Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-25
FROM OVER THE SEA.

The Bank of England was founded in
1894. The capital is e14, $50, 900.
The deepest known worked mine is in,
Australia, shaft having been sunk
5000 feet.
LORD CAITHNEss was buried in the
chapel of Hollywood, which, strange to
say, remains rootiess.
EVERY one who has studied London
signs has noticed the appropriateness of
name and business which is visible
everywhere. For instance: Rumfit 81
Cutwell, tailors; Alfred Pinch, shoe
maker; Tugwell, the dentist; Going &
Come, auctioneers.
SOME of the American sailors who
heard their young countrywoman, La
Nevada (Miss Emma Wixom), sing in
the Somnambula at Naples last month
became SO enthusiastic that they threw
caps on the stage, and the prima donna
picked them up and kept them.
The old bachelors and old maids have
been remembered by spinster at Stet-
tin, Pomerania. She has bequeathed to
the city 5000 marks on condition that
this sum be applied to the founding of
an asylum in which ten bachelors and
forty single women, all above the age of
fifty, are to find shelter.
FACTORIES have been established in
Rome for the manufacture OF ancient
| relics. Painters have for long time
found it profitable to turn out the works
of old masters to order. These are sold
to wealthy Americans who can see no
difference between a Murillo and a
chrome, except that the chrome is little
brighter and more stylish, and better
match for the parlor furniture.
HoDsCHA- who was sentenced
| to imprisonment for life for having trans
lated the Bible into Turkish, and having
circulated it in the states of the sultan,
| escaped from the prison at Chic after the
| earthquake. The prison was thrown
down by the violence of the shock, but
Hodscha-Ahmet was not hurt He man
aged to get on board an English vessel
anchored in the harbor, and he is now in
! London.
CANTHcART HILL, the British cemetery
| in the Crimea, where are buried many
of the famous s' Six Hundred, % is said to
| be in an extremely neglected and
| dilap;dated state. The encircling wall
was broken down in many places, and
| cattle are sometimes stabbed, and wan
dering Tartars make their encampments.
The neighboring French cemetery, on
the other hand, is well cared for and
presents an attractive appearance.
| The great salt mines of Cracow in Po-
land employ five to six thousand men at
a time, and are, in fact, underground
cities with streets, roads, and a large
| population of human beings and horses.
In these mines the natural salt forms the
sides, roofs and floors of series of vast
cayerns, and when the men are all at
work, and the light CLEANS from torches
! and lanterns on the toiling figures and
| glittering white crystals, the scene is
very striking. lt. rode
| A LONDON toilet is of fame-colored
| silk sheeting shot with bright scarlet in
one light and brilliant yellow In another.
Three scarfs cross 1.-TWO of yellow and
the middle one of scarlet, with yellow
and scarlet fringe on each. y A short
mantle of the same material lis heavily
trimmed. with scarlet and gold bands.
| The sleeves, gathered at the wrist, have
scarlet and gold lace. The scarlet bon
net has gold beads and lace..o The un-
dressed kid gloves are tan-colOred, and
are surrounded with heavy gold brace
| lets.
| The British rough is probably ac-
tuated less by spirit of cruelty and in
| Justice than by misguided sense of hui
NOR. Suffering, human and animal,
! has for him a comic side, and he takes
his pleasure in kicking woman or tor
turing cat An incident alta fire. as
reported by street loafer, APPLY illus
trates the feeling which seems to ami
mates this class. On the roof" said
he to friend, twas an old man among
the flames. Jump, you gstoopid,' /
cried; and jump he did, and broke his
blessed neck. [ never laughed so much
in all my lifey' The joke was brutal
one, but, unfortunately, it indicates the
frame of mind of the sconpdrels who
perpetrate these outrages. Saturday
ReyieW.