The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
FOREIGN ITEMS.

day.
1T cost nearly $4,000 last year to col
iect and print the returns asked for by
various members of the British Parlia-
ment.
THE painting of the Virgin and child,
by Jan Vaneyck Joan of Bruges) has
been stolen from the Berlin National
Gallery.
PARIS has about $4,000 professional
6eggars and a society for the abolish
nIent of the use of the evening dress
coat.
In England in 1878 iron and steel
yratis were selling at e15 and G22 per ton
respectively; now they may be had for
Ga 5s. and Ct 5s. Pig iron has fallen to
less than hall its price in 1873
A GERMAN gentleman recently present
cd himself at Windsor Castle and in
formed the officer in attendance that he
had called to marry the Princess Beatrice
The police kindly volunteered to show
him the estate, and drove him to the old
Windsor workhouse, where he was left
IN charge of the authorities.
RUNAWAY criminals in France will now
run greater risk of detection than ever,
owing to the new electrical sketching
apparatus, by which portraits of the gen
tleGan or lady who may be wanted can
be geographically outlined in a few mo
ments throughout the country from the
head office in Paris.
THE Baroness Mayer de Rothschild
lately died on board her yacht at Nice
Ahp had hnnO coilipCr bo
ganean all winter in the hope of benefit
2ng her health. She was the widow of
the youngest son of Baron Nathan MAYER
de Rothschild. Her only child, Mdlle.
Hannah de Rothschild, inherits the es-
tate.
4 TERRIBLE fire broke out at Lagos,
West Africa, on the Both of January, by
which one-third of the town, including
two churches, was destroyed. The dam
zage was estimated at 100000. Seven
persons were killed. The fire was
can sed by the reckless discharge of fire.
S1ms by the natives during one of their
celebrations.
The railway from Vera Cruz to the
City of Mexico is nearly 268 miles long,
has many fine iron bridges and eighteen
lengthy tunnels. 1t cost the round sum
of 40,O00,OO0 Of Mexican dollars, and is
held TO be the finest constructed railway
on the American continent. Its greatest
elevation above the sea at Vera Cruz IS
$4,000 feet.
BIETT, the illicit manufacturer of ma
taaiette, a kind of dynamite which has
been prohibited in France, has been sen
fenced to three years imprisonment and
the payment of fine of 10000 francs.
E0rty-two barrels of his explosive prod
ucts were placed in the Fort of Larmont.
where they blew up all the buildings and
killed ten men.
In England, recently, Ann Vibert, a
widow aged seventy-seven, sued Richard
Aamaton, aged siXty-seven, for breach of
promise. They had agreed to marry, but
on the eve of the day appointed for the
wedding she made beefsteak- pie which
TO the man proved unpalatable There
'upon he declared he would not marry
her. The jury awarded the plaintiff fifty
dollars damages.
NINE. CORA, of the Cora troupe, which
das been having an excellent run at the
Cape of Good Hope, conceived a violent
dislike to Miss Alice Wren, a member of
the company, and in a fit of passionate
Jealousy strangled the young lady to
&aeath Miss Wren was resident of Buff
tato, and sister of Fred Wren, the come
dian. Cora was convicted and sentenced
60 death, but the sentence was committed
to three years solitary confinement.
AT the Bridgend petty session the Rev.
Rees Prichard, vicar of Llandyvodgw,
Glamorganshire, appeared in answer to
an adjourned summons charging him
with having used profane language.
Evidence was given to the effect that the
defendant, during an alteration in a
railway carriage, spoke profanely six
times; and the Bench inflicted upon him
the penalty-imposed by an old statute
of IS. for each curse.
THE official authorities of India define
Queen Victoria as Kaiser Victoria, in
stead of Empress Victoria, and so pub
iished her name on all documents. This
surprises her subjects in England. The
Greeks called Caesar Kaiser, and the
name was adopted by the Germans. 1t
is, however, Of Hindoo origin, and signi-
fies absolute master. A park at Luck
now has, for ages, borne the name of
haiser-bage or Sovereign's garden.
THE great Chinese wall, built twenty
centuries ago to resist the Mongul in
cursionists, still serves as fertilization
1890 miles long. 1t has been found
hard to garrison such long line, and
sometimes it has been passed. Still the
belief in the Chinese intellect as to bar
riers is immense, and now one against
RUSSIAN interlOpers is considered in
tensely desirable, though an expensive
item.
THE following measure has been passed
by the German Government: "That all
the old discharged soldiers of the French
service who had rejoned their families
IN Alsace-Lorraine, and who are under
thirty years of age, are ordered to leave
Immediately if they do not declare that
they renounce their option for French
nationality. Those who are unmarried
are bound to depart in forty.eight hours;
fifteen days delay are allowed to those
who are married." 1t is believed that
this measure affects about 5 900 families,