Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-29
General Items.


lectured each winter in Salem, Mass.
THE present cost of living in Paris is
said to be nearly twice what it was pre-
vious to the late war.
BAD cooking on the part of a wife has
been held by Texas judge to be suf-
icient grounds for divorce.
THE gold leaf used for decorating the
interior of an ordinary sleeping coach
costs 5000.
4 The most charming Seaside townin
England, although tabooed by the
upper ten, . is Ramsgate.
MILLIONS of honey bees have been
noticed crossing the Ohio river south
ward, near New Albany
DURING the winters of 1S7O-71, Kan
sas packed 30614 hogs. In 1S71-72,
43, ,O04
THE savings banks of the United
States contain deposits of 1000, OOO,
! 600, mainly the surplus earnings of
mechanics and laboring. men.
CALIFORNIA consumes raisins of for
eign importation annually to the value
of 5000, 000 and imports sugar to the
amount of 81, 100000.
The experimental tunnel to be con-
structed on the English side of the Bri-
tish channel will of itself cost 50, 000,-
! OOO
! A BUFFALO lady was on Mount Vesu-
vius when it commenced it's recent star
performance. She escaped with trlfi-
| ing injuries.
Sixty thousand skunk skins were re-
Gently sold in Michigan at from 81 for
eprince black" down to 20 cents for
inferior qualities.
A CUTLERY manufacturing company
in Pennsylvania is said to have made
five year contract for six hundred Chin
ese operatives at 80 cents day
AMERICANS in Berlin have formed the
Columbia base ball club, which uses as
a ball ground field accorded them by
the Grown Prince of Prussia.
THE American artists in Paris are fly
ing southwark to Italy and to Spain.
Only few will remain in the city after
the close of the salon.
V1sTToRs to the British museum are
! shown an anvil, very like any other
anvil, which is declared to have once
belonged to one of the Pharaohs..
A KNIFE, a razor. some buttons and
some bones, dug out of the ground at
Cabbridgeport, Massachusetts, form
the basis of mysterious case.
DURING 1871 the number of ships
which passed through the Suez canal
was 765, and during the first two months
of 1872, 200. ships passed through.
A NUMBER of young ladies of Yonk-
ers, n. T., have decided to organize a
club under the name of Mermaids, with
a view of engaging in aquatic sports.
CoNNEcrIcUT has ninety-four fire IN
surance companies and forty life lnsur-
ance companies, the former having
$75, 900, 600 in assets and the latter
/ 1920, ,000, 900.
fo SEVERAL large manufacturing estab
lishments at Hamilton, Canada, have
4oelzed ont their employees rather than
yield to the nine-hour movement. About
1000 hands are locked out.
THE Springfield Republican has re-
turns from 162 towns in Massachusetts,
of which 50 are in favor oflicsns1ng the
salesof ale, beer, &C., and 109 in favor
of prohibition.
Miss RAMSAY, the daughter of Gen.
Ramsay. United States Army, took the
vows and received the veil of the sister
hood attached to ST. Johns hospital,
/ Washington, short time since.
A DErRoIrER has invented machine
which trims wall paper, holds it up
: against the wall, puts on the paste and
cuts off and smooths down the strips,
and does the work nicer and faster than
three men.
SAN FRANCISCO proposes a tubular
d tunnel across the bay. 1t is to be 70
. feet in diameter, of boiler iron, to be
sunk from 2S to thirty feet below the
surface, and held in place by its own
buoyancy and by cables and mushroom
anchors.
Pms have been thought to be a COM
paratively modern invention; but the
London Court Journal says that col
i lection of 25 well-made pins has been
found III the subterranean vaults of
Thebes-showing that the modern pin
is only q reinvention.
The board of water works commits
sioners of Port Huron have awarded
the contract for water works machinery
to the Holly manufacturing company,
of Lockport, N. Y The works are to
be in operation within four months.
j The best scientific scholars of the
country say that never before in any
! year, has there been such tremendous
force of electricity in the air as has been
noticeable in the last eight or nine
months, and that The cerebral diseases
now so prevalent are caused by the
highly electric atmosphere.
AN English lady asked Miss Gather
inc NJ. Sedgwick, while abroad, wheth-
er, they had any fine old trees in Amer
lea, and then, catching herself, added,
"Oh, beg pardon! I forgot at the
moment that your country was so late
ly settled ~ Do oaks really then grow
in fower-pots
ACCORDING to Massachusetts, paper,
the wreckers on. Cape Cod are becom-
ting almost as wicked as any of whom
we read. They are in the habit of CIV
ing false information to shippers and
displaying deceptive signals for the
purpose of drawing vessels upon the
rocks.
STRIKES are becoming very numerous
Just now in England. Not only are the
day laborers striking, but the domestic
0IC eD
ment. They ask for an increase OF
: wages, half-holiday each week, and every
other ri Sunday, their working hours to
5 be from 6 until 10 o'clock. The buffers
and gentlemens servants also threaten
strike.
! AN interchange of recorded observa-
, tions between the officers OF the Mel
: bourne Observatory and Prof Heis, of
, Munster, in Prussia, has disclosed the
! fact whenever an aurora display was
! ! seen in Melbourne in the South Pole
7 tho aurora borealis was visible some
: where in the northern hemisphere. So
> saws the Melbourne Argus. The stimuli
3 taneousness of magnetic disturbances
! in both hemispheres must be regarded
: as established beyond a doubt.
THE Rev. II. E. Chaplin has long been
an acute sufferer from the pO1lt in his