The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The unclaimed dividends now lying
at the Bank of England amount to e.,
SOC, $50.
The Duke of Norfolk's wedding-day
entertainments cost him 100000.
GREAT BRITAIN, with 32,000,000 of
people, maintains a fractional coinage
of $92,000,000.
A PATENT has been taken out in En-
gland for an " improved implement for
spreading butter on bread.
SWITZERLAND has passed law pro-
hibiting children under the age of four
teen from being employed in manufac-
tories after the 1st of next May.
REFUSING to serve the Office of Lord
Mayor of London renders an Alderman
liable to a fine of $4,000, which Sir B.
Hammet had to pay in 1898.
The telephone has been tried between
Dover and Calais with perfect satisfac-
ton to the inspectors of the submarine
cable.
A LIBERATED French soldier. who
said MacMahon was not wounded at
Sedan, but paid doctor to say he was,
has been sentenced to six months i'm
priS0nment.
The Prince of Wales has lately been
staying with Lord Walsingham, whose
wife had been twice married before her
third and present husband was twelve
years old.
ACCORDING to the returns of the
keeper of mining records, upward of
70,000,000 worth of mining wealth
,o;n,1 p,.;to,,, noI T,,oIo,,I
during the year 1876.
The Bank of Russia is supposed to
hold a metallic reserve of 1925, 900, 900,
to be touched only as a last resource;
but now insinuations are thrown out
that this great sum is not really there.
A YOUNG girl in theater in London
gets $500 a week for diving from a
perch ninety feet downward to net
She drops head first, turns ON the way
and strikes on her back.
INSTEAD of the time-honored mill
stones, chilled iron rolls are beginning
to be used in England for the purpose
of reducing wheat and other kinds of
grain.
A BERLIN paper says that Germany
in 1880 will have fleet which, although
inferior in the number of vessels to
that of either France or England, will
be superior in the quality of material
and artillery, in the education of Off
GERS, and in the completeness of its
equipment.
The young King of Spain seems to be
4 fellow of spirit. When he told his
Ministers that he wished to marry the
Princess Mercedes of Montpensier, they
objected, saying that the Duke of Mont
pensier was so very unpopular. ''What
has that to do with it?' replied the
youthful sovereign; Il mean to marry
the Dukes daughter, not the Duke"
and so he carried his point.
The oldest merchant in Copenhagen,
and also, probably, the oldest in Den
mark, M. Rouge, died few days ago.
at the patriarchal age of 102 years and
II months. This is a perfectly anthem
ticated case of centenarianism.
GREAT distress exists in the north of
England iron districts on account Of
the large number of men out of work
in the iron and allied industry, and
also in the building trade, which en-
ployed year or two since thousands of
men, and in connection with which
operations have now nearly ceased.
NOTWITHSTANDING famine and re-
wards, noXious animals multiply in In
dia from the religious dislike of Hin
docs to killing anything. Cobras,
lucky reptiles, are held by them espe-
cially sacred, and, with other snakes,
managed in 1875 to kill 1900 persons;
but 270, 1855 snakes We're killed. The
loss of cattle from the same cause was
very heavy.
The French cabman may take as
many smallpox patients as he can get.
The more the better, indeed; for he
generally charges double fare for the
risk. A few days ago one of these con-
scientious gentlemen was invited to
take smallpox patient to the hospital.
He merely observed that "they must
make haste, as he was engaged to carry
a wedding party to church in an hour
or two, and had little time to spare"
SPEAKING at Cardiff, Wales, lately,
Lord Aberdare, formerly police mag
istrate in the center of the Welsh min
ing district, and afterward Secretary of
State for the Home Department, said
that he had not known things SO bad
for forty-five years, and that many per-
sons in South Wales were dying for
want of the common necessaries of life.
The same story comes from other man
ufacturing districts.
The position of the Scotch farmers
seems to be, if possible, worse Just now
than that of their English brethren
The Glasgow Herald says: "Another
harvest like that from which the farmer
is just emerging, and it is not too much
to say that half the agriculturists of
Scotland would find themselves in the
Gazette. This may be thought a gloomy
view of the position, but it is sufficient
1y founded on fact to bear the most
questioning analysis
ONE who has visited the temple of
the Three Thousand Gods in Kyoto,
Japan, says that 1000 of them are life
size and hold the smaller ones in their
hands. They stand in ranks like sol
diers. Every one is richly gilded, and
as the sliding doors of the great temple
were thrown back and the sun shot its
rays along the line it made spectacle
of dazzling splendor.