Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-23
Miscellaneous Items,

world are tor sale IN London at 81
$50.
"WHERE the woodbine twineth
must be in Canada. That's where all
the rascals go.
THE University of Munich celebrated
it's three hundred and ninety-ninth an
niversary June Goth.
The London Daily News calls New
York the third German and the first
Irish city in the world.
PHILADELPHIA youths make organ
grinders monkeys drunk by giving
them oranges stepped in brandy.
ADMIRAL Porter is sadly broken down
in health, and it is said is unable to
leave Washington to enjoy a Summer
tour
A MAssAoHUrTs boy cut off his young
sisters golden curls while she slept, to
get money with which TO go to the
races.
A BUL1MocK press in the press room
of the Illustrated London News throws
off 5000 complete copies of that paper
in an hour.
WHAT is that which he who has i4
not does not wish for, but he who has
it would not part with for any money!
A bald head.
| WHILE an Illinois constable was on
his way to arrest some thieves, spark
of fire from his pipe fell into his peck
ct and burned up the warrant
The library of the late German histo-
rian Friedrich Christoph Schlosser,
comprising about 5000 volumes, has
been given to the University of Heidel
| berg.
MAJOR Powell, after completing 200
miles of his Colorado canyons, has re
turned to Salt Sake City to meet his
family. He has met with no mishap to
date.
In the island OF Sardinia the first
railway, connected the cities of Gag
iari and Villasor, was opened a few
weeks AGO, and two other railroads are
| building.
The rinderpest, which caused great
ravages among the cattle in Austria for
the past ten years has recently made its
appearance in the vicinity of Vienna
and in that city itself.
TEXAS owns and offers almost without
price, mines of iron, copper, lead, coal,
silver, salt, and salt lakes-the unde-
veloped wealth of which is not equaled
or surpassed by any known country.
THE wives of General Sherman and
Admiral Dahlgren, with Miss G. E.
Beecher have started a paper IN Balti-
timore, in opposition to woman suf-
frage. It is called the True Woman.
The late Phoebe Cary had wonder
ful necklace which she was fond of
I 4aJ
Of stones and shells and bits Of ivory,
etc, contributed by personal friends
THE following advertisement appears
in the London Times To oClergymen.
For sale in one lot, 500 MSS. and 100
litho. sermons, most of them preached
by their author at Streatiy, between
1889 and 1860 Price only 5e5. Address
&c.
Louis NAPoLEoNls is now suffering from
all the ills of private life. How are the
mighty fallen, Last week the late
ruler of Imperial France walked about
the English metropolis like the COM
monest of pedestrians, without train or
retinue, and accompanied by only
solitary friend.
The presents given the Pope on the
|
ry amount to $4,000, 600. The Queen
Of Wurtemburg sent him $4,000 in
gold, and the ex-Empress $4,000,
while an unknown American was still
more generous, for he presented the
Pope with eco, 900 sterling.
| A DRAwING-MAsTER, worrying his pu-
pill with contemptuous remarks upon
his lack of ability, ended by asking
"Now, sir, if you were agoing to draw
| me, what part of me would you COM
mence first 2" The boy with a mean
ing look into his masters face, answer
ed very quietly: Your neck, SIR
AT Lawrence, Kansas, on Sunday,
while minester was holding forth IN
the church, crowd got up cock fight
in the yard. The people who had con-
gregated in the church went out to stop
the fight, but awaited until the battle
was over before obiecting. The minis
ter looked out of the window aud said
owe are all miserable sinners-which
whipped 2"
A YOUNG man recently called upon
the editor OF a paper IN an Oregon
town and asked to see his file for 1869,
which request was granted. While the
editor stepped out moment he march
ed out with the file, and used it against
the owner in libel suit for $4,000
damages. The plaintiff recovered six
and a quarter cents, when his perse-
cuted victim turned upon him, and had
him sentenced to seven years in the
penitenitary for stealing books.
DURING the present summer term the
German university of Kiel is attended
bv 112, that of jena by 336, and that Of
Griefswalde by Ais, that of Heidelberg
bv $50, that of Bonn by $50, that of
Munich by LOG, that of Leipsic by l.
SO3, and that of Berlin by l. 113 matri-
culated students. The remaining Ger
man universities are those of Breslau,
Erlangen, Freiberg, Glessen, Gottln-
gen, Halle, Konigsbero, Marburg, Ros
tock, Strasburg, Tubingen, Wurtz-
burg-in all 20.
The way young lover warbled s'I'm
lonely tonight love, without thee,
under his Dulcinea's window, in Bos-
ton, the other evening, was very affect
inc. until the old gentleman let loose
the two dogs in the back yard. The
sentimental youth had no occasion to
complain of the loneliness after that.
! His new pants cost $14, and he wears
square foot of sticking plaster inside of
them somewhere. For the next week
or two, he thinks, he will imbibe his
hash particularly at a lunch counter.
It's healthier that way and he dosent
really care about Sitting on the style,
Mary" or anything else at present.
An improvement on Indiana divorces
has been invented in Hindostan. The
English laws there recognize Moham-
mechanism, and Mohammedanism, as is
well known, permits plurality OF
wives. Therefore, when an Engl1sh
resident in India gets tired OF his VIE,
! he has only to become Mohammeaah
, to be enabled o mary a new lnfhnlty;
Should the first wife get disgusted ana
: leave him the thing IS done. me orr