Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-24
General News Items,

General News Items.
The San Francisco street cars are to
be lighted with gas.
The peach season is six weeks behind
| time in Georgia.
The 70 Semitic Valley is great even
| in its snow, which is now over forty feet
in depth.
| The prettiest pair of boots exhibited
at a recent fair in Cincinnati were made
by little German girl, aged Is.
| COPPER in great abundance has re-
Gently been discovered in Pocahontas,
Ark.
We are told that over ]. 900 patents
have been granted for improvements on
IKE sewing mochine in this country.
THERE is a generalmovement thrcu ugh
out Georgia looking to the reorganiza-
ton Of the old volunteer companies.
IT costs four times as much to run d
train forty miles an hour, as it does
twenty miles in the same time.
1t is thought that the book-publish-
ing business was never better In this
country than at the present time.
PLAIN gold sleeve studs, rounded like
a button, and with chasing or monogram
are the latest novelty in that line.
SILVER jewelry is manufactured to d
large extent now, and is quite fashiona-
bic in New York and Philadelphia.
A CONNECTICUT girl died in conse
quence of being told as an "ApriI
fooP that her lover was dead.
CONSUMPTION carries to the grave
200, 600 persons annually on the North
American continent.
American mocking birds bring larger
prices in Europe than the best of can
aries.
A MILLION dollars is the price of q,
well established and successful sugar
plantation in Cuba.
THERE are but eighteen Shaker soci-
cites now established in the several
states of the Union.
SCIENTIFIC experiment makes the ex-
treme velocity of wind 10 be ninety
three miles an hour.
A CRAZY Nevada man swallowed forty
dollars in gold and silver pieces the
other day A stomach pump didn t
fetch them.
The habit Of taking light break
fast is said to be one of the greatest
improvements of the age.
TRENTON, N. j., has a startling in
strument in the shape Of circular saw
some "a feet in circumference-the
largest in the world.
TH1RTY-oNE New York circuses start
out upon their march of devastation
this month. Picture it, think of it
dissolute man!
AN Alabama hen has laid several
black eggs, causing great CONSERVATION.
They say it is the sign of coming
negro war.
A WINDHAE COUNTY, Conn, man is
working up saw log, thirty feet long,
into fife for Gilmore's jubilee It viii
be blown by nitro-glycerine.
Both Fulton and Morse went to Eu-
rope, studied art with Benjamin West,
and came home to make application of
the agents of nature to the concerns of
practical life.
In Boston they do not shake carpets
any more; a new process has been in
troduced by which they are '"sham-
poOned."
The English custom of celebrating
the 2lst anniversary of ones oldest son
by party or ball has become quite
general in New York.
AT THE Syracuse salt works there are
about Al, 900 watts, sixteen by eighteen
feet in size, for making coarse salt by
evaporation; 316 blocks where it is
made by boiling, and four large mills
where table and dairy salt is made. The
total capital invested in the business is
about Sc, 200, 600.
The English alphabet has 26 letters,
the France %, the Italian 20, Spanish
81, German rs, Slavonic, ~, Russian
35, Latin %, Greek "a DC until 4O3 B.
c., when the "a Ionic characters were
introduced, the Hebrew %, the Arabic
%, Persian 80, Turkish, %, Sanscrit IA,
Chinese 214.
"NoRwIoH, Conn, is somewhat
rocky" says the Boston Bulletin.
The cook of an eminent citizen hay
ing injured herself by repeated falls
over ledge which projected through
the kitchen floor, he is now engaged in
blasting it, after which he viii turn his
attention to little boulder near the
centre table Ill the parlor"
NEWPORT vii be the rendezvous. next
summer, for the Washington diplomatic
corps. At this seemingly premature
period number Of cottages have been
rented by foreign ambassadors, and
rooms engaged at the leading hotels
for the innumerable secretaries and
! attaches.
AT Frankfort, KY, on Monday, dur
ing the storm, lightning struck the
house of man named Martin, killing
his child, and seriously injuring his
wife. Much damage vas done to that
vicinity by the great rise in the streams,
washing away saw-milb and bridges.
GERMAN papers tell story of a Polish
Jesuit, who undertook a journey to
Rome to deposit at the feet of the Pope
the "Peter's pence 10 which many a
poor peasant had contributed With the
sweat of his brow; but having, on his
way to the vatican, selected the route
by Homburg, he lost at the green baize
IN that watering place the sum with
which he had been charged
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