Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-03
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The total population of Greece is l.
679, 200 souls, against 1,457 900 in 1870.
EMIGRATION from Italy has assumed
the extraordinary proportions of an an
nual average of 10000 persons.
NEXT month a Protestant minister,
100 years old, hopes to celebrate his sew
entieth anniversary of his ministry in the
little village of Accum, East Friesland.
ALTHOUGH kept flat on his back by
rheumatism for several months, Carl
baldi is now able to take a daily walk on
crutches in the open air at Caprera.
A FUND has been opened in official Cir
cles i1f London in aid of the ArmenianS,
who are said to be dying of starvation in
the districts bordering on the Persian and
Russian frontiers.
RUSSIA is said to be busy rebuilding
Sebastapol. Sixty steel cannons of the
| largest size, and many armour plates,
have recently been ordered in European
| foundries.
| The st. Petersburg correspondent of
| the Cologne Gazette says that number of
the Tcherny Peredel, the Nihilist journal
lately found at the secret printing press,
contained minute account of the En-
peror's doings, which could only have
been written by a person in the very
closest attendance on him.
The French Government has finally
settled the question of the sale of the
diamonds formerly belonging to the
crown of France in such a way as to sat
isfy the desires of all parties. The jew
els having historical and artistic value
will be placed in the Apollo Gallery at
the Louvre Museum. Among them will
figure the famous ''Regent" diamond,
one of the largest in the world. The
stones that are important from a miner
illogical standpoint will be handed to the
Museum of Natural History. Only that
part which may be considered as mere
commercial jewelry will be placed in the
market, and the sum realized-probably
over three million francs will constitute
a ''museum fund.- for objects of art.
The ship Lammermoor, which arrived
at Liverpool the other day from San
Francisco, after a rapid passage of 12z
days, reports that she passed Pitcairn
Island, the home of the descendants O
the Bounty mutineers on the Goth of No
vember. A boat with twelve natives
pulled from the shore, bringing fruit
flowers and vegetables. Captain Dun
can gave them some salt pork and a bag
of bread, and some newspapers and mag
azines. He also offered some novels, bu
they declined them. They asked abou
the Zulu war, and were especially anX
: ious to know if Cetywayo had been capt
f. ured.
2 GYPsIEs are found in every Europeal
Y country, along the northern coast of Al
a RIGA, and over the greater part of Ash
} and North America. The European gyp
1 sizes have been estimated at about 700,
t 600; in Asiatic Turkey there are $1,000
: in Egypt one alone of the three chic
E tribes in that country is reckoned at 16,
S 900. The date of their first appearance
S in European history is uncertain. Th
e usually accepted time is the beginning c
e the fifteenth century; but there are var
e Gus illusions, running as far back as tn
f ninth century, to a strange wanderin
o] people, who were, probably, the gypsies
;, Their first unmistakable appearance wa
!. in the year 1417. Late in that year ther
S came to Luneburg band of 800 war
n derers, black as Tartars. AT their hea
u rode :. Duke and Count" splendid
: ly dressed; next came a motley cre'
e afoot; and women and children brougl
e up the rear in wagons. From that tim
onward European annals are full of az
q counts of gypsies, who came in band
: nobody knew from where; but it is cel
e tain that they spread over Europe frol
V the east to the west.