Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-03

A marriage is contracted between the
Princess Letitia, daughter of Prince Ma
poleon, and the son of the Prince OF
Portugal.
1t is rumored that Miss Miller, daugh-
ter of the senator from California, will
be married to Lieutenant Glover, OF the
navy, early in the year.
A papal ambassador is now on his way
from Rome to Montreal to inquire into
the rapid spread of Free Masonry among
the adherents of the Catholic faith.
Zola, the French writer, drinks brandy
and water while at work. John Bright.
the English statesman, has not touched
spirits for ten years, and he finds his
health improved. Canon Farrar is total
abstalner.
Miss Alleyn, a young actress who has
made rapid progress in her profession, has
been chosen by the committee of the
Shakespeare Memorial theater at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon as the star for the series of
festival performances next April.
Signorina Lydia Poel recently COM
pleted a course of legal studies at the
university of Turin; has passed all the
examinations required for admission to
the Italian bar, and has now actually
commenced practice as an advocate.
Health Officer Ashmun, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has personally ordered the pop corn
makers in that city to cease using aniline
in the preparation of pop corn for the
market, several children having recently
been seriously poisoned by eating it.
Ex-senator Jerome B. Chaffee says
that twenty-five years ago, when he en-
tered Denver, he invited his tired fellow
passengers of the stage coach to take a
drink, and laid down a $40 gold piece,
"All right" That transaction made him
a temperance man.
Sir John Lister Kaye, who, couple of
wears ago, married Miss Iznaga, young,
er sister of Miss Vaudeville, in New
York, is now living with his wife retir-
ed bucolic life in California on the wheat
ranch, up the Sacramento river, which
he bought soon after his marriage.
There are sorne steep grades on rail-
roads in Arizona. In fact, railroads
seems misnomer, and they might almost
as we'll be called Elevators The larg-
est of these rises ], 100 feet in a length of
track of 5000 feet, in which, however,
but 2,790 feet of horizontal distance is
made, making the grade nearly 40 per
cent, or about q 100 feet per mile; an
other exceeds this, however, track 1900
feet overcoming an elevation of 700 feet,
which is at the rate of 2,77O feet per mile
(52L per cent. J; and third, which rises
$50 feet in going 1,2OO feet.
A gentleman writes to the London
Times: can American lady told friend
of mine in the House of Commons the
other day that one of her chief purposes
in visiting London, on her way to Italy,
was that of placing costly wreath upon
the grave of George Elliot On going
to the cemetery, however, she could find
no one to tell her in what grave the great
authoress was laid. Was it not natural
that she should remark, as she did, with
true American sarcasm, a prophet is,
indeed, not without honor save in his
OWL GOuAL1SN'
A native writes in the Madras Mail:
yesterday, just little before dark,
small bier, carried on the shoulders of
two lads, apparently of the pariah caste,
was paraded all over the Kothoval Cho-
wady Bazaar Square, the carrier stop
ping at each shop and compelling the
to throw them a copper
The contribution was eagerly made, as
the sight of death was freezing to the
A passer-by, who also
shared in the unpleasant feelings, discoV-
cred that, though the body on the bier
was shrouded in the native fashion, with
a cloth died in sagron and adorned with
a profusion of flowers, the pariah carriers
had come by dead monkey, and were
,leverly passing off the carcass for the
corpse of young child"