Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-24
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Col. Conway-Gordon, who was re-
Gently drowned by his yachts being run
down III fog by Il steamer, was one
of the first men to introduce catamarans
into England.
-Isinglass, Mr.. McCalmont's great
racehorse, who is about to be put to the
stud, will command 500 guineas, the
highest price ever asked in England.
The tol 1874 he won during his career of
four years We're made in only twelve
races.
San Pelayo is the patron saint Of
the village of San Mateo, near Ferrol,
in Spain; his image was to have been
carried about in a procession the other
day, but a dispute that arose as to who
should carry it caused knives, revolvers
and sticks to be used, so that forty per
one, including the priests, were wounded
before order was restored.
-Richelieu's skull has been put back
in its tomb in the Church of SOrbonne,
buried when stolen during the revolution
was sealed up with great ceremony the
other day in the presence of NJ. Hano,
teauX, minister of foreign affairs, of the
director of the BeauX Arts, the vice-rec,
tor of the Academic, and the Princess
of Monaco, representing the family.
An important change in the military
~
through a revision of the constitution
just decided upon by the Swiss Assem-
bly,. Under the present system the army
is divided into two classes. the troops of
the confederation and those of the can
tons. The entire military administra-
ton is to be transferred to the confeder-
alton.
A work containing all known docu-
ments concerning the life and family of
nv v~lS hos ~,
the various Italian archives, is soon to
be published in Rome in forty numbers.
under the title of THE Diplomatic Dante
Codex." Each number will have five
prototype plates, and it is expected the
work will be issued at the rate of ten
numbers year. The edition will be linn
tied to 800 numbered copies.
M Parodi has nearly finished his
tragedy, lie Pape," and it is TO be read
at the Theater Francois in September
1t is to be in five acts and six tableaux.
The Pope" is Gregory VII, the Bona
parte of the papacy, and the heroine is
the Countess Matilda. The former per
sonifes spiritual power and the latter
secular activity. NJ. Parodi thinks the
Countess Matilda an Italian Joan Of
Arc, and his treatment of her chara cter
is looked for with great interest.
When investigating the Vatican rec
ords Pope Leo Nil. said to Dom Gas
quet. the librarian: Publish every
thing of interest, everything, whether it
tends to the discredit or credit Of the &C.
clesiastical authorities. for you may be
ten in our day the treachery of Judas
and the denial of st. Peter would have
been suppressed for fear Of scandalizing
weak consciences.' SO Lord Halifax
told the English Church union the other
day.
-Bowstrings and sacks seem to have
gone out of use in Eastern harems. The
Maharajah of Patna has just shot his
wife and then killed himself. like a COM
mon civilized crank.
Repairs on the Parthenon are to be
begun at once. on the plans drawn by
Prof. Durm, the German archaeologist;
+. G. Penrose and NJ. Magne Will also
give advice.
Among the Copts in Egypt, to whom
the Pope has sent his latest appeal in be-
half of religious unity, there is a strong
movement in favor Of a return 10 the
Roman Catholic church.
Another egg of the great aux has
been sold in London. 1t was found in
Iceland siXty-five years ago, and came
into Baron d Hamonville'S collection. and
as it is slightly cracked brought $S25.
Thirteen Austrian hussars were shot
and thirteen others sent to jail for life
at 1TZo1nNSl, IN CTaucla. the Otner daN,
for the murder of a sergeant vino had
maddened them by his cruelty and tyr
amy.
IL Magistrato,' by Nj. Pinero, is being
given al the Arena Nazionale in Florence
and Mr.. Paulton's 'Niobe'' is drawing
crowded house. following a successful run
of La zia di Carlo" (Charley's Aunt)
France, through the minister of ma
rine, has given a gold and a silver medal
to the French landsmen who brought
the ship Why Not and her passengers
into port after the captain and crew had
abandoned her in the English channel.
Promotion in the guards will here
after be on the same terms as in the
rest of the British army, since Col. Paget
of the Scots guards, who has just at
tanned his colonelcy, is the last officer
still serving who Joined the corps before
the abolition of the purchase system.
A manuscript Hereford missal of the
Fifteenth century brought S505 at a re-
cent London book sale; Myles Cover,
dale's Bible, 1888, S305: the first prayer
book of Edward vi, black letter, 1919,
$3.50; Breviarium Romanum of 1886,
with the preface of Paul Ill. afterward
suppressed, of which it is doubtful if 81
copy exists outside of the Vatican IL
brary, $500, and a perfect copy of the
Sarum missal, 1923. $175.