Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-10

AUSTRALIANS are finding gold nuggets
valued at $4,000.
HE Brooklyn fire relief fund now
foot up to $38,7S9.
Dom PEDRO says marry early. He
was married at II.
MISS ANNA OLIVER is q Methodist
woman-pastor at Passa1c, N. J.
A SEA lion has taken up it's abode in
the Sacramento river.
JOHN BRIGHT, the English statesman,
has reached his sixty-sixth year.
The miss who King Alphonso is to
marry, and make Queen of Spain is now
only 16 years old.
MAGGIE MITCHELL has saved half a
million dollars from the results of her
theatrical work.
The son of the Russian Gar, who is
to be King some day, is Hercules in
size and strength.
PAPER car wheels are at present in
constant use on some of the palace
sleepers.
CARELESS attendants at the Cincinnati
geological gardens allowed fine ostrich
to die from exposure to cold.
The trial of the New York milk deal.
ers has developed the fact that to every
100000 quarts of milk the people pay
for 100000 quarts Of water.
The growing demand in Europe,
generally amongst the working classes,
for animal food, is rapidly developing
the industry here Of shipping canned
~ eats thither.
TIE large bell in the Cologne Cathe-
dral, made out of captured French
cannon, is failure. The tone is un-
pleasant. It will not be used, and is
named "The Silent Bell"
MORE and valuable discoveries of
guano deposits have been made in
Peru, and her securities have, in conse-
quence, gone up several per cent.
A MONKEYS skull Was recently found
in q sack of coffee opened in grocery
in Raleigh, N. G. This was certainly
apparent grounds for not using that
coffee.
A YOUTH was recently tried in Eng
land for breach of promise, who had
written to his sweetheart 227 love letters
since 1867. Those letters cost him 91OO,
not including stationary.
A Moscow paper says that Russia is
state of 100000 peasants, who can
not lose anything by war, even if their
villages should be destroyed, for they
do not own anything.
CAPT. Cook has a statue at last. It is
the work of tho distinguished English
sculptor, Woolney, and it is to be placed
in Sydney, where it will be seen by all
the ships which enter Sydney harbor.
Mr.. CHAFFEE, the new Senator from
Colorado, is enormously wealthy, and
widower. It is not especially encour-
aging to fair treasury clerks, however,
that he has been a widower for twenty
years.
The "Whistling Sword, or the Whoop-
er-up Terror Of Managers Gulch, is the
latest dime novel sensation. The hero
climbs thirty Indians at one time, res
cues nine beautiful maidens, and cuts
his throat because he can't marry all of
them.
A YOUNG Baltimore man told his
wife that he had embezzled several
hundred dollars of his employers
money, and she said that by close econ
omy they could save enough to refund
the amount and thus save his credit.
When they had, by hard pinching, &C
cumulated the required sum, the hus-
band added that to the stolen money
and eloped with q girl, as he had in
tended to do from the first.
The Chinaman, who remained sta
tionary as class for thousands of
years in his own country. advances
rapidly in this country. He has al
ready participated in gold digging, vot-
ing, clipping, divorce and numbering,
and now he has been arrested in Chica-
60 for larceny as bailee. He is rap
idly approaching that point when he is
liable to turn up as an embezzler.
Two Pittsburg shoemakers recently
tried the ex leriment of making boots
from human hide. By arrangement
with medical college they secured
skin from the stomach and back of a.
man killed suddenly by accident, tan
ned it nicely, and made two pairs of
| boots therefrom, the soles being made
of ordinary leather. They proved to
be warmer than boots made from the
skin Of calf, and it is believed will be
as serviceable.
A CHILDLEss old soldier in Germany,
grandson of Schiller, is the last bearer
of. that industrious name. Another
grandson of the great poet, but on the
mothers side who wears the imposing
title Of Freiherr Won Gleichen-Russ-
wurm, has, in order to perpetuate the
poets name in the family, given his
eldest son the pronomen Schiller, and
directed that the same thing shall be
done to one of the male offspring in all
further generations of the house of
Gleichen -Russwurm.
A WE'LL KNOWN bald headed banker,
who always prides himself on being
sef-made man, during a recent talk
with friend, had occasion to remark
that he was the architect of his own
destiny-that he was a sef-made man.
"W-what d-did you s-say?" asked the
friend, who shutters. II say with
pride that | am self-made man-that
| T made myseifn renlied the banker