Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06
Foreign Notes.

IA MAN LII IOuoOH WanGS TO be paid to
disclose plan which will insure the
absolute freedom of that city from fog.
RETURNS from local registrars in Eng
land show that nearly 100 children have
been named Roger Tichborne.
The commission for the statue of
Jeanne dare, to be erected on the Place
dc R1voh, In Paris, has been given by
the french Government to NJ. Fremyet.
A BANDMAsTER in the English army
tor a period Of 40 years, has just retired,
and has been awarded the munifcent
pension OF ten cents day, the highest
sum the law allows. Surely, a service
OF nearly half century deserves bet
ter reward
AS soon as the ceremony of inaugu-
rating King Kalakua was concluded. we
are told that "the audience gave three
cheers for their Sovereign, which the
crowd IN the street took up and repeat
ed, while the guns at Punchbowl Bat
terry doomed forth the first royal salute
to King Kalakua and his royal stand
ard.
NJ. GAIIAIT, the painter, at recent
meeting Of the Glass of Fine Arts of the
Belgian Academy. proposed that the
class should join it's efforts to those
made elsewhere in order that Rubens'
pictures at the Cathedral of Antwerp
may be rescued from the deterioration
to which they are exposed there. and
the deplorable speculation which pre-
vents the public from seeing them.
The Gar has signalized his daughters
| marriage by acts Of amnesty to political
offenders. The property of the cele-
brated publicist, Alexander Herzen.
whose children could never obtain per-
mission to return to their native coun-
try, IS now to be given up to his brother,
the only surviving member of the family.
Herzen died in 1870, and the estate has
been under sequestration for twenty
years.
HE need Of some capable satirist
like Charles Lamb, Jerrold or Thack-
cry, says M. D. Conway in a recent
Letter, was never SO keenly felt as when
the London papers announced the fol-
lowing: eve are informed that Her
Majesty the Queen has been graciously
pleased to direct that the state umbrella
of the King of Ashantee shall be exhib-
tied IN the South Kensington Museum.
It is hoped that some of the interesting
gold work from Ashantee may also find
It's way to the museum"
q IT is the fate of kings" says an old
writer, to look from the windows of
their halls or feasting upon the sepul-
cheers prepared for them" The vicissi-
tudes Of French royalty have more than
once belied the force of the remark.
The ashes of Louis Philippe have not
yet been deposited at Dreux all that is
mortal of Charles x. moulders in the
crypt Of a monastery in Austria nor
are the remains of Napoleon Ill. as yet
sheltered either by the golden dome of
the lnvaliGes or the groined roof-tree of
St. Denis.
The chief point made by Sir Samua1
Baker, in his recentlecture at the Rove,
Institution, upon ''The Suppression Of
the Slave Trade of the White Nilel''
was that the battle between the cause
Of slavery and that of freedom is in
reality contest between Mohammed-
tian nations were, he said, Unanimous
in their verdict of guilty against the in
stitution of slavery, whereas the Mo-
hammedans could only be trusted to
put it down under the influence of out
side pressure
A REMARKABLE feature of the recent
demonstration at Chiselhurst was the
great strength in which the French
working classes were represented, most
of the principle towns sending deputa-
tions from the chief industries of their
district. Of these Populations the
most noteworthy was that of the Paris
ian Seltzer water manufacturers, which
numbered eighty men, several of them
old soldiers Of the second empire. The
Populations were each received sepa-
rately, and every single member of
them was introduced by name and
shook hands with the Prince.
A WILL which is sure to excite great
interest in Paris, says the Steele, els
that of Nine. Lenoir-J ousseran, wild
ow who died on Wednesday last at her
house in the Rue Caumartin. By her
testament, in due form, she gives to the
poor of the capital sum of ten million
francs, which will be devoted to the
creation of large hospital in the sub
urbs. Her husband, at his death, left
her magnificent collection of minia-
lures, boubonnieres, snuff boxes and
other most rare and valuable objects,
estimated to be worth more than $780,
600 francs. In accordance with his
wish, the deceased lady has bequeathed
them to the State
AT Bclogne, during the reception of
Queen Victoria, someyears ago, num-
Der of English ladies, in their anxiety
to see everything, pressed with such
force against the soldiers who were
keeping the line, that the latter we're
forced to give way, and generally were
to use the expression Of policemen
"hindered in the execution of their
duty" The officer in command, OBJ
serving the state of affairs, called out,
Zone roll of the drum-if they don't
keep back, kiss them ALL" After the
first sound of the drum the ladies took
to flight. I" If they had been French"
said Partisan journal, ''they would
have remained to a woman"
Crime in RaIrium