Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-10-04
Foreign and Domestic.


dom get over is sarcasm.
MARRIAGES. described by French
cynlc as tiresome book with g. very
fine preface.
M. CAPoUL,g the tremulo tenor, is to-
be married to a young lady of the
culinary name of Grevy.
The expenses" Of the Ohio State Fair
this year exceeded the receipts about
$500. vrfg
Figaro speaks politely of women So
specimens Of the sex to which we owe
our mothers.
The school system in New York
city has become an immense institrr-
ton, and nearly 10000 pupils are now
in attendance. ri
The New York monum ent to Horace
Greeley's memory is nearly completed
and will probably be ready for the un-
yelling ceremonies early next month.
THIS country has a glorious free
school system, but the observing
parent notes that the price Of school
books continue to make up for any
gain in other directions. 8t
The freshman class at Dartmouth
College this year is the smallest since
1871, numbering only 81 members.
There are twenty-six seniors, sixty
juniors, and sixty-four sophomores.
THERE is no truth in the report that
a man was starved to death at one of
the Saratoga hotels because he refused
to fee the walters. He died a natural
death.
AS a preventive against smallpox,
the journals of San Francisco demand
that the street cars of that city be
regularly fumigated at the end of
each trip.
SIR JULIUS BENEDICT, of London, is
now seventy-two years Of age He
has sent out to the world nearly 5000
pupils, and has conducted at least TO-
900 con ;erts in his career of fifty years.
MIR. BARON BRAMWELL, at the Liver
pool assizes, expressed q hope that
actions for breach of promise would be
abo lished, that men need not be goad-
ed into marrying women they do not
like.
A WOMAN in the New York Lunatie
Asylum decks herself REALISTICALLY with
bits Of red flannel, and dresses her hair
with scarlet artificial flowers. She re-
mains all day on her knees talking to q
roll of red flannel, which she thinks lis
an infant.
THERE are five cotton factories in full
run III Randolph county, North Caro-
lima. At Union they turn out from g..
800 to 8, 800 yards of plaids a day, end
at Cedar Falls they turn ninety looms,
while at Franklinsville trey make
from 700 to 800 seamless bags per day.
A CAT strayed through the New York
Mercury cylinder printing press, the
other night, and in two seconds made
the papers, press-room and surround
ing printers look like the relics of a
Turkish massacre, besides using up q
| SO uare foot of type. 90
| A FARMER in Chenango county, New
York, who lost his voice two years ago,
recovered it the other day as suddenly
as it left him, on his attempting to yell
alta stubborn mule which he was driv-
inc. Mem: Persons who wish to re-
cover lost voices should become mule
drivers.
TELLURIC ores have been discovered
at depth of 200 feet near Charlotte,
North Carolina. Tellurium belongs to
the sulphur and selenium group of
metalloids, and its presence is consider
ed by experts to be an undoubted evil
dence Of large deposits of rich ore.
A FISH dinner is shortly to be given
in New York by a scientist interested
In sea food. Bread made of fish meal,
the product of Sweden, picked sharks
fin from China, and fish preparations
from Japan, will be among the deli
cacies.
chow much will your new school
books cost, Johnny" says father.
Johnny calculates to himself: Lemme
see; 81 cents for the singing book, rs
cents for new 'rithmetic, Sl26 for a.
new geography 25 cents for a hockey,
harf q dollar for a new hat, and q
quarter for candy" Then aloud says:
Bout four dollars, pal"
SAYS San Francisco paper. Con
Saturday evening, two fine stations ar
rived in this city overland, intended for
shipment to Japan. These horses are
said to be very fine animals, being of
Lexington blood and have been bought
by the Japanese Government to inn
prove stock in that country. They
will be shipped on the steamer to Yok-
Ohama.
WHEN an Italian organ grinder was
arraigned for collaborating at Charlie
mont, Mass, not long ago, an unexpect-
ed difficulty arose in the fact that
neither he nor any one else present I'M
derstood both the English and Italian
tongues. They compromised the mat
ter by first translating the prisoners
testimony into French and then into
English. and twenty dollar fine end
ed it.
The use of velocipedes is getting to
be rather dangerous in England. Not
long since in London an inquest was
held on the remains of an unfortunate
man, who, while driving a carriage, YVES
run into by bicycle, thrown off: the
box and killed, the bicyclist riding away
without inquiring the fate Of the victim
AS their use is now so common and
they move along noiselessly and at