The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-02
FOREIGN ITEMS.

RUssIA's paper circulation amounts
to about $3.50, 100000.
THE London Telegraph's daily circu-
lation now amounts to 5000 copies.
EVERY day the tomb of Napoleon III.
is covered with fresh flowers by order
of Eugene
KING HUMBERT is going to econo-
mize. He has sold off 1000 of his IA
theirs horses.
STURGEON has been compelled to quit
work and 90 to the south of France to
restore his health.
THE general staff of the Russian
army lately ordered $4,000 worth of
champagne from Paris.
The imports of France during 1877
amounted to $751;, 273, 800, and the ex-
ports to 1896, 1864, 600.
The municipality of Rome has voted
$4,000 toward grand bronze column,
surmounted by statue of Victor En-
manuel.
FIFTY per cent. OF. the marriages cell
ebrated last year in Italy were between
people neither of whom could write
their names. .......
THE last hit of the English conserva-
tiyes is the following: 81 should be my
first, if | had my second to throw at my
whole" And the answer is-Gladstone.
AT Calais, France, during perform
ance at circus, recently, there was
false alarm of fire, which caused a great
rush of the audience. Ten persons were
suffocated or trampled to death. Several
others were hurt.
In Japan the crows and hawks are
used as public scavengers. They are
never molested, and the result is that
all the carrion and other stuff left in
the streets are bounced upon and car
ried off Immediately.
DIAMOND digging in South Africa has
now settled down into paid industry.
Companies have been formed, dividends
are declared monthly when there are
any, and there is something like fixed
trade of findings from this claim or that.
The men at some works at Wolver-
hampton, England, which it is said are
being worked at loss of $500 month,
have announced that they would rather
eat grass than submit to a reduction.
In South Wales collier allowed his
children to live on brewers grains be-
fore he would take reduced pay.
BRAZIL is having Cabinet scandal.
The Minister of Finance was member
of ring" was involved in some
crookedness, and, not to drop our
expressive newspaper parlance, was
bounced by the Emperor. South
ward the fraudulent and corrupt prac-
tees of civilization take their way.
THE public debt of France amounts
to %, 403, 900, 900 francs; and after it in
order of Importance is that of Great
Britain, which is 10, 900, 900, 900; of Spain,
10, 243,0 900, 900; Italy, 1888, 900, 900; Rus
STA, 9,445, 200, 900; Austria, 6,S10, 000,-
900; Turkey, 1928, 000,0 900; Belgium,
942, 100000, and Switzerland, which
only owes 81, 900, 900 francs.
The latest wrinkle in advertising is
an English institution The Cont
mental Advertising Refreshment Plate
Company The dishes, emblazoned
with advertisements, are to be extern
sively distributed among the European
hotels and restaurants, and the average
cost to advertisers will be about four
cents per plate for each advertisement.
WE read in lie Peuple LyOnnaiS: "The
day before yesterday, at three p. M, Il
funeral took place of a resident of La
Villette. The coffin had been brought
down, and was about to be put on the
hearse, when the undertakers men
heard sounds which evidently proceeded
from the coffin. 1t was Instantly opened
and the supposed deceased exclaimed,
family: Il still Breathe"
The following "death notice. is
translated from Zurich newspaper: 81
communicate to all my friends and ac-
quaintances the sad news that at three
p. m. tomorrow | shall incinerate, ac-
cording to all the rules of art, my
late mother-in-law, who has fallen asleep
with faith in her Lord. The funeral
urn will be placed near the furnace
The profoundly afflicted son-in-law,
Grandchildren"
THE Prussian fleet consists of eight
ironclad frigates, of which two are I'M
tinished five ironclad corvettes, of
which three are unfinished; besides six
teen wooden corvettes and nine gun
boats. The defense of the coasts is left
to two smaller ironclads, seven ironclad
gunboatS, six torpedo boats, and four
smaller gunboats. While Prussia in
the war in 1864 was unable to prevent
the German ports from being blockaded
by the Danish fleet, her fleet would now
not only be able to defend the coasts,
but might proceed to Copenhagen,
lombard the town, and dictate the con-
ditions of peace.
The Akhoond of Swat is dead. Swat
is on the northeast frontier of India,
and in this region lived the Akhoond,
venerable old man, esteemed so much
of saint that journeys were made by
thousands as acts of devotion to see
him. His fame was great over all In
dia; and he has been understood as be-
ing able to sway the Mussulman popu-
lation, and to have instigated all the
British troubles with the hill tribes on
the frontier.
A POOR woman lay very i'll in her
scantily furnished home in Sheffield,
England. The doctor was sent for and
came He at once saw that hers was a
very grave case, and that she had, as
he thought, little chance of recovery
even if she could get the nourishment
her illness required. AS he was about