The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-08-15
Foreign Items.

ly newspaper OF Ine largest clEcula-
ton.
General Bourbaki is insane, and is
now an inmate of the lunatic asylum
at Charenton.
All the journeymen shoemakers in
Germany have been on strike for
some time past.
George Sand was nurse in the Paris
hospitals during the insurrection Of
the Communists.
La Situation, Napoleon's London
organ, will suspend publication on the
first of July next.
Minnie Hauck, the American can
tatrice, has been engaged for life at
Royal Opera in Berlin.
Alexandra Dumas, Jr., has purchas-
ed house at Seville, and will per-
manently reside in that city.
DIR. Won Schweitzer the leader Of tie
German socialists, and a prominent
German dramatist, is dead.
The Roman Countess di Gianotta
has turned Protestant, and has been
excommunicated by the Pope.
The Crown-Prince of Austria saved,
the other day, his fathers life during
q hunt in the mountains of the Tyrol.
Dollinger, the celebrated Bavarian
adversaryof the infallibility dogma, is
one of the leading vegetarians in Ger
many.
Wrolewski, one of the leaders Of
the Partisan Communists, was formerly
the court pianist of the Emperor Of
Brazil.
Paul Feval's death was caused by
the shock he received upon hearing
that his son had fallen in front of
Fort Vanvres.
All of the valuable historical docu-
ments of Adolphe Thiers were saved
at the destruction of his house by the
Communists.
| Archbishop Darboy was greatly dis
liked by the Empress Eugenie,and but
for her influence would have been
cerated a cardinal.
The Archduchess Sophia, the mother
of the EmperorlMaximilian of Mexico,
has ordered statue of her ill-fated son
in Carrarian marble.
At horticultural fair held in Ber-
lin, the Crown-Princess Victoria re-
ceived the first prize for Strawberries
: raised on her farm near Potsdam.
Prince Bismarck has recently told
several deputations that were sent to
him, that he was getting old, and that
his health was by no means good.
The Queen of England has at last
consented to eat mutton chops at
breakfast; she having steadily refused
them since the death of the Prince
Consort.
Megy, the Communist chief of the
Partisan police, obtained his notoriety
by shooting, during the second empire.
a policeman who entered his house for
the purpose of arresting him.
Hof, the German "malt extract"
seller, spends every year three hundred
thousand dollars for advertising. He
is worth two million dollars, which he
made in the last twenty years.
Bishop Ketteler, of Mayence, now
the great leader of the infallibIlists. in
Germany, was formerly an officer of
hussars, and still bears in his face the
marks of sabre-duel which he fought
about twenty years ago.
The receipt which Carl Schurz gave
in November 1850, for the money he
used for the purpose ofdelivering Pro-
fessor Gottfried Kinkel from the pen
itentiary of Spandau, near Berlin, was
recently sold in the latter city for s75.
The Marquis de Galiffet, whose love-
affairs made him so notorious during
the second empire, and who was the
sent by Marshal Forey to present the
keys of the city of Mexico to the En-
peror Napoleon Ill, is now assistant
adjutant general of Marshal MacMa-
hon.
Colonel Theodore Stohet, Napoleons
confidential military agent, whose re-
ports from Berlin previous to the
breaking out of the war have attracted
so much attention, has committed sui
eide at Verviers, in Belgium. He took
a dose Of Paris green, aud died IN
great suffering.
A curious fact is, that about thirty
thousand foreigners served in the army
of the Partisan Commune. According
to the Gaulois, eighteen thousand Of
them were Garibaldiansi seven thous-
and English and Irish Feniaps; twelve
hundred Greeks; six hundred Ameri-
cans; and six hundred Germans, Span
iards, and others.
The commissioners charged with the
duty of examining the educational in
situations of Rome have reported that
those institutions we're in a condition
that could hardly be equalled in any
civilized country. The Roman Univer-
sity had no library at all, and among
its professors werelfew who could write
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