
NILSSON has lost $3.50, 600 by fire, this
season, equally divided between Paris
and Chicago.
The lease of Samana bay was once
offered to the Pierce administration for
5000 year.
The government has only one fire.
proof building-the Appraisers stores
in Philadelphia.
The "CHICAao SUFFERER" is stated
to have become numerous nuisance
throughout the east.
THERE we're twenty-five large we'd
dings in New York on Wednesday, and
thirteen on Thursday
ON Monday last the keel of the first
of the Philadelphia ocean steamers was
laid at Kensington, Pa.
THERE have been 942 cases of small
pox and 151 deaths in Philadelphia,
during the past three weeks.
The largest salary paid to French
editor is 40, 900 francs per annum. Ed
mond About gets it.
THERE is one newspaper publishedin
the District of Columbia for every six
square miles of territory.
IT is the universal verdict, we believe.
that the Chicago cabmen and cartmen
are the meanest set of men now on the
earth.
AN experiment is making at Pitts
burg in smelling silver ore from Utah
It is now to considerable extent sent
to Wales.
PAREPA, having closed the most sue
cessful English opera season ever
known III New York, is in Philadelphia
with her new troupe.
EVERYBODY in Salt Lake is SO honest
that Jumps of silver weighing three
thousand pounds are left on the depot
steps over night.
A New YORK damsel who was insult
ed III Broadway car, dexterously
swung her parasol and knocked her in
suffers silk tile into the gutter.
AMONG the furniture in the church at
Baltimore where the Episcopal Conven-
tion was in session, were two hundred
and ninetysix spittoons.
In Savannah, the other day, a rooster
enjoyed ride through the streets on
the back of runaway horse which had
been frightened by the perching of the
fowl upon him.
The library of the late William H.
Prescott, the historian, was sold at auc-
tion, in Boston, on the oath inst Prof
Longfellow and James Russell Lowell
were among the principal buyers.
JAMES FITZPATRICK was drawn into
the shafting of planning mill at Au-
burn, and literally ground to pieces.
Before the machinery could be stopped,
his body had revolved three hundred
times.
The official vote at the municipal
election in Baltimore, on Wednesday
last, was as follows: For Mayor, Van
salt, Oemocrat), 8,157; Dunlap, Gre
form) 11,052; Vansant's majority, T.
O95.
A VERY slender man asked friend
what character he bad better assume at
masquerade, and was advised to chalk
his head and 60 as billiard cue; or he
might brand his legs and appear SIS a
whip-lash.
A BOY in Salem, Mass, was curious
to know how long he could stand upon
his head, and tried the experiment
day or two since. He dropped dead,
however, before he fully satisfied him
self in regard to the matter.
The Emperor Alexander has founded
new university in commemoration of
/ his visit to Caucasia He has also or
dered the speedy completion of the
Caucasian Railway, which is said to be
of great stragetic Importance.
CHICAGO hackmen extorted gold
watches, diamonds, etc., from ladies
who sought conveyances to places of
safety during the fire, and after driving
few blocks compelled them to get out
in order to repeat the outrage on others.
GRAPES have been extraordinarily
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the wine crop will undoubtedly be very
large. The total vintage is estimated
az 2 100000 gallons, with from 18O, 900
to 200 UGG2 gallons of brandy to be ad-
ded
FIX. .SEcRErkRY SEwAhIo looks younger
then he did before he wenI around the
world. His hands have been parralyzed,
but they are gotting better, and he ex-
poets soon to have the full use of them.
Since he left New York he has travelled
81, 900 miles,
AFTER the great fire in London, in
1866, Parliament enacted that every
house should be built with indepen-
dent walls, and all in front raised to
equal height, and those walls should
be of stone or brick, and that no man
should delay beyond seven years.
MISS PARKINSON, former inmate of
San Francisco hospital, who sued DIR.
Scott for damage for publishing a his
tory of her disease and it's treatment,
in a medical magazine, has lost her
suit, the fourth district court having
rendered verdict for the defendant.
The town of Ashfeld, Mass, was
recently obliged to pay $19, 1851 to a
lady who was injured by falling through
defective bridge. Before the com
mencement of the suit the lady offered
to settle for $1,000; but the selectmen
of the town were. obstinate and pre-
! ferred the suit.
Ep-GovERNoR WISE, of Virginia, has
nearly completed the writing of book
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