The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-06
FOREIGN ITEMS.

the population of the country to be s.
1876, 1876.
THE Indian navy, abolished in 1868, is
to be resuscitated under the direction of
the Viceroy.
ONE predominant feature of Hunga-
rian watering places in general is great
extravaganza in dress. The ladies dress
four times day.
Two YOUNG girls, in fit of religious
enthusiasm, recently drowned themselves
in a miraculous well at Marpingen, in
Rhenish Prussia
SIXTY THOUSAND POUNDS is the sum
that Paris has allotted for the. prizes to
be awarded to exhibitors at the French
Exhibition of 1878.
In Sumatra, the expedition of the
Dutch Geographical Society has discov-
cred mountainous region of great beauty
and fertility, peopled only by few
wretched Malays.
CIRcAssIAN women are selling their
glorious hair in order to provide funds
for the wounded soldiers. Some of their
tresses, four feet two inches long, are
sold in London.
ACCORDING to the fifth report of tie
Local Government Board in Ireland, the
number of indoor paupers relieved last
year was a little over 43, 900, the smallest
number ever registered.
+ THE great Sutro tunnel is now nearly
three and half miles in length, and has
less than 1900 feet to go in order to
reach the main working of the Comstock,
cutting through into the Savage mine.
EARL RUSSELL celebrated his eighty
fifth birthday Aug. IS. 1t is sixty-four
years since he first entered Parliament as
member for Tavistock, and thirty-one
since he assumed his first Premiership.
THE population of Norway in 1865
was about 460,00 inhabitants. Since
1915 it has increased about per cent.
annually, and the census of Dec. 81, 1875,
gave the number of 1870 inhabit-
ants. In the last thirty years the annual
excess of births over deaths has been, on
an average, 1.3S per cent.
AT South Motion, England, recently,
an old man named Harper was sentenced
to a months imprisonment for having
used certain subtle craft, means or de.
vice" by practicing as a wizard. He WIS.,
tied woman who was i'll, and affected
to treat her by means of "magic rods"
having the names of planets on them.
He charged twenty-five shillings for his
services. Several witnesses for the de.
| Tense testified that the defendants "magic
rods" had cured them when other means
had failed. Notice of appeal was given.
THE trade in human hair continues to
increase at Marseilles. Six or seven
years ago the annual quantityimported did
not exceed sixteen tons, but during the
past year ninety-two tons were registered
as having arrived, and of that amount
forty-three came from Italy, while China
supplied thirty-six, Turkey five, and Japan
three tons, the remainder being made up
of importations from Egypt, India, Ger
many, Belgium, Spain and Algeria. The
total amount of hair imported into France
last year is estimated at 1872 tons; value,
100000.
ACCORDING to Paris paper, French
lady of rank has just died at the age of
| eighty-four, who had been accustomed,
for the last thirty years, to smoke pipe
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married wealthy sea Captain, aud OBJ
tanned from him promise to abandon
smoking, of which he was extremely
fond. He kept his word, but died shortly
after from regret so it is alleged. His
widow was so overwhelmed with grief
and remorse that from that time to the
day of her death she smoked a couple of
pipes day, and desired at her death
that her pipe should be buried with her,
THE Gar receives much of the blame
for the recent Russian reverses, and it is
said that his presence with the army
operates unfavorably upon the plans of
the commanding officers and the move
ments of,the troops. He exercised nee
essarily more or less influence and au-
thority, without shouldering any respon-
sibility, thus weakening the decision
and energy of his Generals. The pres
ence of Nicholas |. at the front in 1928
proved equally unfortunate for the same
reasons. The Car is said to have left
Bulgaria at the earnest request of the
Grand Duke.
Political societies are now springing
up in all parts of Greece to stir up the
country to war against the Porte. At
Thebes holy band" has been formed
out o. physicians, students and the rich
est of the citizens, and a second holy
band" of students is assembled at Athens.
Two important societies, that of " Ma
tional Defense" and that of Brother
hood" have decided to unite their eff
forts for the national cause. They
possess considerable funds, and upward
of 1000 rifles, with the necessary am
munition. These arms are to be sent to
the Greeks in Turkey, who have already
been provided with several thousands of
rifles by these societies.
n JAPANESE paper, the Hochi Tehin-
bun, gives distressing account of the
misery at present prevailing in Corea.
The people are dying by thousands from
want of food. When a vessel enters the
port laden with rice, corn or provisions
of any kind il is at once surrounded by
bands of hungry natives, who endeavor
TO seize its contents, and blood is fire.
auently shed in keeping them Off Food
is, il is true, distributed by the Govern
ment 10 the poor every ten days, on the
10Th, Goth and 30th o. each month; but
the amount at the disposal of the au-
thorities is utterly insufficient to feed the
multitude Of supplicants. The horrors
of disease and pestilence have also been
added to those of famine, and the bodies