Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-27


the wonders of Nevada sA'
+ Iris computed chat there are over
$4,000 Italians living insthe city of New
York. -
CARPENTERS Emancipation pic
ture is rolled upin his country studio
= in Cortlandt county, Ny.
3 saB The word "whisky is said to be
derived from two Celtic words, uiS9ue
6eatle, which being interpreted mean
"water of life naum sa bot
f. The subscriptions to the Greeley
monument have stopped at $15, 900 and
$50, 600 are wanted Must we fall back
on the prize strawberry plant as an in
/ ducement to subscribe?
CARDINAL Wo1sEY, born some four
hundred years since, in Ipswich, Eng
land, is about to receive the tribute of
a statue from his living fellow towns
men. GUS
I GENTLE reader if you are at all wor-
ried lest the body of your victim should
be found, just induce the corpse to
takesa tablespoonful of hydrated ses-
quioxide of iron every half hour.
4 A MAN in Newbury, N. O., cut his
hand while opening a box of sardines
the other day, and the result was that
his hand and arm began to swell and
he finally died.
The London compcsitofs have joined
the nine hours movement, and also
4 asking for an advance of halfpenny
per thousand on the society's scale for
| all work except newspapers.
/ A MERCHANT of Louisville, who has
just paid the Courier Journal SO, 900
| for advertising within the past four
years, says he is going tospend $24, 900
| in the same direction within the coming
four years.
j MARYLAND has q new swild-fow law,
/ which prohibits night shooting alto
| gether, and limits day shooting to
/ Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays of
/ each week. No one can shoot or trap
ducks without first procuringa license.
AS IT takes 65, 600 cochineal insects
4 to make pound, andsas 1,S79,S42
pounds were brought into. this country
last year, 100, 239 100000 must have
given up their lives to color the dresses
and cheeks of American ladies.
IT is limited pretty broadly that the
four dead bodies seized in an express
wagon by the Chicago police one day
last week. found their way to the medi-
cal college after all, while the men ac-
cused of robbing the graves We're re-
leased on bail. ssls sa4
A BANKER in Paris lately became in
sane. and imagined. himself to be a
magnet. While in conversation In a
room where there was a a1large safe, he
suddenly shouted, 81 am attracted,
and. rushing to the safe, dashed out
his brains. and ceased to be magnet
to any but the undertaken.
ssNoRwIoH, Ct., is somewhat rocky"
saws the Boston Bulletin. The cook
Of an eminent citizen, having injured
herself by repeated falls over ledge
which projected through the kitchen
floor, he is now engaged IN blasting 1t,
after which he viii turn his attention
to a little boulder near the centre table
in the parlor 9a1lF1 o6F
THE Hudson Bay Company are build
ing four steamboats, this Winter-one at
Breckenridge and the other three at
Fort Garry. Two @of. these boats are
intended to. run, on Red river, one-a
small one-as. far as to breckenridge
during the spring months, one on the
Saskatchewan river, and the other on
Lake Winnepeg.
THE people of New Hampshire have
a accumulated nearly $40, 000, 900 in their
savings banks since the Inauguration
of President Lincoln. During the thir-
teen wears previous, a. period OF pro-
found peace and low taxation, the IN
dllstrial and laboring classes deposited
in the savings banks less than "a, o00,-
900. ~
SOME New York sports1nen are train
ing two women near pittsburgh for
prize fight for 1, 600 a side The ladies
arc Il IS a pleasure to state, of foreign
birth. One wei CHS 200 and the other
1876 pound sybht when i'll trim, they Will
turn the scale at 172 and 156 pounds
respectively.
The Wilmington IN. CO. Star has the
particulars of curious marriage near
Laurel Hill. A certain individual got
tired of his wife, after living with her
about fifteen years, and hired another
man to take her over to South Carolina
and marry her, giving him mule and
ffty-fye dollars to take her off his
hands. 81 # AtsH sts88
In breach of promise case, tried in
California recently, the. plaintiff was
woman who had been divorced from
her husband because of his neglect
and cruelty, and the defendant man
whose wife had obtained divorce on
the very grounds of the plaintiffs di-
yorce. This inconsistent woman mag
aged to get an award of $500.
SEVERAL years ago the Hon. Charles
Fairfax introduced several 1--we grouse
from the prairies of one of the Western
States into California, and set them
free in Marin County. The pot-hunters
came along, however, and killed them
off. The California Aeclimating Socle-
ty has Just received twenty dozens OF
live Eastern quail, to be let loose IN
such place or places as may be deemed
most favorablel for their growth and
multiplication. .se 3easl
THERE now remains, but little over
hundred feet to be excavated to carry
out the original plan of the new water
works tunnel at Buffalo The +" hole"
now extends 610 feet under the river,
and is being pushed ahea1 at the rate
of two feet md a half per. day. All OF
the rock will probabably be out by the
18th of next month, Last week the
workmen drilled nineteen feet, more
than they have ever before accomplish
ed within the same length. of time
JAMES II. BEARD has. finished his
&c sInnocents Abroad 1.-TWO desolate
pups, who have wandered away nom
home, and as thetnight comes doW1
begin to realize their misconduct anu
Their sorrow is pitiable indeed. But
the New York Mail, after thus describ-
ing them, says eve hope some ad-
/ 5rnirer 4,2 Of the venerable Beard will take
J con so,nasof % these sinnocents' of his to
com nfortable home and hang them. +"
A VERY convenient kindling wood is
made in France from corn cobs, by