Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-26
General Items.

ALE is now openly sold in Lowell,
Mass.
4 In THE gold mines of Australia AZ, 610
Europeans are at work.
/ FoUR-FIFTHs of the widows in Canada
remain widows less than thirty months.
I. AN English company has undertaken
to dredge the Tiber for lost treasure.
A MONTHLY auction of Cape diamonds
is held in Covent Garden, London.
STRAWBERRIES measuring SIX inches
u around the waist are grown down south.
j The British iron product is about 81
500, 900 tons a year, and the American
l about 2,00o,00 tons. 'Aa1
A HAPPY MAN at New London, Conn,
is to marry off his four daughters all at
once this month. es.c.. -.
A CHICAGO man named Tenny econ
omically writes his name Ky, that is,
hoy. Il 9li1I Gsgs szaf uss.aHI 2
4 The ,soapstone and serpentine marble
Quarrles -at the east end of the Hoosae
tunnel have been sold for the sum Of
IS30000. d 4asa 4
/ The Rev. DR.. Pussey is sufficiently
recovered from his late indisposition as
to be able to resume his duties at Ok
ford University. saHrf rg#
THE Princess Alexandria, it is re-
Iported, is becoming deaf. Her mother,
the Queen of Denmark, is afflicted with
the same difficulty.
AN English lady in the city of Bir-
mingham has been made to pay a fine
of ESQ for giving an undeserved cree
ommendation to discharged do
nestle.
The. expedition fitted out in Califor.
MIA to go to Cocos Island after the
buried treasure of the last generation
of buccaneers has failed, and the old
man who said he saw the treasure
| buried there narrowly escaped lynch
ing. - .ne satf If
THE Presbyterian General Assembly,
at it's recent meeting, authorized its
various Missionary Boards to ask for
the following sumo: Foreign Missions,
$3.50, 000 Home Missions, $3.50, 900;
Church erection, $780, 900; Freedmen,
$125,000; Education, $100, 900.
CONSERVATIVE minds in London are
struck with dismay at the proposition
to cover the walls of ST. Pauls Cathe-
dral with italian and MOSAIC adorn-
ments. and sweep away all the
Vaccinations of Sir Christopher
Wren. But the money has been raised,
and the work is to be done.
i The steamer Kafraira is taking 1S, 900
4 bushels of oysters off the Virginia
coast to plant in France. Charnay,
the farmer of the enterprise, has tested
| the bivalves from Mass tchusetts to
California, and thinks that those OF the
lower Chesapeake are best suited to his
purpose. f.rs
On the night of the 22d of May there
! was an eclipse in part of the moon, Wis
ible in England, and astronomers say
it was the beginning of an eclipse
month. The first eclipse month oc-
Cured in December, 1871, and it was
during that period that the famous So
lar eclipse of December 18th took
place.
AMERICAN politics abroad are very
uncertain, as well as at home. The
Paris Patrie is jouln of consider
4 able weight and influence in France
but not fully "posted." It says in
late issue: ''Mr. Greeley was elected
President in the city of Cincinnati, and
will enter upon his term of Office in
November. SD
SINCE the San Francisco authorities
have offered a premium of SO for
every dead body recovered from the
bay, the Chronicle advises drunkards
and Oregon flats to give wide berth
to the water front. Ten dollars, it
says, may seem small sum for muir
| der, but times are hard and human
nature weak
The Hartford Conn., Courant says
Mark Twain has received, to date, a
little over $4,000 for "Innocents
Abroad" and is likely to receive very
nearly the same sum for the first six
months of 'Roughing 1t, which is
not very rough on Mark, but a long
way short Of the 5000, 900 spoken of in
newspaper paragraphs.
! HoRATIo SEYMOUR, as President of
the New York State Fisheries Commits
sioners, has objected to the capture by
millions of the menhaden fish and their
use as fertilizers on the barren soil OF
/ Long Island. His reason is that the
menhaden is the natural food of more
valuable species, lacking which they
prey upon each other.
A BARREL of -four, the ''Pride of
Augusta, made from Georgia wheat,
was on exhibition at the Boston Corn
Exchange, on Friday, and was sold by
auction for SIT. 50 The wheat from
which the flour was made was reaped
on the 18th ult A barrel of the same
brand of -four sold for $3.50 at the St.
Louis Corn Exchange, the excitement
incident to the biddings having run
high.
THERE are now in this country three
permanently established schools 1or
teaching the deaf and dumb artlcula-
l ton. There is also small private
! school of that sort in Columbus, Ohio
Howard Glvndon, who is enthusiastic
in This nseful work, says: :" Drained
teachers will soon be the great want in
eyarv locality where the teaching of
speech to the deaf and the deaf-dumb
is encouraged" ~
The largest nickel mine in the United
States is in Lancaster county, Penn.
This one has been developed to the
depth of over 200 feet, and has been
worked for over seven years. The
length.of the lode is s, 900 feet, the ore
bearing portion varying in width from
one to forty feet, and producing from
400 to 600 tons per month. employing
175 men. Iron, Madison and WAYNE
county, Mo-, have numbers of outcrop-
pings of this ore. The first class ore
yields 81 per cent. of good nickel.