Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-21
General Items.

tOOGlng.
LARGE quantities of Australian pearls
have appeared for sale in the English
market
ECONOMY in fuel is urged very gen.
orally throughout England this Win
ter.
ANXIOUS about public opinion for
private use-Some members OF Con-
gress.
w. w. STORY, the poet and sculptor,
is of the opinion that the Elgin Mar
bles, heretofore attributed to Phldlas,
were not executed by him.
The latest dodge down South-At-
tempting to pass Confederate money as
ferry toll.
A RICH old fellow in Georgia pur-
chased two camels in a circus, and is
teaching his children to ride them.
ACCORDING to DR.. Livingstone, the
Victoria Falls on the Zambes1 are 600
feet wider than the combined Falls of
Niagara. Their native name is Mosia-
tunya. ..u
IT is pronounced an enormous sign
when man, who has been married
SCdIC0iS tWclNS IuoutuSs USSluS w NC
tray an abnormal interest In the causes
of lockjaw.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE is going to serve
up to the English public, E'The Way We
Live Now in twenty monthly parts.
How to become practically acquaint-
ed with the "Rule of Three Live
with your wife, mother, and mother-in-
law.
A CULPRIT in Chicago police court
began his address to the Justice with
CHOW, jest look'ee here, old Blinky,"
and got ten days for contempt.
New ZEALAND has invited Joseph
Arch to visit that country, with the
view of inspecting its advantage for
agricultural emigrants from England
A wELL-DREssED man, apparently a
mechanic, recently created sensation
in Boston by walking about with a
placard on his hat, On which was in
scribed 6 want work."
A COUPLE in Colebrook. Mass, tied
their sick child to the bed and went to
church. They were gone four hours,
and when they returned the neighbors,
attracted by the prisoners cries, had
broken in the door. The parents were
arrested,
MATHEMATICS is delightful science.
A Maine woman ate gallon Of oysters
the other day for 800. After deduct
ing $50 for funeral expenses, how much
did she g clear 2"
A LITTLE Washington newsboy antic-
ipated Christmas by presenting his
mother with $50 sewing machine, af-
ter paying her So per week board, all
from his earnings since March last,
and he has attended school regularly
every day, at that
LAY figures of papier mache are now
manufactured for artists use they are
more flexible than wood, and "young
girl costs about thirty-seven dollars
in London. .
HERoIsM is limited after all. A girl
who, the other day, jumped into the
Merrimack river, and rescued drown.
ing child, tainted away when she saw
her false curls floating down the
stream.
A DRY GOODS merchant at River de
Chute, N. B., recently missed sum of
money which he had placed between
some goods on the counter, whereupon
he applied for warrants of arrest against
everybody who had traded with him
that day. .t".
AN immense deposit of shale filed
with oil has been discovered on the line
of the Union Pacific Railroad, about
three hundred miles west of Cheyenne,
Wyoming. The shale burns freely,
and can be used as fuel to manufacture
the OIL
A MAN in Evansville, Ind, recently
had the pleasure of attending the we'd
ding of his own parents. They had
been divorced thirty years; bat the
number of times each had been married
In the interval is not stated.
HARVARD was not, after all, the first
American College which disgraced it
self by rejecting woman as student;
for in 1888 Miss Lucinda Foote, of
Cheshire, Conn, was declared by Pres
ident Stiles, of Yale College, fully
qualified in every way, except in re-
gard to sex, to be received as a pupil
in the freshman class of that Universe
ty.
In Castro Valley, Alameda county,
Cal, there is forest of Australian gum
trees covering over one hundred acres.
The trees were planted only three and
a Lalf years ago, and some have at
tanned height of fifty feet and d.
ameter of twelve inches.
AT Gen. Won Wanteuffels suggestion
the German Government has decided
to establish at Mayence mandatory
of preserved meat and vegetables for
the use of the army.
ROME is slowly recovering from the
Ill effects of the cholera reports, and
the season may be said to have COM
menced. Visitors are flowing into it in
large numbers. The weather is capri
cious-now a heavenly day, the next
clustering and rainy.
The Russian ukase, respecting the
recruiting for the army during 1874,
enacts that six men shall be drafted
into the service from every ], 900 inhab.