Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| HE pay of the German Generals
IN high command is said to be 81, 500
mark (about 81, 654) year, with fur
nished dwellings, fuel, and forage for
eight horses.
IHE lemonade sellers of Paris gave
their annual ball recently at the Grand
Hotel. The attendance was large. sup
per was served at 9 o'clock in the
morning, and dancing was kept up un-
til long after daylight.
The subduing effects of an effete
civilization are seen in an ADVERTISE
ment in the London News that ga
domesticated lady, % years of age"
wants a situation as governess. Now
under q republican government we
don't tame them down to that.
A RUSSIAN boy studying at a COM
mercial school in Paris suddenly dis.
appeared, and has not been seen or
heard of for nearly two months. A
letter was found in his room, in which
be complained bitterly Of the treat
ment he was subjected to by his school
fellows.
DRIED mushrooms are much es-
teemed In China, they are also largely
consumed by the Japanese, either as a
dish by themselves, Or as q condiment
with other dishes. Dried Mushrooms
1t Is said retain their favor for g. great
length of time, and thus bear trans
port to any distance very well.
BIETr, the illicit manufacturer of
mataziettee, kind Of dynamite, which
has been prohibited in France, has
been sentenced to three years impris-
onment and the payment of fine of
10000 francs. FOrty-two barrels of
his explosive products were placed in
the fort of Harmon where they blew
up all the buildings and killed ten men.
PARRY tells of an Esquimaux boy
who ate eight and half pounds of
seal meat, a pound and half of
bread, a pint and half of soup, and
drank three wine glasses of gin, tum-
bier of warm whisky and water and
five pints of water, consuming the
whole between intervals of rest in one
day.
AN extraordinary suicide recently
took place on the circular railway,
Paris. A well dressed young lady
asked at the St. Lazare station for q
ticket for Passy, but then correcting
herself, said, 81 think Batignolles will
be far enough" AS soon as the train
was in motion, she descended on the
opposite side from the platform, threw
herself under the wheels and was
crushed.
A SAB case of inconsistencies is re-
ported from France: A young soldier
in garrison at Mortelmer fell a prey to
this malady to such degree that he
excited the compassion of the officers,
who tried by indulgence and kindness
to cheer him up; but the mountains of
of this native Correze were ever before
the eyes Of the poor conscript, and one
evening he failed to answer the roll
call. His body was found on the rail-
road track, where it had been severed
from his head by q passing train.
A FINE gray Australian parrot owned
by Mr.. Feek, of the Queens hotel,
Guelph, had almost killed itself by
picking hole in it's crop and eating
the seeds which it had swallowed, over
again. DR.. Thomas, veterinary sur
geon, was sent for to see if he could
not do something to prevent the bird
destroying itself. He stitched up the
wound with silver wire and cut off q
part of the birds beak and afterwards
placed collar around his neck to pre-
vent his crop being reached or irritated
by the parrot in again attem % ting to
open the wound. Toronto Globe.
A LITTLE boy died lately at Cardiff,
IL ~, -
was filled with sympathetic friends.
Tale-telling was the amusement of the
hour. One narrative had ended, and
the father of the dead child had Just
said, 81 will tell the next story" when
loud cracking noise and creaking of
joists was heard. A spiritualist, or
walker of the old school would have had
ready explanation Of the noise, but
the true cause even more readily de-
clared itself. The floor gave way, and
and in a moment the company, the
lights, the whisky, the coffin and the
corpse fell down into the cellar be-
meath. Fortunately no one was hurt,
the corpse was removed to another
room, and nothing happened to deepen
the superstitious horror of the friends
Of the family.
PRESIDENT GUzMAN, of Venezuela,
carried his hatred of Minister Russell
SO far that he sent for the general in
command of the artillery of the Ven
ezuelan army, who was engaged to Mr..
Russelps daughter Nellie, and COM
manded him to break off the engage
ment or accept the alternative of ban
ishment and loss of his arrears of pay.
The general accepted the latter altern-
alive, and is al exile from Venezula.
He went to st. Thomas with Mrs. Rus
sell and her two eldest daughters and
was there married. Mrs. Russell and
her daughters illremain at st. Thomas
until May.