Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-10-22
General Items.

MONTREAL crowds 800 prisoners int
a jail intended for but $50.
THOSE who are credited with long
heads are very rarely headlong.
HALTER of Limoges, named Alain
quotas, has just died at the age of los
LADIES party and street dresses are
now rented in New York.
COLORADO now has nine daily. one
seml-weekly, and thirty-two weekly
newspapers.
THREE of st. Louis's citizens are
worth over $50, 600, 900, and seven have
more than 81, 100000. -
MISS IHACKERAY writes to a friend in
this country that she hopes to visit the
United States next year.
THE Russian Mennonites will not
settle in Dakota. They don't like the
country. They are going to Kansas.
The currency of the country now in
actual use, Independent of the precious
metals, is SITS, 900, 900.
FLORIDA will have an immigration of
sixty or seventy families of skilled ag>
riculturists from Ireland next spring.
BUFFALO aspires to be known as the
International City," on account Of
her intimate relations with Canada.
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand offer
free passage from England for female
domestics, agricultural laborers and
mechanics.
LAST year the county courts in Eng
land registered 747 orders for the pro-
lection Of wives deserted by their hus-
bands.
A TRACT of hematite iron ore has
been discovered in Shropshire, Eng
land, and l, 100 acres have been secured
by certain Staffordshire ironmasters.
JEFF. DAVIS has been quite i'll in
Louisville lately, and a day or two his
physicians regarded his condition as
critical.
ARvANIrAK1, the chief of the band
of Greek bandits who massacred the
English travellers at Marathon, has
been killed.
In England there are S57 persons
with annual incomes between $4,000
and $3.50, 900, and only sixty eight per-
sons who have larger incomes.
JOHN RoEssLE, the Oldest lager beer
brewer in America, died recently in
Massachusetts, leaving a fortune of
more than $1,O00,000.
ONE Of the building burned in Paw
tucket, last week, was the one in which
Samuel Slater opened-in the year
1799-the first Sunday school in Rhode
Island, if not in the United States.
| A PRACTICAL argument Maria,
have you given the fishes ally fresh
water 20 NO, sir, what's the use 2
They haven't drunk up volts in there
yet"
The death of the great painter, Land
seer, recalls the anecdote relating to
Sydney Smith, who, being asked to sit
for his portrait to the delineator of the
canine race, replied, els thy servant a
dog that he should do this thing?"
VEGETABLE PILLS ~ exclaimed al old
lady; "don't talk to me of such stuff!
The best vegetable pill ever made is
apple For destroying the
gnawing in the stomach, there is MOTH
ing Like it. It always can be relied on.
DIX CROSBY, M. D., LII. D., for
long series of years Professor in
Dartmouth College, died at his home
in Hanover, N. H., on Friday after
noon of last week, aged 70 years, He
has been in ill-health for some time.
"NYM CR1NKLE," of the World, is :
very sweet on Miss Cary. q can hear
her laugh now while I write,' he says;
'sand it sounds as if JOY were tumbling
down silver staircase. After all, a
contralto voice IS the only one on a
level with our hearts y
HE Union and American says that
resident of Nashville heard that ex-
President johnson lost all his money
by the breaking of a Washington city
bank. Then, with burst of generos-
ity, he exclaimed: "Well, I'm old
Andy's friend, and I've got five dollars
| for him if he needs it !"
SOMEBODY has been publishing a
school book history of England, and
spelling s'calendar y with ok" after
the Greek usage, although there were
no Greek kalends; and the Springfield
Republican pertinently asks ii we must
write the +" kataracts Of the Nile,'' and
speak of a sad catastrophe? IL not,
why nots Why render unto G, sir, the
things that never belor ged to G sir "
AN Ola man OF IVry, ETaHce, recently
died of JOY. He had been very poor
all his life, when he was suddenly in
formed that he had fallen heir to a
large fortune. The old man was greatly
agitated by the news, and was hasten
ing to the Mayors Office to sign some
necessary papers when he fell dead in
the street.
doctor, what do you suppose is
the matter with my little boy 3"
Why, it's only a corrustifed exegis
anti-spa medically emanating from
the germ of the animal refrigerator,
producing a prolific source of irrita-
bility in the pericanity of the moral
profundlty" "Ah, that's what's I
told Melinda she lowed it was
worms"
The San Francisco Board of Superb
sors have fixed the rate of taxation for
the current fiscal year at S1.10 on each
300 of assessed value. This is for
municipal purposes only. In addition,
there will be the State tax Of 80 cents
on each 800. making the total tax
SLIGO, or 10 cents more than was levied
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