The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
FOREIGN ITEMS.

IN England.
HE European Congress is to hold
only one session.
GLADSTONE owns landed estate in
England of 6,977 acres.
IN Southern France the periwinkle
flowers grow the size of half dollars.
A VOICE from Paris hints that dresses
should no longer be clinging but bout
fante.
PERU annually exports 100, 900 tons
OF guano to the United States, its larg-
est customer
In Great Britain there are 11,OOO
women telegraph operators, who earn
from s. to 81 week.
BETWEEN 1873 and 1877 Austrian
railroad stock deprecated to the extent
OF upward of $200,000,OOO.
MASTER JESSE GRANT spends his even
lngs at Paris driving dog-cart with a
stylish horse and footman.
JAMES LAMBERT, the brave Scotch
man-Charles Reade's Hero and Mar
tyr"-died in Glasgow short time ago.
The deepest lake in the world, so far
as known, is Lake Baikel, in Siberia,
where depth of 10000 feet has been
sounded.
AN Italian colonization society is to
be formed for the purpose of founding
a colony in Shoa, in the southern part
of Abyssinia.
ARCHBISHOP MCHALE, of Tuam, Ire
land, is eighty-seven years old, and is
supposed to be the Oldest Archbishop
in the world. He was consecrated in
1925.
HODJI LOLA, the Turk who is still
perpetrating cruel excuses in Bosnia, is
regarded by the Mussulmans as fight
ing in the cause of religion, and is
called the holy hero.
THE London World declares positive
ly that Mr.. James Gordon Bennett in
tends to go out in the Pandora and dis
cover the North Pole himself, thus out
heralding Stanley.
In Germany fish are not caught for
sport, and the law fixes the size of
those that need not be returned to the
water. Thus, a salmon must be six
teen inches long, perch five, and an
eel fourteen.
The Dean of Chichester was select
preacher at Oxford the other day. eye
men of SCIENCE" said he, eye men of
science, leave me my ancestors in para
disc, and do not grudge you yours in
the geological gardens"
A NUMBER of Liverpool butchers
have purchased an ocean steamer for
the purpose of transferring American
pigs to the English markets. Should
the first venture prove success regu-
lar line of steamers will be established
to carry on the trade.
STANLEY, the African lion, has been
making a consumate boor of himself at
a dinner party given him in London.
The general opinion of Mr.. Stanley is
that he is an unpublished brute, and that
he never shines so well as when in the
unexplored regions of Africa.
| AMERICAN cutlery now goes to Aus
tralia, South America and Europe.
Solid-handled steel table-knives that
sold in 1867 for five dollars dozen now
sell for one dollar and twenty-five cents
a dozen. Some time since no one
would look at anything but English cut
lery, but America is pushing her from
her own markets.
A STORY they tell in Europe: {" An
American lady, while at Rome, man
aged to secure an invitation to court
ball, and while there was approached
by Prince Humbert-now King-who
addressed her some polite speech. She
did not rise, as is etiquette, but, point
ing with her fan to vacant chair near,
said: You must be tired, Prince; won't
you set down and rest your trotters
awhile?"
On Sunday, May 10, 100000 persons
the largest number yet recorded
visited the Paris Exhibition. The want
of a sufficient number of refreshment
stalls was greatly felt by the public.
The expensive restaurants are abso-
lutely of no service to the bulk of Sun
day visitors. Cakes and ale are the
things loudly called for-cheap drinks
for adults, and rolls and biscuits for
furnishing children.
A LATE letter from Caracas says:
"Jose Miguel Bracellon, President of
the House of Representatives of Vene-
zuela, was shot dead by Edurado Scan
lon, editor of the Tribunal Liberal. A
dispute arose between the two men in
consequence of a political difference.
Shortly after the dispute Barcellon met
Scanlon in the street and fired at him
several times without effect. Having
emptied his own revolver he borrowed
that of his friend, Gen. Juan de Marta
Gusman, and fired again. Scanlon then
fired two shots, both of which took eff
feet, and Barcellon died that evening""
THE ages of the reigning sovereigns
of Europe are as follows: The EN-
peror of Germany 81 years, the King of
Holland 60 years and 10 months, the
Emperor of Russia SO years and z
months, Victoria 58years and 7 months,
Victor Emmanuel died comparatively
young, 81 years and 8 months. The
youngest sovereigns are the Emperor
of Austria, 81 years and months; King
Humbert, of Italy, "a years; the Sultan,
33 years and 3 months; the King of
Greece, 32 years, and the King of Spain,
20 years and month.
A Cincinnati Sensation.
NOTHING in the fashionable social