Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.

A NUGGET of gold weighing forty-four
pounds was found iD the Ural district,
Russia, not long ago, the largest lump
ever found in Russia.
The khedive's palace. a lofty. two
STORED building, at Ismailia, makes an
excellent hospital. Had it been built
for the purpose it could not have done
better.
AN English diamond merchant is re-
ported to have offered 9400, 900 for the
regent diamond, now the property of
the French republic. It was bought $50
years ago from an Englishman for
9125, 900.
SUCH an lhclement September as that
OF this year was hardly ever before
known IN Switzerland. The mountains
ali round Lake Leman and the Lake of
the Four Cantons were white with snow
by the middle of the month.
The colossal statue of Lord Beacons-
field, which is to be set up in Parliament
Square, London, this winter, will repre-
sent the deceased statesman at that
period of his career when he returned
triumphant from the congress at Berlin.
DURING the season of picking large
numbers of sick people go to the hop
fields OF England, and remain in them
till the close of the harvest. It is pop
ular belief that they are benefited by
the door Of the leaves and blossoms.
The pedestal of Gladstone's statue at
Bow will bear the inscription: GA great
leader, whose gigantic intellect seemed
beyond comprehension man whose
marvellous eloduence had astonished the
civilized world.
The ex-Empress Eugenie has commits
stoned Canon, the Vienna artist, to paint
a portrait of her son, and has sent to
him for use In so doing the uniform worn
by the late prince during his Zululand
campaign.
1t would seem as if the warlike ardor
concerning Egypt which at present pre-
walls in England had given some OF the
cockneys artillery on the brain. A
young man, the other day, actually fired
a cannon on the streets Of London, and
wounded young woman who was pass
ing.
a FRENCH doctor who said that coffee
drinking led to heart disease has been
sued for damages by wholesale dealer
in Paris. He will probably have to
prove what he asserted or pay damages.
At any rate there will be no difficulty in
getting plenty of doctors to give evidence
on both sides.
No part of England has groaned more
heavily under progress end Improvement
of late years than that near the banks of
the Thames. Quaint villages which have
been the delight OF artists and other low
ers OF rural life, are fast disappearing.
Inns have grown into hotels, villages in
to towns.
A SON of a well-knoWn Bucharest
banker, Mr.. Rosenthal, blew tbs brains
out because he had the misfortune to
lose 9800, IN CARRYING it to be forwarded
to customer of his father. F0ar DAYS
after the fuperal his mother found the
package inside the lining of the young
mans overcoat.
A GERMAN newspaper, the Franklin
ter Zeitung, has estimated the value of
the houses knocked over at Al xandria
by Sir BeaUchamp Seymour's big guns
chandise destroyed at 80, 600, 900. and
the losses of refugees at 1900, 900.
There is little bill Of about $24, 600, 900
d government
Will be called upon 10 pay.
The London Standard had a circula-
ton during the last three months of
$4,000 daily, owing TO its cable dis
patches about the Egyptian war. which
were the best sent. The other London
dailies did not do SO well, and their own
ers are said to be mad because Gen.
Wolseley finished up the war so soon.
The London Times Is charged with hay
ing al its Egyptian specials written in
It's office by an experienced military man.
The Suez canal is thus described by
the author Of sc A Strange Journey" " A
great cleaning plain spread out on
either hand, and IN the brilliant yet
misty morning light It " as impossible to
tell sand from water. The sky was in
tensely blue and quite cloudless. Every
thing was perfectly still, and the ship
glided on with a scarcely perceptible
movement, and the only other token of
life to be seen was long line OF hamin-
goes on the wing, alternately dark and
silver against the sky"
FROM paper read before the Royal
Society of Tasmania, by the Rev. J. e.
Tension Wood, 1t appears that the sweet
brlar has become rampant and fOrmld-
able weed, and so have the cochineal
cactus and one or two of its kindred de-
veloped into similar nuisances in Aus
tralia and Tasmania. The European
furze has also grown very abundant Id
Tasmania, but as yet it does not flourish
on the mainland of Australia. The
American butterfly, Danais erippus,
occurs all over Australia and has been
seen far out at sea in enormous flights.
LATE reports from England still agree
that the hop crop in that countryIis one of
the worst that has been known in many
years, and that the supply of old stock
on hand is short. Leading merchants
place the yield at from 970, 1000 to $780,
900, old duty, while one of them goes so
low as $50, 900. Continental planta-
tions, except those of Alost, in Belgium,
promised more abundant returns. To
make good the deficiency dealers look to
America and California as the Lon
don correspondent of a Manchester paper
says.