Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-12
General Items.

East Tawas, was burned last week.
Loss S12, 900.
AN English workingman recently and
irregularly struck for Ell ght hours, and
got six months.
i SEVERAL granite men, all the way
from the state of Maine, last week, IN
spected the granite quarries OF Mis-
souri,.
! A WYOMING papers fees for marriage
notices are q as high as the ecstacy
and Iiberality of the bridegroom may
prompt"
i A FISH breeder in Michigan had his
dam cut by an enemy in the night, and
millions of young trout escaped. The
loss was So, 900.
A FOREIGN magazine of fashion, i'll
describing new dress, adds, 'wlth
this costume the mouth is to be worn
slightly open"
l COPPER mines are in successful ope-
ration at Ducktown, in East Tennessee.
The different mines in the vicinity fur
nish employment to over one thousand
men.
The French name for "Dolly Var
dens" is E'Watteaus. An Obvious
misnomer, for when women wear such
dragging skirts no one can see what
toes they have.
A NEW Celestial physician, named
Ah-Tshew, has set up III San Francisco.
He is probably oftenest called by pa
tients who are suffering with influenza.
The notices of deceased graduates of
Harvard College will make a volume Of
about one hundred pages and will so IN
be issued.
Two acres of forest land on noun
tain side near Elkton, Mo-, recently
sunk to the depth of the tree tops,
leaving walls as vertical as the sides of
a house.
CALIFORNIA sets liquor laws at def
ance with the discovery of a natural
spring, whose flow, instead of the loOs-
ening influence of most mineral waters,
has the effect of making those who
drink it tight"
New YORK state has Il, 728 district
schools-houses, valued at S23, 469, 266.
Nearly $l0,O00,0 900 has been expended
for buildings and improvements during
the last five years. The number of
children in attendance is about 1,600,-
900.
THERE is not single licensed saloon
in the long stretch of country from
Estiville, Va, to Pearlsburg, in the
same state, comprising the counties of
Scott, Russell, Tazewell, Bland and
1 Giles
MAGMA CHARTA was translated into
| English in 1858; the Psalms of David
| 70
were first performed in English in 1928;
wills and settlements were first written
in English in 1347 and the first speech
in English was made in Parliament in
1892, by Sir Edward Turner.
Mrs. CATHARINE MARSH, who was
tried in Baltimore last year for the
murder of her four children, and pro-
nounced insane, is now confined in an
asylum at New Mount Hope, several
miles from Baltimore. Although only
twenty y-nine years of age, her hair
since the tragedy, has turned complete
ly white.
THREE young Cinnamon went to the
! Prefecture of the Seine, Paris, for Il
j patent for the working of a new system
of telegraphy invented by them. This
simple and ingenious apparatus, it
4 seems, is destined to obtain great sue
cess, especially as the cost is insig-
nifcant. The Young inventors have
only been studying in Paris for three
months.
g A CURIOUS portrait of Gen. Washing
ton, on earthenware, is displayed in q
New York jewelers. window It is
stated that soon after Washington's
death an American travelling in Eng
! land discovered some sets of earthen-
ware with these portraits enameled up
on them. He purchased the whole lot,
had the portraits cut out and framed,
and distributed them among his friends.
IT is reported that the curates of the
Church Of England are about to follow
the example set by the agricultural la
borers and domestic servants of that
country, by combining in a movement
for higher pay. Relatively speaking,
there are few persons whose lot is heav-
Ter than theirs. In nine cases out of
ten they are better men every way than
their superiors, whose work they do for
a mere pittance.
Buzz saw returns continue to come
in quite lively. A young man named
Oscar E. Camp, at Orange, VT, kicked
against saw the other day, and sthe
latter returned the compliment by split
ting his foot and leg to the knee and
throwing his knee pan to the other side
of the mill His arm was also split up
to the shoulder the whole length. He
lived but five hours after the accident.
OLD boots and shoes are now cut into
! 4o IL 10 -
sulphur for few days. This makes
the leather hard and brittle, and after
it has been washed and thoroughly
dried, it is ground to opowder and mixed
with a sort of gum or glue. 1t is
then pressed into moHlds, and buttons,
knife handles, and similar articles are
the result.
IT is said that Seneca Lake, n. Y,
was covered, few mornings since, by
coating of thin ice remarkable clr-
cumstance, as the coldest weather OF
winter failed to produce such coating
of ice, whether thick or thin SYRIA
cusians are polishing up their science,
and flooding the papers with very var.
ious and unintelligible explanations OF
the phenomenon. t3a.5
Two MEx1oANs and one Arapahoe
indian committed horrible outrage
nnon bow named Pulier, in Southern
Colorado some weeks ago, by holding
the bows head in the fire and burning
4 him frightful1y, because he refused to
Owe information where his herd was.
The guilty wretches escaped. The boy
viii probably recover, but he has lost
one eye, and his head presents a ghast-
i1VaDDearanc6,
THEoPHILIs PARSONS, whose sEDeus
Homo" and THE Infinite and the
Finite show him to be an acute think
er on religious topics, is 75years of age,
and has written seven of the most wide
lyf successful law books ever issued
from the press. He was Professor OF
Law in Hartford College over twenty
years, resigning in 1869. Prof Parsons