The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-18
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Or the army of the first Napoleon,
$4,000 men yet live to draw pensions
from France.
RUSSELL, of the London Times, is
now a commander of the Austrian Order
of Franz Joseph.
SHARON, of Nevada, who gave his
daughter a million for a wedding gift,
has two very attractive unmarried sons.
TIE clergymen of Schenectady, N. Y,
are out in card requesting that funer-
ais may not be held on Sunday.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas has negro
theater. White men are not allowed to
attend, and it is rare that they want to.
SOME Ohio farmers who mixed several
kinds of wheat Tor seed, report an in
crease in the product of at least 20 per
cent.
THERE are now 2,028 national banks
in this country, having an aggregate
circulation of 1851, 927,246 in bank
notes.
BISHOP ALRMANY received wedding
fee of $4,000 for performing the mar
riage ceremony of Miss Sharon at San
Francisco.
Co. CARRIAGE of the sexes is triumph
ant in England The carriages sex
clusively for ladies" on the underground
railways in London are poorly patron
lied.
THE buffalo of our plains are emigrat-
ing at the rate of 100000 per annum,
via the dead shot line. And nothing is
being done to check this terrible loss OF
the most kingly Of game.
BY order of the German Crown Prin-
cess the female clerks and telegraphers
employed by the German government
were directed to set aside all extrava-
gances in dress and toilets.
THR Titusville Herald reioices that
petroleum is still the leading exporta-
ton from the United States. It's sales
in Europe amount to S37, 000,0 annu-
ally The next greatest expectation is
that of lard, which brings about $780,
200 annually.
THERE are seven girl students in the
Colby University, at Waterville, Me.
The males have protested against the
innovation, but the females behave so
well, and are so far above the aver
age of their classmates in scholarship,
that the prejudice against them is dying
out.
"QUICKER than the creased bolts of
heavens electric luminosity glide down
dew-wet Lombardy poplar" is the
Miners Journals description of the
way the broadsides of profanity came
from the lips of well-dressed young
man who accidentally sat down IN the
Pottsville mud.
THE Duchess of Edinburgh was re-
Gently presented with a splendid bound
copy of the Bible, in imperial quarto,
inclosed in a beautiful oaken casket.
The volume was the gift of more than
eight thousand subscribers, maidens of
the United Kingdom, and was present
ed by deputation of fifteen ladies.
The Car of Russia, who is rumored
to be insane, is now in his fifty seven
year, having been born on the Doth of
April, 1918. He is known to be of a
melancholic temperament, and on
several previous occasions is reported to
have suffered from severe fits of mental
depression.
CHARITY fair in Chicago was enliv-
ened by voting for the minister who
should receive set of furniture offered
as prize by the managers. The con-
test was between the friends of Patton
and Swing, and toward the close there
were confusion, wrangling and accusa-
tons of fraud. Patton won.
THERE are three cases upon the
docket of the Supreme Court of the
United States which involve the entire
Granger question iii the Northwest.
and which were brought to test the
constitutionality of the restrictive State
legislation against railroads. One OF
these cases will probably be argued
in February. VIM. NJ. Evarts and f.
W. Stoughton will represent the rail
roads.
HENRY WARD BEECHER preached @
sermon on the Sunday amusement ques
ton last Sunday evening. He takes
the ground that if the majority of the
people want operas and plays on Sun
day, they should have an unboundeG
right to have them that the Stat,
has no right to legislate in the matter
further than to see that congregation
assembled for worship are not dis
turbed.
A WASHINGTON doctor says CT have
known of hundreds of cases of typhoiC
fever being brought on by menta
trouble occasioned by an unfortunat,
love affair. You take n man of quie
domestic tastes and let him once be
come wrapped up in the society of
loving woman. Then after this societ,
has become to him second nature, lie
it be suddenly taken away from hin
under circumstances that cloud hi
mind with chagrin as well as sorrow
and you have a case of madness t.
deal with beyond the power of ply
sicians. Medicines are of no avail E
them"