National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-01-02
FOREIGN NOTES.

A society of natural philosophers has been ms
tituted at Tifiis, in Armenia.
Russia has contributed &75o.0O0 for the reor-
ganiZation of the Servian army.
In Rhensh Prussia they are planting fruit
trees on both sides OF the railroads.
A converted Arab is publishing paper in the
language of his country in London.
The sixty second part Of the inhabitants Of
Prussia have deposited some money in saving
banks.
A Russian Colonel, Magininof, has been
awarded by common consent the jeweled sabre
sent to Prince Milan for 1.-The bravest soldier in
the Servian army"
The excavations at Olympia, according to
report made by Professor Adler to the Berlin
Archaeological Society, are being pushed forward
with great vigor.
1t is said that the conversations of Lord Sails
bury with Prince Bismarck have led to direct
correspondence between the Emperor Alexander
and Queen Victoria favorable to the interests Of
peace.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl Of
Mansfield, and Lord Selborne-as trustees under
the Rev Stanley Leathes, NJ. A, to deliver the
Warburtonian lectures at Lncoln's-1nn.
A commission has been appointed, of which NJ.
Longperier is president for the purpose Of pre-
ton Retrospection, 1878. The collection will en-
brace objects from oil countries from prehistoric
times to 1900. ...
volunteer and simple soldier, was blamed the
other day by his sergeant for the clumsy way he
held the broom when sweeping the dormitory:
''YOu hold the handle as If you were sweeping
your own drawing room.n
Col. Dupressoir, who commanded the regiment
of curassiers of the French Guards during the
celebrated attack at Rezonville in 1870, has just
died at Nancy. The regiment, which numbered
40 officers and 600 men, lost in the attack 2S officers
and AIS men.
The Austrian, French and Russian mail steam
ers had the privilege Of sailing through the Bos-
phorus at any hour of the night. The Turkish
Government has withdrawn this permission. The
Turkish journal Vdkfr recommends to arm the
whole nation and to organize the militia.
A London magistrate took occasion recently to
rebuke the fashion Of wearing pockets at the back
of ladies' jackets. After inspecting the arrange
venient arrangement for pickpocket, and that
he wondered who could have invented such
fashion.
At q recent meeting of Prussan army officers
it is reported that Count Won Moltke said Rus
STA, in making war against Turkey, embarks in
great and difficult enterprise. Should such
war break out it would probably be laborious and
irksome to the soldier, and without any decided
result for the commander in-chief."
Herr L. Underestimate has contributed pa
per to the Arciir for Anfhropologie, in which he
declares his conviction that the drawings upon
the fossil bones found in the Thayingen Cave are
spurious and the result of Intentional deception.
and q stag, were generally admired in scientific
circles in 1874 (when they were found) as being
among the most perfect specimens of the kind.
They also led to the supposition Of the highly
civilized state of the ancient cave inhabitants.
Herr Lndenschmidt produces evidence to the ef-
feet that precisely the same drawings are con-
tanned in little work by Leutemann, "Die
Thiergarten und Menageren init 1hren In
sassen, - which was published in 1885, i. e., six
years before the discovery of the cave near Thay-