Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-05
FOREIGN NOTES.

the seven months ending July 31st war
260, 285 as compared with 284, 48O for
the corresponding months of 1882.
Mr.. GLADSTONE offered Lord Dash
wood, a liberal peer, the lord-Iieuten-
ancy Of Oxfordshire, vacant by the
death of the duke of Marlborough.
Eastwood declined on account of the
expenses connected hereWith-about
$4,000 per annum.
THE celebrated Russian journal, the
Golos, which has for some months been
suspended by order of the government,
will shortly reappear. It is said, on
good authority, that the government has
bought the paper from its proprietor,
Mr.. Kraiovski, for 400, 900 rubles.
PARIS maintains free evening schools
of two classes: O special art classes:
(2) classes for commercial instruction.
There are at present, it is stated, about
1900 students in each class of schools.
or in all about 4, 600 evening pupils out
of population of more than 1900, 900.
The sum of 83O,OO marks, subscribed
by the German nation as compliment
to the crown prince and princess on the
occasion of their silver wedding, has
now been wholly assigned by their i'm
perial higbnesses for the benefit of va
rious sanitary and benevolent institu-
tions in Germany.
Mr.. J. E. REDMOND, M. p, and his
brother, Mr.. W. Redmond, have been
delivering series of lectures in Austria
liza in aid of the Irish land league.
Their visit has not been favorably re-
celved in the colony, many halls having
been closed to them, and the press
giving very scant reports of their lee
lures.
The gaslight and coke company of
London has an annual income of e.
900, 900, holds eight hundred acres of
land, manufactures Is, ZOO, 100000 cubic
feet of gas annually at ten different sta
tions, lights so square miles of territory
through LOO miles of mains, supplies
1876, 900 private consumers and 5000
street lights and employs 5000 persons.
In the capitol at Rome two Gothic
rooms containing fine frescoes of the
Umbrian School toward the end of the
fifteenth century have been discovered.
An inscription indicates the painter to
have been Pietro Spagnolo di Micciliel-
Spagna, whom Vasari mentions asa pu-
pill of Perugino, and as envied even by
Raphael.
PROF. SAYoE, of Oxford, writes that
if the Shaphira fragments are genuine,
they must belong to the Moabite, not
Jewish, Deuteronomy. He maintains
that it is absurd to suppose that sheep
skin can have lasted three thousand
years even if asphalted. Two pieces of
the manuscript are shown under glass at
the british Museum. The attraction has
drawn crowds of visitors.
The Royal Aquarium at London has
just received baby whale, captured off
the st. Lawrence estuary. The baby
measures fifteen feet, weighs nearly five
hundred pounds, and, as it disported it.
self in the water on Saturday, il appeared
lively and interesting specimen of its
kind. 1t is one of six captured off
the st. Lawrence estuary, and alone sur
vived the transit to London.
THE German crown prince has sent a
splendid Bible to a new church on the
island of Rugen, with his autograph and
the text, "rhe letter killeth, but the
spirit giveth life, written by him under
meath. The crown princess wrote on
another page: Understandest thou
what thou readest % The large section
of rigidly orthodox church people are
by no means pleased with the matter.
The Paris police, as reconstitute by
the budget of the prefecture for next
year, is to include 6. 800 constables, 700
corporals, 100 sergeants, SO officers, 25
chief inspectors, "a clerks, 5 divisional
inspectors, and Is doctors. The expen-
diture upon the service will be II, 49,
$50 francs, Of which the state provides
1888, 1925 francs, the remaining sum be-
ing left to the charge of the municipal
ity.
IMMEDIATELY after the escape of the
emperor of Germany from assassination
in 1876, the citizens of Berlin raised the
sum of liz, 800 marks to erect memoir
al of the event in the Potsdamer platz. The
committee have now altered their plans,
and intend to make the memorial COM
memorative of the coincidence by which
four generations of the house of Hohen-
zoller are at present alive, and the sue
cession thus secured In the present for
long time to come. Accordingly, the
four sides of the obelisk will be adorned
with portraits in relief of the emperor,
the crown prince, Prince William, and
the infant Prince Frederick William.
LoBD DUFFERN is making efforts for
the preservation OF the monuments of
Cairo. There are now in that city 315
large mosques, 191 ehspels, 294 sacred
tombs, 200 sebils or fountains, 80
mosque schools, and Is hospices. There
are beside, in the extra mural cemete-
rie8 of Kat Bey and the Krrafeh, the
tombs of the ealiphs and of the Name
lakes, tracing the purest forms of Arab
art from It's earliest phase under Ibn Tu-
lun in the ninth century of our era
through the characteristic epochs of the
Fatamite caliphs and Of Saladin to the
golden age of the Mameluke sultans and
the prince of Calrene builders, Kat Bey,
IN the fifteenth century.
THE emperor of Austria has been
making a ceremonial progress through
his dominions. He went through some
strange experiences at Gratz. He drank
without wincing the Syrian wine, which
most people compare to vinegar, and ac-
Quilted himself well over the beer of the