Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-12-13
Foreign Waits.

oJ OUAlC III
In a New Guinea province it is
against the law to be in hurry.
MYERS, the American circus man, has
paid his creditors, aud is about to open
the show in Paris again.
WOLVES In France destroyed last wear
over 100000 francs worth of animals.
chiefly sheep.
THE misery in Belgrade is said to be
Terrible. Hundreds of people are on
the verge of starvation.
The new forts around Paris are
almost completed, and will be occ,7nied
by the troops at the end of the wear.
A DAUGHTER Of Ambrose Thomas
the composer, has just married M. De.
VERA, OF the French Legation in China.
IT is announced from Lisbon that a.
Portuguese scientific expedition is to be
sent to Africa. ~ ~
THREE thousand children in Janan
are receiving instruction in the Eng
lish language.
BRAZIL furnishes the United States
with thirty-six million pounds of tobac.
co per annum.
A MONUMENT has just been erected to
Won Moltke at his birthplace, Parchim.
in Mecklenburg.
A. BURNING barn in Germany 81
warmed up an orchard that the trees
bore new leaves and blossoms.
The expenses incurred in the trans
port of the monster 8l.ton pm from,
Woolwich to Shoeburynes amounted to
over $1,000.
A GREAT sale of autographs is soon to
take place in Paris, and includes Ma
poleon's, Louis Kill, XIV, and XIV.
Robespierre and Voltaire.
HEAVY snow storms have already
fallen in some parts of England and
Scotland. The storms have been &C
companled by strong and cold winds.
A FRENCH chemist has discovered an
ingenious method Of compelling the
tree to color itself, by absorbing certain
coloring substances.
The Royal Literary Society, of Lon
don, has given G1OO to the widow of
the late Mr.. George Smith, who is said
to be in very reduced circumstances.
The Court Theatre, Dresden, COM
menced four years ago, is to be opened
early next year. It is the finest in Ger
many, and has $500 seating capacity.
In Paris they had a panic at the
Chatelet Theatre, caused by a pro-
gramme falling from the gallery on the
gas lights.
In Paris they have Frenchman who
I roposes to reach the north pole by
balloon. He proposes to start when
ne can find any one to accompany
him.
WAGNER's Bayreuth opera house is
to be altered, prior to the next per-
Torrance In March. An English CAP
1tallst is said to have provided the
money, but his name is mysteriously
withheld.
IsHE Archbishop of Canterbury says
that IN the last forty years ESQ, 0OO. 600
has been spent by members of the
church OF England In the restoration of
old churches and on the building of
new ones.
HE Empress of Japan lately opened
the Normal School for Girls, in TOXIC.
with an address. The eagerness for
education is spreading. New schools
are opening, and individuals are making
educational endowments.
HE Russian governm ent proposes to
make the payment of duty on import
ed goods obligatory in specie instead
OF IN paper currency. AS Russian pa
per money is at present quoted, the
change amounts TO an increase of duty
TO the extent of rs per cent.
A NOVEL attempt at suicide is report
ed from Delphi, Ind. One Greiss, q
hard drinker, purchased ten cents
worth of powder, filed his mouth with,
powder, and touched it off with a light
ed coal. His mouth and face were
terrible burned, but it is thought he
will recover.
IT is not probable that the Byron me
mortal In England will be completed
very soon. The committee have ex-
amined all the models sent in by the
competitors, and have agreed that none
of the designs fulfill the conditions in
view. Six of the artists are to be in
vited to compete again.
BERTHoLD AUERBACH, the German
novelist, is Jew, about "a years old.
He is short and rather ponderous, has
a close-cropped grey beard, and face
of the thoroughly Hebrew type. He
is witty, tells good stories, and has the
art of amusing the titled society which
be seeks. His manner, which is
somewhat breezy and unreserved, has
gained for him the title Of sThe "
rolese of the SALON." = sa
MATTHEW ARNOLD makes a striking
He is an inch or two over
six feet in height, broad shouldered,
and large jointed. His
head is fine, his eyes are large and gray
in color, and his thick side-whiskers
and his hair are brown. There is, in
fact, little of the pure Saxon about
him; his physique is rather that of the
Anglo Norman. ot 81
The returns recently issued for 1874
show that SO Of the 526,632 persons
whose deaths were registered in Eng
land in that year were stated to be 100
years old or upward. These gentleman
lans comprised Is men and SO women:
and the Oldest were six widows. de-
scribed as being 1O4 years old Of tho