Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-31
Foreign Gossip.
SPURGEoN has the govt.

las GI1o SOuU
IT is rumored that the Marquis of
Butte has lately presented the Pope with
eos, 600.
PASTOR BEsKow, of the Blasicholm
Church in Stockholm, is called the
Sturgeon of that city
The census returns show the popula-
ton Of Plymouth, England, to be IS,
4 500, being an increase of 1000 in ten
years.
THREE female inmates of the Man
chester England Workhouse were ac-
cidentally poisoned on the n ght of the
night Of the % ult
In the Isle of Man there is church
which is kept closed year after year,
owing to some personal dispute.
GERMANY has at present 10 geological
gardens, the aggregate value of which
is over 5000 thalers.
The King of Bavaria has presented
Prince Bismark with the order Of ST..
Hurbert, appended by the "star of
brilliants. %
PAUL ZEAL, the French novelist, is
not insane, as was recently reported,
but very sick of consumption.
The Empress of Russia, contrary to
the unanimous predictions of her physi-
clans, is recovering her health.
BADEN-BADEN is as yet deserted.
! Only few lmperialist exiles are there,
and the season does not promise to be
very brilliant.
GENERAL Won Room, the Prussian
Minister of War, has withdrawn his
resignation at the urgent request OF
the Emperor William.
The solemn removal and demolition
of the five stones which used to serve
as base for the guillotine in front OF
the Prison of La Roquette, in Paris,
took place on April 6, in presence of a
large crowd of spectators.
THEY evidently do not believe in the
sale of diseased meat on the other side
of the water A butcher in Langollen
Wales, has just been fined e200 sterling
for selling sheep regarded as unfit fol-
food
FREDERICK WILLIAM is not paid quite
as well as his neighbor over in Austria
but manages to keep up appearances
on So, 00O, 600, year, or s, 210 per day
Miss Eliza, twelve-year- old prima
donna of Vienna. is coming to America
with the celebrated orchestra composed
wholly OF ladies, and conducted by {
lady, the whole under engagement tC
an American impressario.
The Walhalla, near Ratisbon, erected
by King Louis the First of Bavaria, has
now become the property Of the Ger
man Empire, IN accordance with {
clause In the testament of the deceased
King. The property is worth half I
million Of forms.
The anchor CT the man-of-war Phila
delphia, which the Commodore burned
at Tripoh in 1904, to keep her out O
the enemy's clutches, has lain there
ever since, and lately Captain Stevens
now commanding in the Mediterranean
has obtained leave of the Pasha tx
bring it home.
| QUEEN VICTORIA not only permitted
the Princess Louise to be married il
Lent, but, according to an English
paper, selected Good Friday as the
occasion for feasting her tenantry a.
Balmoral in honor of the occasion
There was much singing, feasting
cheering and dancing, continued unit
long after midnight.
The Academy of Science of Vienna
has offered eight prizes for the dis
covery of comets during the coming
three years. Each prize is to consist
of a gold medal worth twenty ducats,
or its value in money The only con,
dition it, that the discovery shall fast
be annocnced to the Academy. The
first one has been gained by Herr Tenn.
pei, of the Marseilles Observatory.