Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-03
Miscellaneous Paragraphs,

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THERE are eight metals-indiun, van
adlum, ruthenium, palladium, uranium.
osmlum, and lrldium-more valuable
than gold, because Of their scarcity.
The people of Austin, Texas. have
brought their gas company to terms
by the general introduction Of oil
lamps.
HERE will DE another $40, 900 stallion
race at Mystic Park, near Boston. Sep
TENDER 18th, entrance to close Nav
10th, with five per cent. forfeit.
SEVEN tons of locks and brass KEYS
for the Palace Hotel at San Francisco,
to cost $40, 900, have been ordered Of q
San Francisco locksmith
PAGE & Co., Of Norwich, Ct., have
received an order from China for wood
type III Chinese characters, to be used
10 missionary work.
KALAKAUA is doubtless home ere this.
and getting mixed up under cross cues
tloning of Mrs. Kalakaua.
HE want of the age is some other
methed OF freezing a novelists hero than
with horror.-D0ea6u1y NeWs.
AhCADAH ID. LORD Is prominent
Massachusetts sut1ragist, and when she
don't shrek we suppose she talks like
thunder.
WHEN a Comstocker wants to dispar-
age another he says: "When you
thoroughly prospect him, you'll find
no bonanza III him.
BROTHER HAMMOND is Familiarity ad-
dressed by the California miners as
"Old Pard," and is in sore distress to
learn what they mean by it.
A KENTUCKY paper speaks of a man
who had a narrow escape from sun
stroke, he having stood only two feet
from a man who was struck.
THE song Of the Washington youth
81 want to be q lobby man and in
the lobby stand, with brass upon
nay forehead, and greenbacks in my
hand . s..fs
IT is said that two Wabash avenue
lovers will sit up half the night with
only one chair in the room, but that is
easily explained to anyone who has
been there.
A CANADIAN rooster and an American
eagle were matched at Hamilton the
other day, and the eagle was wolloped
In six Minutes. Where are our liber-
ties? ,~s ...-
HE Newport ACADEMY Of Music has
been sold for $4,000 to the African
Methodist Church, and, as it is In the
most fashionable part Of the city, no
little feeling is excited about the sale.
GUSTAV DoRE was paid in the begin
ming of his popularity, $1,000 each for
the drawings made es Illustrations of
Tennysons 'Idvls." The original
drawings, eighteen in number, lately
sold for 1910.
A PETRIFIED fragment cf what was
once redwood tree was lately found
in Napa county, Cal. It is eleven feet
in diameter and sixty seven feet long,
and is supposed to have been originally
200 feet in length.
A New HAVEN organ builder has in
vented an apparatus by which chime
of bells can be played as an accompani-
ment to an organ, and be connected and
detached from the instrument by
stop.
ANOTHER London idea has crept into
New York-that of having ones door
bell answered by spruce little boy, in
uniform and gilt, known as ''buttons.
It is requisite that ''buttons' should
drop his chs"
GARMENTS may be rendered water
proof, says the English Mechanic, by
immersing them for twenty-four hours
in solution made by dissolving one
ounce of alum and two ounces of sugar
Of lead in gallon of pure rain water.
MIR McKNIeHr, who has but twelve
acres of land on Tomales bay, sold ST.
500 worth of ducks and eggs one year.
Capt. Page, in the same vicinity, did
equally well. There are some twenty
persons engaged IN this business on
Tomales Bay. a
SEVEN new churches on the Black
Bay land, Boston, have cost, it is esti-
mated, over two millions of dollars. Of
these the First Church cost $500, 900,
the Central Church, $5OO,OOO, and the
new Trinity Church, $500, 900.
THERE is said 10 be larger water
area in Vermont in proportion to it's
size than any other State in the Union
There are 1875 acres covered by lakes
and ponds Of fifty acres or more each,
and an effort is to be made to stock
them with black bass, salmon trout, and
white fish.
PEANUTS are rapidly coming to the
front as an article of trade. Ten years
ago the crop did not amount to more
than $50, 900 bushels. Last year 2,OOO,-
600 bushels were raised, valued at 49,
900, 900. Philadelphia alone takes 6O0,-
900 bushels of peanuts.
Two hundred horses are in course OF
training at New York stables for the
spring races. The number is to be
reinforced by Southern stables, espe
cially many from Kentucky. Jerome
Park, it is said, will witness a larger
number of horses at the approaching
races than ever before. sf'faes..
AN artificial wine, made by the mem
bers of the Austrian Polar Expedition
during their sOiOI1rp in the Arctic seas,