The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-29


A New HAMPSHIRE farmer has worn
a pair of boots for twelve years.
In nearly all sections of Vermont the
apple crop is almost an entire failure.
THE Chinese make their paper money
from the leaves of the mulberry tree.
AN ostrich owned by Philadelphia
man will eat pound of shingle nails at
once.
A NEW YORKER, whose friends can
raise $4,000 to fee the lawyers, can
commit murder and fear no punish
ment.
THE model young men of Baltimore
lasso chimneys and drag them into the
streets, and call it having gay old hip
hurrah
Two ladies, candidates for School Su-
perintendent in Cass county, ILL.,, invite
voters to choose between the names OF
Plaster and Housekeeper.
The business of auctioneering horses
in Cincinnati amounts to something
over IS, 600, 900 year.
IT has been discovered that the Col
orado potato-bug eats weeds, thistles,
meadow-grass, and, in short, anything
vegetable that comes in his way.
THE Boston Post says it would be
a great relief to meet State Con-
stable who wasn't wearing diamond
pin, received as bride from some rum
seller.
The Nevada Cinnamon, working
among the mines, never work after
o'clock pm, having a firm belief that
ut that hour the angels leave earth for
heaven.
BANKS is favOrably mentioned in Mas
sachusetts as Democratic candidate for
Governor, which would reverse the sit
uation of 1853, when Butler Democrat)
ran against him.
RECENT experiments prove that the
diamond is combustible at much lower
heat than is supposed, and disappears
entirely when exposed to cherry
heat for seventy-two hours.
The onaaranthus fjt,n1, plant which
grows wild in many parts of Europe,
has been found to contain so much nj
trate of ammonia as to be a more valu-
able fertilizer than guano.
A FRENoHMAN processes to have dis
covered, by experiment upon himself,
that coffee taken upon an empty stom-
ach renders the mind abnormally clear
and the temper unnaturally bad.
The zebra is generally considered by
biologists as a very intractable animal.
1t appears, however, that one has just
been successfully domesticated at the
Grrden of Acclimatization in the Bots
de Boulogne, Paris.
The best sponges for toilet use come
from Aegian. They are gathered with
long-hafted forks, and are prepared for
use by burying them for some days in
the sand until the animal matter rots,
after which the horny keratose is soaked
and washed.
The Russian Government takes the
lead, numerically at least, in prepare
tons for the observation of the transit
of the planet Venus in December of
next year. 1t has determined to send
ont twentyfour scientific expeditions to
watch this rare and interesting astron-
omical occurrence.
AT a murder trial at Marlborough in
Ireland, IA few days since, the jury made
an application for pack of cards and a
pound for the pool. The court declined
to grant the request The jurymen were
permitted, however, to take drive on
Sunday i'll vehicle which held the
whole party. Their beds are simple
pallets stretched on the floor of the Jury
room.
A BOY named Martin, aged thirteen,
employed at the Woodfeld colliery,
near Crook, in England, did not wish to
so to work one day recently, as his
mother had dreamt that an accident had
befallen him. He eventually went, how
ever, and met with shocking death.
A horse harnessed to some tubs ran
away, and the tubs crushed the poor
boy against the wall, breaking his neck
and smashing his head to pieces.
The Grand Duke Alexis has not al
lowed himself to accomplish what is
said to have been the real object of his
tour around the world His heart is
still loaded with love for Mile. Jonvoski
the daughter of the Cars forme tutor,
and his constancy is rewarded with per-
mission to contract morganatic mar
riage with her. Such love alliance will
not prevent the Grand Dukes espousa
of princess for political purposes.
A FRENCH writer, in estimating the
future of science, points out that in fit,
or hundred years time, the English
language will, in all probability, b,
spoken by S60,0O0,000 of individuals
while the German will be the languag,
of 100, 900, and the French of 90,
100000 only, end that in consequence,
science is likely 10 seek English channel
OF publication, scientific books neces
sarily seeking the widest audience.
In Moyamensing prison, says til,
Philadelphia Press, are two men, on,
of whom has not seen the light of til,
sun for twenty-three years, and TIN
other for ten years, and owe
both during all this time have huns
sentences of death. When these mel
, were convicted there were circumstance
: surrounding their cases that mitigate,
their crimes, and restrained the Cover