The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-29
FOREIGN ITEMS.

IT cost the Japanese Government
$50, 200, 900 to subdue the recent insur-
rection.
GLASGOW, Scotland, is to erect a
bronze statue to the African explorer,
pr. Livingstone.
THE disastrous famine in India is at
tributed by the natives to the displeas-
ure of Buddha over their manifold sins.
THE German Bishops banished from
their sees in Germany have been sum-
moned to the Vatican to receive instruc-
tions.
SO FAR $4,000 French people have
contributed one franc each to fund
for the erection of a monument to
Theirs.
PORTABLE corrugated iron huts, capa-
BILE of accommodating each from 70 to
500 men, are in use instead of tents by
the Russian army.
The island of st. Kilda (Scotland)
has (happy placed one mail a year.
Population seventy-five. No drunkards
or vicious people.
LAST year there We're granted in
Switzerland 1,102 divorces and 100
separations. 1t is estimated that per
cent of those married are divorced.
KANGAROO hides are an important
article of export from Australia. They
make the most pliable leather that is
known, admirably fitted for boot-legs,
gloves and riding whips, ....
ACCORDING to the British Wreck
Register SOP vessels were wholly lost
last year. In fifteen years more than
10000 persons have lost their lives by
the wrecking of English vessels.
ENGLAND has become so fond of
American apples that it is estimated
she can certainly take an average of
from $4,000 to $4,000 barrels week
for the whole market year of nine
months. & ata
AT Strictly Church, Shropshire En-
gland, on certain Sunday last month,
all of a sudden the walls and roof
cracked right across. There was some
excuse for the builder, as they had held
together for 700 years. ".
Ii is a current belief among the
peasantry of Normandy that if Il girl
treads upon the tail or the claw of Il cat
her chances of matrimony are mate
rally diminished; and if she treads on
both at the same time it is an infallible
sign that she will not be married for at
least four years.
A YOUNG lady was overheard explain
ing to Il friend as they emerged from a
very fashionable ultra high church place
of worship in London few Sundays
ago, that, although it was dreadfully
long way to come, she never missed a
Sunday service there, because she inva-
riably got new idea as to a dress or a
bonnet.
IT costs 1915, 900 annually to keep the
trees, shrubs, and seats in the boule-
wards and in the public squares and
gardens of Paris in order. 1t is esti-
mated that the trees in the avenues and
boulevards of Paris number $4,000;
those in the cemeteries 1O,40O, and
those in the squares and court-yards of
various buildings, S,40O.
BECAUSE of the numerous classes
there is greater variety of life in the
streets of japanese city than in one
of America. Tokia streets are named
for trees, flowers, fish, articles of food,
trades, etc, and lived at the corner of
Brocade street and Congratulation ave-
nue.. The crookedest in the whole city
is called Conjugal nue,-Prot. Gri6fS.
A STRANGELY-DISSATISFI person re-
Gently brought an action against JUS
tees sitting in petty sessions, London,
and recovered a farthing damages, on
the ground that on his conviction as a
,,.l Al ho nd op1N, hoon
sent to Bridewell, and had not been
whipped, in accordance with the provis-
ions of the statute in that case made
and provided. ..'
ACCORDING to the latest statistics
Rome has now 100000 inhabitants, 347
Catholic and Protestant churches and
Jewish synagogues, 46 public schools
attended by 8,308 boys and 1000 girls,
hospitals containing altogether $500
beds, 1890 hackney carriages with one
horse and 200 with two, besides 10
coupes and so omnibuses; steamboats,
ply on the Tiber, and there are $3.50
places of refreshment.
QUEEN VICTORIA regulates and disci-
plines her children as if they were still
boys and girls. Prince Leopold is
twenty-four years old, but his slightest
movements or plans are telegrphed to
Windsor or Balmoral by one of his suit.
On a recent Sunday, when in Elgin,
Scotland, he accepted an invitation to
attend the Episcopal Church, but re-
ceived, few minutes before the hour
of service, positive orders to 90 to the
Presbyterian Church, which he did.
At matrimonial bureau lately
opened in Vienna the ladies pay fee,
and are required to attend for two hours
daily. Men call and are introduced.
Women who possess accomplishments
are requested to play the piano, and are
examined with regard to their senti-
ments and acquisitions. One visit some
times settles a case, but more are often
paid. The ladies have the privilege OF
rejecting candidates without being sub
jected to additional fees during the PEE
Rod for which they have paid.
PLEvNA has long borne, both among
the Turks and the Bulgarians, the cpl
tibet of "the impregnable." When
Bajazid the Great drove the Bulgarian
Emperor from his throne, the garrison
of Plevna made such an obstinate re-
sistance that the invaders were unable