The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-19
FOREIGN ITEMS.

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A CURIOUS rule prevails in Germany,
that if a person is injured on railroad
and subsequently dies from the injuries
received, the occurrence is not deemed
railway accident unless death occurs
within twenty-four hours. ".
SINCE the accession of Queen Victoria
to the British throne, forty years ago, it
is calculated that eighteen members of
the royal family, including the Queens
uncles and cousins, have cost the nation
&2O,217, 900, or about $101 ,0S5,000
THE new Doomsday Book of Great
Britain and Ireland gives the population
of the United Kingdom at $4,000, 900.
The number of inhabited houses is
5,212, 932, and there are 70, 1T, 766 acres
of assessable land in the Kingdom.
DURING. the summer months the chill.
dren of English and French residents in
Russia are at premium. 1t is the regu-
lar practice for them to spend their holt
days on the estates of the Russian nobil-
ity, that the children of these latter may
earn. English and French.
A COMMISSION agent, thirty years of
age, advertises in a Paris paper for a
wife. He modestly defines himself as an
Z" article of luxury" who has 10000
francs and fine business, and wishes to
marry lady from twenty to twenty-five
years of age, who is intelligent and honor
able.
A MAN who requested an interview
with the Archbishop of the City of Mex
leo, while conversing with him, drew a
dagger and attempted to assassinate him.
The Archbishop defended himself and es-
capped unhurt. The servants arrested
and handed the criminal over to the po-
lice
The most expensive paper in Paris is
the Art, which costs twenty-four dollars
year in gold; the cheapest is the Bonnie
Pe'eSee, a religious weekly, which costs
only twelve cents year. The Oldest
Journal in the city is the Journal General
deS AficheS, which is now in its 247th
year.
THE Liverpool & Texas Steamship
Company Qimited) have determined up
on voluntary liquidation in consequence
of the depression in freights and the I'M
profitableness of the steamshipping
trade. The company's three steamers
will be sold, and are expected to realize
more than enough to meet all liabilities.
A STORY told in the American colony
at Dresden is of an encounter between
one of the young lieutenants of the army
and stalwart American They jostled
on the sidewalk and the officer drew his
sword. ThereupOn the American knocked
him down, violently enough to stun him,
and, having broken his sword over his
knee, laid his card between the pieces
and proceeded calmly on his way
SEVENTY FIVE trains an hour pass
Chaplain Junction, about four miles from
London, during the busiest part of the
day, while taking the whole twenty-four
hours, 912 pass. Thirteen lines there
converge, and the Southwestern Railroad
alone has thirty-ive sets of points and
signals. worked from one signal box,
from which four distinct sets of traffic
are controlled.
LORD MARCUS BEREsFoRD was recent
ly fined $500 for taking the law in his
own hands and assaulting a money
bender who had insulted him. The
magistrates contended with one another
for the privilege of offering bail for His
Lordship, and the mob that cheered in
the courtroom was graciously informed
that the young man would not be de-
tanned in custody even for night.
A JERUSALEM correspondent of the
London Times says that new blocks
meet the eye everywhere; along the Jaffa
road, and both the north and west sides
of the city, extensive buildings are in
course of erection; and even within the
walls, near the reputed tomb of David,
another large group of tenements is be-
ing built. The new buildings are all for
Jews, who are now crowding into
Jerusalem in great force.
BENJAMIN DANIELS, a farmer, recently
died at Scratby, England. Daniels is
said to be the last of the East Anglia
giants. His height was six feet six
inches. He weighed twenty-four stone,
and measured twenty inches from
shoulder. to shoulder across the back.
He has been known to carry four bushels
of wheat under each arm at one time,
and, when in great haste to have his
teamwork done, horses being much en-
gagged, to harness himself to harrow
and perform the work of an animal.
AN advertisement IN recent London
Times shows the practical form which
the efforts to suppress extravaganza at
funerals has taken in England The
notice reads thus: Funeral Company
Oimited), % New Bridge-st., Blackfriars
Reformed funerals without appoint
ments broughams instead of mourning
coaches; improved cars instead of
hearses." Another advertisement in the
same number of the Times calls atten-
ton to the "patent earth-to-earth collins"
of another "reform burial" company.
WHEN the yeas and nays were called
on question recently in the German
Parliament, Deputy German, of Alsace,
responded: "Non." The President
thereupon arose and reminded the AL
satan that the proceedings of the body
in which he was giving his vote were
conducted in the German language, and
vote in any other language was out of
order. M. German not wishing to lose
his vote, which was against making
Berlin the seat of the Supreme Court of
Germany, consented to say "Nein."
Miss ADDIE MARGARET PRooM, young
English UOVprnpsq in the family of Mime