Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-31
Personal and Other Items.

| personal ana Utner Items.
WHY do they cali the 6OO-page manu-
script of Tracy's opening speech fo1
Beecher, a ''brief 2"
The Financial Chronicle estimates
that there is now over $500, 600, 900 OF
specie in the United States.
WITHIN a twelve month the Mer-
chants OF Boston expect to have a pay
ing steamship line of their own to Liv-
erpool. -,
WE are to have new translation in
verse of VirgiPs "Eneid," from the
highly competent hand OF Mr.. VIM.
Morris.
The English sparrow is now adver-
tlsed as death on the grasshopper, and
the people of Colorado are going to i'm
port some.
ScIATTcA, the name given by medical
men to neuralgia of the great sciatic
nerve, is exceptionally prevalent this
winter.
IF any of the old Crusaders were
around now and waA57u 10 60 from
Paris to Jerusalem it woulu cost them
only $275 to do so.
A GERMAN chemist has shown the in
compatibility Of iron and quinine in
wines, on account of their precipitating
one another.
The Indiana rolling mills have made
arrangements by which they apprehend
no further trouble in securing a sllffi-
clent amount Of coal to run steadily.
GEORGIA has 83,318 colored persons
who own property. They have 338, 100
| acres Of land and 4hair r,1rOnartv g
valued at Sc, 100000.
A NEW tale by George Macdonald, ga
Double Story" will be published soon
by Dood & Mead, under o direct ar
rangemeut with the author.
A NEW book of travel in our Pacific
States and Territories is Mr.. Boddam
Wetham's "Western Wanderings; a
Record of Travel in the LyeDing."
The sea serpent has been taking
winter cruise about Australia. At
least, several ip-passengers say they
did see a serpent there last November.
JONES, of Nevada, is not for the third
term His candidate for President is
Bristow, of Kentucky.-NeW York
Sun.
UNFORTUNATE Mile Jouvin, who
was thrown into Ludlow Street Jail for
smuggling fnery from Europe for the,
fashionable ladies of New York city,
will be released at the expiration Of her
three months sentence without the adj
ditional penalty of the fine Of 81, 900.
BoUcIcAULT has refused an offer of
$3.50, 600 for the exclusive use of his
new piece. the 'Shaughraum, for five
years, the authors services TO be in
Guided. He is the most fortunate play
wright alive.
| A WONDERFUL exhibition has been
opened at Brussels. It is collection of
! about 100 landscapes Of great merit,
painted by boy named Fritz Ker-
| chove, of Burgess, who died an idiot at
eleven years of age.
; The Troy Times says: 'sA pretty
: good story is told of one Of Governor
Tilden's staff. It is said when the in
; dividual referred to first presented him
self ZEN militaire) to his wife and little
daughter, the latter, after gazing at
him with wonder for few minutes,
turned to her mother and exclaimed,
, 'Why, ma, that's not real soldier; it's
Miss INGELow, it is stated, IS a native
of Boston, in England, and passed her
early life amid the quiet surroundings
and avocations of the English girl. She
is now about forty five years of age, and
lives with her widowed mother, in a
retired part of London, Gin quiet
street" as she has said, 'swhere all the
houses are with window boxes full of
flowers