Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-04-12
Items OF Interest.

LIZ NIanu maven IerOtd claims a
city. '''
LOOK out for counterfeit SIS on the
Merchants National Bank of New Bed
ford.
IHE loss IN Great Britain by cattle
diseases for the last ten years has aver
aged 100000 per annum.
THREE Cabinet ministers were spelled
down at a recent spelling match in
England.
THERE were 81 900 exhibitors at the
Paris exposition of 1867, and $4,000 at
Vienna.
DANIEL MURPHY, Of Tulare, CAL, has
bought 5000 square miles of land in
Mexico at two cents an acre
Mrs. LUCY DETRAz, of Vevay, Ind,
has a shawl about $50 years old. It
was made by hand in Switzerland.
IT is claimed that the Momen's for
elgn mission societies of this country
contributed last year 6SO,OOO to foreign
missions.
A FINE saw, in Connecticut, goes into
an elephants tusk like tumbler into
a lemonade and turns out a sheet of
ivory six feet long.
OF the III women now studying at
Michigan University, four have chosen
law, AZ medicine, and 81 literature and
science.
JOHN GARRISON, of Cherokee, Iowa,
started for England on Monday with a
cargo Of dried pork, prepared by new
process.
ABOUT one hundred Good Temp1ars
will visit the Centennial from South
Bend, Warsaw, Plymouth, and La Porte
in body.
"ACREs and acres of ducks" are to be
seen On the lower Wabash. They have
not appeared In greater numbers since
1874
IT is generally understood that James
Gordon Bennett himself is the writer of
the personal items IN the New York
Herald.
AMONG the receipts of the American
Home Missionary Society for January
were Centennial gift of $1,000,
and four legacies amounting to over
s., 800.
The Republicans Of Stratham, New
Hampshire, conveyed man ninety
years old to the polls, and elected their
ticket by majority Of one.
AMERICAN postal cards may be sent
for additional one-cent stamp to the
following countries: Canada, New
foundland, Switzerland and the German
States
THE Patent Office, at Washington,
during its business hours last year,
granted patents at the rate Of one
every II minutes.
WHEN French army officer is con-
victed of felony his epaulets are torn
off, his sword is broken, and private
steps from the ranks and kicks him.
After that the civil authorities take
care of him.
A WELLDREssED young man recently
drove to Buckingham Palace, and re-
quested to see the Queen, stating that
he was the King of England. Medical
examination pronouncing him insane,
he was placed in safe quarters.
The province of Ontario, Canada, is
7 fast becoming one Of the greatest
cheese districts. The amount of cheese
made there during the past year would
tbring a revenue of nearly 100000, at
the price of ten cents per pound.
SPEAKING of an old china sale in Eu-
rope the other day, where a pair of
vases were sold for $4,000, the st.
Louis Republican says: s'Ihis sale
was not held in lunatic asylum, but
in a land where men, women and chill
dren drop dead every day in the year
Of starvation"
BIRDsDY E. G.. NoRTHToP, the secre-
tary Of the Connecticut State Board of
Education, has offered 5000, to be dis
tributed in prizes Of 81 each among
those teachers and pupils In the state
who shall plant five trees on streets Or
on school grounds before the 10th of
next May.
The Kosciusko Miss Star mentions
the arrest of Thomas Wilkinson, on the
charge of having snapped wives some
years ago with one Harris, resident of
Montgomery county. The trade met
the entire ,approbation Of both women,
and Wilkinson sWears that he will die
in jail before he will swap back.
The farmers of Aroostook county,
Maine, believe in combination. There
is starch factory in the county, and
the farmers have pledged themselves
not to raise potatoes for it unless they
can be guaranteed at least twenty-five
cents a bushel.
AN oyster-opener of Toulouse, while
opening half a dozen raWs for a GUS
toner, found a fine pearl worth thou
sands of dollars, and pocketed it. The
customer insisted thai it belonged to
him, asserting that the shells, oysters,
juice, and everything else in the shells
of the oysters he ordered We're his prop
erty. The law will decide the question.
DR.. julius FRoBEL, has been trans
ferred from the German Consulship in
Smyrna to that of Algiers. DR.. Frobel,
in 184s, was tried, with Robert Blum, in
| Vienna, by Court-martial, and con-
demned to death. Blum was shot early
one morning, but Frobel was pardoned
and expatriated. He came to New
York, and remained in this city until
the Austrian amnesty for political Of
lenses was issued, when he returned to
Vienna. In 1866 he moved to Munich
where he published and edited the
/ South German Press. He is sayenty-One