The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-14
lienaral Notes.


WELL posted The telegraph.
THE Partisan army numbers 120, ZOO.
SHIP-building is lively at Waldoboro,
Maine.
KINDNESS is the golden chain by
which society is bound together.
NINETY railway companies have sus-
pended payment on their bonds.
THE annual cost of funerals in Lon
don is estimated to be upward of So
000,0 200.
ONE hundred bushels to the acre of
grain and roots are reported from Min
nesota and Iowa.
CHICAGO Collyer will preach in his ma
tive England for year. This is carry
ing Collyers to Newcastle.
The Young Ladies Christian Associa-
ton of New York is trying to obtain a
weekly half-holiday for the female en-
ployes in the stores and warehouses.
WHILST other Southern ports are
talking about direct trade with foreign
countries, Galveston is proving by ac-
tual performance the faith that is in her.
The New York T"ibune'S correspond
ent has been all over the region of Min
nesota troubled with grasshoppers, and
reports the loss at about $4,000, 900,
affecting one-twentieth of the crop of
the State.
WHEN stranger stands on public
square i'll Denver, splits on his hands and
cries out: "Climb on to me by thou
sands p even the postmaster pulls off
his coat and goes out to make the re-
spouse a success.
The pale, and sad looking young men
whom one occasionally meets in the
street are not consumptive, are not
mourning the loss of a friend, and are
not divinity students. They are break
ing in tight boots.
RECENTLY young farmer living near
st. Louis went down an abandoned well
to recover his sweetheart's bonnet,
which had blown there. He was taken
out dead, with the thing of frills and
flowers clasped tightly to his face.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb., was once Writ
nous and happy town not a swear was
ever heard there, and the people Just
spent their time in preparing for heav-
ell. Now all is changed. In an evil
moment a brass band was organized.
JOHN FoRsTER's biography processes to
give full details of the private as well
as public life of Charles Dickens. Yet
1OWhere in the body of his work does
the name of Miss Ternan appear Yet,
queerly enough, the following is the
second sentence (and first bequest) in
Dickens's will 9" L give the sum of
e., 900, free of legacy duty, to Miss
Ellen Lawless Ternan, late of Hough-
ton place, Ampthill square, III the coun-
ty of Middlesex," For what ?
A TROY woman had her husband ar
rested on q charge of non-support. She
testified that he had given her a house
and lot worth $4,000, together with sew
eral smaller pieces of real estate, that
his life was insured for her benefit to
the amount of So, 900 and that he gave
her S15 of his weekly income of $50.
She wanted $50, the brute refused, and
she had him arrested; but, being
blinded by masculine prejudice, the
Judge dismissed the case.
A WORCESTER boy was engaged in
nocturnal cherry a short time
ago, and was observed by the owner of
the fruit, who, unnoticed by the young
robber, placed large stuffed dog at
the front of the tree and retired to
watch the result of the strategy. The
boy descending observed the dog, and
then the fun commenced he whistled,
coaxed, threatened uravailingly, the
animal never moving, and finally the
youth accepting the inevitable, settled
down to passing the night in the tree.
After some hours had passed YEARLY
enough to the lad, morning dawned,
and the proprietor of the tree coming
from the house, asked him how he came
to be in the tree, to which the boy
answered that ne took to it to save him
self from the dog, who had chased him
quite distance. 1t isn't healthy for a
smaller boy to say stuffed dog to that
youth NOM