The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-16
FOREIGN ITEMS.

AN English peer who won $4,000 on
OLeary promised the pedestrian $4,000
if he won. ".. a'
PRINCESS BEATRICE, youngest andn
child of Queen Victoria, celebrated her
twentieth day recently.
GUATEMALA has 900 miles of telegraph
line in operation, and several hundred
miles more are soon to be completed.
In 1901 Great Britain had 100000 900
people, Ireland 100000. Now the
former has 27,000,000, the latter $780,
900.
FROM Dec. II, 1869, to March 81 last,
the names of over 100000 persons were
placed on the register of habitual Grim
inals in England and Wales.
In the list of last years French sui
cides, twenty-nine were of children, nine
were fifteen years of age, six fourteen,
nine thirteen, one twelve, two eleven,
one ten and one nine.
THE Gar has put stop to the pur-
chase of American locomotives and rail-
road coaches by decreeing that the Rus
slams must manufacture these things for
themselves.
MAGYAR is the language taught in s, 404
Hungarian schools, German in 2,1S4,
Roumanian in 2,130, Siovack in 2,057,
Russian in 500, Seryian in $50, Cr9atian
in II. In 1882 schools instruction is
given in two languages, in 532 in three
languages. "..'' .. .|.
FORMERLY the demand for farms was
so great in England that tenants ran
race to the steward. Nowadays land is
to be had in every county. In Northern
England landlords are compelled to take
it into their hands. In Scotland East
Lothian, the garden of agriculture, seems
| to have fallen into state of insolvency.
A PARTISAN manufaCture has received
an order from Turkey for. a large num-
Der of white shirts, upon which extracts
from the Koran are to be printed in sky
blue letters. Upon number of white
wooden undershirts is to be stamped the
signature of Mohammed. The articles
| are intended for distribution to Turkish
soldiers when upon especially dangerous
duty, to stimulate their courage under
the impression that they are talismans.
A SPANISH maid kept fancy store in
udullI, CulICd ldohlOh JOulutll, l4Ib
loved a Government clerk. Her father,
after many futile efforts to induce her to
break her engagement, entered her room
while she was still in bed and fired a re-
volver at her, the ball lodging in her
head He then blew out his own brains.
| The young woman summoned her love,
and priest married them. She then be-
queathed her property to her husband
and received the sacrament.
A PARIS newspaper gives the following
as the ages of some of the leading public
men of Europe: Prince Gortschakoff, 70;
Lord Beaconsfield, 70; Mr.. Gladstone,
IS; Prince de Bismarck, So; Lord Gran
vile, 81; Marshal de Mac Mahon, 80; M.
Theirs, 50; Emperor William, 80; Victor
Hugo, rs; Thomas Carlyle, 81; Alfred
Tennyson, 81; Bishop Dupanloup, 70;
Plus TX, 81 Garibaldi, 70; Earl Russell,
"a; Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, 80; NJ
Jules Simon, 50. .t.-
A REMARKABLE proof of the efficacy of
vaccination is shown by report just
issued by the medical officer of the
Waterford Rural Sanitary Authority in
England. Smallpox visited family,
nine in number, residing in Bushey.
Three had been vaccinated and six had
not. All six unvaGcinated persons took
the disease, and four died, while the
three who had been Vaccinated escaped
altogether-one of the three being
child at the breast, fed by its mother
within two hours of her death.
On tie nth of January last the Sa-
means hauled down the Steinberger flag
and announced that they were done with
Americans. At last accounts there was
neither law nor government on the ISL
| ands. The German and English Consuls
have informed the natives that they must
form Government, and threaten to en-
| force the instruction by aid of the Ger
man men-of war now in the harbor. The
sale of liquor has been stopped by the
Consuls, and many of the natives are
urging Malietoa to resume his kingly
! functions.
A FEW months ago Russian peasant
and his wife and four children, while
travelling in sleigh along the banks of
the Pruth, were pursued by a pack of
wolves. The peasant urged on the
horses, but soon saw that the wolves
were fast gaining upon him. At the mo-
ment when the sleigh was surrounded by
the ravenous beasts the man seized one
of the children, threw it in the midst of
them, and while the wolves were strug-
Cling over their prey he FASTENED on his
horses and gained ground Four times
the wolves came up with the fugitives,
and four times the horrible sacrifice was
completed. At last the peasant and his
wife arrived at the nearest village, leav-
ing behind them the bones Of their four
children. In the bitterness of her de-
spair the mother informed against her
husband, but the Judges considering
that if the peasant had not resigned him
self to the horrible sacrifice he would not
only have lost his children, but also his
wife, acquitted the prisoner sd.
WHEN Won Moltke returned to Hol-
stein, after recognizing the Turkish
army, he found living there with his sis
ter-who had married Mr.. Butte, an En-
glishman-a young girl between fifteen
and sixteen, a daughter of Mr.. Bute's
first marriage. The pretty little girl
loved already, before seeing him, the
older who had sent from the Orient
such interesting letters to his sister. AS
for Won Moltke, he had until then seen