Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-28
miscellaneous Items,

The use Of gold and colors In arch
itecture is fast coming into favor in
New York.
The Emperor William has congratu-
loted the Pope on the occurrence of his
jubilee.
FREDERICK Hahn, the eminent Ger
man dramatist, is dead. He died of
inflammation of the lungs.
They cure delirium tremens in Italy
by the administration of solution of
ammonia in heroic doses.
THE Montreal Daily News says that
the population of that city now amounts
to about 160, 900.
GRAPES are sold at a cent and half
pound in the vineyards in California
and would pay handsomely at half the
price
Two GIRLS at Saginaw, Michigan,
made wager that they could take five
grains of morphine without injury
They tried it and died together.
A RIVAL line of steamers has been es-
tablished between New York and Troy
The fares are ranging from up to 80
cents.
An inventor has discovered a method
of manufacturing the fibre of the
Canada thistle into cordage, textile
fabrics, and paper.
The Fourth will be celebrated at Nj
agara by sending an old scow over the
falls. If they would only load her with
Niagara hackmen!
CANADA is very much pleased with
It's new postal cards. They save a
vast amount of time and paper, and are
appreciated by every class except the
stationers.
EDWARD MERRILL, of East Lynn,
Mass, is reported to have found, in a
pork stew he was eating, diamond
worth 50, 500 How the diamond got
into the stew is mystery.
BEAUTIFUL hot-house peaches are for
sale in New York Price Sc dozen,
or $50 basket They find purchasers,
as would the tongues of birds of para
disc at a hundred dollars mouthful.
THE New Orleans Times says: An
Ohio farmer is said to be planting bar
ley that cost him five dollars a kernel.
Down South he could, for less money,
buy any number of Colonels, full of
barley corn.
A RICHMOND druggist has invented a
soda water powder by which every man
can carry his summer drink in his pock-
ct, and the leading druggist in New
York has taken hold to introduce It
everywhere.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal of
Agriculture states that the leaves of
the common basket willow( (sulia aigro)
make an excellent yeast, if treated in
the same way as is usual with hops.
A NEW style of chandelier consists of
a double set of globes, the upper ones
being over the gas tubes, while another
one is suspended underneath filed with
gold fish and small fish of every de-
scription. 19ta
IT is now positively known that the
Emperor Francis Joseph was firmly
determined last January to overthrow
the liberal constitution of the empire,
and that only the urgent remonstrances
of Count Won Beust prevented him
from carrying his purpose into execu-
tion.
A New YORK telegram states that the
new horse distemper is spreading with
alarming and fatal rapidity among
horses. One gentleman has lost six
horses, valued at $50, 900. One hun
dred and thirty horses have been at
tackled on Second avenue.
THREE heavy golden vases were Ke=
Gently found at Pompeii, in. the middle
of a street, only q few feet under
ground. It is believed that they were
carried by priest il procession to pro-
pitiate the gods, and that they we're
killed while moving through the
streets mo- s. 3i4 - iub s&
AN Indian paper gives the following
highly satisfactory explanation of what
are known as the late C Rookie raids
in British territory in India: A daugh-
ter of the Rookie chief having died, q
number of mems heads were wanted to
burn with her dead body, and his sub
jects Loyalty proceeded across our from
tier to collect the requisite material
The rice planters of Louisiana have
not attempted to extend the culture as
much this year as in previous recent
seasons. The New Orleans Picayune
says, in fact, that the planting this sea-
son was not larger than last year, and
that it will be idle to look for crop Oh
over SO, 900 barrels, on $1,000, 900 lbs.
/ THERE is a little three-yea old color
/, ed girl at Horn Lake, Miss, who has
I gray hairs in her head, and who pre-
/ sents the appearance of an old woman
! She possesses a wonderful memory
Without knowing a single letter IL
the book, she canspell correctly any
word IN the English language that has
d ever been spelled in her hearing, ane
i even words that she never has hearo
i before she spells phonetically, leaving
!. out no letter that is not silent when the
word is pronounced.