Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-04
ACROSS THE SEA.
PARIS contains 80, 900 Jews.
VENICE is built on II islands.


1T costs over $780, 900 year for the
repairs at ST. Peters, Rome
ACCORDING to astrologers 1881 is to be
year OF dire events in Europe.
AT dinner parties in Japan it IS COM
mon to have five courses of soup.
The recent prosecution of Ritua}ists
cost the English government $21 ,OOO
The present car is the first since Peter
the Great who has not married German
wife.
The Ceylon Observer says that in the
island 35. 900 acres are planted in Gin
chona and 10000 acres in tea.
The shah has sent sword valued at
1000 to the car, and magnificent
turquoise ring to the czarina.
T1MBUcToo is very fine city with sew
eral mosques, and walls, the circuit of
which cannot be made in less than an
hour, at the southern end of the Sahara.
THE streets of Cairo are to have their
names inscribed in Arabic and French
and the houses numbered. It will be
the first Mussulman town with such in
dications.
The graceful testimonial presented by
the pensioners OF parish near Moi
fatt, Scotland, to their pastor as a mark
OF respect when he resigned, was plot
in the parish churchyard.
HEINE's grave at Montmartre is de-
scrlbed as being In the most forlorn state.
The weather worn and leafiess remains of
laurel wreath are all the decorations it
possesses.
THERE is central Germany remarka-
BILE collection of enormous loose rocks.
which form, in fact, ruined, decayed
mountain. The whole affair is called
"The mountain in ruins
On the great battle-felds of Lom-
hardy there are upwards of twenty
houses reserved as having been the
headquarters of the great Napoleon dur
ing his campaign with the Austrians.
The deepest coal pit in England is the
Ashton Moss, $3.50 feet Six weeks ago,
just six years after the ground was first
broken, the workers on the mine touched
seam of coal 2, 584 feet from the sur
face.
A BERLIN pipe manufacturer recently
presented Bismarck with superb meer-.
schaum pipe, bearing the princes arms.
The latter returned it with note from
his secretary, saying that when he want
ed a pipe he could afford to buy one.
MURRAY, the London bookseller, made
$40, 900 year out of a cook book, while
on Disrael's Endymion the publishers
lost more money. A good cook book
will bring more money than the best Of
novels or scientific works, for thestomach
rules the brain.
The acclimatization of the ibex in
Switzerland is so far a success. The
herd which was turned out some time
ago in the Grisons is reported to have
got through the winter without damage,
and as being at present in an excellent
state of health.
The emperor of Austria, who has
previously given 100, francs to the
Catholic churches of Jerusalem, has
given the Sanctuary of Nazareth mag
nifcent Gothic altar and beautiful
statue of our lady of the rosary in mar
BILE of Carrara, besides gift of IA 600
forms.
The longest span of telegraph wire in
the world is stretched across the Kistnah
river from hill to hill, each hill being
1900 feet high, between Bezorah and
Sectanagrum, in India. The span is
little over 5000 feet in length. The only
mechanical continuance used in stretch
ing this cable across the river was a COM
mon windlass.
GEORGE BRINE, known as the king Of
English tramps, has just died in the
Union at SherbOrne, Dorsetshire, where
he has been an inmate for ten years.
He boosted that he had been in every
jail and workhouse in England He had
been in prison more than one hundred
times, but had never been convicted of
felony or larceny.
ALEXANDER LII. has promoted to a
captaincy the young lieutenant who
wrapped his own mantle around the
wounded czar just after the explosion.
It was in this mantle that the murdered
man was taken to Winter palace. ST
have bought you new cloak" said the
young car to the soldier 81 shall
keep the other" He also gave the
youth present of 1000 roubles.
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD, the Canadian
pI0uIleI, 10 w years VI age, WebS duHu1GSu
to the bar at the age of 20, and has
represented Kingston in parliament 81
years. He has been the Conservative
leader many years, and has been held in
high respect at home and abroad. His
poor health is the cause of much solici-
tude to his personal and political friends,
and it is probable that he will soon be
compelled to resign the leadership of his
party, even if he does not retire to private
life.
The new emperor of Russia has pas
sion for economy. AS czarewitch he
looked after every penny, and in his pal
acc there was neither waste nor extrava-
gance. He groaned over the very lavish
generosity Of his father to the very
questionable gang, who had only to make
debts for their imperial master to pay
them. One thing at least is certain, that
the emperor will wage war of extermi-
nation against peculators, and will not