Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-17
FOREIGN WAITS.

FOREIGN WAITS.
ONE-FIFTH of Norway is timber land.
HARD times in Berlin have led to dog
stealing and dog eating by the hungry
poor.
SIR ROWLAND HILL, the postal re-
former, is to have colossal statue. The
subscriptions already amount to 81, 500.
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent to Major
Chard valuable diamond ring as mark
of her appreciation of his heroic conduct
at Rorke's Drift.
The British National Lifeboat Insti-
tuition has 800 boats, and spends about
S2OO,OOO Annually in rescuing, on an
average, 1000 lives.
IT is estimated that there 10, 900 well
educated young men in Paris, who. who,
for want of more lucrative employment.
accept franc per day as copyists.
A YEAR and half ago a mission for
lepers was established in North India by
a missionary # the church of Scotland.
1t has now three asylums with eighty
inmates.
THERE is not Turkish family, rich
or even in easy circumstances, which
has not certain number of women and
children in bondage. There are black
slaves and white.
A sCYTHE which Prince Bismarck
once took from the hands of peasant
in meadow and swung with vigor for a
kalf hour, was purchased by the histor-
ical museum Of Berlin for $500.
BELoIANs are still protesting against
the eternal ringing Of convent bells. In
some cases the municipal authorities
have taken PIP the question and gone to
law against the converts with success.
| In January next Whites famous and
historical club in London will enter up
On the 150th year of its existence. It
is the oldest club in the world, and in
teresting volumes could be written on
its history.
A MARQUIS advertises in Paris paper
that he will give small private mansion
in the quarter of the Champs Elysees to
any person who will enable him to marry
person of good fortune. He says he is
IS years old, and worth 1000, 900 francs.
The Queens Bench prison, where so
many eminent men have been confined,
| ohO WAlCu Las UCCu AuduC 1dLAOuo Wy
Dickens and other authors, has been
handed over for destruction, and ia the
course of few weeks nothing will re-
main of the late pile but its interesting
"reminiscences.
The Astronomical Observatory en-
Mount Etna is almost compile ted, but
the large quantity of snow which has
already fallen will prevent the movable
iron cupola and the telescope from being
fixed till next summer. The total cost,
including second building. capable of
sheltering twenty persons, will be about
e2,500. It is about 5000 feet above the
level Of the sea.
CAPT. MARTINI was recently intrusted
for King MeDelik, of Shon. The mon
arch being always friendly to mission.
aries and never eating them was desig-
mated to be the wearer of papal coronet,
and the explorer was to take it. I'm
happily the bearer fell among thieves,
who not only took the diadem, but the
accompanying papal brief, leaving Capt.
Martini to explain the incident as best
he can.
| Mr.. Power, q successful English
breeder of peasants, has just suffered
loss under somewhat singular circum-
stances. During gale one OF the hur-
dies around the pleasantly was blown
down and an old vixen fox and her cubs
getting entrance commenced the work
of destruction. In the early morning
120 two year-old birds were found dead.
Mr.. Power estimates his loss at G20O,
some of the birds being worth two
guineas each.
The American horses in England are
preparing for 8 still more vigorous CAM
paign next year than they waged the
present, having received large re- enforce
ments. Fot the two thousand guineas
race which occurs at the Newmarket
first spring meeting, 1880, besides Mr..
Lorillard's seven entries, which sound
like an Indian nvasion-1roquois, Paw
Paw, Santee, Merimac, Wyandotte,
Passaic and Dakota-Mr. j. r Keene,
has four entries, and Mr.. Sanford has
two. Out of this bakers dozan there.
should be some American starters.
NEW ZEALAND has for some time suf-
fered from an over-supply of rabbits,
which have eaten up the growing crops.
with comparative immunity. But g.
short way with the depredators has at
last been happily discovered. By the
aid of an ingenious machine caTbonic
oxide gas is introduced into the burrows,
after all the holes have been carefully
stopped. The rabbits are soon in the
condition of the Arabs whom the French
smoked in their caves. In few minutes
great hubbub is heard inside, but this
quickly subsidies. The burrow is dug
open after a short time, when the dead
bodies of the rabbits are found huddled
together in corner.
Who Will Get the Cottonp