Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-04-23

A COG-WHEEL railway COMPANY ha
been started in Switzerland with can
ital of two millions.
Mr.. BARNUM offers S175, 900 for tn,
e Bridgeport water works, if other citi
d zens will contribute an equal sum-
A THEATRE to cost fifteen millior
francs, and to hold twenty thousand
people, and take thirty thousand francs
at each representation, is talked of in
Paris.
Miss ANN WALLACE, who died al
Glasgow lately at the age of 106, was
a direct descendant of the Wallace with
whom Scots ha' bled.
A YOUNG gentleman named Claypool
Just come of age, presents claim to
ten acres of ground in the center of the
city OF Leavenworth, Kan.
THE March winds were strong out in
Kansas. One day last week gust took
up sixty feet of plank sidewalk in Law
renee, with lady walking upon it, and
carried them both bodily into the mid :
die OF the street.
NOTWITHSTANDING it's war indemnity
difficulties, France thinks that perhaps
it can manage to accommodate Russia
with a loan of 125, 600, 900 francs.
"YoU exhaust my patience" cried
doctor who was engaged in quarrel
with his wife. s'You exhaust your
patients worse that I do, was the re.
/ tort
Mr.. BERaH has placed in all the sta
bles throughout New York city cards
bearing the following inscription: CT
promise to protect dumb animals, and
may the Lord in His mercy protect
me-"
HE Journals announce the death of
Count. Raving at the age of 100 years.
He was formerly in the Rohan- Montba-
zon regiment, and was wounded at
! Qulberon in 1875.
A YOUNG girl left Lowell, Mass, two
years ago with $500 in her pocket, and
went to Kansas and turned farmer.
She could sell out her property to-day
! for 100000.
THERE is no truth in the rumor that
the Rev. DIR. Henry w. Bellows intends
to leave his pulpit tor that of an ortho-
dox denomination. He is very we'll
satisfied where he is.
GERMAN STEEL is said to be supplant-
ing the English and American article
in the Chinese market, owing to its
easier manipulation, which is due to
its inferior quality.
A MILFORD (Conn.) genius named
Kellogg has invented process for
making imitation fur out of refuse hair
beaten into base of woolen felt. This
product is said to resemble natural fur
SO closely that purchasers are not like
ly to detect the difference until they
come to wear it for few days.
The latest story of an absent minded
man is that of a drug clerk, who filed
his customers bottle, and receiving
therefor nice new twenty five cent
scrip, pasted it on the bottle and put
the label IN the cash drawer
A New YORK lady announces that
she will give a moonlight German as
soon as the "young May moon " is old
enough. There will be no light in her
parlors except that of the moon stream.
ing through the windows-that is, if
the night be favorable.
AT hotel IN Troy the other day a
washerwoman unconsciously gathered
up baby with the soiled clothes and
carried it off in her basket. The moth
er missed her infant, and after diligent
search the landlord found it at the
laundry, unwashed and unmangled.
A LITTLE girl was killed in New
Hampshire year ago by kick from a
horse which had been frightened by
dog, and her father has just recovered
81, ,450 damages from the owner of the
dog.
A WEDDING party in the Church of
Notre Dame de Lorrete, Paris, were all
victimized by pick, pocket, who went
so thoroughly through their ranks that
not enough was spared to pay the mar
riage fees.
A GENTLEMAN in North Carolina built
a fire IN his house on his wedding day,
twenty-five years ago, and has kept it
burning night and day ever since, and
declares his intention never to permit
it die out while he lives.
WEALTHY Americans with handsome
daughters whom they are about to take
to Europe, should know that French
law provides that sons-in law may claim
support from their fathers-in-law.
Paris is full of "barons," very hand
some and decidedly impecunious.
A GERMAN printer named Conrad
Lutz, now living in Burlington Iowa,
has received official information that
he has been drafted into the Wurtem-
burg landwehr. Inasmuch as he left
Germany when two years old he intends
remaining in the landwehr he is.
THE long contest in Toledo between
the friends of the "Holly Water
Works - and the ''Stand Pipe System"
has been settled by the City Council
repeating it's order for the former, and
adopting the latter, the pipe to be $50
| feet high, and the entire works to cost
$685., ,000
DIR. CoNNEAU, the intimate of Louis
Napoleon, who enabled him to escape
from the fortress of Ham, neglect
the chances to enrich himself during
the Empire, and his wife has therefore
been forced to give concert a under the
patronage of her rich friends at Nice,
Pau, etc.
The Swiss Times tells this story of
Bishop Masrorie: He-the bishep-
was sitting next Yankee navy captain,
who said TO him, You have IN your
province two rival bishops, C-and
another fellow; which of them do you
incline to l. am Un9 OGnef IellOW,
said M.
THE shells for the thirty-6ve-ton
o11ns on board the British iron-clad De-
Vastation are two feet in length, twelve
inches in diameter, and weigh seven
, hundred pounds. They are construct
, ed upon the Palliser principle, of a con.
, ical shape, the points being hardened
by chilling.
: In Vienna the Daily Press was lately
sold to the Union Bank for 125, ,00O
r forms, and nor long since the Foreign
Journal was sold to the Bank of Indus
try and Landed Credit for 1900, 0OC
/ forms. It is said that the Morning
Post is to pass into the hands of 6
business organization.
The New York Sun is overhauline
the stationery account of Congressman
S It says: "In the House of Represen
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