Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-30
Miscellaneous Items.

| "A WAGON 90 years OLD Is St1ll In use
at Birmingham, Conn.
EVERY railroad station in Boston
stands on made ground.
CINCINNATI sells nine million gallons
OF beer for homeconsu mption.
Il HE cost of the expeditions for OBJ
mated at 81, 100000
The manufacturers of artificial ice in
! San Francisco made last year cool
profit at $150,0OO.
A POULTICE of raw CLANS worn around
the neck is the last discovered cure for
the diptheria.
ONE good result. Before the panic
there were 5000 saloons in Chicago;
now there are only $500.
IT cost Denver sport $48 to cut off
the 'pig-tail ornament Of a Celestial res
ident in that city.
/ A FLOCK of sparrows got on a grain
Car at Boston and rode to Concord,
where they have settled.
The San Francisco Board of Brokers
consists of but eighty members, and the
number cannot be increased Aseat was
recently sold for $4,000
A FELLOW calling himself Rev. Mr..
Taylor, who has raised considerable
money at Boston /" to build church at
| London turns out to be an impostor r.
! ONE hundred workingmen have been
accidentally killed at different times
while working upon the new building
for the italian Ministry of Finance at
Rome. -. .-
CAPT. JOHN GRIFFIN, of Culpepper
county, Va, veteran of 1912, can still
jump and crack his heels twice before
touching the ground, though he is
elghty-two years old.
The officers and men of the BIRTHS b
navy are very enthusiastic in regard to
the new arctic expedition, and 200 vol
unteers have thus far asked to be al
lowed to join it.
The Great Pyramid, for the past few
Thousand years used as a receptacle for
mummies preserved in bitumen, is to be
now utilized as lighthouse. Where
are the ghosts of the Pharaohs?
AT recent "cheese fair" IN England,
the judge decided that American fac
tories cannot produce cheese equal to
the best cheese made in England, al
though they successfully compete with
the medium qualities.
} A WILLIAMSBURG, N. Y, man awoke
his wife the other night, and in a start
led tone of voice, informed her that he
had swallowed dose of strychnine.
''Well, you fool" said she, Gle still, or
it may come up
The greater part of the views in Mr.
Theodore Martins Life of the Prince
Consort," have, it is said, been supplied
by Her Majesty from her private port
folio, and the touches of more than one
royal pencil will be found in the work.
ALL the architects and engineers of
Portland and two leading business firms
have agreed.to use the metric system of
length in all their professional work,
provided the engineers of four other
cities vii! do likewise.
FIVE Roman Catholic Bishops, more
than 1000 clergymen, editors, and other
sympathizers with the Catholic religion
are at the present time being kept in
prison by the German imperial authori-
ties. Two thousand five hundred per-
sons have already been fined and SEN
fenced to prison for not having COM
piled with Mr.. Bismarck's church law.
IT is stated that the thieves who car
ried off the Murillo painting from the
Seville Cathedral have been traced. It
appears that they only took that por-
ton Of the canvass which represents
st. Anthony of Padua; after which, ac-
cording to the confession of one of the
accompices, they cut it in two for the
facility in carrying it.
On the death of little Robbie Belts
one of the brightest little boys in Troy
the dog with which he had been accus.
toned to play, spent the entire time in
| looking for his former playmate and
master. The search was kept up con-
tinually, in the street and in the house,
and finally he refused to eat, and pined
away and died. a
Mr.. SHARON, of Nevada, who gave
his daughter 81 900, 900 On her wedding
day, has two sons. We have, therefore,
no personal interest in the matter, and,
for that matter, no capital; but in be-
half of several million ladies who are
orphans and who can't get pay for their
poetry, it is hereby unseltishly pre-
| sented.
/ Mr.. w. PARKINSON, a commercial
traveller, went into bar-room named
the Station on Yonge street, Tor
onto, and called for glass of whisky,
which he threw on the floor and reflled
the glass from bottle in his pocket,
drank the contents, got a cigar, sat
down without lighting it, an1 appeared
co fell asleep. The landlord tried to
awaken him, but he was dead r.a
THE Greek Government has just ar
rested, at Athens, M. Xacousti, dealer
10 antlquaries, who had carried off to
Ianaggra some ancient statues. The
police discovered, in the back part OF
his house, an artist occupied in restor-
ing ali the statues, with a view to SELL
| ing them to the European mu-
seums, The dealer, artist, and the l2e
statues are all in the hands of the po-
lice. D3J 81 aoe
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