Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-04


by the sting of wasp.
JAPANESE BARRIERS are the most popu.
lar In San Francisco.
THE Richmond, Va, police do tn
lamp lighting of that city.
BERG has received nine thousand dol
lars In annual protecting donations re-
Gently
NEBRASKA is the only state that had
a railroad in running order when ad-
mitted into the Union.
THE first locomotive ever constructed
IN Nova Scotia has just been sent to
the Intercolonial Railway.
! THE University Of Oxford is about to
/ fiji Louis Napoleon's cup to the brim
by making him an LII. D.
In leading bank in Stockholm, all
the clerkships have for some years past
been filed by women.
PROFESSOR GILMAN, of Yale, has gone
to see about accepting the Presidency
of the California University
MAJOR MARTIN MAGINNIs, the Demo-
cratic delegate elect of Montana, was
formerly resident of Red Wing, MINI.
TIE romantic and beautiful scenery
of Mauch Chunk and the Switchback is
attracting greater throngs Of pleasure
seekers this year thar ever before.
THE Nathan house, on Fifth avenue,
n New York, having stood vacant since
the murde-, is now offered for sale at
$3.50, 900.
Four young Georgians on a banter
swan three and half miles down the
Chattahoochee River, on the 25ih ult.,
and then walked back to the starting
point.
THE longest bridge in Germany is
shortly TO be built across the Rhine at
Wesel It will be $3.50 feet long. The
width of the river at that point is /, $50
feet. >oa la
THE Chilian Congress is considering
projects for the abolition of fogging,
the repeal of the tobacco monopoly,
and the admission of foreign coal free
of duty.
A STREAM in Asia Minor is so strong
ly impregnated with copper, that pieces
OF iron placed therein in few days
becomes thickly impregnated with
deposit of copper.
The knowing ones tell us that the
only way to get pure port wine is to
go to Oporto, raise the grapes, press
the wine, put it into the cask yourself,
and ride on it all the way home.
A New YORK Judge has decided that
signs and banners across the street are
Illegal distinctions, as street is not
the mere surface of the earth, butem-
braces also the light and air above it.
-
published in San Francisco and dis
tributed regularly to subscribers by
carriers. The reporter of the Oakland
News says it is called the "San Fran
cisco Daily Evening Jab Jab."
/ FREDERICK WATTS, Commissioner of
Agriculture, writes to William Paist,
Secretary of the Minnesota State Agri-
cultural Society, accepting an invita-
tion to deliver an address at st. Paul
during the Fair.
/ The Jews Of New York city are said
] to be seriously considering the expe-
diency of transferring their weekly re-.
ligious services from Saturday to Sun
day. Several Of their synagogues
throughout the country are now open
i ed on both days.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe made her own Peace
Coz eresS IN London a farce, by occu-
pv1 6 the greater part of every session
! with pontless harangues, in which
stale fig Tres of speech strove with
dreary platitudes for the mastery.
/ VAN NosTRAND's Eclectic Engineer
ing Magazine for March reports the in
vention by Dr. Robert Hunter of an,
India rubber plate, to be attached to
the stern of d canal boat, and moved
by steam in the manner of ish's tail.
The experiments with this method of
propulsion are said to promise great
! success.
In crowded tavern, Judge and an
Ilishman were once obliged to room
together. s'Now. Pat, y said the Judge,
.Eyou would have had to staid long
time in Ireland before you would have
slept with Judge" cay, ay, sir I"
answered Pat, "an' yer Honor would
have had to have staid long time in
Ireland afore you'd been Judge
A LITTLE boy was being instructed in
morals by his grandmother. The old
lady told him that all such terms as
"by golly," "by jingo," "by thun-
der," ETC., were only little oaths and
but little better than other profanities.
In fact, she said she could tell pro-
fame oath by the prefix "by." All such
were oaths. "Well, then, grandmoth-
er," said the hopeful, is by tele-
graph, which I see in the newspapers,
| swearing ?" EENo," said the old lady,
"that is only lying?"
ScRIBNER's MONTHLY advocates uni
forms for school girls. Here IS a pof-
tion of the argument: "Why IS IL not
Just as we'll for girls to dress IN UNI
forms as boys? There are many eA-
cellent schools in England where the
dress is uniform throughout the entire
: neriod spent IN their education. BY
drassino in uniforms the thoughts of
? tbe nn0ils are released from the con-
: sidnrotion of dress; there is no show
- rrea1th no confession of poverty.
1 CirIo come from widely separated To-
I coi;ties, and classes come together and
e Stand or fall by scholarship, character,
;, 5igposition, and manners.
: SOME astonishment has recently been
avnressed in eristocratic circles in Ire
e land by the fact becoming known that
I .sMr. Cosman, VINO during the years
I 1S69-71 performed as pantomimist al
; the Metropolitan and minor music
halls, and at the Surrey Theatre, is nc
other than Viscount Hinton, heir tc
Earl Poulett The surprise created by
this fact becoming known, was, how
ever, intensified by the additional
knowledge that Miss Smythe, comic
singer and ballet-dancer, who is still
professionally engaged at the Metro
! politan and other music halls, is Wis
: countess Hinton, she having been mar
ried to the young lord in December
1869.