Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-09-18
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Teresa Brambilla, the original Gilda
in 'Rigoletto," died recently in Milan at
the age of 81. She was one of five Sis
ters all noted singers, of whom she and
her sister Marietta were the most cele-
brated.
"A diamond from the De Beers Mines
in South Africa, naturally shaped like a
human profile, which bears some re-
semblance to Lord Salisbury, is to be
seen in a jewelers. window in New Bond
street, London.
Paris has established a municipal
laboratory for bacterology in the old
LOban barracks, where analyses of
suspected cases of diphtheria are made
within twenty-four hours after the ma
terials have been handed in.
At st. Mary-at-Hill church in East
cheap, London, the ladies' choir is robed
in plain white tunic and black velvet
cap, that has the full approval of one of
the leading English bishops" but the
white tunic is not a surplice.
-Frederico Soler the creator of the
modern Catalan theater, died recently at
Barcelona at the age of 81. He wrote
over 100 plays, almost all based on Cata-
Ian popular life and history, and had been
crowned by the Spanish academy.
-Koch's tuberculine, which has been
cast in the shade of late by DR.. Rouxs
antitOXlne, now turns up again as RENE
dy for insanity. Prof. Wagner Won
Jauregg of Vienna has experimental with
it for four years, curing many patients
and improving the mental and physical
condition of all on whom it was tried.
Cows held up a railroad train in Els
tremadura, Spain, a few days ago. The
engine ran bull down, cutting him in
two, and then could not be started.
While the trainmen and passengers were
trying to help the engine the rest of the
h,N. of I'd ho1 70 fob
shelter il; 1.-THE cars and were kept there
till night, When the herd went off.
Gen. Pichegru's capture of the Dutch
fleet in the Helder in January, 1895, by
sending against it a detachment of cav
airy when it was frozen in by the ice,
one of the most picturesque exploits in
history, has been rudely shaken by NJ.
Legrand, who has documents to show
that the fleet had received orders to sur
render without resistance.
Twelve members of Lord Salisburys
cabinet are directors in from one to four
commercial companies each, according
to the Investors Review, while seven
are free from ENHANCEMENT. Arthur Bal
four is one of the latter, but his brother
Gerald, the new chief secretary for Ire
land, is director in no less than seven
companies of a speculative character.
-Rubinstein by his will left money for
prize 20 be awarded every five years
| for the best pianOfOrte concerto, which
must be performed for the first time in
public by the composer himself The
first competition will take place at Ber-
lin on the Goth of this month, before
jury selected by the directors of the
principal Conservatives of Europe The
second competition will be at Vienna
in 1900, and the third at Paris in 1905.
While Prince Alexander of Batten-
berg was kidnapped, NJ. Hitrovo, the
Russian ambassador at Bucharest. said
to the French ambassador: L do not
understand the scruples of the diplomacy
of today 1t is a misfortune that diplo-
mats are not allowed Z free hand any
longer, as in the Fifteenth century, when
everything was permitted-the poinard
or poison" Afterward, according to the
Vossische Zeitung, when the Asiatic de-
partment of the Russian government
wished to get rid of Prince Ferdinand
500, 600 francs were sent to NJ. Hitrovo
who also furnished the explosives to
blow the prince up on the railroad from
Rustchuk TO Varna in 1888. Stamouloff
i saved the princes life on both occa-
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