Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-20
FOREIGN NOTES.

"THE English eat half their words.
If initiate them I shall get fat" says
Sarah Bernhardt.
GUESTS at recent royal banquet at
Copenhagen, drank vin aigre of the vint-
age OF 1895. It required a trife of
sugar.
In North Stafordshire 3,4OO GOLFERS
have already struck against a proposed
reduction Of wages which affects II, 900
persons.
SINCE July, 1878, no gold has been
coined at the London mint. This is due
to contraction of trade and influx of
gold from Australia.
A MAN in London was recently sent to
prison for three months under the
vagrant act, for swindling an American
by the three-card monte trick.
A sTUPENDOUs project is on foot in
Paris, it being nothing less than the
bridging of the English channel. The
channel is 81 miles wide at it's narrowest
point.
The exposition buildings on the
Champs de Mars will be removed this
month and the field turned over to the
minister of war for it's old use as a drill
ground.
A RUSSIAN physician, M. Malarevsky,
struck by the prevalence of shortsighted.
ness among literary men, proposes that
books should be printed in white ink on
black paper, and he has made expert.
ments with fifty persons which tend to
confirm his view.
CETYwAYO begged Lord Chelmsford
to spare two kraals from the flames, on
the march to Ulundi. In one several OF
the savage's ancestors were buried, and
in the other the aged widow of Chaka
the founder of the ruling dynasty, once
lived. The kraals were burned to the
ground.
HE hand cars for passengers in the
Paris sewers are neatly made and fur
nished with cane seats. The line roll
directly over the sewers. The air is de-
scribed as averaging good stron
SMELL" Male excursionists smoke an
feminines snuff perfumed handkerchiefs.
No one has yet been known to want tc
make tour of the sewers of New York
MADAME JUDO, who is said to be the
most beautiful woman on the French
stage, has all olive complexion and dai 9
eyes. Her face is oval and her nos
straight. She is always laughing, and
her spirits affect her acting, so that Ed
mund Yates call her big child. She
says that the English are a very serious
people, even when they 60 to see comedy
played.
The other day, in Paris, two men bet
81, 900 that their two horses, one Rus.
| cIQ h0
from the Arc de Triomphe to Monies
and return, distance of sixty miles, in.
side ofspeciGed time. The French horse
fell dead at St. German on his return,
and the Russian horse arrived alive, in
the Bots de Boulonge, having made the
distance in nine hours, but when he
reached his stable he also died.
CHINESE diamonds are found chiefly
in the province of Shantung, where they
are collected in rather peculiar fashion.
The diamond-hunters put on thick shoes
OF straw, and then simply roam about
the valley and the rivers. The rough
and pointed gems penetrate the straw
and stick fast. Finally, the shoes are
heaped together and burned, and the
diamonds are found in the ashes.
AZ Ine kens1ngtOn school OF needle
work in London among other things rare
and curious is set of baby-linen worked
by the fine hands of..the Princess (after-
wards Queen) Elizabeth and her ladies
for baby that never existed-the
visionary infant of Queen Mary, cele-
brated by Tennyson in the most pathetic
passage Of his drama. Among the ex.
hibits are also the bibs and bearing-bands
of Charles l., all well authenticated. A
correspondent Of the London World
moralizes on the discovery among the
lenders in this exhibition of the name of
Mrs. Attenborough, the wife of the most
famous London pawnbroker of the
period.
Honors to the Brave.
On Wednesday an interesting fight
between two geese was witnessed in q