The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-14
FOREIGN ITEMS.

IN ulIceu years the savings Dank de-
posits in England have amounted to
$685., 100000.
SOME Savoyards recently waited on
the Pope to present valuable book.
Every page was bank note.
VICTOR EMMANUEL nowreceives a sal
airy of 50, $4,000. The Parliament
had to raise it in order to pay off his
debts.
AT a recent meeting of shareholders
of the Bank of France it was stated
that the profits were nearly 5000, 900
less than in 1875.
THE French Minister of Instruction
has decided that any student participate
ing in political manifestations shall be
Immediately expelled from college.
THE equality in point Of numbers of
the sexes is most nearly attained iu
France. For every 900 men there are
,0O7 women. The other extreme o.
found in Paraguay, where there arr
2,OS0 women for 900 men.
JOSEPH GREESBRoUGH died recently
at Kirkdale Jail, Scotland, aged eighty.
one, and leaving property valued at
81 ,25O, 900. He was at the time of his
death undergoing sentence of years
imprisonment for disorderly and riotous
conduct
THE Madras India) famine has brought
curious misfortune in its train. There
are scarcely any leeches to be had, the
tanks from which they were generally
obtained having all run dry. Patients
cannot be bled, and the despair of the
doctors is agonzing.
LORD OvERsToNE, formerly Mr.. Jones
Lloyd, banker, of London and Manches-
ter, is said to be the only man in En-
| gland who can live handsomely on the
interest of his interest. He has $40,
600 year in real estate, and is supposed
to held more personal property than any
other subject of the Queen.
QUEEN VICTORIA has completed her
! fifty-eighth year; only eleven others of the
thirty eight reigning sovereigns of Chris
tendon have attained to this age. The
Oldest of all is the Pope, who is So, En-
peror William is 80 the Car is 50, Vic
tor Emmanuel is 50, Emperor Francis
Joseph is nearly At. The youngest of
the sovereigns is Alphonzo of Spain.
MGR. DARBoy, the hero martyr of the
! Communist rising of 1871, has been hon
ored with statue in white marble by NJ.
BonasseuX, which has been placed in
the Chapel of St. George in the Metro
politan Church of Paris. 1t represents
the prelate in the attitude in which he
received the bullets of his eXecutioners,
supporting himself against the wall with
his left hand, while the rights extended
in benedictiOn.
LONDON hours seem to be getting later
and later every season. Dinners grow to
such unconscionable lengths that any
diner is lucky who gets through under
three full hours, and balls never really
begin till the day after that they are fixed
for. A London ballroom is a desert of
floor and candles till half-past eleven at
the earliest; from then till twelve it is
sparsely peopled with shame-faced
guests putting on their gloves and
making emptiness visible, and midnight
is always reached before anything really
begins to go on.
A DESCENDANT of Abraham, Sheikh
Achmed Hariri, guardian Of the Kaaba
of Mecca-the House of Allah, most
holy of all the Mahometan holy places
has arrived at Pesth to present the
Hungarians with certain rich gifts. n
recognition Of their sympathy with Tur-
key. Among these are two splendid
leopards for Count Andrassy, who, hav-
ing no domestic use for them, has given
them to the Geological Garden of Pesth.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON is still one of
the most interchangeable of students. He is
now reading hard with tutor very dis
tinguished in France. What most occu-
pies the Princes attention is subject
with which he naturally desires to be
well acquainted-the political duties of
the provincial projects. His friends
complain that the Prince does not take
sufficient exercise, and goes too little into
society 1t is no secret that the Empress
is very anxious to see her son married be,
fore he passes his twenty second year.
One OF the officers of the Westminster
County Court, in England, was assaulted
by well -dressed man in the courtroom
the other day. He said that he had been
insulted by the official, and had resented
the injury, but the Judge sentenced him
to Jail for a week. The prisoners father
subsequently came into court and asked
for mitigation of the sentence on the
ground that his son had been in America,
and had imbibed American ideas, which
he had imported with him. The Judge
discharged the young man after an
apology.
AT Lyons, in France, recently, a
father informed his daughter, who an
nounced her intended marriage that he
would shoot her on the spot, and rushed
to his chamber for his pistol. The
! daughter went to her room and locked
her door. Tying her sheets together,
she began to descend from her window,
but she caught glimpse of her father
in his room and dropped. In any other
country she would have fallen to the
sidewalk and broken her neck; but, be-
ing in France, washerwoman with a
basket Of clothes happened to be pass
ing, and the girl was not injured, but
the washerwoman was killed. The
father, says the report, has been arrest
ed. What a chance for lawyers
The Centennial Of the Stars and Stripes.