The true northerner., 1872-08-02
Foreign Gossip.

IT is believed Marshal Bazaine will
never be brought to trial.
Two japanese men. of-war have left
Yokohama on tour round the world.
MEDICAL men in France dwell on the
fact, and challenge explanation Of it,
that at the present epoch, and despite
the occurrence of all circumstances ia.
vorable to its development, typhus fever
is unknown in that country.
The well-known minstrels, Eph Horn,
Hughey Doherty, Bob Hart and Gus.
Williams are playing at st. James Hall
in London.
THE Japanese Government has en-
gagged Henry NJ. Smith, graduate of
the school of mines of Columbia Col
lege, New York, TO open coal mine
and erect blast furnace in Japan.
The inhabitants of Cordova, in the
Argentine Republic, have torn up the
rails of the new Central railroad, declar-
ing that the locomotive is a creature Of
the devil. The mob are said TO have
been melted to this act of violence by
fanatical clergymen.
THE Notifications in process of con.
struction by the German engineers at
Strasbourg are of the most colossal
character. On the side toward France
they are making a vast intrenched
camp, which will be capable of holding
200, 1000 men.
WHILE Gen. Sherman and suite were
in the Caucasus, they were invited to an
elegant breakfast, at which they met a
number of official personages. They
had good time, but on coming to
leave, the General was presented with a
bill for the entire break fast, according
to the etiquette Of the country. The
General said he wished he'd understood
their etiquette before breakfast.
So popular are American travellers in
Austria, that it is said that the primary
school books in the schools contain
spelling exercises and parsing exercises
as follows: "The Americans are a gen.
erous people" The Americans are
rich and LIBERAL" "All Americans are
rich, etc.
ENGLAND has invented new intoxi.
cant, consisting of a mixture of naphtha
and ether the effects of which its users
claim to be highly agreeable. No check
can be placed upon its consumption ex.
cept by special act Of Parliament, be.
cause it does not come under excsable
spirits, and its growing use is viewed
with considerable alarm.
AMERICAN manufacturers are actually
competing with Englishmen in Hindo-
stan itself. An Eastern firm advertises
idols of every sort "to suit the Indian
Market" at rates below those of the
Birmingham makers, who have hitherto
monopolized the market for these be.
culiar wares.
WHILE presiding at recent agricul.
tural dinner the Prince of Wales excited
his hearers with pretty complimentto to
his wife, who was present, in returning
thanks for the kind reception which
she always experienced whenever she
appeared in public. 1t was most desir.
able, he said, that ladies should associ.
ate themselves with their husbands pur-
suits, and when the Princess did not
accompany him he always felt that
there was something wanting.
At Leigh, in En- gland, recently,
couple OF policemen were completely
=" sold " by the ancient circus trick of
sending 81 drunken farmer into the
ring to ride the restive pony. This per-
sonage, as everybody night be presumed
to know, is always member of the cir
Gus company, disguised for the occasion.
AT Leigh, the two policemen thought
he was an interloping inebriate, and at
tempted TO arrest him-when he sud
denly shed his rustic raiment end his
intoxication and rode off in spangles
and stripes, amid the laughter of the
populace.