Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-05-12
Miscellaneous.

MISS MULocH is in Paris collecting
material for novel descriptive of
French life and manners.
WE knew man once who objected to
sleeping on a straw bed, because he
said it WAS beneath him.-Bostoaa NeaUa.
HEcounty has S,O95 boys. A cat with
four sound legs, or church with COM
plement of window panes, can't be
found in Blackhawk County la.
ADMIRAL WERDEN, of the United
| States Navy has arrived at Florence,
where he is a guest of Mr.. Graham, the
American Consul.
The British Admiralty is diree ting
attention to the Importance of affording
means whereby all seaman in the
service may be taught to swim.
WHY is the Capital of Turkey like
a whimsical patient? Because it is con-
slant to no pill.
On the first occasion of the free open
ing to the public of the Tower of Lon
don, about 4, 900 persons most of them
working people, visited the place.
No less than $780, carlists.. officers, of
whom seven are Generals, three Briga-
| diers, and many Colonies, have given
in their submissions to Don Alfonso.
The armor- clad twin-screw ship
Alexander, recently launched at Chatem,
by the Prince of Wales, is considered
the most powerful sea going ship of war
| ever built Or building
AN English journal, recognizing
Frank Moulton's ''genius for admins
tration, thinks he would make a re-
markable Chief Magistrate, and there
fure dominates him for the Presidency.
No mail has arrived at Salt Lake
City over the Union Pacific Railway
since April Is. Another inundation
has occurred in Weber Cannon and the
streams are still rising.
LEADING Philadelphia gentlemen pro-
pose to erect a monument to DR.. John
| W1nterspOon, an eminent Presbyterian
divine, a descendant of John Knox, and
a signer of the Declaration of indie
| pendence.
LUCY HOOPER says that the best
proof Of the wonderful talent of French
actresses is the perfection with which
they portray girlish innocence and
purity.
AN economical Connecticut girl re-
fused to be married by the clergyman
of her lovers church because another
parson owed her So for knitting stock
ings, and was too poor to pay cash.
BARLOW, one of the end-men in Ha-
verly's minstrel troupe, is the son of a
| former professor of astronomy in the
| Lexington, KY, University, and was at
one time city editor of Southern
newspaper.
liz 10
terday morning-''G up and open the
hampers, William" and Mr.. Evarts
said absently, turning over for another
nap, "Your honor Will please note my
exception"
SAID colored Georgia preacher
"Dar's Robin and stealin' all round.
Oars de Beecher business, de Wood
hull business, Sumner is dead, lorna
does come whoopin' around, de Freed
mans Bank has busted, and it pears as
if de end was nigh, mighty clus at
hand"
The President of the French Geo
graphical Society has handed to Mr.
Washburne. American Minister at
Paris, a gold medal presented by the
society to the family of Captain Hall in
commemoration of the exploits of the
Attic explorer.
By an amended clause in the italian
penal code, anyone publicly insulting
a religion tolerated by the state can be
imprisoned for one month to a year; if
| a newspaper does the insulting three
months is the limit.
| The Governor General of Canada, in
acknowledging an invitation to dinner
forwarded by the Mayor of Quebec,
replied that he would prefer having it
deferred until his return from England
in the autumn, thus dispelling the rumor
that he would not return to Canada.
New and stringent orders have been
issued to give a wide berth to curious
spectators hanging about the new
Notifications of Paris. There are
wonderful stories current of German
spies taking plans of the forts with
newl invented and almost microscopic
Photographic apparatus.
| VALENTINES recqmbent statue of
General Lee was received at Lexington,
Va. last Monday. There was general
turnout of the citizens, and addresses
were delivered by general Jubal A.
Early, Ex-Governor Letcher, and Colo
mel William Preston Johnston.
In reply to recent anti-Papal mani
festo of Karl Blind, Garabaldi writes:
81 believe there is not in all the world
country less Catholic than Italy.
Government and the upper classes
affect Catholic devotion which they
do not feel. As to the masses of the
people, they neither do believe in
Catholicism; and in the Popish churches
one only sees bigoted old women"
ADvIcEs from the Persian Gulf state
that intense cold has prevailed there.
Seven persons died from exposure near
Bassoran. All the roads were blocked
with snow, and rendered impossible for
traffic. For miles along the Persian
shore of the Gulf the beach was strewn
with fish, which had been driven by the
unusual cold to leave the water, and
| had died upon the beach. Some of