Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-24
Foreign Notes.

TOTelgn NOTES.
HE London Daily Telegraph cir
culates daily 100, 900 copies.
THE Marquis of Lorne has purchased
the property of the Cunard line in Hal
flax, N. S.
THERE are 100 Greek and Latin
scholars, and II Sanscrit students, in
one Prussian regiment.
THE heather Chinee, according to a
law of the Flowery Kingdom, must
have white sheet in his house to wear
to funerals
That rarity in the animal world, an
albino or white elephant, has lately
been captured in Siam.
In the small island of Ionia, on the
coast of Scotland, 81 kings lie buried
48 were Scotch, s Norwegian, 4 Irish
and l French.
Two American ladies, accompanied
by male relative, recently made the
overland trip by sledges from the
Okhotsh Sea, across Siberia, to ST..
Petersburg, distance of 1000 miles
A NEW sect called 'sSighers" has APP
peared in district in Russia, whose
prominent dogma is that there is now
no true church on earth, and they re-
pudiate all churches, priests and reli-
glous ceremonies.
DURING the summer of 1868 a Jewish
rabbi of Vienna made 243 converts
from Christianity to Judaism. These
conversions are becoming very numer-
GUS in Germany.
The sixpenny edition of Sir Walter
Scott's works, published in Edinburg,
have been the most successful of all that
have been published.
ONE of the Paris journals ridicules
the story that Louis Napoleon saved
very little during his reign, and says
his fortune, at the smallest estimate.
cannot be less than 80, 600, 600 francs.
THE King of Wurtemburg is incon-
solable at the loss of his famous lion
Mustapha, who was acknowledged to
be the finest of his kind in Europe, and
SO tame to the King that the latter
could safely play with him as with a
dog.
IHE Japanese are advancing. They
have established a newspaper which
carefully prints all the latest news
once month.
SOME Cinnamon at the Berlin dig
gings, in Australia, have lately struck a
nugget of gold weighing LILY ounces,
and worth $34, $50.
The German North Pole Association
named the Northern Cape, discovered
by the second Germon Polar Expedi-
ton, Cape Bismarck.
A LINE of frst-class steamers has
been established to run between Bremen
and Venezuela, leaving Southampton
for Porto Cabello and Laguayra on the
10th of every month.
AvAILINe herself of the abrogation
OF the Black Sea treaties, Russia is now
demonstrating her peaceful intentions
by fortlfylng Sebastopol on gigantic
scale.
THE Midland and Great Northern
hallway companies contrive to lose by
competition in carrying coal about
t320, 900 year, but the price of the
commodity is not cheapened thereby.
The letter in which Goethe offered
his charming poem "Hermann and
Dorothea" to publisher for five hun
bred gold pieces, was recently sold at
Lelpsic for seven thalers.
THERE is a new rage for Uncle Toms
Cabin " in Europe, and three different
TRANSACTIONS have recently appeared in
Berlin
HE Polish Jews in the Polish pro-
WINES subject the Russia, have been
forbidden to wear their national dress.
The city of Alexandria, Egypt, has
an eventful history. It is said to have
been built by Alexander in seventeen
days, and was six miles round it's walls
IN 1872 b. c.; it was taken by Caesar, At
+. g.; by Octavius Caesar so B. c.. by
Diocletian, 296; by the Persians, 615:
by the Saracens, $40. Since by Napo-
leon and the Turks, and lastly by Les
seps' canal.
The invlncible ignorance of the Pail
Mall Gazette upon American affairs is
amusingly manifested in a recent par
agraph among it's Occasional Notes.
beginning: ''Little has been yet heard
of the Joint High Commission sitting
at Philadelphia.
A WRITER in a European paper re-
marks that Thomas is the champion
Democratic name. He says: ''Did
you ever, in the course of your read
ing, meet with the Christian name of
Thomas in connection with royalty,
either as Emperor, King, Prince, Royal
Duke, or any scion of royalty, either in
ancient or modern times ?"
The Trinidad Chronicle saws that
trees producing India-rubber "abound
IN Trinidad, are among our commonest
trees. found everywhere, grow quickly,
are OF many species, and are held to be
a sign of good land. They even grow
on our garden walls in town and are a
post, but not soul gathers the gum.
The fortune, reported to have been
left to Kossuth by deceased relative
IN Debretzia eastern Hungary it is
now said will not amount to more than
90, 900 forms, which at the present de-
probation of paper currency in Austria
will be about $4,000.