Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-07

GAINESVILLE Recorder says: The black
diphtheria is raging in Brodhead. Five
deaths occurred last week, and families are
fleeing from the village. Death results
soon after the victim is attacked. A child
of family named Ross ate breakfast in
perfect health, and at night was a corpse.
Considerable alarm is manifested in the
community.
At the spelling match at the Teachers
Institute, recently held in Jefferson, out
of IS words the following made the best
record: E. S. Rice, Fort Atkinson, miss
ed one word; Amos Squires, Jefferson,
missed seven words; Carrie Sergeant miss
ed seven words; Lizzie Esselstyn, Belle
Holmes and Clara Crane each eight
words. Their names will be sent to the
Teachers Journal.
A NEWBORN BABE WEIGHS %
POUNDS. The wife of a prominent bust
ness man gave birth last Sunday to a
male child of extraordinary proportions
1hey were as follows Weight % pounds;
length, "a inches; circumference of head,
13I inches; breath of shoulders, 9 in
ches; circumference of hips, 204 inches
The child lived only about ten minutes.
In conversation with DIR. George II. He
ron, who was the physician in this case,
| he said he knew of but one case of record
of child born, alive larger than this
That was the child of the giant and giant
ess, which weighed at its birth twenty
three pounds Washington Republican.
A FOREIGN VIEW OF OUR NAVY
The astounding condition of the United
States navy appears at least to have ava k
ened the government atWashington to the
necessity of doing something. However
good its personnel may be, there can be no
doubt hat the material of ftheAmericanfeet
is altogether inefficient. All authorities are
agreed "that the United States has no ma
Wy at ALL On the official list there are
ia vessels. Of these many are rotten,
many hopelessly obsolete, and of those
which in time of peace are still worth
something, none would "be Of service if
the navy were called into action to-day"
Of twenty-four armorclads only three
which are being rebuilt at considerable
expense, are expected to be OF use in
that not very formidable class of ships,
the coast defenders.-PaWM Mall Gazette.
GARFIELD AS A SMOKER. .--WAsHING-
TON, Aug. 31.-The strength OF the cigars
smoked by President Garfield has been
brought up as an evidence of the tough
ness of his stomach. Collector Thomas,
of Baltimore, is credited as saying that
during an interview with the President
lust before he was shot, the President
handed his visitor cigar of the strongest
kind and smoked two of them himself.
While they were talking cigar dealer
set matters right. He says that he has
furnished the President with cigars for
fifteen years and that the President al
ways gets the very mildest cigars that
can be found. He thinks, perhaps, the
President played joke on Gen. Thomas
and gave hin some "thirty four pound
cigar that had been sent to him.
A SLEEPY BONAPARTE.-COun Napo-
leon Bertrand, who just died in Paris at
the age of 70 years, had other interesting
points ABOUT ulLu UtSllleS +JClnS q oOli VI
that Bertrand who was Napoleon's COM
panion at St. Helena and one of the
stanchest friends the fallen Emperor
ever had For long tipe it had been
his custom to hire room hotel for three
months in Paris and then go permanently
to bed. During these periods food was
brought to him once day by a servant
who had been instructed not to utter
word in his presence. During the siege
of Paris he was thus abed and usually
asleep. He did not know anything of
the siege until the bread became bad.
One day it was 80 abominably bad that
he broke in rage and forced the servant
to tell him the cause. For moment he
was supplied when he heard that the
Prussians were before the very walls of
the city. Then he got up and wandered
around aimlessly about the hotel, mutter-
ing to himself: "Paris besiegea? besieg-
ed? What ought Bertrand to do!' At
last he decided what was proper for a
Bertrand. 1t was this: 81 will go to
bed" To bed he accordingly went, and
slept out the siege.