Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-20
General Items.

| but it's never at premium.
MINERAL COTTON" is being made at
| Conshonocken. 1854 s
The sex of eggs-long, slim eggs
are males; short, round eggs are fe-
males.
AT Glasgow, Scotland, an iodine
factory uses up 1000 tons of seaweed
every year. .H6oa
The national exposition at Lima,
Peru, has been postponed until the
18th of May. i9ta.' s"'9t''
AN auction sale in London, recently,
of over 1000 carats ''Cape diamonds"
realized e46, $50
/ THE ice in the Potomac River has
disappeared, and navigation at Wash
ington is unimpeded. r-t
| New potatoes have appeared in tbs
California market, and apple trees at
| Oakland are in full blossom.
THE snow bound mails arriving at
San Francisco on Feb. 20, filled 750
bags, and were distributed in "a hours.
Mr. Po1sGRovE, of Fort Scott, Kan,
has IN one year raised from the seed a
grove of soft-maples four feet high.
In Rutherford county, N. c., last
week, twenty=seven hundred rabbits
were killed iby the industrious inhabi-
tants.
MEASURES are being taken in Wash
ington to secure government relief for
the crews of the lost whalers of the
Pacific feet.
A LOVING husband and wife in Rut-
land, Vermont, had a race the. other
day, in separate turnouts, through the
principal streets. The lady came in a
chignon ahead.
A PARTY of five men were drowned
last Wednesday, at Body Island, while
attempting to save the crew Ola wreck
ed schooner.
A NEWARK bride sent her friends
slices from her wedding cake, in which
were beaten up two hundred and eighty
embryonic chickens sai fa4aho
A NEW style of overcoat In Cleveland
causes the wearer to resemble a cross
between a drafted man on picket,
and an cold clothes dealers sign.
A JURY was recently empanneled in
Reading, Pa, the ages of whose mem
bers were as follows:s 70, so, rs, ST, 81,
II, 72, rs, 79, 80, 85, 73. The averag
age was eighty years, c .o
EIGHT of the rufians that attacked
officer Tully, of New York, Sunday,
have been held for trial. One of them
is heir to $4,000, but his mother knew
him too well to give bail for him.
TUE police Of Boston ask for an in
crease of their salaries. The Captains
want $1,000 year; Lieutenants,
81, 400; Sergeants, $1,000, and patrol
men, $1,000.
The '' mistake " of druggists clerk
caused the death of the wife of Colonel
j. NJ Ihornburg, a young lady very
highly esteemed, in Nashville, few
days ago.
AT St. Joseph, Mo-, on Sunday night,
a singular light, resembling a large
sized gas-light, was observed on the
steeple of the Francis Street NJ E.
church It is supposed to have been
produced by electricity.d- u4 .oiY
/. TIE lock at Salisbury, on the old
Pennsylvania canal, is now being taken
away by the Central Railroad Company,
any q part of it will be used IN the
erection of soldiers monument in the
Edgewood cemetery at Salisbury.
CHEYENNE people have on foot pro-
| ject to build by subscription public
! hall. to be called g Recreation Hall"
and to be used for gymnastics, dancing,
roller skating, and other Similar, per-
fornoances. re- G8 Ey5aF 5Tu3ft5i
REVENGE is sweet. A widow 'won
$4,000 from a German gambler at
Baden Baden, and a French General,
whose hatred of Germany is undying,
married the avenger of his cou ntry-
and the 100000. ...J
A New ORLEANS girl being offended
with her lover, a coachmah, instead of
cutting his acquaintance went to-. his
stable one night and cut the top, body
and cushions Of handsome barouche,
for which her John had her arrested.
THREE Cape Porpoise boats arrived
at Portland on Saturday last, the aggre
gate catch of which was about 81, 900
fish, caught in one day, and the days
work netted the fishermen 81, ,30Gse 1t
is rare that the fishermen off the coast
have such good luck.
PErzREg11Fr11IED0 trees have been found in a
bog at Waterford, Vt. In two instan-
resting upon another, indicating that
the latter tree grew after the first had
fallen, the seed having been deposited
on It's stump sf.t 1ttHtI5a 9iE
DR.. HAYES, the Arctic explorer,s an
nounces his belief, which agrees with
that of other recent travellers, that the
interior of Greenland is covered with
ice, and he thinks it would be impossi-
bic to cross the country from side to
side.
A DIABoLIcAL attempt was made at
Saltillo, Mexico, recently, to destroy,
Gems. Treyinio, Narajo, and their staffs,
/ of the revolutionary army, by poison
ing wines which were prepared for
them. Five of the conspirators were
detected, and villainy traced back to
Juarez. o s.aa3 81 18a .4-ig gl1Gi9i
In responding to arequest from New
York for his autograph, Gen. Spinner
wrote is." You ask for my autograph
with a sentiment. Mysentiment is this
! When o gentleman writes another on
his own business, he should lnclose
postage stamp" '9hi" s''''
The Mrs. Roland, who,5 with her
husband, is under arrest IN Mares
county, Mo-, for causing the death of
their child by brutal treatment, was
formerly a Miss Fannie Hucksters Of
| Usage county, who was a somnablnlllstlc fl'l L
sensation in her day.
Ia 2oo-HoRsE power engine in Detroit
runs a coffae-roasting establishments
machine shop, feed-Im2ill, q steam car
net beater, prepared wheat establish
nment, picture frame machinerKeTa
moulding business, and a puiiy block
manufactory-- distributing its power to
buildings two hundred feet away
Only about half the power IN use. 1sa
AsooIoRED man in Sandusky says he
can stow awayin his capacious stomach
twelve dozen of eggs and twelve, pies
inside OF twenty minutes, and yet he is
not happy This man applied to Mr..
Homegardner for thea position. of cook