Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
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A FLOWER mission-To make bread.
GARRoTING has been revived in New
Orleans.
CONsTANTINOPLE gossi ps over the con-
tents of sixteen daily newspapers.
A WOMAN seventy years old drowned
herself in Vermont recently, having
become Respondent through illness.
IT is rumored in Boston that Benja-
min T. Butler is negotiating for the prr-
chase Of the Atlantic Monthly.
AsAHEL MIX of Polkville, Conn,
sprightly youth of 80, was married the
other day to Bella Landon, aged A.
Who says that {" grabbed age and youth
cannot live together %
AN English writer estimates that there
guage. Of these 10000 are or have been
used in theyAnglican Church, and the rest
are used by the dissenting sects.
The Vendome column will be entirely
reconstructed by the anniversary of it's
destruction in 1871. The bas-relief No.
81 has just been laid, leaving only four
more spirals to be added, with the cup,
pediment and statue.
The rumored betrothal of the Princess
Beatrice, of England, to the Grand
Duke Alexis, Of Russia, is, if true, cred
table to the Cars strategy as a parent.
With Victoria's daughter as hostage at
St. Petersburg, the English nobility
will have to stop turning up their noses
at Alexandrovna.
A VESSEL has recently been launched,
to be called Brignoli She must be a
bark of NOTE NoW York Sum- And
pursue the even tenor of her way
Brooklyn Argus. When she once
reaches the high C's.-[ Commercial
advertiser.
The high C's -? She may pass the bar,
but isn't it foolish to suppose she will
ever get off soundings ?
A DISTINGUISHED English physician
writes that he has observed that pecu-
liar and rather common deformity of the
chest is caused by the habit of sucking
the thumb in infancy and early child
hood. He says that the weight of the
arm on the thorax of the child during
sleep, produces depression of the ribs in
the line occupied by the arm when the
thumb is placed in the mouth.
WE learn from the Territorial Enter
prise that a Methodist preacher, while
engaged in little game Of draw poker
at Salem, Oregon, the other evening,
moved o little IN his chair, when the
hammer of his pistol caught in his peck
ct in some way and the weapon was dis
charged, frightening the divine's oppo-
nent in the game very badly. He wants
to know what preachers carry pistols for
IT is reported that the steamer Queen
Elizabeth, lost near Gibraltar, had on
board one of the most valuable cargoes
ever shipped from Calcutta. The entire
value Of the cargo is estimated at So, 54O,-
900, including 81, $50, OOOworth Of indi-
go, $250,OOO worth of tea, and 415,OOO
worth of silk, shellac, and other articles
The vessel was valued at $135, 900, making
the aggregate loss 50, IT'S, OOO The yes
sci and cargo were insured for nearly
l$2,OOO,O0O.
A NUMBER of Indian skeletons have
been exhumed from an ancient grave
yard near GAINESVILLE, Tenn. The fore
heads are receding, and the jaws and
nose very prominent, unlike the features
of any tribe known to the earliest set
tiers. Flint weapons and pottery were
found, and the graves were closed above
and below with slabs Of slate stone.
Strangely enough leaden bullet was
found fastened in the shoulder bones of
one of the Skeletons
The Grashdanian, Russian paper
noted for its good court intelligence,
says that in numerous letters to her fam
lily and friends, the Duches of Edinburgh
describes her life in England as one of
perfect happiness. She speaks with
great gratitude of the cordial and friendly
reception she has met with from all with
whom she has come into contact-the
Queen, the royal family, the court, and
the people at large. The letters have
occasioned great satisfaction in st. Pc
tersburg.
WITHIN the last few years great i'm
provements have been made in grape
culture and wine making in Italy.
italian wine can now be sent abroad,
across land and sea not only without any
risk of spelling, but actually gaining in
strength and flavor after every voyage.
The principal markets for Italian wines
are Central and South America Egypt.
Turkey, and Russia The importation
into the United States, though on the
increase, Is hlndered by the inability OF
the Italians to understand the require
ments of the trade
BECAUSE a late French nobleman
secured rich wife through the mere
accident of having his portrait on exhib-
ition at a public gallery, portraits are
hung in every conceivable place in Paris.
Men who are in need of funds are put
ting out their hkenesses with the hope
that rich orphan will come by on
thearm of her guardian and say that ''the
portrait of that man suits her she will
marry the original" Perhaps impe-
cunious Frenchmen will take wives on
such terms, but it is not the safest way
to secure domestic happiness.
EDWARD HIGGINsoN JOLLY, theatre
going resident of Leicester, England,
disliked the singing of Miss Carrie Mel
son in a burlesque. The rest of the
piece pleased him SO we'll that he attend