Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A Monstrous Gorilla.-A gigantic
gorilla measuring seventy inches across
its chest and with shoulders as wide as
those of three men united, was SHOT by
Lieut.. Morgen's party recently at a
place twenty-five days march from the
coast of CAMERON, Africa The crea-
ture was SO heavy and unwieldy that 1t
required the efforts Of sixteen men to
drag it to the station.
Sir Andrew Clark is quoted as say
ing at meeting recently held in Lon
: don to promote the founding Of colony
for epileptics: 'It was a singular fact,
and had been proved by specialists,
that a large proportion of cur great
men, from Newton to Charles Darwin,
were sicl1ly in their infancy-in fact,
they had been pileptics-and yet when
they had attained to manhood they
were capable of doing great things"
The oldest man in the world was
reported by Russian journal to have
died at Tifiis recently at the;a age of one
hundred and rsixty-four years. The
case has been Investigated by COM
mittee, who now publish authentic de-
tails. Mardendoff was born in 172s,
his memory was lucid and he could
speak of events that occurred previous
to the reign of Catharine II. He had
eighteen SOUS and several daughters
and leaves a widow one hundred and
twenty years Of age.
"A Germap statistician finds that
the most ''unlucl1y" day of the week,
SO far as incidents to, human beings are
concerned, is not Friday, but Monday;
1G. ~ per cent. of all accidents occur on
Mondays, 7515lfper cent on Tuesdays,
1e 81 per cent on Wednesdays, 15.47 per
cent. on Thursdays, 1858 per cent. on
: Fridays, the same per cent on Satur-
days, and 2.69 per cent on Sundays.
From these figures it not only appears
that Friday is not the uniuclziest day
Ia this regard, i,ut that one day is pref
ty much as another. The lucky
, character of Sunday is explained by
the fact of little or no work being done
that day.
The JacoGdte is the name of "a jour
nal recently started in England and
Claiming to be 1.-THE organ OF the
legitimist Jzeobite league of Great
Britain and Ireland" The first mum
berkas a broad black border, having
been issued as 1.-The memorial mum Der
of tSze anniversary of King Charles 1. d"
It declares that -''the revival of Jacob
itism IN England has been sudden,
startling and significant and urges
that 't4he good work must not be al
i1owe1g&o languRsh.'' In referringsto a
C,,aooh n ~
tViviaszin st. Iresotne editor says. He
wanted to ring ont the new, ring liz the
old even if it involved wringing the
rnecks Of few HaRoverian rats inathe
process
"A rzBovel and remarkable point
touching the international ethics in
shines ofvvar is raised by demand just
made OF 1the iamlgovernnlezat blythe
council of Venice for the
rsestitu tissn of some six thousand pic
lures, which the council declares were
stolen from Venice during the 'Napo-
le0nic wars and scattered over Europe.
'Jlae natisnal government is asked to
resort; to diplomatic measures, and to
request foreign powers who now pos
sess the axS booty TO shisgorge. "A de
nsand is also made tiaaS5 vigorous repre-
seftations be made to Austria, calling
OF that nation to restore the one HIN
drea and thirty-fve pietEres which En-
pesar Ferdinand carried off to Vienna
in E33s. If3he powers get to consider
ing this point seriously sand conscien-
tioasay, it may result nc general etas-
Armament.