Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-02
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
MICHIGAN plants million trees this
year.
NOT single murder has occurred i'm
Iceland for period of fifty years.
WEST CHESTER, Pa, has a colored
population of 100.
A FLORIDA tramp fiddler drives his
rounds in a buggy.
A BURGLAR just discharged from the
Massachusetts penitentiary, has passed
70 OF the 46 years of his life in prison.
A SET of wheels was lately taken from
the baggage car of the California and
Oregon express train, which had run
81 800 miles.
Ice machines in New Orleans. AQUA
ammonia process, make 200 tons of ice
per nay and this amount can be doub-
led If necessary.
THE individual who called tight boots
comfortable defended his position by
saying they made man forget all his
other miseries.
The cheese production of the whole
United States is now over 25O,O0O,0O0
pounds, of which 96,O00,000 pounds are
exported.
ALFRED SMITH, citizen of Austin,
Texas, is worth half million, which he
has made legitimately in stock-raising
out O. $1,000 invested Ill cattle and
horses at the close of the war.
TWELVE American families from
Texas have purchased lands in the dis
trict of the Laguna, Coahuila, Mexico,
and will soon establish themselves
there permanently.
The head waiter of one of the Cape
May hotels is the husband of lady
who, at one time, moved in the best
circles of Philadelphia. He was her
papa's butler, and they lived together
about a month.
in the Pyrenees, the following notice
is posted in hotel: Gail travellers ON
their arrival will be entitled, gratis, to a
bath, with friction and special lotions.
These lotions will guarantee the travel
er perfect immunity from the numer-
Gus insects which infest the hotel"
A MARRIED lady in Troy was poisoned
recently, by the picric acid contained
in calico dress which she wore, por-
ton Of the dress coming in contact
with her body. Erysipelas followed,
which was also contracted by nursing
child, which died in few days.
Mr.. TURNER, of Trickum, Ga., who
joined the army in 1861 after an ab-
sence Of more than fourteen years, has
returned, brought an action for the re-
'covery of his wife, who in his absence
had married Mr.. Cape, and gained the
suit.
AS many as twenty of the %, 200 per-
sons whose deaths were registered in
Ireland In the first quarter of the pres
ent year are described as centenarians.
There are three among them registered
as 106 years old, one 100, one Ito, and
two men Ill years Of age.
WOULD you believe it that over 200
religious sects extend their influence to
the weary mortals of earth and prom
Use them Immortality -each in his own
and " only" peculiar way? Even In
London there exist, besides the various
Christian denominations, Pa1sees,
Brahmos, Brahmins, Japanese, Budd-
hists and Jews.
NOBODY seemed curious to know why
that half-grown, countrifed-lo looking boy
in plain clothes and not very stylish
clothes, either, should be allowed with
In the inclosrre, attended by fne-look-
ing United States army officer, who was
explaining to him the working of the
diff erent machines. A hundred more
young ladies will never know how In
different they passed by the heir of the
crown of Sweden, Prince Oscar.-Phila-
delph5a Letter an San Francisco Bulletin.