Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-28
ECHOES FROM ABROAD,

SIXTY years ago land now wanted for
park in London sold for $50 an acre.
1t is now valued at 81 500 an acre.
The huge black letters daubed upon
the great pyramid of Egypt, advertising
an American nostrum, are to be removed.
A LARGE boa in the geological gardens
IN London swallowed {. blanket, and dis
gorged it in thirty three days.
The Shah of Persia pays his barber
So, 600 per year, and shaves only once a
month.
COLONEL MosBY writes from Hong
Kong that American dentists are badly
needed In China.
In ap English parish register can be
found the names of twins baptized there
200 years ago as 'Jeru" and "Salem."
A MEDICAL journal states that in the
city of London there are twenty physi-
clans of reputation whose incomes range
from $26, 900 to 100000 year.
FROM animal remains it is concluded
that Great Britain was at one time con-
nected with the mainland, and the Eng
lish Channel was dry.
The shares in what is called the New
River, which largely supplies London
with water, yielded an income last year
of $12, 900 each.
The materials for building Count
Potockis mansion at the corner of the
Avenue de Friedland and the Rue de
Balzac, Paris, cost 100000 francs, and
a like sum will be spent on the internal
decorations. The stone has all been
brought from the Jura
DUTCH fishermen kill their fish as soon
as they take them from the water, pre-
venting them from dying slowly and
having their tissues softened. The
superiority of the flavor of the fish killed
by Dutchmen when compared with
those which die slowly in French mar
kets is, says M. Baule, very great.
The constant occurrence of terrible
results from employing vitriol as means
of vengeance has induced the authorities
of Paris to take steps directed to re-
stricting it's SALE Henceforth, by order
of the project of police, no vitriol is to be
sold to any one unprovided either with
physicians prescription or permission
from a police superintendent.
A FRENCH fisherman recently captured
a carp weighing seventeen pounds, but
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the monster struggling in the meshes of
his net that he almost tainted away on
the spot, and afterward did actually fall
sick, SO that he not only could not help
to eat his prize, but was denied the SUI
preme satisfaction of seeing it weighed.
A FEW weeks ago large box attracted
the attention of the traffic superintendent
at the Birsula station of the Odessa Sec
ton of the Southwest Railway. It had
been sent off from Pultawa and was adj
dressed to Odessa It was opened, and
inside was discovered the body OF an
aged Jew. Under the corpse was found
a note, on which was written in the Lit
tie Russian language: eff you Jews
will not quit the country living, we shall
send you out dead
ENERGETIC measures against the To-
Gusts are being taken in Cyrus. Up to
the end of October, $50 tons of their
eggs had been destroyed, of which 270
tons were gathered in that month alone,
and four or five months still remain for
the collection. The rewards paid have
been raised to e13 ton, and the gov
eminent, having already spent $4,000
this year on the eggs, is preparing to
expend 923, 900 as soon as the insects
are Matched in April and May on
screened enclosures and pit-traps, to be
managed by 1000 men.
The increase in the number of bodies
taken to the Paris morgue is larger each
year-one for which the increase In
population can hardly account The
average number for the period between
1880 and 1889 was 1926; between 1910
and 1649 it was 1856: between 1850 and
1859 it was 435; between 1860 and 1869
it was $50; and between 1870 and 1879
it was 675. Last year the total was 807,
and from January l to September 30 of
the present year it has been 803. The
annexation of suburban communes in
1860 in some measure accounts for the
sudden increase after that date.
A SINGULAR instance of carrying Goals
to Newcastle, is reported In an English
paper. It seems that certain Americans
determined to crafty the spirit of enter
prise and cater to popular taste by ex-
porting to England an excellent quality
of plum pudding, neatly done up In tin
boxes. But after some discussion among
the English customs authorities it has
been decided that, although English
wheat and beef can take care Of them
selves, plum pudding must be protected.
Accordingly a considerable duty has
been assessed upon the American article
in consideration of the currants and
spirit which it contains.
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