The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-28
Foreign Gossip.

The ramie plant is largely cultivated
in Egypt.
The champion athlete of Switzerland
is student from Macon, Ga.
THE subscriptions in Ecuador towards
paying the war debt of France TO Ger.
many was S40,706.50.
IN Paris, 81 ,95S babies are :" farmed +"
out every year. Maternal insensibility
and fashion are the causes.
The Italian coral fishery has been very
successful the past season, the total
value Of the yield being 100000 francs.
A BOY has been found in VOLTS den,
in India, cared for by the occupant, and
eating the raw meat that was brought
him.
THERE is talk of shipping "Cleo.
patra's Needle" from Alexandria to
England, in order to erect it on the
Thames embankment
ALFRED TENNYsoS is member of the
committee which is collecting books and
works of art to help the Mayor and
townspeople of Strasbourg to replace
their magnificent library which was
burned during the Franco Prussiau war.
The English are doing all they can to
aid in the rehabilitation of this old and
celebrated collection
A sCHooL-HoUsE in Copenhagen, Den
mark, is furnished for 1000 children
one session is held in the morning, 200
attending, and a second in the afternoon,
1000 attending, both schools being un-
der the same general management. The
system secures happy union of bodily
and mental exercise, the scholars work
ing half the day.
LITTLE SWITZERLAND is said TO be the
only country in Europe where more
money is spent on education than on
the army. The educational budget is
two millions of francs, while the mill
tary expenses remain below that sum
yet, when needed, the little republic
can raise an army of 100000 men.
THERE has been an immense business
done in native rice between Shanghai
and the southern ports in China, during
the past season, steamers receiving $l05
freight per picul for four days voyage.
The business of exporting native rice
from China at present is neither pleas.
the Chinese Empire the penalty for en-
gaging in it is death.
IT seems that, unlike news of the
most terrible disasters, the intelligence
of the earthquake at Antioch was by no
means exaggerated. The telegraph did
not tell the whole truth. English mer-
chants have received advices that
scarcely family in Antioch remains in
tact. Two thousand persons are buried
under the ruins, and most of the surxi
vors are encamped in tents lent by the
military authorities.
THERE has been recently established
in London, England, an "Ofiice for Mar
riages," which undertakes to provide
duly qualified matrimonial partners
suitable for all applicants. TO support
their statements, they publish in their
advertisements testimonials from va.
rious persons who have been satisfac-
torily supplied with wives or husbands
by the office, in the same manner as the
testimonials appended to advertise.
ments of patent medicines.
The Revieoo Of Criminal Statistics, a be.
riodical in the French language, pub.
lished in Brussels, states that ffty-nine
criminals were pardened out of the Ger.
man Penitentiaries during the year 1871,
on condition that they should exile
themselves to the United States. The
list includes twenty murderers, eight
incendiaries, eight forgers, three bur.
glars, three shop.lifters, five swindlers,
two infanticides, and two medical prac.
titioners convicted as abortionists. Thir.
teen were sent from Bavaria, eight from
Baden, thirteen from the two Mecklen.
burgs, and the rest from other States.
WHEN is butter like Irish children
When it is made into little pats.