Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-27
Foreign Notes.


. Foreign Notes,
A PORTRAIT of Napoleon I. by Della
roch was recently sold in London for
$3.50. .-
THERE have been several lives lost by
avalanches in Switzerland during the
month of April. Ia
By a. law promulgated on the 18th of
April, the Czar's birthday, imprison-
ment for debt is abolished in Russia.
The Alexandra Palace, near London,
which was destroyed by fire last year,
has been rebuilt and will be opened in
June.
The entire population in Australia is
estimated at 100000. The island con-
tinent has an area almost as large as the
whole Of Europe.
AN English velocipedist recently won
bicycle race of 800 miles, from Shelf
field to Plymouth, in four days and a
half.
ACCORDING to an official report of the
church statistics of Prussia the Prot
estants have 1850 churches, the Cath
olics 997, and the Jews 1, 40 places of
worship. ...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, is going to
have botanical garden, the nucleus
thereof being a fine collection of botan-
ical plants lately willed to the city.
A CAFE has been started in Paris
which has ceiling SO arranged that it
can be easily shut or opened, according
to the weather. Er...s
/: AT last accounts Jerusalem was
blocked with snow and in danger Of a
famine. The season in the holy land
has been unprecedentedly severe.
The Vienna Freie Presse reports that
deep, has been found in Silesia between
the villages Of Poruba and Schonbrunn.
The Roman newspapers express the
belief that the question of the canoniza-
ton of Joan of Arc is one of the causes
of M. Dupanloup's visit to Rome. = .,.
AN attempt is being made by the
Scotch Presbyterians in Italy to have
the Scotch church recognized by the
| government as a properly constituted
body. s " MS t..... g.
AN international medical college will
meet next year at Brussels. DR.. Vie
minekx, President Of the Belgian Acad-
envy of Medicine, will be President of
the congress.
TENNYsoN thinks that Joaquin Miller
is the greatest poet of America, or at
least he remarked SO to an American
gentleman the other day, who said he
had never heard of him. Perhaps after
all, the poetlaureate was only "jokin'.'
The English ironmakers are being
undersold in their own home market by
the..Belgians, and agents of Belgian firms
being regular attendants at the weekly
meetings of the iron trade, and securing
a virtual monopoly of current orders for
bars, &c.
A BOAT with a cargo of 100 casks of
arsenic was recently sunk in the neigh
borhood of Glogan, on the river Oder.
Half the casks were recovered, but the
remainder have foated away or gone to
pieces. Anxiety is feltlest residents on
the river should be poisoned by the ar
senic.
A FIRM of English shipbuilders claim
to have turned out the fastest steamer
in the world. She was built for the In
dian Government, for service on the
Orissa canals. She is a small vessel,
| 81 feet long, II feet beam, and feet 9
inches draft. On her trial trip she
made 25O8 miles per hour with the
| tide, and "a. Is miles per hour against
the tide.
IT is said that all the precedents of
English law require the release of the
claimant, because he was sentenced
after the close of the regular term of
court, and therefore illegally. To con-
tinue him in Newgate under these cir
cumstances will create new precedent,
supplanting the old ones. If this view
should prevail, of course it would not
help him to the Tichborne estate, as no
proceedings in that line can be reported,
but it would set him free.
| The Francois states that in pulling
down an old house at Saint Ouen
| (Seine), there vas found concealed a
manuscript of the beginning of the
seventeenth century, containing indi-
cations relative ID som e rare books, for
which a search had been ordered by the
Parliament of Henry H., who had con-
demned them q ordered them to be
destroyed. They had been placed in
boxes with other valuables, and sunk in
the Seine. TIE discovery of the man
uscript of Saint Ouen is said to be of
great archaeological Importance.
NJ. FERRAUD, ihe contractor who made
so large fortune during the Franco
German war, las been condemned to
three years imr isonment, fine, and to
restore $4,000 to the Government.
Ferraud, who us strongly recommend
ed to. the proptr Minister by M. Gam
BETA as ga SAFE and DISTINGUISHED per-
son." appears to have cleared about
S4OO, 900 in thu course of a few weeks by
the purchaseand sale of cattle.
A Wonderful Instrument.