Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-18
Foreign Notes.


the slope of the Andes, 1900 feet
above the level Of the sea. ,..
HE American street railway system
IN Brussels is to be extended and T.
rails are to be laid in most of the prin-
cipal streets Of the city.
A NEW company has been organized
at Antwerp for the navigation of the
Rhine and Scheldt. Four steamers
have been ordered for this company.
SIX black foxes have been caught in
Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, last
fall These animals are very rare, and
their skins sell at fabulous prices.
A SPECIMEN of the dodo, a bird SUD-
posed to be extinct, was recently cap
tured on one of the Samoan Islands in
the South Pacific.
The German Shakespeare Society
will keep the Tooth anniversary of it's
foundation, April %. On that day it's
annual volume, published since Holden
stedt's retirement by Herr Ks Elze,
will be published. t"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cologne Ga
zette says that the Duke of Edinburgh
will, after his marriage, reside for some
time every year at Coburg, where
beautiful palace, arranged with Eng
hsh comfort, has been built for him.
The Italie, of the 18th ult., an
nounces that an admirable statue of
Hercules was discovered a few days
ago at Esquiline. It is larger than life,
and is intact, with the exception Of
the feet and left arm. which are broken.
HINDUISM can scarcely be in declin-
ing state, since we find that Babeo
Kali Mohun Dass-a much respected
pleader Of the Calcutta High Court
has thought it worth while to pay TO-
600 rupees to be re-admitted to his
caste. .,E .... -... ..-.
The discovery of a new Swedish
nightingale is bit of news which will
be welcome to opera-goers. Her name
is Martha Ericsson, who, up to now,
has been simply a servant girl in
Stockholm. She is said to have mar
velous voice, and figures in print as
the future rival of Christine Nilsson.
ONE of the few proprietary Episco-
copal chapels IN London, Bedford
Chapel, Bloomsbury, is offered for
sale. 1t was built for DR.. Dodd in the
last century, and more recently was
occupied by Mr.. Bellew, who has since
become lay member of the Roman
Church.
ACCORDING to the proposition before
the French Assembly the state will
have to restore to the ex-Empress Eu-
genie the Chinese Museum at Fon-
tainebleau, the castle eff Pierrefonda,
and all objects of art presented to the
Emperor and Empress. The latter is
also to receive an annuity of 800, 900
francs.
IT is announced from Breslau that
DR.. Falck, the Minister of Public
Worship, has ordered the salary of DIR.
Forster, the Prince Bishop of Breslau,
amounting to $4,000 thalers, to be
withheld until the Bishop consents to
act in obedience to the ecclesiastical
law of the 18th of May, 1873, by filing
up parish curacy which he has hith-
erto kept vacant.
We Oondon Medical Record) read
in the Chemist and Druggist that, at
recent sale in Mincing-lane, a lost of
messed crown bark (cinchona oficina-
lis) from the Nllgheri plantations,
brought the prodigious price of 5s Cd
pound. Altogether %, 646 pounds of
Nigheri chinchona bark was sold on
this occasion, ond the total sum real
lied was e3, $50.
IT is officially announced that the
Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand
Duchess Maria are expected to arrive
in Edinburgh about the beginning of
March, and will proceed direct from
the port of embarkation to Windsor
Castle, in oIder that His Royal High
ness may present his bride to the
Queen before receiving any public con-
gratulations.
The Porte de Hal, the Hotel Cluny of
Brussels, and the only remnant of the
old Spanish Notifications erected in
1851, and formerly Alva's Bastile, after
having been closed for repairs for
nearly two years, has very recently
been opened to the public. It contains
a large and very splendid collection of
arms and ancient armor, both of the
middle ages and modern times also. a
very valuable assortment of MEDIEVAL
antiquities.
.aaEr u. 5a-s asat
A MUSIC HALL, erected at a cost of
EDO, 600, has been opened at Sheffield,
England. The building is the largest
in the town, and has been erected by
limited company to supply high-class
musical entertainments. It is in the
Italian style of architecture, and has
two halls, the larger of which will &C
commodate about 8, 600 persons. The
speciality of the hall is magnificent
organ, built by M. Cavaille Coll, the
celebrated organ-builder at Paris, at a
cost of $4,000. ai
FASHIONABLE Christianity in London
is growing to be amusing. People are
now invited to prayer meetings precise
~ as invited to a social soiree or an
evening party. The Newcastle Chron-
icle prints the following transcript of
card which it has received "Mr. and
Miss - propose Cd. w. to hold
Bible rsadlng on - evening at u
o,elook wboY, tho oomn4nv Of fr;op1c