Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-24

UnG natural enemies OF RuSS1a, ana are
so estimated by the Gear and his gov,
eminent. r.a
TRAVELLING in Italy, this year, is said
to have proved unhealthy, many people
being taken sick on the way
IT is not alone to this country that
the Japanese are sending their young
men to be educated. Sixteen lately
graduated at Berlin. t3
THE Marquis of Ripon has been
unanimously elected for tbs n-i->t
tune, Most Worshipfrll Grand Master
of the Free Masons of England. DHs&
LONDON gossips comment with sur
prise upon the absence of. the Marquis
of Lorne and his wife the Princess,
from the recent Thanksgiving doings.
THE women Of Rome propose to
give Garibaldi statue in the Eternal
City, while he is still living. The
money was subscribed among them
selves.
THREE rascals, whose business it was
to rob graves for the purpose of sup
plying the chignon market, have been
arrested and imprisoned at Lyons,
France.
RUsKIN has ordered the new edition
of his work to be bound in richpurple
calf, with gilt edges, and not single
copy will be allowed to go out in any
other shape. A aaisl
Mr.. JOHN MARTIN, member Of Par
lament from Meath, never votes. This
is his tacit protest against English in
justice to ireland in not giving her 81
| pa1liaTOa ont Of bar own
RECENTLY a daughter of an English
clergyman was burned to death Willie
dressing for ball. A young lady
who attempted to assist her was dan
gerously burned.
The Russian my to-day is admira-
bly, appointed in all its effective de-
partments. The rolls embrace the
names of eleven hundred generals
THE town Of Sedan has sent vote of
thanks to Count Orloff, the Russian
ambassador, for his successful efforts
in disinfecting the battlefield round
Sedan and Metz. Hs7G 10 57t3tt
A WRITER in the London press says
that the habits of the best workmen in
the metropolis are extremely dissipated
Beer and gin are the trouble. 40 9h3
PARIS is Justly celebrated throughout
the world for the character of its medi-
cal hospitals. The city contains forty
of these first class institutions
The restlessness of the work. ing class
es has extended to Switzerland, where
unsuccessful strikes have resulted most
disastrously to labor and capital, 1nG
SWIMMING being now taught in the
British army, "as a military. duty"
the number of fatalities from drowning
in that service has sensibly diminished.
WIFE-BEATING according to the Eng
lish newspapers, is becoming a very
general thing among the lower classes
of that country it is nothing new,
however, only it has become more pub
lie.
The Japanese are not intoIerant in
the matter of religion, as they have
three different religions and 80 differ ut
sects. The persecution of the Chris
tians in the 18th century was not theo-
logical but political. rsa etasa
Two huncb backs celebrated their
nuptials in Paris the other day in the
presence Of thirty invited guests, also
At the wedding ball all
the musicians were hunchbacks-as
was every dancer.
BLANoUI, the Abb, Of "The Member
for Paris" the originator of the insur-
rection of the Commune in Paris, is
suffering kee1ly from nervous maladies
caused by his political troubles and
labor.
This summer the meteorologists are
to meet III international Congress at
Vienna, and the inhabitants Of that city
are in a panic at the prospect of the
awful varieties of weather they will
bring with them. a5ml s4fsr ags
FREEDOM and education go hand in
hand together. There are now IN Rome
% public schools and an aggregate at
tendance of 6,000 1t is but year
since no public school was to be found
in the Eternal City. - Hs
A GENTLEMAN who does not wish his
name to transpire at present, has pre-
sented the city of London with an
equestrian statue of the late Prince
Consort. The sculptor is Mr., Bacon,
Gus. .5H- t.ii5 +~-i ~ 41a
A GENTLEMAN from London lately, in
making return of his income to the
tax commissioner, wrote on the paper
+" For the last three years my income
has been somewhat under $3.50; in the
future it will be more precarious, as
the man is dead of whom [ borrowed
the money" s.r .
PUBLIC libraries are encouraged by
Il .LzL1 ~ e -
now have them The newspapers of
Santiago are in raptures over a Val
paraiso bookseller, who proposes to let
out books for reading. His charges are
q dollar month, and book can be
kept out for two months.
LONDON coroners don't. like the word
{" starvation - it would occur too often,
and be little too significant; so.when
a poor human being dies of hunger,
they qualify it thus: Death by dis
ease, accelerated by extreme privation. %
These cases are not exceptional, but
are of daily occurrence in the great and
heartless metropolis.
A LITTLE SON of Mr.. L f. Richard
son, of Dublin, n H., ON March 20,
ICll UpOu pau VI ol1Otsikt NiA
blade, which penetrated back of his
ear, through the skull into the brain
about four inches. At last accounts
the child was alive, though but little
hopes were entertained of his recovery.
FRANK BUcKLAND, of England writes
to Seth Green, the great tish-breeder of
this country, that he has successfully
introduced American brook trout into
English waters. From eggs sent him
three years ago by Mr.. Green, he now
has trout of two or three pounds weight.
The Hindoo philosopher Sakya-Muni
many centuries ago developed the. main
theories in both the idealism of Berke-
ley and the positivism of Comte; as a
political thinker he anticipated the
noblest truth of our Declaration of In.
and $500 years ago
taught, against the caste system of
India, the doctrine of the equality of
men.
The Windsor (Ont.) Record says that
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