The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-18
FOREIGN ITEMS.

BISMARCK, who was born on All
Fools Day, is only sixty-three.
IQUIoUE enjoyed forty-six earth
quakes in five days, from Jan. % to
Jan. 26.
THE Duke of Argyll owns 1914
acres and has pleasant yearly income
of S252,000.
THE Figaro's correspondent says that
there are only 1856 French people resi-
dent in Berlin.
IT is now the mode in England to be
buried in an open wicker-wOrk coffin
filled with flowers.
The London Times says Scotland is
rapidly losing her reputation for hard,
grim, infeXible orthodoxy.
DURING a recent gale in the Black
Sea a Turkish corvette was lost off
Kilia and ninety men drowned.
UNDER the patronage of King Hum
bert, an International Exhibition is to
be held at Milan in 1879
THERE are in London l ,030 charita-
bic institutions, of which the total in
come for last year was S23, 255, $50.
POSTAL statistics show that of all Eu-
ropean countries PRUSSIA probably ac-
cepted) the fewest letters are written
in Spain.
THE amendment to the Mexican Con-
stitution prohibiting the reelection of
the President of the Republic has been
ratified by the Legislature of the State
of Mexico.
EX-QUEEN ISABELLA is paid pen
sion of S31, 225 every quarter by the
Spanish Government. She has an
nounced that she will sell her regal
jewels at Paris next July.
THE brig Paloma, from Tahiti, the
principal of the Society Islands, in the
Pacific Ocean, reports that, on Feb. 7,
a hurricane ragged in which about 100
people were killed and much property
destroyed.
ACCORDING to the latest advices from
the interior of Cuba, the revolution,
instead of being suppressed, is again
extending westward from the Eastern
Department, to which it was confined
two months ago.
BARON ROTHsCHLD, who dimes with
Lord Beaconsfield every Sunday, is re-
ported as saying the other day: Il do
not know anything more about it than
the mustard-pot, but | believe there is
going to be war"
THE Duke of Manchester, relenting
toward his daughter-in-law, Lady Man
deville, has just given her a house in
London and an equipage, and the
Prince of Wales decorates the drawing
room for her. She is Yankee girl.
To SHOW the amount of beef which
John Bull is drawing from Canada at
present, it is stated that all the spare
space in the steamers sailing from Do
minion ports has been engaged for the
shipment of cattle from this time until
August.
SOME signs of taverns in London are
curious, viz: "Goat and Compasses,"
"Salmon and Compasses, ''Anchor
and Bodices," Bull and Mouth
"Green Man and STILL" Pig and
WHISTLE" Who'd a Thought It.
1.-The Splendid Shilling" etc.
THE definition of a Republic adopted
by the French Academy for their famous
dictionary is: GA State in which the
Government is conferred by election
and of which the chief is not heredita-
ry." 1t came from M. Emile Olivier,
and was unanimously adopted.
THE Berlin Housewives Union seems
to have been great success. 1t sup
ports newspaper for the discussion of
all housekeeping questions, cooper
alive store, which supplies 1000 fami-
lies, and an agency for servants, which
in the past four years has supplied 49,
600 persons with places.
THE late Lord Leitrim did not 90 in
for popularity. A few years ago he
advertised for some one to fill up the
vacancy in his Donegal agency, Three
hundred applicants wrote to him, and
in answer to one of them he said that
he wished to appoint military gentle
man used to shooting natives in Aus
tralia and New Zealand, as he wanted
a wholesome lesson given to the tenants
on his estate.
AN American physician named Cher
wood has been arrested in London for
purloining ten-pound bank-notes from
an English gentleman's pocket, which
he afterward presented at the London
joint stock bank, with name and date
so skillfully altered by means of chemi-
Gals that not only was the color of the
original ink discharged and that of the
substituted ink fixed, bat even the
smoothness of the paper was restored.
A LADY spent the best part of week
in a registry office in London, enduring
a variety of snubbing from women, who
turned up their noses at her ample
wages and her moderate work. AT last
she was taken pity upon by a person
who consented to preside over her
kitchen. "You live on terrace,
ma amp" said Mrs. Cookie, modified.
Il have refused six hexcellent situa-
tons because street and place sound
so vulgar for one's address. But ter
race will look pretty at the top of my
letters"
DOTHEBOY'S HALL, with all its hor-
rors, stands revealed in an English law
court. A young lady, who had been
engaged as teacher in boarding
school in North Devon, found that, be-
sides twenty girls, there were thirty
boys in the school. All the boys slept
in one room, the capacity of which was
not enough for five. The young lady
had to make the beds in the boys dor
mitory, which was the only place they