Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-17
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and each IS supported by two angels scnln
tured IN white marble, and as large as grow
: men, but which have the form and the Al
OF lntantlne cherubs. And such is tn
nlcety OF proportion in everything abou
St. Peters that not the slightest inconor,1
lty Is telt on account Of the great size q
these overgrown infants. There is a won
deriul naturalness and intensity of expres
9 sion IN the attitudes and countenances n
these figures. If some miracle should DIV
them voices they could not express NOR
comprehenslvely and clearly than they nov
do the emotions of sacred Joy and reyer
r ehtlal admiratlon which the sculptor soogh
10 tSpliy IN them. The vases themselve
are o. a very rare dark Orange-colored mar
bic, with drapery Of black and white.
A PECULIAR practice is now introduced il
' every theatre OF Russian Poland At til,
conclusion OF the performance the doors O
the th atre are closed, like those of the
English House OF Commons previous to {
division, and everyone is locked ia. Th,
curtain having been raised, all the per
formers appear ON the stage-t tn,
gentlemen in full dress coats; The
ladies in white-a and bow before al
Illuminated painting, on which are the in
itials OF the Emperor. The orchestra plays
the Russian national hymn, and the whole
audience, rising from their seats, take par
IN 1t. The police keep a sharp lookout tc
see that every one contributes his or he,
share to this vocal tribute. 1t is not till
the hymn is over that the doors are un.
locked, and the audience at liberty to de.
, part.
HE almost crystalline clearness of the
following profound reflection of Kant's
cannot fail to be at once appreciated
"We are not what we seem. We are some
thing else, and yet the Identical. Our en-
tlty Wayers, but our being remains immut-
able. Essence is in permanence, accidents
vaclllate. Various in invariableness, with
many phases, but of one unyielding type,
we are not tomorrow what we were the
day before yesterday. y Punch. !aGa ~
A WRITER in the Springfield Republican
wants the Bible to have an equal chance
with Shakespeare and Macaulay at public
readings, and thinks that if Kean, and
Mrs. Siddons, and other noted readers,
would develop the beauties of the sacred
book by tb cir inimitable skill, overwhem-
ing effects might be produced in awakening
| sinners.
A Mr.. EDWARDS, who has attained the
ripe age of one hundred and three years,
and retains all his faculties in a remarka-
bic degree, resides near Moundsville, West
Virginia He assists in the light work Of
the farm, and moves about with as much
celebrity as many who are his juniors by
three-score years.
A PLANTATION three and a half miles
from Charlotte, S. c., has furnished an
editor with two full-grown cotton bolls,
and has ten-acre field the stalks of which
are bending with bolls equally as large and
as well formed It is of the Pettlgult seed,
and Is said to be more productive than any
| other kind.
| SINCE the nomination of Gen. Maxwell
! by the GENTLE citizens of Salt Lake City,
as their delegate to Congress, the Mormons
have been belligerent and threatening.
Two prominent Gentle citizens were at
tackled on Wednesday. One was seriously
and the other dangerously beaten.
! RUSSIA has sent feet of steamers as an
exploring expedition to the North Pole
| They are under the Immediate command
of the future Grand Admiral of the Rus
sian Navy, Grand Duke Alexis, and carry
some of the greatest men of science of
Russia on board.
FATHER AUGUSTINE THEINER, keeper of
the privy archives of the Vatican at Rome
has been dismissed from his office. He is
suspected of having furnished anti-infalli-
bility documents from the 1chives to the
opponents of the dogma.
THE Department of State officially pub
fishes decree from the Mexican Govern
ment admitting the i'm portation Of foreign
corn into the port of Campeachy, free Of
duty, for consumption in that State during
a period of six months.
The musicians of Memphis, amateur and
professional. have determined to cele-
brate, in becoming manner, the centen-
NAL of the great composer, Ludwig Won
Beethoven, which occurs on the 10Th of
| December.
EDWIN FORREST, at the age of sixty-four
| has just concluded an eight months season,
in which he has travelled over 6, 900 miles,
played in fifty two towns, and averaged five
| performances week.
FINE magnesia limestone of first rate
building quality, has been lately discovered
at Lyndon, Usage county, Iowa. In the
same county coal is being found IN large
quantity
A New YORK playwright is dramatizing
Horace Greeley's ''What [ Know About
Farming" The chapter on plowiHg will
furnish the most narrowing scene of the
play. w
MEAT was never before so cheap, so
good and so plentiful as now in New Or
leans, and the fact is ascribed to the estab-
lishment of union slaughtering associa-
ton.
THE Connecticut Cutlery Company
manufacture about q ton of hair pins per
week, and the quantities of knives and
shears that they turn out is immense.
WHEN Cincinnati girls hire out they
stipulate the use of the dining-room and
parlor with m1ssus. In other cities they
sometimes claim the parlors. @
Hon. VIM. M1LNEs has contributed 81, 900
toward the endowment of Virginia Pro-
fessorship of Mechanical Engineering in
Washington college. Zen
THoRNE, who is to jump from Suspension
bridge next month, is now practicing from
the Lake Shore railroad bridge over the
Buffalo creek.
In front of bookstore in Paris hangs a
placard announcing for sale ''the great
works of authors of the second rank.
AN old bachelor says that women are like
parrots-they are willing to be Gagged up If
they only have ring to play with.
The average heat in England, this sum-
mer, has been three degrees hotter than
the average for fifty years past.
Mr.. WARNER, wealthy merchant of st.
Louis, in his sixty-ffth year, recently mar
ried music teacher of twenty.
VIRGINIA boasts a colored couple of nine
ty-seven and ninety-six years respectively.
The man is grave digger.
The Russian Government is about to
establish an astronomical observatory on
the top of Mt. Ararat.
SOME OF our consuis over in Europe are
making themselves useful as Newspaper
correspondents. ..
IT is said that Brigham Young quarrels
feerfully with his mother-in-la
The approach of country circus eclip-
ses the war news in Knoxville.
New ORLEANS indulges in Sunday dog
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