Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
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A NATURAL gas well has been dis
covered at Metropolis, I'll.
THE works Of both LongfelIow and
Emerson are read in the French schools.
a JACK-RABBIT weighing thirty-three
pounds was killed in Dakota last week.
ENGLAND contributed SIS to the Gar
field monument fund and France ST.
149.
A SILVER dollar of 1904, according to
a catalogue recently issued IN Ph1ladel-
phia, is worth 5000.
The charters of 721 National banks
will expire in 1885. The aggregate cap
ital is $l80,000,000.
A LACE factory is to be established at
Wilkesbarre, Pa. 1t will be the only
one of the kind in the country.
Mr.. CoRBIN, the president of the
Long Island Railroad, has presented
his employees with ten tons of turkeys.
IT is said that from monetary point
of view the Yale papers are the most
successful college journals published.
AMERICAN young ladies who have
been abroad assert that it is dreadfuuy
hard to find an honest count.
FELIX ADLER, DIR. John @. Peters
Mayor Edison and a large number of
New York gentlemen have petitioned
the Board of Estimates and Apportion-
ments of New York for an appropria
tion of 100000 for free hot baths for
the poor in winter.
KANSAS CITY has crank who imag
ines he is the successor Of Jay Gould,
and he insists on taking possession of all
the railroad Offices in town.
The latest strike is reported from
Pittsburg, and Is among the ballet girls.
They will go on the stage without every
thing except their salaries.
THERE must be some pretty despic-
able persons either in or near Harvard
University. A few weeks ago the statue
of John Harvard was defaced, and now
it is discovered that books in the library
are being mutilated.
A ST. Louis woman has appealed to
the mayor to assist her in finding her
parents. She claims to have been kid
mapped from New York in 1847 by the
Rev. Joseph Guerdet.
A FLAG has been made of Florida
silk, and is to be presented to the COVER
nor of that state. It will afterward be
taken to New Orleans, and placed among
the Florida exhibits.
IT is reported in Louisville that q
woman of that city in November sent
Gov. Cleveland large plum-pud-
ding which was found to contain poison.
She has disappeared.
THE colored people of Mississippi are
circulating call for state convention
to ascertain the true condition of their
people in the state, and take steps to
devise some means of redress.
A LARGE pickerel was caught near
Middletown, n. Y, the other day, and
thirtysix hours afterward, when it was
been caught was found alive in it's
stomach.
A ROCKFORD policeman called upon
to arrest a flock of turkeys had to climb
over wood piles, crawl under fences,
and run through the fields until his
mileage charges were for thirty-eight
miles travel.
L. P, FARMER: the old passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania Road, lived
on milk diet for one year after he re-
signed his position and recovered his
health. He is now in the employ of the
same company at Boston.
A PETRFIED corpse was found in a
marsh near Lancaster, Pa, last week.
1t is believed to be the body of drover
who mysteriously disappeared nearly
fifty years ago, and who was at the time
believed to have been murdered.
GARRETT RoIoE, ex-president of the
defunct City Bank of Jersey City, who
was sentenced 30 five years imprison-
ment in the states prison, has just COM
pleted his second year, and in that
time his hair has turned perfectly
white.
A REVIVAL of the old Roman Con-
vivium was held the other day in Trinity
College. The guests were attired in
flowing white togas, and speeches we're
made on the Latin authors. Modern
cigarettes, however, were smoked IN pro-
fusion.
On opening big cabbage grown at
Sodus, n. Y, it was found that within
an outside covering of large, thick
leaves were tightly embedded thirty
five small and almost perfectly round
cabbages. Another one contained
twenty-qeven small cabbages.
A PET cat in Norwich, Conn, refused
to eat upon the death of her owner and
insisted upon starving to death upon a
beam In the shed. She was taken into
the house and offered food several times,
but declined to eat, and succeeded in
breathing her last in the spot selected
by herself
The height of the principal structures
IN the world is as follows: Washington
monument, $50 feet; Cologne cathedral.
513 feet; pyramid of Cheops. 495 feet !;
st. Peters at Rome, 485 feet; st. Paul's
in London, 465 feet; st. Marks at Ven
ice, 32G feet, and the capitol at Wash
ington, 283 feet.
The fashion of scraping the hair up
to the very top of the head and there
disposing of it in braids and bows seems
to be at last universally adopted. Tt
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