The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIA had in 1874 population
of 1928, 100 to an area of 3,116,042
square miles.
DIsRAELI is still reported verbatim for
the London Times by the scribe who took
down his maiden speech forty years ago.
THE will of Mr.. George Moore, CT
Whitehall, Cumberland, England, be-
queaths $59S, 500 for charitable pur-
poses.
A MODEL city called Hygeia is to be
built on the south coast of England by
DR.. Richardson, and will embody the
best results of medical knowledge.
NINE PERRoN, a wealthy and eccentric
lady of Paris, who died recently, be-
queathed So, 600 francs to the municipali
ty of Marseilles for founding an asylum
for unfortunate dogs and horses.
THE Rotnschilds are said to be worth
all of them together-the agreeable sum
of 50, 400, 600, 900. One of them, Baron
Edward, has just purchased at auction a
curious piece of furniture, covered with
plates of Sevres, for 100000 francs.
Mr.. j. H. IRWIN, student in the Msn-
chester (England) infirmary, has been
presented with silver cup as remem-
brance of his heroic bravery in allowing
twenty-five ounces of his blood to be in
fused into the veins of poor dying man,
who thus recovered.
A LITTLE girl of twelve recently
drowned herself at Besseges, France, be-
cause her mother, an inveterate fault
hDr 4 80. rr;,,
ing the cat a sausage. The child told u
playmate that if she heard any more
about willful waste she would commit
suicide, and kept her word.
A SHEFFIELD (Eng.) boy, nine years
old, taking care of his one-year-old sister,
while the mother was out, first tried to
set her clothes on fire, failing in which
he began cutting her throat with a cary
ing knife. Interrupted by neighbors, he
attempted to hang himself, and was
nearly successful being quite black in
the face when cut down.
JEAN JOURNAL the soldier who
seized Louis Napoleon in 1886, during
his attempt to seduce the army at Stras-
bourg from their allegiance, died lately
The Prince offered him promotion,
money, a cross and a pension but Four
NAL replied only by keeping his bayonet
pointed at his prisoners breast until
others came to secure him.
HOMEOPATHY appears to be making
Roadway in France. From statistics
just published by the Academy of
Science we learn that there are seventy
homeopathic doctors in regular practice
in Paris and over 300 in the provinces.
Since 1859 three homeopathic hospitals
have been founded-two in Paris and
one at Lyons.
NEAR Epinal, France, three youngsters
bought two quart bottles of brandy at
the fair, and drank the whole between
them within an hour, when they became
insensible. The youngest, aged thirteen
died on being taken home; another, aged
sixteen, expired few hours later. The
third, aged seventeen, recovered, and
attended the funeral of his two COM
rades.
In Maidstone, England, the other day,
the master and mistress of St. Johns
School, which was built and endowed by
the late Earl of Romney, quarreled,
through jealousy on the part of the
woman of her niece. In fit of passion
she threw u knife at her husband, as
they were sitting together at a table, and
the point of the knife striking her hus-
band in the throat killed him almost in
simultaneously.
AN extraordinary occurrence took
place recently at Crowle, England. Will
lam Liggott, pork butcher, sold his
wife for $40 to Chapman Pidd landlord
of the Fishmongers' Arms. The articles
OF sale were drawn up at a solicitors
office, the money paid, and the wife
handed over. Both parties appeared
satisfied with their bargain. Pidd had
been widower only few months.
THE spot where the Apostle Peter was
wont to baptize has been discovered in
the Ostrian Catacombs, Rome, along the
Via Nomentana. An inscription has
been deciphered by Signor Armellini, in
which the name of St. Peter occurs, and
which would serve to place beyond
doubt the previous conclusions as to the
Apostles connection with the Ostrian
SdJdCOulDS.
SOME sheep belonging to a farmer
named Reed having been stolen in the
neighborhood of colliery village in
Durham, England, while the thief was
still undiscovered, a local preacher, hav-
ing collection to make, thought he
would turn the event to good account;
so he said: eve have collection to
make this morning, and, for the glory of
God, whichever of you stole Mr.. Reeds
sheep don't put anything on the plate"
OF course everybody joined in the col
lection.
A YOUNG bank clerk at Toronto, Mr..
Barber, gets $4,000 year for five
years. This is how: 1t was found that
he had been taking the securities of the
bank (of which he was custodian and
using them himself as collaterals to OBJ
tain loans on for stock speculations, or
to lend to other people for a considera-
ton. A public trial would have exposed
a great number of his accomplices, men
of high position, so he elected to be tried
summarily, pleaded guilty, and was sent
to the penitentiary for five years. The
men of high position just alluded to paid
him 800, 900 to take this course.
A VIOLIN recently bought by Russian
for 50 900 has a curious history H. was