Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-27
ALI Sorts.

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TWELVE street cars for Bombay have
just been finished in Troy.
ALABAMA is said to be shipping con-
siderable coal to Cuba.
TALKING of AL pine elevations. Swiss
inn-keepers have put their prices up
higher
WHAT'S the difference between the
side of a right-angled triangle and an
old maids teapot? One is a hypoth-
enuse, the other is tea-pot-in-use.
A LARGE eagle was caught at Port
land, Conn.,, the other day, in the very
act of swooping down upon young
child, but was scared away, and after
ward shot.
Now that the word hymeneal" is SO
commonly used in reference to we'd
dings it is suggested that births should
be headed "crymeneal" and deaths
'diemeneal. ...
TENNYsoN is said to have become
greatly indignant lately at the ignor-
ance Of an American who knew moth
ing about the works of Joaquin Miller,
whom the poet laureate termed "the
greatest poet Of his country
The heirs of President Lincoln pay
taxes upon quarter section of land in
Crawford county, Iowa, in accordance
with land warrant issued to him for
services rendered as captain in the
Black Hawk war;
ALFALFA must be the pasture grass
of the great half barren plains of the
northwest. Experiments in Utah have
shown that it can be sown on the most
barren soil, and will be productive
without much attention, yielding two
crops year of rich, nutritious aliment
for cattle.
PUT on your right glove first, stupid
Then you have your lefthand ungloved
to button your right withal. If you
put on your left glove first you have to
button your right glove under double
disadvantage. .-. ....E.
JOHN GREEN is strictly self-made
man. He went to Omaha without, a
cent. By industry and enterprise he
won $4,000 in three days game of
poker. Having got his hand in he en-
igrated to Chicago, invested in faro,
and was worth $50, 900 at last accounts.
But that was two or three days ago.
A BUFFALO editor, commenting on
the price of gas in London, gives vent
to his feelings as follows: "Whati
only IS cents per 1000 cubic feet of
gas (the Illuminating power of which
! is legally fixed under a penalty at the
light o. sixteen sperm candles) and
coal higher than with us. We pay s.
per 1000 cubic feet of gas, which
sometimes requires sixteen sperm can
dies to see it burn
ONE of the K. P. boys tells a good
story on an engineer running on that
road When the train stopped at st.
Mary's Mission, the engineer saw
young squaw, with her pappoose strap
ped to her back, standing on the plat
form ''Have you got little Indian
there?" said the driver of the iron
horse. ''No,'' said she, "half Injun,
half injuneer."
OIL CRY, Penn, will probably soon
be added to the list of mushroom cities
which grew up with the oil production
and as swiftly dwindled away, for we
read that not only are the inhabitants
leaving, but they even take their houses
along with them, so that it is very easy
to calculate the decrease of population.
In the "reminiscences of Holland
House," is the following anecdote of
Voltaire: "While learning the Eng
lish language (Which he did not love5.
finding that the word plague, with six
letters, was monosyl Liable, and ague,
with only the last four letters of
plague, dissyllabic, he expressed the
wish that the plague might take one
half of the English language, and the
ague the other"
OVER 1000 tons of Bessemer steel
rails were rolled at the Rensselaer, Iron
Works in one week. The miushas nine
furnaces, in each Of which were heated
81 'blooms" per turn, Or an aggregate
of 333 pieces. Eleven of these turns
were made during the week, thus
making a total of 1868 rails equal to
1,O124 tons) in all. The Saturday pre-
vious to the beginning of the trial, 1852
rails were rolled, all of which were per-
feet. The unprecedented feat, there
fore, was accomplished of rolling 1926
rails without spelling single one.
Mr.. JOHN WARREN, of Nashua, New
Hampshire, has the colors of the Sec
ond squadron of the second New
Hampshire regiment, which served in
the war of the Revolution. They were
carried by color-bearer Robert Reed,
father of the late Robert Reed, of
Nashua. The colors are blue silk, with
a woven fancy border and green
fringe. One side of the field is orna-
mented with shield in red, white and
blue, and displays seven stars. The
diverse side shows an eagle and the
notices, "E Pluribus Unum," and
Second Squadron, Second Regi-
ment." The relic is in good state of
preservation, although somewhat faded,
battered and torn.
A COMPANY is to be formed to raise