Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-01
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WEIGHS that are dark--seventeen
hundred pounds to the ton. e.. ..s
OYSTERS are becoming very scarce
and expensive in England
AN agent has gone to the North of
! Germany in the hope OF securing 1000
or more laborers to work LII the Lake
Superior mines.
! BESIDES the immense quantity sold
for expectation, over /, 400, 900, 900
cigars are annually smoked on the
| island of Cuba alone.
1 A LAW in Pennsylvania makes the
taking of money at the door of thea
ter on Sunday illegal, wherefore it is
invariable taken at the window
/ Mr. LEWIS H. Noe announces his in
tention to appear as public lecturer
and expose the i" foreigner and fraud,
Henry M. Stanley.
/ YOUNG TWEED has succumbed to the
bad odor of his fathers name. The
Metropolitan Hotel, which he persisted
in running long after it ceased to be q
paying concern, has changed hands.
The new proprietors are Breslin, Pur
cell & Co.
| A MAINE Democrat, after vainly scru-2l
tlnizlng the election returns in quest
/ OF gains for his party, expresses the
opinion that Democracy is kind of
onsoddered" s.tsea
WILLIE COLLINS is soon to reinforce
the number of reading novelists on the
American platform, and "George
Eliot" is also said to be sorely tempted
to come hither.
| OLD Equestrian: "Well, but you're
not the boy [ left my horse with !''
/ Boy "No, sir; just speekilated,
/ and bought i'm of t'other boy for six
cents!'' N'ftt@
A PRINTER, in fit of mental aberra-sl9
tion, wandered into a shoemaker's shop.
and set up several sticks full of shoe
pegs and nails, and took proof of his
matter IN boot press before he real
lied his fearful condition.
ELDER of fourteen-"W Where's baby,
Madge?" Madge-" In the other room,
think, Emily" Elder of fourteen
+" Go directly and see what she's doing,
and tell her she mustn t. y
AN Indiana man, made uncomforta-
BILE by some sand which had got under
the piece of scalp which the Indians
had left him when they stood him on 2
his head, fifteen years ago, has been
relieved by surgical operation.
A WESTERN paper has this delicate
personal item "Those who knowsold
Mr.. Wilson, of this place, personally,
will regret to hear that he was as
saulted in a brutal manner, last week,
but was not killed. " fa-
SOME live pigs were recently found
in hollow tree in Kentucky without
any apparent opening whereby they
could have made an entrance. That
beats the toads blasted out of solid )
rocks {" all hollow"
A FRENCH inventor has applied
screw propeller to the balloon, and car 4
red fourteen passengers and total
weight Of three and three quarter tons
The balloon answered the helm, and
two horse power engine is being con-
structed to establish and employ the
principle.
" I HAVE been thirteen years in the 81
practice of the criminal law in this
city," says Mr.. John D Townsend, of
New York, land my experience has
led me to the conclusion that there is Be
no place where the uncertainty of pun :
ishment of crime is greater than in
this city. si
The experiment of carrying oysters
from Chesapeake bay to England, last
winter, was SO successful that three
large vessels are now on their way to
this country from European ports, to
take cargoes of Baltimore oysters to
London.
The number of females employed in
the United States postal service does
not exceed 700, of which number 500
are in charge of local offices, and the
remainder clerks.
JAPAN has been placed in telegraphic
communication with the rest of tine 3
world by a new cable which has been
laid in the Inland Sea across the Straits
of Simonoseki, and communication is
complete between Nagaski and Tokei,
Yedo.
A PARIs1AN landlady requested a
party on the third floor to cease danc-
ing, as man below was dying. The
guests acquiesced. Returning an hour
| later, "My dear children, she ex-
claimed, with the most benevolent
smile, "you may begin again. He's
| dead.n
THE Italian opera season came to II
close in New York Saturday, after forty
performances, at ten of which Miss
Kellogg was the star and Lucca at the
other thirty The performances at
which Miss Kellogg was the attraction
gave a return of S21, ,620, and Lucca
was worth $128 1893, making the gross
receipts $3.50, Alb. This exceeds by
nearly $4,000 the sum that Nilsson
brought to the treasury last year.
The following 'snotis'' is posted in
Lincoln county "Ce hear. Eye don't
want enniboddi that has hosses which
has of the eppizutick innfewenza, or
any other infurnel name, to cum thru
this gait under penalty of havin' OF
their, the hosses, tales cut off cloase
behind their, the hosses, years. Keep
shi. Mountaineer."
The forest of Fontainbleau is to be
desecrated for the benefit of the Ger
man indemnity fund. An order has
/ been issued to cut down and sell 13. 296
oaks, 14O to $50 years old; 4,22s
beeches of 80 to 200 years, and Ito
hectares of copplce. Protests from
artists have poured upon the Admins
tratton des Foires, but to no avail. The
J noble trees must be food Tor the all
= devourlng Prussian.
INVENTORS are experimenting with
| naper. and seeing just to what purpose
+ may successfully be used. The last
nronos ed is to make window shutters
Of it. as a safeguard against fire. 1t
can be made fire proof, weather-proof
and waterproof, and with these three
desirable qualities attained, there
seems to be nothing to stand in the
way to its general adoption.
! Rev. Mr. Mason, in hi S prayer before
the Indiana Legislature on Thursday,
thanked God for the presence of this
body of legislators, the tallest and the
heaviest. The handsomest. the wisest