Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-10-11
Fresh Foreign Waits.
THERE are 1900 Post Offices in Japa

Fresh Foreign Waits
THERE are $500 Post Offices in Japan.
PARIS has 600 fnger-nail doctors.
The French debt is held by 4,172,313
persons.
DR.. THOMAS LAYCoCK, al eminent
medical writer and physician to Queen
/ Victoria, is dead.
The wife of an American Consul in
Germany keeps school over her hus-
bands Office.
Troy has unearthed three hundred
year candlestick. The light of other
days.
Mr.. PLIMsoLL has met with recep
tons Of the warmest kind during his
stay in Norway.
AN Englishman has invented a. fold
ing boat which is made of canvas,
stretched on iron ribs, similar to those
of an umbrella.
THE will of Mr.. Pilkington, of the
north of England, recently probated,
provided that he should be buried cof-
fnless and in his fatigue suit.
In several coast towns of Scotland it
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rade so as to raise the behring's"
The heaviest creditor Of France is
Nine. Hurtado, who draws 100000
year interest. Sir Richard Wallace re-
ceives 100000.
GERMAN journals announce the death
Of the eminent microscopic, Christian
Gottfried Ehrenberg, at the ripe age Of
eighty.
The value of property insured in
London is G540, 100000. Of the fires
which occurred in London during the
past five years four-ffths occurred to
uninsured property.
In Paris there is one free fountain to
every 10000 people, and one drinking
shop to every eighty persons. There
are held to be enough fountains, but
few more drinking shops would not
come amiss.
DURING a session of a county court IN
the interior of England, a witness was
asked if he was not a husbandman,
when he coolly replied amid the laugh
ter of the court, " No, sir, Use not mar
RED"
A BRUTAL outrage was perpetrated
recently in Queens county, Eng. The
tails of four COWS were tied together,
and the poor animals in trying to eytri-
cate themselves, tore each others tails
off.
| SEVERAL agents of the Internationals
have been discovered in France in the
act of propagating their socialist doc
trines in the departments, particularly
in the north, and sent to prison. They
are generally men who have been con-
demned for offenses under the Com
mune.
WHEN the first newspaper was start
ed in Japan, the editor asked a Japan
csc gentleman if he wished to have
paper sent regularly. 'sNo, thank you;
I have a copy" he replied. The gen
tleman Of the old school had no idea
that a newspaper contained fresh mat
ter with every issue.
BISMARCK grumbled in this way when
he went to Paris in 1856 to thank the
Emperor for admitting Prussia to the
Congress of Paris: I" | inhaoit q floor
in a hotel where there are five fire.
places, yet am always frozen. The
five clocks on my five mantels tick
continually, but they never show the
right time The walls are lined with
splendid mirrors, yet they never enable
me to tie my cravat decently. This is
the France which we have been Taught
to suppose leads the marcl1 of civiliza-
ton"
M. DE PoUNAT, who recently died in
Paris, was called the most scientific
carver in France. He was often en-
gagged for months in advance for state
dinners. A snob once asked him if he
learned the art at the kings table or
kitchen. "At neither" replied the
carver, I" it was from having so often
to slice off the ears of insolent puppies
that I acquired it. You now see how
can cut up goose"
The scheme of making a locomotive
and wagon travel on an endless railway,
which is continually laid down like a
chain before the engine and lifted be-
hind, has been frequently tried, but
never with any permanent success; the
last project of the kind being that of
Boydell, which obtained considerable
notoriety. Within the last month a
renewed trial of the system has been
made in Paris, by M. Clement Adler.
Three small carriages were made up
into a train, which travelled on line OF
articulated rails. The French govern
ment, it is said, propose to give the sys-
tenn trial upon the sandy soil of the
Landes. In 1862, M. Bourne, who was
then in India, conducted one of Boy
dell's endless railway engines over the
unmetalled road between Moultan and
Lahore But the large wooden shoes
ON which the iron rails reposed gave
way from their inability TO withstand
an Indian climate. This detail, how
ever, could be amended by making the
shoes of iron.
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