Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-20
Foreign Items.


] There is only one four-cylinder press
in Germany. .- ...r .-.-
Russia now keeps up an army of l,
f467, 000 men.-
/ "A Polish sect commit ASSASSINATION to
/ propitiate the Deity.
Much of the ice now sold in London
actually arrived there IN 1866.
In 1867 the number of arrests for
habit1al drunkenness, in London, was 100, 81
357.
Half a million books were sold at the
late trade sale in New York, and IL, 600 of
them were Byron's 1rEr#~r a rrr.
"A French expedition is to go to the
Mediterranean to observe the meteoric
showers in November.
An old blind orgenist who ha6 lived
in London worl1house rs years. died lately
at tile age of SO. He could repeat all the
Psalms
"A London publisher proposes to re-
print in one or more volumes all that has
been published in England and America on
the Byron controversy r-....-E r-E
1t is said that there is a man in Brazil
named Jose Moreira who is 135 years old,
and that ne has lived all that unconsciona-
bly, long time on scraped cheese, wine and
sugar. ...---..rz.-r --.-. s a.
-AQ English druggist suggests that ev-
cry Ice of ''poison'' should have affixed
short statement of the commonest and
most accessible antidotes for the contents,
if taken accidentally.
"A jersey lady in her hundredth year,
recently visited the Amsterdam Exhibition,
accompanied by her grandson, who
himself grandfather. She inspected a
sewing machine sne threaded a needle
without the aid of spectacles.
The model farm of the Crown Prince
of Prussia cost him, last year, seyenty-two q
thousand Prussian dollars. The income
was four thousand five hundred and two
dollars The Prince has since then aban-
doned the farm and sold it to one of his
neighbOrs a0k&
80 At the Lyons University, last month,
a Mile Caroline Sihert, of Vienna 0n-the
Rhine, took Bachelor of Arts degree.
Out Of list of twenty-five candidates this
Young lady came out first in French and Z
Latin composition, and second in Latin
translation. .a-7Es LsIs
-.Aw," exclaimed Cockney to West
ern traveller in England, "speaking-aw OF
the law of primogeniture, ave you the hem 3
tail in Anewica ?" "Hentail 7" said the t
American, looking at his interrogation with H.
curiosity, No. sir we have the cocktail
in America, and a very popular drink 1t Is,
too. "-s.s la- lrg gE .a s.s5 --.
"A Vienna paper says: "Bismarks dis
ease, as the French papers said some time
ago, is simply dilirium tremens. He CAM
not hold pen in the morning, and he has
to take strong stimuants in order to ove1-
come his nervousness. He can never make
a speech in Parliament without previously
taking strong doses of brandy. a...l..s.s =
The Indian papers state that the Ma
haraiah Of Travancore is about to perform
the ceremony of Thooloparum. The pro- 5r
cess consists of His Highness being placed sa
in one scale with an equal weight of gold
in the other The gold thus obtained is
afterwards distributed among the Brah-
minis according to each ones privilege, and
it is only after the ceremony that His High
ness is supposed to be sanctified.
M Thiers collection of engrayings
has been lately estimated at the enormous
sum of 800, 000f His mother-in-law, Nine.
Dosne, assisted him in discovering the pre-
cious curiosities which are now in his pos
session, and which form one of the finest
cabinets in Europe This taste, du reste,
was q dominant passion during the Orlean-
ist monarchy, and shared by the princes
of that house, whose patronage of art gave
an impulse to its productions which Of late
years has been much wanting.