Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-01
General Items.

OF the Olu WOTlQ. 5.aFE -r r..
They say Stokes is making money in
Wall street by proxy. s caa .'...
WOOD carving as "profession for
women is under discussion.
CALIFORNIA delights in twenty-four
ounce lemons. .. --
The size of ladies' lockets increases
every season.
JEFF DAVIS is in England; his health
continues poor.
BONE dust is exported from Australia
compressed into bricks, SO as to be
easily handled and packed
MORE ocean steamers sail from New
York in one year than from any other
port in the world.
MAHoMET's character has been vindi-
Gated by his followers in Bombay from
an attack made upon it by Barsee
editor.
ONE custom at least has not changed
since our grandfathers' ays,-March
keeps up it's bad habit of clustering and
blowing like bully.
A soNINAMBUIIsT recently entered the
house of well-known citizen of New
bt1ryport, and got into bed where two
young ladies were sleeping, but they
screamed, and he awoke and ram
The Richmond Enquirer acknowl-
edges the superabundance of handsome
young ladies there, and thinks they
hate good-looking Yankees just enough
to marry them for revenge, if they ever
have an opportunity.
''THE report of Col Tudor's speech,
is crowded out" says the Murfreesboro
News. "The Colonel stands on the
popular platform of more whisky, bet
ter whisky, cheaper whisky,
A MAN found sturgeon, five feet and
half long, and weighing hundred
pounds, which had somahow got out of
an air-hole in a lake near St. Adams,
upon the ice, several days ago, and dis
patched him with an ak.
The young bloods at Keokuk have
inaugurated temperance crusade
They are drinking up all the benzine in
town, in order to get it out of the reach
of men who have families to support.
TwENTY-sEvEN Nashville ladies de-
termined to practice economy-vowed
not to wear anything more expensive
than calico dresses to church-and they
stuck to it, as none of them have attend
ed church siuce.
THE negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia westward continues, and the
Montgomery Advertiser says $4,000
tickets for co!ored emigrants have been
taken up on roads leading south and
west from that city.
An Indianapolis jeweler has on exIi-
bition " widows mite. It IS about
the size of silver three-cent piece, is
of copper and very much worn; on one
side the head of the reigning Emperor
Tiberius Caesar can be seen the charac-
ters on the reverse are illegible. ..r
A MAN and wife named Chase tried to
desert theirt two children, about five and
seven years old, at Rutland, few days
ago, by leaving them asleep and start
ing for a railroad train, early in the
morning, but they were caught before
they got out of town.
A WIDOW in Sutton, New Hampshire,
recently visited dying woman, and
said: 81 have been waiting for some
time to see some one about to die, that
[ might send message to my husband.
Tell him we are well here and send our
best regards"
The parents of young man who was
killed at Columbia have placed mon
ument over his remains with this in
scription: Escaped the bullets of the
enemy to be assassinated by cowardly
pup-a kind husband, an affectionate
father"
A FOREIGN correspondent of the
Christian Register says that the ancient
ferocity Of the Saxons still remains in
the instincts of the English A thorough
knock-down is relished there in way
unknown to any but the roughs Of
America
An Albany clerk recently received
letter demanding $500 to avoid expo
sure The next day a woman made her
appearance on the scene, demanding
the money. On his threatening to kick
her out she departed, and the following
day he disappeared.
They used to tie the sash on the left
side in pretty bow, but now, as they
are worn of such wide and handsome
ribbon, the ladies put them wherever
there is GO break" in their dress. There
is nothing like combining cleverness
with economy, and the first two COM
| blned with fashion.
A SOCIETY of thirty Indiana women,
mostly girls from Is to %, has been or
ganized to pay temperance visit to the
Pacific coast. They will commence
their labors at Omaha, and stop at ev-
cry saloon on the line of railroad from
there to San Francisco
The Museum of Fine Arts at Boston
has just received as a gift a $4,000
collection of carved oak fittings, panels,
brackets, &C., sufficient to decorate a
large room, which will be shortly fitted
up for the purpose. The panels contain
portraits of King Edward VI, Henry
VIII, Queen Elisabeth, and Cardinal
-Wolsey, and three female heads, per-
haps Queens Catherine, Anne Boleyn,
and Mary, the wife of Philip of Spain.
EACH ant in an ant hill knows his
companions. Mr.. Larwin several
times carried ants from one hill to an
other, inhabited apparently by tens OF
thousands of ants but the strangers