Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-12

LABoRERs get eleven cents day IN
Brazil. 9ni li1d
New ORLEANS pays her Coroners
| $25, 900 to $4,000 year.
UTAH has succeeded IN making very
fair quality of raisins.
l. CANARY birds made ofiwax adorn the
parlors of the wealthy in Gotham.
| THE Rev. DR.. Pusey, the celebrated
English clergyman, is 73 years old.
THE manufacture of silkwas brought
from India into. Europe, 551, A. d.
4 In 1872 Tennessee built only Is miles,
of railroad.
GREENUP county, Kentucky, has
eight iron furnaces in full blast.
Mr.. ROBERT BROWNING is said to
have Withdrawn from society to finish
a new poem.
VICE CoMMoDoRE OsaooD, of the
New York Yacht Club, is building q
new yacht
/ THE Grand Duke Alexis was the first
foreigner to see the wife of the Nikado
of Japan. .sfs.ls.t g,e8H
CINCINNATI has had. revival-the
1aopening Of her Sunday concert sa-
] looms. 1~gss-a reT2s GBs
A YOUNG lady whipped out an incip-
lent fire with her stockings, because
she had heard that firemen use hose.
4 THE robins are singing cbeerily in
Tennessee, and the blue bird wiggles
his tail in ecstacy from the fence-posts.
The city of Hioga, Japan, has 2,000,-
900 inhabitants, and only ranks num-
Der two at that.
A LONDON society has given 59S, 740
dinners to the poor, and the expenses
had only been $3.50 year.
A NEW feature of photography is
back ground that can be taken separ-
ately, and used with any negative.
The Romans used movable types to
mark their pottery and indorse their
books.
THERE was one divorce granted to
every fourteen and half marriages in
Rhode Island IN 1871.
CoNNEcTIcUT's name was Mohegan,
spelled originally Quon-eh-to-cut, sig
nifying ga long river" .s7.s}
BUDD DoBLE has offered 100000 for
Governor Latham's pair of black mares
in San Francisco.
KENTUCKY distillers consume 6,3O6
bushels of grain daily, and turn out
25, 984 gallons of spirits.
SNAKES get away with 10000 people
in India every year, and this does not
include the species that are found in
| boots 9~
ELEVEN new Hungarian banks, it is
reported, are to be formed under gov
ernment concession, with a capital of
$38, 100000. Ens7z- saipsGs
The vicinity of Buffalo was the late
scene Of one of those acts of devilish
lust that merit hanging. Ayoung fiend
of 16 years grossly beat and outraged
little girl of 9. ref - $50
| i" GAIL HAMILTON has been i'll for
nearly a month with lung fever, at the
house of Mrs. Blaine, her cousin, in
| Washington; but she has not, as has
been widely printed, been suffering
with smallpox or varioloid. d.A1As
A CANOE has been built at New Lon
don, Conn, sixteen feet long, mailed
with galvanized iron, and capable of
holding four men, It is to be used by
hunting party next summer on Lake
Champla1n.
| ALL the Democratic members of the
| Arkansas Senate haye united with the
Republicans in memorial to Con-
gress asking the same bounty to the
colored soldiers in the war as to the
white soldiers. aa 558W
AMONG the articles from America to
be exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition
is a log of black walnut, the largest
ever grown, six feet in diameter and
eighteen feet long, which was. cut in
Missouri, and weighs seven tons.
LEADING horticulturists Of London
assembled at banquet in that city,
the other day, to celebrate the publ
cation of the one hundredth number
of the Gardeners Magazine. Messrs.
Martin Upper, Hahn Friswell, Shirley
Hubbard and others delivered speeches.
The Paris Kentuckian tells Of mon
ster mink skin, measuring four feet
from the tip of the nose to the end of
the tail. The skin itself measures two
was trapped on Slate Greek, in Mont
gomery county.
In Japan those who are leaders
among the progressienists are ashamed
OF the idolatry Of their country, not
from any personal convictions of the
error of idolatry, but simply Because
they think other nations look down
upon them for clinging to meaningless
forms and superstitions.
THE first copper coinage of the
United States was made IN the year
1877, and Connecticut can claim the
distinction. The coppers were made
at CRANKY. by John Higley, a black
smith. At that time CRANKY was al
most wilderness, and money was to
be had with great difficulty.
BY a curious and melancholy coinci-
dence two deaths occurred at nearly the
same time and place and on the, same
train, on the Central Pacific, a few
days ago. One passenger died OF
quick consumption and the other of
inhammatory rheumatism, which struck
to the heart.
Two of the most famous of the for
mer daimios of Japan have left hocae
t for an American tour. They are geE-
) tlemen of the old school, descendants
: of historical houses, and of course vel}
: much opposed to the innovations of the
present regime. Still they would seem
to have an investigating turn .of. mind,
/ and bound to fpd out what the new
, civilization that is making such a rum
/ pus at home is like. sH sz
The post offices in Hockersin and
Kaohn, Del, are two miles apart, but
a. letter posted in the former for the
latter must now, under the mail ar
rangements, first be taken to Whining
: ton, fifteen miles then to Philadel-
phia, twenty-eight miles thence to
Avondale, forty miles, and then to
. Kaolin, its destination, twelve miles
; more.
| AT Bridgeport, Ct, recently, !, a po-
, hceman was instructed to look after
the boys who violated the city ordi-
nance against coasbing in the streets.
He presently saw two boys preparing
for &C a 90, one of whom cot away. the