The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-22
Foreign Notes.

Norman was executed In Calcutta In q
peculiar manner. He was hanged and
his body was then burned by low-caste
men, the object of this latter operation
being SO as to scatter his ashes that
when Azrael, the Angel of Death, comes
to summon sinners to judgement, he
cannot find him.
The slave trade, it is reported, is still
conducted in Morocco, and resi-
dent Of Tangier, in that country, writes
that African children are exposed for
sale every market day in connection
with the traffic in cattle and agricultu-
raj produce.
A TERRIBLE accident has Just occurred
on the plateau Of Champigny, where
the combats of the lst and 2d of
December, 1870, were fought. The
share OF plough came in contact with
a bombshell which had sunk into the
the earth, and caused an explosion. The
body of the man driving was scattered
about the field in morsels, the horses
were killed and the plough blown to
pieces.
AN effort is being made to erect
1t will be Episcopal, owned by an Epis-
copal congregation, and under the
charge of the Bishop of Pennsylvania,
so that Rome, the ancient seat of the
Pope, will in future form part Of the
Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. The
present chapel is outside the walls, in
an old granary, and is reached by filthy
street leading through hog market.
In Upper Egypt, or Nubia, rain
mencement of work on the Suez Canal,
numerous plantations have been estab-
lished about Ishmaila, and it rains in
that district much more frequently than
of old.
A PRUssIAN engineer has invented a
machine which will manufacture ice
without chemicals, merely by compress
sion and expulsion of air. The speci-
men machine now at New York makes
two tons per day, and the capacity can
be increased to twenty tons.
PRESIDENT Theirs recently had it
brought to his notice that an American,
DR.. Charles B. Brigham, Harvard
graduate, had achieved a wonderful
operation on a French soldier, and
therefore invited the surgeon and his
patient to visit the Executive Mansion.
The operation consisted in replacing
the face of soldier found on the bat
tie field. A complete face has been
substituted, even to teeth and eyes.
In Russia, medical quacks do not
rate very high. On the contrary, vigor-
Gus measures are sometimes employed
to repress them. In Moscow, for exam
pie, doctor" Of this description was
lately ordered by the police authorities
to depart from the city. Having a
large number of customers, he failed to
obey the mandate. and was consequent
ly logged andH sent to the workhouse
for one year.
THE speaker of the British House of
Commons enjoys magnificent resi-
dence, finished and kept in repair at
the public expense, and containing 100
rooms. He receives salary of $25, 900,
and on retirement is always created
Viscount and has pension Of $4,000,
which on his death passes to his eldest
son. Oddly enough, neither the late
iOi viz PiOSOhV - pSahOi, aiChONSA
ried men, have any son to inherit these
good things.
AN American singer of promise,
William n. Perkins of Illinois, died at
Milan on the Both of October.
THERE is report in London that a
marriage between the daughter of Mr..
Gladstone and German gentleman
who was the tutor of the Princess
Louise has been arranged and that the
Queen had much to do in making up
this match.
A PRIVATE letter dated the 4th of
September, says: "The famine in Per-
STA is terrible, even in Bushire, where,
as a seaport, some sort of relief is posi-
BILE. The scenes going on under ones
eyes are heartrending. We thanks to
charitable gifts from India) daily feed
over 1000 people. IF you only saw
them-animated skeletons in rags,
what were once fair women and chubby
children reduced to raging famished
beasts When feeding them there are
almost always some trodden under foot
and taken away dead. The most pitble
sight is to see the children-number
without soul to look to for help
their parents dead of starvation. The
little things often lie down, compose
themselves as if for sleep, and go out
| without more than a sigh