The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-21
General Notes.

PRIVATE drinking is increasing in En-
gland.
THE Quaker loves the ocean for its
broad brim.
AT White Pine, Nevada, mahogany is
used for fuel.
In parts of Switzerland minors can
not use tobacco.
THE drought this summer in Colora-
do is unusual, even in that rainless
cline.
AN old gander was recently killed ut
the age, it is said, of ninety years, in
Virginia.
GEORGE CAsTALAR, of Hagerstown,
Md, is said TO be one hundred and ten
years old.
Two women, mother and her daugh-
ter, were recently cut in pieces by a
reaper at Dayton, Ohio.
A TOLEDO woman is reported to have
muzzled her husband to keep him from
kissing the chambermaid.
THE Rev. H. p Robinson, of Mound
CITY, Kan, draws his flock TO prayer
meetings with a brass band.
THE Turkish women, like those of
America, now veil their faces SO that
their features show through.
A BURGLAR went through nine houses
in Charleston, S. c., and all he realized
was an old watch and bite from dog.
The first public Fast Day and also
the first public Thanksgiving Day cele-
brated in New England, both took place
IN July, 1923.
4 VETERAN observer says that upon
men of small understanding nothing
makes so deep an impression as what
they do not understand.
IT is said that n human being has
1000. 900 OF pores through which per-
spiration ard exhausted particles of the
system escape. We are all pore Great
ures.
RETURNING prosperity is the occasion
of great rejoicing among New England
shoemakers. The trade, it is said, was
never better than at present. We hope
it may last.
IARhlNb anu ltuLHtIluS US du d(lOIu-
ment for the human body is going out
of fashion. Massachusetts, has just de-
cided that a man is justified in shooting
any one who attempts to thus turn him
into bird.
a CINCINNATI reporter says tina There
is something grand in pair of run
away horses, but we believe that q good
deal depends on whether man is on a
fence or trying to climb over the end
board of the wagon.
Potato bugs must he immortal. A
man has kept some corked up in bot
tie without air, food or drink for year,
and they are lively as ever. He pro-
poses, if he lives long enough, to see
how long they can stand it.
WHITE coal is the latest Australian
discovery. 1t consists of felted cab
bage fibers, like peat, burns with a
bright fame, and covers large tracts,
requiring no mining, and is said to be
already used to a large extent for fuel.
II Secretary Bristow the employees
have caught Tartar. He has Just dis
charged Il youth who to the duties of
special agent in the United States adds
that of ball-hitter in the English capt.
tai. His little game is evidently up.
He has been caught out on the fly !
IT is now conceded that the season at
the sea-shore summer resorts is not like
ly to prove profitable one, save to a
few landlords, and this result is mainly
due to the fact that the prices charged
are those of war-times, when money
was plenty and business brisk. People
sometimes learn wisdom by experience.
Grasping landlords will probably profit
by the lessons of -Philddel1hia
star.
IT is announced that man who last
season had 5000 worth of trunks de-
stroyed by the baggage smashers, 3"
has had five new ones made to order and
supplied with compartments containing
five pounds each of nitro-gylcerine. He
proposes to travel from Maine to Texas,
covering all the Watering places, and
will have coroner along &c hold in
quests on the victims.
II Athens the court OF appeals recog-
nized the Justice of the demand of the
Turkish Government for the treasures
found by Schlieman at Troy, as in ac-
cordance with the concession but as
Schlieman is citizen of the United
States, there was diplomatic protest
from our representative, and before this
was settled the treasures were spirited
away. Therefore they will not Just yet
go to Constantinople.