Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-07
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The menhaden fisheries around New
York took in 6, Isl, 500 fish last week.
LAND in some parts of Florida is Of
| fered at eighteen cents an acre.
One of Barnum's Iionesses accident
ally somothered her cub at Cincinnati.
A HERD of African goats have just
arrived in Richmond, Va.
Mr.. MICHAEL Dice, of st. Louis,
has horse which gambols and throws
Dice.
A 'scoKE FAM1NE" in the North of
England is exciting no little uneasi-
ness. zs-1f. er-eg-@
! A NEW town called Greeley has been
established in Missouri on the Platte
river. '' @'" abt5iit ai-
'HTHAT perennial absfrdity" is only
another name for the Congressional
Globe.
THE white glass gas shades are rap
idly superseding those made of ground
glass. ...-If#r.sF r. s5~rr..
A New YORK cemetery was recently
enliyened by fight between the wives
of two rival sections. aa8ileu
A wHITE-oAK tree near Fairburn, Ga,
measured fifteen feet in circumference
four feet from the ground. .02H3
The construction of the New York
Underground Railroad is to commence
in September.
GENERAL RosEcRANs is 1devoting his
time, energy and unsurpassed ability
to railroad building i'll Mexico.
IT is estimated that not less than
2,250,O00 stoves will be manufactured
in this country during the presentyear.
DAVID SMITH, the son of Joseph
Smith, the Norman prophet,lis lectur-
in New York against polygany.
A CAIIFoRNIA paper says: 'EJosiG
Mansfield will come to San francisco
to reside after the trial of Stokes"
THE 100 girls in the st. Louis nor
NAL school wear calico dresses and no
ehignons or waterfalls. yg slf.
+. PRINCE YTURBIDE, the adopted heir
of the late Macmillan of Mexico, is at
Cape May. 20 O saooEsi Sd mih
MRs. w. j. FLORENCE, the actress,
will not return to this country with
her husband, but remains in Europe al
other year. 2 f7a ''L ~ -af
PIERRE ZAcoNNE, one of the most
popular writer's. of light fiction in
France, is only 81 years old, and yet
he has issued already 325 volumes
THE light of aImatch will frighten a
wolf away, it is said, But love-matches
don't always keep the wolf from the
door |"s" T5t1siff saa}ett
9 A TwELvE-PoUNDJ piece of silver ore
was recently taken from a mine in Lin
ter district, Utah, which assayed $685.
900 to the ton. -jg 5m33 blBoW
4 SERIOUS disasters have occurred to
the coal fleets Oh the. Upper Ohio, by
which several hundred thousand bush
els have been lost. la 20 3ijaIo
The Boston and Providence r. B. Go.
have Just contracted for a new train
house in Boston, 800 feet long by 126
feet wide. zG YsAsI Eea3.oHqsa
A FoRTY-FIvE INoH dwarf, twenty
three years old and weighing Just o
pound to the inch, lives at Milan,
Tennessee fSzt a le8iEs T51i2a
g NEwBURYPoRT, Mass, is losing in
population. The assessors find 81 per-
sons less than the census Of 187j, and
that was 800 less than 1860. olls2
Miss EDITH. RICHARDSON fel into
mining shaft one hundred @ 0andseventy
feet deep, near Brownsville, California,
and was killed by the fall.
Nor less than twenty de5ths have
been reported from different parts OF
Kentucky, during the past month,
from the careless use of coat oil.
IT is stated that five persons at Tren-
ton, Tenn, died from eating fish that
had fed on g lepidoptefous Larvae.
They ought to have known better.
OVER thousand women are employ
ed in the decorative departments OF the
Leeds potteries. They work nine
hours day and get Is. 3D., about 6O
cents currency, a week. -rss
The Lenox Glass Company, OF Pitts
field, Mass. has a capital OF 5000, 0O0.
TT consumes fourteen thousand tons OF
coal annually, and pays to It's hands
so, 900 per month.
TT is stated that Iowa, with her "a
600 square miles OF coal lana, ana
Missouri, with 10000, have together
one-fourth of the total amount CT the
bituminous coal-working area OF the
United States. a4rs
THE scientists state confidently that
a. large subterranean stream runs under
the Colorado desert, and that the
whole region may be reclaimed by
means of artesian wells.
A GERMAN banker has bought l.
800. 900 of land or the line of the ST.
Paul and Sioux City railroad, mostly
in the vicinity of Window. OF this
amount, 81, 600, 900 worth is fora Ger
man colony. se7-a srt l-H
DIR. SIGERsoN, an eminent European
savant, has found in the air exhaled
from the lungs of tea drinkers a large
number of microscopic globules OF
poisonous narcotic oil, which, accord
ing to him, explains why tea sometimes
makes nervous people coughy
A ISLANDER which needs only to be
stated to be refuted Ai2bacheiof says
that if YOU hand lady newspaper
with a scrap cut out Of it, not adlne OF
If will be. read, but every bit OF inter
est the paper possesses IS centred III
finding out what the missing scrap con-
tanned. .-,,.ss ..-.---r
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A NEW ocean cable has Just been laid
from the Suffolk coast in England to
Hanover. During the past two years
%. 900 miles OF electric cables have been
laid in the waters Of England, France,
Spain, Holland, Turkey, China, South
America and Australia. .....
A PROMINENT stone contractor Of
Medina, n. Y, succeeded in contract
ing debts to the amount Of $23, GOO, and
then eloped on the 21st inst, with the
daughter of leading physician of
New York City, who was visiting at
Medina. The man left a wife and
three children, and stole 50, 6O03of his
wife's money, which she had received
from her father on Friday, and her
Jewels. Detectives are after the couple,
they are believed to have sailed for
Europe.