Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Foreign Items.

EorelSn lIelnS.
RUSSIA has 337 reviews and journals.
THE London Times is getting ready to
hunt Livingstone.
In Champagne, all new born babes are
washed in the sparkling beverage of that
name.
JENNY LIND has been singing in the
choir of the American Episcopal Church
at Florence.
IT takes only $780, year to re-
plenish the wardrobe of the Austrian
Empress.
THE friends and relatives of Gustave
Dore are apprehensive that he will COM
NIT suicide.
Four thousand Communists have been
sent to New Caledonia, at q cost to
France of 81, 10000
B1sMARcK's son is reported engaged to
an American lady at present residing
with her parents in Berlin.
PERE HYAc1NTHE is said to have lost
his new wife's entire fortune by the
bankruptcy of Bowles Brothers.
Tom HOOP, editor of Fam, eldest son
of him who sang the "Song of the
Shirt" has been lecturing in Paisley,
Glasgow and Edinburgh.
IT is remarkable fact that in France
almost every author of note is wealthy,
only one or two having a fortune of less
than quarter of million.
JAPAN has not only made long step
in educational matters, but has almost
decided to hang criminals, instead of
smashing their heads with clubs.
Two young American ladies recently
fled the unprecedented petition to be
allowed to sleep in the lighthouse at
Leith, Scotland, for one night, to the alb
iect bewilderment and establishment of
the authorities.
RECENTLY the London Morning Post
celebrated it's first centenary by devoting
eight of its wide columns to the rem
iniscences of men and things 100 years
ago. By noon a copy of the paper could
not be had for love or money in all Lon
DON
THE Rothschilds have told the Mayor
of Paris that they will annually give to
the respectable poor of that city 500
to pay rent with 1t is to assist that
saddest of poor who suffer many of the
pangs of poverty and yet are beyond the
reach of charity, or too proud to receive
aid as paupers.
ITALY has more theaters than any
country in EHrope-34S. France comes
next, with 337. Germany has 1914;
Spain, 1853; Austria, 152; England, 100;
Russia A; Belgium, "a; Holland, %;
Switzerland, 20; Portugal, 16; Swede n,
10; Denmark, 10; Norway, s; Greece, 4;
Turkey, 4; Roumania, 3; Egypt, 8; Ser
via, l.
ALMOST sinless century is said to
have rolled over the happy city of Frank
fort-on-the-Main Out of the 10000 in
habitants, not one in all that time has
died by the hand of the murderer.
Whether it has been as free from other
crimes we are not informed, but proba-
bly, no city ever had like record before.
This state of security is accounted for by
some by the strict and unrelenting laws
of the country, from which the criminal
has no escape, and which recognize nc
pardoning power.
THE estimated wealth of the most emf
nent writer's of France, all of whom
started in life without anything, is as
follows: Victor Hugo, 60G, 000f; George
Sand, nearly twice as much; Emile dc
Girardin, 100000 Adolphe Theirs,
1000, OOOf; Alexander Dumas, fills,
400, OOOf; Edmond About, $50, 0OOf; Al.
phonso Karr, 1O0,0O0f; Jules Janin,
$50, OOOf; Edward Laboulaye, 100, O0Of
Vjctorien Sardou, 100000; Theophile
Gagutier died millionaire, and the
widows of Scribe and Ponsard live in
affluence. But the widow of the cele-
brated Proudhon has to exc out a pre-
carious living as washerwoman.