Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31
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board fence.
Mr.. GLADSTONE entered Parliament
as Tory member from Newark fifty
two years ago.
CAPT. BEECHER, son of Henry Ward,
wants to be collector of customs at Port
Townsend, W. T.
Two new barber shops have been
opened in Tacoma, W. T., one by a
woman and the other by Chinaman.
AT Peekskill, N. Y, Richard Van
Buskirk picked bunch of violets in
the open air in his garden on December
4.
The statue of Garfield at the foot of
Capitol Hill, Washington, will directly
face the hall of the House of Represen-
tatives.
ELEVEN hundred and nine women
were registered in Boston this year to
vote for for school committee, against
701 last year.
COM. S. r. FRANKLIN, superintendent
of the Washington Naval Observatory,
has been ordered TO the command of
the South Atlantic Station.
The Prohibitionists have just carried
Union Parish, La.,r by a vote from 800
to 400. Liquor licenses are looked upon
with little favor in very many portions
of the South.
IN many Southern towns the Christ
mas tree is placed in the city hall or
courthouse, instead of in the church,
the various denominations in the place
having charge of it.
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imperfect supply of oxygen, or simply
breathing a vitiated atmosphere, may
suffice to produce the mental disorder
known as melancholia.
The New England Society, of New
York, has elected Gen. Stewart l..
Woodford, ex-United States District
Attorney, president. The association
has fund of 100000.
A PERSON in Cumming, Ca, found a
pin in the center of a roasted potato,
the other day, which had evidently
been there from the formation of the
tuber, as it was quite rusty.
In Churchill County, Nevada, is a
sand-hill four miles long by one wide,
which in the course Of few years has
been moved by the prevailing winds
distance of more than mile.
A NEW industry has developed in
Florida that of raising forage grasses
on the lowlands. The Kentucky blue
grass has been both transplanted and
resown there with great success.
ROBERT BRowNING's "Blot on the
'Scutcheon," which is to be played by
Lawrence Barrett 5his winter, was
originally produced with Macready and
Helen FAUCET in the leading parts.
A SEVENTH DAY ADVENT prophet of
Denver has fixed upon January 4th as
the day for the end of the world, and
spot five miles from that city as the
starting point for tie celestial regions.
THERE are in the Georgia lunatic
asylum 1,205 patients, and as soon as
the new asylum now building is COM
pleted the number will be increased to
1900. The cost of their maintenance is
$180,000.
DR.. KOCH, the famous German physi-
clan, has recently forwarded to the
Washington Medical Museum cholera
germ safely sealed in bottle. Custo-
dams and visitors will please not break
this phial in handling.
The bell of the public school at Mon
ticello, n. Z, was heard ringing the
other day at an unusual time, and, on
investigating, it was found the "new
teacher" was using the end of the bell
rope to correct refractory pupil.
In twenty-one counties in California
during 1888 about $4,000, 900 in gold
and S1l4, 100000 in silver was produced
which was 81, 100000 less gold and a
Like amount more silver than was pro-
duced in the same counties during the
previous year.
The Virginia Chronicle says that re-
cent soundings have discovered several
large cavities at the bottom of Lake
Tahoe resembling in shape the craters
Of extinct volcanoes. In their vicinity
gentle current setting toward them is
very perceptible.
ALL the rooms in the hotels at Mon
terey, CAL, are engaged by Eastern visit
ors for the entire winter, and it is also
said that the number of Eastern men of
means who are looking for vine and
fruit land in Southern California is
double the average.
A SENSITIVE Ohio girl is i'll from
nervous prostration. She worked IN
millinery shop, where great numbers
of little birds were used in trimming
bonnets, and she grieved constantly
over the victims of fashion until her
health gave way to the strain.
WHEN the drill struck the granite in
boring an artisan well near Atlanta, Ga.
the thud of the ponderous instrument
could be heard at Charleston, ten miles
away. A ledge Of rocks of the same
foundation crops out in the town, which
transmits the sound of the falling drill.
A RED CHECKED boy named David
Saltzman, an interpreter at Castle Gar
den, only Ii years of age, speaks six
anguages-Engish, Polish, Hungarian,
Bohemian, German, and Russian. He
crossed the Atlantic alone two years ago.
and secured his present position soon
after his arrival.