Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-17

| Alabama to Texas -
LONDON has four thousand miles of
streets.
OCEAN WAVES rarely exceed fifty feet
in height.
FLORIDA has produced a potato
| twenty-six inches lopg. .gg fia9
They are nearly through harvesting
wheat III Virginia.
THE State debt of Arkansas is frac-
ton over ST., 600, 900. aimp5 zE8
So FAR eight hundred dead bodies
have been recovered from the ruins of
Antioch
APUBL1sHER in London devotes him.
self wholly to the publishing ofreform
tracts. 80. .-,-.sf 80 .,..5.{.ss,
THE ordinapce factory 1T Lieye,, in
Belgium, is one 6f the largest in the
| world e .a 5.a7 .iH ni aHid3ga
The washerwomen of Kingston, in
| England, insist on three pints of beer q
day. 1s'aale0s 2 fet
The making. of iron TASKS to contain
quicksilver is a Philadelphia enter
prise.
LACE making is a principal source of
income TO many places in the Neither
lands. e5 f.-,--, -..sI.s-tl ,ff -....54
THERE are seven Indians in San
Diego over one hundred and twenty
years of age. I-rgE=a 1lI3 esd sH
The International is again showingit-
self in force all over the Continent of
Europe ' l-"o ssH eiis
A TENNESSEE spider caught snake
by spinning aweb around the reptiles
head.
THE washerwomen are aghast at the
| prospect of the introduction of paper
clothing. va-r.a} e-.,~ -,
The Queen, the ladies newspaper in
London, declares the Dolly Warden
dress to be vulgar. s@ 1u.E 3eal
The population of the Republic of
San Salvador, according to the recent
estimates, is $50, 900.
A DETROIT manufacturing establish
ment throws in warm dinners daily to
its employers.
THE Japanese visitors to Boston had
their own cook to look after their spe-
cial dishes. $500 IS t-4ara
THERE is more than one hundred per
cent. profit on every class of soda water
sold for ten cents. a2EGE4zesE as5
The wire-worm is doing much ldam-
age to the corn, potatoes and wheat
throughout Maine.
THE average Southern Presbyterian
minister gets 300 a year--$60 more
than a year ago.
THE Germans, by Bismarck's direc-
tion, are training carrier pigeons for
military purposes. H s.. aa.m ligH1
A NEW company has been formed
with a capital of $500, 900, to bring Chi
nese labor into the Southern States.
One of the sights of the Island of
Malta is the ancient Palace of the
Grand Masters of St. John, at Medina.
DURING the eighteen years since the
Crystal Palace, London, was built, it
has been visited by 80, 600, 600 persons.
AN iowa clergyman namesthe Young
est of his four bows g FsDoxology" be-
cause he winds UP the hims. -. ..,g,
SUICIDES are again prevailing in Paris
being often of such fantastic character
as to become ludicrous in the extreme.
AN editor commenting upon the i'm
portance of small things, says he does
not even slight straw, fit has sherry
cobbler at one end. .51aHps awoh aIssei
The fact that the German emigration
movement takes away the young and
leaves the old and infrm, is disagreea;-
BILE to the authorities. e .fsta1.gsT
Missouri claims that she can furnish
enough ore to make 10000, 900 tons of
| iron yearly for 500 years, and 50000,-
600 bushels coal for 2, 500 years. ,ar .1s9
| The Oregon lnseed oil factory at
@ 10 81
of oil, all of which found q market at
home. ra-ssf srs.f s4are.,fr- .fT
Notwithstanding people in Bath,
England, are initiating the fashion of
the last century in the wearing of white
wigs and perukes.
The total taxable wealth Of Missouri,
according to the assessment of 1872,
is 1858, 165, ,502-an increase of over
$63, 899, 617 over 1872,
IT is said that one hundred and fifty
thousand copies of Mr.. Summers
speech have been circulated as cam
! paign documents.
ABT says that the Boston Jubilee S
attempt to sing 'sThe Swallows with
| twenty thousand voices was ''Iymn
book" Humbug, you know. ga--
| L
that posterity should inquire why no
statues were erected to me, than why
| they were. ..--.
A MAN and his wife who died in An
derson, S. c., on Sunday, June 9,
within an hour OF each other, had been
married 70 years. He was nearly so
years old and she ST.
The British Consul at New York
complains that he loses five hundred
pounds year by being the banker of
those "who are expecting remittances
from England. . aa 1i asEaa3f
OF the six states east of the Hudson
river, Vermont is the nearest to raising
it's own bread-producing 454, 900 bush
els of wheat in 1869, or bushei and
peck to each inhabitant.
A GREAT grandson of Tippoo Sahib
has been admitted member of the
English bar during Trinity Term, his
intention being to practice in the In
dian courts. a 7.ta7t
A SMALL boy arose at a Sunday school
concert and begun quite gllblyi5a''iA
certain man went down from Jerusalem
to Jericho and fell-and fell Here
his memory began to fail him. : And
and fell by the road side, and the
! thorns sprang up and choked nm. 0
9 THESE scientific men sometimes reach
: a very philosophical state OF MIND III
n which they are pleased with the queer,
It est trifes. See how easily SATISFIED
e Professor Agassiz is He says, ra am
y satisfied, since have examined the 10,
mocaris peircel, that trilobites are not
anv more closely related to the phyllo-
1t pods than to any other entomostra5c3@
o or to the isopods That would hardly
At 4 satisfy an ordinary mortal oda -To
VS. A SENTIMENT young lady a poodle
id ON which she sat great value, and which
y she fed with her own hands. Not
Pe Ps long @ after the poodle had departed this
re transitory life, Fridolina was seen to