The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-01
FOREIGN ITEMS.

THE city of Melbourne now contains
$500 inhabitants.
I. F'fFHERE are 100 Young Mems Christian
Associations in Scotland, with 10000
members.
LADY BURDETT CoUTTs has given
$1,000 to the suffering soldiers of the
Turkish army.
THE cost of the Paris Exposition of
1873 is estimated at 81, 313, 600 francs, or
about $1,000, 800.
In Armenia mothers.in-law do not
speak to their sons wives for the first
four years of their marriage.
A YOUNG French soldier was persuaded
lately by his lady-love to cut off three of
his fingers that she might keep him at
home.
A MONUMENT to Karl Wilhelm, the
composer of ode Wacht am Rhcin," is
to be unveiled at Crefeld en- the I'd of
September.
HEzENAH THORNTON, a person de-
scribed as a doctor of medicine of the
Eclectic College of Pennsylvania, was
fined fifty dollars and costs at Bradford,
England, two or three weeks ago, for
undertaking to practice there by virtue
of his Pennsylvania parchment
DR.. JAMES BRYCE, of Edinburgh, the
geologist, has fallen a martyr to the pur-
suit of his favorite science. While max
ing his annual geological tour in the
Highlands, he set off alone hammer in
hand, to examine the rocks in the Bass
of lnverfarigaig, and was not again seen
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parture his body was found by two game
keepers at the foot of a preCipice, dread
fully crushed. 1t is supposed that while
he was climbing the rocks mass gave
way under his feet, and that other frag-
ments had fallen above him.
In a Belgian village last month ayoung
butcher died after a short illness. Dur
ing his entire illness his pet bulldog re.
manned at the foot of the bed, refusing
all food; and when his master was buried
it was with great difficulty that the dog
could be induced to leave the cemetery.
i few days later the grave-digger was as
tonished to perceive a large hole in the
young butchers grave, which he reCol-
lected to have entirely filled up. On ap
| preaching he found the faithful animal
Curled up in the hole Upon being taken
home, the dog obstinately refused to eat,
and died Of starvation.
THERE is pretty patriotic moral at
tached to French drama now perform
ing at Vincennes. 1t is called q Ven
geancc and the Wooden Leg" The
Marquis de Solanges, who lost his leg at
Solferino, finds a stranger at the feet of
his faHcee. The stranger draws his
sword. No matter" eXclaims the Mar
quis, "mine was left in the body of an
Austrian General-no matter" and he
unscrews his wooden leg, with which he
strikes his adversary dead, crying:
"Vive la France while the orchestra
strikes up the Marseillaise," and the
| fancee, touched by this act of patriot
ism, substitutes the support of her arms
for that of the missing limb, and leads
the Marquis back to the chateau.
AT Queen Victoria's late state concert
there was one accompaniment which was
uncalled for and unmusical. Atthe mo.
ment when Albani was delighting the
| aristoCratiC audience with the finest
notes-in that thrilling song, Caro-
nome, one of the gems from RigO-
! letto"-an awful sound startled the au-
gust assembly. His EXcellency the Chi
nese Vice Minister, unaccustomed to Eu-
ropean music, had INDUCED in sound
nap, and suddenly awakening uttered a
half snort, half groan, which was aw-
fully out Of harmony. His EXcellency
once astonshed the House of Commons
during an interesting debate with "a SINH
lar exhibition of his powers CT discord.
THE bond-holders of Constantinople
are seeing hard times Many wealthy
families used to live entirely on the div.
dends of Turkish stock; the income de-
rived from this source by inhabitants
of COnstantinople alone amounted to
about ga 100000. These families are
entirely ruined, and others, though not
absolutely destitute, have suffered i'm
mense losses. People 90 about from
bank to bank with coupons of the nom
inal value of several hundreds of pounds,
and can nowhere get cash for them.
There are also in Constan:inople % 600
officials, most of them with families
their united salaries amount to about
60 OOO,O 600, and they have rot received
any pay since the beginning Of the war,
not even in paper money, on which there
is loss of 80 per cent.
A VERY heartrending story comes from
Nantes, France. Victorne Noisin,
young girl of nineteen, was last May
elected ROsiere, or the most virtuous
girl of the place, and was engaged to be
married on the 18th of July; but, mean
while, some misCrcant spread reports in
furious to her character, and even wrote
in anonymous letter containing these
charges to her lover He sent his brother
to speak to her about these statements,
and the latter after long conversation,
during which the poor girl grew terribly
excited showed her the letter. She
read it, burst from him, and plunged
into the Seine. A post norton eXamina-
ton conducted in the presence of the
municipal authorities proved that there
was not a shadow of foundation for the
vile scandals.