The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-22
FOREIGN ITEMS.

OVER million acres of land in India
are devoted to the growth of the poppy.
RUSSIA has 10000 miles of railway
nearly all built since 1868.
IT is estimated that 10000 children
have been made orphans by the famine
in India.
AT the last show in Paris fifty differ
ent kinds of grapes from one district
were displayed.
GREAT BRITAIN now cultivates nearly
1000, 900 fewer acres of wheat than she
did twenty years ago.
ENGLAND imports about $4,000 tons
of foreign butter, at an annual cost of
nearly S44,000,000.
Two OF the London detectives lately
found guilty of bribery and collision
with thieves had been in the force over
thirty years
GERMAN singing societies carried off
all the prizes offered at the musical con-
test held at Antwerp during the Rubens
memorial celebration.
A BOX accommodating ten people is
reserved at every performance at the
Grand Opera, Paris, for members of
the National Institution of the Blind.
CONSIDERABLE attention is being paid
in Mexico to the production of coffee, that
industry having been largely developed
within the past six years. About $780,
900 pounds are now annually exported
from Vera Cruz.
A MIsER named Farrell, aged sixty
five, was found dead in his bed in Dub
lin, few days ago. In drawer in his
room was found gold of the value of
$40, and deposits for shares in railway
and mining companies worth about $685.
us.
A GENTLEMAN at Edinburgh counted
in confectionery ladies' room twelve
ladies drinking spirits, porter or ale, and
agirl offourteen taking bottle of stout.
AT the counter two misses in their teens
were paying for three brandy-and-
sodas. School girls, he says, takes nips
of cherry brandy.
MANY ladies in Alsatia, wishing to
show their dislike of Germany, wrote
their addresses to Berlin friends in red
ink, on white envelopes, and placed on
them blue stamps, thus sending the red,
white and blue. The German officials
now etfectually cancel the stamps with
black.
No CHINESE farmer ever sows a seed
of grain before it has been soaked in
liquid manure diluted with water, and
has begun to terminate; and experience
has taught him that this operation not
only tends to promote the growth and
development of the plant, but also to
protect the seed from the insects hidden
in the ground.
The other day train on one of the
English railways missed connection
late in the afternoon and the passengers
were obliged to stop in the town all
night One of them wrote to the man.
ager of the road whose train the
passengers had failed to catch, COM
planning of having been left and COM
PEELED to pay hotel bill. He received
in reply II courteous letter of apology
and a postoffice order for the amount of
his hotel bill.
CHAMPAGNE CHARLEY is dead. Charles
Thorpe was born thifty-four years ago.
His father left him $4,000 a year. Be-
ing clever, he sought the society of lit
erary men; and, liking social glass,
his means enabled him to choose cham
payne. Hence few years ago, after his
exploits had been told so often as to
make him comparatively well known
about London, some one embalmed him
in verse, and Champagne Charley
was long favorite song in the music
halls. He never liked it, and always
denied that he was the original of the
song, and his friends deny it to-day, in
Difference to his memory. But it is true,
QUEEN VICTORIA celebrated Hallow-
zen at Balmoral with quaint, old-fash-
Toned ceremonies. A brilliant process
sion of torchbearers marched through
the grounds in the still, dark night,
preceded by the Queens pipers playing
Justify. After them came the Princess
of Wales and her little daughters, and
the Princess Beatrice, each carrying a
flaming torch aloft. After marching
around the castle several times the Prin-
cesses Alexandra and Beatrice lighted
with their torches the huge bonfire
erected on the green, and, with the rest
of the gay company, danced the torch
light dance round the blazing fire,while
the kindly Queen looked on.
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