The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-13
Current Items.


NEW YORK now calls it "Hipporhino no.
observation-disclosures"
IN Beaufort county, North Carolina,
last week, single hunt made game of
81 bears.
HEREAFTER the worst you can wish
your enemy, will be that somebody may
put Mansard roof on him.
The new Capitol building at Lansing,
Mich, will consume 1000 carloads of
stone from Amherst, o.
SEVERAL persons still live in Terre
Haute, Ind., who resided there when
the Indians owned the whole country
surrounding.
PRoF. LAW, of Cornell University, has
discovered that the horse influenza raw
aged Greece in the year 4l2 B. c.
In is estimated that 2S5 distinct rem
edies have appeared in the daily papers
as warranted TO cure the horse dis
ease.
BoRAx, hitherto mainly procured from
foreign sources, has been found to ex-
ist in inexhaustible quantities in Ne.
vada.
A DAIRYwoMAN declares that one cause
of white specks in butter is allowing a
current of air to blow across the milk
while cream is rising.
The epizootic has closed up Barnum's
great rural circus and menagerie in
New York. What are to become of the
morals and sciences now?
The word "heart' is named 500 times
in the Bible; the word soul 400 times;
and the word "headi SO times.
The Iowa Homestead advocates the
burning of corn for fuel in the western
counties of the State, where coal cannot
be had for less than II to 20 cents per
bushel.
A MUsKET BALL, after seven years of
vain exploration for a permanent resi-.
dence lot in the brain of Capt. Lauren,
of New Holstein, Wis, recently walked
out Of his ear.
THE scientific men who are to pass
the winter at the summit Of Mt. Wash
ington are..training Newfoundland dogs
| to bring their mail from the foot of the
mountain and to do other errands.
BALTIMORE claims to import more cof-
fee than any other American city, and
it would seem with good grounds, as
eleven millions in duties on that article
have been collected within the past
year.
New ORLEANS is bidding high for the
grain trade of the West by providing
increased facilities, and is now receiv-
ing and shipping considerable corn.
She has just erected her fourth eleva-
tor.
JOHN w. YOUNG, son of Brigham
says that party of Mormons are max.
ing tourOt Europe and Asia, and will
thoroughly inspect the school systems
of the world, that education in Utah
may be improved.
A CURIOUS freak Of nature is reported
near Cayuga Lake, y. y. 1t is an oak
and pine tree growing together, so
closely connected as to present the APP.
pearance of one tree, and, IN fact, they
might be so called, for they are 50 nearly
grown together at the root that no divi.
sion can be seen, and the bark has
nearly the appearance of that of the
pine.
A CONNECTICUT farmer having more
apples than he could find room for in
his cellar, and not considering them
worth picking at present prices, sold
them unpicked for four dollars each
row of trees. On one row of trees there
appeared to be seventy-tive barrels OF
apples, which cost the purchaser, be-
sides the picking, less than six cents q
barrel.
The Capitol Library, at Washington,
is said to be full and ovei flowing with
books They are crowded into the
already packed cases, and heaped up on
the floor, and such confusion reigns
there that it is almost impossible for the
librarian and his assistants to serve their
reading friends. 1t is probable that a
building will be put up soon expressly
for library purposes, as the books are
being injured by the rough handling
they necessarily now receive.
TINS is the way they do up an Enoch
Arden romance in Oshkosh, Wis: The
Western Arden did not come back and
gaze through the window at the felicity
of the reconstructed household and
then 90 into the green and yellow mel
ancholy business; not any. He kicked
the new husband out, sorted over the
children and sent his brats after him,
and then, after thrashing his wife, set.
tied down into a peaceful and happy
head of a family.