Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-24
ACROSS THE SEA.

RCKOSS HE STA.
kRUPP cares not who makes the laws
30 long as he makes the cannon.
ENGLAND paid $12, 5000 for foreign
eggs in 1878.
HERE is great suffering in northern
Scotland, but the Scotch, like the Ulster
Irish, try to conceal their woe.
A SKANEATLEs barber announces him
self as tonsorial artist, physiognomicaI
hair dresser, facial operator. Uranium
manipulation and capillary abridger."
THREE young anglers of Genoa were
preparing dynamite torpedoes for fish in
tavern at Cornigliano when the dyna
mite exploded. Two of them were killed
and the third seriously injured, the house,
moreover, being wrecked.
A PARROT died of broken heart in Bal
ston Spa. After it had been 25 years in
family It's owner wont to Minnesotg.
The bird soon missed him, and it's only
cry was, "Where is Joe?" It ate moth
ing, and continued to call until it fell ex-
hausted
AT Dorchester, Hants, the other day.
roll of bank bills, confined by an elias
tic band, amounting to e225. was found
among the seaweed washed up by the re-
cent gales. The notes were issued by an
English county bank.
The Irish do not understand the art of
hay-making. They let the grass lie too
long in the field and too long in the
cocks. One-ffth of its nutritive element
is lost by imperfect manipulation. The
100000 acres mown in year yield
about two tons each.
The Nihilists know how to hide things
admirably. Some of their papers were
found under the pillow of Countess Pa
nine, lady In waiting to the empress of
Russia, and some of them were discov-
cred in the lining of the trousers of a
Russian doctor whose body was recently
fished out of the Seine.
A MODEST smuggler was lately caught
at Havre with 5000 cigirs which he
pretended were for foreign embassy in
London, to which he was attached.
While going to the English consul with
an officer he succeeded in giving the lat
ter the slip.
The Belgian queen still so fondly
cherishes the memory Of her only son,
the Duke of Brabant, who died in
January, 1869, that she has never since
permitted any court festivities to be
held during the month. Prince Baudou-
in, the son of her brother-in-law, Count
of Flanders, is heir to the throne. The
boy is now eleven years old
The announcement that Mr.. T. Freke
intended putting sixteen tons of lead on
his new twenty -tonner, the Freda,, dis
composed the Clyde and Southampton
yacht builders; but -Freda is to be out
done, as Mr.. w. S. Kelley, of Plymouth,
is building a twenty-tonner with twenty
tons of lead onher keel.-LonClo1a Truth.
In Paris, lately, a lady visiting friend,
wished, on leaving, to pat bulldog
which was chained up. The dog, from
some inexplicable cause, was thrown into
an excess of fury; by making tremen-
dous effort he broke his chain and flew at
her, actually tearing away the whole of
her nose
FORTY-FIvE years ago Frau Hackert
became the sutler of the Thirty-ffth
Brandenburg Fusileers and has remained
with that corps ever since She invaria-
bly, followed the regiment into action,
and has done good service in caring for
the wounded. She was eighty years old
few days ago, and cher boys" COM
memorated the day by presenting the
" Mother of the Regiment with ahand-
some medal.
The retinue the empress of Austria
takes with her to Ireland is enormous.
twenty-five sit down in the stewards
room and sixty-fve In the servants room
every day to meals-ninety in the house
hold. In the stables are about fifty
horses, though out of these only six are
for her maiesty's own riding. So far she
has never ridden a horse after he has
once thrown her, which this year will be
an expensive rule.
SOME statistics of interest have been
officially published with regard to the
consumption of tobacco in Germany.
During the year 1878 that empire used
tobacco worth 353, 900, 900 marks, which
brought revenue to the government of
26, 1888, 966 marks. The quantity used
amounted to 2,196, 900 hundred-weights,
and of this 582, 900 had been smoked in
the shape of cigars Reckoning 100
cigars to a pound in weight, the number
of cigars consumed in 1878 would be
more than 1000, 600, 900, or enough to
give $1,000, 900 smokers 2 cigars day all
theyearround. Besides in cigars, the Ger
mans smoked ], 1927, 200 hundred-weights
of tobacco in other forms. They snuffed
$50, 900 hundred-weights, and they chew
ed Ia, 200 hundred-weights. More than
one third of all this tobacco was grown
by Germany itself, mainly in Rhenish
Bavaria, Baden, South Hesse, and Al
sace-Lorraine