Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16

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leading parsonage in new comic opera
lately produced at the Royal Theater IL
London.
SALyINI is reported to have made be-
tween $50. 900 and 100000 in his recent
tour in this country. Perhaps the dis
tinouished actor could earn that much In
Europe for declaiming italian, but it's
very doubtful.
The French government is building
eight new ironclads, two of which will
carry eighty-ton guns-heavy enough to
sink the English navy Jumbo, lnt1ex1-
BILE. The cost Of these vessels will be
50, 200, 900 each.
Mrs. HOLMES, OF Del Rio, Tex, has
just lost her fourth husband. She has
been particularly unfortunate with her
husbands. One died of consumption,
one was drowned, and two were killed.
She is not yet 40 years old.
AT Kent, Portage County, O., few
DAYS since, little daughter of Charles
Keel. aged 1S months, fell head foremost
into fresh post-hole containing SIX
inches of water, and died before her
! whereabouts was discovered.
Ii YOU want something to keep you
busy for some time go to hunting through
the records of the south for case where
black people were as badly abused as the
white paupers at Tewksbury.
A TAR spring similar to those on the
Athabasca exists on the Red Deer River,
near Tail Greek, Manitoba. A coal seam
in the bank of the river has been burned
out, and below this burned out place, at
the waters edge, the tar oozes out of the
| bank.
ROBERT MILLER, of Window, MINI.
has succeeded in making a syrup from
the sap of box elders, which is repre-
sented to be lighter than maple syrup
and of fine, palatable flavor. It is
said that it makes very pure white
sugar.
esprit FREsCo" is the name of a
new process of fresco highly recon-
mended by experts for its transparency
of effect and its quality of drying with a
! dead surface. When completed the sur
face is as hard as marble and quite as
smooth.
A PRETTY good definition of lady is
this description from George Elllot's
"Silas Marner:" "She had the very
essential attributes of a lady-high YER
acity, delicate honor In her dealings, de-
ference to others and refined personal
habits"
A SUIT of $4,000 damages has been
brought against the Diamond Match
Company at Akron, O., in which the
plaintiff claims that amount for the death
of bis son, prematurely caused by the
nature of his employment in the match
factory.
A SNOWMAN who paid $3.50 for license
to sell prize soap packages at Morehead,
KY, claims that because he beat a
church deacon and some others the sher-
if and county attorney, who overlook
him at Mount Sterling, mulcted him of
$500 more.
THE fame of an American lady doctor
| is declared by Nature to have "spread
far and wide over North China" Her
name is Miss Howard, Some time ago
she attended the mother of Lii Hung
Chang the great viceroy, and no W she is
treating his wife.
The Kennebec one. Journal, records
the courage of a girl, 16 years old, who
in the late fire at Cushnoc Heights en-
tered burning stable and let out a
horse, being knocked down twice and
having two finger rings broken. Her
name is Ida Moore.
THE power of love is emphatically
shown in the case of a Bostonian, zeal
Gus Protestant, who, within four months
of the death of his wife, has married his
| Catholic servant-girl, joined the Catholic
church, and taken his children to Cath
Ollie Sunday school.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON has just left his
home In Iberia Parish, La, to fulfill
some professional engagements. The
comedian is greatly beloved by his south
ern neighbors, who declare with enthu-
siasm, "He is just the whitest man that
ever lived in this country"
The population of Warner, n. H.. is
| 700 less than the census of 1920, and
there is not school district in the town
that has as many pupils as fifty years
ago. It is stated, however, that the de-
crease in the inhabitants in Warner is
not so large as In some of the neighbor-
ing places.
THERE has been considerable caving
in the banks of the Mississippi River at
Greenville, Miss, lately. Island No.
breakwater to the town, is almost en-
tirely washed away. Owners of prop
erty on the river front are becoming
seriously alarmed.
A GENTLEMAN who called at the gas
office IN Washington, d. c., to pay his
| bill had left the memorandum at home,
and the clerk made out another from the
books. It amounted to 50. 80 The bill
that had been left at his house was for
So. 30. These bills were for the same
house and the same period.
J. T. VAN SLICK, of Texas, was lately
at Albuquerque making arrangements
with the Albuquerque Bridge Company
for the passage of Al, 600 sheep he has
Just bought in Arizona. and is now pre-
pairing to drive into Graham County,
Texas. The sheep cost him rs cents
apiece, or $50, 900 for the whole lot.
a BosToN paper asserts that there will
| be more than one will changed when
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