Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-10
General Items.

A CLAM weighing two pounds and
seven ounces was picked up on the
beach at Newport the other day
The Goldfish in the wells of the fishing
smacks at New London are reported
frozen so stiff that their tails are used
for bootjacks. is'T'8
A NEW style of ornament for the..hair
is small humming bird with diamond
eyes and a jewelled arrow through its
breast.
THERE were nine town liquor agents
IN Orleans county, VT, seven of whom
sold over 50, ,000worth of liquor in eight
months ~ A
CRUEL Boston lads still amuse them
selves by stoning and shooting the
sparrows on the Common and in the
grave yards. ~ afa
AT the French eating houses in Paris
they serve dishes q la Chinese, as
birds's nests, sharks and, grasshoppers
and cats Fricasseed frogs are still
popular and expensive.
The New York Sun boasts that it has
an umbrella in its office which is IS
years old. They house umbrellas III
that office to keep them from protect
ing people from the "raise" of the
Sun. HHt .H-sH
DISPATCHES state that Wabash Col
lege, at Charlottesville, Ind, has been
closed on account of the appearance of
spotted fever in virulent and most
fatal form in the region round about
that city.
A NOTED hoop-skirt manufacturing
firm of Bridgeport, Conn, having large
and unstable stock on hand, have
chartered shipload to Dantzig, ex-
pectlng to dispose of the same.
The celebrated Purdy colt. Of San
Francisco, has been sold to James
Helm, of Fresno county, for $1,000.
Although he has never been in race,
his time has been taken in private
heats. He has made mile, to wagon,
in 2:35.
The new hotel at Saratoga, not yet
named, has been let to Breslin & Gill
sey, of New York, for ten years, for
$M. 500 per year. Tt is brick, five stories
high, with $50 rooms, and will be open
ed July l. ~
the Chautauqua lake pickerel has been
pronounced by Seth Green to be mus
calonge and the best of it's class, equal
to those taken from the st. Lawrence.
In consequence of the rapid con-
sumption of timber in the Russian
Empire, it is proposed to pass law
enacting that no other fuel than coal is
to be used for heating the engines en-
ployed on railways,
AN American teacher in Japan writes
to the Albany Evening Journal, under
date of December II: [ have just
had my first Sunday morning Bible
class, in this solitude of heathenism,
where perhaps Bible class was never
before known" 80
A BELGIAN manufacturer has just
had q bell cast of aluminium, and
with good results. It is, of course,
extremely light, SO that, though large,
it can easily be toned; its tone is re
ported to be loud and of excellent
pitch. ALUMINIUM is the most sono-
rous of all metals.
WIN. McKAx, of Ottawa, Ont, has
obtained a patent for the manufacture
of stone from refuse, In moulds, by
chemical agency. He makes porphyry,
granite, lapis Iazuli, sienna, white and
veined marble, and six different kinds
of sandstone. 4
BEv1N Brothers, bell manufacturers
of East Hampton, Conn.,, have already
made 100000 of the Chicago charm
bells, and are making 10000 weekly.
Some weeks they have made 10000
From one pound of metal, 72 bells are
made M a @ Iaq
On the principle of "set thief to
catch thief" Gen. Crook has enlisted
one hundred Indians of the Hslalapois
tribe for campaign against the
Apaches. The military thus afforded
Will be found useful in case the Hual-
aposis should hereafter have any little
unpleasantness with the Government.
THE Agricultural Department has
imported from Gambia and distributed
some seeds of the Arbutus unde, or
strawberry tree, indigenous on the
mountains of that island, adapted to
the New England climate. The fruit
is said to be, with the exception of
shape, precisely similar to the straw
berry.
FRANCIS j. PARKER, of Lewiston,
Me-, passenger on the steamer Ston-
ington from New York, on Monday
night, accidentally fell overheard while
suffering from sea-sickness. The
steamers engines were promptly re-
versed. and boats lowered, but owing
to the darkness and drift ice he could
not be rescued.
AMONG the relics destroyed by the
fire at the Grif6n-Taylor mansion, Fin
Clifton, Ohio, was the old headquarters
flag of the Fifteenth Army Corps.
Bullet-marked and powder-burned as
it was, it was a valuable relic, and its
loss will be felt It had done proud
duty in the field from Vicksburg to
Atlanta, and thence in the march to the
sea.
A DEACON in Connecticut town, one
day last week, discovered a big dog
prowling round his yard, and thought
he might do some injury to valuable
plants So up went the window and
out went one of the deacon's best
"Sundaygo to-meet1n' +" boots. The
dog grabbed the boot and disappeared
and at last accounts neither dog mol
boot had been heard from. -.f-7.E
THE Turkish Government recently
ordered all improper illustrated works
to be confscated, but left the local au-
thorities to decide what came under
the head of this definition. Whereupon
some of these enlightened gentlemen
lost no time in confscating school books
with prints illustrative of natural his
tory, disseminated by the American
missionaries, and other works equally
innocuous.
AN elegant collection of etchlngs Of
Roman antiquities has been presented
TO the Mercantile Library of San Fran
cisco. Cal, by Tiburcio Parrott, of that
citv. The work embraces twelve atlas
/ folios. of superb finish and style, bound
in half-Turkish morocco and in the
highest state of preservation. It is the
famous production of Giovanni Battista
Piranesi, the Italian engraver, designer
and architect, who was born in Venice
in 1920, and died in Rome Novembel
9, 1878.