Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
Freshest GIeanings.

CALIFORNIA has the largest llunatic
asylum in the world.
BERLIN is the most densely populated
city of its size in the world.
GRAND DUKE ALEXIS is at Smyrna, in
command of the Russian frigate Sui
tana.
The hard times are starving, OF a
good many diamond pins and suits OF
nobby clothes this fall.
A STEAMER has been despatched from
Rouen, France, to La Plata River,
South America, for the purpose of
bringing back fresh meat. a
THERE are five regular establish ed
matrimonial agencies in Paris, and the
proprietors all complain that the mar
ket is overstocked with girls.
UNLESS we hear som ething new from
that region pretty soon, we shall mark
down cattle-8tealing as among the lost
arts of the Mexican border.
A PARTY of 800 good cooks, and 500
house girls, all English servants, visit
ing the Centennial, have been induced
to settle in Richmond, Va, where
steady employment is guaranteed.
Mrs. WILHELMINA GLE, who died in
England few days since, was one Of
the few women who took part in the
battle Of Waterloo. She was 80.
The Centennial has been great has
tener Of marriages. People have
rushed into matrimony SO as to 90 to
the Centennial and on their wedding
tour at the same time.
AT the rent audit of the MARQUIS of
Exeter, held last month, His Lordship
returned ten per cent. to the farmers
on his extensive estate, in considera-
ton of the bad season.
MAJoR-GENERAL MCDOWELL has been
suffering from i'll health, caused by the
change Of climate since his recent
transfer from the command of the
South to that of the Pacific coast.
MR.. JOHN 7. RAYMOND cleared for
himself about $4,000 in the two weeks
of his San Francisco engagement. Miss
Rose Eytinge cleared about 81 900 each
week for four weeks. Both engage
ments were filed at John McCullough's
Sheatre-the California.
DALLAS (Texas) Herald Large quan-
titles Of buffalo hides are stored In the
old compress building. They form an
important element in the hide trade of
Dallas. The number of buffaloes killed
this year on our frontier is estimated at
fully 10000.
A GALVESTON merchant received a
letter last week which has been nearly
eleven years on the way. The news Il
! contained was more like reading page
J of ancient history in the local columns
of a daily paper than like an epistle
from a friend not 800 miles away.
BEER in the condensed form can be
kept for any number of years fresh as
at its first brewing. The condensed ex-
tract is in the proportion of one to
eight. 1t requires only the addition of
water and the alcohol lost in the pro-
cess. An Albany inventor is now turn
ing out this condensed article.
HARPER, the clown of Barnum's cir
Gus, was lately walking down Broad
way, Saratoga, when a child fell out Of
a third-story window above him. He
saw it just in time to brace himself and
catch it con the fly" The child was
not hurt at all, and the athlete but
slightly.
E. A. KoRTYM, a physician of Boch-
UNI, Westphalia, and the author of the
g, Jobsiade," rhymed narrative, in the
sly lie of Hudibras, of the adventures of
cumming theological student at 8
German university, is to have monu-
ment erected to him in his native town.
The "Jobsiade " is the only comic epic
IN the German language that achieved
lasting popularity. Kortym died in
1924.
A SMART young milk wagon driver of
Louisville lately hit upon the bright
idea Of putting vinegar into the buck
cts, cups, &C., which he found in the
doorways of those who patronized 9TH
er milk firms. Great were the COM
plants, and one company was losing
customers by the Wholesale. An exam
ination disclosed the trick. The IN
genious young man has been arrested
on charge of trespass.
A WATERING place correspondent, in
speaking of a bathing belle, says: Her
hair is a rich copper brown, and flung
loose like name. Her feet and ankles
are white as the feety soul of a billiard
ball, which has invisible legs of ivory"
Now, how did that CORES pondent dis
cover that a billiard ball has "invisi-
BILE legs of ivory? Hasn't he got the
heety soul of the maiden and white an
kles of the billiard ball-that is, hasn't
he got the invisible legs" &C., and the
white feet, &C., and the feety, &c.,
somewhat mixed ?-NorTistoacn Herald.
A CURIOUS discovery has been made
in the convent of Santa Maria Ia Nuo-
va, at Rome, which formerly belonged
to the franciscan monks. 1t consists
in three underground cells, accessible
only through a hidden trap-door, and
where monks guilty Of grave offenses
were probably put. In the first there
is a little light, through an opening In
the wall; the second is narrower and
darker; the third is without ray OF
light, and Is az dismal hole. Sinister
and most obliterated inscriptions cover
the walls, and nrin erous instruments
of torture, as well as human bones were
found.