Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-31
General Items.

!, River, Iowa, that they clog the mill
wheels.
A LOUISVILLE German rejoices in the
suggestive and rather appropriate name
{ of Sauerwein. -a
HELEN JOSEPHINE MANSFIELD will not
lecture this winter. She is likely to go
. into mourning
A MAINE woman has swallowed 270
bottles of cherry pectoral, and still
lives.
\ CYLINDER fat, with a calico dress,
was all the description q Louisville
woman could give of her lost babe.
4 BosroN has seventy-six hotels and
one thousand one hundred and twenty
4 one bar-rooms.
The champion temperance man lives
in Danbury, Conn. He has signed the
: pledge eighty-three times.
! a VIRGINIA town laughs in its sleeve
at venerable turkey -gobbler, who has
grown gray in the effort to hatch four
4 apples.
A SPLENDID new hotel is going up at
Lydecker's Point, on the Palisades.
The building is $50 feet long and four
stories high, and will cost, with grounds
complete and trim, $3.50, 900.
The camel coal from the new mine
near Louisville is said to improve In
quality at distance of Ii feet. A great
deal of gas escapes while distilllng, and
there are strong indications of oil.
The popular superstition that over
turning the salt is unlucky originated
in picture of the last supper by Leon
ard1 da Vinci, in which Judas Iscariot
is represented as overturning the salt.
BEEF tea was the favorite beverage
offered to visiting guests on new years
day in Atlanta, Georgia. The old men
smacked their lips over the novelty, but
the young men g couldn't see it. %
AT the recent strike of the telegraph
clerks in England, ten ladies employed
in an office also struck, and, what is
more, they refused to go in again un-
| less their male companions were also
reinstated.
A PENNSYLVANIA has wen on the
side of his head so near the size of his
noddle that he frequently puts his hat
on it by mistake. and walks with his
body at an angle of 45 degrees.
POTTER PALMER, the Chicago mil
lionaire, recently remarked to a friend
that Chicago could never be the city
that it was. He didn't think so just
after the fire, but his mind is made up
now.
A NEW invention is an earring made
to fit over diamond ear ring and COM
pletely conceal it, so that lady when
travelling may wear her diamonds IN
her ear. and vet have them completely
hidden from sight.
CE1EBRo-sPINAL MENINGITIS is what
thev call it now, instead of emotional
4 insanity which has had an extensive
run. THAT was the trouble with Ketch-
um, according to the testimony of num-
erous learned doctors.
New YORK beaus are Mortified to
learn that many of their lady friends
designated with an asterlsk those OF
their New Years callers who drank too
much wine They whose names are on
) this black list will receive no more in
vitations.
The Louisville Commercial announ-
ces revival of the distilling interest.
A new distillery in that city cost $780,,
900, and will make fifty barrels per
day. Last week six sour mash distll-
lers resumed work in Owen county.
HAMILToN's ambition is to become
the Birmingham of Canada. Several
of the leading citizens have founded a
company to establish a boot manufac-
tory on a large scale. 1t is expected
that 24O hands will be employed when
operations are commenced.
, KEY. DIR. PEABODY, in his election
sermon at Boston, the other day, said
C The sole reason why women were un-
derpaid was that women who did not
need work were mean enough to under
bid those who did, and the lowest bid
, ruled the market.
AIDES MONIES girl enjoying buggy
ride with her lover, had her ch1gnon
removed by horse which was driven
I'D behind. Just as the thing was done
the driver of the horse whipped up,
; and passing the lovers, whirled away,
the chignon dangling from the horses
mouth.
A MAN in Danbury discovered that
powder fried with lard was good for
, boils. He tried it. The stove cover is
, in the second story now, though most
E all the rest of the stove has been col
lected. He was deceived in his lard, he
says.
l A CEMENT of great adhesive power
may be made by rubbing together in
mortar, two parts Of nitrate of lime, %
of water and 20 of powdered gum ara
l bic. this forming transparent cement
+ of remarkable strength, and applicable
d to wood, porcelain, glass, and stone
S The surfaces to be united are painted
n with the cement, and bound together
; till the drying is complete.
. In January last, lady of the ballet,
Enilie Dubois, was burned to death on
the stage of the Theatre des Galleries,
ST. Hubert, Brussels. Her family now
f claim 10000 francs damages of the
% manager, M. DEVIL. The tribunal has
+ ordered an investigation to see if the
A precautions taken in the theatre to pre-
,f serve life from fire were sufficient to
4 render Mr.. Delvil irresponsible for any
a. accident.
E. The New York Commercial Adver-
e. tiser says: "Donn Piatt says that the
l., humorist Browne (Artemus Ward) stole
sd all his Jokes from q real Snowman
Us named Ward, with whom he Travelled
er as door-keeper Dom Piatt is also a
I'd humorist, but it will occur to many
m what a pity it is that Dom P1att
r. hadn't an opportunity to travel as door
es keeper with some equally gifted show
K man.
~ The old Pony engine, which has
a' q done faithful service on the New Yort
y. !. Central railroad for % years, is at last
~ ns played out" and has been to Syrac
~ ~ use. It had become wheezy and rheu
~, ~ matte of late, and it is doubtful II 1
'rE Of will pay for any further repairs. Ihl
ba m is one of the original locomotives ol
of of that line, running at one time between
no Albany and Utica.
- The oyster famine continues in Bos
70 ton. About twenty boats are now o
their way from Virginia with som
M so. 600 bushels on board. but when the