The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-21
FOREIGN ITEMS.
VICTOR EMMANUEL owns 343 pala,

AN address recently sent to the Pope
by the English Catholics bore 466, 1913
signatures.
SEYENTY-s SIX THOUSAND ordinary and
249 political offenders are undergoing
penal servitude in Western Siberia.
THE Newfoundland seal fishery for
the season resulted in a catch of 412,0 900
seals, $4,000 being taken on the second
trip.
y CORRESPONDENT says that at Lord
Derby's last reception there were ladies
present carrying jewels worth $50, 900 on
their heads
THE dog tax has had no effect in de-
crcasing the number of dogs in England.
The number kept has nearly doubled
since 1866.
AN old beggar woman died in Mort,
France, the other day, and in her
mattress was found $1,000 and will
bequeathing that sum to the town hos
pitfalls.
TwENTY-EIGHT Chinese boys are on
their way to English and French naval
colleges. japanese example has evil
IDENTIFY told even upon Chinese antiEuro
pean feeling.
LUDWIG Ill, Grand Duke Of Hesse, is
dead at the age of seventy-one. He is
succeeded by his brother Charles, born
in 1909 and married to cousin of the
Emperor of Germany
THE Old Catholics of Germany have
gained nearly 1900 in population the
past year. They now number SO, $40,
against 40, sos last year. OF this num-
Der Prussia has 81, 1877 and Baden IS, 500.
THE engineers who made the geologi-
cal explorations and sOundings for the
submarine tunnel between France and
England report that the tunnel is per-
fectly practicable, as there is continuous
bed of chalk between the two shores.
THERE are at present living in Nor
folk County, England, Mrs. Bennett,
aged eighty-fve, her daughter, Mrs
Southwell, fortyeight, her great grand
daughter, Naomi May, twenty, and her
great great-grand-son few weeks old.
THE German Government is preparing
the organization and equipment of the
Landstrum, which comprises all able
bodied men from seventeen to fifty
years of age not belonging to the Line,
Reserve, or Landwehr. The Landstrum
has not been summoned since 1913.
ONE Saturday last month 1000 bicy-
clists met at Hampton Court, near Lon
don. On the two previous days Mr.. r.
II. Wilkinson performed the unrivaled
feat of covering 200 miles in twenty
three hours and nineteen minutes He
is under nineteen and weighs 1876 pounds
VIENNA society has been greatly stirred
by the suicide of the Countess Eugene
AueTsperg. She shot herself at LaibaCh,
on the 18th ult., but fingered till the gath.
The Countess was only twenty-four years
of age, and she committed suicide in
consequence of an attack of toothache.
A PARIS Snowman, whose daughter
was recently married, presented to his
son-in-law, as her fortune, an elephant
that danced a fandango, camel that
went down on its knees with its head to
the east at sunset, dog that reckoned
up accounts, and two canaries that played
cards.
1T is stated from Vienna that a man
named Bernik, a groom of an aristocratic
house, during a fit of religious fervor
nailed both his feet and his left hand to
the floor of his bed room, and then with
his knife cut his left side open. During
the entire operation he gave no sign of
pain.
A CURIOUS charge of manslaughter was
investigated in Bristol, England, recently.
A boy having thrown a stone at shop,
the shopkeeper chastised him. TIE bows
mother demonstrated, and in the confu-
sion fell down dead. 1t was alleged that
the shopkeeper struck her, but he denied
having done SO.
THE Emperor Alexander has thanked
the Holy Synod for finishing, after twenty
years of incessant labor, the translation
of the Bible into the Russian vernacular.
This is the first translation into Russian
approved by the Gar and the Church.
The British and Foreign Bible Society's
translation is now prohibited in Russia.
KING VICTOR EMMANUEL wrote to the
Pope to congratulate him on the occa-
sion of his jubilee. His Holiness, in re-
ply, demanded that the Italian Govern
ment should not be permitted to despoil
the parishes and brotherhoods, as other
wise he would be compelled to protest
in strong terms against that fresh attack
on the church.
NEW BRUNSWICK church door bore
placard lately, which read; "The Rec
tor wishes notice to be given to the par
ishioners that, as a School Trustee, he is
detained at the gaol at Hampton on &C
count of the notorious suit-at law,
Evans 0S. The School Trustees of Dis.
trict No 6, Westfeld, and cannot hold
divine service as customary"
The net result Of the measures in force
in the different provinces in India toward
exterminatingwi animals and venomous
snakes where upward of 81 900 persons
and $4,000 head of cattle were destroyed
during one year by wild animals and
venomous snakes, is that %, 357 wild ami.
male and 270 1856 venomous snakes have
been killed, and that 1870, OBS rupees have
been expended in rewards.
THE public are cautioned against pur-
chasing certain securities stolen the
night of June 1 from the mail car while
in transit from London to Paris. The
securities consist of French rentes,
Egyptian, Spanish, Russian and United
States bonds of an aggregate value of