Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-18
General Items.

NEW IORh Grains one drinking
saloon to every 13O of it's population.
New YORK paid million and quar-
ter last year for street pavements.
UMBRELLAS displaying advertiser
ments are gratuitously distributed in
Paris. ~ ~ - = " r. lT (
THERE are no free schools in Jack
sonport, Arkansas. rrer er
COTTON manufacture is steadily in
creasing in the South.
BBRGH protests against dyeing poo
dies by New York aristocrats.
The month just passed was the
warmest January for half century.
ID The Germans are using iron shields
in some Of their land Notifications. H
OHIO is the only State that is round
at both ends and high in the middle.
WHY is a retired carpenter like a
lecturer 2 Because he is an ex-planer.
PARTIES going over the ocean should
be warmly clothed. The steamers are
always coaled.
! 10. SMITH, JR., proposes to rebuild
Mormon capital at Nauvoo on a scale
of unexampled magnifcence.
Nor "Innocents Abroad "-Harry
Genet in Europe. Also Woodward and
Sweeney.
WYOMING proposes to wipe out the
blot on it's fair name and make gam
bling illegal.
The Duke of Edinburgh gets, with
his Russian wife, 1915, 900, and $50, 900
year besides
A PENNSYLVANIA farmer offers pre-
MUM chrome with every load Of
manure bought of him.
THISTLE tea and poultice of thistle
leaves are said to be good for neuralgia.
WOMEN are now eligible to any office
Of school control or management in
Pennsylvania. .-.
IT was scarcely fair for Californian
who heard an Indian girl in opera to
say she was transformed from a squaw
to squawler.
Nor praising where praise is not due
is one of the most important of the
smaller duties of life.
Is THERE any objection to teacher
warming" the naughty scholars if
he keeps school himself
A RICHMOND paper complains of the
large number of Virginians who are
leaving their native State.
DIR. E. II. CLARKE's remarkable book
on ''Sex in Education has already
reached it's eighth edition.
SEvENTY-FIvE per cent. of the sick
ness of New York, and probably ninety
per cent of it's crime, comes from the
tenement-house population.
A TEN-YEAR- OLD French girl burned
her fathers house because he had
whipped her for not knowing her cate
chlsm.
A STRANGE use has been made Of fish
scales in the manufacture of water
proof material designed for dental
plates.
To PRINT thousand impressions of
bank bills of the highest denomina-
lions costs 81, AL in New York, but it
can be done for S63 by the Govern
ment Engraving Bureau.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER thinks that to
build theology solely by the logical
faculty is as irrational as to try to
make flower with carpenters tools.
IT is estimated that during the i'm
pending famine in India the Govern
ment will be called upon to supply
half pound of grain per day, for
eight months, to $4,000, 900 people.
The Memphis Avalanche congratu-
lates itself on its liability to a
libel suit from Susan B., because it
never criticises the personages of an
cient history.
Mr.. HENRY M. MORRIS has presented
the portrait of his ancestor, Lewis
Morris, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, to the
city of Philadelphia. The original
painting was by Trumbull, and is now
in Hartford. l..
REAL sheep are introduced in the
pantomime of g Little Red Riding
Hood" at Covent Garden Theatre. On
the occasion of the recent visit there of
the Prince and Princess Of Wales the
sheep we're introduced into the royal
box for the delectation of the royal
children.
! AN opera was so badly executed re-
Gently in the City of Mexico that the
exasperated audience, who were good
| judges Of music, put stop to it by
hurting chairs, benches, cushions, and
every movable appurtenance of the
house, upon the stage. E.UGFg
A CERTAIN farmer, having company
at dinner, was ambitious to make it
appear that he was somebody. Ad-
dressing his boy, he said "Have
you driven those sheep in 90 eyes.
sir; saw him jump over the bars2"
He had but one. --.-.
CHARLESTON, since it's annexation to
Boston, has been called the Bunker
Hill District. It doesn't like its new
name, and has petitioned the Common
Council to be known as Charlestown
again. :.
CHORUS of ladies (to comely curate
who is ascending the ladder to hang
decorations)-"O, Mr.. Sweetlow, do
take care! Don't go up! So danger
Gus! Do come down! Oh" Rector