Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
FOREIGN NOTES.


FROZEN mutton is now sent to En-
gland from South America in large and
increasing consignments.
THE skulls of four elephants killed
by Sir Samuel Baker are now on exhi-
bltiOn at the South Kensington Muse
UNI, in London.
EVERY male inhabitant of Eastern
Roumelia, without distinction of ma
tionality or creed, is liable to military
service for twelve years. -
PRUssIAN soldiers have figured it
out that a prudent man can save
enough from his pay, if he serves 100
years, to enable him to live out the
rest of his days in idleness.
This autumn the usual deer-catching
in Windsor Great Park will not take
place. There are no deer to spare in
the royal herd, which is at present
smaller than it has been for several
years past.
THE guards at Constantinople are
about 10000 strong They would be
of no usein case of q campaign against
Bulgaria, as the Sultan will not per-
NIT q weakening Of the garrison of his
capital under any circumstances.
PERSONS from Montreal get into the
United States by buying railroad
ticket to Toronto and then buying an
other from Toronto to Port Huron
or Detroit, so that the train inspectors
think they are from Toronto.
MELBOURNE is cited as a proof that
the star of empire has taken trip to
the southwark. The first house there
was put up in 1885, and now there is
handsome city with fine parks and
public institutions, and 100000 in
habitants.
TWELVE mounds of incinerated hui
man bones haveb been dugup in France
at point which makes it likely that
they are the remains of Gaulo-Roman.
warriors who In the time of Hannibal
fell in defending the Rhone against that
generals passage.
AT a recent fashionable wedding in
thai most fashionable of London's
temples, St. Georges Hanover Square,
the bridegroom's best man was his
eldest son by his first and divorced
wife, to whom he was married twenty
eight years ago. His daughter was
one of the bridesmaids, and among
the company at the ceremony his first
wife was also present.
AN English lady tourist, who boxed
a German prima dornas ears in
passenger coach at Frankfort, Germa-
ny, because the latter removed the
baggage of the former from a. seat to
get room to sit down, was sentenced
to eight weeks Imprisonment. She
begged so piteously for mercy that
the court reduced the Imprisonment
to eight days.
THE eldest son of the Shah of Persia
was not born Of a princess, and there
fore is not the heir-apparent. He is
popular and capable, and his father is
said to desire to confer upon him that
dignity. But themother of the young
er son, now heir-apparent, threatened
to kill herselfif the measure was carried
through, and in Difference to her wishes
no change will be made.
A MARsEILLEs merchant who start
ed in business, with $4,000 and be-
came q millionaire, left his property
to friend on the condition that he
should be buried with the sum Of
$4,000 placed in his coffin. The ex-
ecutor bewailed the reckless waste Of
money, and was at his wits end to
know how to defeat the whimsical
clause in the will. At length a happy
thought came. ~ will put a check"
he said, ''into the coffin for $4,000.
1t will be duly honored when he pre-
sents it"