Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-02

At St. John, n. B., the other day c,bou
six women acted as pail bearers q "neI
neral, they were arrayed in tla = .a IA
es, the monotony Of which W. 'h "ie'ss s
by white gloves and wells. = ieiiste9
the coffin successfulIy.in in ar 1ney @ lTi 'tso tsa
church. amp lowered it in % - the "e grave. 'D
When the English p..,;.
,ras rnlaa nhe,'t con Ioor Of the House
as v,i,h - rad r.,pI, I;nn r feet from the bench
n,on,l,ara rron, \ designed TO prevent
otbor The i .fawing swords oD each
i ;s GILL rng ne still hol, its place, and
roen,har 70 Arded as out Of order for a
c.. overstep It in debate
sae inv a Holstein. of the Danish army2
d;ars ented, for the use Of infantry sol
hu+ shield, which, though weighing
h. seven pounds. is bullet-proof and
! lndy. 1t is of steel, twenty inches
4oug by eighteen broad. Two spikes at
( the bottom enable the soldier to fix is
firmly in the ground, and hollow at
the top can be used as arrest for his rife.
: The experiments that were made with
the shield at Copenhagen, short time
ago, were deemed highly satisfactory.
but will be repeated on large scale be-
fore the Danish Government decides as
to its adoption for the army.
The matrimonial chances of Young
lady in life have been partially deter.
mined by an old maid in PHILADELPHIA.
She kept the record of 1000 of her ae-
quantances who were led to the altar.
; She finds that the chance between the
ages of a and 40 are as follows; Tbri-
/ ty-two at 13 and Is, l04 at Is and II.
2l9 at Is and 19, 23O at 20 and 81, 165
at 22 aud %, 50 at q an d 25, 60 At 26
and 27, 35 at % and 80, 18 at 80 and aI.
IL at 32 and 80, at 81 and 35, 4 at 96
and 81, and at 80 and 80 1t will
therefore be seen that from Is to rs is
the flood tide Of rnatrimony, and that it
IS at those ages that the most chances are
taken in the great lottery.
Observation-Disclosures is an art
and one that has been learned in com
| Paratlvely modern times. The Greeks
did not know the meaning of it and left
no space between their words. The Re-
mans put up kind of division without
any apparent method. Up to the end of
the fifteenth century only the colon and
comma were introduced and the latter at
that time only as perpendicular figure.
We are indebted to Aldus Manutius. an
emineut printer, for the comma as we
have it now, and in 1890 he introduced
the semlcolon into printing, and publish
ed set OF rules for the guidance of writ
ers. 1t is not known by whom notes oil
interrogation or exclamation were first
used, but inverted commas (") were
brought into common use by French
orlnter to supersede the use ofitalics. but
the English adopted them to specify quo
tatious.
Sarah K. Bolton writes to Harpers
Bazar about 'Some Famous Peopls' and
their homes: Victor Hugo, the grand old
man of 80, lives on street named after
him at Passy PARIS Robert Browning
lives at Warwick crescent, London. He
is 70 years old, but is as vigorous asa
man of so. John Ruskin lives at the
head of Conistone Water, a heautifu1
lake in Lancashire. The house is
treasury OF art and science. Ruskin ia
described as slightly-built man. with
modest manner, kind blue eyes. and
powers of observation. Mrs
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik lives in Kent
IN house of the Queen Anne style. She
s queenly woman in manner, and
owed by all for her many kind acts.
Jean Ingelow AID her two brothers Give
n lovely London home, full of howers.''
MISS !ngelow is in the prime of life,
nougn her hair is turning gray. Chris
ina hossettl lives quietly in the heart of
4ondon with her mother, to whom she is
leVoted. Her hair and eyes are dark
be latter very beautiful