Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
General Items.

ohAAoAOu AIooP1Udl at New YORK,
Thursday night, Melted $4,000.
A COSTLY dental operati on-spending
ten millions on the mouth of the
Mississippi.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE students have
stopped publishing their Anvil and
gone back to old sledge.
STALKS Of wheat measuring three feet
high, nicely headed out and almost
ready for harvest, have been exhibited
in San Bernardino.
ABOUT 1000 pairs of old-fashioned
andlrons arc manufactured and sold In
Bangor yearly. ....
MORE than 500, 900 lives are now in
sured by the 200 and odd companies
engaged in that business.
PERSONS are living who have wit
messed plays in twenty-five different
theatres in Boston within fifty years.
In Arkansas, when a man walks into
a house and shoots the proprietor and
others he is styled can intruder.''
SOME of the prettiest aigrettes seen
this season are of spun glass, tinted
every imaginable hue and color.
NEw-FAsHIoNED wedding cards are
long and narrow, and have the initials
and monOgrams in the left-hand corner.
AT the minimum estimate there are
~, 900 unemployed women in the city
of New York
BUTTERMILK is attracting great atten-
ton as an article of diet that will pro-
duce longevity.
len THOUSAND AND SEVENTY SEVEN
Philadelphians became drunk and
disorderly" last year. ...
CLEVELAND bas 1, 100 saloons, and it
is but natural that she should ask Con-
gress for breakwater.
THERE died in Philadelphia last week
thirteen persons who had lived to or
beyond four score years of age.
CHICAGO proposes to institute series
of Sunday afternoon scientific lectures
for working men, after the London
fashion.
A CONNECTICUT paper proposes to
fine every man $500 who adulterates
liquor, and only 81 where he sands his
sugar.
IF the new proposition 10 burn the
| dead prevails, what are the medical
men to do for subjects for the dissect-
ing table,? le
The latest dramatic rumor from New
York is that Booths Theatre is to be
sold to Jarrett & Palmer, of Niblo's
Garden.
The present famine in Bengal g, in
measure, owing to the decline in the
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notably in South Carolina. a@@ eaE'
LONG BRANCH is promised two new
hotels, next season, one to accommO-
date over a thousand guests on the
European plan.
A New YORK firm have in their store
piece of lace five yards long worth
81, 200 yard, which man could crowd
into his watch fob or pocket book. @+
AT recent :'Dickens' party in New
York, over 200 persons appeared in
different characters from the books Of
'tBoz" "a --- -.
The difference in the length of pas
sage made by the Cunard steamship
Parthia, on her last two trips from
Queenstown to Boston, was just eight
minutes. Tls'a
The largest legation in Washington
is the Spanish, which consists of eight
members the next is the British. and
the French legation ranks third in
point of numbers.
A CALIFORNIA youth rejoices in hay
ing his mother, grandmother and great
grandmother resides under the same
roof, and keeps them all employed to
supply his wants. 80. ..... ...
New YORK has adopted an English
idea, and the different railway stations
now contain boxes for the reception of
newspapers and other reading matter
for daily distribution in the various
hospitals.
The entire root of very large tree
was found in perfect state of preser.
walton in an Indiana coal mine the
other day, at a great depth below the
surface.
A MAN has been fined $1795 in Cam
bridge, Mass, for profanity. We are
surprised that Cambridge people in
dulge in such expensive luxuries.
IT is expected that the United States
Hotel at Saratoga will be completed
aDOuG noXC June. ln0 UraW1ng-rOOm
carpets are being made in Europe
The original patent for metallic tips
for shoes was sold for 500, and the
company which bought it became
wealthy. Now, upon it's expiration,
the inventor has obtained it's renewal,
and compels the company to pay him
100000.
A LONDON paper suggests that as IVY
is the only plant which seems to -four
ish in the smoky atmosphere of the
city, it might be advantageously used
to cover some OF the public statues,
the natural ugliness of which are in
tensifed by the deposits of SCOT which
covers them.
A "DEAD BEATS DIRECTORY" con-
tanning the names of thousand men.
including ministers, lawyers, actors,
aldermen and officials who habitually
neglect paying their bills, has ap-
peared unanimously in Chicago. There
are suspicious that this is only another
fendish scheme, having it's origin in
tho brain of cnpoo oyu;o,,a 1o,,;1op Of