Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-20
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IT IS stated that one ortwo churches
are burned throughout the United
States every week.
UNTIL the death of Lord Mayor Not
tage, no Lord Mayor of London has
died In the Mansion House for 1874
years.
In some villages in Austria it seems
to be the fashion for doctors to have
sign covering the whole side of the
house.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY claims the best
arranged collection of shells in the
world. 1t has cost $4,000.
THERE are now but 5 400 residents
IN the Virginia county where stood
jamestown of early settlement fame.
STAGE robberies have become some
what numerous on the Pacific coast,
one stage alone having been pillaged
no less than four times within six
months.
SACKvILLE STREET, Dublin, which was
SO long occupied by dwellings of the no
blllty andgentry and members of Par
lament, IS now wholly devoted to
business.
E'MAMMA," said Johnnie, who had
just been reading the war news, '1'm
afraid we are short of sauce for supper.
Hadn't you better call out the pre-
serves ?''-BurHngtOn Free Press.
The current of Lake Erie has an eff
feet upon the adjacent shores sufficient
to make the spring season from two
Toledo than at Buffalo.
SOME of the Southern cities have
very capacious and comfortable club
houses. One of the newest is the
Capital City Clubhouse at Atlanta,
which is worth $4,000.
A LARGE and valuable mineral de-
post has been discovered loseto Bent
Mountain, near Roanoke, Va. An
analysis of the ore shows so per cent.
zinc, $25 to $50 per ton silver, and 81
per ton gold.
VISITORS to London will soon be able
to see an old historic monument in
new quarters. Temple Bar is to re-
appear in the Kings Bench Walk, the
stones having been numbered and
made ready for use.
THE second auditor of the treasury
has forty-fve thousand unsettled
claims in the pigeon-holes Of his desk.
That represents one hundred years of
investigation, and no one can blame
him if he doesn' rush.
LIQUOR sellers are said to do good
business upon the grounds of the
United States, at the Soldiers Home,
IN Togus, Me. They claim that the
state has no Jurisdiction over land
coded to the limited States
FIFTY thousand lawn-mowers are
produced annually in theUnited States
The cutting season has begun, and will
soon be characterized by a cheerful
chorus Of the machines from one part
Of the country to the other.
In relation to the ventilating of bed
ooms, Horace Mann used to say that,
ince the atmosphere was forty miles
deep all around the globe, it was a
useless economy to breathe it more
than once.-Health Monthly.
THE Chinese have a queer way Of pun
ishing persons who venture to commit
suicide in the precincts of that portion
of Pekin occupied by the imperial
court. The bodies of the offenders are
brought to a bridge or some other
public place and fogged.
THE removal OF the capital OF West
Virginia from Wheeling to Charleston
was decided upon in 1879 by avote of
the people, it being part of the agree
ment that the seat of government
should remain at Wheeling until 1885,
q new capitol building being erected iu
the meanwhile at Charleston.
A PROMINENT surgeon. not long a
OF Buffalo, says that he is
at the amount of cancer
In this otherwise happy COM
munity. He says that in a two years
residence here, practicing general sur
gerry, he has encountered over $50
cases of cancer.-Bufalo Express.
THE yan-yan of the Southern states
has been known to drop from the
apex GIFTS leaf, between sunset and sun
rise, enough water to fill tea saucer.
The Grain tree" though growing in
comparatively dry places, drops
enough moisture in a night to make
the surface of the ground actually wet.
WEARING her hair compactly coiled
and done up we'll on the top of her
mead, probably saved the life of a
Washington woman who, few days
ago, was struck by a large piece of
clustering which fell from the ceiling of
5he room in which she was working.
the plaster struck her direct
y on the head, she escaped with COM
oaratively little or no injury.
FROM a census that has Just been
5aken of the persons visiting public
houses in London between the hours
Of and II on a Saturday night, it
seems that 200 houses were thus visit
ID by As, SO5 men, 80, 1874 women. and
I ,O19 children-in ALL by 86,6O8 per
sons. 1t was also found that on a
morning 1850 women en-
5ered public houses in st. Pancreas be-
jween the hours of 10 and 12.
GEORGE M. O. BRoDER1cK, of =san
francisco, recently advertised for a
wife and received a satisfactory answer
rom Miss Lizzie Jones, of Lockeford,
n San Joaquin County. A CORE
'pondence followed, and Miss Jones
vas sent $40 to come to San Francis
%, where the amOpOuc GoOroo would