Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-09
General Items.

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THERE is perpendicular ledge $50
feet nigh on the shore of a pond in Maine,
from the brink of which it is difficult to
throw stones into he pond on account OF
apowerful attraction drawing the stones
to the base of the ledge .He
RECENT experiments have demonstrated
that tobacco CAN be raised in California of
as good quality as the best grown in other
States. Samples of tobacco and cigars
were recently exhibited in San Francisco
which could hardly be distinguished from
the best Havana.
THE manufacture of dolPs shoes from.
scraps of morocco, all fancy buttoned and
tipped, has, within the past three years,
! grown into big business. One manufac-
turer in Massachusetts, turns ont $4,000
pairs per annum, and uses 10000 feet of
morocco and sheepskin. The little pets of
the household angels are well equipped, it
seems, after all
! THE lady principals of the Brooklyn
public schools have petihoned the Board
OF Education for an increase of salary.
They now receive only $1,000 per annum,
and pray that their pittanee may be in
creased to $1,000 per year. The female
principals of New York schools are paid
$1,800 per year.
SOME idea of the business of Bass & Co.,
the English ale manufacturers, ma be =
had from the fact that their irei ght-bills
tor the past year amount to $700,000.
MARIE MITCHELL, of Lambeth, England,
struck a friend of hers over the head with
a quart bottle, and then, pouring parafine
oil over him, touched him off.
ANorHFR fashionable peril has been
discovered, which will doubtless frighten
the ladies little. Silks which are color
ed with picrate of lead are liable to ex-
piode at any moment, if subjected TO too
! great heat.
AN Indiana woman, Just divorced, has
written a letter of advice to her sex, in
which she says: &c [ would say to young
| girls, not to marry young, and when you
are married live at least fifty miles from
your husbands relatives"
As an illustration of the manner in
which mistakes in typography may arise,
the Birmin CHAM Post recently apologized
to It's readers for having described the in
famous can-can as a sdelicious dancen
The critic had written "delirious,O which
the printer had read as delicious
ONE of the Harper Bl others has refused
100000 for a corner lot in the vicinity OF
Central Park.
A STREET gymnast of Paris, known as,
: Samson Iron Jaw, whose specially was
E to pick up weights with his teeth and
throw them over his head, raised barrel
} with his teeth and in attempting to dispose
of it in the same way fell dead with
broken spine.
NEwFoUNDLANDERs are wondering why
their island, with its sea mines of fish, its
millions of acres of arabic land, and its
extensive mineral deposits, is not more
sethed and prosperous. They are calling
i for American capital and American ener-
i gy to develop their resources, and they
will get them when Americans baye more
than energy and capt. Il enough TO give to
the development of their own.
THE Nautical Gazette tells in it's last
issue, how the cabin passengers Of a GER
tain steamer were nearly starved TO death
on recent voyage from Liverpool to New
York. The ice gave out two days after
leaving Liverpool, aud. as consequence,
the meats, fish, and fowl rotted in the ice
chests, and, of course, the passengers were
forced to subsst on very hard tack.
An enterprising Delaware peach grow
| er has sent present of choice peaches
to Queen Victoria He is now watch
ing every express for gold snuff box
or some equally graceful and remuner-
ative token.
| BAGGAGE robberies of the most dar-
ing kind are constantly taking place
| on Continental European railways
| London newspapers are full of com
plants; intending voyageurs would
therefore do we'll to bear it in mind
The government will commence pro-
! ceedings for the enforcement of penal
! ties under the Emigrant law against
| the steamers Donau and Liberia for
bringing an excess of passengers from
Havre, Hamburg and Bremen.
PRINCESS LOUISA of England has
New Jersey branch of the Society for
the Prevention Cruelty to Animals.
A RACE between steam wagon and
trotting horse was witnessed at Rens-
selaer Park, Troy, the other day, the
former winning the mile heat in 2:28.
the leader of the Ultramontane party
in Parliament, has personally announced
the imminent publication Of a pole
mical pamphlet by his own pen, on the
expulsion of the Jesuits. 4e3iduq
TIE New York Evening Post advo-
Gates a sweeping change in the railway
system of the United States, propos-
ing. general system of consolidation
and the establishment of uniform rate
| for both passengers and freight for all
| distances.
! A SPECIAL dispatch to the London
/ Times from Paris says the report that
Theirs will propose to the National AS
sembly, after its recess, the formation
of a second Chamber is absolutely cor
rect. tax tIrar
THERE was novel feature in the
late Belfast riots. They began on the
same day as those of 1864.
A SINGULAR feature of the storms of
the present season have been their con-
ceptration within limited territory.
While the SchuyIkill and Delaware
i haze been swollen for ten weeks, the
II Ponaaac is lower than at any time
4 within twenty years.
A GENTLEMAN went into a jewelry
store in this city Saturday with dia-
mocnd pin in his scarf, worth SIG, 600,
and solitaire ring on his finger, worth
$4,000. He had $50, 900 worth OF dla-
monds on his person.-Bostcm Adoer-
tiSer.
! THE Jesuits in Metz have advertised
their property, movable and immova-
BILE, for public sale, preparatory to
their emigration into France. The es-
tablishment will be bodily transferred
to French soil without modifica slon or
reduction of numbers.
A NEW Panslavist paper entitled La
Slavic IS about to be brought out at
Geneva by Canon Mikorevshl and the
well-known insurgent Col Wirsb1ck1,
| both DISTINGUISHED leaders In the InSQr-