Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-18
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are to be built in Philadelphia in the
next five years.
The marketable value of rough dia-
monds has fallen within the past twelve
months nearly fifty per cent.
/ WHEN deaf-mutes are married two
members of the party are sure to be
unspeakably happy.
THE Chicago fire was caused by
COW. The Boston fire by the want of
horse.-LoaOeU (Mdss.) Courier.
A LESSON in geography: Kansas
| City is in Missouri and Arkansas City
is in Kansas.
A KANSAS physicien lately swallowed
dose of chloral, to show a patient
that it was possible to do so; and died
| of the dose.
| PAwNBRoKERs established themselves
at the leading Baden Baden hotels for
the convenience of improvident young
gentlemen.
81 HAVE met with great many re-
verses" as the paddle of the ferry-boat
remarked to the mooring post on the
pier
A CHICAGO paper tries to make sui
cides popular and respectable by:e
cording them under the head of ''Per-
sonal. +"
| The granite alone in Beebe's Block,
memorable as one of the first and finest
destroyed by the Boston fire, cost $70,-
000
PHosPHoRIzED BRONZE is now exciting
attention as material for guns. Sew
eral OF the European governments have
been experimenting with 1T, with a view
to its adoption.
The Boston militia, while on duty in
the burned district, are paid at the rate
of $3.50 day by the State, and are
furnished quarters and rations by the
city.
A LOSS by the Boston fire, which falls
with great security upon class who
can Ill afford to meet it, arises from the
assessments of those insured in mutual
companies.
The British Museum has at present
a collection of antique statuary second
only to the collections at Rome, and it
compares very well even with those OF
the Vatican and Capitol,
The Black River Insurance Com
panv, of Watertown, n. Y, loses $S4,-
be met by voluntary subscriptions by
the stockholders, leaving the surplus
and capital un5n paired
Mrs. SAYLoR, who was attacked in
her house on Laurel street, Pottsville,
Tenn, last weeks by John W. Schultz,
alias Buck Schultz, colored man and
desperate character, has since died
from the effects of the I'M juries.
FROM the middle of 1862 to the last
of June, 1872, the United States paid
Paris the enormous sum of $3.50, 000,--
900. This somewhat staggering amount
was forwarded in gold, on account of
iewelry, laces, silks, gloves, grapes,
merlnOes, hats, human hair and mis-
cellaneous toilet articles.
INsTALLMENTs have been paid on the
following bill at various times, the pay
ments made in 1871 and 1872 being
very heavy. Tt seems doubtful whether
the account is closed. The bill reads: :
The american People To Me DIR.
To tuition fee in architecture. $500 900 ,00G
Reed payment, FIRE EIEND.
Business promptly executed as heretofore.
New YORK urchins amuse themselves
by lighting fires in the street and
with them is to put a quantity of hot
embers in tin kettles, which they swing
over their heads as they run, scattering
fire about in every direction The po-
lice do not interfere with their sport.
Now, 1t is Mr.. W. J. Stillman, artist,
who aims to set history right. He
says the Venus de Milo, which every
body goes to see In tie Louvre who
goes to see the Louvre, isn't the Venus
de Milo at all. It is Greek statue of
Minerva, says Mr.. Stil]man, which
some Frenchman made into a Venns
with Grecian bend by fitting it for
ward and putting a wooden wedge be-
hind it.
A VERY interesting discovery has been
made in the library of the National
Museum of Naples, namely, 6 A Treat
| ise on Miniature Glluminated) Paint
OF the preparation of colors, the laying
It is believed that this treatise, which
dates from the fourth century, has new
er been printed, and is not to be found
in any new catalogue.
A REMARKABLE statue has recently
been discovered near .Aspra, in the
country of the Sabines, not far from
Rome. Tt is in white marble, and of
admirable beauty, and had apparently
occupied niche in some building, the
remains of which were found around
it. It is ife-size, and represents a
Venus stripped to the waist, but drap
ed from there to the feet. The work
belongs to the highest period of art,
and bears striking resemblance to the
celebrated Venus of Aries, in the Paris
museum.
IT has not been commonly supposed
that General Meade died poor man.
This, however, seems to have been the
case After his burial the matter acci-
dentally leaked out, and number of
the prominent citizens of Philadelphia
at once concluded to get up testimo.
NAL that would be of value. They
issued a circular to others, and meet
ing was held on Wednesday,, when
$50, 900 was subscribed. 1t was agreed
to make up the sum to $lOO, 600 and
Rfsssas Reessasd the s190 to the family OF the
CAPT. BARRETT, United States Navy,
(chief of construction at the Brooklyn
navy yard), is the inventor of hori-
zontai perforated tube, to be placed on
the summit of the roofs, and connect
ed with the water supply pipes OF the
building. Under the cornice is re-
ceiver-pipe-which receives the water
from TIE roof and casts it over the side
of tile ouilding, thus flooding it, This
invention, which can be applied to any
building at a small cost, is not intend
ed to extinguish confagrations, but to
prevent the flames from spreading by
keeping wet surface for flying sparks
, and cinders.
} At the recent sale of the famous Bel
mont collection of oil paintings in New
York, there was more than the usual
!