The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-15


ish studies has Just been founded in
Paris under the presidency of Baron
de Rothsohild. T..
PRINCESS STEPHANIE and Grown,
Prince Rudolph will be married by civil
ceremony at Brussels; the religious rites
will be conducted at Vienna. The
young people are to live at Prague.
THE King of Siam, who visits this
country shortly, is one of about seventy
children. He was crowned in 1868,
when fifteen years old, and is quite an
amiable and well-informed sovereign.
QUEEN LOUISE WILHELMINE FREDE-
RIKKA CAROLINE AUGUSTA JULIA, of
Denmark, although past sixty, is re-
markably youthful in appearance and
has been sometimes taken for the elder
sister of her daughters, Alexandra and
Thyra. The Queen is a devoted mother
She is an admirable pianist and is fond
of music to enthusiasm.
THE French Communists are growing
holder every day. One of their organs,
the Egaljte, publishes the following
paragraph: cat the request OF num-
Der of our readers, and in commemora-
ton of the workmen's blood which was
shed like water in April and May, 1871,
the EgGlite will continue to appear in
red during the two months that the red
flag of the Commune fioated at the Hotel
de Vile of Paris.''
THE German Crown Prince and Prin-
cess have been objects of much pleas
ant feeling during their stay at Pigli.
An English lady who visited them not
unfrequently relates that it was delight
full to see g Unseren Fritz" the hero of
a hundred fights, in his domestic circle,
the companion and comrade of his
children, gathering bouquets Of wild
flowers with fresh and healthy pleas
ure, which are borne in triumph by
father and daughters to their mother,
who has always a genuine English taste
for country enjoyments.
THE brigands that lately captured
Col. SINCE have now seized Dr. Marulis,
a German naturalist, who was travelling
through Albania and Bessarabia for
scientific purposes. The ransom ael
manded for the prisoner is $4,000, be-
sides a full assortment of trousers,
waistcoats, and jackets. The letter
forwarded by the brigands to the Ger
man Consul at Salonica threatens to
put the prisoner to death if their de-
mand is not Immediately complied with,
and promises, on the other hand, that a
new suit of clothes will be presented to
the Doctor if the ransom be paid forth
with.
AN exceptionally clever young man
hoc i,ICth do e Al.
German Embassy in Paris. His name
is Baron Thielman, and he has written
some excellent books of travel in the
Caucasus and Central America, and is
a fine ancient and modern linguist. He
fought through the Franco-P russian
war, and distinguished himself at Sedan
by strange feat-the writing in Hin
doostanee on the field of battle vivid
account of Napoleon's surrender. The
letter, which fell into the hands of the
French, produced a great sensation,
particularly as it was said to have been
the work of common soldier.
THE admirers of Marshal MacMahon
will be sorry to hear that he is in pecu-
MARY difficulties. A few weeks ago a
great part of the furniture of the Paris
residence of the ex-President was sold
by auction. The property disposed of
included several valuable paintings and
some rare old furniture of the Louis
Quatorze period. The auction was
largely attended, ard from every mouth,
without distinction of party, there fell
expressions of respectful sympathy with
the old soldier who neither in the army
nor as chief of the State had ever turned
farthing of the public moneys into his
own pocket.
THE Pope has been told by physicians
as their unanimous opinion that it is
necessary for his health to quit the Vat.
lean and pass the summer where he can
avail himself of sea-bathing. s'You are
merely telling me to do what is impos-
sible," he answered, and no more was
said until a French physician renewed
the subject, and observed that the baths
were essential, and might be procured
within the precincts of the Vatican. So
the Pope consented to measures for
erecting bathing establishment for salt
water to be brought from Civita Wee
CHA, and for other mineral waters to be
procured.
A Good Word for Old Maids.