Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

pers.
IT costs New York 50, 10000 year to
keep up It's day and night schools.
a SCHOONER-LOAD of sixteen sea-lions,
caught with lassos on the coast Of Mex
leo, have arrived in New York for the
aquarium exhibition.
IHE Herald's cable letter says General
Grant will receive a personal invitation
from the German military authorities to
attend the autumn manoeuvres of the
army.
Ice water, with q little lemon Juice in
it to take off the taste, is BECOMING the
favorite drink A " stick" is sometimes
added says Philadelphia topper.
SIMON FRAZER, Of Albany, British
soldier Of 1912, and afterwards a Lake
Ontarla seaman, walked down and I'M
three pairs Of stairs to have his photo
graph taken on his one hundredth birth
| day.
IHE two parties to suit, which has
been pending In the Superior Court of
North Carolina for ten years past, died
on the same day last week, and were
buried within thirty feet of each other.
A BERLIN dispatch to the Herald says
that the veteran Field Marshal Won
Wrangel is dangerously i'll. The aged
general cannot be expected to live much
longer, as he is now one Of the oldest mil
1tary men in Europe.
JOHN G. SAKE, when writing, usually
sits with his chair tipped back, his feet
braced against some object, and his knees
propped up so as to afford support for
has portfolio He says this attitude rests
his body and seems to give his mental
faculties greater ease and freedom of
action.
JERoME's "Epistles," printed at
Strasburg in 1909, with very black ink
and admirably cut letters, the earliest
printed book in this vicinity, was the
gift of George Livermore to Harvard Col
lege Library. 1t is folio in prime con-
dition. The one hundred and forty let
ters have headings, but no addresses, and
were bought at auction for two dollars
and half.
THE newest thing in car wheels is now
in process of manufacture at the Albany
Railroad car shops. The wheels are
forty inches in diameter eight inches
larger than ordinary and are being
fitted to the Whitmore trucks The adj
vantage, it is said, will be in the in
creased safety while going around a
curve
MARY CARPENTER, the English au-
thoress, whose death has been announced
at the age Of &c. was sister of William
Benjamin Carpenter, the eminent phsi-
ologist, and was herself noted as a phil
anthrOpist, being especially known in
connection with ragged schools and
other agencies of Juvenile reform. She
visited the United States in 1873.
at Queen Victoria's last dressing
room a lady attracted considerable at
tention by the remarkable combination
of colors in her dress. She had on skirt
Of deep red silk, trimmed with black
lace. With this she wore a train of
brocaded satin, Of strikingly vivid yell
low-green, edged with broad ruching of
velvet OF the same color.
A DITCHER on the estate of Mr.. Allan
Gilmour, few miles from Cupar Fife,
Scotland, recently struck his spade
against what seemed boulder. When
unearthed it proved to be deep bronze
vessel. A stone was wedged in its
mouth. There were 5000 silver coins in
the vessel. They appear to be of the
twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth cen
turtles. 1t is supposed that they are
coinage of the reigns of Robert II. and
Ill, and David II.
JOHN BRYANT, prisoner for three
years and a half at Richmond peniten-
tiary, has made with a shoe knife an
English castle of feudal times, with
towers, battlements, gateway, etc., of
365, 900 pieces of wood, each about two
inches long, and of the width and thick
ness of small knife-blade. The wood is
from twenty-five different kinds Of trees,
and to fashion each splinter or Jack it
had to be handled eight times. No nail,
screw, wedge, glue or other things Of the
kind are used in holding the material
together.
AN Advent preacher in Missouri
named Harris shaved his head so as to
secure the venerable aspect that bald
ness imparts. The trick was detected
by members of his congregation, and he
was expelled on charge of deception.
He urged that to shave the head was no
more an offense than to cut the hair, to
trim the beard, or in any other way to
improve ones personal appearance; but
there was majority vote against him.
A MANCHESTER, England, doctor
claims that lotion invented by him will
prevent the absorption of the virus of
hydrophobia by the capillaries. He
also claims that he can give an antidote
which will neutralize the virus after it's
absorption, which he states has been
found efficacious in two thousand cases.
The doctors name is Verify, which is
suspicious circumstance, to say the least.
COUNT GLEICHEN has completed his
statue of Alfred the Eighth, executed
for the birthplace Of the great ruler,
Vantage, through the liberality of Col.
Llpyd Lindsay. It isof Sicilian marble,
and eight feet in height, a fine, bold
figure, in the cross-gartered hose of the
time, holding an axe in one hand and
charter in the other.
: IT looks and sounds odd, somehow, to
see and hear big auctioneer, in cigar
cLo,o c1,,oor;pr oud ShOutinU And Pm