Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-03

miscellaneous Foreign Items.

FEVER exists in Rome to an extent
very unusual at this time of the year.
They notice at the Paris masked balls
more dress coats and fewer fancy cos
tunes than formerly.
A MOST entertaining autobiography is
promised by the literary executors of
Nr. Blackstone, the famous London
dramatist, actor and manager.
LIVERPOOL, England, thinks that it is
Old enough to be a city Heretofore it
has been onl town.
MANCHESTER policeman, named
GRAFTON, was ordered by the Judge of
the County Court to pay the sum Of
IA, as compensation for an assault
upon a woman whom he had dragged to
the police station on all unfounded
charge.
BY order of the Earl of Dudley, who
has taken new lease of the far-famed
Black Mount Deer Forest, and the fish
'ings connected Herewith, inclined pas
sages have been cut in the rock form
ing the Falls of the Orchy, for the free
run of salmon.
LONDON is about to follow the exam
pie of Birmingham IN providing shell
ters for cabmen. A correspondence
has been opened in the Globe upon
the subject. Towards the erection of
the first Rest y G70 has been sub
scribed.
UNDER the Church of st. Mary, at
Dover, England, and enclosed in
leaden coffin, there was recently found
a body that is puzzling English anti
quaries. They fancy it may be King
Stephen.
F'ANNE ELssLER is residing near Ham
burg, and is writing her history for
publication after her death. She is now
a devout Roman Catholic, relying as
much on the confessional as once she
did upon she excitement of the foot
lights.
AN extraordinary attempt at whole
sale poisoning was recently made at CAL
stock, IN the west of England, where
there tn is a large mandatory of arsenic
The 100 people employed in the estab-
hshment all get their water from one
tank, and somebody put pailful of
arsenic llaso it one night. The next
morning sixty persons were poisoned,
and it was only by the Immediate use of
remedies that their lives were saved.
THE blind king Of Hanover is to have
his own again if he will only bow to,
Bismarck and the empire. This comes
OF having a queen Of England for a
first cousin and the future empress of
Germany for cousin German one re.
move
The British Society of Arts recently
offered $1,000 in prizes of $3.50 each for
essays on the development of improved
means for the economic use of fuel in
private dwellings,. There were 2O4 es-
says submitted, not one of which was
deemed worthy Of O. prize, or. even of
favorable mention.
LADY WENTWORTH, wife of the son of
Lady Lovelace, Byron's Ada, is fair
won an, with brown hair, and a girlish
contour Of face. Shewas very Psyche
Of girls, and is yet SO beautiful that her
appearance IN public is signal for a.
rush.
The London Standard says; .sThe
time Is not far distant when the states
OF Prince Bismarck. as far as
Rome is concerned, will seem very
hasty and shallow when compared with
the far-slghted patience of the pupils of
Cavour"
DURING the current year no less than
1854 desertions have taken place from
the English army, and the military
prison now contains nine hundred ar
rested and condemned deserters. 1t is
so full that the authorities say no more
can be received
AT Douay man has just been tried
for violation of a sepulchre," because
he poured half q glass of gin on COM
rade's grave, having previously swal-
lowed the other half It had been long
previously agreed between them that
they should take aglass together in that