Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-02-19
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

An outbreak of typhoid fever among
the officers of the garrison at Rennes,
during which two lieutenants died. has
been traced to the ice used to cool the
champagne at a banquet they gave re-
Gently.
-Camels flesh is the latest addition to
the Partisan bill of fare. Algerian butch
orS undertaking to provide the supply.
The meat is said to taste like beef,
though white like veal. The hump is
considered great delicacy by the Arabs.
New Place, Shakespeare's last home
at Stanford on-Avon, is being improved
by the removal of the shrubbery and
buildings that marked the boundaries of
the different holdings bought up by the
trustees Hereafter there will be an
open sweep from the wall facing the old
Falson tavern to the opposite boundary
wall.
80 sensitive is the Duke of Marl-
borough to the stories that Blenheim was
restored with Mrs. Hammersley's mon
ey, that he has had family accounts in
vestigated and published by d chartered
public accountant, who shows that the
money came from the proceeds of the
sales of the Sunderland library and the
Blenheim pictures.
In emulation of his nephew, the
Kaiser, the Prince of Wales has written
a cantata for soloists, chorus and or
chestra, which will soon be performed in
London. Members of the royal family
are about to begin a concert tour for
charitable purposes, at which the Duke
of York will play the piano and the
duchess the banjo. The authority for
these statements is the Paris lie Menes-
trel.
Two remarkable Illuminated Hebrew
manuscripts of the Bible, written in the
Ninth or Tenth century, were shown by
DR.. Caster recently to the Society of
Biblical Archaeology in London. They
came from Central Asia and are prob
ably the oldest Hebrew texts of the
Bible in existence. The margins of the
leaves are covered with rosettes in gold
and other ornaments, while the writing
is surrounded by a border of five cOlored
lines.
DR.. Howell's farce, 'The Garroters, :"
has been severely criticised by the Eng
fish critics. They now accuse him of
plagiarism, the same plot having been
used in several farces, the best known
Two Bonnicastles," brought out in 1851.
This Morton probably stole from the
French, as he did other farces; but the
English critics say nothing about this
side of the question.
Hubert Herkomer has devised new
process of reproducing pictures without
the intervention of photography or any
SUCH DIS DllluS, EOchluS,
etc" He paints in monochrome on a
copper plate as he would on a panel or
canvas, covers his painting with fine
bronze powder, which hardens the sur
face, and takes an electrotype from it..
The results are said to be very good.
Prints of his portraits Of DR.. Jameson
have been taken in this way.
"A general, simultaneous census of
the world for the year 1900 is asked for
by the International Statistic institute.
1t can be taken if slight notifications
in the time of their regular censuses are
made by the chief countries Of the world
Portugal, Denmark, the United States,
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bel
GUM, Hungary and Sweden will regu-
larly take their censuses on different
days of the year 1900, Holland OH the
last day of 1899, Norway Oh the first
day of 1901, and Great Britain, France
and Italy later in that year.
France is to have a new coinage.
The model of the gold pieces by NJ
Chaplain is now ready, and shows on the
face a head of the republic in profile
turned to the right; above it spreads an
olive tree, while in the background ap-
pear the roofs of a French village on
one side and a minaret on the other. The
observe represents the French cock crow
ing, the letters and figures representing
the value of the coin being placed oil
either side of the legs. NJ. Roty will
make the model for the silver coins and
NJ. Daniel Dupuis that for the copper