Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-22
Foreign Gossip.
ITALY has % public libraries.

ITALY has % public libraries.
JAPANESE newspapers cost ST. 80 per
copy.
LIMA, Peru, is to have an Anglo
American newspaper. .''. ID"
CHEsNUTs are quoted at 81 bushel
in Virginia.
A New Spiritualistic magazine will
shortly be started III Londen under the
title of Freelight. ga b.
HE1DENBIx, the Partisan executioner,
offers reward of 1000 francs for the
The capital employed. in the wine
trade of France IS $3.50, 900. 900, while
that embarked in the cotton trade is
$40, 600, 900. .ds
The King of Dahomey went to
grand feast, his body being decorated
with quantity of druggists tables,
which he had bartered for. rs
QUEEN VIcToRIA's Christmas present
to the Emperor Alexander, will be six
South down sheep from the Northum-
/ berland folds. Does she mean to pull
| the wool over his eyes ?1,2af- as
A LEARNED Hindoo lady is featuring
in England, who says the vice of intern
| perance was unknown in India, till in
PRODUCED by the English. al ~
THERE are in Paris, 1880 streets. 1I3
avenues, 81 boulevards, As quays, 1876
palaces, % principal churches, % thea
tiers, 80 hospitals, 8 railway termini and
27 bridges. .Htraa. aaa
A MAGNIFICENT gold service for the
| L oF III
has recently been manufactured by
goldsmiths in Manchester, England.
In Harvey's native town, Folkestone,
preparations are making to erect mon
ument to the great physiologist on the
Booth anniversary of his discovery of
the circulation of the blood, namely in
1878.
LONDON papers announce the death
of Mr.. Thomas Pilgrim, aged z years.
Mr.. Pilgrim acted as chief engineer Of
Of the Archimedes, the first ship ever
sent to sea propelled by the screw. ID
THE ex-Emporer Napoleon's income
is stated by German paper. to be
$25, 900 year, which will be increased
to $50, 900 by the proceeds of the prop
erty recently sold in Spain by the En-
press. .a II .H# aE
An English journal contains the fol-
towing brisk advertisement :: g Notice
If my husband, who left Bristol four
years ago, does not return within three
months to his wife from this date, she
intends to get married. ~
ABvID AUGUST AFzE1IUs, the celebrat-
ed Swedish historian and pastor, died
on the 25th Of September, III the rect
or's house, at Enkoping, IN Sweden,
where he had resided for, over half a
century. -.q.. ST.
A MOST excellent old Iadyin Conneaut
/ is much exercised in mind to know
how it is that little quicksilver IN a
glass tube can make such awful cold
weather by just falling an inch or two.
DIR. DoLL1NeER's 'sFables Respect
ing the Popes of the Middle Ages will
be translated into English by! Mr..
Plummer, of Trinity College, Oxford.
THE Penny Dickens is an enormous
success in England. More than $50, 900
copies of F'Oliver Twist" have been
sold. The price is two cents number
or sheet
The connection between English and
American publishers appears to be ex-
! tending and growing closer every y ear.
! This fall and summer nearly every book
importing house in the United States
has been personally represented in Lon
don. II
/ JAMES DENIsoN, for forty-one years
reporter for the London Times, died, at
the age of seyenty-three, few days
ago, Before railways and telegraphs
we're known he managed the news ex-
presses for the times in the west of
England, and many struggles took
place between MIN and Mr.. Charles
Dickens, who then represented fine
Morning Chronicle, to secure priority
of information for their respective
journals. z---- -- -.
Mr.. JUSTIN DooMrTLE's new 4" Chi
nese and English Vocabulary" is nearly
completed, in two large volumes.
The Chinese words are given in Roman
characters. Mr. Doolittle has been
aided in the preparation of this diction-
airy, which will, perhaps, supersede
for the present, all others of English
and Chinese) by more than dozen ma
tive Chinese scholars Za.iroF-