Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-11
General Items.

TIFTSBURG warns up with animation
as she counts her $50 pudding furnaces.
ONE thousand Mennonites are to set
tie in East Tennessee.
AN interesting discovery of gold has
oeen made IN Bnte, Scotland.
THE whole amount expended on &C.
count OF the Pennsylvania Constitution
al convention was $40, 723 80.
WHY does sculptor die the most
horrible of deaths? Cause he makes
aces and bAsts.
ALTHOUGH the Dutch are a maritime
people, their navy is said to be in a
wretched condition.
EIGHT ounces Of mashed potatoes
were found inside a roll Of country
butter by an Albany dealer the other
day. q. = ~ ---s. 49,. .-
upper has lately received pension.
Some people regret that he has not al
ways been penshunner. -A-
DELICATE French tinted writing pa
per Will take the place of the pure
white stationery hitherto in vogue.
The Boston and Maine Railroad can
boast of carrying over 5000. 900 pas
sengers last year, and killing only onei
A PENNSYLVANIA man hung himself
the other day, because he didn't want
to appear in court as witness. Sensi-
tive being. ..-.t.s
"SPoTTED RED HORSE is the only
surviving chief of the On ndagas, and
he splits wood at Rochester.
A PRIEST in Serene, Chill, endeavor-
ed to drive caterpillars from garden
by formally cursing them. They still
flourish.
A YOUNG MAN who had just r. urned
from sequestered village to the city
declared that it was so still at night in
the country tavern where he lodged
that you could hear bed tick
1T was Canadian road, and the
brakeman had called out in sonorous
voice, Teeswater when an a1gu.
mentative passenger got up and ex-
claimed excitedly, " It's a lie !"
MYNHEER, do you know for whatwe
call our boy Hans 2" "Do rot, really"
"Well, I must tell you der reason dat
we call our boy Hans dat ish his
name"
LOUISIANA wonders at the variable
ness of it's climate. In little town on
the coast there was snow balling, while
in another little town grapes were ma
turing, and custom house officer
caught twenty reddish in half an hour.
WHEN the cock and the fox went on
board the ark they had no fear of bag
gage smashers for one had comb
and the other had a brush. and that
was all the luggage they had between
them.
THERE were manufactured in Califor-
MIA last year IS, 154, $50 cigars, of
which $780, 500 were shipped to the
Eastern States, and there were i'm
ported into San Francisco during the
same period, 4, $50, 512.
A PRISONER in petty court was ask
ed by the Judge if he had any counsel.
eyes" he said, 81 had engaged an
old bald-headed fellow to defend NE.
but [ don't see him round, and rather
guess he's out for a drink
GIVING rosebud dinners is a new
freak in fashionable society. The
guests are composed exclusively of
dem olselles just bursting into woman
hood, to whom everything is couleurde
rose, and who are about to make their
debut in society.
DURING the past year there were ex-
ported from New York 20, 700 barrels
of shoe pegs, valued at over $4,000,
and 1 $40 cases of shoe nails, valued at
$4,000, while the import of bristles
during the same time amounted to-
nearly $4,000.
YOUTHFUL Philade]phians have dis
covered new and easy way of making
money. They go out into the streets
early, and when they see newspaper
thief pick up copy of the Public Led
ger they go to the Ledger Office and
get twenty-five dollars for their in
formation.
SOME of the new collars intended for
young ladies who are weary of the Eliz-
abethan ruff fasten at the throat by a
small gold link with ball pendants.
We have no reason to anticipate that
those new affairs will attain any very
great popularity.
CANADA has vast mines Of iron ore
in the Ottawa valley. Last year A.
900 tops of iron ore from the Hull
mines, and $4,000 tons from the
Marmora iron mines, were exported to
the United States. A large quantity
of it was manufactured here and sent
back.
The intelligent compositor. abetted
by the vigllant proof-reader, has sue
ceeded in announcing, through the
Kansas City Journal, that at Miss
Phoebe Cozzens' lecture local choir
would ''punish some soup" though
the advertiser declares that he wrote
" furnish some songs"
The Salem (Mass) Gazette recalls
the fact that the Siamese twins were
arrested at Lynnfeld, Mass, in Au-
gust, 1881, for breach of the peace.
While staying for few days at the
hotel. enjoying themselves fishing on
the pond and shooting in the woods.
with young Englishman as an attend
ant, they were much annoyed by the
eager curiosity of visitors, who dis
turf ed their intended secIus,or Col