Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-14

Georgia has l, 200 convicts Dz DzECssa Essa
Black velvet bracelets are revived.
English journals are filled with pro-
phecies of coming revolution.
Establishments for the refining ot
petroleum are Increasing fast In Japan
An inmate of Wi dows' Home, Allie
gheny, Pa, is known to be ll2 years
old.
Beer has supplemented wine on the
tables of some of the best Vienna
hotels. ...5
Underground telegraph is attaining
considerable importance in Great
Britain and Germany.
Anthony Count, Patterson On. J-1
Frenchman, died of grief while attend
ing the funeral Of bis little SON
The Bank of California has sold the
Government lOO, 900 ounces Of silver
for delivery at SanFrancisco at 81 lOa.
A new species Of the tea-shrub has
been found near Tie5izond, 10 Armenia
and demand for ii has sprung up in
Persia.
Emigrants continue to arrive 10
large numbers at Castle Garden. Last
weeks record was larger than for five
years
India pays annually to England
100000 sovereigus for interest on
debt, pensions, salaries and other
charges.
The paint mine at Reno, New. COM
prises ledge forty-two feet wide and
of unknown depth. The material is
said to mix we'll with oil.
A society has been formed in Eng
land for the preservation of "open
spaces" such. as commons, village
green's, footpaths, etc.
The farmers of California complain
that all agricultural enterprises in that
State are Improbable, because labor is
higher now than fifteen years ago.
A pauper in Gill, Mass, got So
from the Poormaster 'to obtain the ne
cessities of life," as he declared, and
| used the money in taking to himselfa
| wife.
The proprietors of the mills near
Utica have ordered base ball stopped,
and announce that the company will
discharge any employee caught twice
at the game.
Miss Mary E. Rayner, of Memphis,
Tenn, who kept boarding house, MAS
driven to despair and suicide because q
ueighboring clearinghouse keeper en-
.iced all her patrons away.
A number of grizzly bears on the
Liebre rancho, Los Angeles county,
CAL. are making things very lively for
the cattle on the rancho. Their tracks
cover the mountains. The animals de-
scend to the valley nightly.
The three tallest trees in the world
are believed to be sequoia near Stock
ton, CAL, which is 325 feet, and twe
eucalypti 10 Victoria, Australia, esti-
mated to be 435 and $50 feet high re-
spectively.
The locomotives of the Northern
Railway of France now carry small
clocks in front of the smoke stacks to
enable the engineers and station mast
ters to know the exact arrival of q
train. These clocks are all regulated
by Paris time.
The Egyptian pear is a marvellous
instance Of iDsurrectlon, or rather re-
suscitation. Preserved three or four
thousand years, EMBODIED in the clothes
of mummy, planted in the soil of an-
other continent, they bloom and pro-
duce their kind.
Initial steps are being taken in
England for the cataloguing of all the
books printed in the United Kingdom
from the invitation of printing to date,
The New York Times says this Gaia
logue would "contain the titles of
about 1,250,0O0 volumes"
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany is building at Oakland. CAL, a
ferry-boat which will be, when COM
pleted, the largest in the world. Its
intended for the conveyance of trains
across the Carquinez Straits, will be
425 feet in length on deck, l16 feet in
width, and Is feet deep in the hold,
A lady Of Portland, Me-, has Ca
nary bird that will faint away and faa
over as gracefully as any lady. The
bird is very fine singer, but (like
some of the fair sex) when the least bit
frightened will stop singing and fall
from its perch in faint of the most
approved sort. 1t remains in au ap-
pareutly unconscious condition for
some ten or fifteen minutes, then rouss
up.
Six steamships and nine sailing YES.
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