The true northerner., 1872-09-06
Foreign Gossip.

BAZAINE's trial begins In octooer'
BRIGANDAGE is again rife in Greece.
The Pope sleeps thirteen hours daily
and eats four hearty meals
JrsuIrs are TO be expelled from Peru
and their property conhscated.
Tuosr once famous danseuses, Mines.
Grisi and Taglioni, are in London.
SON of Sothern, the actor, lately
made his debut on London stage.
The Emperor of Austria has the
smallest private fortune of any reign
ing monarch.
The Princess Imperial of Germany,
Queen Victorias oldest daughter, has
seven children.
ONE thousand women are employed
in the potteries of Leeds, England, at
ten cents day.
MANY of the Generals of the Com
mune walk the streets OF London in alb
ject poverty-mere beggars.
A CURIOUS petition has been forward.
ed to the President of the French Re-
4 public by one Melaine Forest, washer
woman, who demands pension because
in lS4S she was wounded by bullet in
tended for NJ. Theirs.
The American students at Leipsic APP
pear TO be bad lot. Recently five of
them were arrested for breaking street
lamps and making night hideous about
the city. Scarcely night passes that
some of them are not arrested.
IT is said that the greatest comb
manufactory in the world is in Aber
deem. Scotland. There are thirty-siH
furnaces for preparing the horns ana
tortoise she'll, and no less than 100
iron screw presses worked by steam
power.
The total revenue receipts of Great
Britain and Ireland from the lst of
April to the 9th of July were 1885,.
567. During the corresponding period
of last year the rebeipts were only
9l7,732,299. The expenditure was
924,l7l,Sll, against f24, l44,S4S last
year.
A STREET gymnast of Paris, known as
Samson's Iron Jaw, whose speciality was
to pick up weights with his teeth and
throw them over his head raised bar
rel with his teeth, and, in attempting
to dispose of it in the same way, fell
down dead with broken spine.
A PORTUGUESE priest recently called
the Emperor of Germany, in sermon,
"a monster in human shape, and the
greatest thief of modern times" where
upon Bismarck sent word to the Portu.
guese Government that the abusive
priest must be "deposed and impris-
oned.n 1t was done.
A COMPROMISE has been arranged be-
tween Sir George Seymour and Sir
Richard Wallace on the much litigated
question as to the succession to the late
Lord Hertford's Irish estates. The
terms Of the compromise are under
stood to be, that the estates are to be-
come the property of Sir Richard, who
is to pay 100000 to Sir George.
Miss EDITH CHALLIs, a well-known ac-
tress in London and New York, while
travelling in England some months
since. was very attentive to an old lady,
who fell i'll on the journey and died.
Last week Miss Challs was greatly as.
tonished at receiving letter from her
executors, to the effect that the kind
ness shown to the old lady had resulted
in her being remembered in her will TO
the extent of two thousand a year for
life. In consequence of this she retires
from the stage"
JEAN LEMoINNE, the Partisan journal.
ist, has written the life of Eugene Sue,
the novelist, which contains some curl
Gus disclosures about that wonderfully
successful writer. Lemoinne, who was
for many years an intimate friend of
Sue. says that the latter took a strange.
ly morbid interest in cruel and bloody
scenes. He never failed to be present
at an execution in Paris, and watched
with his opera glass the face of the
doomed culprit from the moment he
appeared on tle scaffold to the bloody
end. One day he went to England for
the sole purpose of witnessing a fiogging
scene, and he often regretted that he |
had never been able to see a Russian
knouting.
SOME queer customs came into play
on the occasion of Nilsson's marriage. !
After the wedding breakfast, as NJ. and |
Nine. Rouzand stepped from the door,
a cupful of dry rice was showered on
their heads from a window above, and |
as the carriage drove off all the old foot |
coverings about the place were thrown
after it. One enthusiastic gentleman
threw a broom on top of the carriage,
and the crowd shouted themselves into
very hot and hoarse condition. When
the bridal partp reached the hotel, the
6ride sang at the request of some
friends, some of the songs she had
learned in this country, accompanying
herself upon the banjo which was pre-.
sented to her while in New York.
A Trapical MyStary