Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-07-21
Foreign Notes.

FOrelgn NOTeS.
ABOUT 100000 women are engaged in
the production of laces In the depart
ment of Calvados Auvergne, France.
Flax, silk, gold and silver wire are the
materials. That made from flax is the
most valuable.
The new Governorof Smyrna has Or
dered the Chief of Smyrna custom
house to exclude from the province all
Protestant books translated into the
Turkish language and published in
England.
Ir is authoritatively stated that the
Carlists now muster $4,000 good SOL
diers, without reckoning 10000 Or
| $4,000 men not up to the mark in point
OF quality, but who swell their num-
! bers.
1t is stated that the cost of the visi
| OF the Prince of Wales to India will be
betrayed by the British Admiralty, and
not by the Indian Government, as had
been reported.
The German government has charged
it's ambassador in London, Count de
Munster, to present it's thanks officially
to that of the Queen for the friendly
offer cf intervention in the late crisis.
SEVERAL accessions are reported as
having been made from the Irish
Church in consequence Of the recent al
terations in the Athanasian Greed.
Among the more important is Lord Gre
vile, an old life guardsman, and rela
tive of the late very Protestant Marquis
Westmeath.
| s'GooD NEWS" says the Paris Consti-
tutionnel, sis being received from all
the wine growing districts. There is
but onecry of JOY and admiration in
the vineyards at the magnificent ap-
pearance of the vines. Since 1910 such
promises of abundance had not been
SEEN"
A SERIES of interesting experiments,
instituted by the Government, have
lately been made in England to test the
merits of the different kinds of continu-
Gus railway brakes. The ordinary
brake was found capable of stopping a
train, which was running at forty-fve
miles an hour, in something less than
minute.
The acclimatization of trout in Tas-
mania is certified by an official report,
which states that in 1874 total distri.
button of 1850 trout ova was made
from the rivers Of that country to the
neighboring colonies; 800 OF these oya
were sea trout, and the rest brown
trout.
A NEW National Training School of
| Music has been opened at South Ken
sington, London, toward the end of the
year. This school which is under the
patronage of the Prince Of Wales and
the Duke of Edinburgh, has already re-
|, ceived gifts of building and a scholar
, ship, and will offer instruction to about
three hundred students.
In the official German account Of the
late war the charge brought against the
Bavarian troops of having butchered
sne lnnaoi lsnsIes Esq., and nd Which at the
time was denied, is fully admitted to be
true. 1t was done on the principle
sought to be established as rule of
war at the Brussels Conference.
THE Belgian parliament has enacted
that "the proposition to under take an
attempt to the injury of another, and
the menace of such an attempt shall
expose the person making it to severe
penalty" This refers to Duchesne's
proposition in regard to Bismarck,
which could not be punished under the
Belgian law, and SO led to represents
tons from Germany that the laws
should be amended in this respect
THE necessity of utilizing large rivers
for maritime navigation is becoming one
of the questions Of the day in France
The Municipal Councils Of Lyons and
Marseilles are considering the means of
connecting Marseilles with the Rhone
by canal practicable for shipping;
while the Municipal Council of Paris
have appointed commission to devise
means to render the Seine navigable
from Rouen to Paris.
SEVERAL of the Paris journals state
that Chinese junk will shortly arrive
in Paris. This vessel belongs to Chi
naman of high station, educated In
France, and who, on returning to his
country, caused it to be constructed
with Improvements suggested by his
stay in Europe The officers of the
ship are European, but the crew are
Chinese. It is expected to remain four
or five months.
/ ROCHESTER, OAldEOhAh LIDS UCCA IT,
opened after the restoration of the in
terror. The groundwork of the choir
is of ornamental thing the Bishops
throne and the communion table are of
carved oak, and the reredos is of Caen
stone, and is splendid piece of work
manship. There are seats for the COR
poration and minor canons, above which
is an ornamental painting, the same as
that discovered to have been there in
the early days. Above this are shields
bearing the crests of the Bishops of
Rochester Cathedral, from Ralph
De Turbin, in the year lila, down to
the present Bishop. The work of resto-
ration has already occupied over two
years. and many pieces of ancient cary
ing, both in stone and wood, have been
found.
Dimensions of Ocean Waves.
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