Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-13

Nh.A,' toT1ERlDAN Twins nave been
baptized Irene and Louise.
A MONUMENT is to be erected on the
site OF John A. Suffers mill at Coloma,
Cal, IN honor of Marshall, the discoverer
of gold.
COL. JAMES ARCHER, a wealthy Col
oradian, is building a $50, 900 mansion at
Denver, which is said to be the finest be-
tween ST. Louis and San Francisco.
ALONzO BAKER, we'll known guide
In the Adirondacks was killed recently
by falling into the Ausable chasm, near
Keeseville.
FRANK STRINGFELLOw, the Confed-
crate Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's favorite
scout, has ent cred the ministry in the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
A REAL Chinaman was introduced in
farce in San Francisco theatre. He
was very successful in his portrayal of
his own funny peculiarities, and his
"pigeon English" especially made hit.
THE daughter of ex-Gov. Henderson,
of Texas, has died from the exposure
and anxiety of being lost in the woods
with her almost bel pless father, going
two days without food
A PARTY Of twenty-eight Chinese
naval cadets are now on the way to Paris
and London, where they will pass a
course OF instruction in the naval acad-
emies.
SENATOR BENZ. III. HILL is by no
means poor marksman. He was re-
Gently the guest of the Savannah Rifle
Association, and made a score of IL out
of a possible Is.
SUBSCRIPTIONS have already been
commenced for monument to Cornelia
Chisholm, the young Mississi plan who lost
her life in defending her father from an
attack of assassins
A Texas paper reports the post
master Of Denton (Texas), threw out of
the mail in one day lately three cent?
pedes, two tarantulas, and one horned
frog. No mention is made of his drink
ing habits.
PROF. BELL, of Boston, has made bus
mess arrangements for the construction
of regular telephone lines, by which
conversations can be carried on over dis
tances of twenty miles or less. The in
tention is to charge 500 year for the
use of two telephones for social purposes,
the lessees being free from all charges
for construction and maintenance, ex-
cept in cases of accidents from great
carelessness.
The citizens of Reading have formed
a co-partnership to 90 into the business
of manufacturing pure Schweitzer Kase.
Last week they bought 300 goats in
Schuylkill county for that purpose
SOME amiable individuals in England
have subscribed for the shipment of 1000
plum buildings to the nearest attainable
section of the Turkish army The pud-
dings were sent in Theoretically sealed
cans.
A VIRGINIA CITY Chinaman tied his
donkey by a rope to the front door knob
of a mans house who owed him dollar
for fre-wood, and let the beast howl
while he sat on the steps and waited
The beseiged man capitulated in three
hours
Mrs MULOCH CRAIK still wears the
queerly fashioned gown of twenty years
ago, with it's body gathered at the
shoulders to point at the waist. When
asked to sing, she complies readily, and
gives an old-time ballad with a simple
accompaniment.
A BAPTIST minister of 20 years stand
ing in Missouri has been convicted of
distilling crooked whisky. It is nothing
against the man that he is minister,
but he should have been engaged in
making the crooked straight and not vice
versa.
A LARGE class of deserving feIlow-cit-
lions will be Interested in the informa-
ton, if it is such, that the word Jones is
Welsh, meaning Johns, that is Johns
son; johnson, Jackson, and all the
tribe, Johannes, Jean, Jane, etc., have
the same derivation.
ELIZABETH G.. CHAPMAN is the name
of the young woman, a daughter of a
Scottish advocate, who wrote Mr. San
keys favorite hymn, "The Ninety and
Nine" 1t was written on the spur of
the moment for the Children's Hour, a
paper published by her cousin in Edin-
burgh.
PETER B. BRIGHAM, who died in Bos-
ton last Thursday, worth $2,0O0,000,
made the first of his fortune by keeping
an oyster saloon. He used to pass
around among his customers, asking
{" Are your oysters well cooked?" and
when paid for them always said, "Thank
you, sir, call again" which courtesy may
partly account for the 100000.
PEToFI SANDoR, the great Hungarian
poet, is the subject of romance as start
ling as was ever put between the boards
of book. Instead of being killed in
battle with the Russians, as was report
ed ), he is still living, prisoner in Siberia.
A man just returned from the mines
states having seen him, and affirms the
identity. The illustrious poet would be
now only Sc years of age. 1t is under
stood Count Andrassy is instituting ID
quiries.
MRS DEANS four babies have pro-
duced great excitement in St. Louis,
four babies at birth being rather re-
circumstance anywhere. One
Of them is dead, but great honors are
bestowed upon the three survivors. On
Change subscription for their benefit
yielded 1927; the police added $3.50,
md the whole has been invested for the
benefit of this comparatively numerous