The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-13
Foreign Gossip.


OFFENBAcu's real name is Jacob Ben
GERMANY gives eight pairs of glove
and white hat to each Of her enliste,
men.
AUSTRIAN army officers are forbid
den 10 wear boards more than an incl
long.
PAREPA Rosa has received the Beetho
ven gold medal from the London Phil
harmonic Society.
The army of Austria, on its new wa
footing, numbers 100000 men.
A FEMALE oircus.clown is the lates
development of woman's intellectual
supremacy in England.
QUEEN VIcroRIA's eyesight is still un
impaired. She discovers 'growinl
prosperity in Ireland"
LUDGATE HILL, London, England, j:
to be paved with an American woodeh
pavement, TO cost 100000.
The Messrs. Low, of London, will
publish SANKEY'S book. The expedi
tion cost the Herald over $4,000.
The Figaro, in Paris, pays its assistant
editors $4,000 francs year for two
hours labor daily.
THE statues of Francis |. and Louis
XIV. has been discovered under lot
of rubbish in the cellar Of the Hotel de
Vile at Paris.
Mr.. DANKs, the inventor of the re.
volving pudding furnaces, has taken
out patents for machines in Russia,
Austria, Germany, France and Spain.
AMONG the petitions presented to NJ.
Theirs is one presenting a plan to pre-.
serve the heads of the guillotined, and
to exhibit them from time to time as a
, warning to evll.doers.
IT is reported that the cupola of st.
Peters at Rome shows unmistakable
signs Of decay. A commission Of Papal
architects and engineers has been APP
pointed to examine it.
THERE were ASH suicides committed
in 1871 in France. These were their
causes Poverty, 1888; family quarrels,
5l2; love, 70l incurable disease, $50;
brain disease, 1877; to avoid conse.
quences Of crime, %; drink, 23l.
THE demand for the first volume of
Won Moltkes war book, recently pub
lished in Berlin, has been so great that
the printers have been engaged day
and night in supplying the demand.
The proceeds of the sale are TO 90 to
the relief OF the war sufferers.
A RUSSIAN monk is said to have sue.
cessfully combined sacred and secular
business by founding new religious
order, initiation into which was effected
by shaving the neophyte's head, and
selling his proselyte's hair to the manu-
facturers of wigs and chignons.
An enthusiastic admirer of Victor
Hugo arrived recently from Russia in
Paris. He brought with him huge
trained bear, which he desired to pre-.
sent to the author of "The Man Who
Laughs" M. Hugo gratefully accepted
the present, but had the bear sent at
once to the Jardin DIES Plantes.
Ice is still regarded in Europe as a
luxury only attainable by the wealthy.
It's use in English households as an art.
Gle of daily consumption is unknown.
and even among the more expensive
classes of hotels ice is used sparingly
and in small quantities. Paris, we are
told, has been without ice during the
hot weather, and butchers, fishmongers
and other dealers in provisions have
suffered heavy losses from the heat.
The deep cellars of the city have been
resorted to as refrigerators.
IRELAND has a genuine arstocratic
scandal. 1t is nothing more nor less
than the Identification of an actor in a
low music hall with future earl. This
individual has been performing for two
or three years past as pantommist at
several disreputable places, and it now
transpires that he is the Viscount Hin
ton, heir to Earl Poulett. To con-
tribute an additional element Of morti.
fication to this development, it has also
come to light that Miss Smythe, per.
former in the same hall, will in due
time become the joint possessor with
her frisky husband of one of the oldest
earldoms IN Great Britain.