Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-25
General Items.

WILLIAM TELLS chapel is sald to be
a myth, because it is all in Uri.
! DURING the last two years %, 600
of ocean cables have been laid.
New YORK begins her underground
railway next month.
IT cost the state of New York $780,
900 to 1mpeach Judge Barnard. a@
PROF. RAwLINsoN, author of the
| Five Great Monarchies of the An
| cient World" has just been made Ca
non of Canterbury. S.
Two thousand laborers are at work
on the Northern Pacific Railroad, on the
Pacific side, and forty miles will have
been completed by the first of October.
The ravishing games of cold Moth
er Goose "Tumble" and "My Broth
er has come from India" are the princi-
pal amusem at some Kentucky wa
tering- places.
The Arizona Miner declares that with
1000 men mounted on good horses,
well armed and equipped, within
year every Apache would be reserved
or go on reservation. a"a aasa
The ancient Philipse Manor, built
in 1852, still stands at Yonkers, and
recalls the story of beautiful Mary Phil
ipse, Gen. George Washington's early
love, who was born and lived there.
AN important egg has just been
broken in Naples. 1t is the CONNER
cial house of Egg, whose liabilities are
little more thar three millions. Sev-
eral Neapolitan bankers have lost heav-
lily by the bankruptcy. sEEas
MANUFACTURERS of blast furnace
machinery everywhere are driven to
their utmost capacity, and more work
is ordered from the different workshops
for general distribution than can be
turned out III twelve months.
The band of the British Grenadiers
played "The Star-Spangled Banner"
at concert in Albert Hall soon after
their return to London, and the audi
ence rose and remained standing during
the performance. 4a4a
A FRIEND said to merchant, who
was trying to collect some outstanding
bills "You have good deal of
money coming to you!" " Yes" re-
/ piled the merchant, "and I can't help
wondering why have to run so often
after what is coming to me.
THERE was rare fox-chase in Vir-
ginia the other day. Three natives of
Albemarle county,-all named Brown,
aged respectively ninety, eighty-two
and seventy years, followed the hounds,
nearly all night and ran down three
foxes. 9i's
The extensive stable of James Forest,
in Stoneilam, Mass, was burned last
week, together with ten horses and
young man name Crowley, employed
in the stable. The loss on the prop
erty is $4,000 Some adjoining build
ings were damaged. aa
A BOURBON county, Ky, matron re-
Gently killed four-and twenty black
birds at one shot. Whether, like the
party Mother Goose sings of, she made
them into pie, and when the pie was
opened the birds began to sing, the
local historian does not relate.
THE Methodist Book Concern in
New York have new set of books
and new book-keepers the teller is to
check the cashier; the cashier is to
watch the book-keepers; the agents are
to watch the book-keepers, cashier and
teller; and a special committee is to
watch them all. "...
CARBoLIC acid has at last somewhat
subsidized into an ordinary article. The
tanners have taken possession of it,
and find by experiment that it pre-
serves the hides from decay, and it is
said improves the leather to such a de-
gree that the wonder is its usefulness
was not discovered before
A ST. Louis man, for snatching a
sweet kiss from sweet ST. Louis
school girl the other day, was fined by
magistrate, fogged by the girls big
brother, and considerably torn as to
the scalp by his own wife. Yet the
wretched, reckless fellow vehemently
declares that he would do it again even
at as great a price.
SISTER MARY SoHonAsTIoE, of the OBJ
} late Sisters of Providence, died In Bal
, timore. recently, in the 91st year OF her
3 age, and 40th year of her religious pro-
fession. The order of the Oblate Sis
ters in Baltimore was established IN
1929, for the education of colored chill
dren. The deceased was the tltth per-
e son to solicit admission to the order.
I. SAYS Margery Deane in her last New
L mort letter. 0stThe harbor is full of
Yachts. What DEAR dainty little crafts
q they are. Kate says they remind her
: of nothing so much as lady's work
I box. so complete and nice are they IN
S all their appointments. The happiest
: man in the world is the bachelor afoat,
e and one never sees better housekeeping
:. and not a woman has hand IN it. y
} RELIGIOUS fanaticism runs high in
t Germany. A woman in Lienz murder
J ed her five children to make angels
: of them. A servant girl tried to poison
L the whole family of her master, eight
= persons, because they were Jews. An
: italian lawyer, Claudius Lochon, OF
: Thonon, sets up for second Peter the
9 Hermit, and is preaching a crusade
= against the enemies of the church
f To BE rich, to be famous? do these
profit year hence, when our names
e sound louder than yours, when you lay
o hidden away under ground, along with
!, the idle titles engraved upon your
coffin? But only true love lies after
you, follows your memory with secret
+ blessings, or pervades you and inter
s cedes for you. Non ona7ais mortar, if
!, dying, I yet live in tender heart ol
+ two; nor am lost and hopeless, living
y if a sainted departed soul still loves ano