The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
FOREIGN ITEMS.

BARONESS Courts gave $3.50 to a
dogs home.
In Rio Janeiro the coffin trade is a
Government monopoly
EUGENIE's income is $3.50, 900 wear
and she saves the most of it.
AUSTRALIAN railways pay large div
idends to their shareholders.
THE Bank of Germany has POI
branches, the Bank of France 76.
ONE-THIRD of the agricultural prizes
in France are taken by noblemen.
Two HUNDRED AND FoRTY-THREE
English persons went mad from love
last year.
The British Government has decided
to grant Roman Catholic chaplains on
the foreign naval stations.
DURING the last ten years the Italian
Government has confscated and sold
S106, 100000 of church property
The Communists are at discount in
Switzerland; their candidates at recent
elections were defeated by large ma
jorities.
CUSTOM forbids Turkish Sultans to
wear any article of dress twice. From
fez to slippers, he must be clothed
anew each day, and the worn clothes
are relinquished to an attendant.
The University of Caracas possesses
the first music book printed in America.
1t is dated 1904, and the music is printed
on stave of five red lines in the ordi-
nary Gregorian notation. The volume
is small folio.
On two consecutive days last month
Bismarck spoke twelve times in Parlia-
ment in defense of items in the budget:
among them the increase of the Lon
don embassy, and expenses in his own
department.
The Japanese are growing fonder
beef. In 1871 the number of cattle
slaughtered in Toxic averaged only
forty month. In 1874 the monthly
average was 400, which rose last year
to nearly double that figure.
THE French Government will not ex.
hibit itself nor allow to be displayed,
at the coming Exposition, any wal
material or inventions which it has
lately adopted, or which it thinks OF
adopting, for the army or navy.
THE Prince of Wales, when asked tc
take the chair at public dinner for q
charitable institution, is supposed tc
head the subscription list by forkine
out handsomely, which he Invariably
does to the extent of 100 guineas.
A DIVER belonging to the British ship
Vernon had his life saved by the tele.
phone. While under water his strength
left him until he was too weak to signal
with the rope, and had only time to cal
"Pull me up'' before he tainted.
THE Russian navy has ready for use
a newly-invented Swedish gun, claimed
to be much superior to the Calling gun
1t moves to and fro, from side to side
in a section of circle, sweeping the
area it covers very thoroughly. 1t car
be carried into the maintop of vesse
and worked to great advantage on an
Cnemy's decks.
BANDITS in the province of Cordova,
Spain, lately seized boy of seven year:
belonging to a wealthy family of Cabra
and sent letter to his father demand
ing $4,000 ransom. The money no
having been delivered at the hour ant
place indicated, the wretches cut the
throat of the child and left his body
near the house of his family at night.
AUSTRIA can put IN the field for wal
purposes a standing army of 800,00(
men, including reserves, besides land
wehr, ersatz and landsturm. The com
pulsory system will attain its full de
velopment this year. 1878, and it would
not be an exaggeratiOn of the results o
Baron Kuhn's organization if we est
mate the force now available at 600, O0(
regular troops.
OFFICIAL returns state that the Rus
sian losses in killed and wounded dur
ing the late war amounted to $3.50.
officers and men. Among these wer,
ten Generals killed and eleven wounded
One Prince OF the imperial family anC
thirty-four members of the higher no
bility of Russia fell on the field of bat
tie. Of the wounded, 36, 1924 are already
perfectly recovered, and 10000 more
will be able to leave the hospitals dur
ing the next few weeks. The proper
ton of killed and wounded to the tota
number engaged was very large, on,
out of every six men who went int
action being either injured or left deaC
on the field of battle.