Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
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A LADY need not be muffin faced, al
though she be toasted.
The Boston fire demonstrated that
the common granite known as Cape
Ann granite" crumbled in the flames,
while the Quincy granite stood it very
we'll
The Toronto Mail unfeelingly con-
graduates the leaders of the London
! (Canada) Advertiser upon receiving an
&C improved paper" the latter having
"pied" it's editorial page and gone to
press without it.
TIE Mayor of Boston has issued
proclamation, forbidding the use of
newspapers containing maps of the
burnt district as panniers. He says he
wants his fellow citizens to realize the
full extent of the calamity.
THE Missionery society of New York
city has resumed the ng-suspended
practice of Sunday evening preaching
in that lowest of theatrical haunts, the
Bowery theatre, where Rev. Mr.. Hut
chins held forth week ago to the
sweepings of humanity from the high
ways and byways.
AT Owensboro, KY, den of ITO rat
tlesnakes, all heads of families, was
discovered, the other day, and the in
mates laid out straight. Their hive
was Uttered deep with the skeletons of
birds, rabbits, and even coons. Ovens
boro has probably sent out these facts
to encourage immigration.
THE ocean is making such inroads
} upon the eastern shore of Cumberland
Island, Fla, that in a few years the
grave of Light Horse Harry Lee, the
father of r. E. Lee, together with the
old Dungeness mansion, will disappear.
A PORTRAIT of the Czar Alexander of
Russia, painted by his order as pres
ent for Hon. A. G. Curtin, late United
States Minister to st. Petersburg, is
on exhibition at Philadelphia The
painter was G.. Bothmann, the most
| fam Gus artist of the Russian capital.
RHODE ISLAND has new sensation in
the form of a woman who has been for
several weeks afflicted with the
"gapes," having an irresistible dis
position to yawn. The disease battles
the skill of the attending physicians,
who have never met or heard of such a
case before.
The Chicago fire is still burning
The ruins of the oil factory on Polk
street, which were reported to be smok-
ing some two months ago, were on Fri
day seen in the same condition. There
is place in the centre of the pile from
whence quite volume of smoke is
sues.
The Muskegon Chronicle states that
little daughter of Michael Deering of
! Il 1toll
hanged November 25, She was play
ing on the balcony at the rear of the
house, when in some way clothes line
became entangled around her neck,
and she was strangled in less than
three minutes.
SAN Francisco bellies always carry
$40 gold piece-simply that and moth
ing mofe-when they ride on street
cars, to avoid paying fares. On third
act of this kind, the conductor stopped
the car and went into a store with one
of the economical creatures double
eagle and made change for her fve-cent
ride, much to her modification.
In New Orleans there are six estab-
lishments, with an aggregate capital of
81, 500, 900, engaged in the manufacture
of oil and oil cake from cotton seed,
the product being 100,00 tons per an
mum. The oil is extensively used in
the manufacture of soap, and the oil
cake IS shipped to the plantations to
feed cattle.
New YoRK's new fve-acre market
house at the foot of Thirty fourth
street, has been opened to the public
for week. The marketmen pay about
$8 a week for ten square feet of floor
ing each. In connection with the mar
ket are to run two small boats connect
ing with Washington Market and South
Ferry. The building is owned by
private corporation and cost 81, 500, 900.
The importations for the past week
at New York foot up $5, 399. 439.
Among the entries were the following:
Ale, $2,48S; brandy, $50, ,153; beer,
1896; cordials, 1888; champagne, $16,-
476; gin, So, 1853; mineral waters, ST.
241; rum, $4,268 whisky, 1905;
wines, 50, 435; furs, SAT, SOL +; soda ash,
$43, $40; iewelry, S82,770; watches,
$72,077; hides, S725, 646, and salt
petre, $25, ,438.
THE tariff duty on bottles is three
cents a bottle. The Acting Secretary
much as glass bottles are unquestion-
ably glassware, they are entitled to
the ten per cent reduction made on
glass and glassware in section two of
the act approved June 6, 1872, whether
imported, containing wine, or other
wise.
OF the 956 cotton manufactures in
the United States, 191 were in Massa.
chusetts, 139 in Rhode Island, 1873 in
Pennsylvania, III in Connecticut, and
81 in New York; aggregate 667, or
more than two-thirds of the whole.
New Jersey has 81, New Hampshire 36,
Maine %, Maryland %, North Carroll
ma 33, Georgia, "a, and Tennessee %.
A VERY interesting discovery has been
5 made in the library of the National
Museum of Naples, namely, @ A Treat
ise on Miniature Glluminated) Paint
ing" which treats of the art generally,
of the preparation of colors, the laying
on of gold, and other technical matters.
9 Tt is believed that this treatise, which
! dates from the fourth century, has ney-
er been printed, and is not to be found
in any new catalogue.
t On the night of November 9th some
f thirty persons at the Detroit, Lansing
l and Lake Michigan Railroad station of
e Coral, in Montcalm county, Michigan,
: were poisoned by reason, as is sup
3 posed, of eating sausage sold at one of
8 the village shops. There was lively
9 scene of terror for time, and physi-
e clans and prescriptions were in much
request. After much suffering all have
recovered except a lady and child, who
= are still i'll.
. The fact is cited as illustrating the
f advance in New York real estate, that
| the three lots, each 25x100, on which
l A. T. Stewards marble house is situa-
5 ted, corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty
r fourth street, were sold at auction
: twenty years ago for 81, 800. They are
S now worth $500, 900. Had Stewart in
3 vested his $4, 800 in Government bonds,
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