The true northerner., 1873-01-10
Foreign Items.

rOItlSu itoihS.
RUSSIA has 337 reviews and journals.
The London Times is getting ready to
hunt Livingstone.
In Champagne, all new born babes are
washed in the sparkling beverage OF that
name.
JENNY LIND has been singing in the
choir of the American Episcopal Church
at Florence.
Ir takes only $50, 900 year to re-
plenish the wardrobe of the Austrian
Empress.
THE friends and relatives of Gustave
Dore are apprehensive that he Will com
NIT suicide.
FouR thousand Communists have been
sent To New Caledonia, at cost to
France of 81 100000.
BIsMARcK's son is reported engaged to
an American lady mt present residing
with her parents i'll Berlin.
PERE HYAcINTHE is said to have lost
his new wife's entire fortune by the
bankruptcy of Bowles Brothers.
ToM Hoop, editor of Fun, eldest son
of him who sang the Song of the
Shirt, has been lecturing III Paisley,
Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Ir is remarkable fact that i'll France
almost every author of note is wealthy,
only one or two having fortune of less
than a quarter of million.
JAPAN has not only made long step
in educational matters, but has almost
decided to hang criminals, instead of
smashing their heads with clubs.
Two young American ladies recently
filed the unprecedented petition to be
allowed to sleep in the lighthouse at
Leith, Scotland, for one night, to the alb
iect bewilderment and astonishment of
the authorities.
RECENTLY the London Morning Post
celebrated its first centenary by devoting
eight of its wide columns to the rem
iniscences of men and things 100 years
ago. BY noon a copy of the paper could
not be had for love or money III all Lon
don.
THE Rothschilds have told the Mayor
of Paris that they will annually give to
the respectable poor of that city $40, ,0OO
to pay rent with. 1t is to assist that
saddest of poor who suffer many of the
pangs of poverty and yet are beyond the
reach of charity, or too proud to receive
aid as paupers.
ITALY has more theaters than any
country in Europe-34S. France comes
hoe. .
Spain. 16S: Austria, 1872; England, $50;
Russia, a; Belgium, "a; Holland, %;
Switzerland, 20; Portugal, l6; Sweden,
10; Denmark, 10; Norway, s; Greece, 4;
Turkey, 4; Roumania, B; Egypt, 3; Ser
via, /.
THE famous forest of Fontainebleau is
to be desecrated for the benefit of the
German indemnity fund. An order has
| been issued to cut down and sell II, 29S
oaks, one hundred and forty to three
hundred years old; 4,22S beeches of
ninety to two hundred years, and 1,72O
hectars of coppice. Protests from ar
fists have poured upon the Administra-
ton des Forests, but to no avail.
ALMOST sinless century is said to
! nave rOlleu over tlle nappS Clty VI luilh-
! fort-on-the- Main. Out of the 200 in
habitants, not one in all that time has
died by the hand of the murderer.
Whether it has been as free from other
crimes we are not informed, but proba-
bly, no city ever had a like record before.
This state of security is accounted for 10y
some by the strict and unrelenting laws
of the country, from which the criminal
has no escape, and which recognize DC
pardoning power.
The estimated wealth of the most emi-
nent writer's of France, an of whom
started in life without anything, is MS
follows Victor Hugo, GOO, ,000f George
Sand. nearly twice as much; Emile de
Girardin, $500, 000f; Adolphe Thiers,
], 900, ,OOOf; Alexander Dumas, .fis
400, OOOf; Edmond About, $50, 000f; Al
phonso Karr, 00,000f; Jules Janin
! 750, ,00Of; Edward Laboulaye, 100, 0O0f
Victorien Sardou, 5O0,000f; TheophilC
Gautier died a millionaire, and the
widows of Scribe and Ponsard live IL
afiluence. But the widow of the cele
brated Proudhon has TO eke ont pre-
carious living as a washerwoman.