The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-31
FOREIGN ITEMS.

ion and quarter of dogs, being a licensed
dog to every twenty five inhabitants.
THE Pope will be eighty-five years old
on the 18th of next May. He has reigned
nearly thirty-one years. ..
ISAAC MARKS, recently hanged in Lon
don for murder, was the first Israelite
England had legally put to death in 200
years.
IL the twelve months ending 31st of
March, 1876, there were 1876 convictions
for Illicit distilling in Ireland to one in
Scotland and eight in England.
FIVE of the existing banking firms of
London can be traced back to the " Lit
tie London Directory of 1677"-the
Childses, Martens, Hoares, Barnetts and
Willis, Percival & Co.
GERMANY is now spending $4,000, 600
year on her army, and France $10S,-
100000. The new German Parliament
is face to face for the first time with an
imperial deficit.
THE Dominion Government has intro
duced bill in Parliament to compel
United States Insurance companies doing
business in Canada to make larger de-
posts IN Canadian securities.
COUNT HERMANN, Won Arnim, Herr
Loe and DR.. Gehlsen, editor of the Ber-
lin ReIchSgtOcke, have been convicted of
violation of the German Press laws, and
Hermann is sentenced to Imprisonment
for three months, Loe for year and
and Gehlsen for five years.
a CURIOUS practice prevails in Havre,
France, of devoting to public charity
one franc in each thousand of the sums
received at public auction of merchan-
disc or ships. 1t is paid by the pur-
chaser, and last year amounted to about
$1,000. In Bordeaux the same is done
by dealers in wool and skins.
In Sheffield, England, they are manu-
featuring paper wheels for railway car
riages. A sort of framework of steel is
filled with compressed paper, which is
then dried in heated air-bath. 1t is
said that these paper wheels have an
amount of elasticity which makes them
superior to those of steel or wrought
iron.
LORD NELSON'S paroquet lately died
at the age of 115 years at the Jardin des
Plantes. One of the peculiarities con-
nected with the life of this bird was this
that while on board the Victory, dur
ing the battle of Trafalgar, the continu-
Gus firing of the cannon had such an
effect as to destroy all the acquisitions
which previously distinguished it, and it
was incapable afterward of uttering any
thing but Bomb bomb! bomb"
INTERNAL jealousies are so strong in
Egypt that several men are appointed to
do the work of one, in order that each
nationality may be represented. An
Eng !ishman and a Frenchman attend to
the taxation; two Englishmen and one
Frenchman control the railroad service;
an Englishman, an Italian, an Austrian
and a Frenchman regulate the public
debt, while Representatives of twelve
nationallties occupy seats on the judicial
bench.
THE Egyptian Finance Committee
have accepted the proposals of NJ. de
Lesseps, made in the name of the Suez
Canal Company, to complete and work
the canal between Cairo and Ismalia,
provided the company be authorized to
levy certain dues upon vessels passing
through. The canal is nearly completed.
The works were formerly abandoned for
want of funds. BY the execution of Les
seps' plan large tracts of desert land will
be reclaimed to cultivation.
A LONDON paper says "The latest
eccentricity, next to the new yellow color,
invaluable to dark beauties and fatal to
fair ones, is American beef. Dinners
are arranged for the purpose of tasting
it; luncheons are improvised in order to
eXpatiate on its merits. Deities of
kitchens are appeased by presents to
sacrifice the claims of the family butcher,
and housewives undertake omnibus
journeys to the ice-cold stores in Cannon
street, valiantly bringing home sirloins
in baskets, to the horror of conductors
and the annoyance of fellow-p passengers. "
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHCoTE, in excusing
himself from speaking on recent occa-
sion, said that his doctor, meaning his
medical man, had suggested that he
ought not to be present. What was his
dismay at reading in British paper of
the first class that his " daughter" was
the Directing person. Referring to the
matter subsequently, Sir Stafford said:
Now, on the part of my daughter,
have to remark that she made no such
objection; and on the part of myself, as
parent, l should not have considered it
consistent with my dignity to have con-
suited her"
AT the recent meeting of the Society
of Physicians in Vienna, Prof. Leides-
dorf drew attention to the case of a
young man who, in fit of religious
frenzy, had plucked out both eyes. He
had been for some years of devout dis
position, and in July last set out for
Herzegovina to fight against the intidels
He was arrested and locked up at
Sessana. On entering his room there
one morning, the commissioner found
the young man covered with blood, while
one of his eyes was lying on the fiool
and the other was lying on his cheek
He was placed in the hospital at Trieste
and the wounds were perfectly healed
up by Sept. 90 He asserted that Goo
had commanded him to do so. He die
not regret it, and thought he would re
cover his sight at some future day.
PUBLIC Indignation mas been excited
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