Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-06
FOREIGN NOTES.

In India, Ceylon and Burmah there
are over 500, 1000 native Christians. and
OF these over 200,0 have been added
during the last ten years.
THERE are over ZOO savings institu-
lions In Italy, and the total deposits show
that the people are saving at the rate of
about $50, 100000 year. There are
now on deposit almost 1900, 900 books.
1t has been said that on founding
colony, the first thing Spaniard does
is to build gallows, a Portuguese to
Pulldla church, an Englishman drink
ing oooth, and Frenchman a dancing
floor.
Mr.. GLADSTONE draws 1929 a year
from LAND; Lord Harrington, 96, coo
year; Mr.. Dodson, G3, 1853; Lord Spen-
Ger, 942,219; Lord Kimberly, 924, 1993;
Lord Northbrook, Ell, 600, and Lord
Derby, 917O, 800.
AMONG the Berricors Of France the
traditional form of obtaining wife by
capture is still preserved. The brides
house is barricaded on the wedding day,
and the bridegroom is only admitted
after long parley.
AMONG the many curious and memoir
able clubs of London, one of the Oldest
is that OF the Eccentrics, which has had
ABOUT 4O, OOO members since it's founda-
ton. Sheridan, Lord Melbourne.
Brougham and Fox belonged to it.
EVEN some savages are polite. An
English officer dining with a cannibal
king was asked what religious denomi-
nation he affiliated with, as it might be
more agreeable to him to have the mis-
sionary about to be served of another
faith.
A FRENCHMAN has recently gone deep
ly down into statistics in regard to
matches. His figures show that an Eng
] lishman burns eight matches a day, a
Swede nine, a German, eleven, and
Frenchman fifteen. The number of
matches consumed in Europe every
year amounts to 1900, OOO,OOO. Nobody
is likely to dispute these figures.
THERE are in the four universities of
SYSTEMATICALLY, Berne, Geneva and
Zurich-a total of 543 medical students,
of which 81 are women. The largest
class is at Zurich, where the number is
$50. At Berne the number is 164.
There are women medical students at
all the universities except Basic. At
Berne there are 26, at Zurich II, and at
Geneva s.
The Belgian Annuaire, just out, shows
that the Belgian population was on De
cember 81, 1881, 1855, 846. In 1880
Belgium had 1, $40 converts for women
and 218 for men, containing altogether
25, 1862 persons. In 1916 there were but
789; in 1856, 993. The number has
steadily increased. The most conven-
tual province is East Flanders, which
has 6,U66 people in converts; the Least
so Luxembourg, with ATT.
A CURIOUS exhibition has lately been
on view in the north of London. It
sisted of an array Of cigar ends collected
during seven years peregrinations up
and down the metropolitan thorough
fares. The enterprising collector reck-
ors that IN this time ne has travelled
nearly $4,000 miles on foot, and be has
picked up 600, 900 pieces of cigars averag-
ing an inch and half each. He is said
to have valued his stock, thus literally
composed of odds and endse at 81, 800
The following advertisement recently
appeared IN London newspaper: GA
widow would be glad to hear of school
master of the old school, IN London,
who would undertake to punish her son,
| boy of II, who, though docile, is ex-
cessively idle and careless. and she would
III return be willing to offer any reason
able compensation. Address, stating
terms and when the boy may be sent to
him, -" The Echo remarks that the
widow omitted the most important par
ticular, namely, the height and fighting
weight of her refractory offspring.
GERMANY has twenty universities, Ber-
lin with 5000 studentsy Leipzig with
5000, Munich with 1000, and the others
with from /. 500 to 25O- a. total Of %. 500
students. It has 1856 gynlnasla or high
schools, 1876 real or commercial high
schools, 3l8 ether upper schools, IS, 900
common schools, ten scientific high
schools, seven AIT schools and twenty
tour industrial schools. and attendance
on schools Is compulsory for all from 6
to IA years old. OF the recruits for the
army only 1. 81 per cent. could not read
or write.
WHEN>a Ma9ololo suspects his wives
he places a stone In a jar of boiling
water or oil and orders them to fetch it
out with their bare arms. Hethen iu8 ges
of their guilt by the amount of injury
they sustain. When woman is thus
convicted he makes her confess who Sc
creature protest that she is innocent.
Notwithstanding that her arm is severe
ly scalded, she Is subjected to the most
cruel torture by a kind of thumbscrew
(at'abani1o), which is applied to her head.
A small tree is partly divided aloag the
middle, the skull of the poor woman is
inserted as if it were a wedge for split
! ting the tree still further. Great pres
sure is exerted by forcing the halves of
the tree together, with the aid of pulleys.,
The baronetey conferred on DR.. T.
Spencer Wells brings the number of
such titles conferred on members of the
medical profession up to over twenty.
George III. bestowed ba1Onetcies on Sir
Richard Jebb, Sir Everard Home and
Sir Henry Halford; George ". on Sir
M. Tiernay and Sir Walter Farquhar;
William ". on Sir Benjamin Brodie
and Sir Charles Mansfield Clark. The
following is an Approximately complete
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