Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-18
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THOMAS HOME has bequeathed to the
British Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals $55, 900.
AMONG the remarkable mineral dis
coveries recently made are the Joplin
lead mines in, Jasper county. Mo.
In ten years there were built in the
United States ., 113 miles ef rail
road.
B1ERsTADT is t'going for another
valley recently discovered, that beats
the Yosemite.
The Superintendent of Greenwood
Cemetery recently celebrated the thir-
ty-third anniversary of his stay there.
A PAIR of twins were born recently in
Tennessee, joined together after the
manner of the Siamese twins
POETS are not always poor Henry
W. Longfellow pays tax of 50, 1855,
and James Russell Lowell $753.
LONDON letter carriers work eight
hours day, and, on an average, travel
twenty miles during that time.
The belle of Newport is Philadel-
Buld "llOoJ h6tII ID WllluC-Wlllb-
ened by nature, too, and honorable age.
The title of Mr.. G. W. Tayleure's
new comedy, written for Nh. F. S.
Chanfrau, is " Wall Street"
A NEW sort of floor covering, made
of cork, has been laid in the principal
lobby at Booths Theatre.
AN Indiana lass is,,now engaged to be
married to a young man whose hand
she refused seven times.
ABOUT thirty coll1eries in the Schuyl-
kill region are said to have stopped
for want of remunerative prices for
coal.
Two New York detectives are in the
Tombs for stealing $1,000 worth of
jewelry from lady who had employed
them.
A JAPANESE boy, sent to this country
to be educated, died recently at Farm
ington, Mass. His name was Sosrke
Matsgata.
WELD & HIbI's Touring mill, togeth-
er with stock, at Medina, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire Thursday night. The
building was insured for $23, 900.
The turnip crop Of Scotland is not
likely to be as excellent as usual, by
reason of the finger and toe"
disease.
BY order of Emperor Alexander a
capacious harbor is to be constructed
at Poti, in the Caucasus, at 2,065, 900
roubles.
An English court has recently de-
cided that the presence of ghosts in d
house is sufficient reason for annuling
the contract between landlord and ten
ant.
KAISER WILLIAM, Emperor of United
Germany, lost his favorite walking stick
the other day, and advertised for it i'll
the daily papers, like an ordinary pie
bian.
Mr.. BoUoIcAULT's engagement at the
London Gaiety Theatre terminated on
the 10th inst, having lasted 101 nights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bouoicault intend to act
at the Globe Theatre in Boston, at the
close of their engagement at Booths
Theatre, in New York.
AN old bachelor in Greenwich avenue,
New York, is utilizing the hot weather
by cooking his meals with a burning
glass. He says the mutton tastes of
sulphur, and the steak is strongly i'm
pregnated with magnesium. =
CANTEloPEs are an excellent vegeta-
BILE in their way. As an Introductory
dish to substantial breakfast they find
their proper sphere but to convert
them into whisky is altogether mis-
4oJ- haincr Jonn bo-ovo3
THR house Of the poet Wordsworth,
situated amid the beautiful scenery in
Westnoreland county, England, and
from the porch Of which a magnificent
view of Windermere lake can be OBJ
tained, has been closed to the public,
greatly to the disappointment of
numerous tourists.
4 PIECE of bituminous coal, lying on
some dry pine boards against the side
of a building in M1llport, N. Y, spon-
taneously burst into flames on one of
the cent hot days. 1t had been ex-
posed to the rays of the sun nearly all
day, the thermometer ranging from 100
to 1O5 degrees in the shade.
THE amount of American cotton in
England this year is the largest ever
known, with the exception of 1860. The
price has a rapid downward tendency,
and there are symptoms of panic
among the spectators 1t is believed
that when the crop of 1872 begins to
find its way to Europe, values Will be-
come lower than at any time since the
war.
A YANKEE ice company in Columbia,
Central America, was recently hned
$1,000 for being short of ice. A novel
way of imposing punishment, IN mer-
camille matters, we take it. But the
matter was finally mended by new
supply of the frigid article, and the de-
cision being reversed by the Supreme
Court of that country
The Jews in this country are scarce
| of Rabbis. There are over two hundred
svnaeogues, and only eight Rabbls
who preach to Jewish Congregations
in the English language, with no young
men in training to be their successors.
Their geological school, Maimonides
CoIIeoe. at Philadelphia, is very poorly
sustained. This looks as if the Ameri-
can Hebrews were backsliding.
MR.. BoFFIN disappeared from this
city about a month ago. since which
time Mrs. Boffin has endured the try
| ing alterations of hope and fear.
Yesterday the truant reappeared in a
most forlorn and dilapidated condition.
Mrs. B. encountered him in the parlor
hall with bitter reproaches.
6 shall never, never forgive you,
Henry exclaimed his ineensed wife.
Couldn't help it, my. love, y meekly
responded the guilty and humiliated
Boffin. "I've been to Chicago"
Been to Chicago scornfufly re-
iterated Mrs. b., as an expression OF
contempt swept across her Grecian
profile "You've been drunk 81
Yes, my love; [ got into the grain
corner la"-Ns = Y Commercial.