The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
Foreign Items.
RoCHEFoRT has heart disease.
A SIBERIAN railway is talked of.

A SIBERIAN railway is talked of.
The Princess of Wales is quite re-
stored to health.
OVER 22,000,O0O tons of rain fell in
England last year.
The railroads of Switzerland are now
controlled by Government.
The French Assembly has made in
toxication a penal offense.
THE railwey service of Great Britain
comprises 300, 900 persons.
AN English unframed yearling colt
sold in London for so, 600.
PAUL DE CAssAGSAc starts the new
year with an "affair of honor"
ITALY will be one of the best repre-
scented nations of the Vienna Exhibi-
ton.
SHOPS for the sale of horsehesh have
been opened in Geneva, Milan and
Verona.
HINDosTAE' contains 1856, 037, 900 peo-
pie who pay revenue to the British Gov
eminent.
BARON LIEBIG has received an Impe-
rial from Russia for his practical appi-
cations of chemistry.
HUNGARY offers prize of 5000 for
any one who can make it's history fill
1000 pages octave.
THERE have been 1900 distinct spe-
cies of insects catalogued i'll Europe
that prey upon wheat.
THE ladies of the royal family of Rus
STA are said to be among the most beauti-
ful women of Europe.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAC insists that Ma
poleon III. was poor at the time of his
death poorer than Henry V.
THERE were over 1000 persons SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for drunkenness
in England and Wales last year
THE Swiss Government refuses to
tolerate the presence of Jesuit in any
part of the country, on any pretext what
ever.
Bass, the Englishman who makes
beer, is to he made baronet. He has
long been knight of the order of Malt
-ah
You can subscribe to all the newspa-
pers in Switzerland for $500 per annum.
Send on your orders so as to begin with
the year.
MADRID goes ahead of any other city
on evening newspapers. She has one
which is published at 8 o'clock in the
evening.
AssAFGTIDA is used as n relish" in
the East, and to assist the appetite, as
Worcestershire and Halford sauce in this
country.
RICHARD SPENCER, hanged at Kirk
dale, England, for the murder of his
mistress, was born in jail, and his father
was hanged for murder.
ONE of the three ablest journals in all
India is written by Hindoos, and yields
a rapidly growing influence both among
Englishmen and natives.
THE London Times of Jan. 10. the
day after the death of Napoleon, pub
lished an editorial of eleven columns
and half concerning his life and char
acter
A LONDON missionary brought home a
Hottentot, at considerable personal ex-
pense, and the fellow went and hired
out to circus the first week after his
arrival.
The journalists of Paris held meet
ing few days ago and determined not
to fight duels among themselves any
more. They will stand ready to crafty
all outsiders.
The Chinese have no dime novels. no
billiards or lager beer, and there is no
place at which young man can pawn
his sleeve-buttons to get money to take
his girl to the opera.
SIR IvoR GUEST has So, 900, 600 invest
ed in iron works at Dowlais, Wales, and
employs IL 900 men, who are mostly on
a strike, twelve OF his sixteen furnaces
being "damped down."
SIGNoR NEdRI, Sergeant in the
italian army, has heen notified by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he has
been bequeathed $40, 900, 600 by an uncle
lately deceased in Lima, Peru.
How THE ENGLISH DANCE.-A writer
in a London journal girds at the solemn,
funeral way in which Englishmen dance.
in his eyes the majority look as if a
dress coat were the tunic of Nessus, and
treasure up their words as if precious
stones issued from their mouths when
they speak. Moreover, they evince a
remarkable disposition to put themselves
in their own pockets, and they fidget
with their hands without ceasing. Some
thing of this might be saved by the
taking up stairs the fiat hat under the
arm in the French fashion; but this
they will not do. They enter a quad
rifle with whalebone stiffness, lugu-
brious air with which they might go to
the stake, and the caralier Scud they exc
cute in way that would send even an
undertaken to an early grave with laugh
ter. And when they do talk they rarely
get beyond the unhappy weather. If
these be the manners of the ball, what,
on what is the English funeral like?
GEORGIA has repealed her usury laws.