Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-02

The Royal Opera House at Berlin
has seats for an audience of two thou
sand five hundred.
Mrs. G. l.. Vallandigham and her
son Charles, left their home for Cum
berland, Md, last week.
THE latest society news" is, that the
mouth should be worn slightly alar this
year OF course this fashion is for
ladies.
A FLOCK of over 10000 sheep were
driven through Grass Valley, Califor-
mia, May 81, in search of mountain
pasturage.
linn COLLEGE has conferred the de-
gree of A. M. on Miss Frances E. Will
! lard. President of the Evanston Wo-
mans College.
A rERRAP1N was caught IN Danville
the other day, with the initials of a
gentleman on his back which had been
carved in 1917.
! WHITE hats and rattan canes are said
to constitute the uniform of the senior
class at Yale this year Nice and cool
for warm weather.
GEORGIA people are wondering at a
man who recently made costly pres
ent to church, and the next day went
into bankruptcy
AT one druggists Ill New York IL
900 glasses of soda fzzle down tn
parched outlets of Gothamites daily,
and the profit thereon is $4, 200
week.
ARKANSAS is tearfully excited over
large hole A tract of about 100 acres
of Clinton Mountain has sunk, carry
ing big trees entirely out of sight, and
the hole continues to enlarge its bor-
ders.
THERE is a school-teacher in Massa
chusetts, who, it is said, sometimes,
for punishment, compels her scholars
to eat grasshoppers.
IT is estimated that the people of the
u. States pay 500, 900, 900 a year for
medicines and medical services, exclu-
sive of S25, 900, 900 for patent med1-
cines
The Canada cucumber fly has declar-
ed war against the fat and saucy Colo
RADIO potato devourer The Canuck
thinks the eggs of the Colorado first
rate delicacy, and devours them with
a ravenous appetite.
A ST Louis iron company contem-
plate erecting blast furnace, twenty-five
feet interior diameter and one hundred
feet high It is to rest on twelve col
u1nns thirteen feet high. 1t will be the
largest IN the United States.
DAN R1cE's band-waeon was struck
by locomotive at a depot IN Erie,
Penn, on Tuseday morning, and knock
ed out of all semblanee to a carriage.
It was empty at the time, the drivers
having jumped of. The horses were
not I'M ured.
The late Princess Letezia Bonaparte
Wyse bequeathed herlewelry and other
I personal ornaments to her daughter
/ Adelina, but left to her SON Iucien her
/ brilliants, and appointed him her uni
versal legatee and heir.
MILE. ZOE, the "Cuban Sylph, "
conteplplates a retirement from the
stage, having accumulated quite hand
some sum, which she has invested III
real estate in Camden, N. j., where
she has erected over 25 cottages. She
owns farm also at Hempsted, Long
Island
OLD theories about the necessity for
negro labor in hot climates are rapid
" dissipated in the light of fact and
experiment In parts of Louisiana
whites are now cultivating cotton and
sugar successfully, and suffer no more
sickness than is common among the
blacks.
ScHooLBoYs in Wisconsin fill their
pockets with locusts, and at a given
signal each boy taps on his pocket,
causing the locusts to give forth their
deafening, doleful cry, as if forty chill
dren had been wipped.
PHILADELPHIA is now in q quandary
about her floating bath houses. OnC
| of them has fioated off, and the bal
ance, being constructed of very soft
wood, are absorbing water so rapidly
that they are almost daily expected to
sink.
The Texas Gazette, speaks III this
STYLE of polititian of that. state:
"Should the brains of q decent white
man be deposited in the Mississippi
river at st. Louis, ten drops of river
water at Vicksburg would fully repre-
sent his intellectual capacity.
A REArr1FUr, Indian tomahawk, made
of bronze, elaborately engraved was
turned up in blowing field in Ridge
vile, Lorraine county, Ohio The
steel blade was dovetailed into the
bronze, and has almost entirely disap-
peared by rust, showing it's great an
tiquity.
The mayor of ST. Joseph, Mo-, gave
permission to a citizen to kill two dogs
which annoyed him, and theme morn
ing the mayor found two OF his own
dogs dead, with his own warrant OF per
mission for their killing pinned on their
bodies. Though he hasn't exactly got
the hydrophobia, that mayor IS mad
Moved to the perpetuation OF his
name in a good work, Mr.. Purdue OIL
fered to leave S1O0, 600 for the Indian
Agricultural College, If located at La
! favette and named after himself, when
, was agreed to but he utterly refuses
+ to make this bequest unless his plans
: are followed in the building.
, , TROY has received an order for SIX
teen slabs of bell metal, to weigh l0t
pounds each, from some monks wht
have built a church on one of the peaks
Of the Andes They have constructed
S a furnace and intend to cast bell iron
t the metal after the slabs have beel
Y taken up the mountain on the backs o
/ mules.
$ A LARGE batch of dough was recent
: ly prepared for baking at tashlonaol' a 4
9 Washington hotel, which a playful XII
Il Il ten observed, and essayed an ezalnlha ih.
9 ton. No sooner was she on tnan Un.. .
Il L porous mess took her in and close, F,
le over her, unbeknown to the cook; Il Il
:, due time the dumpling was oakeo' u stl,. III.
Is Is served up to the boarders, oqS ~ - tiiel ao
y are now more vacant chairs aI cllaO 10 %
adjustment than ever was known oe
. fore.
= !. The new Sultan Of Zanzibar IS
= master OF the "highfalutln style
> yGlnpoIl TiIle. announcing bis accession to th
- q tbTone l he STYLES him "the noble