The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-12
FOREIGN ITEMS.

THERE are 100000 bar-maids in Great
Britain. .....
OF all the newspapers in Italy not one
has a circulation of over $4,000 copies.
RURAL meteorology is progressing rap
idly in France, where 500 parishes re-
ceive daily weather warnings by tele-
graph, and the number is increasing.
THE Austrian General, William Barth,
oppressed by debts and beset by usurers,
shot himself lately in Vienna while in a
warm bath
THE thirtieth anniversary OF the Per-
sian Shah's accession to the throne has
been celebrated with due honor at Tehe.
ran
AN estimate of damage to French
property and to France through the late
German invasion places the figure at
1886, 957, 755 francs, or about 1921 739 439.
AT last accounts the ex-Empress Car.
lotta was in a state of raging madness,
and sought to break everything around
her. 1t was thought that her malady
was reaching its climax.
THE French Geographical Society has
awarded the great gold medal of the So
clety to Commander V. L. Cameron, of
Her Britannia Majesty's Navy, for his ex-
plorations in Africa.
Four tons of valentines have been
returned to the Dead Letter Office in
London from all parts of the Kingdom,
and are to be worked into pulp before
being sold to the paper-makers. ...
SENTENCE of ten years penal servitude
has been passed at the Liverpool Assizes
on James Gallagher, an American citizen
and pensioner, who was convicted of
stabbing Joseph Dunn in model lodg-
ing-house. DJ ..s. fHI
A WHALE sixty feet long has been cast
up by the sea near Tyre, near the same
spot where the whale cast up Jonah
2,700 years ago. The Pasha of Boirpt
has presented it to the museum of the
Syrian Protestant College.
WILLIAM DOUGLASS, of Scotland, wrote
Annie Laurie" about the close of the
seventeenth century. The fair Annie
was deaf, however, to his passionate APP
peal, and SO, refusing to pine away, he
ran away with one Elizabeth Clerk.
THE Temperance Committee of the En-
glish House of Lords has at length de-
cided the much-vexed question as to
when man is drunk, the decree being
that a person In state of inebriety can
not be called drunk until he is too far
gone to walk. .. ..r ....
NJ. PAUL DE CAssAGNAC has been SEN
fenced to TWO months Imprisonment and
5000 francs fine for insulting the French
Chamber of Deputies. He will probably
appeal against the judgment of the tribu-
nal, and sentence will besuspended pend
ing the appeal proceedings. HNH
A TUNNEL through the Pyrenees will
place France and Spain in railroad com.
munication by the 1st of January, 1878.
The work has been several years in
progress, and will save twelve hours of
tedious diligence riding between Perpig-
nan and Barcelona. Next year travellers
will be able to travel by rail from Paris
to Malaga, almost without changing
trains. rt %. .M5.... ......
THE will of the Baron de H. r., who
died last month in Paris, says: l leave
all my fortune, consisting of 100000
francs, to the bold man who will, in
presence Of a notary and another wit
ness, administer to my wife fifty blows
with stick. In case no one should full
fill these conditions devise my property
to the State for charitable uses. In order
to avoid trickery on the part of my
eventual heir, declare the legacy void
in case he should espouse my wife" The
will will be contested by the Baroness as
the work of lunatic, although her hus-
band was of apparently sound mind on
making it. ''.''