Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-05
Journal

THE ART AMATEUR-For August con-
ta;ns designs for dessert-plate (eglan-
tine), a cup and saucer (pansies), two
panels in oil colors (fowers), and a chair
back, besides monograms Tin g.. sugges-
of charming figures by L. Penet. There
is an article of special interest on "Victor
Hugo as an Artist" with some striking
examples of his work, and drawing by
F. A. Bridgman of the great Frenchman
after death. Other noteworthy articles
are on "Picture Criticism" ga Newport
Nursery" "Tricks and Mistakes of Bric-
a Brac Dealers" !" "How to Detect Spurious
Sevres," and Amateur Photography"
with particular reference to landscape.
Montezumas "Note Book" dated from
London, gives vivid account of the
Royal Academy, and page of Salon
pictures forms the frontispiece. Price,
IS cents. Montague Marks, publisher,
% Union Square, New York.
THE SEVENTH CHILD IN France
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times wrote on July 9: "The chamber
to-day agreed to vote of 400,0 900 francs
for the education and board of the seventh
child in French families. This is the re
vival of an obsolete law of the revolution.
Within the last few years several parents
with seven children have called on the
state to fulfill it's legal obligation, but
these applications have been evaded.
The anti-Malthusians in the chamber
have now, however, secured a triumph.
Some estimate the number of seventh
children at $4,000; but state adoption is
to be limited to those in necessitous
circumstance "a restriction to which
objection was taken, but which was
carried by 260 votes to 121. The law of
1906 limited the privilege to boys, but
the chamber has placed all seventh
children on an equality, irrespective of
sex. The adoption is not to take effect
till the age of 6, and will terminate on
the completion of the child's education"
SIX LIVING GRANDMoTHERs Reds
VILE, n. c., July 26.-Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Mccarthy, of this place. haye a
little girl, Eva by name, IL months old,
who has six living grandmothors On
her mothers side Eva has one great
grandfather and one grandfather, great
great-grandmother Mrs. Martha B.
Locke, aged 8S; a great-grandmother,
Mrs. Y. Fl. Locke, aged go; a grand
mother, Mrs. Matte Locke Moore, aged
40. her mother being aged 10, with little
Eva making five generations, all living
in one house except Eva and her parents
On her fathers side she has two great
grandmothers, and one grandmother and
one grandfather.
St. Nicholas for August has the follow
ing list of contents: Little Dame Fortune,
frontispiece; A String of Birds Eggs, by
Helen G. Cone; Coasting in August, by
Mrs Frank M. Gregory; The Little
Stamp collector, by Mary L. Branch;
Personally Conducted, by Frank R.
Stockton; A Pleasant Walk, by Laura E.
Richards; The Unlucky Urchin, by A. r.
Wells; Sheep or Silver, by w. M. Baker;
Driven Back to Eden, by E. P. Roe;
What the Flowers Said, by Grace F.
Pennypacker; From Bach to Wagner, by
Agatha Tunis; The Brownies at the Sea-
side, by Palmer Cox; His One Fault, by
J. T. Trowbridge; The japanese Creeping
Baby, by De Witt G. Lockwood; Ready
for Business, by George J. Manson; The
Great Blue Heron, by Celia Thaxter;
Among the Lawmakers, by Edmund
Alton; A Water-Museum, by G. E.
Charming; The Children of the Cold, by
Lieut.. F. Schwatka; For Very Little
Folk, by L. E. b.; Jack-in-the-Pulpit;
The Letter-box. Published by the
Century Company, Union Square, New
York.