Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-30
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, moTes
r IRELAND has 1872 $50, 900 tons of coal to
dig.
) CALIFORNIA apple trees are blooming
; the second time this year.
MITCHELL, the new Oregon Senator is
ouly thirty-six years old.
AN iron girder bridge, 1900 feet long
has been built over tie Nile at CAIRO.
" WIssANBoURG y is the titlo of ,he first
of four war novels by Edmond About.
TAKING the political census on railroad
trains is getting to be something OF Il borc.
81 SUPPOSE that's sheer nonsense" says
Scroggs to us. "What?" said we. "Cut-
ting jokes from your neighhors' papers,"
THE twelve great Nations of the world
own two hundred and eighty-fve iron
ciads.
CLEVELAND, with a population of little
churches.
THE coming winter will be severe one
i "a fact Indicated by the unusual thick
nets OF the bed-bug's cocoon.
THERE is a heavy beech mast in Ken
lucky, and the corn usually fed to hogs
will be ma e into whiskey.
THERE are now ninety cadet midship-
men at the Naval Academy from the June
and September examinations, including
one Japanese and one colored boy.
IT is said that solution of gum can be
kept from becoming mouldy by adding
few drops of SUI phuric acid. A little alum
also has decided effect.
OLIVE LOGAN has new translation of
George Sands poetic romance, "Tiver-
ino,D which she entities GA Magnificent
Vagabond."
Two hundred men are employed in the
work of restoring the great hall of War
rick Castle, England, recently destroyed
by fire.
AMTxTURE of equal parts of cryolite and
of chloride Ut barium, it is stated, forms
Aux superior to borax for solderi, iron or
brazing copper, or brass or bronze.
A PAIR of old breeches with $500 in the
| pockets, went through a destructive ma
chine in an Iowa paper-mill the other day,
before the operatives discovered the
funds.
The squirrels are abandoning Arkansas
and swimming the Mississippi; into Tennes-
| see In droves. They become so exhausted
on fbe voyage that they are readily CAP
tured on landing.
The largest rifed gun ever fred is now
mounted at Nut Island, in Boston harbor,
where its inventor, Mr. Norman Wizard,
is preparing to amuse himself with u few
experiments on gigantic scale, before
/ Christmas.
Mr. JAMES BISHOP, of Fair Haven, CT.
| L |, G. I.
one weighing twenty-four and one-half
pounds, at one haul of his seine, in the
harbor on Monday e7ening
A FATHER living in Titusvile, who ha
| two or three very courtdble girls, placed
notice on the front door the other Light,
which read, Shut down for thirty days
No stove in the parlor, and but one Lamp
Mr. j. B. BARNETT, a Hebrew scholar,
contends that the Prophet Jeremiah, with
the remnent of the tribe of udah, migrat-
ed to Ireland, and was no otl er than the
celebrated Irish reformer and law-giver,
Ollam F)la.
"WHERE was the fire ?0 said lady to
her male companion, who bad rushed out
of the Titusyille Opera House the other
night the moment the curtain fell on the
first act of {" Victims" ''1s was false
alarm" said he chewing coffee and cloves,
vigorously
A YOUNG man lately attempted 10 shoot
some tender verses into his sweethearts
window, but her papa intercepted the cor
respondence, catching one Of the letters in
| his aar, and the v,ung N hts not been
seen in the neighborhood since.
] A NEW line of steamships, the Do
minion," is to run from Portland (Me) to
Liverpool this Winter. They include the
Memphis and Mississippi, and other first
class steamers. This will make two lines
f ON Portland.
A PATENT has been token out in London
for the preparation of an improved safety
writing ink, which consists in the addition,
to An ink. of solution OF yellow prnssiate
of potash Any attempt to remove this
ink bv means Of oxAic acid or other SUBJ
staaces changes it to a Berlin blue.
AN Arabian stallion was recently i'm
ported direct from Egypt, by Daniel Jeni-
fer, of Maryland. He is Is halds high,
with full, lustrous, intelligent eye, coat
like white satin, name long,thin, and silky,
hoofs small and well-shaped, and legs as
clean and nervous as those of a stag in
a word, he fills the ideal of steed OF the
desert.
A LAME girl, who had not, for fourteen
years, once left the third STORY back room
in which she lived, was among those who
participated in the late children's excur-
sions in Philadelphia. When carried to
the Park she asked what the grass and
trees were, and had 10 be told the names
of the most common Objects. She lay on
, the grass all day, drinking in the air ana
:, sunshine,and was seen to weep softly every
. little while from pure JOY
THE death of the Pope's elder broth
! err, Giuseppe Mastal, has REMINDED
n Europe that the Pope hlmselI com
n pleted his 60th year on the Ioth OF last
q Nav. In the course OF nature, the
y Cono1ove will soon be called upon to
q oloot his successor. but where is the
+ Conclaye to be held? 1t seems to be
= token for granted that an independent
session is impossible in RI me; and
y y Austrian Trent, Malta, and Monaco are
% % snolSen of. especial, the latter, where
N N the Conelave s'could be protected by
+bo combined fleets of France and Aus
tria."
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY Jesu1ts had
:. :: arrived in Paris from Strasbourg.
- - They walked in professional order
= from the Strasbourg Railway terminus
;s to their central establishment IN the
d Faubourg ST. German. AS Paris is
e e very well supplied with Jesuits,. those
n turned out of Alsace are thinking OF
II settling in England and Brazil. Eighty
e thousand Alsatlans have petltloned
v Bismarck to allow the banishsd fathers