Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Tichborne claimant is exhib +
ing himself to small audiences in En-
gland to earn living.
OF the 217 members who in 1921
formed the Paris Geological Society
said to be the oldest organization of its
kind-only one is now living.
While elephant hunting recently in
the Garrow Hills, in Bengal, Lords Ar
thur and Henry Grosvenor captured
eighty-five elephants in three drives.
1t has always been the belief of
Mrs. Burton, wife of the well-known
traveller, that since England took the
Koh-i-noor diamond, proverbial for the
ill-luck it brings, nothing but disaster
has attended all concerning British IN
6ia.
A fatal duel, arising from a most
trivial cause, IS reported from Cologne,
where two officers met recently. and,
after the exchange Of seventeen shots,
one Of them was mortally wounded, ex-
pir.ng within an hour. The cause of the
duel was that one Of them pat on the
other 5 cap.
a oIng Englishman has had his
lie t e. specially exempted from the in
ST. .un3e granted him by several com
pa & whose losses through the sud
den We kness of that liml, had led them
to BE- wary in the matter. Hence
clauses in his policy provide that he can
nosiCc yer unless rroof is made that
h n5Ir,es shall Hot have been caused
by the faulty member.
The LGacet SAYS that appel te S
Scl0 90 i11O
mOccIV related to the actual demands
OF the organism. If we only ate more
deliberately we should find half our
accustomed quaint ty of food sufficient
to satisfy the most eager cravings OF
hunger, and hence save ourselves from
the evils of dyspepsia, or, on the other
hand, tendency to over increase in
weight.
Timber RATS on the Rhine are q
not ceable characteristic Of that his
toric river. A single raft has often
eight or ten small houses on it, and
from 400 to 500 workmen, rowers and
pilots. The vast pile is steered by
means Of immense oars, and is SO con-
structed as to twist like a huge snake
IN the narrow channels. The sale of a
raft at the end of the voyage often real
ICES ABOUT $4,000.
Porto Rican ladies, although as
dark as mulattos, carry with them to
all public places a face powder made
from grinding a peculiar shell, and
when they think no one is looking their
way they give their faces fresh coats Of
it. OF course the powder shows, but
good breeding makes the observer tech
nically blind to the ludicrous combna-
ton of black nature and white pulver-
ized shell.
The increase of the criminal class
in England has by no means kept pace
with that of the general population.
In the fifteen years from 1869 to 1874
the population of England and Wales
is Augmented by nearly 100000 souls,
u the prison population had actually
fallen by more than 1000. If England
had gone on producing crlm mails at the
rate at which she was turning them out
N 1862 she would have had pr son
population in 1884 of something like
$4,000. instead of one below 10000
s. TATE OF WIS-<7s>- county Court for
~ Jefferson County.-In Probate
Notice is hereby given that al q special term
of the County Court 10 be held n and for said
county, at the Court House. in city # jefferson
| in said County, on the.fftf tn s1ay of June.
| being the goth lay Of julie A. D., 1885, at
| O'Clock in the afternoon. the following matters
| will be heard and considered So
| The application of Sarah Jane TCnney exec
| utrix of thu estate of Sarah Rogan, late of the
| City of Watertown in said county. deceased. for
| the examination and allowance of her final ac-
count as executrIx of the said estate and that
| the residue be assigned according to law and
| the last will of said deceased.
| Dated this Goth day of May, A. D., 1885.
| By order of the Court
| HENRY COLONIUS,
33-4 County Judge.