Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
Foreign Notes.

ENGLAND likes the American sleeping
cars and is adopting them OF her prin-
cipal railways.
LOUIS NAPOLEON was buried with his
own and his uncle's wedding rings on
his left hand. -.--....
isabella of Spain, at the age of 43,
is reported to look younger, health
Ter and happier than ever before
NINE. RACHEL, the face enameller in
London, is one of the convicts who are
out of prison on a ticket-of-leaye.
THEY want to cut down Queen
Victoria's income to the sum paid to
the President of the United States,
thus reducing her to abiect poverty.
The London Bookseller laments that
publishing in Ireland will soon be re-
garded as among the lost arts.
The Japan Gazette of the 22d of
January published the following an
nouncement: Beurikoshi-U yeno- Kag-
anori has been appointed Minister for
Japan at Washington. -a-E-... .,.
A THIEF stole the census papers of
several hundred communes, in Switzer-
land, recently, and sold them for old
paper. It will cost 10, 900 francs to re-
place the missing statistics.
MILE. RENAU1T, whom M. Henri de
Rochefort, of Lanterne notoriety, mar
rled some time back under such trag-
1cal circumstances, and whose recovery
was considered as hopeless, is now per-
fectly re- established in health, and
wakes daily promenades in the vicinity
of Versailles.
The late Lord Lytton left a written
injunction that after death, or pre-
sumed death, his body should be al
lowed, for three days, to lie untouched
upon his bed, and then should be ex-
amined by medical men, who should
certify that life was extinct. This was
obeyed.
The following German weekly
periodicals have the circulation affixed
to eack :--Gartenlaube, 1000 copies:
Daheim, 10000 Illustritte Zeitung,
48, 900; Stuttgart Illustrated News,
l25, 900 copies Kladderadatsch, 81. 900
copies,
THERE are about $50 paper mills now
at work IN Great Britain, employing
nearly 30, 600 persons, to say nothing
of paper staining manufactures, which
employ some 5000 more The quantity
OF paper made annually must exceed
three hundred million ponds weight.
or double that of the make twenty years
ago, in spite of the fact that many of
the colonies have paper mills of their
own.
A SINGULAR controversy has been 60
ing on in France with respect to the
water of the Grotto of Loudres, where
| the virgin made her recent appearance.
This water is in great demand by the
| faithful, owing to. the fact that several
| miraculous cures have resulted from
its use. A common liquor merchant
attempted to sell it in bottles, with his
wares; whereupon the Bishop of Tar
bee interfered, and condemned this
publican in pastoral. Then the
Town Council of Draguiman, a town
situated at hundred leagues from the
miraculous fountain, decided that the
water of Loudes should pay the same
dues as the mineral waters of Vais and
st. Galmier, and the radical Council
General Of the Var did not disproye
this measure. The government, how
ever, did not think it right to tolerate
this principle, and the administrator
of indirect taxation observed that, as
the water i'll question could not be dis
tinguished from ordinary water. to
levy duty on it would raise up many
difficulties. The case, however, was
referred to the Council of State, which
has refused to sanction the duty on
another ground, to wit, that it was not
voted for financial motives!