Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-27

year.
The convicts of the Massachusetts
State Penitentiary publish weekly
paper.
OF the ten thousand English miners,
one in every thirty is killed by accident
yearly.
AN irascible Georgian has found that
it costs just $l2 SO a word to swear at
judge.
In California 80, 900, 900 acres of pub
lie land are granted to railroad COM
panies.
SENATOR Garret Davis haf just re-
ceived $4,000 as fee in Kentucky
lawsuit.
Mrs. BULLOCK, wife of Ex-Gov. Bull
lock, of Georgia, has mysteriously dis
appeared.
SEVENTEEN different romances in con-
nection with the Chicago fire have been
published.
THE piano was first introduced by
Dibdin in his celebrated sailor con-
certs, in 1707.
IT is stated in mitigation of Fiji can
nibalsm that only boys from II to IA
years old are eaten.
A DEAD whale sixty feet long came
ashore at Point Shirley, in Winthrop
Mass, Saturday morning.
A FIRM at West Sumner, Maine, have
manufactured 5000 children's sleds
during the present season.
A LARGE plate-glass factory is about
to be established at Columbus, Geor-
WHEN the New Pork Post says Tweed
will soon be $ in the van" of events. it
hints grimly at the Black Maria.
A FAMILY in Nevada do all their cook
ing by means of a hot spring, around
which they have built kitchen.
FREE drinks and fried oysters are
used to electioneer by the rival candi-
dates for Senator from Kentucky.
RUsTICs in Detroit are allured by
sign which reads: ssFifty cents for
dinner and lunch for your dog
VoLTAIRE, while speaking of fame,
said, ooh, I'd give hundred years of
Immortality for a good digestion, any
time"
A PROMINENT journalist, who is per-
fectly bald, has offered a reward of
81, 900 for tale that will make his hair
stand on end
UNCLE SAM has 400, 000,0 acres
of land for sale after his donations for
the benefit of railroads, schools, col
leges, etc., etc.
GEN. VIM. M. TWEED. JR., has ten
dered his resignation as Assistant Dis
trict Attorney of New York to go into
effect on Jan. 1.
THE Union sayes that all the male
children born the past week in Brook
lyn, so far as it has seen the registry,
are named Alexis.
SOME of the New York papers are
making war on the sewing machine
companies, claiming that any machine
can be sold for forty dollars.
A GAS company in Philadelphia
charged man $50 for gas burned
while he was in Europe and the house
shut up. He is now using kerosene.
The steamer Massachusetts, running
between Baltimore and Annapolis, was
blown ashore near the latter city on
Monday night. The boat will be total
loss.
MILLIONS of dollars worth of gold
dust have drifted down the valleys of
the Sierra from the .'tailing" of the
mines. and these the Cinnamon are
now gathering.
DIAMONDS have been found III Ariz-
ona. One has been sent to q Boston
lapidary, who certifiies it to be brill
liant of the purest water, and worth from
$500 to S400.
AN eminent physician says that a
good coat of gum arabic mucllage APP
piled every night to corns will, III q
short time cause the pests to take
their final departure.
On the 18th of September last, DR..
Luther, OF Blk, discovered new
planet. Tt was equal in brilliancy to a
star of the eleventh magnitude. The
number Of asteroids that is now known
is TT.
Mrs. FRANCES BARRETT DE OvIEDo, the
bride of the famous diamond wedding
in New York several years ago, con-
tributed one hundred dollars to the
Chicago relief-subscriptio taken up III
Havana.
A CORRESPONDENT in Paris says that
Frenchman rarely travels except to
| escape a revolution at home, and even
then seldom gets beyond Brussels,
| London, Geneva, or at furthesb JIG
island of Jersey.
The fast game of rouge-et-nto,llrr +, mas
been played at Baden-Baden;;, "Inele
remains y says the London Telegraph,
/" only Monaco as home for organiz-
ed ruin and mathematical swlndllng;
and the Casino. which is far more I'M
portant edifice than the palace OF Prince
Grimaldi on the picturesque rock lut-
fino ont into the Mediterranean, has
done this autumn a very encouraging
stroke of business.
KING Thakombua, who, as a Chris
tianized monarch. has lately become
Ebenezer L, King of the Cannibal
Islands, with thrifty English Premier,
is having hard time of it with his re-
fractory subjects. The plantation la
borers are Chinese, and the natives,
who dislike Ebenezer and his imported
Mongolians, have made rad and
killed several of the coolies. Great
Britain has once declined the posses
sion of the Fiiis, but when Thakombua,
alias Ebenezer, finds it impossible to
hold his own, We shall probably see
British power succeed him.