The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-08
Current Items.

A New ORLEANS thief stole five case:
of tobacco, and now chews the cud o.
reflection in Jail.
A TAN on nearly fifteen thousand
CANNES is one of Vermont's financial
best bow-wowers.
The little ladies will be interested in
knowing that a patent has lust beer
issued in Washington for creeping dolls
In Albany, n. Y, the jealousy of the
neighboring city Of Troy is so great that
he Albanians are said to refuse to buy
anything by Troy weight
In is considered a neat thing for young
gentlemen TO have their overcoats made
with a pocket in one side lined with
flannel or fur, in which lady may slip
her hand when walking of cold win.
ter's evening.
SOUTHERN families have made the I'M
portant discovery that the Ailanthus, or
Tree Of Heaven, is an ellectual proven
tive Of murrain in cattle, the fact hav.
ing been already demonstrated by a
series of practical experiments.
THE "stars" who were engaged to
play for Mr. McVicker, in Chicago, the
coming season, have unitedly advanced
him capital with which TO rebuild his
theatre. Joe Jefferson heads the list
with $4,000.
A YOUNG man found q skunk in his
cellar at Barnstable, Mass, and care
fully let down a piece of meat covered
with arsenic to the floor, as he thought.
1t was afterward found that the bait
had cen lowered into the pork barrel.
Thomas p. ANDREWS went out hunting
near Decatur, Ind, on Tuesday. His
companion chopped a tree which in its
fall hit Andrews on the left side of the
head, producing wound from the
effects Of which he died in the evening.
DR.. HALL has written long article
to prove that it is unhealthy for a man
and his wife to sleep in the same room,
but the Rome (Ga.) Commercial knows
Of some wives who would make it UNI
healthy for their husbands to sleep any
where else.
YOUNG ladies are advised always to
unite and we'll examine any anonymous
bouquet or basket of flowers which they
may receive. A lady was about throw
ing away some flowers recently, and dis
covered note containing an offer of
marriage from a very bashful lover.
One cord of wood cut and split fine
and corded mp beneath "a shelter while
it is yet green, will furnish more heat
after it has become seasoned than two
cords of the same kind of wood which
has been continually exposed to the
alternate influences of storm and sun
shine.
A ROCHESTER,. n. H., man was the
victim OF a funny act Of absent-minded-
ness the other day. He was on his way
to leave town, and wnen he got to the
station he happened to think he had
left his wa ch behind. He instantly
took his watch from his pocket to see if
he had time to return and get it.
JACKSON, Lenawee, and Wayne coun.
ties are infested with gangs of horse
thieves, who are nightly CARRYING off
horses and crossing them into Canada.
The officials OF Detroit, Mich, have
ordered that no horse shall be crossed
at that point hereafter, unless it is evil
dent that the parties in charge are the
owners.
The suspension of O. l.. Minis, a lead
ing grain dealer of Buffalo, is an
nounced. Liabilities quarter OF mil
lion. Minis says that if permitted TO
manage his affairs he will have assets
sufficient to pay all liabilities. lie has
an immense amount of grain in store in
New York and Buffalo, and a large
quantity ahoat.
The st tie Capitol at Sacramento,
Cal, has lately been formally completed
by placing on the summit of the Ian
tern on the cupola a copper globe, gold
plated. This ornament is Il conspic.
uous object for many miles, and it is
Furnished and stands 325 feet above
the ground. The gold on the globe was
made from $500 in CON.
A HUGE mastiff used window instead
O. the door through which to make his
exit from an Albany dry goods store.
| The owner gazes at the spot in his
pocket.book where $3.50 reposed Git was
the largest. sized plate-glass) but which
is now gone, and sagely concludes that
it does not pay to keep IA $50 dog to do
that amount of mischief.
The latest wrinkle at fashionable
weddings in New York is for black
page, in livery, TO walk into church
before the bride and groom, carrying a
smalI white satin cushion, on which is
embroidered IL monogram in gilt letters,
which he places in front of the altar for
the couple to lineel on, and carries it
out again at the close of the ceremony.
A NICE young girl at Green Bay, Wis,
was being courted by nice young man.
He was generously inclined, and made
her presents of hair oil, which he pur.
chased from the store of the father of
his adored. After giving her some
twenty bottles of the oleagnous fuio
he discovered he was working in q
circle-as fast as he presented them she
returned them to the store, thus duti-
fully making trade for her father. No
cards.
A FARMER at Youngsville, Pa, short
time ago left home with his family nag,
but getting into a state of great per
plexity by too free use of liquor, he tied
| his horse IN :, tree in the woods and