Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-21
General Items.

wholesale pastry.
INDIANA has s'boy preacher" who
challenges twelve neighoring ministers
for the theological championship.
The New Orleans Times thinks Geo.
Francis Train ought to be sent in search
of DR.. Ujiji Livingstone.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is nearly
all out. It is thought 140, 900 to 150,-
900 hogsheads will be the yield
AMONG the rich men of Boston are
one worth 1S,O00,O one $4,000, 900,
and six $5, 900, 900 each
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE is buying up
Rhode Island. He has already pur-
chased five acres, and is keeping a
sharp eye on the other fifteen.
The saloon-keepers of Leavenworth
have raised 81, 500 to defeat any further
legislation in the Kansas Legislature
unfriendly to the sale of liquor.
AT trial in Wilkesbarre the other
day, it was testified that vein of coal
one foot in thickness will yield one
thousand tons to the acre.
A VERY singular matrimonial case re
Gently happened in Essex county, Vir-
ginia. A gentleman s second wife's two
sons married his third wife's two
daughters.
A PosEY county Gndiana) farmer
worth $50, 1000, came to the post office
at Cynthiana, the other day, with q
dozen eggs to buy postage stamps with.
The heads of two buffaloes slain by
Alexis have arrived in st. Louis, and
will be prepared by a taxidermist for
transportati to st. Petersburg
A SOCIETY of cold School Advent
ists," near Chicopee Mass, have just
taken ten years lease of their camp,
ground, and bought the trees upon it.
The woman women claim that no in
stance of defalcation by the women in
the Treasury Department can be point
ed out.
JOSH BILLINGS says: "If man has
got eighty thousand dollars at interest
and owns the house he lives in it amt
much trouble to be a philosopher"
ONE who is, perhaps little too criti-
cal, says that the majority of the coun.
try preachers could burn quite as we'll
as the old religious martyrs they are
SO dry.
The female seminary of Beirut, in
Syria, in charge of Miss Everett and
her associates, is said to be model of
it's kind, and has met with large meas
ure of success.
The sheriff broke up baptism on
the banks of the Ohio, saying that the
water was too cold, and that if the
minister persisted he would prosecute
him for murder.
a. CLEVER young girl in Pittston, Pa,
her grandfather, on Mon
day last, and elopcd with the man of
her choice In this connection may be
mentioned $700.
A FEW foppish young men In New
York wear overcoats made of seal-skin,
or cloth lined with crimson silk, and
the coat is worn open for ostentatious
display.
TIE inventor of the new rifle, M.
Mauser, has received orders fortWenty-
five of his invention, with which ex-
periments will be made at Spandau to
test their utility.
The mammoth skeleton of the we'll
known elephant, Hannibal, formerly of
Van Amburgh's menagerie, is now in
Chicago, and is to be "set up" in the
Academy of Sciences.
1t is remarkably rough on a young
fellow of Frisco to be robbed not only
of his watch and money, but of his mar
riage license, with which he was hast
ening impatiently to his fdncee.
AN antiquated bach says that the
depreciating talk about Grecian bends
has been the cause of the ladies getting
their backs up. One who knows better
says newspapers are largely the cause.
WE are sorry to learn from Hindoo
astronomer that during the present
year blazing meteor will pass by the
earth, and in the short space of twenty
four minutes destroy all vegetation
and kill millions OF people.
THE Count de Larendau, while walk
ing in the street, but little way from
his house in the Place Fronchat, Paris,
was struck by falling chimney-pot,
blown from neighboring house by the
heavy gale of wind which swept over
that city January 5, and instantly killed.
same manner in 1850.
AMONG the late invention is nose
which, applied to an i'll
shaped probosc1s for an hour daily,
directs the soft cartilage so as to pro-
luce model of beauty. 1t is not
stated whether it also corrects the ir
of temper indicated by the
different styles of nasal architecture.
The Alton Telegraph says: 'sSince
1868, the river at a point about eight
miles below this city, has cut into the
bank distance of nine hundred and
fifty feet, and the abrasion still con-
tinues. The former stone levee of the
town of Madison is now an island in
the river, nearly quarter of mile
from the shore. The abrasion is caused
by the swift current of the Missouri
striking the bank at right angles"
A PLAN has been devised for warming
Germany. Closed iron boxes, two feet
long, four and half inches wide, and
two and three-fourths inches deep, are
fitted with double tops and placed un-
der the seats. These are partly filled
with cakes compounded OF charcoal,
nitrate of potash, and starch, which
burn slowly and thoroughly warm the
car at the expense of about two cents
per hour.
AN English paper estimates the av,
erage speed Of railway trains III that
country as not, probably, more than
% miles for all, and 30 miles for those
which are regarded as fast trains. The
Manchester Express goes from Kentlsh
Town to Leicester, distance Of 979
miles, in two hours and eight minutes,
the speed being 46 miles an hour, and
the Scotch Express from Kings Cross,
at $40, reaches Peterboro', 763 miles,
in one hour and thirty-seven minutes
travelling at over AZ miles an hour.
SCENE in a grocery store. Enter boy,
who asks "Haye You got any yaller
sugar g" Grocer-ssWe have brown
sugar, some at 111c, and better grade
at 12c a pound Boy, hesitatingly-
" Well, I guess I'll have a pound of
the 119c." The sugar is weighed, put