Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-04-05
Foreign GOsSip.

GREAT BRITAIN is concentrating many
ships of war IN the Caribbean
Mr.. HENRY DICKENS, a son of the
novelist, is giving readings in London
ROME, before its occupation by the
Italians, had two newspapers now it
has twenty.
IT is said that out Of 21, 900, 900 of
Italians, 100000 are still unable to
read or write.
The uniforms of the Prussian mill
tary will be changed The spiked he'll
NETS are, however, to remain.
The British Government in India ex-
$40, ,o00 900 from opium.
AN Englishman living at Paranchito,
South America, has seven native wives
and thirty-one children.
SAN SALVADOR has six thousand men
in arms, with whom to carry on the
war recently begun by Honduras.
In London, workmen are carried on
the railroads ten miles once day each
way for week for twenty five cents.
"PETER's PENCE" since the begin
nlng of the year, have been sent to
Rome to the amount of $500, 900.
ENGLISH papers report that the Rus
sian Government has ordered the form
alton of q reserve force of 1, 900, 0O0 men,
but for what reason does not appear
QUEEN VIoToR1A's private fortune is
estimated at $4,000 900, and people
ask why she did not dowerithe Princess
Louisa instead of asking Parliament to
doit.
ONE of the most lamentable effects
of the seige of Paris is manifested in
the distressing circumstance that there
are only twenty new spring styles of
bonnets this year.
The African diamonds, about which
such fuss has been made, do not take
in London, where they are pronounced
to be far inferior to the Golconda
sparklers.
The Emperor of Germany has order
ed that the huge iron gun ssCarnot, y
taken at Mont st. Valerlen, should be
sent to the country seat of his Minister
of War, Won Room.
The Manchester Guardian contains
the following bit of valuable informa-
ton: ga statement is published that
Her Majesty has been vaccinated, and
wishes the fact to be generally known
The ancient gardener at Ferney. near
Geneva, who claimed to have been in
the service of Voltaire, and who abound
ed in anecdotes and "reminiscences of
the philosopher, is reported to have
died in his 115th year.
The young Duke de rHuynes, the
richest Legitimist in France, who was
killed at the battle of Orleans at the
head of his battalion, has left no heirs
His estate is valued at ten million
francs.
The cooperative societies In Germa-
ny-which were so fourishing previous
to the war with France-has sustained
exceedingly heavy losses since the
breaking out of hostilities, and not
few of them are now insoRent.
Mr.. AsHBURY, the English yatchman,
is building a new vessel, the L1vonla,
a schooner of $50 tons, having masts
sixty feet high, and four times the area
of canvas of the Cambria. He expects
vet to take the shine out of the Ameri-
can yachts.
The Crown Prince of Saxony is men
toned in pen photograph as a very
tall, spare, bashful, awkward man, with
milk-and water eyes, and long, thin,
struggling yellow hair-in short, ma
ture Master Slender.
The Prussian mercantile marine have
forwarded representations to Bismarck
with view of obtaining compensation
from France, for the losses they have
sustained by the war More than one
hundred ships have been captured, and
three thousand have been reduced to
inactivity.