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

AN English professor has been put
ting his knife into parish legend
which made it out that the church was
planned by day and built by night by
invisible powers. The professor exam.
ined,into.the early records of the parish,
and discovered that the architect of the
chuIch was Mr.. Day, and it's builder
a Mr.. Knight.
LAST year, Adair House, Pail Mall,
was offered to the British government
for EOS, 900, but they declined to buy
it. The property was subsequently sold
to gentleman for 935, 600, and now
the government is obliged to rent the
house for an annual sum which will in
few years more than cover the amount
of purchase money.
The "North- German Gazette F" con-
tradicts as pure fabrication the Paris.
ian story about Prince Bismarck adj
dressing Prince Gortschakoff in Ger
man, and being replied to in Russian.
To torestall new inventions, itexplains
that the diplomatic procedure of the
imperial government places itself on
an equality with all powers.
SEVERAL cases of cholera which have
occurred at Augsburg during the last
week have been strictly quarantined
under a special ordinance, nearly all
being recent arrivals from Munich. AT
the latter city the disease, after Great
ing terrible alarm by the severity of it's
ravages, decreased from a maxi
mum of fifty cases to less than
twenty per day; but the epidemic is by
no means at an end. ".. ~
The year 1873 was the first in which
the imports of foreign and colonial
merchandise into Great Britain exceed.
ed the value of Ell, 600, 900 day. The
total is stated at e37O, $50. 742. The
exports of British and Irish produce
and manufactures averaged nearly
10000 day, the total being e255,
O73, 1856.
Ottoman Bank in Constantinaple has
recently been detected in robbery of
which the most accomplished Ameri-
can thief would be proud. He secured
about 100000. The robbery had been
going on for four years, and was ac-
complished by taking gold from the
bags and filing them up with, silver
The deficit In the silver bags was not
noticed, because the young man had
entire charge of them, and his supe-
rior officers had full confidence in him.
A CARTOON has lately appeared in a
Paris journal depicting the Irritation
scenes in Sardou's play of Uncle Sam.
1t shows that in the best society of
America the maidens loll about on
sofas in the arms of their lovers as
habitually as they take their breakfast.
The cartoon, as well as the piece, has
annoyed Americans in Paris not a
little. 1t is clear that Mr.. Sardou has
injured us in the estimation of his
countrymen, which sometimes makes
it disagreeable for those of us who
live in Paris. u g.. Ell ~
HE hardware makers of Great Britain
have heavy orders from the govern
ment to manufacture hoes, to be used
in giving employment to the famine
stricken Bengalese. The London News
says $50 enormous is the demand at
one establishment that twenty orders
alone embrace 4, 358 dozens, or So, 296
seperate implements One order relates
to 1,127 dozens, or Is, 524 hoes. It is
desired that all the implements may be
ready by January.
HANOVER CHURCH, Regent street,
London, has just been undergoing
renovation, the black, smoky exterior
being cleaned by means of a steam Jet.
The church, an excellent example of
Greclan art, was erected by the late
Professor Cockerell at great expense,
as public monument and an orna-
ment to the street, and to restore it on
scale commensurate with it's merits
is quite beyond the means Of the con-
gregatlon and the district. An appeaI
for FL 500 is therefore made to the
general public. .~.'
THE recent financial crisis in the
United States, writes a Roman COR
respondent, has sent many American
visitors to Europe back to their own
country but within the last few DAYS
there has been considerable accession
OF vast Saratoga trunks with the letters
!" q. S" largely visible upon the exte-
riors and it is the belief of the pro-
prietors of the many new hotels which
have sprung up in Rome that tide of
American travel has again set in from
West to East, and that the Roman
season, although late, will after all
prove not much below the average. II.
On the Pier Pavilion at Hastings,
Mrs. Brassey lately performed the
pleasing ceremony of presenting to
William Wood, Hastings fisherman,
the gold medal and diploma of the
highest class, awarded him by the
King OF the ,Belgians for gallantry in
saving life at sea. Wood and two Of
his mates, William Gallon and Jacob
Stonham, had rescued Belgian crew
at imminent danger and hardship TO
themselves. The two men who had
played subordinate but still honora
BILE part in the affair received each
silver watch from Mr.. Brassey, NJ. P.