The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-01
Foreign Notes.

n VENT uHSdiidut Jouiidilst, VINO mas
recently visited all the courts in Europe,
says, in letter to the Etoike Beige, that
he did not see a single good. Hooking
princess. AS for the Grand-duchess
hereditary Of Russia, about whose beau.
ty so much has been written, he says
that she is thin and sour looking
creature, who app, ars to be over thirty
years of age. Queen Olga of Greece he
calls pertlooking little woman, who
evidently lacks brains. The Empress
Augusta of Germany he charges with
dressing in too youthful style. Her
majesty" he says, sis a homely woman !;
and so is her daughterin-law, the fat
and ungraceful crown-princess. The
Princess Frederick Charles, in whom
expected to find an angelic beauty, from
what had read about her, is coarse
featured lady, with very imperious and
awkward manners. She appeared to
me more like housekeeper or farm
er's wife than princess"
The Car of Russia has appointed a
committee of .jurists for the purpose of
examining the question of corporal
punishment, and it is believed that,
upon receiving their report, he will
abolish that penalty. At present, any
criminal judge may infict the punish
ment of one hundred lashes on any
prisoner brought before him.
MARSHAL. MCMAHON is noted in the
French army for his proclivity for snuff.
A feuiIetoniSte in the Gaulois said that
nothing disturbed the old Marshal after
the battle of Woerth so much as the
loss of large box of snuff. which he
had brought along from Paris.
AN enthusiastic lady, who made
speech in favor of woman's rights, at
Halle, in Prussia, was sentenced on the
following morning by police judge to
two days imprisonment on bread and
water for advocating free-love doctrines.
ALL the money Alexandra Dumas had
with him when he died was single
gold-p piece. His son is a millionaire.
and his daughter is married to one of
the wealthiest landed proprietors in
France.
BoNAPARTIsT papers say that Napo-
leon III. has been so improvident in
the management of his fortune that his
income will henceforth fall short Of fif-
teen thousand dollars year.
THE liberal papers in Holland charge
King William of the Netherlands with
ings of the Royal Gallery at the Hague,
and with having substituted very infe.
rior copies in their place.
The Sultan of Turkey is a bad fnan-
cier. He owes certain tradesmen in
Constantinople fifteen million dollars.
which he is unable to pay, and the
courts in that ancient city refuse to ell
terrain lawsuits against his majesty.
AN impostor, pretending to be no less
parsonage than Andrew Johnson, eX.
President of the United States, has
been arrested and sentenced to one
months imprisonment at Ancona, in
Italy.
DEAK, the celebrated Hungarian
statesman, said recently to Vienna
newspaper correspondent that he did
not know of any book he valued more
than Buckles History of Civilization"
THE Grand Duke Alexis is the most
popular of the Russian princes. Like
his father, he is strongly in favor of
Germany, while his brothers and uncles
are very decided in their anti-German
sentiments.
The Orleans princes have been sue
cessful in their application for the res
toration Of the estates of which Louis
Napoleon deprived them in 1852.
GEN. DUcRoT has published book on
the French war In it he charges Gen.
Wimpffen with having published gross
falsehoods in his work on the capitula-
ton of Sedan.
RocHEFoRT owes the Communication
his sentence to the intercession of Vic
tor Hugo, who earnestly implored
President Theirs not to send the con-
victed journalist to Cayenne.
A PRUssIAN official report on the
French prisoners of war said that only
forty per cent. of the captive French
officers were able to write the language
of their country correctly.