Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-07
General Items.

IHE wafer WOIkS property, dt NOcH-
ester, N. Y, was recently sold at auc-
tion for $40, 500 @ha 2
SEVEN hundred and ninety men are
at present employed at the Mare Is
land navy-yard, whose payroll amounts
to $50, 900. p1S aaeh
EMERSON says: "In the great house
hold of Nature the farmer stands at the
door of the bread-room and weighs to
each his loaf. as3i8} 7nl Af
LONDON, with population of 3,O00,-
600, has only nine daily neWspapers-
five morning and four evening-while
Paris has twenty, and New York twenty
| four. rs --fs5 nedY 7sdtea
| DURING the recent g cold snap" in
Paris there were 800 serious falls on the
ice, 70 arms and legs were broken,
and two men died from accidents in the
streets
BLA1RsvnLE, Pa, is the site selected
by the Isabella Furnace Company for
the erection of mammoth coke works,
to supply it's furnaces at Sharpsburg.
INDEPENDENcE HALL, in Philadelphia,
was visited by 450, 900 persons last
year Over 100000 tickets to the
steeple were issued.
CHICAGO is contracting for brick at
from eight and half to ten dellars
thousand. Mccormick takes 5000, 900
at the lowest price. '7 '9'-'''
The number of vessels owned in
Philadelphia in 1871 was two thousand,
five hundred and forty-six; in 1870, it
was two thousand four hundred and
four
"THE Pigs Ear Oil Company" is the
romantic style adopted by company
in Western Virginia 1t depends on
the capacity of the we'll whether they
will make a silk purse out of it or not
The world uses $50, 900, OOOpounds of
tea each year, and 718, 900, O0OE pounds
of coffee China furnishes nearly all
the tea, and Brazil over one-half of the
coffee.
EMIL RITTERHAus, the most eminent
of the younger poets of Germany, has
a poem on Lake Erie, in which he talks
about the palm trees and aligators of
that region vii1sHtrs bot-.
The British mercantile marine con-
sists of $4,000 vessels, representing
100000 tons. OF these, LOCO, 900
tons are steamers and, altogether, the
English have more ships than all other
nations combined.
The value of property at Monaco,
the only famous place in Europe, where
gaming is still allowed, has doubled
since the edicts, suppressing Baden
Baden and the others. ez 5e
NEwBURYPoRT boasts of canary bird
that snng for five years, was silent six
years, and now, at the age of thirteen,
has begun to sing with all the fervor
and brilliancy of youth.
Two Cherokees committed suicide at
Fort Gibson, which is noticed as re-
markable fact This tribe has been
more noted than the natives of the
Emerald Isle for the rarity of sui
cides. .--.
A New HAVEN woman gave such an
unearthly shrek when she saw burg
lar making off with her household treas
ures, that the fellow dropped every
thing and made himself scarce in the
quickest time possible
A MAN died the other day from hab-
1tual drunkenness. A post nsorten,
examination of his internal organs
showed that his blood was largely mixed
with alcohol The coroner testified
that the heart smelled as though lit had
, been stepped in alcohol. v-s,.4ssg
In Washington county, Me-. two
: men. while at work on Columbia River
recently. aroused three baars, which
| they ran into their den. One of the
men, named Foster, entered the cave
with a musket and shot the whole
three. .re3assaH e
AT party at Harrisonburg, Va, a
few nights ago, a gentleman thought
, lessly attempted to burn q curl of a
: Young lady's hair. Unfortunatelya the
. curl was false, and in an instant the
: flames had enveloped the lady's head,
: burning her severely. ues shs
: A POOR man, for many years driver OF
d the Halifax, y. S., city prison wagon,
! the other day, received authentic in
) formation that his father and brother
y have recently died, leaving him f200,
e 600 invested in a bank in Dublin, and
d e7, 900 available cash in the hands of a
It brother, and three steamships.
J. THE new paper money which has ap.
) peared in Paris is printed in blue ink
L on fine tissue parchment paper, and is
issued by the Sociate Generate fo1
70 small payments of one, two and five
= francs. It is we'll received by the pub
Z lie, as small change has been extremely
q scarce since the war.
. A TREASURY girl, who has remarka-
& bly, fine complexion, says 1t was pro-
= dnced bv the arsenic which she absorbs
from the greenbacks she, handles.
There are hundreds of masculines,
whose complexions already leave moth
b, ing to be desired, who are willing to
s. absorb unlimited quantities of poison
T. in that particular manner.
> GRACE GREENWOOD, in her lecture or
:. &C The Heroic in Common Life, tells
= story of the wife of member of the
4 Arizona Legislature, whose housewher
= her husband was absent on hi
" legislative duties was attacked by In
= dians. She shot six, and the next day
= wrote to her husband Dear John,
Il the Apaches attacked the rancho.
- have won the fight, You need not come
= yourself, but send some more ammu
# milton. a 4G /. IIJ9aIJ
r. A MAN who can retire from the world
D. to seek entertainment in his own closet,
Of has thousand advantages which other
lie people have no idea OF. Ha Is master
n, of his own company and his own pleas
sr ures, and can command either the one
id or the other. according to his present
circumstances or temper ALI nature
is readv for his view, and all ages OF
mankind appear at his call. he ear
VI +ro1,.nort himself to the most distant
reoions, and enjoy the best and politest
4 company that ever the world afforded
~ SOME whining hypocrite advertises
L, Il for a wife in New York paper thus
"a "a 9 IF this should meet the eye of some
= friendless, humble follower of the Saw
! iour who may desire to unite her heart
= and hand in a perpetual union with &
;s gentleman of like character,y a line ad
I dressed to will receive prompt an6
;, honorable attention" That fellow
F : would kick his wife out of bed the frs
week of their marriage. Ofall the mis-