Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-03
General Items.


Amwell, Pa, went out and killed $3.50
rats -.- ~H
STEUBENvILLE. o., spent $4,000 in
a successful attempt to subdue the
small pox. "''o
Two INDIANS fred salute from an
old iron tube about twelve hours before
their funeral.
AN enterprising New Highlander is
running high pressure steamboat on
the river Ganges. q; 1as
A CLAY has been discovered in lay
lor township, Mich, which makes good
meerschaum pipes. 2GFg 9lt
BEET ROOT sugar is fast excluding
from France all other products of the
saccharine ingredient.
LITTLE Rock expects to obtain her
coal hereafter from mines just opened
III Pope county, Arkansas,
THE Cunard line have but one side
wheel steamer, all the rest are now
moved by screw propellers.
NATcHEz, Miss, is the only city in
the world which has nearly 10000 in
habitants and not a single hotel.
THEY tell of railway in Kentucky
whereon the locomotives are assisted
up steep grades by a yoke of oxen.
A CITIZEN of Troy, n Y, has been to
the diamond fields in South Africa and
returned home, having had fair success.
AMERICAN oysters are selling in Lon
don for thirty six cents a dozen. Eng
lish oysters cost seventy-two cents a
dozen.
One of Boulton & Watts original en-
gines, erected in 1899, is said to have
been uninterruptedly at work up to the
present time in the Spanish cinnabar
mine at Almaden. ~tsti
THE machine for working the sulphur
mines in Louisiana has arrived, and
operations will now be pushed rapidly
forward. gasG3
AN invoice of fifty factory girls, i'm
ported from Scotland by the Shetucket
Company, arrived In Norwich on the
9th ult .-H!gs.g gghnoB
PNEUMONIA has killed seven out of a
family of nine in Camden, Miss, all of
whom we're in perfect health last Christ
mas day. r4'G13lH $40 gi
D RHODE ISLAND is the onlyrState which
has followed the example of Massa-
chusetts in making The 22d of February
a legal holiday. Z Is os1sE
SPEAKING of the danger of catching
small pox by handling greenbacks,
country editor congratulates himself
that he is safe enough
GRASS is green in Dakota. From
Knoxville, Tenn, to Dalton, Ga, last
Sunday, the snow lay from ten to
eighteen inches deep.
A CANDIDATE for schoolmarm in
Henry county, Ohio, stated on examin-
alton that Virginia obtained its name
from the Virgin Mary. leH
The Stonington steamers Narragan-
sett and Stonington have not lost a trip
in four years, and have more than paid
for themselves since they were built.
worth 100000. She has proved her
admiration of America by investing
nearly all her American profits here.
The Tredegar iron works in Rich
mond are pulling down nine Of their
buildings to make room for new car
shops, which will be the finest in the
South. ..,... ,t.e.f.
The manufacture of cotton-seed oil
at Galveston, Texas, has been abandon
ed, on account of the high price of
transportation of the seed from the
plantations
A NEW and ingenious advertising
dodge is to print an advertisement upon
a strip of paper like a telegraphic dis
patch, and enclose it in an envelope of
the telegraphic matters.
=
The Duluth Tribune characterizes it
as a &C burning shame that Duluth has
no cemetery" and the attention of the
Duluth City council is earnestly in
voked to this grave subject.
Mile. MARGUERITE BEILANGER, who
acquired unfavorable notoriety through
her intimacy with Napoleon I'LL, has
returned to Paris, and has handsome
residence in a fashionable street.
DURING recent cold snap at Calves
ton, Texas, Judge Dodge had to adjourn
the Criminal Court until the county
could borrow $5 from the Deputy Sher-
iff, to buy fuel to heat the court room.
Two YOUNG men in Omaha arrayed
themselves in masquerade costumes,
few evenings ago. and confronted
Miss Agnes Cullen. The success of the
joke was 80 complete that her recovery
is doubtful. s09a II s31
INSTEAD of flying kites, bringing
ing philosophical axiom, Mr.. Benjamin
Franklin, of New Orleans, spends
major portion of his time in stealing
ducks. nlaA alHst.l
AN experienced butter maker of Yer
mont says the chief trouble with bad
butter is, that the cream is allowed to
stand too long. His dairy rule is,
skim early, churn early, and sell
early
SOMEBODY tells the Scientific Amer
lean Of a way to clear well OF carbonlc
acid gas. It is to lower red-hot IRON
to the water, so as to produce Little
steam. The vapor instantly absorbs
the gas.
A GENERAL, impression prevails at the
west that very serious floods are likely
/. To visit the line of the Union Pacific
Railroad when the warm weather ap-
nroaches, The snow is very deep in
the mountains.
THE opal is a s1hcate containing
water. and is much softer than quartz
When the stones become dull they may
be made bright again if they are left
for month or two in a damp cellar,
where they will absorb more moisture
THE favorite mode of ss shazing"
practised by the feminine sophomores
of Michigan University is to seize some
good-looking freshman, bind him hand
and foot, and then kiss him in the most
terrible manner I
Mrs GoEBEL, of Terre Haute, spent
a rainy afternoon last week in over
hauling a venerable clothes-chest, and
found wedged in a crevice a gold coin
which she lost when a child, in Ger
many. tWentY-fiYe ynarS apo