Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-22
General Items,

THE parents of Hon. S. S. Cox cele-
brated their golden wedding, few
days since, at GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
NILSSON is reported to have made
S427, 3S2 during her late visit to this
: country.
NJ. LEBRUN, the French minister of
education, has named his three dangh-
ters fJemappes, . " Civilization - and
Republic"
A scHooL-BoY, fifteen years old, in
Clearfeld, Penn, stands six feet two
inches in his stocking feet, and is still
growing.
DIR. FRANKLIN says that every little
fragment of the day should be saved"
The moment the day breaks set your
self at once to save the pieces.
AT wedding in Poughkeepsie, not
long ago, the parents of the bride
groom charged the invited guests nine
ty cents per head for supper.
In Great Britain and Ireland there
were 1, ,O22 vessels built during 1871,
with capacity amounting in the aggre-
gate to 391, 05S tons.
A LITTLE Rock justice of the peace
adyertises to perform the marriage
ceremony the first time for twenty-five
cents, and afterwards for ten cents.
Hon. TIMOTHY DAVIS, ex-member of
Congress, and prominent citizen of
Clayton, Iowa, died at his residence IN
Elkader on Sunday last, aged eighty
three years.
| UNDER the new liquor law of Ohio, a
jury has given wife verdict of 81, 900
against liquor dealer for the loss of
her husbands society for over three
years"
AN East Indian millionaire, named
Lai Nitro, has been forced to accept
the temporary hospitality of the Lam
! beth poor-house in London while wait.
ing for a remittance from his home.
THE secretary of a total abstinence
society in Alabama acknowledges with
thanks the receipt of five gallons of
whiskey as contribution to the annual
supper of the society.
A TRAIN on the Des Moines Valley
Railroad, the other day, ran into an
immense flock of swan, branct, geese,
and other wild fowl, and killed many.
The birds were just about to alight Oh
the track.
The late Robert Harper, of Albany,
n. Y. won an election bet of $500, in
1868, and now his heirs have been COM
PEELED, by law, to refund $765, interest
being added.
IT is said there is lady in st. Au-
gustine, Fla, who is so fascinating that
even the wild birds of the forest come
huttering to her feet and perch upon
| her shoulders. She declines to make
game of them.
| A MUsKRAT recently bored hole
through the dam of large Massachu-
setJs fish pond, and let several thou
sand of the fine trout into the brook
! below, where for several days after
wards there was excellent fishing.
THOMAS, of Merthyr, in Wales, has
for long time sought to invent a prac
tical balloon for aerial navigation, and
! has at last, he thinks, succeeded in
making one that can tack against any
moderate breeze.
Tom O'CoNNoR, an unassuming Irish
man, is said to be the largest cattle
owner in Texas. He does not know ex-
actly how many he has, but. the total
will not vary much from go, 900.
DOM PIATT says: GA distinguished
diplomat, who had served some time in
Washington, died the other day in Eu-
rope, and among his effects they found
forty-two ultimatums and six hundred
1ove-letters from beautiful girls in
Washington"
| THERE is a curious Chinese proverb
which SAYS: sIn a cucumber field do
not stop to tie your shoe, and under a
plum tree do not wait to settle your
| L. e
you do, some one may think you are
stealing the cucumbers or plums.
A MAMMOTH century plant, forty feet
in height, and weighing over three and
half tons, has been shipped from near
Jacksonville, Fla, to parties in New
York. The plant is on the eve of bloom
ing a second time, and is therefore
nearly 200 years old.
WITH a total population of fifteen
! hundred thousand, Iowa does not pos
sess a city containing fifty thousand in
habitants The largest of her cities,
Davenport, has scarcely half that num-
Der, and but one other exceeds twenty
| thousand.
north CAROLINA has an old citizen,
aged 109 His mind is SO sound that
! he recollects occurrences which other
people have been studying the histories
to find out about for three generations.
The old fellow has eight children, the
Oldest 50 and the baby 81 years cid.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GRIDLEY, of
the United States steamer Michigan,
was married at Erie, Pa, last Friday
ter of the Hon. J. P. Vincent, Pre-
| ~; ov- Tn rro Of tba WoctorO dis.
trict of Pennsylvania.
ROGERS and Ives, the sculptors, have
returned to Rome from America, load
ed down with commissions-enough to
keep them busy for several years to
come. The italian artists are green
with jealousy at the unbounded pros
perity of the American stone-cutters.
OswEeo claims the credit of inaugu-
rating new system of medical practice,
which paralyzes allopathy, eclipses
homeopathy and hydropathy. One of
the celebrated physicians of that town
issued prescription, few days ago,
to one of his regular patients with these
significant directions: "Take one tea
spoonful every three years. %
The entire length of the canal by
: which it is proposed to connect the
Caspian and Black seas would be $50
Russian versts, or 400 miles, 1t is cal
culated that the work of construction
would take $4,000 laborers six years
5 Aside from the benefit of the canal on
commerce at large, it would serve to
replenish the Caspian sea, which Is
thought to be gradually drying up.
This is a season of the year when
cats do the strongest things IN order
to get noticed in the papers. The cat
that when deprived of her kittens, took
nest of young rats whose mother she
: had eaten, to nurse, is only paralleled
$ by the one that is playing the mother
l TO a brood of chickens. AS the feline
: instinct of destruction us liable to re-