Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

ullle over SOO,UUU.
Bob Che, the last and most daring
British In 1886, has just been captured
with his two sons at Myingyan.
Mile. Louise Imperiali daughter of
the Marquis Imperiah, who was long
charge daffairs of Italy at Washington,
was married at Brussels recently to
Count de Liederkerke.
Death duties in England are leading
people to dispose Of their property SO as
to avoid taxation. The late Dowager
Duchess of Buccleugh's personal estate
was sworn to for probate as being
$95229
Electricity is supplied for 6 pfen-
niSs. ~ cents, per unit at Frank-fort-on-
the-Maln; the lowest rate previously was
IL ptennlgs, 20 cents, at Munich. where
the 1sar supplied the power. In London
the average rate is IA cents per unit.
-Alick Maclean's prize opera, "Petruc-
cio,' has been performed at Convent
garden. ''The reflection that there exist
no fewer than forty-two works of in
may well appall the most sanguine be-
lever in English art"
-Four autograph pieces of music by
Mozart were sold for $51S in London
| recently: Beethoven's autograph "Three
Songs of Goethe" 1870 for S1S5; quar-
tet by Spohr for $40; a fragment of
trio by Schubert for $52, the price also
paid for two polonaises by Chopin.
-Chorisis, or the doubling of parts,
which is not uncommon in plants, is gem
orally believed to be the division or
branching of an originally single part.
DR. CelakOvsky thinks he has proven,
however, that it is instead a fusion or
drawing together of distinct and original
~ separated parts.
AT Avignon. in the square before the
palace Of the popes an open-air theater
has been erected where unpublished
plays in provencal are performed. Such
theaters were once common wherever
the. langue doe is spoken, and could be
found at Toulon and Marseilles twenty
years ago.
Sir Frederick Leighton's "A Coming
Storm which was exhibited at the chi
cago fair, has been sold in London for
$3045: his Greek Girls Playing at Bali
brought $3615; j. f. Millet's Winter"
woman carrying fagots, was sold for
1918; Iroyon's Hay Cart with
Horses for $4,000, and three Corots av
eraged $3.50 apiece.
From the action of sulphuric acid
on the gas from cleveite NJ. Deslandres
has obtained in the extreme red of the
spectrum the third of the four lines in
the solar spectrum that had not been
lOuIlu Oh LES edrlU. HIS leaves Only
one permanent ray from the solar at
mosphere, the green line, known as 1.-The
line of the CROWN yet to be discovered
in earthly substances; it probably be-
longs to some gas lighter than hydrogen
A queer play is being given by Sofia,
in Bulgaria, called 1.-The Heroes of SE
vitzka,' in which Prince Alexander OF
al the other characters are persons still
living.
Paris courts have at last decided that
concierges are liable for damages if they
say anything about the private life or
business relations of the tenants They
can only give information about their
leases.
-Leprosy is increasing in Iceland in an
alarming manner, according to the Jesuit
missionary, Father Sveinsson. Last year
a Danish physician, sent by the govern
ment. examined one-third of the island
and found 141 lepers.
Five short autograph poems by Rob
ert Burns were sold recently in London
for $3.50; three long letters for 1910, and
three short ones for S105; at the same
time seven letters of Sir Walter Scott
were sold for about $3.50 apiece.
In the inventory of Prof. John Stuart
Blackie's estate the copyrights amount
only to $426: Self Culture" is valued at
$3.50, THE Wisdom of Goethe at 800.
THE Lays of the Highlands at S25. and
''The Scottish Highlands at only S625.
In 1909 the inhabitants of Saybusch,
in Galicia, received the right Of prevent,
ing the residence of Jews in their midst"
A Jew recently tried to violate this privi-
lege by forcing his way into it, and was,
naturally, violently resisted. but the per.
sons Directing were punished by the gov
eminent.
Paris has decided to keep the Boule
school for zjDcr nd ART rlpliQ6
to industry. open in the evening. The
school has "a instructors and a staff of 81
persons, with only 100 day pupils, and
has room for five times that many. 1t
costs the city 100000 year, while the
furniture turned out by it sold last year
for $500.
In the Roman Campagna the main
scheme of drainage which is to reclaim
vast tracts of agricultural land and to
free Rome from the malarial eXhalations
arising from the swamps has been carried
out, and only works of secondary impor-
lance remain to be done. So far 81 800,
| 600 have been spent on the work. The
| question of bringing the land under cult
walton is already under consideration.
On midsummer's day at Copenhagen
| the court musicians from q balcony of
| the Royal palace play airs on the 'Lu>
ren," the prehistoric Scandinavian metal
horns kept in the museum. They are
found in the moors, always in pairs, one in
tune with the other. They are generally
feet long, and are believed to be at least
1000 years old. A few years ago it was
found that they could still be played on.
AT the Clifden sale of plate in London
900 was given for a beautiful silver
gilt rosewater ever, ID inches high, with
figures of Venus seated on dolphin and
Triton blowing a conch shell in an oval
medallion on one side and a Cupid riding
on a seahorse on the other, surrounded
by fruit, flowers and masks in high relief
with round embossed saiver, the work
of a Nuremberg goldsmith of the begin
! ming of the Seventeenth century.
Two twin brothers in Paris. NM.
Jerome and Isidore Franck, recently cele-
| brated their eghtieth birthday together.
One of them wrote verses for the occa
! sion. They are brothers of the late
Adolphe Franck, the philosopher and
member of the Institute of France.
Juan Valera's ''Pepita Jimenez' has
been made into an opera, the music by
Senior Albeniz which will be brought
| Out at Rarcelona in OctOher When