The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-24
FOREIGN ITEMS.

GILLow u Co., the most eminent up
nolsterers In London, occupied precisely
the same site in 1877 that they do to-day.
London shops are very long lived.
The King of Portugal has Just pub
lished, in Lisbon, thousand copies of
his translation of Hamlet The ladies
and gentlemen at court say it is very
good one.
In France national subscription has
been opened for monument to NJ.
Theirs, to be erected in the Place St.
Georges, Paris. Subscriptions will also
be received from any persons in this
country.
1T has become very common for ladies
of the Russian nobility in the large cities
OF the Empire to offer their diamonds to
the public treasury, and wear as orna-
ments buttons torn from the uniforms of
slain officers and soldiers.
THE Tauchnitz collection of English
authors, published at Leipsic, comprises
1889 volumes. Of these, 1897 are by
British writers, and the remaining seven
ty are by American authors. The thou
sandth volume is critical edition of the
Now Testament.
The Tyrolese cure freckles by washing
them at night in water in which the
moon shines. In the Hartz Mountains
and Silesia the remedy for goitres is to
turn ones face to the increasing moon
three evenings running;then take stone,
silently touch the swelling with it and
throw it over the left shoulder-AW the
Year Round.
A CHINESE giant, greater than the once
famous Chang, is expected in England
from China. His name is Yaou Shan,
and when last measured he was eight
feet three inches high and was still grow
ing. Unlike Chang, whose limbs were
well formed and firmly knit together,
Yaou Shan is badly proportional, his
head being absurdly small and his joints
loosely set.
A RECENT traveller has given an &C
count of the manners and customs of the
Zaperas of Ecuador. The mode of court
ship presents some suggestive features.
The enamored swain goes to the woods
and hunts game; when he has procured
it, he presents it to the maiden of his
choice. This constitutes the proposal;
if she accepts, she cooks the meat.
Hence, before entering upon the bonds
of matrimony, the Zapora sutton has the
advantage over civilized woers of being
assured as to the ladys capacity for pre-
pairing square meal. On the other hand,
the ZapOriness is favored with some fore
knowledge as to her spouse's ability to
keep the larder supplied.
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Japan:
Bear in mind, Asiatics live as no other
races can, and upon food which would
not sustain a European house dog.
Frugal as badgers, industrious as bees,
they undersell every labor market which
they enter, and Guido every civilized
artisan at his own trade. Anyone who
sees Japanese carpenter at work, with
his toes for wise, and his thighs and
stomach for bench, has seen tools we'll
used, and goods equal to European
turned out. They will, in fact, become
formidable rivals of all kinds of West
ern manufactures. The Japanese are
always ready to learn, and to outvie
everything that the West does, and this
they do with less food, less air, less
clothing, and less comfort than any civ
lllZeu workman"
THE visitor to Algeria in these days
will find that the French are proving the
fallacy of the current notion that they
cannot successfully colonize Notwith-
standing the perpetual dread of pillage
and assassination on the part of the
Arabs, the colony steadily advances
The country is for the most part exceed
ingly fertile, the scenery lovely, and the
climate from October to May nearly
perfect as climate can be. In 1880 the
commerce of Algeria, exports and i'm
ports, represented 100000 francs, in
1850 it had risen to 92,000,O0O in 1860
to 157, 100000, and in 1874 to BAG, 0O0,-
600. Great attention is now being paid
to vitriculture, and good beer is made.
An Arab has established a large soda
water factory. Another industry is that
of scent distilling. Vast tracts are de-
voted to flower farms. The most es-
teemed of Algerian perfumes are made
from the orange tree, tuberose, jasmine
and verbena.
A HERO has been dug up in Siberia.
1t is Viscount Fitz Gibbon, the gallant
Irish cavalry officer who was supposed
to have fallen in the celebrated charge
of the Six Hundred at Balaklava. 1t was
never ascertained whether the hero was
really killed or not. When last seen he
was leaning, faint and wounded, on his
horse; and now the story goes that he
was taken prisoner by the Russians, and,
for some insult to an officer, quietly
transported to Siberia. After having
been hopelessiy imbedded there all these
years, he is now said to be on his way to
Ireland and Britain, to look at the statue
which has been appraised in his honor at
Wellesley Bridge, to shake hands with
Mr.. Tennyson for writing such nice
verses about the boys, and, last of all, to
claim the estate. Ayl there's the rub
The claimant may be the heroic Wis.
count, but the tale has an archaeological
smell.
A NOVEL operation for consumption
was lately performed upon Archibald
Chatterton at Campbcllton, New Bruins
wick. His right lung was softened and |
broken down, with the exception of a
small portion at the top. Dr. Balloon, of
that town, thinking that probably he
could not recover, made deep incsion
in the young mans chest at the lower
end of the shoulder blade, and inserted a
silver tube, through which he drew out