Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-11
Foreign Notes.

on the occasion of his marriage.
A STATUE by Foley, to John Stewart
Mill, is to be erected in the gardens of
| the Victoria Embankment at London.
The funds are already provided.
The work on the great Gothard trn-
mel is carried ON by twelve hundred
laborers. On the italian side the
opening is constantly flooded by water.
The death is announced of retired
Admiral Gill, in his ninety-second year.
He entered the navy in 1894, and was
present at the capture Of Port-au-
Prince, ST. Domingo. He was twice
wounded in action.
The Winchester Wilberforce memoir
al, under the direction of Sir Gilbert
Scott, is to take the form of canopied
monument, at cost of about $25, 900.
The contributions, already promised
amount to s., 800.
AT Caen, an actor who took the part
of VicerOy in ola Perichole" made
| himself up as a caricature of Napoleon
III. and introduced sighting and often
sive remarks about the dead emperor.
The play was interdicted by the per-
| feet.
The first iron-clad built in Hull was
launched on the Goth ultimo. She was
| christened the Alnirante Cochrane
| The vessel belongs to'the class of sea-
going iron-clads, and is for the CHILEAN
government. She is armOr plated, and
armed with six ~ ton Armstrong guns.
A sPLEND1DLY enamelled chalice, the
work of Paul Raymond, the celebrated
enameller of the sixteenth century, has
recently been acquired by the Baron
Alphonse de Rothschild. The chalice
was discovered by NJ. Gerandau, an an
tiquary of Marseilles, who sold it to
the baron for 100000.
An important discovery of art OBJ
jects in gold, silver, bronze and iron,
belonging to period previous to the
has been made in Alexanderople, in the
Alexandrianople itself, pagan temple
Of vast dimensions has come to light.
YANKEE inventors of patent medicines
are not the only ones to deface nature
with advertisements of their nostrums.
The foreigners have caught the infec-
ton, and the very peaks of the Alps
are being daubed with the mammoth
lettered advertisements of Partisan shop
keepers.
WoRKAIEN have begun laying down, in
San Paolo, the finest mosaic represent
ing the Madonna di Monte Luce, exc
cuted by arrests attached to the studio
in the Vatican. The Pope has ordered
from the artists copy in mosaic of
Raphael's g Conversion of st. Paul"
ENGLAND is not slow to honor the
claims Of her successful sons. Capt.
Lambton Lorraine, the "perfect brick
of the Niobe, has been promoted to
Admiral, and already Sir Garnet VOL
seley finds himself elevated to peer
age for his splendid conduct Of the Ash
antee wal.
EVIDENCE was given in a poaching
case, heard by the bennington magis
trates, that trained dogs are let out to
poachers at shilling a night. The ami
mails, it is said, have quite lost the
canine habit of attachment to one par
ticular person, and will go with any one
provided he carries rabbit nets.
A TERRIBLE explosion of a fish tor
pedo occurred on the 2Sth ultimo at
Woolwich Arsenal. Six men were oil
ing the bearings and turning a screw
to make the machinery of the torpedo
work more freely, when the air cham
Der exploded with loud report. One
man was killed on the spot and another
was fatally hurt. Only one of the six
men escaped serious injury.
SOME time since the steamer Dhoolia
was wrecked III the Red Sea. Among
the wreckage, sold for mere song, was
a box, supposed to contain nothing val
liable, but afterward discovered by
Egyptians to contain damaged Indian
postage stamps to the value Of about
four lakhs of rupees GAO, 0OO. The
stamps had been manu- featured in Eng
land for the Indian Post Office, and
sent out as cargo with no proper de-
scription or declaration of value. These
stamps are finding their way into India
through various channels; they would
be no loss to the country if at the bot
tom of the ocean, but, being found and
sold, are likely to cost the Government
of India little short of e4O, 900.
The cultivation of the iquorice
plant in England is confined to the
neighborhood of Pontefract. The plant
resembles bunch Of young ash sap
lings, growing in twigs of four and five
from each root to about two feet in
height. The roots are about two or
three feet deep, requiring very deep
soil for full growth. At first it is set
in deep trench, and afterwards earth
ed up like celery. Cabbages are gener-
ally grown in the burrows, which come
to perfection some weeks earlier than
those on the open market gardens, from
the shelter of the ridges.
AIErTER from Florence to the Bos-
ton Register, dated December %, says
yesterday we visited the Protestant
cemetery, and stood by the graves of
| Theodore Parker and Mrs. Browning,
and found the leaves as green, and the
roses as lovely as in June. Yet some
times III this sheltered valley we are re-
minded Of winter when cold breath OF
wind comes sweeping down upon Us
from snow-clad peaks in the distance Is,
We also visited the studio OF IhoIhas
Ball, who is executing a monument OF