Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-11
General Items.

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THE army of Austria, on it's new war
footing, numbers ], 269, 900 men.
BRowN writes to learn if policeman has
any legal right to take up note.
WHAT requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come? Parting
with things as they go.
AN agent of the city of New Orleans
has negotiated loan of so, 900, 900 in
the London market at ninety cents on
the dollar.
THE statues of Francis l. and Loui
XIV. have been discovered under
lot of rubbish in the cellar of the Ho-
tel de Vile at Paris.
THE Arizona diamonds are merely
brilliant crystals that would make
very good material to pave garden
walks with or line fountain basin.
The Cincinnati papers are exulting
over the achievements of Joe Lytle, "a
little Cincinnati boy, who stole $40, 900
the other day at Utica, N. Y.
MEssRs. Bass & Co., the English ale
and beer manufacturers, paid to the
Midland Railway Company, England,
last year, $740, 900 for carriage of beer.
AMERICAN pig iron will be exported
to Europe within two or three years.
This is the prophecy of an old iron
master
THE late Lowell Mason received a
larger copywright than was ever given
to any author, with the exception Of
Sir Walter Scott.
WE have good news from Paris. The
narrow military heels for ladies' boots
are no longer fashionable in that city.
Half-inch heels is the mode.
DUNKIRK, N. Y, is boringfo gas, and
the prospect is favorable, as her sister
village of Fredonia, only three miles
distant, has been lit with natural gas
for many years.
AMONG the petitions presented to M.
Theirs is one presenting plan to pre-
serve the heads of the guillotined, and
to exhibit them from time to time as D
warning to evil-doers.
WHILE Mr.. James Russell Lowell
is in Europe, 7. b. Aldrich, of Every
Saturday, occupies his Cambridge
home.
A CUBIC inch of gold is worth $3.50.
A million dollars in gold, according to
the figures at the mint weigh just about
two tons.
IT is reported that the cupola of st.
Peters Church, at Rome, shows unmis-
taxable signs of decay. A commission
of Papal architects and engineers has
been appointed to examine 1T.
The Winchester Arms Company, of
New Haven, Conn, recently shipped
their first installtnent of 80, 600 rifles to
the Turkish Government. Mr.. Win
chester is now in Europe, arranging
for another large contract.
The Dominion Telegraph Company
have successfully laid cable across
the bed of the St. Lawrence between
Prescott and Ogdensburg. The cable
is about S, 800 feet long, and capable of
resisting the heaviest strain.
THE project of constructing a canal
between the Tennessee and Coosa riv-
ers, with view of opening a new river
route from the Mississippi to the At
lantic seaboard, continues to attract
considerable attention in the Southern
States. a4IH2
A THOUGHTFUL Englishman has left
large sum of money yearly for the pur-
pose of. sending patients of the Ma
tIonal Hospital for Consumption, near
London, to the Madeiras, in cases
where cures are likely to result from
the change. .aa'it'o8
INTERESTING but unpleasant revela-
tions have been lately made concerning
the adulteration of candy in New York.
Terra alba, verdigris, red lead, , ambo-
line and fusil oil are among the ingre-
dients employed. Some of them act as
violent poisons in the system. isi.a
An inclined railway, over which cars
are to ascend and descend by steel wire
ropes and stationary engines, IS to be
constructed just outside San Francisco
The incline will be 2, 800 feet in length,
and at the top the cars are to. be de-
| livered over to a horse railway.
THE peon system of labor still re-
mains throughout Mexico and upon the
Rio Grande border of Texas. A poor
man, on account of his own or the ne
cessities of his family, once obliged to
become the debtor of one of the wealth.
ier classes, becomes a bondman, and
his servitude is enforced until, by his
labor, he discharges the debt.
A GENTLEMAN addicted to scientific
inquiry, has discovered that thirty
three days complete the cycle of the po-
tato bug generation; that seven hun
dred of the critters are the average
product of one female, from which the
family grows in the second generation
to 245, 600, and in the third to 50, 7OO,-
O00
/ WHYMPER, the distinguished Alpine
climber, has just had two canoes built
for use in Greenland explorations.
One of them is driven by screw pro-
Ipeller at an average speed OF three
knots. and a minimum speed of five
and quarter, weighs only 80 pounds,
, Iipeluding her machinery, and affords
GOOD s1eeuing accommodations, though
only fourteen feet long.
STANwooD Brooks, of Abbeville, S.
EC.. has in his possession strange
, Ecbicken. It is hen changed into a
} rooster. The chicken laid the eggs,
Z and raised brood of chickens this
| wear, since which time it has undergone
| a complete metamorphosis. It has a
new comb aud tail, and it is, to all in
tents and purposes, rooster
.Augasstd (Gd.) Chronicle.
THE astounding statement is whis.
pered across the Atlantic that at last one
American girl has failed to impress the
European capitals with the belief that
! she can sing italian opera The fact
J that all of them who essayed the tasB
have succeeded 'tbeyond the most
sar guine expectations of THEN
friends was becoming a little tire.
} some The unfortunate feminine fe
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