Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-28
General Items.

over l, 900 pairs of shoes per hour
"FoRTUNE, men say, doth give too
much to many, but she never yet gave
too much to any
A CELEBRATED writer. says that the
sweetest, softest, tenderest, truest eyes
which a woman can carry in her head
are green IN color. , e
| AN imaginative Western editor in
| forms his readers that "No jeering
skeleton mocks him from the battle
ments of melancholy's lofty peak. "".au
JOSH BILLINGS says: "When you
strike lie, stop boring; n1enny man
has bored clean thru and let all the lie
run out at the bottom. .
| The largest Protestant Sunday school
in Philadelphia is said to contain
about eighteen hundred scholars, the
smallest ten.
The Stewart House, at Elkhart Lake,
was burned last Thursday morning,
with everything in it. Loss about
| $3, ,000-no insurance.
The corporation of London discov-
cred an error of ego in their accounts.
A professional economist was called in
and fixed the thing right. His charge
was 9482
THERE is a twenty seven year-o1d wo-
man in Will county, Ill, who has
shaved for eighteen years, and now
rejoices in beautiful mustache and a
coal black imperial ~
A YOUNG girl was practicing the
"Battle of Prague on a piano, in
Brooklyn, on Saturday last After she
had played for two hours, burglar
shot at her through the window, but, to
the grief of the neighborhood, missed.
BISHOP S1MPsoN's name, with $50
after it, appeared in the list of sub
scribers for the Alexis ball at Phila-
delphia. The Methodist papers deny
that the Bishop authorized the use of
his name for such purpose. sYeH
MARK TwAIN's lecture was steno-
graphed by Pittsburgh reporter and
published. Mark called on the re-
| porter. The reporter said he had been
Instructed to take it. eyes, said
Mark, "and if my pocket book had
been on the table you would have been
instructed to take that too, [ suppose.
MILE. NILSSON appeared in the Ger
man at the Gait House, Louisville, on
! Monday evening. AS sketched by the
| Commercial, g she foated through the
rooms in mist of white'moire antique,
touched with the azure of blue over
skirt, through which cleaned tangles
of gold as fecks of sunshine play up
on the bosom of some blue lake
| The Hartford Evening Post says:
GA Canaan man hung himself, and
Jury of his neighbors was impannelled,
in accordance with the requirements in
the case. After mature delibe ration
upon the evidence adduced, one OF the
/ number was asked what conclusion he
| had reached, when he frankly respond
ed 90. there haint the least morse1 OF
doubt in my mind of the critters
guilt ~"
JEWELLERS along the Sacramento and
Napa rivers, as well as upon the shores
of San Pablo bay, daily see floatlng
down the streams and cast upon the
shores by the incoming tide, the re-
mains of drowned animals. On the
south side of Mare Island the careasses
of these dead animals lie strewn along
| the beach for miles, washed out by the
tide water, and in a state of decompo-
sition. s@iea sa1s -
The Young American (lllinois) Plain
dealer saws: Rev. James Tr1bbs has lost
recently over one hundred and fifty fat
hogs. out of a total of two hundred and
fifty. which he had in his yards, and
they are still diving of hog cholera. The
/ disease attacked his hogs just after he
/ had secured the marketing of la, which
averaged a trife over 800 pounds apiece
The hogs have died at the rate of from
one to nine daily.
MEssRs. GUTENBERG and Vohl have
shown that phosphorus is so readily
absorbed by carbon that, taken IN the
form of pills, carbon constitutes COM
plete antidote. The pills are made of
animal charcoal. powdered and mixed
with a little gum. In match factories
these pills have relieved operatives
poisoned by phosphorus, and are, there
}. fore. a much better remedy than that
proposed by M. Personne; the essence
of terebenthine having been found TO
produce violent headaches by continued
use.
HANS HEINRICH Mo11ER and Anna
Moller, his wife, have brought suit
against the Pacific Mail Steamship
company, at San Francisco, for i'll
treatment during a recent trip from
New York to San Francisco. They lay
their damages at S3, 500. julius Gott-
leib has also brought suit against the
Central Pacific Railroad company for
/ Sl5. 600 damages, for ejecting him from
, q train at Humboldt Wells, when he
: had paid full fare from Corinne to- San
: Francisco.
The growth of Denver, Colorado, is
| remarkable. The official census in
June. 1870, showed less than 5000 in
: habitants. A real estate firm IN that
CITY recently had census made at
their own expense. with view TO pub
l1cation along with other statistical
matter. They find that the population
in December, 1871, was 10, 832, having
more than doubled in 18 months. The
c. number of buildings erected in 1871
was 783, valued at 2,391, 375. The
? amount of business done at Denver
during last year, is reckoned at more
3 than S14, 0OO.O00
I I The casket in which the freedom OF
the city of London is to be presented to
: : the Baroness Burdett- Coutts has been
made. The box, of which it chilly con-
, sists, is supported by four winged hg-
ures emblematic of Prudence, Justice,
: Temperance and Fortitude, executed
! with great del1cacy and artlsuc Shlil.
! Between the figures the sides OF the
:, casket are divided into eight panels, on
y seven of which are engraved tableaux
1 of the Seven Acts of Mercy. The eighth
e and centre panel bears the arms and
e e supporters. Of her Ladyship. The lid
l is doned and surmounted by the city
j! j! arms.
(! PRoF. SoHU1TzE made an announce
: ment, at a recent meeting of a German
$ association, which was received with
e enthusiasm, it being regarded as a
/ pioneer discovery by research in new
d field, which is likely to be of great i'm
It portance in applied chemistry. Hejhas
succeeded in obtaining mellithic acio
by the direct oxidation Of carbon with
o permanganic acid in alkaline solution
/ Oxalic and other acids had been alst
Y produced previously by the same. pro
t cess. Mellithic acid was obtained from
I for IL. n. !