The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-13
FOREIGN ITEMS.


produced $75, 200.
THE Colorado beetle is fashionable
model for scarf pin in London.
DR.. STRoUsBERG, the bankrupt Rus
sian railway speculator, has been re-
leased. -
THE Belgian census just taken shows
the population Of the country to be
$3.50, 1855.
The average destruction of life in
Great Britain from drowning now reaches
over 1900 per annum.
LONDON Truth tells of a Duchess who
rented out her house and her visiting list
for 5000 per annum.
THIRTY-EIGHT papers are published in
Finland and only one of them is daily.
1t is printed half in Swedish and half in
Finnish.
AFTER the first battle of Plevna the
body of famous Circassian chieftain,
Prince Rubsninski, was found on the
field, with a saber of solid gold, hilt and
blade.
A MAN named Adrian Perez, who was
surprised in the act of hanging himself
in house in Mexico recently, was cut
down and then sent to prison for having
stolen the rope he was using.
AT Nicaria, near Samos, in the Grecian
Archipelago, father wishing to dispose
Of his daughters hand selects as the
bridegroom the man who can swim for
the longest time under water.
A LETTER from Isaac Butt, home rule
har IF porlioJpart for | oorinly Tra
land, ridicules the idea that Parliament
will ever grant home rule in order to get
rid of the annoyance or inconvenience
Irish members can cause.
A FRENCH paper, speaking of the diff
ference between the French and the
Spaniards, says that in France ninety
five out of every hundred murders have
money for their object, while in Spain
love is the cause of ninety eight out of
every hundred crimes.
AN Austrian clerk has been convicted
of defrauding the Bank Of Paris of SILL
800. The fraud, as in too many other
cases, was only discovered when he went
off for his holidays. London banks now
often insist on clerks taking holidays
even when they do not care about doing
so.
FIFTY young BARRIERS recently left Co.
penhagen for Russia, where they are APP
pointed medical assistants. Every bar
Der in Denmark has to pass an examina-
ton in the elements of surgery. They
were accompanied by score of working
butchers, who also are to be attached to
the Russian army.
THERE are fifty Scotch shootings,
ranging in rent from 600 to GA 900 a
year. In Perthshire alone there are 400
sporting grounds, ranging from $50 to
FL, 700 each. The total sporting rent
roll of Scotland is over million ster-
ling. Most of this land was not worth
rental of fifty cents an acre sixty years
ago.
Two LITTLE, edible dogs from China
have been received at the Acclimatization
Garden in Paris. These interesting ca
mines have heads like pugs, and are very
small and fat and short-legged, and are
eaten usually when two months old, after
being fed exclusively on rice and milk.
They are eaten roasted and served with
soy.
AN American bricklayer who has gone
to Paris to improve his condition affords
fertile subject for the consideration of
political economists on this side of the
water. He now earns nine francs day,
or nearly two dollars, and the Paris pa
pers "point with pride" at him, and re-
mark that his presence in France is worth
whole volume of comment on the prob
able results of the American strikes.
THE Natal Mercury says that eight ad-
ditional wives of Nosingela, King of the
Maputa River, had decamped, but five of
them were caught in the bush. He Or
dered them to be strangled in the follow
ing manner: A moose rope was placed
around the neck of each, and while ne
gro pulled at each end, another struck it
violently with heavy stick, in order
still further to tighten it.
Coop cooks seem to be the scarcest
artistes of the period. About year ago
the guardians of the poor in great Lon
don parish determined to teach cooking
to the girls in their training schools, and
offered $3.50 year very good wages in
England for a good plain cook, with
board and lodging, for cook teacher
There was not single reply to their adj
vertisement.
IT is significant proof of progress in
Ireland that active steps are being taken
to extend railway communication. Landed
proprietors have become so sensible of
the advantage to their property by prox.
unity to line that they now come for
ward literally. Thus, toward branch line
recently constructed, a lady subscribed
half the money required, and other pro-
prietors gave the necessary land. The
line was soon made.
A LETTER from an engineer in Chill,
South America, who runs train through
the Andes where the grades are 200 and
300 feet to the mile, describes the CHILEAN
as most recklessly indifferent man, de-
void of all emotion. "Often," he writes,
"have been running down grade at
rate that brought my heart to my
mouth, and those Gillian galoots would
be laying off in the dumps, smoking their
paper cigars and regarding the scenery
as calm and as cool as canvas covered
ham. They didn't know the difference;
forty miles an hour around embankment
curves was all the same to them"
A Remarkable Case Of VindicatlOn.