Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
HARRIET BEEcHER STowE is still
anxious to sell her Florida plantation.
BAYARD TAYLOR and his German wife
will make Germany their home.
PARTRIDGEs and rabbits abound In
the woods of Maine beyond all prece :
dent.
CALEB GREEN, of Osseo, Michigan,
has invented machine to extract
shippers from cheese, and secured
patent on It,
The late French census shows that
there are $1,000 more married men
than married women in France
THE mortuary records of Savannah,
Ga, show it to be one of the healthlest
cities in the country.
A D1sUsED grave yard at Providence
has been adopted as the site OF the
new state-house of Rhode Island.
LADY Burdett Coutts supports an
English sewing school, accommodating
two hundred pupils. = rs
COLONEL Tom SCOTT is said to control
$67O, 900, 900 worth of railways.
Two members of Congress from
Pennsylvania have been drunk most of
the time for two weeks past.
A YOUNG lawyer in North Carolina
was lately paid a pound of butter for
legal service.
TWENTY-FIVE theological students
are learning Spanish to fit them tor
Protestant missionary enterprise
among the Mormons. ~
A SECONDHAND dress and two skeins
of yarn were recently exchanged for
forty acres of ground in Texas county.
Mo.
BERL1N's court jeweler is nearly 80
years of age, worth q million, and lives
in shanty beyond Charlottenburg, a
suburb of the city.
ALL minds are fssured with incapac-
tiles in one direction or another-cllp-
ped away on this side or that; all are
fragmentary.
No fewer than 176 almanaes for 1878
have been published in Paris, at prices
running all the way from three sous to
one franc.
JNHN STRAUSS has just been sent to
the Ohio Lunatic Asylum. He went
mad because his Magnificent Black
Sea" was not as successful as the s'Blue
| Danube.
AUGUST Ho1Tz, book-keeper in
Lansingburg, tried the experiment OF
brushing away a chip from buzz-saw.
He is satisfied that the best way to
save his thumb is to put it in jar OF
alcohol.
A SUCCESSFUL evasion of the Prus-
sian order forbidding the display of
| the tricolor was recently made at Stras-
bourg by three young ladies, who
walked around the streets, one dressed
in red. another in white, and the third
in blue.
FRENCH hatred of everything German
goes to the comical length of refusal
by the municipality of Paris to accept
beouest of61, 900 france by German,
to be applied to the relief OF the
German poor OF Paris.
The tobacco growers of the Connect1-
cut valley are using great quantities OF
damaged grain for fertilizing purposes.
One dealer at Hartford sold eighteen
cargoes of 200 tons each. Someof 1T
goes as far north as Brattleboro, Yer
mont.
A FARMERS daughter recently mar
ried a wealthy and respectable travel
ING agent, on short acquaintance.
He oas lust left her with note advis-
ing her not to fall in love with strangers
hereafter. That man evidently has
some solid ideas.
IT has been discovered that the city
of New York has been robbed of 10, 600
or IS, 900 copies of expensively bound
books of the municipal laws and other
documents deemed necessary Tor the
use of city officials, costing thousands
of dollars, by gang of thieves who
sold them for waste paper.
IMPoRTAT1oNs of tobacco from China
is the latest novelty in English trade.
Large arrivals have been received dur
ing the last month. 1t is used IN some
measure as a substitute for Turkey,
which it resembles in appearance,
though not equal in quality. The leaf
is quite yellow, and is almost void of
flavor.
The piles of San Francisco wharf
have been cased in wood filed in with
gravel, to protect them from the teredo.
The teredo dislikes to work it's way
through densely packed gravel, and so
limits it's ravages to the outer boxes,
which are easily replaced. The wharf
is reputed to be good and firm, while
others, built two years later, have be-
come weak and dilapidated.
| The doom of bronze, as material
for rifed guns, has, says the London
Daily News, been sealed. The manu-
facture of 7-pounders in that metal for
mountain and boat service. e..has beennow
given up, and orders have been issued
for the construction of steel 7-pound
ers instead. The failure of bronze has
been a great disappointment to its
advocates, who only few years ago
were full of confidence in the perfection
of their favorite material.
A GENTLEMAN, favorably known in
high circles in Philadelphia, named
Jacob Stone, was relating to a Sabbath
School his travels in the Holy Land,
and among other things, told the schol-
ars of the ascent of Mount Pisgah. On
the following Sunday teacher asked,
in the course of the lesson, who as
cended Mount Pisgah. A little urchin
promptly cried out, ''Moses, Elias and