Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-07
General Items.

ITALIANS may now read how Stanley
found Living stone.
HE three finest contralti Of the day
are American women.
VIRGINIA drinks $12, OOO, 900 worth of
liquor every year.
AN orange tree 400 years old is one
of the sights in Paris.
he voice of the evergreen pedlar is
pushed for another year.
HALF pound of tobacco is an excel
lent marriage fee in Kalamazoo.
THREE Japanese noblemen have
started bank in London.
CALIFORNIA pays 81, 100000 a year to
Scotland for wheat bags.
ORANGES are retailing in Florida at
one and a half cents.
TOLEDO has a policeman six feet
seven inches high.
The Boston Globe has had five ed
ltors 1n-chief in the past two years.
Mr.. RICHARD PRocToR, the eminen
English astronomer, is convert to the
Catholic faith. ...r
WHILE the iron interests of Pittsburg
are depressed, Chattanooga iron com.
pany, employing about 200 men, is ruDs
ming double time. .a..r-.s
KETTLE drums are becoming fashion.
able. They are informal receptions.
when tea and cake are the only re-
freshme nts. .r.rs.. s..s
The funeral of an Indian princess,
recently, was attended by 10000 per-
Nhn hoI
The monument which Disraeli has
erected to the memory of his wife
bears the simple epitaph, 90 dulcis
COM lux" - 1.>#
A MAINE Justice vindictated the dig
nifty OF the law by sending a newspaper
editor to prison for calling him
8 muddle-headed mannikin.''
IT has been suggested that two-cent
postal cards be issued, on which the
receiver, Of message might send a
reply without cost to himself.
BUTTONS of oxydized steel have found
their way to livery coats, which in
some cases are lavlshly studded with
them.
A VETERAN observer thinks that a
good many men are valiant in advance.
who would not be in the advance where
valor was necessary.
HE Ismalia, Of the Anchor line of
steamers, is the seventh in the solemn
roll Of mysterious. disappearances on
the North Atlantic.
A CoLoRED physician in Macon, Ca.
who had but one remedy for all all
ments-kerosene oil-has been impris-
oned for practicing without license:
WHAT'S in a name The ship Shak-
speare sailed from New York recently
with Mr.. Fechter as captain, together
with the Undaunted Winter.
THE stained-glass window which
Americans are erecting in the parish
church at Stratford- on Avon has for
its subject "The Judgment of Solo
mon" aE@ a1} TosI
| - AMONG curious wills in England, a
devoted wife Wills that her darling hus-
band shall marry ere long a nice,
pretty girl, who is good housewife,
being careful she has a good temper.
HE city of Geneva has had another
windfall, and now rejoices in another
annual revenue of $40, 900 for furnish
ing free lectures and instruction to the
poorer classes. -t
Two carloads Of sheep from shrop-
shire, England, have arrived in Solano
county, Cal. They left Shropshire
forty-seven days ago, and made the
Journey without perceptib!e injury to
their health.
SH1PBUmD1Na is becoming an impor-
tant interest of the Pacific coast.
Twenty sea going vessels, with a
total capacity of 5, 900 tons, have been
built at Coos Bay, Oregon.
The Patrons of Husbandry, accord
ing to their latest reports, have 1886
oranges, with 6O2, 665 members. There
were 974 of these oranges organized
during November.
TIE Missouri Harrisonian advertises
420 cow-bells for sale, and explains that
it took them Of hardware man in pay
ment for job work. Live and let live
is it's motto. r
"DoEs one woman in fifty" asks an
exchange, " fill the lower half of her
lungs with air?" The question, 1t
strikes us, is an impudent one. Who's
doing this filling anyhows
In Missouri the down-trodden sex
are beginning successfully to assert
their right to enter upon any vocation
hitherto monopolized by the tyrant
man. A couple of st. Joe girls lately
garroted a poor workwoman.
"WHo dares to spit tobacco juice on
this car foor2" asked burly passen-
ger on Mobile train CT dare" qui-
city replied slender youth; "and I
did it. "You're the chap I'm looking
for" said the rufian; "give me a
chaw."
A TELEGRAM from Moscow states
that Nine. Patti has just taken her
benefit in Faust, and obtained 1928
roubles Of 75c) of receipts, She was
called forward sixty times, and after
the third act received from the SUBJ
scribers splendid brooch, composed
OF diamonds and large pearls.
Hon. RONALD LESLIE MELVILLE, who
has joined the house of Jay Cooke, is
the son of the Earl of Leven and Mel.