The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-02
Foreign Items.

wider circulation than any other journal
in the world-about 175, 900.
JOHN BRIGHT declares letter-writing
the greatest burden of his life, and
avoids it as much as possible.
MANY of the Cardinals in the Roman
Catholic Church have reached ex-
treme old age. Billet is 90; De An
CELLS, 81 Catarini, 7S; Amat, rs Gras-
sellini, II; Matthew, rs; Antonucci, rs !;
Patrizi, 20.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoCKBURN of En-
gland meditates work on the Junius
controversy. He will not favor the
claims of Sir Philip Francis, but will
aim at producing summing up of
the evidence on both sides.
FoR taking a corpse out of the coffin
and rolling it in the mud resurrec-
ZIONIST of Glasgow, Scotland, has been
fined $40, the lightness of the pen
atty being accounted for by the fact
that the corpse was that of his mother
in-law.
IT is stated that one-third of the
whole number of European children in
India die under six months old that
eighty-tive per cent perish before they
reach two years and that out of a hun
dred infants born only eleven attain ma
turity.
The Forthcoming number of the Edin-
burgh RcCjeC will contain a memoir of
the late Gen. Robert L. Lee, from
original and other materials, collated
by an English writer already known
from his studies of the campaigns in
Virginia
THE position of American Consul at
Montevideo cannot be very desirable,
Judging from the experince of DR.. Ber-
tram, the late Consul. The pay is only
81 900, and rents are so high that he was
unable to secure any sort of an Office or
residence except tent, and had to do
without any clerk, in consequence of
which the Consuls of the pampered and
effete dynasties of the Old World social
ly cut him.
The following epitaph circulates just
now in Paris
Here lice
Adolph Theirs, small burgher,
President of the French Republic,
who
Glorihed the First Empire,
Justified the Second,
Prepared the Third.
CHOCOLATE pastilles, with the portrait
of Gambetta, are now patronized by all
true French Republicans The Dauphin
is also to be similarly honored in mac
caroni pates for soup. AS for NJ. Theirs,
he is still confined to bonbons and gin
gerbread.
EIGHT iron steamers are being built
upon the Clyde for the new German
Eagle Line" They are to be of l 600
tons each. Each will be 375 feet long, 40
feet beam, and have engines of 5000
horsepower. Their names are those of
German poets Goethe, Schiller, Her
der, Leasing, WielaAd, Klepstock, Gel
lert, and Tn. KGrner. The contract
price of each steamer is $50, ZOO. Trips
will be made weekly between Hamburg
and New York. The company is known
MS the General transatlantic Steam
Navigation Company of the City of
Hamburg.
AN English paper thus describes how
they do it on Welsh stage route The
only conveyance between the pretty
Welsh towns of Aberystwith and Aber-
ayron is n two-horse wagonette. First,
second, and third class fares are booked
by the primitive conveyance, and the
following curious distinction is made be-
tween the passengers: First class pas
sengers are allowed to retain their
seats throughout the journey; second
class have to get out and walk up the
hills, which are both numerous and
steep, after the fashion of Welsh hills
third class have not only to get out at
the steep places, but have to assist in
pushing the vehicle up them. This ar
rangement is said to work very well, but
the pace is not great.