Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-02-24
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

The sword and belt of Latour dAu
yergne. the first grenadier of France,
have Just been presented to the Paris
Musce Carnavalet.
Queen Margherita of Italy stood god
mother recently for the son of the Mar
cheese Capranica del Grille, son of the
great Italian actress, Ristori.
Stunning in the East End of London
has been revived as a fashionable amuse-
ment and the arrangements for person
ally conducted trips are managed by an
agency.
A jealous Russian blacksmith near
Tomsk made pair of iron shoes for his
wife, whom he thought unfaithful, and
nailed them into her feet. He was i'm
prisoned for two days for it.
John Howe, who was said to be the
last of the Gretna Green post boys, was
killed recently at Carlisle by falling
while washing the windows of bank.
He was II years of age.
Spun glass bonnets are being turned
out by the thousand by a Venetian firm.
The Infanta Mercedes of Spain has re-
ceived from Venice white ball dress
of glass, as soft and pliable as silk
The Empress Taitu, wife of the EN-
peror Menelik of Abyssinia, inspects and
reviews soldiers like any officer. Her
majesty is always accompanied by a bril-
Justice Chitty has just been made
a lord justice of appeal, in place of Lord
Justice Kay, who resigns on account of
i'll health. Justice Chitty rowed stroke
of the Oxford crew in three races with
Cambridge.
A record of 1888 persons, who died
at 80 or over last year, 10S of them
women, has been kept by the London
Daily News. Fourteen were centenari-
ans, the oldest being Bernard O'Neil, an
Irish soldier, ITO years of age.
-Negus Menelek has received as
present from the Gar of Russia a COM
plete set of wind instruments, a piano
and an organ. Several Russian musicians
have been sent with the instruments to
teach the Abyssinians to play on them.
-Russia's Emperor is still guarded
over carefully. While walking in the
park at Isarskoe Selo recently the Car
beckoned to a gardener to come to him.
AS the man ran up, the guard thinking
he meant to attack the Gar, shot him
dead.
Prince Paolo Borghese, whose family
has lost great deal of money in build
ing speculations, has sold the works of
art in the famous Borghese gallery to
the Italian government. The price paid
is said to be $1,O0O000 for the pictures
and 100000 for the statues.
DIR. Grenier, the French Mohamme-
dan deputy, goes to the lavatory Of the
Chamber Of Deputies to perform his ritu-
al additions. When the man in charge
found him taking off his boots, washing
his feet in the basins, and wiping them
on the roller towel, he felt himself
obliged to interfere. DR.. Grenier there
upon walked down TO the banks of the
Seine, washed his feet in the river in the
presence of a crowd of 1000 persons,
and, after going through his prayers, re-
turned to the Chamber.
Seventy miles northwest of the Cana
dian Pacific railway, in the Lillooette
country, two prospectors have made q
discovery of copper in solution, in the
shape of a mountain stream flowing at
the rate of about 10000 gallons in TWEEN
ty-four hours, and having its source near
a copper ledge eighty feet wide. Two
tons of this water yields thirty-nine and
one-fourth pounds of metallic copper,
carrying a small percentage of gold.