The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-17
FOREIGN ITEMS.

n IhANSLAIlON VI 1ldLnlOI lHlO
Portuguese by the King of Portugal has
lately been published at Lisbon.
THE French Academy has formally
declared that NJ. Theirs seat is vacant.
This means that candidates may offer
themselves for the chair.
A TREATY has been completed between
the Dominion Government and the Black
feet Indians by which the Indians cede
81, 900 square miles of territory to Canada.
In 1871 eight German-Polish subjects
paid visit to Russia, and were forcibly
incorporated in the Cars army. Not
withstanding Bismarck's reclamations,
Moltke has never heard of them since
their seizure. ".
THERE are more than thousand CO.
operative societies in Great Britain, hay
ing 1852, 1873 members, holding co-opera-
tive capital amounting to SO, 900, 900, and
drawing net profit on their shares in
one recent year of $670,721.
THE Chinese Ambassador to England
attributes the famine in India to so much
land being devoted to the cultivation of
the poppy. 1t is estimated that ,033, 900
acres of the best land in India is devoted
to the growth of the poppy.
AN Aleppo girl who has more than one
lover subjects her suitors to a trying
ordeal for her hand. Taking three bits
of live coal from the fire, she lays one
in each of her lovers hands. The one
who holds out the longest wins the girl
for his bride ...
Turn princaco Of Wolas ,,oors o,,ar tl n
whole top of her head large piece of
false hair, arranged in mass of tiny
curls and crinklets, from her forehead
back to where it meets the pufls of her
back hair. The false piece is called a
scalpette and was invented for the Prin-
cess. .. .r
| " THE trade of cook, remarks a re-
cent traveller in the French provinces,
d" is an honorable calling in France, and
is not relegated to uneducated women,
as it is with US. The proprietor of a
great hotel will spend whole days in the
kitchen for the benefit of his guests. He
brings intelligence and enthusiasm to his
work"
| A MILLION AND FIFTY-FIvE THOUSAND
men are reported to be on the military
register of the German Government. Of
this number 1913, 600 are upon so-called
black list, for not having served, includ-
ing 100. 600 who have left the country to
avoid service. 1t is estimated that one
German in every eight expatriates him
self to avoid military service.
A MEDICAL college for women has been
established in London. DR.. Cookie, of
the Gray's Inn Road Hospital, and Mrs
Garrett Anderson, a female physician,
pronounced the opening addresses. DR..
Cookie said he could not judge to what
extent woman would be able to endure
the fatigue of medical practice, but he
believed that she certainly had the nee
essary intellectual qualifications for it.
IT would seem that not only is the eli
mate of Iceland growing so cold that
grain cannot ripen there, but that of
Scandinavia and Western Europe is be-
coming more severe. This is due, it is
supposed, to the steady descent of the
ice of the far north upon the shores of
Iceland. 1t has been ascertained that
the temperature of Greenland was once
much more mild than at present.
AN ingenious use of carrier pigeons is
on record. They were employed in Bel
GUM to smuggle tobacco into France
| Each bird carried from ten to fifteen
grammes of the weed, and two dozen
pigeons per day were regularly dis
patched. How long the new industry
had been established is not stated; but
one day it came to grief. A bird was too
heavily loaded, and he dropped with his
burden, exhausted, into the Seine A
police inquiry resulted, and the whole
business was exposed.
THE Bishop of Hereford, in England,
was examining school class the other
day, and, among other things, asked
what an Average was Several boys
pleaded ignorance, but one at last re-
piled: ut is what hen lays on" This
answer puzzled the Bishop not little,
but the boy persisted in it, stating that
he had read it in his little book of facts.
He was then told to bring the little book
and, on doing SO, he pointed triumph,
antly to a paragraph commencing: "a
domestic hen lays on an average fifty
eggs each year"
THE society formed in France a year
or two ago for the purpose of surveying
for canal to unite the Atlantic and Pa
citic by the Darien route is making
progress in its operations. Its explorers
are busily at work in the United States of
Colombia, under the direction of Lieut..
| Wyse, who reports his confidence that
an inter-oceanic canal by way of Colon
bia will soon be an accomplished fact.
He specially favors the Colombian route
because it will not require such expen-
sive locks as the Nicaragua route, while
the lowest gradients and the narrowest
isthmuses are also found in Colombia.
RoRAIMA is a great table mountain on
the borders of British Guiana, whose
steep and inaccessible sides rise from
the height of 5000 feet above the level
of the sea 10000 feet sheer into the
sapphire tropical sky. This wonderful
place is in other respects a marvel of the
world. The highest waterfall known
tumbles from its summit at one leap of
1000 feet, and then rushes impetuously
5000 feet more on slope of forty five
degrees down to the bottom of the valley,
broad enough to be seen thirty miles
away. Only two explorers have vet
reached the base of the table, which, it
is estimated, is from eight to twelve
miles long.