Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-08

successor, is ~. . ,.,.
Attorney for the Soutne4n District
Illinois.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON sent in his
resignation as one of the board of over
seers of Harvard College last Wednes-
day, but was induced to Withdraw it.
The Right Rev. DR. r. Kestell- Corn
ish, recently consecrated first Bishop
Of Madagascar, with clergy and other
helpers, ten in number, has sailed from
England for his distant diocese.
SIR Moses MoNTEFIoRE Of London, the
generous protector of the Jews III Pales-
tine, is over nintey years of age, yet
he is now engaged extending aid to the
people of Jerusalem, in their present
distress arising from famine.
New ORLEANS journalists are mourn
ing the death of Jack, the reporters
dog" who used to grayely carry copy
for the Picayune reporters, and save
them the trouble of going to the Office
too frequently.
ONE evening at Paris cafe a group
of idlers were discussing politics and
people who change their opinions.
"Well," says one, GIVE never cried
long live anybody" "Quite so, re-
marked another, "but then you're a
DOCTOR"
SEEKERS of summer resorts are not in
a hurry to obey Shakespeare Stand
not upon the order Of going, but go at
once;'' on the contrary, they incline to
stand and wait, to be no more losers
than they have been already by prema-
ture emigration.
KING VICTOR EMMANUEL, accompa-
MED by the princes, reviewed the troops
and the National Guard at Rome
recently. An enormous crowd was
present, and the people heartily
cheered the king and the troops.
Signor Minghetti, in uniform, and
wearing the Order of the Annunziata,
rod by the side of the King.
A BARBER on the Rhine has recently
celebrated his sixtieth year Of service
with the razor. He had, during that
time, shaved 200, OLE persons, and earn
ed 5000 thalers, from which it may
easily be computed that the average
price Of a shave in Germany for the
past sixty years has been less than one
cent. How many gallons Of blood, how
many ears sliced, how many questions,
"Have some bay rum ?" the statistical
barber fails to state.
A MIR. THOMAS PEARCE ran for the
office of Justice at Eola, Oregon, two
years ago, and being tied with his op-
ponent, gained the Office by q throw Of
the dice, the law directing that in case
of a tie at such elections thecontestants
shall draw lots for the position. Mr..
Pearce has just been through another
contest, resulting as before in o tie, and
it is expected that the gambling pro.
cess will be repeated.
The Hungarians are said to be the
only people In Europe whose national
hymn contemplates the possibility of
the utter destruction of their nation.
After saying that it is impossible that
SO much patriotism should fail of sue,
cess, that SO many heroic hearts should
have died for their fatherland in vain.
that the better days must come after
which SO many devout souls yearn, the
poet (Rorosmarty) adds:
Or there shall come, if there must come, glori--
GUS death, when over its grave stands a.
nation in blood.
And the tomb into which nation sinks the
peoples surround; and in the eyes of mil,
lions is seen the tear of sorrow
MENTION is made of sly old gentle
man Of 80, who was recently sued in q
London Court for breach OF promise.
He was saved from an adverse verdict
by an economical method of spelling in
his letters. When he wanted to say.
=" May God bless you-and Kisses" he
only wrote, "M. G.. B. Y. and K. M.
d. in his letters signifed ''My Dear
as, the reader will remember, it did in
DR.. Swifts letters to Stella and 'sL.
P. % was the old gentleman s way Of
saying &c Little Pet
WILD bufaloes are not nice creatures
to be wildly wandering in the streets.
Five specimens of the beasts belonging
to Robinsons Menagerie, stampeded
the other day in Indianapolis, over
throwing one old lady and one young
lady with one young child in her arms.
The baby they badly bruised. The
women they seriously injured. The
menagery man roped in his bufoloes,
paid $50 for the damaged baby, and
moves on with his miscellanies.
The thousands of Alumni who are
gathering about these days to the IA
miliar college halls, recall these lines
OF Holmes in Harvard poem:
We're all alike; Vesuvius filings the SCORE from
his fountain,
But down they come in vollying rain back to
the burning mountain
We leave, like those volcanic stones, our pre-
ciOus Alma Mater
But will keep dropping in to see the dear ola
crater.
In connection with the ceremonies of
unwilling a statue to cold Put" of
Revolutionary fame, at Hartford Conn,
last week, the following letter, written
from White Plains, N. Y, in August,
IT'S, to the mother of the late Daniel
Wadsworth, founder of the Hartford
Athen@um, was brought forth:
Dear Madam: | have to inform
you that | left Col. Wadsworth at Miss
Houses at Philadelphy last Wedres
day, He had been quit unwel, but vas