Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-16

dogs with impunity.
The wife of Prince Frederick Charles
of Prussia has inherited a few millions
from the late Duke of Anhalt.
BALTIMORE now claims to have the
largest and most extensive mandatory
of large organs in the United States.
BREEDS Island, in Boston Harbor,
has been sold for $500, 900, and is to
be converted into a watering place.
The Earl of Winchelseas debts
amount to about 9100, 600; his only as
sets are furniture valued at 6150.
IT is said that the new singer, Marie
Miramon has esput PATHS nose out of
joint, having sung up to E in alt.
HAMBURG is connected with other
ports by twenty-three steamer lines, of
which only six are German. Ten are
English.
ANOTHER colored jury in Ohio has
distinguished itself for good attention,
good behavior, and good Judgment ina
murder trial
THE chap who took the thread of life
to sew the rent of house, has gone
and invented a patent point for cross
eyed needles.
A MAN who had field of tobacco con-
tainiug three acres, which he valued at
81, 200 before the recent haii-storm, sold
the same afterwards for SO.
ONE minister in New Haven receives
S25, 900 salary another, $50, 900; and
a large number OF pious young men in
that city are now studying for the min
istry.
The firm of Barclay, Perkins Co.,
in London, own six casks, each twice as
large as the famous one in Heidelberg
Castle.
GOETHE said that the destiny Of any
nation depends on the opinions of its
Young men under the age of five and
twenty.
WHILE California wasp and taran-
tltla were fighting, toad swallowed
both, and soon after expired in great
patti.
A PIN carelessly dropped in the loom
by the female operative, spoiled seven
hundred yards of cloth in one Of the
mills of Lawrence on Tuesday
A REMARKABLE family lives in Dallas
county, Ark. The father is 108 years
old, the mother 106, and the two are
the parents of29 children, Is boys, and
IA girls.
One hundred thousand persons die
OF consumption each year in America
and Canadas.
IT is said that ground acorns and
horse-chestnuts enter into the compo
sition of a large portion of the cheap
maccaroni and vermicelli manufactured
in New York
JOSE CoRREsoo and Valeniano Vldan-
setta, the two wealthiest silver mine
owners in the world, arrived at San
Francisco recently from Culiacan, Mex
leo. eoroute for New York and Europe.
Corresco receives $500, 900, month
from single mine. Both own several
mines.
MAINE is sending out granite for the
construction of two OF the largest
bridges in the world From Mosquito
Mountain in Frankfort, it goes to st.
Louis to build the piers of the railroad
bridge across the Mississippi at that
point. The bridge across East River
from New York to Brooklyn is recelv-
ing material from Blue Hill.
Mr.. MCG1NNIs, who recently married
Miss Tweed, daughter of the Grand
Sachem of Tammany, is likely TO find
himself in hot water when he returns
to New Orleans from his European
wedding trip. The oil works in that
city. of which he is the proprietor, re-
Gently exploded through cuipable mis-
management,- and the municipal au-
thorities threaten to inficG him.
A NEwLY-INvENTED stone machine at
Orkney, ILL.,, it is stated, does the work
of twenty to thirty men, according to
the size of the machine, and does 1t
better. It is capable of dressing stone
as smooth as glass, and is pronounced
a successful and valuable invention.
One of these machines will be used at
the Government works at Keokuk.
Iowa.
WHILE the bathers We're disporting at
Rockaway, Wednesday, shovel-nosed
shark. unlimited, aud without apology,
made his appearance. The ladies and
gentlemen who were in the water did
not stop to call him names, or twlt HIM
about the shape of his probiscis which
gave him his name, but let him have
the ocean to himself. Some fishermen
weighed 9S pounds.
The Vienna press clrculateS the fol-
lowing saying, imputed to KING Victor
Emmanuel, directed by means of his
representative, TO the Pope: 81 have
not hesitated to pass the Rubicon for
the sake of Italy, but even for Italy l
shall never pass the Tiber." The Sig
nificance Of this declaration, il true,
| lies in the fact that the capitol build
ings are on one side of the I1ber ana
the Vatican ON the other.
/ DR. PREsTEL. a German natuEauSt,
attributes the cold weather III Europe,
during the late spring, tothe frequehcy
of aurora borealis and spots on the sun
He SAYS that the same KIND Oh "eaIlleI, lI
and FREQUENT occurrence OF Lllose noo
phenomena. were observed III 1000,
1S40 and 1860, in intervals, therefore,
of aIovon wears. and prophesles a com
,,a,,ati,-eIv cool summer and cool fall
for Europe.
Tue descent into the hitherto unex-
o1ared nit in the Mammoth Cave in
kKenfneizv. was made on Friday last by
i D. Babbitt, d telegraph operator
from Michigan He found bottom at
q distance of 1913 feet, from the main
avenue. The descent was witnessed
/ bv 200 guests of the hotel. who welcOm-
ed the daring young adventurer back
with hearty cheers and congratulations.
+ The rope with which he was lowered