Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-03
ACROSS THE SEA.

a Glove of garlic.
BRUSSELS has an ice house that will
hold a million tons.
In building the St. Gothard railway,
80 workmen were killed and 63l IN
iured. OF the latter a number after
ward died.
MORE than So, $50, 900 worth of ostrich
feathers are exported from South Africa.
The supply of feathers greatly depends
on the supply of food.
THEY have just found IN Rome a
statue of Abundance holding a cOrnuco-
pia in her hand. They have also had
fresh count of public beggars, and they
number 1900.
DIR. SCHLIEMAN has not not been dig
ging up old relics and letting daylight
into ancient caverns for the fun OF the
thing. He has made over 500, 600 in
the last year by sales of "fnds.
IT is said that q man named Fourtane,
who was recently arraigned before the
criminal court of the department of the
Upper Garonne, in France, has become
Insane through stimulating insanity.
LONDON Truth says that the Briton
always shuts the windows against win
ter outside and then bOils himself in
stufy room, afterward going out into
the icy yellow fog to find bronchitis.
ONE of the crimes charged against
Arab Pasha was displaying a flag of
truce to deceive the enemy. Mr..
O'Donnell recently read in the house of
commons selection from the "Sol-
dier's Handbook" in which Sir Garnet
WOlseley justifies the practice.
BIBULoUs BELGIUM leads the world III
tipping. The 5000, 900 inhabitants of
that little country annually consume
about 60,000,C00 quarts OF alcoholic
liquors. There is an average of one
public house to every twelve adult male
Belgians, and IL some parts OF the coun-
try the supply is nearly twice as great.
A COAT which formed part of the state
uniform of the late Mukaddum Jung of
Hyderabad, India, was lately sold at
vepdue for $50 rupees. The original
cost is said to have been 5000 rupees,
of which sum 1000 rupees WAS paid for
sewing alone. The coat was made of
pure silk and gorgeously decorated with
gold lace and pearls.
SMALL, light draught steamers now
run almost up to the rubber district of
the Amazon, where they are met by
canoes from above. Canoe travel is not
comfortable or safe. The river is full
of vindictive and venomous snakes, and
alligatOrs DO not hesitate to attack yOy
ayers. 1t Is said that to capsize is Ger
tam death, as there is no escape from
the crowd OF saurian and reptile.
AN inconvenience to travellers on
Egyptian railway is being "sanded up"
The sirocco piles the fine sand on the
tracks In mounds, and no amount of en-
ergy or engineering will relieve the
train until the wind dies away.
"Sanded up . is about the same as being
showed up in America, with the excep
ton that the temperature Is much more
satisfactory and the delay much longer.
WHEN Rumbert, of Italy-famed for
his admirable horsemanship = visited
Vienna, his horse, one of the best In the
imperial stables, was so utterly unman-
ageable that be had, to his great mortifi-
cation, to take his seat III a carriage. A
groom, since discharged from the en-
peTCr's service, now confesses that he,
by cruelty foggirg the horse on showing
him white plumes such as the king
wore, had been the author of the diff
Guilty.
The tide of emigration which has set
in from the mountain districts of Hun
gary for the last two years toward Amer
lea is beginning to occupy the attention
Of the Hungarian government. Many
take advantage of the nearness of the
-.
passports. In order to prevent this the
Hungarian government has requested
the Austrian authorities to refuse pas
sage to those not provided with the
proper documents, and especially of
those who have not performed their mil
ltary service.
4 VERY heavy force is employed in the
construction of the underground te!e-
graphic connection between Marsei!ies.
and Paris. 4 cast-iron pipe contains
the cable. It is laid nearly six feet be
meath the surface Of the earth. At in
tervals of $50 yards the cable passes
through chamber of cast-iron, which
is so constructed that it can be readily
inspected whenever there is any neces-
sity for that work. About every ITO
yards the pipes are connected by cast
iron boxes, which also enable the wires
to be inspected and repaired. The cost
in all is about S., 100000.
THE Vienese smokers are in a great
state of excitement about the govern
ment cigars Britannia brand, three
cents apiecs-which, having a small
piece of dynamite placed inside them,
occasionally explode. Two persons have
already died in consequence of the
wounds received, and only a few days
ago a police surgeon-Dr. Fink, of Hit
zIng-was severely hurt in the face by
such an explosion. The governmenthas
ordered some hundreds of thousands of
this particular brand of cigars to be de-
stroyed, and is at It's wits end to know
VINO it is that is making Viennasmokers
so uncomfortable.
T1r lhonv IN Y \ ArOuS observes.