Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-28
General Items.

II FEW ufOpS OI SdSSdlfhS VIII pre-
vent paste from becoming sour.
THE Amherst College crew claim to
have made the fastest time on record.
BEING tied to keeping diary is cal
culated to render miserable the life Of
the most cheerful of mortals.
The Duke of Edinburgh is travelling
a9acogf25tO In Europe under the title of
! the Earl Of Kent
IN a leading bank Ia Stockholm all
the clerkships have for some years past
been filled by women
TENNESSEE has more counties than
any State IN the Union, area and pop
ulation considered.
The great attraction in Turin Just
now is a Prussian drummer who PLAYS
on sixteen drums at once Why was
he not at Boston?
1T costs New York snobs five dollars
a week TO board their black and tan
dogs at the Saratoga hotels-second Ia
ble at that
Mrs. HARRIET BEEoHER STOWE makes
her debut as reader in Springfield,
Mass, Sept. 13. She will afterwards
read IN fremont Temple, Boston.
| A BOsToN house has the order for re-
furnishing Brigham Youngs private
residence at Salt Lake. One item is
thirty lounges.
MRS. BALIoU, of Saranac, Michigan,
weighs only 678 pounds, though she
hopes by generous diet and a little
bottled sea air, to put on the lacking
twenty-five.
COARSE gold, which returns nine
cents to the pan, has been found
while digging a well in the town Of
Redding on the line of the California
and Oregon Railroad.
The Pennsylvania, the first Of the
four steamships now building for the
American Steamship Company, will be
launched on the 18th of the present
month.
SIX young men of Robson county,
n. c., well armed and equipped, have
taken to the swamps, and are deter
mined to root out the Lowery gang of
utlaws.
A WEsTPoRT dog attacked circus
elephant in the street the other dav.
An eyewitness says that the dog in
about one minute was spread out over
several yards of ground about the
thickness of sheet iron
Mr.. JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE. the
English historian, and Professor Gold
WIN Smith, are each to deliver u course
Of lectures at Cornell University dur
ing the first term of the next college
year.
ALBERT BIERsTADT is now in San
francisco, having just returned from
the Yosemite valley, with his portfolio
filled with new and beautiful studies
of the stupendous scenery of that re-
markable region.
Mrs GERTRUDE WINDER, widow of
Brigadier General Winder, who com
manded the American forces at the bat
tie Of Bladensburg, has been awarded
pension, in accordance with the act
of Feb. IA, 1871. She is now a resi-
dent of New York, and 81 years of age
A WE'LL known Bostonian, seventy
five years of age, who has suffered
forty years from distress in his stom-
ach, whlchhe thought came from some
living creature there, was last week re-
lieved Of q brown snake fifteen inches
long and three-eighths of an inch in
diameter.
IT was very handsome in Gounod to
compose and sing in London, on the
18th T1lt., his new arrangement of g Maid
Of Athens" for the benefit of Mrs Black,
for whom Lord Byron wrote the orig
inal verses in the year 1870 Sixty-two
years ago Mrs. Black was in the flush
of health and on the topmost wave of
society. Now she is poor, and looks
otward the sale of the new melody as a
source of fsupportin. her declining years.
ROBERT GORDON MILNE, a graduate
of Oxford University, England, class
of 1867, who served a sentence Of twen-
ty-five days iu the chain gang at Los
Angeles, Cal, recently, for petty Of
fense, publishes in local paper a fine,
scholarly production, replete with clas-
sical quotations, taking grounds against
the system of degrading criminals by
compelling them to work on the public
streets with ball and chain.
The curious phenomenon of regela-
tion can be exhibited by placing block
of ice on fine wire netting. The ice
will be melted by the wire, and pass
ing down through it will become frozen
in mass again below the wire A
simple wire can, in a similar manner
be drawn slowly through a block of ice
which unites again behind the wire,
finally showing NJ signs of having been
cut at ALL
PRINCE KAssA, of Tigra, "king of
kings of Ethiopia by the will of the
| people OF Abyssinia, was crowned
Youarnisse, otherwise John, Emperor
of Ethiopia, in June. The ceremony
passed off very well and peaceably.
There were upward of 300,0 people
present. The camp reached for about
eight miles, the plain of Auxum was
covered, and the feast lasted tor ten
days. A shed was bui 1t reaching near
ly a mile, where all the people feasted
About 20, 900 COWS were killed and 49,
900 gallons of honey wine drank
HAMPSHIRE County, Mass, is grand
educational center, with a population
of AZ OOO. 1t has more developed
sources of education than any other
county in the United States Beside
The numerous free schools, there is
Amherst College, with fuud Of half a
million, and land and buildings worth
nearly as much more, with twenty pro-
fessors; seminary at Holyoke, one
at Easthampton, the Smith College at
northampton, and an institute for deaf
mutes.
A MAN in Oneida, n. Y, depends on
lecturing for living beyond any other
man we know of. His sister left quite
property in trust for him; but,
knowing him to be peculiar and likely
to spend it all, her will provided that
he should receive five dollars for every
J lecture he should deliver And so he
lectures, morning, noon and night, as
opportunity offers, or little audience
of children or adults can be gathered,
if it be only complaisant family ygroup
around breakfast table.