Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-31
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policemen with umbrellas during the
hot term.
GA LARGE and shady brick gentle
mans residence IN the country" is ad-
vertised as a good place for summer
board.
MARTIN MCKEowN, a servant in the
Metropolitan Hotel at st. Paul has
drawn prize OF $4,000 in the Omaha
lottery.
| IT is at length announced that the
tenth and last volume of Mr.. George
Bancroft's History of the United
States will appear shortly.
PHILADELPHIA is to have a new
monthly, entitled "Zell's Illustrated
Monthly Magazine and Review, to be
edited by l.. Colange. of the G National
Encyclopedia"
CALIFORNIA contains large number
of foreigners proportionately than any
other state in the Union. The census
shows 1856. 1913 natives and 500, $50 for
ei9n born.
AN author selected az the title of
new romance Wrecked in Port" His
publisher looked sharply at the au-
thors red nose and muttered, eyes,
either Port or Burgundy.
GREAT excitement has been occa-
stoned at San Bernardino, CAL, by the
discovery of new mines about 130 miles
south of that place, and large num-
Der of claims have already been located.
The bronze statue of Lincoln Tor the
monument to be erected over his re-
mains in Springfield, ILL.,, is now re-
ceivlng the best touches of the artist,
Mr.. nj. S. Mosman, at the Ames works
in Chicopee.
BIsMARCK's new coat of arms will be
a double trefoil, in shield of silver,
held by the two wild men of the Prus-
sian escutcheon, who hold in their 9TH
er hand the colors of Alsace and Lor-
raine.
ONTARIO county, Canada, has dys-
pepsia brigades, composed of those who
have sworn eternal enmity to that de-
stroyer of human happiness The mem
bers get up at day break and ride
on horseback six )r seven miles before
breakfast.
ACCORDING to what appears to be
good authority, we have paid, in the
past eight years, S169, 9,000 900 in
freights to foreign ship-owners, or an
average of $21, 125, 900 a year for that
period.
A MOTHER was amused the other day
to hear this bit of argument" from
her little boy: I" Mamma. [ don't see
how Satan turned out to be such bad
now; there wasn't any devil to put
him up to itl''
BRICK dust obtained by rubbing two
small bricks together, is the best
remedy for lice on stock, says CORES
pondent of an agricultural paper, that
he ever tried Sift the dust evenly
over the animal, and work it we'll into
and among the hairs.
MISS LILLE Donovan, New Orleans
bruiser, recently addressed the follow
ing challenge to rival, Miss Julia Rid
lie: g Miss Julia !: When you get ready
10 choose your seckonds, and the hour
20 fite, ard the place, let me no, for I'm
,eady. Your mistress.
THE cadets at West Point are said to
De under greater restrictions this year
han ever, and consequently their lady
riends are rendered miserable Gen.
2uger, the superintendent, is q very
sensible and practical man, believing
hat military discipline and Irritation do
lot go well together.
The secretary of the treasury, at the
of the German government, has
ixed the valuation of the mark, the
lew unit of accounts of the German
empire at twenty-three cents for custom
This is just one-third the
yalue of the old thaler, who Sc value
vas designated at sixty-nine cents.
SEVENTEEN pleasure trips to the
United States have been arranged in
Germany. The average expense for the
whole trip, including ten days So
ourn In this country, is 800 thalers.
The visitors will arrive in this country
mostly in August. They start from
Cologne and Hamburg,
The Maine lumbermen predict that
n five years hence, at the present rate
IF destruction, the forests of that state
will be wholly cleared of timber. The
umber crop this year is estimated at
700, 900, 900 feet. OF this amount, the
Denobscot lumbermen cut 225, 100000
md the Kennebec men over 100, 900, 900.
A HISTORICAL curiosity has been dug
Up in Pennsylvania, in the shape of the
original deed by which VIM. Penn con-
7eyed West Jersey to certain parties in
Dublin. 1t is dated in 1867, and has
he autograph signature Of the benign
mt Quaker, 'as plain as though it had
ust been written"
Tee much abused Fremont or Mari
1osa estate in California has now gone
nto private hands, and a new and
more economical effort is being made
% turn its great wealth in gold to ac-
count. It's quartz veins are estimated
rs amounting to 800 miles in extent on
'he whole property.
The Taranki iron sand, which is
found abundantly on the beaches of
New Zealand, has been converted into
excellent steel by a simple and econom-
cal process. 1t is mixed by an equal
quantity of clay, and of the ordinary
sea sand, which contains a large ad-
mixture of shells. The mixture is
worked up into bricks, and hardenedin
a kiln, then broken and smelted in an
furnace.
LAWYER" How do you identify this
Witness BY it's gen.
eral appearance, and to the fact that I
have others like it." Lawyer q. That's
no proof, for / have one just like it in
my pocket Witness-"T I don't doubt
that I had more than one of the same
sort stolen !"
A CALIFORNIA paper tells the course
of love as follows: GA man and
miners daughter recently stole her
fathers swag and eloped with her lover
to San Francisco, whore the deuce
we're made ace. Her paternal parent,
who had turned his footsteps towards
the capital of the Golden State IN pur-
suit of his ducats, was killed by the
Apaches, SO that now the loving couple
are as happy as the day is long"
HERE is a paragraph from folea3n
journal which goes to explain the ef-
iiectiveness Of the German army;
g Sixty young officers have been DIS
missed from the Prussian army. Ihey
1a5 oh+oinad their commissions during