Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-05
General Items.

UeUtIdI ltcitSs
A CovEY of eight or nine partridge
walked gravely and undismayed up the
streets of Jacksonville, Fla, about
dark the other evening.
A WESTERN woman has got out q pa
tent for new style of billiard table
with combination cushion, which will
make various noted firms in the east
look to their laurels.
THE last "infant phenomenon" made
it's advent in California eight months
ago, and it knows Shakspeare's plays
before it has mastered the alphabet.
A CALF was born at Princeton, KY,
| lately, without eyes, ears, or mouth,
and covered With a hull resembling
| that of q turtle.
THE owner of American Girl offers to
| trot her against any trotter in the coun-
try for So, 500, the match to come off
before the Both inst. He would pre-
fer a brush with Lucy or Goldsmith
Maid.
RESIDENTS on the banks of the Big
| Hatchie, in Tennessee, have made the
unpleasant discovery that 17-year To-
Gusts are coming up out of the ground
| in countless numbers, threatening Sc
rious damage to fruit and fruit trees
generally.
| IT is reported from Block Island
that the cod-fshing is the best and
most successful for years. It is not
unusual for one man to take three
hundred pounds in one day with
| hook
SCENE: Recitation in Metaphysics.
Which is the most delicate
of the senses? Sen 1.-The sense of touch.
Professor-Give an example. Senior
my chum can feel his moustache, but
no one can see it.
! JESSE UDERwooD, famous noun
tain desperado, and one for whose ap-
prehension a reward of $500 is offered,
was killed in Carter county, KY, on
the 7th inst, while in the act of enter
ing another mans stable.
P. B. SHIL1ABER, the genial inventor
of Mrs. Partington and author of
Knitting Work." has written new
volume, in which, as is reported, the
queer old dame will communicate more
Of her reflections of life and affairs.
A MASONIC lodge is in contemplation
at Bagdad, in Mesopotamia, the sup
posed primitive abode of man, where
there is, already, quite number of
Freemasons, among whom are some
Persian Mussulmans.
A SMALL boy sends the following
conundrum: "Why did not George
Washington's little sister go out with
him to cut down the chery-tree because
she had not got her htteI hat yet this
the first answer the other one is George
Washington never had no sister,"
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn. has prov
ed itself fair rival for the famous
Central Park, in New York. This fact
is in itself astonishing, as the work of
laying out the park was not commenced
until 1866. The sum of $9,0O0,000 has
already been expended on the work.
AN affectionate Detroit man was sent
for the other day to demonstrate with
his sister, who had been trying to take
poison; LIE knocked her down and
dragged her round the room by her
hair, and finished by tenderly assuring
her that eff she didn't go to work and
let the suicide business alone, he would
break her neck for her."
"PETER, what are you doing to that
boy2" said O school-master. "He
wanted to know if you take ten from
seventeen how many will remain; SO
[ took ten Of his apples to show him,
and now he wants me to give 'em back. +"
"Well, why don't you do it?" "Coz,
SUI, he would forget how many is left. "
The best scientific scholars of the
country say that never before, in any
year, has there been such a tremendous
force of electricity in the air as has
been noticeable in the last eight or nine
months, and that the cerebral diseases
now so prevalent, are caused by the
highly electric atmosphere.
! The famous African explorer, Roh1fs,
says that Africa might be turned into
the paradise that some portions of it
were in under the Carthagenians and
Romans. He declares that Central At
RIGA is as rich as India, and that a
grand highway to the Kingdom of Sou
dan might be constructed across the
desert from port to be established on
the site of ancient Carthage.
EXPERIMENTS have recently been
made to ascertain the amount OF loss
that coal undergoes when exposed to
! the weather. Anthracite and camel
coal suffer least, but ordinary bitumln-
GUS coal loses nearly one-half in gas
> making quality. From this 1t follows
2 that coal o. should be kept dry and under
cover. and that to expose 1t to rain or
damp is to lessen its quantity and
weaken its quality.
IF brooms are wet in boiling suds
. once week they will become very
q tough, will not cut the carpet, last
+ much longer, and always sweep like a
: new broom. A very dusty carpet may
be cleaned by setting pail of cold
} water out by the door; wet the broom
in it, knock it to get out all the drops,
sweep q yard or so, then wash the
broom again as before, and sweep again,
being careful to shake all the drops off
} the broom, and not sweep far at time
The water may need to be changed
once or twice if the carpet is very
! dusty. Snow sprinkled over carpet
! and swept off before it has time to
melt and dissolve, is also nice for re-
novating solid carpet. Molsten In
dian meal is used with good effect by
some housekeepers.