Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-02
General Items.

!, General Items.
THE prize melon of the Barnwell, S.
c., Sentinel, weighed 504 pounds.
Z JERUSALEM has been lighted with gas,
| and it is proposed to run street cars up
| the slopes of Mount Zion.
ELECTRICITY is used with brilliant
effect in Georgia, as hint to corner
loafers to move on.
GEORGIA land has doubled in value
since the discovery that the leaves of
the saw palmetto could be converted
into paper. = <astst = =
AN owl which was shot in Lauder
dale County, Miss, had a steel trap
with about two feet of chain attached
to it, hitched on to one of his feet.
A HEIFER with three legs and two nd
ders has been sold for 8, 900 in Nevada,
which is great deal more money than
she was worth.
A DEADLY quarrel is raging among
the fashionables at Newport, although
frantic efforts are being made to hush
it up.
THERE is a gentleman up town whose
neck is so long that he has to stand on
his head to part his hair. .-NeWork;
Advertiser
Mr.. SEwARD's "Travels Round the
World will shortly be published by
subscription from the press of the
Messrs. Appleton.
Louis NAPOLEON has been sued on
account of "Julius Caesar" whose life
he is responsible for. The publishers
Of that life have sued him.
Miss ANNA SWAN, who for many years
exhibited in Barnum's museum as the
Nova Scotia giantess, is dying with
consumption in New York.
SAN Francisco papers state that the
vintage of 1871 is the best ever pro-
duced in that state, and that the one of
the present year will probably excel
even that.
| One of the bathers at Boontown, n
j., broke his big toe while in the water,
but said nothing about it, and in few
days modification set in and killed
him.
The English robin, a bird totally
different in size, color and habits of
our brave, soldierly redbreast, is being
imported into the United States for ac-
climation here.
SAMUEL WILLIsToN has pledged $780,
900 for Iowa College, at Grinnell, Iowa,
and the next largest benefactors are the
late Senator Crimes and Congressman
| Oakes Ames
THERE is to be flying air-ship on
exhibition at the Kansas State Fair,
from the 10th to the 22d of September.
This ship is said to be one of the most
wonderful inventions of the present
age.
/ A DOZEN sheets of plate glass, 96 by
16S inches in size, were cast last week
at the New Albany, Indiana, plate glass
works, to be used for the front of bus
mess house in Chicago.
JOAQUIN MILLER has presented Grace
Greenwood with a pair of earrings
made of rattlesnake's rattles, mount
ed with gold.
A CALCULATING machine has Just been
crank can be made to multiply, add
and extract the square root. It multi
piled correctly 9,796 by 1886 in two
minutes.
A BOY in Perry, Georgia, killed an
owl with a gun without lock. He
put cap on the tube, took sight, got
negro to strike the cap with ham
mer, and down came Mr.. Owl.
i This is the last month that internal
revenue stamps will have to be affixed
to legal documents, as the new law
abolishing ali stamp duties imposed by
schedule B, except the tax of two cents
upon bank checks, drafts or orders,
takes effect on the 1st of October.
One of the uses of storms seems to
be to supply the world with salt, de-
rived from the waters of the ocean. It
is said that the animals on the high
Alps are peculiarly attracted by salt,
as if the height prevented the usual
supply in the rains.
The editor of the drawer in Har-
per's Monthly is the president of a
large insurance company, who likes his
work so much for it's own sake that he
regularly makes over bis annual salary
f2,500) to very worthy charity in New
York.
/ A FRENCH states that Dejazet, who
has entered upon her seventy fifth
year, is drawing crowds nightly at Mar
seilles to see her in plays of 'HMon-
sieur Carat" and "Gentil Barnard
She dances with the most elegant dex-
terity.
One Miller, of Lafayette, O., applied
for divorce from his wife last week on
the ground of imbecility. and the
sheriff served the notice on Mrs. Miller
while in her husbands house. The
schock proved to much for her, and the
next day her body was found hanging
by rope to rafter in the barn.
So EXTENSIVELY is the adulteratlon
of tea now carried on in China that
Mr.. Medhurst. the British Consul at
Shanghai, wrote that So, 900 pounds of
willow leaves were in course of mani
: pulation at one port alone, to be mixed
with tea for shipment, at the ratio of
from 10 to 20 per cent.
. PUNCTUATION is wonderful thing.
: A man telegraphed to Burlington tor
: school "Shall I come, or is theplace
D filled :" The answer property WAS,
S "Nol Place filled on the l7th. Inc
e telepraph operator received 1t, No
v nlace filled ON the II. He went for 1t
t and was minus travelling expenses.
4 rr,rppp are manufactured in the Uni
a tad States over $3.50, oeo packages OF
, pins per anaNaA, ts9ca enc 81 THESE
7 naexaaes should contain $500 pins,
: giving the enormous amount OF z, 49,
= 800, eNo p4as F4a3e annually, One fac
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