Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-17
General Items.

Deen SOlQ IOf go.
W. S. CUMMINs, of Great Bend Tun-
mel, O., killed in his store rat which
weighed u pounds, and had q tail IA
inches long.
THE directors of the New York Mer
camille Library are taking vote of the
members on the question of keeping
open Sundays.
SIR WAITER ScoTT said the battle of
Waterloo created in the British empire
Is. 900 widows Sad commentary upon
a victory.
4 THE UNITED STATES Marshal of Utah
is doing a very profitable business. He
has now 12S prisoners in his custody
waiting for trial.
A JEwEss in Cleveland, name I'M
known, gave birth to six children on
Sunday afternoon, and soon after ex-
pired. The children all died immedl
ately after birth. The woman resided
on st. Clair street.
MUSICAL boxes are coming into fash
ion again, and we find them concealed
in chairs, albums, cigar cases, work
boxes, and all sorts of unheard of
places.
Mr. De LA CRo1x, of New Iberia, La,
has planted twenty acres of ramie,
from which he expects, in May, to
gather the first of three crops for the
season.
AT recent Florentine ball white
armed demoiselle was able to dispense
with all covering over the shoulders, as
! her cunning dress maker had so fash
ioned the waist that it did not need
support from above.
The number of persons now residing
at the Vatican, which consists of fifty
separate buildings, with fourteen court
yards and II, 900 rooms, is 3, 1000. 1t is
town without streets.
ONE of the wives of the Viceroy of
Egypt is said to be Boston woman
who belongs to one of the first families
in the commonwealth, and whose an
cestors on both sides came over in the
! Mayfower.
LOUISVILLE is to lose the little
prison-like bank building erected in
! 1924 bv Basil n. Hobbs. The old land
mark will be replaced by modern
/ banking house with a safe deposit
vault.
ALL foreign consuls were ignored on
the occasion of the Grand Dukes late
visit to Matanzas, and there is conse-
quently rousing tempest of indigna-
ton in consular tea pots.
THE republican clubs of Great Brit
ain are not made up of what are termed
| the lower classes of laborers, but con-
sis5 generally of intelligent and well-to-
do artisans, and are rapidly increasing
in numbers.
SOME humanitarian suggests an in
strument that shall kill animals by
driving the death blade deep into the
creatures body, just where tie back
| bone joins the head, which sewers the
spinal marrow, and kills instantly.
AN incendiary attempt was made up
on Harvard University, recently. The
university hall was fred. but the flames
were fortunately discovered and ex-
| tinguished before much damage had
! been done.
The meerchaum pipes made IL Ruhla,
in the Thuringian forest, are sent to
England, France, Denmark, Sweden,
Russia and America; very few are sold
in Germany. The war has also cut off
the demand on the part of France.
Two hunchbacks celebrated their
nuptials in Paris the other day, in the
presence of thirteen invited guests,
also hunchbacks. At the wedding ball
! all the musicians we're hunchbacks-as
was every dancer.
! In the ST. Joseph fruit region the re-
ports from different sections concurs in
! the opinion that up to the present time
the prospects for a good peach crop are
better than last year at this time. This
is the report along the Michigan shore.
They have just discovered in India
! that the elephant is too valuable an
animal to be indiscriminately slaugh
tered, and the government has inter
fered to prevent their extinction. Me-
nagerie men and small boys will be
duly grateful.
The comparative safety of travel in
different countries may be seen by the
following table, showing the ratio of
killed to the total number of passen-
gers carried:
British railroads, one in. 100000
Massachusetts, railroads, one in 1, ATS 900
! Belgian railroads, one in. i, SOC, 900
Prussian railroads, one In. ...... 5000, 600
French railroads, one in. ..........4 4, ,000,000
PEPYs wrote i'll his diary two hundred
years ago, "I sent for a cup OF tea "a
Chinese drink, of which [ never drank
before" Last year the British empire
swallowed an infusion of about 16O,-
900, coo pounds of this aromatic herb
IT appears that the "ffth wheel to
coach" is no longer sTperfuous. An
inventive genius of Mound City, ILL.,.
has devised fifth wheel attachment
to a buggy, which helps to turn both
horses and carriage on space not ex-
ceeding their length.
AN amulet in the form of piece OF
Limburger cheese, worn as locket,
has been found sure protection
against small pox- in the west, foras-
much as no infected person will ap-
proach the wearer near enough to I'M
part the disease.
On the evening of the 4th of March
there was a wonderful display of the
aurora australis and boreais, which
was simultaneously visible in both
hemlspheres. Advices have reached us
that it was seen from England, France,
Lisbon, Malta, Constantinople, Alex
andria, Bombay, Suez and Alden In
all probability visible electromagnetic
ic zone enveloped the whole earth.
THERE are two kinds stock OF IN
Northern Colorado that are dong re-
markably well this winter-coyotes and
buzzards They may be seen at any
hour and in every direction feasting on
the carcass of some poor animal that
has succumbed to a frozen fate. Thous-
ands of antelopes have perished on the
plains, and as they sought protection
near the settlements, hundreds were
shot down by heartless scoundrels and
left to be devoured by carnivorous
beasts and birds.
In August, 1910, DR.. Hays called at
tention to color blindness from disease
of the eye, the defect having previously
been supposed to be always congenital.
On recovery, he noticed that his pa
tient was first able to distinguish yel-
low, next blue, and then red. DR..
Galerowski has recently studied the
defect in patients losing their ability to