Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-14
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AI ''Vi Us vi u dFhSTdpHS.
WOMAN suffrage is said to be declin.
ing in England
The Yale College corporation has
voted to break ground for the new
college chapel end the Peabody Mn
scum next spring.
SMALL children dressed entirely il
white fur, with blue ribbon trimmings,
are the conspicuous feature of New
York promenades.
BRoKER-How are you off for money
this morning? Cashier am off with
what little there was in the bank. Good
by. y -
HE British naval officers will give
Mrs. Edinburgh something handsome
on the occasion of her marriage to-
their royal shipmate.
JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE will, it is
said, contest the representation Of
Petersborough, England, with Mr..
Whalley, of Tichborne fame.
SIGNoR ARDIrrI is composing epith-
almic music, to be played at the ap-
preaching royal nuptials in ST. Peters
burg The programme will close by
g Put me in my Little Bed" by Ros-
SIM. a-Sa aE
LUCIA has been severely criticised in
Havana because she refused to give up
a theatre for a charitable performance
by the opera bouffee company
MARK TWAIN closed his season in
London, December 20; began his tour
in the provinces, December %, and
will sail for home January 49,. 7>'--
COURT mourning in Japan is signal
lied by the prohibition of the use of
musical instruments and fermented
drinks. AS consequence, hand organs
are very scarce there.
ALL the Polarls crew have Just been
discharged, except Joe E. Ebrerburg,
or Esquimaux Joe, Capt. Buddington
and one or two other officers.
CIMARosA's "Astuzie Femminili" is
to be produced at Paris, where the cast
will include Mile. Hebron, de Bog
DAM and M M. Florini, Zucchini and
Lerazzi. The latter played the tenor
part when the opera was given at the
Fondo, in Naples.
The old church at Longmeadow,
Mass, has held Thanksgiving services
more than a hundred years, it first
having responded to the Governors
proclamation in 1857, and the gallery
for the choir is the same as when the
singers took their keynote from the
ancient chorister's pitch-pipe,
ALREADY, this year, LIT miners have
been killed and 354 MANNED in the
coal mines in Schuylkill, Northumber-
land, Columbia and Dauphin counties,
Penn. The list is largely increased
from last year, and some of the papers
are urgiEg that the State Legislature
levy tax Of one cent ton on coal sent
to market, for the erection of hospitals,
in the coal regions.
The case of the New York physician
who caused the death of a child by
allowing a piece of lunar caustic to
slip down it's throat, is surpassed in
recklessness by that of DR.. j. S. Clark,
of Portland, Me-, who gave a young
lady sixty powders composed, of pure
corrosive subllmate. Any one of the
powders was enough to cause death.
Fortunately after taking the first, the
patient vomited freely, and was re-,
lieved by a dose of lemon and gelatine,
followed by egg nogg. She is not yet
out OF danger. What the doctor mean
to administer does not appear.
AN economical Improvement has.
been introduced in an Eastern rail-
road, by which great saving of coal
is made. It consists of coil of pipe
placed inside the smock- stack of the
locomotive, and connected with the
pump which supplies the boiler. The
cold water from the tender passes
through this pipe, and is heated by
the exhaust steam and the spent heat
from the fues. .... b.. ...:.' d.
A CURIOUS mode OF fish Matching is
said to be followed in china Having
collected the necessary spawn from the
waters edge, the fishermen place Ger
tain quantity in an empty hens egg.
which is sealed up with wax and put
under a sitting hen. After some days
they break the egg and empty the fry
into water well warmed by the sun, and
there nurse them until they are suff-
GENTLY strong to be turned into lake.
Or river.
PROF. BERNAYs, the English analyst,
in his quarterly report, suggests that
half pound Of salt be added to
hundred pounds of bread, because the
children Of the poor obtain nearly all
the salt they take from their bread and
butter. -.s ..... --laa
A SCHOOLGIRL in one of the rural
districts Of Pittsfeld was overheard
trying to convince schoolfellow that.
she liked him better than she did
some other urchin, of whom he seemed
Jealous. s'Of course 1 like you better
than do Bill, said she, +" for don't I
miss words IN my spelling lesson on
purpose SO as to be down at the foot OF
the class where you are2"
PARIS recently witnessed remarka-
BILE sale of unclaimed goods left about
in the public highways, of clothing.
found on bodies taken to the Morgue,
of great variety of spoils left IN their
dens by thieves avoiding the police,