The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-08
,EIGN ITEMS.
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~ deaths from violence were re-
k-MJ.~6d in London in one week recently.
THE Royal Library at Paris contains
Chinese chart of the heavens made about
600 B. c., in which /, 400 stars are cor
rectly inserted.
In Constantinople shops and bazars
placards bearing the consecrated formu.
la, English spoken here" were never
before so plentiful.
THE census gave Paris, in 1875, t.
9SS, 800 inhabitants. The number by
December, 1877, will reach 100000.
The next census will be in 1880.
In Switzerland the law compels every
newly-married couple to plant six trees
Immediately after the marriage ceremony
and two on the birth of each child
THERE are between ninety and one
hundred millions of Slavs IN Europe.
Their name is said to be derived from a
word signifying I" fame" or GLORY"
THERE are fifteen regiments and corps
especially styled Royal" In the British
army. Sixty-fve have county titles,
eight are called Scotch or Highland, four
41lohl WV w Cloh hOhC
EVERYBODY knows what terrible ex-
plosive dynamite is, but few know that
til powerful poison. A woman named
Wollny has just been sentenced to death
at Oppeln, Germany, for poisoning two
persons with it
AT the conclusion of tragic account
of how a tourist lost his life by falling in
to crevice in one of the glaciers at
Etancon, a French newspaper manages
to say: His two Swiss guides, not speak
ing French, were unable to save him."
THE newspaper correspondents with
the Russian army are subject to these
regulations: 1. No estimates of the
strength of troops, number of guns, etc.
,. No news about the movements of
troops. 8. Any communication is sub
ject to erasures.
RUSSIA has, in the last six months, ex.
ported wheat to the value of over $13,-
100000, against $S,000,OOO for the cor
responding period last year. So, in spite
of the war, she has food enough to feed
her own people and a handsome surplus
for outside nations.
THE experiment of slaughtering cattle
by means of dynamite was recently tried
at Dudley, England, with marked sue
cess. Small charges of dynamite were
fastened on the foreheads of the animals
and exploded by an electric shock. The
animals, two disabled horses and a dom
key, were instantly killed by the explo-
sion, suffering comparatively painless
death.
THE following dispatch, received from
Bombay, will probably change the whole
face of matters in the East: "1ntelli-
\ gence from Swat states that the Akhund
so of the opinion that if a person like the
GER of Cabul is unable to stir up mat
Is t.is useless for himself to prepare
dshigious war, as he is old and in
r;othat if Cabul or any other
], s any initiative he would be
Folitorder has been received by
'hilan in New York for plates of
sztrcketto China. The Chinese use
,,sf.r46a ratates, which are about seven
-. 80 uare, for idolatrous purposes.
SsSss.l',S int upon them the likenesses of
N$d--gis isitles, and reverently adore the
,chhse particular ones are to be
'usehold decorations and de-
of Leston, England, gave
90 much of good sermon
ay. He preached it in the
nd they were delighted. In
ng, when again occupying the
le omitted toprovide himself with
.4nge of manuscript, and, having
cended the pulpit in possession only of
the identical sermon he had preached in
the morning, there was apparently no
other course open to him but to deliver
it again. This he accordingly did, the
reverend gentleman making the best of
the situation by observing that possibly
there were present many persons, who
were absent in the morning, to whom the
discourse would be new, while those who
happened to be present on both occasions
would not, perhaps, object to hear it
again.