The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30

good sherry wine.
Why is there no such thing as an en-.
tire day? Because every day begins by
breaking?
FABULOUS rents are paid for small cot.
tages on the grouse moore OF Scotland
during the shooting season.
EUROPE is supposed TO contain 300.
000,0 900 people. One hundred years
ago the estimate was but 60,000,000.
FooT-AND- MOUTH disease is rapidly
spreading in the eastern, midland,
southern, and western counties of Eng.
land, and assuming in many localities =
most virulent form.
FORTY SEVEN thousand persons die
annually in England of consumption,
which the London Telegraph calls :" a
ssourge, compared to which cholera is
a Jest and war a diversion.
A PROJECT for the formation of tun.
mel under the Straits of Gibraltar has
been presented to the Spanish Minister
of Agriculture. 1t is intended to run
from Algesiras TO Ceuta. ,---
KING AMADEUS, of Spain, is the only
monarch in Europe who drinks neither
wine nor anything that can intoxicate.
He is thorough teetotaler, and, con-
sequently, in the yernacular Of the
West, his head is always level"
VICTORIA, the most populous and
wealthy of all the British colonies in
Australia, has not so many adult in
habltants now by 10000 as it had ten
years ago, though there has been an
increase OF 10000 in the total popula-
ton.
ENGLAND is now enjoying the success
OF the postal telegraph system. The
increase of messages is said to have
been tremendous. 1t is thought that
this system will, in great measure,
supersede the postal service in that
country.
The tin mines of New South Wales
are said TO be even more valuable and
profitable than the gold fields. The
exports from that colony of gold, tin,
and copper, in 1871, amounted to
S6O,OOO,OO0 in value. The tin mines
are said 10 be the richest in the world.
Lodes of copper are also being worked
TO great advantage.
JAPAN, it has been reported, will dis.
continue its practice of using the for.
eign and ill.adapted Chinese characters
which have hitherto been its only
alphabet for writing japanese words.
If this is to be done, there will be a
noble opportunity for promoting at once
civilization and philology, by the right
selection of new alphabet.
AN Anti.Tobacco League has been
formed during the past six months in
France, where members are taking very
active steps against the use of the weed,
on the ground Of its having greatly con.
tributed to the degeneracy of French
men, and their consequent failure in
the last "unpleasantness." Just how
they explain the success of the Ger
mans, who certainly smoke as much as
their enemy, is not stated
A TELEGRAPH CLERK of London, who
was engaged on wire to Berlin, re-
Gently formed an acquaintance and an
attachment for female clerk who
worked on the same wire in Berlin. He
made a proposal Of marriage to her,
and she accepted him without having
seen him. They were married, and the
marriage resulting from their electric
atfinities is said TO have turned out adj
mirably.
A WARRANTS hotel, the last of its
kind in Paris, has just been demolished.
Vagabonds of all sorts found an asylum
here; four sous the price of nights
lodging in a large room, with a straw
mattress, a large tub in the center for
additions, and the circumambient air to
dry with, but neither a chair, table nor
towel. Some fragments of looking
glass were stuck on the walls, but
which could not gloss the human form
divine.
BERLIN is no longer the first of the
German universities. Last halfyear it
had two thousand six hundred and
three students. 1t has now one thou.
sand nine hundred and ninety only,
while at Leipzig there are two thousand
three hundred and fifteen students, so
that Berlin has lost six hundred and
thirteen students in twelve months, and
has now three hundred and twenty.six
fewer than Leipzig. This is the first
time that Berlin has been outstrip ped
by another German university.