Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-01-01
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

A queer custom is observed on the
Duke of Buccleugh's Warwickshire es-
tate on the 18th of each November. His
tenants gather together before sunrise
to pay the wroth silver due to his grace
The penalty for a tenant that neglects
to appear is to produce a white bull with
a red nose.
johannes Adolf Overlook, for forty
two years professor of archaeology at
the University of Leipzig, died recently.
aged go years. He wrote history of
book on Pompeii, and Greek Art My
thology." He was a member of the ia
nous painter, Friedrich Overlook
China has paid to France 100000
francs as indemnity for the murder Of
NJ. Dutheil de Rims, the explorer, in
Thibet, a year ago. AS the explorer left
no family, the balance of 10000 francs
petition has been applied to founding
n prize to be awarded by the Academy
of Inscriptions
An ephemeral journal is La Tela
Cortada t'The Cut Cloth'O, a Spanish
illustrated comic weekly, printed on cloth
the size of handkerchief and sold for
) cents. After it has been read it can
be put in water, when the ink washes
out and only handkerchief remains
In Germany 6626 cases of Ciphthera
have been treated by serum incubation,
24G0 of them in hospitals, according to
u report of the governments medical de-
partment. OF these $50 per cent re-
covered, 1919 per cent. died and the rest
were still under treatment In the hos
pitfalls alone the cures were 500 and the
deaths 1915 per cent The remarks at
tached to the reports of the cases were
highly favorable to the treatment III
1871 and unfavorable in 60.
view, said of Tom Ochiltree's message
of coincidence from Congress on the
death of Lasker: Eyes / remember the
affair. Lasker was an able little man,
though he was often rong-headed and
tried to interfere with the logical develop
ment of things. | was asked to deliver
that resolution to the Reichstag, and was
not willing to play the part of messen-
ger. That was the whole of the dis
pute"
A 7-year-old Czech boy from Prague
is on his way alone to San Francisco
where he has relatives, having been
checked through by lis friends His
passage is paid, but he has not cent
of money on him, and is dependent for
food on the charity of the people he
meets. He cannot speak a word of any
language but his own.
DR.. Franz Smolka of Lemberg, in Ga
icia, has just celebrated the fftieth an
niversary of his condemnation to be
hanged and also his eighty-sixth birth
day. He took part in the Polish agita-
ton that preceded the revolution of 1913.
His sentence was committed to imprison-
ment. He was afterward twice presi-
dent of the Austrian Reichsrath.
Having completed its share of work
on the revised version of the Apocrypha,
the Cambridge University Press is about
to begin a large edition of the Septuagint
X-nr of hn 40 1O1of ;aI
take many years to complete. The read
ings of all eXtant Greek uncial manu-
scripts and fragments will be given, as
well as the evidence of the old Latin.
Egyptian, Syro HeXaplar and Armenian
y versions and the Quotations Hait: in Philo,
The editors will be the Rev. A. E.
Brooke Of Kings and n. Mclean of
Christ's. The first volume will be ready,
it is hoped. in five years.
"A manuscript OF Der neuwen Zeit-
ing aus Presillglandt," found recently
in the library of the Princes Fugger,
who were merchant princes when Ameri-
ca was discovered, shows that the Rio
de Ia Plata was discovered by two Port
ugueSe, Nino Manuel and ChriStObal de
Haro, who sailed as far as 40 degrees
south and returned to Madeira in Octo-
Der, 1914, and not by, the Spaniards, as
has been believed. The manuscript also
states that the Fuggers ordered map
of the world from Sebastian Cabot and
paid for it but never received it. An
account of the discovery is given in the
Zeitschrift of the Berlin Geographical
society.
The underwater section of the
Blackwell tunnel under the Thames has
just been finished, the occasion being
celebrated by lunch in the tunnel it
self, to which 1000 persons sat down.
The tunnel connects Greenwich on the
south side of the river with Poplar on
the north, and is just over a mile in
length. Three thousand nine hundred
and siXty-four feet had to be driven by
compressed air. Of this 1900 feet on
the north bank remains to be done, so
that the tunnel will not be open for
traffic till the spring of 1897 1t was
begun in March, 1892. While driving
the shield under the river bed, at one
time only feet 2 inches of gravel IN
tervened between the top of the tunnel
and the water and loads of clay were
dumped into the river to prevent the wa
ter from bursting through. The dame
ter of the tunnel is 81 feet, feet more
than that of the st. Clair tunnel, hither-
to the largest ever built.