The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-04
All Sorts.

HE Freshman GLASS NJ HARVARD
numbers 203 members.
NEVER attempt to form an opinion of
a woman's weight by her signs.
THERE are "a, 600 idiots in this coun-
try who are acknowledged as such.
COLORADO claims that one-half of its
population consists of reconstructed IN
valids.
A HUNDRED and seventy-one Thousand
of the " silent majority " tenant Green
wood.
THE total value of silk manufactures
imported az New York during Septem-
Der, was 50, 1857.
CHARLES HONESTY is the name of a
convict IN the Virginia State Prison.
His weakness was horses.
"STEPHAN STERN nit, frau and IL
KID" is one item in the steerage list Of
a late Hamburg steamer.
JOHN MILTON was baptized in the
church of All Hallow's Broad street.
London. 1t is now standing, but is soor
to be taken down.
A GENTLEMAN lately in Winona, while
eating raw oysters, found in one of
them 81 pearls, besides one which he
accidentally swallowed.
THERE are two sounding boards re-
naming as in ye olden time in Boston
churches, namely, in the Old South and
in Kings Chapel. Sermons are preached
only under one Of them.
A DOG ordered to lie in a wagon in
Taunton, Mass, during the absence of
his master, stayed at his post from Fri
day until Monday without food or
water, save little meat on the first
day.
PROF. WATsoN's boast that he has
discovered sixteen new stars must pale
before the announcement of Nebraska
gentleman named Sandy John, who fell
on his nose and discovered sixty two,
most of them OF the first magnitude.
In Belgium, fruit-grower has had
great success IL communicating arti-
fetal favors to natural fruit. He
punctures the fruit and keeps it few
seconds in a solution of the favoring
substance, and permits it to ripen SUBJ
sequently.
THANKSGIVING statistics are the most
interesting when tabulated. The light
thrown upon the subject by the dinner
tables, the vegetables, and. the ea-ta.
bles generally which are prepared for
the occasion are most satisfactory and
comfortable.
WHILE America has almost wholly
forgotten the Cardiff giant, that huge
fraud, conceived in iniquity and brought
forth in gypsum, learned German has
described him TO the German Philo.
logical Congress, lately in session al
Innspruck, as a Phenicien statue Of
Adonis.
AT a recent trial the clerk read the
Courts verdict as fellows:
Twelve dollars aud costs,
IL the case of John Wade,
e. 70 stand committed
Until Il il paid. ~
Wade's lawyer gravely inquired of the
Court if it could not reverse that de
cision.
FUNNY decision in France on an in
surance case. Ii house is insured fol
the total value, the value of the land
must be included in the sum, and may
be deducted by the company from the
payment of the loss. So that one must
pay premiums for the insurance of that
which cannot be destroyed, though he
cannot have the benefit of that in
surance.
GUILRoRD, Conn, has an unfortunate
man, Mr. w. Fowler. He has haG
his barn burned three times dislocateG
his hip and received other severe bodily
Injuries once had his house and barn
in New Haven burned, and when 6
member of the firm of Fowler & New
ton, in the latter city, barrel of foul
fell on upon him and came within ar
ace of killing him.
For the year ending Sept. 30, the
people of the United States consumed
$50, 900 bushels OF peanuts. Tennessee
furnished lS5, 900 bushels +; Virginia
225, 900; North Carolina, 10000 and
the balance, 1000 bushels, was i'm
ported from Africa. The maturing Vir.
ginia crop is said to be large, probably
about $50, 600 bushels, while the new
North Carolina crop is estimated al
100, 900 Bushels. Virginia is therefore
the banner State for peanuts as well as
| statesmen.