Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
General Items.

General Items.
BEARS are becoming quite plentiful
r about six miles from Chattanooga.
) The snow on the Sierra Nevada is
now deeper than at any time since
1851.
An extensive ecopper-rolling mill is to
| be erected at Houghton, Lake Super
ior.
The Rev. Mr., Spurgeon, it is said,
! has received 10 offers of marriage with
In a year.
i A CARLISLE, Ky, girl disdains to
smile upon any young man who hasnot
Grid on the keers.n
A REvENaEFUL Tennessean dosed
4 neighbor with shot, recently, for call
ing him liar ten years ago.
THE village of Oran, Brazile, was
ruined by nine successive earthquakes
last month. Few lives were lost
FROM four TO five million dollars
worth of precious stones are smuggled
into New York annually.
A PECK by measure, of silver coin
was collected for missionary purposes
at Nova Scotia Free Will Baptist Con-
vention.
THERE are only thirty telegraph
operators in Cuba, and most of them
are Americans
IT is noted that the name of every
man sent to the Pennsylvania peniten-
tiary for bigamy begins with B.
TENNESSEE has twenty-eight million
acres of soil, but only cultiyates eight
millions of them.
NEW York has more brass bands than
any two States, and also has twice as
many insane people,
SKEBEroNss11 feet long are found be-
meath the ruins, of Palmyra. "And
there were giants in those days"
| Mrs ALFRED FoRBEs, of Stanton Vt,
recently presented her husband with
fine boy. The father is. only 83 years
old.
VIM. BEusr of liberty, New Jersey,
was burned to death Tuesday IN trying
house @"'
OLIVE LOGAN was married in New
York, Tuesday morning, to Writ Sykes.
ESQ.,, by Rev. Robert Collyer, and
lectured in the evening at Warwick,
New York. baa eoridt
+ LABURNUMsis said tssbe one of the
finest built horses ever. seen on the
English turf, and the prophets" all
favor his taking the next Derby
stakes. s-s zezs szT..sar
AN enterprising~ japanese brought
over to California on recently arrived
steamer an enormous quantity Of tea
plants, which are to be planted as an
experiment in California.
A NEW style. of cloak is of velvet,
made very long, over which are two or
three capes, trimmed with lace and
sometimes fur. It would seem as If
very strong back were required to carry
such a heavy load. Hz
THAT portion of the old Chicago
court house bell which. had not been
carried off by, relic hunters, has been
sold at auction by the board of public
works. The total weight was 1900
pounds, and brought 81, 900.
MAX .MUILER's publication of the
f Hymns of the Rlg-Veda," ;" (original
Sanscrit text, inquarto,) of which four
volumes were issued some years since,
will be completed by the publication of
the fifth and. sixth volumes early next
year. So slzssH{ s& vab
Mr.. W. MATTuEN WILLIAMS, reason
ing from the great differences of tenn
perature between the shaded craters
and the sunny slopes of the moon, sup
poses that there may be great precipi-
| tations Of ~hoar frost, which become
visible through the telescope.
IT appears that the international
possesses now in Europe nineteen or
gans, without including those publish
ed in France Belgium alone has seven,
/ the others Feing at Vienna, Berlin,
Pestk, Leipsic, Munich, Dresden, The
Hague, Amsterdam, Geneva, Neufchat-
/ el Zurich and Barcelona.
Q A PARIS paper says. GA picture,
celebrated for its size, bright color,
and bad taste, representing America,
and which was painted for A. L. Stew
! art, of New York, for the modest price
4 of S23, 900, lies rolled up IN a store
! house It is like the elephant which
the Arab had presented to him. y
aas The last joke at the expense of Fl. G.
reports that 6 in an agricultural essay
on tobacco, he asserts that the fine cut
/ win not 1ipen well unless the tin-foil is
stripped from the growing bud early
in the spring, and that plug tobacco
ought to be Knockedsof the trees with
clubs instead of being picked off with
the hand. y" -
The Okalona (Miss. News takes this
cheerful view of the Situation in the
section where it is published: "Ihe-
i cotton and corn crops OF the country
are turning out short-decidedly short
and the meat crop proves to be no
, crop at all, and up-eountry meat can
be had only for cash, and cash is
scarce commodity. In this state OF the
case the situation appears to be this
Starve, beg, or steal. y"
The New York reporters have adopt
ed the Russian style. Here is asample
: item. $ A dispute arose yesterday IN
a State street yodkishop between two
tchiuovniks employed in the Custom
House with regard to the dismissal OF
Tom Murphy. One of. them was rash
. enough to call the other q sabakoutch-
|, elovek, which led to blows. A bouto-
} snik was called in, and by the free use
! of his clnb succeeded in bringing both
! : the duraks to reason.
el'1 KING CHARLES IL paying a visit to
d DR.. Busby, hesdoctor is said to have
n strutted through the. room with his nat
}. on, while his majesty walked complac
o emily behind him, with his hat under
l. his arm But when he was taking ms
8 leave at the door the. doctor thus ad-
q dressed the king a2'I hope your ma
y. iesty will excuse my want OF reSpecl
q hitherto; but, if my boys were 10 IN
v agine there was q greater man III l tne
!. kingdom than myself, l should never
,e be able to rule them.
I AT Three Rivers the war on the llq-
le ,,or- golfers continues. December 10
lie Mr. Mr. Henry Decker was found about t
I'd nile from home, with his feet caught ii
n his wagon, and his hands and face in
n the snow. He was intoxicated, anG
o. was badly frozen. The next da,