Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
General Items.

FIFTEEN thousand Centennial medals
OF bronze have been awarded.
DETROIT freezes 100000 fah in 8
season for more southern markets.
THERE are few apples in England
this year.
DOM PEDRO was married atseventeen.
Always In hurry
EVEN in the hardest times clocks en-
ployed their regular number Of hands.
A SCHOOL In Berlin teaches Young
women baking and cooking.
The Black Hills are White Hills now.
Covered with snow.
LORD DUFFERIN has been sent two
barrels of peat by an Oswego merchant.
IHE Austrian government has de-
clined to take any part in the Paris ex-
position of 1878.
THERE are 3,647 public libraries in
the United States, with 1926, 1854 vol
umes.
ABOUT 500 miles this side of the
North Pole coal has been found, but
there is nobody there to dig it.
THE amount Of gold received at
Cheyenne from the Black Hills, is
largely On the increase.
THE raisin crop of California is as
Stunning enormous proportions, and will
soon supply the entire American trade :.
FOUNDATIONS in the interior of the
Island of Cuba are reported which
have caused great damage in some of
the richest districts.
The exports of quicksilver from CAL
lfornia are very large. China and Japan
are the best customers; Mexico and
South merican the next.
KALAKAUA is q thrifty potentate. He
was dead-headed all over the country.
and then charged the Sandwich Islands
$4,000 for making the trip.
IT is not generally known that Mai.
Andres remains were brought from
America and inferred in Westminster
Abbey in 1921.
P1rrsBURG's late coal king, w. H.
Brown, who left an estate worth three
and quarter millions, began life for
himself by digging coal at a cent and a.
half bushel.
In New Zealand there are $40 miles
of railroad open for traffic, and 1888
miles in progress. It is proposed to ex-
pend over five million dollars during
the current year, chiefly in completing
the work IN progress.
ONE of the British scientists has been
at work On dogs brains. He finds that
the brain Of mans faithful friend is
smaller than that of the wolf, and that
the brain of Newfoundland dog is
very little larger than a terriers.
The other day man was hung at
Ianna-Fort, near Bombay, for a hor-
rlble murder, and made rather nota-
bic observation in Guje1ati. Standing
under the drop, he whispered to the
executioner, "In one minute what a
lot shall know''
THE custom in Eastern Turkey is to
remove the boots and shoes on enter
ing church. An American saw at
Anital, Turkey, 1000 boots and shoes at
the door Of the church, presenting a
very curious sight. The men 20 in
barefoot, but keep their hats on.
A LONDON authority announces that
it is proposed to introduce round in
stead of square-shaped playing cards,
as being more easy to manipulate
while dealing. This will also make the
expression come round tonight seem
more appropriate.
A MAN Was playing dice in a saloon
in Knoxville, CAL, when the funeral
procession of his wife came by. He
went to the door, waved his hat, hur-
rahed, and returned to his game. That
night he was almost killed by q mob,
but unfortunately survived popular in
dignation.
ONE OF the amusing features of.a re-
cent Mlddlebury, Vermont, college
hunt, was that the judges put Colorado
potato bugs on the list of game, and
one side seeing this, went to work
capturing and hiring captured speci-
mems of this species of game till their
prey numbered about LOO. The other
side didn't hear what was up till late.
and IN consequences only captured $50.
MRS. BURNHAM, Of Atlanta, visited
the Centennial Exhibition, and there
met a man who said that he was Col.
belong, of Boston, and very wealthy.
On the second day of their acquaint-
ance they were married, and on the
third day the bride was looking for her
husband and $1,000 which had disap-
peared with him.
CONSIDERABLY anxiety and hustle
were manifested at dance in Brook
lyn the other evening, when, during the
second figure of the lancers, hollow
spherical object. of wire and canvas,
was suddenly discovered on the floor,
in the center of one of the sets. No
body appeared to know what it was, or
where it came from, but it was noticed
that several young men snickered aud
IDLY as an attendant removed the Of
Tending obstacle, and that four young
ladies left the room in hot haste the
moment the dance concluded.
Strange Effect of the African Climate.
Francis John Pocock, an English
man, and Stanley's companion in his
African explorations, in one of his
letters to his parents speaks of the diff
Guilty of remembering anything 10
Africa. A brother who accompanied
him died; but even this event he could
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