Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01

The moon will be totally eclipsed on
the night of March %.
1896. Perihelion passage of Broson's
comet in February, and of d Arrests
in March. A total eclipse of the SUP
will occur on the morning Of August 10
Visible in Lapland and high northern
latitudes.
1897. Winnecke's comet Will be due
in April.
1898. Encke's comet will return In
May, and Tuttle's in October. The moon
will be totally eclipsed on the night of
December 81.
1899. TIE maximum display of Lee
ondis, or November meteors, may be ex-
pected this year on the morning Of the
18th Of the month. Considerable
showers, however. will probably be wit
messed each year from 1897 to 1901.
Temples comet, which is connected
with these meteors, and which preceded
them in 1866, will probably pass its per-
ihelion in March.
1900. A total eclipse of the sun will
be visible in Virginia May eth. The
first comet of 1868, whose period is
thirty three years and seven months,
will return III the summer of 1900. The
solar-spot minimum will occur in the
last year of the century.
The foregoing list makes no claim to
completeness. None but total eclipses
have been pointed out, and even some
of these may perhaps have been over
looked. The most important celestial
phenomena, however, and especially
such as may be observed In our own
country, have been briefly designated.
An Eccentric Young Woman.
The London correspondent of the
liverpool Post writes: A great number
of comlcal stories are being told just
now about the vagaries of a very eccen-
trio, very wealthy, and-if report be
true-very handsome young lady, re-
siding in a rural district not very far
from London. AS may be imagined,
she has had plenty Of suitors, and the
devices she has adopted to get rid of
them would read like O fairy
tale. She generally gives her
importunate lovers some absurd and
impossible thing to do, the condition
being that if they fail they shall
trouble her no more. It is whispered
that certain well-known member of
Parliament is not indifferent to her
charms or her fortune, and that one hight
while great debate was in progress the
lady dispatched her amorous swain,
with blackened face and striped coat,
and big roll of music under each arm,
to the classic precinct of st Stephens's.
In this approved Christv Minstrel
style he presented himself before
the outraged and indignant
janitors. These bewildered officials,
under the belief that the honorable gen
tleman had been dining too much, lug
ged him away, and, in spite of his pro-
tests, clapped him into cab and sent
him off to his lodgings. Last Sunday
the lady herself INDUCED in a prank
which has greatly scandalized gossips
of the neighborhood. She went to
church In the morning, and immedi-
ately upon taking her seat opened
large, bright-colored parasol, which
she persisted in holding over
her head through the entire service
needless of the entreaties and threats of
the vergers and couple of church
wardens, who were summoned to re-
monstrate with her. During the SER
mon she amused herself by twisting
the parasol roun and round and bob
bling it up and down to the mingled
horror and amusement of the beholders.
/ believe that the vicar has since waited
on the lady, and that more will be
heard of the matter