Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-07
or GENERAL INTEREST.


Verdict of coroner's jury in Della
ware County, n. Y: 1.-THE jury finds
that diseased came to his Death through
the influance of Liquor and carlessness
on his part and while ling on West
bounded track, and killed by train No. 1
generating the Company from blame. ,"
The French Academy OF Science has
discovered, by experiment, that each
human body is in itself an electric bat
terry, one electrode being represented by
the head and the other by the feet.
Therefore it is the proper thing to sleep
with ones head to the north and feet to
the south.
"A wealthy farmer of Palestine Ohio,
was arraigned before United States
Commissioner Hagerty, at Columbus re-
Gently, charged with opening letter
addressed to his daughter. 1t seems that
the old gentleman discovered that his
daughter was corresponding with a
Young man against his wishes, and he
escorted to this means of putting an end
to it, He was required togive bond in
$500.
An Englishman who came to this
country thirty years ago, leaving wife
at home, to whom he soon after ceased
writing, was nnazed recently at his
boarding house in Cohoes, N. Y, by
coming face to face with her. They
| eyed each other for moment and then
embraced She had been searching for
years Tor him, going from town to town
all over the country. He is "a weaver,
and went TO Cohoes from Philadelphia.
AT the Paris Exposition F1orentine
friar showed a watch onlya quarter of an
inch in diameter. 1t has not only the
two regular hands, but tthird which
marks the seconds, and q microscopic
dial which indicates the days, weeks,
months and years. 1t also contains an
alarm, and on it's front lid or, cover an
ingenioEslY cut figure of Saint Francis.
! On the hack cover, by aid of a powerful
glass; ynE can distinctly see AID read
two verses of the ''Te Deum.."
There is something curicsas about
the American silver dGalar and hz.lfdol-
lar of 1904. says numismatist There
were about 20, coo of the dollars COINED,
but not one of them gotdnto circulation.
Two of them are in coin collections to-
Gay, however, and they gre the most val
liable Of all American csins Why the
18llar of 1904 was never in circulation
after leaving the mint is.one of the I'M
seAved Government mysteries. The half
dollar Of 1895 is surrounds by a mys-
terry equally profound. There .xere
$50. 900 of these coined, bue.not one was
eva. known to be in circulation"
Among the countries Ia which re-
strietions are ,plaoRd on tRe press is
E'raace. TheMome Ministers there may
prob hit a single nHznber OF a newspa-
per. The whole Council of Ministers,
duly,convened, may prohibit the circI-
latien of a foreign newspapesc absolute
ly. In Spain and Portugal, IL Germany
and ather countries somewhat severe
press Saws have prevailed, a system of
censorship being carried out. Sn Russia
considerable restrictions are placed on
the press. AccoGding to a recent return
only 1877 foreign political Journals were
at the time of the return allowed to cir
eulate IN the Country.
During the recent grippe period,
when almost everybody . imagined
peculiar symptoms, a resident of
Commonwealth avenue dropped into
his doctors on the way down
toeen. 'SOoctor, don't know what
is the matter. i have peculiar SEN
sasaon in one of my legs. 1t appears
TO ase shorter than the other." .'tNalk
across the coom, F." said the doctor. The
patient anapled gracefully. THAT will
do" said uEe doctor, smiling s'Youl
have to GO home" II canTt; / have
business engagements. ''WeH, I give
goa say advice, and you can take 1t Or
not but if you want to get rid of that
peculiar sensation you viii go home and
put ON "a pair of boots that are mates,
for ssingle-sole boot ana one with
cork sole never did go we'll together
The power of gold is phenomenal.
The discovery Of gold in California gave
population and new life to the Pacific
coast. Such discovery in Australia
populated contnent, and In South Al
RIGA is making the Transvaal predoDi-
nently English. And now advices from
Demarara represent that it was only tfle
discovery of gold which prevented an
insHrreetion. The comparative failure
of the sugar cane industry left the ne
groes without work. The East Indian
coolies had all the places on the sugar
estates. The negroes were OIL, che point
of rising against the Government when
''a few exploring gold seekers found
gold along she sides of one of the upper
rivers. The gold fever set in, and it
carried int the interior SO many OF SBle
idle, strong and reckless fellows that q
great public danger was averted, ard
the en.igrants have speedily made and
arg now spending nice competencies.