Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-09-11
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Prince Eitel Fritz, Kaiser Wilhelm's
second son, is II years old and weighs
1O1 pounds, % pounds more than his
elder brother, the Crown Prince.
Prof Stickel Of Jena, at 81 announces
as his work for the coming semester lee
lures on the Song of Solomon and on the
Chaldaic, Syriac and Arabian literatures
and grammars.
DIR. Lawrie of Hyderabad says that
there are nc parasites in the blood in
malaria. and that the Italian investiga-
tors have mistaken the nuclei of the white
cells IL the blood for microbes.
Bicycles are now authorized by the
French postoffice department for the dis
trl5ution of kilograms, and an allowance
OF 10 francs Il month IS made to mes
sengers fer the use Of their machines
Nine Calve is studying the part of
Valentine in Meyerbeer's "Huguenots'
during her vaca ton, while Jean de Reszke
is at work on the principal part in Mas
sonets lie Cid" which he will sing III
New York next winter.
Count Tolstoi is at work on a new
novel dealing with the peculiarities of
the Russian district courts. AS he has
a poor opinion of judicial methods, sale
of the book will probably be forbidden
in Russia by the censorship.
David, the painters body, lies buried
IN Brussels, where he was obliged to take
refuge after the fall of Napoleon, on ac-
count of his share in the Reign Of Ter
ror. 1t is proposed now to transfer the
body to Paris, where his heart is already
buried
Hamilton palace, in Lanarkshire, cost
the late dukes grandfather 81 100000
to build; the dukes executors are direct
ed by his will to dismantle the mansion
and take down or remove the buildings
or allow it to fall into disuse, as they
think fit
M. Jansen recently informed the
French Academy of Sciences that he had
determined the existence of water vapOr
in the planet Mars by means Of the
spectroscOpe.
Excavations in the interior of the
Coliseum at Rome, which were suspend
ed in 1873, are soon to be begun again
by order of DR.. Baccelli, minister of pub
lie instruction.
Wolves are not yet extinct in France
Last year 1854 were killed in ffty-five out
OF the eighty-seven departments, chiefly
III the center and the eastern part of the
country
-Montoriol, the tenor, left legacy to
the French academy for an annual prize
of 500 for the best French song; for the
FIRST competition 800 compositions were
sent in.
John Morley, being out of politics, is
at work on a history of the union of
England and Ireland, using the secret
papers in the government archives for
the years from 1875 to 1905.
A race was recently rowed at Deal
England, between four four-Oared crews
of boatmen over 60 years of age. The
winning oarsmen averaged 20 years,
While their coXsWain was 80.
Persia wishes to build railroad
from Ieheran to Tabriz and thence to a
point on the trans-Caucasian railroad
and has asked the Russian government
to send engineers to survey the route.
Miss McFee of Montreal has just OBJ
tanned the degree of doctor of philosophy
at Zurich. She is a graduate of McGill
university, and studied philosophy at
Cornell and under Prof. Wundt of Leip-
zig.
"A princess, a countess duchess and
the daughter of a reigning prince were
among the 1000 thieves, professional and
unprofessional, arrested in Paris during
the first six months of this year.
Russia and Turkey have Just ex-
changed congratulations on the 400th an
niyersary of the establishment of dipIo-
matte relations between the two countries
by Sultan Bajazet and Ivan III, the first
Gar of Muscovy
Pierre Savorquan de Brazza, governor
of the French Congo, was recently mar
rleu III 1drlS TO Mile. de Cham brun.
heiress of the Comte de Chambrun. Who
by marriage acquired the money made in
the Baccarat glass factory.
AT Tashkend, in Russian Turkestan
English has been substituted for German
as an obligatory study in the high school,
while at Riga, on the Baltic, Lutheran
pastors have been ordered to give up Ger
man and use Russian in their correspond
ence.
In Tough Erie, near Carrick-on- Shan
non, Ireland, an ancient black oak canoe
without nail or rivet, was lately discov-
cred IN strange way. A Mr.. Mulligan
dreamed that he saw a canoe at the bot
tom of the lake. The lake was dragged
and the canoe found.
A Mohammedan widow of Bombay
started on a pilgrimage to Mecca recently,
taking her jewelry with her After land
ing at Jeddah she was forced to marry a
Turkish soldier whom she had never seen
before and who disappeared in a couple
of days with all her property.
The Rev. Edward Stuart Talbot. D.
D., vicar of Leeds, has been nominated
bishop of Rochester in place of DR.. David
son, translated to Winchester. He is a
high churchman, a grandson of the second
Earl Talbot, is married to a niece of Mrs
Gladstone, and was for eighteen years
warden of Keble college, Oxford.