Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-08
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price on record for large sale.
The italian army and navy now cost
the state Sol, 900, 900 per annum, or so
per cent. of the whole amount of the
general expenses of the state.
THERE has been an earlier departure
than usual of the swallows and martins
this year from Paris. They left about
the end OF August instead of October 10.
OF the eleven thousand grain-mills III
Holland, ten thousand are driven by
wind. The bulk of wheat meal is con-
sumed by the public without passing
through any flour dressing machine.
By means of chemical refrigerator
corpses are now frozen as hard as blocks
of marble before they are laid out for
inspection in the Paris morgue. The
chances of Identification are gre atty in
creased by this method.
The immense cost of living in Egypt
is very serious matter for the British
troops who will have to remain there.
The prices for erything are enormous,
and the whole days pay of a subaltern
Will purchase him but one meal at a
hotel.
HANDSOME mural tablet and bas-re-
lief, executed by Count Gleichen, to the
memory of the 189 officers and men who
were lost In the wreck of the Orpheus,
has been erected by private subscription
in the chapel of the Royal Navy College
at Greenwich, England.
A SAD story comes from Melbourne.
few weeks ago q ''super at one of
the theaters there died well-nigh friend
lees and alone. 1t was only after his
death that they knew at the theater that
the dead man was Frank Lemon. a son
OF Mark Lemon, the first editor of
Punch.
THERE is trouble in the turkey-red
yarn dyelng trade. Alzarine, a coal tar
product, the principal dye stuff used for
turkey-red, is controlled by monopoly,
who recently raised the price 40 per
cent, and now the dyers have resolved
to limit production until the patent on
alzarine expires.
Mr.. JOHN FIELD has prepared an es-
innate from the accounts of the compa-
MES of the quantity of gas used in Lon
don last year. It was, in round num-
bers, 20, $50, OOO,O cubic feet. This is
equal to bulk of one mile square by
720 feet nigh. Consumers paid $14,-
555, 900 for this immense supply.
AN extraordinary mode of committing
suicide was tried by woman at Buda-
Pesth. She bought sixty leeches, then
went to a boarding-house, put the
leeches on her body, resumed her cloth
ing and left. She had gone but few
blocks when she fell down senseless,
and was thus found by a policeman, who
forwarded her to hospital.
The plague of locusts is no slight
matter when, in such small territoryjas
the Island of Cyprus, the destruction of
their eggs costs $3.50, 900 In single sea-
son. According to the report from the
English colonial Office that sum has been
expended for that purpose during the
present year. It is supposed to repre-
sent the destruction of 16, 600, 000,00
embryo locusts.
VICE-ADMIRAL ORENGA, commander of
the italian squadron at the Piraus, has
visited the works of the Isthmus of
Corinth Canal, which he found advanc-
ing very slowly, only 200 workmen
being employed. But next spring the
steam engines and perforators now in
course of construction will come into
action. and it is hoped that the canal
will be finished by 1887.
In the Madras Presidency, during
1881, G2, 925 was paid as reward for
destroying $50 panthers and leopards,
and 543 animals. One Thousand three
hundred and two persons and s, 1888 ami
mails were killed by wild animals and
snakes, tigers killing 1876 people and
1923 cattle. The cattle killed by wild
animals in the Presidency during the
year are valued at Ell, 876.
THERE were over 206, 900 tons of fish
carried inland last year from the fishing
ports of England and Wales, and from
Scottish ports $4,000 tons. Ireland, on
the contrary, did little where much is
possible. Only 1872 tons were sent
from the Irish fishing ports. IF proper
appliances were at hand, the Irish
fisheries might do something toward
ameliorating the poverty which de-
presses the country.
In Paris electric clocks are set where
ever four roads meet, blue enameled
plates are painted with white letters on
a uniform model to tell the names of the
streets and numbers of the houses; and
the nomenclature of the streets is most
grouping
fares with the names of cities near the
railway stations; streets named after
composers round the opera houses; those
after astronomers round the observatory
and so on.
AN interesting experiment in hello
graphy, or signaling by sunshine, was
successfully made in Egypt during the
recent campaign. Col. Keyser ascepded
one of the pyramids near Cairo, and by
means of d photographic mirror reflected
ray of sunlight to Alexandra 100 miles
away. At that great distance the signals,
appearing like pin-points of brightness
were easily ascertained to be message
from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the khe-
dive.
A BIRMINGHAM workman, employed
by a sewerage contractor, in opening a
street found number of underground
telegraph cables. He placed chain
round the thirty-three wires and hauled
off three hundred yards or more OF the
wire. He sold his trophy for old metal.
This exploit interrupted the communlca-