Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-19

The Pope has approved the propose
for the erection of q memorial Church 20
Daniel O'Connell, the Irish 'Liberator."
at Cahirciveen, County Kerry, Ireland,
and has promised a donation for the
cornerstone, which he has deputized
Rev. Dr. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel, to
lay.
A careful estimate of the corn crop of
1883, made some time ago, gives yield of
| 1,271 ,208, ,0G0 bushels. The crop last
year was 1924 100000, and the crop of
1879 was considerably larger, the figures
showing 1,754,000,OO0. On this esti-
estimate the crop of this year falls 253,-
100000 bushels short of the crop of 1884.
The money value of the deficiency is
over 500, 100000.
DIPHTHERIA.-Ast the season for diph-
thereto attacks approaches, it will be in
teresting to learn that the famous DR..
Denker, Of ST. Petersburg, Russia, treats
diphtheria by first prescribing laxative,
and when its operation has ceased he
gives cold drinks, acidulated with hydro
chloric acid, and then a gargle of lime
water and hot milk in equal parts every
two hours. His patients thrive, and it is
asserted that the treatment is uniformly
successful.
The marriage of Miss Susie Campbell,
daughter of the late William Campbell,
former wealthy -four merchant of Bal
timore, and Harry Bolton, of the firm of
Bolton Brothers, oil merchants, of the
same city, was to have taken place yes.
terday, but owing to the prospective
bride having eloped several hours pre-
viously with al old lover named Slater,
the ceremony did not come off, The 500
people who received invitations were dis
appointed.
Father Nugent, whom Cardinal Man
ming once described as the second Father
Mathew of the nineteenth century, has,
as a counter-attraction to the public
houses in Liverpool, provided free con-
certs for the people every Saturday
night at the Rotunda Lecture Hall. and
the best amateur musicians of the city,
vocal and instrumental, give their ser.
vices. The music is so we'll appreciated
by the working classes that the large hall
is crowded Saturday after Saturday, and
The sale of animals of menagerie at
| Armenia, n Y, last week, drew out a
large number of curiosity hunters, and
the bidding was spirited. A white deer.
brought $48, and a black one only $22,
! A cinnamon bear was sold for SO, and
an Abyssian ibex brought $4,000 A
pair of striped hyenas was sold for $40,
and prairie wolf for $5. A sacred COW
was struck off for $25, and a zebra
brought $105. Three monkeys were sold
for SO, Rocky Mountain badger 500,
two Minnesota coons $5, a white crane
from Iowa $14, two white cockatoos
! 800, Rose cockatoo IS, a green par
rot 81, a African leopard 800, four largo
badgers $28, two prairie dogs So, forty
guinea pigs $500, and an African boa
! snake $76.
When Matthew Arnold visited Dart
mouth College recently he expressed a
wish to see the young Sioux Indian now
in one of the classes there. Of the in
terview a letter says: ''The Indian
came into the room cool, collected and
master of the situation, whereas Mr..
Arnold Was completely nonplusted.
Whether his fancy had pictured wild
man, fierce with the war paint and tom
ahawk in hand, is not known, but at
all events he col9red up like a little boy,
held out his hand, and stammered out.
"Ah! eh! ali! you were there-you were
there. How did you like it?' (refer-
ring to his lecture.). It was an amusing
sight to see the best representative of
English culture SO at a loss, and the
young educated indian standing before
him SO calm, collected and even stoicaI.
Everybody likes TO look at pretty girls
and the admirers of pretty girls should
take walk some of these fine Saturday
evenings along the Bowery to. Grand
street, turning into the latter, and there
spend brief time between s and 10
o'clock admiring the throng of New
York's working women. Who ever
takes this advice, and will do it leisurely
and with an eye single to youth and
beauty, will see hundreds of lovely faces
and forms, whose attractiveness and
style would do no discredit to any locale
or surroundings. It is the favorite prom.
enade of the "shop girls" One of the
first things to strike an observer who has
travelled is the cJmmingling of types and
the marked notifications which change
of climate and material conditions is
making among our foreign born popula-
tion-especially the younger genera
tion.-Grdphic.
JOINED IN NTTY-MILLERsBURG,
o., December 11-Last Monday Miss
Mary Lemon, of this place, only Is