Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-25
Foreign Notes.


STEAM sweeping machines are here
after to clean Berlin streets.
The Turkish government has sent
new envoy to England to enter into
fresh financial operations on behalf of
the Porte.
The estimates of the Russian Finance
Department for 1874 show a surplus of
5000, 900 rubles 9429, O00) of receipts
over expenditures.
The Prussian Government has sub
mitted to the House Of Deputies bills
demanding it's sanction for the raising
of 80, 600, 900 tina lers for railway pur-
poses.
IT is reported that the Turkish Gov
eminent has ordered the construction
in England of an iron-clad corvette at
a cost Of 100000.
FOREIGN commerce in Salvador, which
had fallen Oft since the great earth
quake, is reviving, and the work on the
railroad is progressing.
The new bells for st. Paul's, London,
have been tried, and are announced the
finest in tone and, workmanship ever
manufactured in England. .,
The journals of San Salvador assert
that the forces Salvador has in front of
Camapagna, in Honduras, are there
merely to see fair play.
The Athne@um says: "We are au-
thorized to state that the letters and
journals Of Lord Macaulay are in the
hands of Lady Holland and Mr.. Ire
velyan, with view to publication"
The Italic announces that an admi-
rable statue Of Hercules was discover
ed recently at Esquilline. It is larger
than Life, and is intact, with the ex-
ception Of the feet and left arm, which
are broken.
| In Paris there are twenty-three fash
ion journals and seven Roman Catho-
lie religious ones. There are two young
ladies' papers. Germany has only five
fashion papers.
GREAT preparations are in progress
IN the Netherlands for the celebration
of the seventy-ffth anniversary of the
present Kings succession to the
throue, which occurs on the 18th of
March next.
IT is reported from Tacua that the
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very forward state. The road will be
narrow-gauge of three feet, with min
mum curve of $50 feet radius. Opera
tons were begun by the engineers at a
height of $4,000 feet above the sea
level
THE Government OF Salvador has
passed laws with severe penalties
against those who destroy the tele-
graph wires. It has been found that
the people are apt to cut off long
pieces of the wire and use them as
strings to dry clothes on.
BARON KLINKowsTRoEM is engaged in
examining and arranging the family
archives left by Prince Metternich,
preparatory to the publication of the
late Princes memoirs, together with
a selection Of state papers in his sons
possession.
TEE Commission appointed by the
Peruvian Government to examine into
the guano supply report that immense
strata of that valuable substance exist
on the mainland. Exploring parties
are to be sent to examine the north and
south coasts, to see how far these strata
extend. In 1873 there were thirty-ive
departures of ships, with II, 634 tons
OF guano.
In the Repertorium for Experiment.
al Physik, recently, M. Carl has pro-
duced some new views on earthquake
and volcanic phenomena. He sup
poses that at considerable depth be-
meath the surface the heat may be sufi-
Gent to cause water to assume the
spheroidal state OF Boutigney, devel-
oping slowly vapor of great tension,
which, under a slight change of cir
cumstances, might become the source
of enormous explosive forces.
AUSTRALIAN aGvices states that
Ballarat will, in all probability, become
the Birmingham, and Lal Lal the South
Stafordshire, of Australia. Eight veins
or belts of ironstone, which on assay
gave SO to 60 per cent. of iron, and
some of which are said to be from
thirty to forty feet thick, have been
discovered on the western slope of the
Moorabooi river, Victoria. Stone for
building, freclay for making friedrich,
and Ignite and wood for fuel, exist in
great abundance in close proximity to
the veins of ironstone.
One Marie Verdun, a young girl
residing in Paris, is said to be affected
with all infrmity known as myotazope
that is to say, she loses the faculty of
sight during the day and RECEIVERS it 4.
in darkness. Although her eyes do
not present any special morbid char
aeter, she is forced to keep her eyes
closed during the day, and to cover
her head with thick veil. On the
other hand, when the shutters of a
room are Theoretically fastened she
reads and writes perfectly in the
deepest darkness.
The executors of the late Charles
Dickens, with the sanction of the Dean
and Chapter of Rochester, have Just
erected to his memory in Rochester
Cathedral handsome brass tablet on
the wall of the Southwest transept. I'M
der the monument to Richard Watts,
a local benefactor. The tablet records
the dates of the birth and death of the