Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-28
The Committee on Ways and and Means reported
General items.

g CHRONIC alcoholism" is only new
name for it. 'sSAH"3E ssb rf'M'si.]
New YORK considers the new panto-
mime OF " Gabriel Grubb' as good as
feast.'
Boston imported 80, $50 tons of sugar
in 1873 ,
A PITTsBURG peanut vender has $12,-
900 in the bank.
: DANDELIoNs bedeck the little Massa-
chusetts island of Nantucket this sun
ny January. ..a..s ..-...
The w(h)ig party is very strong in
Congreas just now. There are 70 bald
headed men there.
The amount of gold dug in Califor-
MA since 1847 is $3.50, 700, 900, of
which 1913, 100000 was mined in
1853.
GREEDY, Col, claims to be the centre
of the buffalo robe business
SAN JOSE, Cal, is flooded with coun-
terfe1t silver half dollars. People east
could be easily fooled that way.
PITTsBURG coroners are accumulat-
ing plethoric bank accounts since the
introduction of "the pistol as toy"
UTICA, n. Y, has had poultry show,
and among it's wonders were $50
brown Leghorn cock, a $40 white Co.
chin and a gobler weighing 40 pounds.
The Kansas State Prison convict is
allowed to wear wide paper collars and
flowing necktles, if he is good and
obedient.
New JERSEY iron mines yielded, last
year, $50 tons of ore. of which $50, 900
were manufactured into pig iron. The
value Of the product is about $2,0O0,-
900. In 1867 the product Of the mine
was only 100000 tons. -s..- ...
Two FRESHMEN were in prison-one
for stealing COW and the other for
stealing watch. ''Hullo, Mike! and
what o'clock is it?' said the COW stealer
to the other. can sure, Pat, / haven't
any timepiece handy, but I think it is
about milking time.' h-eg
The wicked wag of the Detroit Free
Press is responsible for this: A St.
Louis reporter has talked with man
i'll years old, but what's that to sitting
and hearing her personal reeollectiens
of Pompei1.
A FARMER living in the eastern part
of Pittsfeld, Mass, did considerable
blowing last week, and turned quite
handsome furrows-in January. A
farmer in neighboring town plowed
half an acre December IS. aa -..H
The following advertisement appear
ed in the Philadelphia Ledger of
Thursday last Wanted-To trade
vault in Monument Central for a
piano." -e.--s -..s. s's.srE.L
8 A CHICAGO paper mentions it as a
singular fact that there is firm in
that city whose style is Robb & Steel.
That paper ought to know, If it knows
anything, that there are dozens of
firms in that city sestyle is rob and
steal.
Julius, can you tell me how Adam
got out of Eden?" "Well, I s'pose he
clum de fence ssNo, dat amt it,
"Well, den he borrowed a wheel-bar-
row and walked out ono" ct
CUBS it up, den." He got snaked
out. @f8&B#s# -sl.a1 aat &c 50
A WORKSHOP connected with the
Rhode Island State Prison was par
TALLY destroyed by fire Friday morn
ing. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
VIM. Sweeney, an upholsterer, lost his
stock, valued at Sc, 500; insured for
$4,000 IN city Offices of Providence
The state has no insurance.
A RISING sspoic' thus expatiates
upon prize fight .s.az II -.zss
And Isaac pitched into hymn
And hymn pitched into he;
8 The way they fytte it sin -.af
s45 And horrybel to see. : a Eif-r
Two and a half millions are invested
in the shoe business in Auburn, Me.
The value of the product Of 1873 was
nearly $4,000, 900 an increase of 40 per
cent. over that OF the preceding year.
The Warren Cotton Company, West
Warren, Me-, have begun work on a
third mill, with capacity of 1915
spindles, and expect to have the
machinery in operation next fall.
eBREvrrY is the so1l of wit" A New
Hampshire lecture committee recently
wrote to Boston to learn what Mrs.
Scott Siddons would read for. The re-
ply was $4,000 and expenses; answer,
as Mrs. Siddons will sail for Europe at
once if you don't want her." 'tLet her
SAIL" was the enigrammatlc answer.
The Troy Wing has this;
Bring out the Grape and toll the Knell
She's dead-a lovely Loekport belle
Her stomach failed away to get
With ninety oysters on bet.
AN Irishman remarked to his COM
panion, on observing a lady pass:
Pat, did you ever see so thin wo.
man as that before9" "Thin,, re-.
Piled the other; botherashun, / seen
one as thin as two of her put together,
[ have"
A MAN went into butchers shop,
and finding the owners wife in attend
arce, in the absence of her husband,
thought he would have joke at her
expense, and said: /" Madame, can you
supply me with a yard OF pork T.
Yes, SIR" said she. And then turn
ing to boy, she added, James, give
that gentleman three pigs feet !"