Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-24
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lines of a length exceeding fifty miles.
BRAZIL last year exported more dia-
monds than ever before.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY has been estab-
lshed one thousand years.
MILK is selling at cent quart in
some parts of Minnesota
THE annual importation of monkeys
and parrots exceeds s, 400.
New ORLEANS sends ship loads of
fishing rods to northern ports.
EXECUTIONS for murder will hereafter
be by shooting in Austria.
Two pigeons were among the victims
of supstroke at New York.
Coal is cheaper in some places on
the Hudson than it has been in ten
years. a a- r.s. s--.4
A FLEMISH army surgeon recon-
mends wooden shoes to prevent rheu-
matism. s. sa srHao4
A DETROIT ferry passes free all
citizens over 80.
YOSEMITE is 1uil Some of the fash
ionable trunks that arrive are as big as
the trees. .s r
ILLUMINATING in honor of a serenade
was the means Of detecting thief in
house in Mobile zsa % aais
THE latest exploit of the potato in
Georgia is to grow inside a stout iron
ring and burst it asunder.
The island of Barbados comprises
an area of 106,270 acres, and has a
population of 162, O42 inhabitants.
THE Governor of Guatemala has or
dered the confiscations of all property
belonging to the Jesults.
The Gar has to support his tele-
graph lines across the steppes on brick
pillars, no wood being available.
81 THE London Daily News pleads for
the abolition, though not by legal
means, of periodical rook shooting.
The new International copyright
treaty between England and Germany
will be of great advantage to British
authors. s4'
The presidency of Smith Female
College, at Northampton. has been of
fered to Prof. L. Clark Seelye, of
Amherst.
IRON shingles have been lately pat
ented, and are said to be less expen-
sive than slate. They are made about
six by thirteen inches in size, and fast
tened with headless nails.
AN author has reason to believe that
whenever the wages Of the mechanics
are raised to So or so day the work
men will not come at all--they will
merely send their cards.
The following is given as the code of
a successful butter slairyman Skim
early, churn early, andsell early.
A coIoRED female reveller at Coving-
ton, KY, recently sentenced to bread
and water fare, bewailing her hard lot
too freely, received the latter part
through the jail hose. ..e.g.e,
TWENTY ONE of the Boston Congre-
gational Churches contributed $2S, ,271.
II to the American Board of Foreign
Missions for the year just closed.
SINCE Jan. /, 77,0SS, 592 feet of 1um-
Der have been surveyed at Bangor,
Maine, decrease of 4,501, ,6S9 as
compared with the same period last
year.
A FACTORY boy in New Hampshire
fell out of third story window,
Tuesday, but as he struck in large
tub of water, came out unhurt.
The Trustees of Delaware College
(the institution which received New
York's share of the national donation
of Agricultural College lands) have
resolved, almost unanimously, to all
NIT female students
A PAIR of New Haven parents are af
ficted with boy that doesn't stop
whistling, even in his sleep.
A CHICAGO minister told a reporter
that he thought himself 1.-The most over
estimated man in America. {" And that
reporter went off and praised what he
called that minister's excessive mod
esty.
GUsTAvE DoRE is coming to America
in 1878, and will probably try his hand
at sketching the picturesque points on
this continent.
THE foreign commerce of New York
! for the past week consisted of $685.
239 in merchandise exports, $4, 472, ,957
in produce exports, 50, 624, 81 in specie
and bullion export. The total imports
since January l are $3.50, TIA, SOL; the
/ exports S111, ,123, ,604 in products; and
4 $39, 216, ,418in specie all bullion.
TWENTY ladies were dropped from
the rolls of the internal Revenue Office
on Wednesday,, there being no money
appropriated to pay their salaries.
MARK TWAIN has been entertaining
Bret Harte at his home in Hartford,
and some one is cruel enough to sug-
gest that they must have been a hearty
taUGin
THE golden medal coined in honor of
the two hundredth anniversary of Peter
the Great, shows the portrait OF the
hero of the day on one side, and on
the reverse the words: '' In memory
of the second centenary of the birth
Of Peter the Great, May 30, l672-May
80, 1872, in the reign Of Alexander LII. "
PROF. j. Fl. SEEbYE, of Amherst Col
lege, will start OF his trip around the
world on Friday, July II, the day after
: commencement. He will be joined In
California by S. r. Bonnell, of Wor-
cester. and of the present senior class,
who will 60 in company with him to
; ,Japan and India, as special correspond
3 ent of the N. Y. Times.
THERE are at present in Paris several
'fvoung Japanese girls who are learning
fbe dress making business, for the pur-
: pose of introducing the art in Japan.
!. It is considered in Paris great privi-
: lege to receive permission to view
,, these girls at work. 42
, J. Fl. CARnANY, publisher of the
5 Overland Monthly, has Just closed ne,
gotiations with Joaquin Miller for his
} great South American poem, for which
the sum of $4,000 in gold coin is paid
1t will appear IN serial form, commenc
IL
: Overland. Miller has just arrived il
New York City.