The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-29
Foreign Gossip.

JAPAN will soon establish $4,000 pub
>lic schools.
The Grand Duke Alexis will visit the
United States again, in 1876, to be pres
ent at the National Centennial.
A GLASGOW firm of iron ship.builders
have just taken a contract Tor fifteen
screw steamers for French firm.
In the last nine months the value Of
railway carriages for passengers exported
from England was f26, loo; in the pre-.
vious year it was as much as f97 3O3.
A LAW has been passed prohibiting the
erection of new buildings III Vienna
during the progress Of the Exposition
of 1873. This has been done with a
view Of preventing street obstruction.
THE British Consul at Shanghai re-
Gently made the statement that $4,000
pounds Of willoE leaves were in process
of preparation at one port in China to
be mixed with tea for shipment. From
10 to 20 per cent. of willow is the gen.
eral rate Of mixture.
AN interesting trait of modern Japan
figures in the last mail news. During
his last visit to Nagasaki, the M'kado
waited upon the telegraph operators,
with the intention of exchanging clviil-
ties with the crowned heads of Europe.
On discovering that even electricity may
keep a man waiting longer than he has
time to spare, he relinquished the
project.
MARSHAL BAzAINE's health is so poor
that his friends think he will die before
his trial. Should he live long enough
to be brought to judgment, they fear
the worst that can happen to soldier
will befall him. He is strongly and
vigilantly guarded by an officer, almost
personally hostile TO him, who says if he
escapes coming TO trial it will not be
through any fault of his. The Marshal's
i'll health is aggravated by a nervous
terror of committing himself in his
answers to the General charged with his
instruction"
SELF.AcTING fans were introduced in
England last summer, with great sue.
cess. The fan, which is of extra size, is
attached to a stand which can be placed
on a table, or clasped to the back of
chair. By most simple mechanism, not
in the least likely to get out of order,
the fan is moved backward and for
ward, producing gentle current of air.
1t can be moved at will, and another
substituted, so that the lady may con-
suit her own taste, and attach a fan of
such color as will best harmonic with
her dress and surroundings.
THERE are still eleven organized bands
of brigands in Italy, but they do not
seem to be considered so formidable as
their terrible forerunners, judging by
the price put upon the heads Of their
leaders. The following 10 list of them,
with the prices allowed TO their captors
Mani, $1,000 francs Padovani, called
the Capuchin, 23,5l5 francs; Alamo.
2l,565 francs Francolna Narca, 6,437
francs Tunella, 6,937 francs; Digia-
come, D'Agrossa, Vaccsro, Rogiero,
5,437 francs each, and Pareute, 500
francs.
DURING the Franco. Prussian war it
was estimated that, averaging both
armies, five Germans outweighed six
Frenchmen. Not only are the Germans
huge compared with Frenchmen, but
huge as compared with their ances-
tors. The Prussan soldier who fought
at Sedan averaged three inches larger
round the chest and two inches taller
than the soldier who fought at Water.
loo. This astonishing development is
ascribed to fifty years stringent military
training, enforced upon the whole male
population.
Mogx than forty years ago beautiful
and highly endowed young girl named
Mile. Charant made triumphant debut
at the Odeon, in Paris. In the midst of
her triumph the jealous hand of a man
flung into her face some aquafortis,
whereby she nearly lost her sight, and
her beauty was destroyed forever. Mile.
Charlton pardoned the coward, and with.
drew from the stage. She sank into
nenury and oblivion, but two or three
friends lightened the first, and showed
she was not altogether forgotten. Re-
Gently this poor lady was carried to a
nauper's grave, followed only by one
actor.
The Author OF Sweet Home.