The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-17
FOREIGN ITEMS.

2iAS Uo6H dppOluICu NONOiAOA Va "AAN
province of Soudan.
THE number of cafes and public
houses (other than restaurants in France
is not less than 115 900.
Tx Great Britain, during the past ten
years, the death-rate OF smallpox has In
creased over Sc per cent.
A PIECE of Gobelins tapestry has just
of 100000.
MILAN, in Italy, has 275, 900 inhabit-
ants, and maintains twenty-five theaters,
ali of which more than pay expenses.
A STATUE is to be erected at Lons-le-
Saulnier, in France, to Rouget de Isle,
the author and composer Of the Mar
seillaise."
THE combined capital of the Roths-
childs now foots up So, 400, 900, 900, or
well nigh on to twice as much as our
whole national debt.
A TELEGRAPHIC line will soon be COM
menced on the shores of the Medit ezra
mean, to traverse the African continent
to the Cape of Good Hope.
IT is an old practice in Cambridge
SuAIC w pllhhlC WIN
chat the doorstep of house belonging
TO man suspected of beating his wife,
chat being the result of thrashing.
THE present winter is remarkable in
England for unusual symptoms of early
vegetation; and this is still more the case
in France, where in some districts the
season appears, by all reports, to be sew
eral weeks in advance.
Ir is expected that the present London
be the intention of the Queen to spend
two or three days of each week after
Easter at Buckingham Palace. She has
not done this since the death of the
Prince Consort.
THE recent fire in Toxic, Japan
ranks among the great CONGREGATIONS of
tue world. 1t began in the densest part
of the city, cutting gap half mile
wide, and after burning over two square
miles, rendering 100000 people home
less, was stopped by the waters of the
bay.
CoURBET, condemned for numbering a
woman in Paris to twenty years impris-
onment, has addressed a letter to the
President of the court, imploring that
the sentence should be changed to one
of death He declares that person
guilty of such a crime is not worthy to
live.
THE cattle disease has shown itself in
several sections in Silesia, in Germany,
and also among the cattle driven to Ber-
lin for slaughter. The disease is ascribed
to the influence of foreign cattle, i'm
ported in disregard of Government regu-
lations. These are to be more strictly
enforced in future.
THE existing famine in the Madras
and Bombay Presidencies in India will
cost at least $32,000,00 Already in
Bombay an area of "a, 900 square miles
is affected, and in Madras the total area
affected is 81, 700 square miles. In the
two Presidencies 100000 human be
ings are suffering.
A CENTENARIAN cat has turned up a
Gundagai, New South Wales. The ami
NAL is reported to have been brough
from England in the Golden Grove, ONT
of three store ships which accompanied
the first fleet of convict ships that an
chored in Botany Bay, Jan. 20, 1888.
is supposed to he the sole survivor o
seventy seven quadrupeds transported OF
that vessel.
ONE of the most extraordinary judicia
errors on record was rectifed in the frs
week of this year in Bristol, England
A man named Lewes had been convicted
on a charge of stealing books. A few
days later it was found that the CRANE
Jury had failed to find a true bill agains
him, and had ignored the charge TO
want of evidence Nevertheless tn
magistrate had convicted him, although
he had not even been indicted, and whel
the order arrived for his release he haC
been close cropped and dressed in con
vict uniform. Lewes threatened al
action for damages, but his chance o
redress probably depends largely upol
his pecuniary means.
ADoLPH z. is young, not unprepossess
ing, and a clerk in a wealthy banker
office in Paris, on salary of 5000. Tn
banker has pretty daughter of eighteen
Adolph has not cent, but that does no
deter him from waiting upon his EN-
ployer one morning and saying: Sir
4 have the honor of asking Your daugh
ter's hand in marriage" The banker
astonished, rang the bell, and told tn
waiter to throw Adolph out of the win
dow. Gas you please" calmly said tn
young clerk, {" but before that is don
learn that am about to become part
ner in the London house of Bathurst
Co" At this the banker softens. 9th
proof, sir, the proof of what you say.
Give me forty eight hours in which t
go to England and | will bring you tn
proof Adolph hurries to London, pre-
sents himself at the Office of Bathurst
Co, and says: Il have come to propos
that you take me as partner" and, a
Mr.. Bathurst looks as though he though
Adolph demented, he adds: " al
about to marry the daughter of NJ. P, c
Paris" Adolph is thereupon asked t
he seated, they converse, and come
yserms. The bright young man return
to Paris carrying to his future fatheriI
law the proof of his statement, and tn
young people are welded.
The Blue-Glass Epidemic.