Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-23
reign GOSSIP.
ItISH VVSSIEs
The Prince of wales is breaking down

;, LIE lcelaDders are emigrating from
their doomed country as fast as posi-
ble
IHE Assyrian explorer, George Smith,
Will soon return to England by way of
Bagdad and Bombay. st7r :,
GROUND has been broken in the
Champ de Mars, at Paris, for the exhi-
bition of 1878. y tta . se,.l7f
MIR. MOODY's revival sermons have
been printed in the Madagascar Ian
guage. ~f
THE exhibition Of the Prince Of
Wales Indian presents makes a great
show in London, and realizes over ST.
800 per week to the exhibitors.
PROF. FAULMAN, Of Vienna, has pub
lished book on the origin Of writing,
IN which be tries to show that Moses
was the inventor OF written characters.
STANLEY continues to remark that
for longness" the Nile is head and
shoulders in lead of any river in the
world sI3@ faa8
The system of penny savings banks
which has been SO successfully estab-
lished in England, has been introduced
into France. .1ae ~'
The quality of Mersey is notstrained.
A few years ago the river of that name,
in England, afforded not less than sixty
varieties OF fish; now it affords none.
! A PLAN to make Mount Vesuvius
practically useful has been broached in
London. 1t is nothing else than to con-
vert the crater into q receptacle for
dead bodies.
The Prime Minister of Italy has in
troduced q bill altering the form of the
legal oath, because so many Italians
are free-thinkers. and refuse to be
sworn on the Bible.
| ALTHOUGH the potato crop in Ireland
is reported to be excellent, the harvest
| prospects in all parts threaten to be seri-
ously affected by the prolonged drouth,
and cattle In several districts are suf-
fering from scarcity of water.
AT Paris dinner party recently a
hair comb was discovered in the soup.
The butler merely expressed his sur
prise that the cook could be so negligent
as to loose such a handsomely carved
shell in that manner
The effect of the great depression in
the English mines has been to reduce
/ not only the working miners, but the
small shopkeepers in the mining dis
trlcts, to the borders of starvation, and
| all who can raise money by any means
are emigrating. 59i 37t - s4..n
BUDDHISM is losing ground in Japan.
/ Within the last six years 900 Buddhist
| temples have been devoted to other
| purposes, and since 1873 seventy-one
in one district, or ken, have been
changed into dwellings or given to up
other secular uses. rs lees
The Danish King has been fortunate
in his family, four of whom are des-
tined to wear crowns His eldest son
will inherit the Danish crown: his
daughter is destined to be England's
Queen; his other daughter, Princess
Dagmar, will be Empress of Russia,
and his son rules over Greece, where
his grandson is Duke Of Sparta.
EDDYsToNE, Ontario, presents its
claim to the champion mean man. He
is storekeeper and charged one of his
young lady clerks who rode to Cobourg
with him fifty cents for the ride and
fifty more for lost time. But the young
lady got more than even with him.
She had him arrested for carrying
passengers without license and he WAS
fined twenty dollars and costs.
:. THIRTY years ago the head of the poet
Crab was stolen from his coffin, after
he had been dead fifteen years. The
thief was never discovered. A short
time ago, box containing a skull was
sent to the proper authorities, with the
| hot L
was thereby returned. The evidence
of the good faith Of the anonymous
contributor was deemed sufficient, and
tho skull has teen returned to it's place.
MANY Englishmen are fond Of keep
ing up their family wealth, and so be-
lieye in the right of primogeniture.
Sir James Hogg, who died in London
recently, leaving $1,750,0O0 personal
property besides real estate, after.
giving his. six other children from $780,
900 to $50, 600 each, directed the bulk
of his property to be laid out in the
purchase Of freehold estate to be set
tied on his eldest son and his heirs
male.
| A NAHANT correspondent is the au-
thority for the story that the Ns.nant-
| CoC oiC Ill OO1ClhI1 COIiC1dSO uPOu
and every person who wishes to buy
land or build 8 cottage upon the sacred
sand. If he can read Kscylus in the
original or comprehend the secret of
Hegel; if he will agree to send his boys,
actual or potential, to Harvard, and
say ither and nither; if he will de-
nounce Gen. Butler and glorify Beacon
street; if he landed by proxy in 1920
on Plymouth Rock, or shed his ante
natal blood vicariously at Bunker Hill
in 1775, he is permitted to buy or build.
The Queen seems to be favored with
presents of gigantic turtles, for the
London papers announce: "The
Queen has presented another magnif-
cent turtle, weighing four hundred
pounds, from the Island of Ascension,
to the Brighton Aquarium Company.
The turtle was brought to Portsmouth
by II. M. S. Wye Capt. Vine, R. n,
who was desired by Her Majesty to
communicate her wishes to the aqua
rum authorities. The animal has ar
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