Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-28
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
nPRosY is making frightful Roadway
Sandwich Islands.

bee eC1menS OF which
command the
SO, CO0apound.
English Chan
.4eI has bees. finished to a mile and a
quarter from the French shore, and the
engineers say they can advance 1872 feet
day. at this rate the tunnel could be
completed to Dover in year and O. half.
The Naples coral harvest has been
very plentiful, although the quality is
not very high, and over l, $50, 900 pounds
have been fished up, worth about 81 900,
600. During the past year 800 vessels
and 5, 766 men were engaged In dredg-
ing from February to September off the
coasts of Sardinia. Corsica and Sicily.
off the mainland of southern Italy and
on the Barbary coast.
Il LITTLE island known as Foula, about
twenty miles west of Shetland, and con-
tanning about 800 inhabitants, has been
isolated by continuous storms from the
mainland during the whole of this year,
until the seventh of this month, when
boat managed to reach it with provis-
ions. The people were found to be In a
terrible state of restitution, and many
of them must have been starved to
death but for this neighborly succor.
AN embroidery mania has seized onthe
canton of Thurgau, in Switzerland.
Owing to therecent demand for the work,
every one IN the canton who can gather
enough money together invests In en-
broidery looms. Shepherds leave their
flocks, peasants their plows, landlords
their taverns and farm hands their horses
to adopt the one branch of trade, while
numerous companies are formed, and
every one expects to make fortune by
embroidering.
The Prince Of Wales lost his Chinese
dog, Tehow, during his stay at Cannes.
The animal was brought home by the
young princes as a present to their
father, but 1t had never thriven. Tehow
died somewhat suddenly, and was in
tered in the garden of the hotel, but
without the elaborate ceremony with
which the remains of Eros, Prince Al
bert's pet dog, were buried at Windsor,
and which caused SO much scandal to
| austere persons.
A SINGULAR alliance has been formed
in Belgium between alcohol and educa-
ton. An alnasbox for the secular schools
is a recognized feature of every place
where liquor is sold, and every customer
drops into it his sou as regularly as he
| fees his waiter. A school building cost
| ing $500, 900 has just been builtfrom the
sous thus collected. The same plan is
on trial In France, but at present with
out much success, though II. Sarcey
thinks that it has great future.
AN addition of /, 885 rooms is being
made to the 5000 already provided IN
London by the 81, 500, 900 donation fund
established by George Peabody. The
average rent of the rooms is so cents
week, or little more than 81 week for
family suite, including the use of bath
rooms, laundries, sculleries and water.
| The fund has increased to ST 900, 900,
| and In it's investment and the results eff
fected by its income must be regarded az
one of the most successful OF tne worlds
charities.
The queen is probably still in blissful
| ignorance of the fact that on her visit to
Netley last month she personally
wounded one Of her own gallant defend
ers, as IN pinning medal to the night
shirt of an invalid hero. she pinned III a
portion OF the hero with 1t. The brave
soldier, who had faced Egyptian bayo-
nets, did not finch under pin-prlck,
however, but bore it with Spartan firm
ness, for, as he afterwards remarked,
"Bless her! her words were SO gracious
that / couldn't mind 1t.
| SIR GARNET WoLsELEY is an ardent
advocate of temperance IN the army. He
says that, in his opinion, drink Is the
chief cause of disobedience, crime and
disease. In South Africa his body-guard
We're all strictly temperate men, and all
enjoyed excellent health, in spite of the
climate In Egypt, also, very little
liquor was given to the troops, although
the doctors insisted that 1t was necessary
on account of the climate; yet the gen
eraI health of the men was good, and
their behavior admirable.
LORD Butte formed a beaver island g
few years ago IN the grounds of Mount
! Stuart. near Rothesay, and it has been
a complete success, these intelligent ami
mats having multiplied so rapidly that
any country gentleman desiring to es-
tablish similar community can obtain
8 supply from Lord Butte. They eat
the bark of plane trees and Scotch frs,
and require weekly supply of fresh
willows. All the ground about the or
namental water IN which they are quar-
tered is honeycombed with tunnels lead
ing TO their habitation, which is entered
at the bottom of the water.
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