Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

ley.
HERE are now three persons living
In Hartford, Conn.,, with bullets in
their heads.
THERE is q 100000 tomb in Green
wood, NY. A stone mason made it. In
the OUTSKIRTS OF the city g. pauper lies
under a rose bush. God made it.
| BUFFALO papers want tunnel under
the Niagara river, and the only draw
back is the raising of $5,OOO,OOO or S.
100000.
Mr.. PUsEY and others in Wilmington
are urging the State Legislature to en-
courage the culture of the sugar beet in
Delaware.
| ANOTHER great fall of chalk has
taken place at Shakspere's Cliff, Dover,
the path leading to the summit being
carried away.
AN immense inheritance belonging
to the Non family, in Holstein, and
amounting to over 100000, is said to
be awaiting claimants in this country.
DIAMONDS are going out of fashion,
and soon there will be nothing to dis
tinguish Niagara hackman from the
ordinary capitalist.
THE family Of the Southern General
Albert Sidney Johnston, own lands ON
which an immense bed of coal has been
discovered. It is an effectual turn of
fortunes wheel.
Soup houses are growing in favor all
over Germany, owing to the distress
caused by business depression and the
resulting hard times among working
people.
| LORD BEACONsFTELD has offered
gift Of E30O to the widow of Walter
Thornbury, and expressed regret that
he is unable to confer pension out of
the civil list.
The only man in Leavenworth who
used to lie in bed and read novels by
lamp-light had only half finished his
last book when the fremen dragged
| him out.
The Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean
railroad extends over 3,105 miles, and
the whole system, when completed,
will cover 4,423 miles, greater rail-
cage than any American road can
show.
A FRIEND in Montana sent an Indian
scalp to a New York friend, but it has
landed in the Dead Letter Office in
Washington. Friend will please call,
prove property, and take said scalp
away.
Dom PEDRO and bis wife visited the
tomb of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusa-
lem, where they received communion.
| The wife Of Pedro is the first empress
who has trOd the streets of Jerusalem
since Queen Helena.
AT Florence, Arizona, there is q res
taurant kept by Chinaman with g.
Mexican wife, negro cook, and a
white man for a waiter. A chrome is
given away with every plate Of hash
soda gorgeous affair, with all the col
ors faithfully laid on.
By the new liquor law recently
passed by the Maine Legislature, hotels
are not allowed to publish wine lists on
their bills of fare. In conseq uence Of
this act, the bills of fare of Portland
hotels have gone into mourning, being
heavily bordered with black.
ZAcHaRIAH W. HAYNES, deaf mute,
who was married Ia August, 1874, to a
daughter of Chang Bunker, one of the
Siamese twins, is q teacher in the In
stitute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,
in Raleigh, N. G. He has two children,
both of whom can hear.
JOHN SCOTT BowERBANK, the eminent
naturalist and writer on sponges, bias
just died. He was one of the found
ers of the Microscopical society of
London, and also of the Paleontograph-
ical society, and a member of most of
the learned and scientific societies in
England.
EMINENT statisticians have calculated
that the amount of ingenuity and labor
expended by impecunious topers in
getting free drinks would, if devoted to
any honorable and useful pursuit, pay
off the national debt in little less than
six years and eight months.
| The latest invention to indicate the
| breaking out of fire is quicksilver
| alarm. When the temperature rises
| above certain point a quicksilver
| thermometer: is caused to break, and
| the quicksilver runs into dish, where,
| by its weight, clock-work is set into
| motion which operates an alarm-bell.
| IT is said to be no uncommon thing in
China for man to kill himself at his
enemy's door, and to leave him thus
sadlled with the moral and lega conse-
| quences of his death. This proceeding
is, it is asserted, the most terrible form
of revenge man can take, and it is
much dreaded even by those who are
conscious of having done nothing to
| provoke it.
THEY have eating saloons alresdy on
the line of the Chinese railroads. A
passenger when they called out five
minutes for refreshm ents," can jump
out and indulge in his little bite Of
baked rat, or hasty plate of bird s nest
soup, just as conveniently as the Eng
lish traveller scoops in his bean coffee
and sole leather steak at Mugby juno
| ion.
A LETTER from Deadwood City, dated
March 10; says: cali the houses and
cabins in Deadwood City, and the out
lying camps, are occupied, and the
large number of buildings now being
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