Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-05

A Yorkshire village school, in 1874, ex:
hibited on sign the following specimen
of the learning to be had within:
''Wrighten, Readden and Trew Spellen
and also Marchants Ackounts with donb-
le Entery Post Script Girls and Bouys
Boarded and good Yozltch for children" F"
Railway building in British America
is turning out to be a bonanza. "The
last 674 miles of Railroad constructed
by the Canadian Pacific" says: The
Toronto Globe. "cost the company about
S10,00O 900. 1t received back in cash
nearly $7,00OOO0 from the dominion
government In addition nearly 9.000,-
900 acres Of land are granted the road.
At fair valuation of the land, the COM
pany received about $22,000,000 more
than its 674 miles of road cost.
All Germany is alive INTERPRETATIONS
for observing the 400th anniversary of
the birth of Martin Luther On that day,
November TO- there will be festivities in
Eisenbach and Magdeburg where he at
tended school, in Erfurt where his uni
versity days were passed, dt Wittenburg
where be burned the papal bull. at Co
burg and Wartburg where in hiding he
translated the Bible. In these and vari-
Gus other towns, statutes Or busts will be
unveiled and professions anG speeches
will characterize the day But the chief
celebration will be in Eisleben, where
Luther was born November 10, 1883, and
where he died February 10, 1916.
RICHARD WAGNER's CHILDREN
When the last performance of "Parsifal''
a Bayreuth, which brought the celebra-
tion month to to a close, there occurred a
touching incident behind the scenes.
The banker Gross led Wagner's children
up to the assembled actors, and in the
name of their dead father thanked the
assembly for the care and labor of love
expended by each and all in producing
the last work of the great dead master,
Siegfried, Wagners son, 13 years old,
then in a few simple words, stiAed with
sobq, thanked the actors personally, and
all the children shook hands with them.
TIE financial results of the month being
highly satisfactory surplus in hand was
declared, and the committee decided to
repeat the performance next year.
MARRIAGE AND POLITICS. mar
riage which took place on the S11th
of August, at Bettinje, between tue
Princess Zorka, daughter OF Prince Mkt
ia Of Montenegro, and Prince Peter Kar-
ageorgevitch, of Servia, may be attended
by important political consequences.
The St. James Gazette says "The Kar-
ageorevitch family assert claims to the
throne of Servia; and according to their
view the crown worn by a King Milan be
longs of right to Prince Peter The Kar-
ageorgevitch faction will of course be
strengthened by the alliance with Mon
tenegrO, the more so as a Motenegro en-
Joys the special favor of Russia Russia, on
the other hand, has not been well dis
posed toward Prince Milan since Servia,
beneath his rule, has undergone the in
auence Of Austria. Prince Peter Kara
is apparently prepared to
accept support wherever he can find if;
while Russia, in Servia as in Romania
S ready to back up any party which will
accept her guidance, or whose action
directed by Russia or not-will have the
effect of creating divisions in the country
md Of weakening the government"