The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-25
ALI Sorts.

ALI Sorts.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, has a negro
theater.
A. II. STEPHENS weighs eighty, with
out paragraph in his pocket.
SEVEN wagon-loads of Missourians
have just emigrated to Georgia.
If you will just take notice you will
find that bald headed man never raises
his hat to lady.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS has reminded q
lecture audience in Grafton, Mass, that
thirty-two years ago he spoke there
from his wagon, hall or church being
refused him.
PROP. ]. Fl. PEPPER, the distinguished
popular lecturer, in the course of re-
cent interview In st. Louis, expressed
his belief that America is bound to be
supreme in scientific matters"
THE Belgian journals mention the
death, at the age of ten years and eleven
months, of Frederic Van de Kerkhove,
a young painter of almost miraculous
precocity.. He was native of Bruges,
andhad executed not less than three
hundred and fifty pictures.
The venerable Richard Fl. Dana, of
Boston, was eighty seven years old on
Nov. 10. When Mr. Dana was editor Of
the NORTH american Review he re-
ceived from the author the poem of
"Thanatopsis, which was written when
Mr.. Bryant was in his eighteenth year.
MORE heirs are wanted. The British
government is said to have on its hands
800, 900, 000-more or less we presume
for parties by the name of Townley.
In 1863, so runs the story, Miss Town.
ley ran away TO America with Mr.. Law
renee. Nothing has been heard from
her since. Where are the Townleys?
WHILE the marriage ceremony is sub
ject to so much legislation that its sane.
tity is fast becoming a matter of mere
sentiment, it is not very pleasant to
read that bill has passed the Oregon
Senate which provides that husbands
and wives without children may be con-
sidered divorced by simply ceasing to
live together.
THE municipal valuation of taxable
property in Philadelphia is Real es-
tate, 1920, 594, 600 personal property,
SO, 464, 900; farms, $50, 704, 1856; sub
urban, $33, 9S5, 600; total, 1915, 283, 900
being an increase of 1927, 900, 900 over
last year. The tax is 81 80 per 500 on
the city property $1.66 on the subur-
ban, and 81. 25 on farms.
PRESIDENT CLARK's experiment at the
Agricultural College of Massachusetts,,
by which a growing squash was made
to lift an enormous weight, has attract
ed considerable attention. He has re-
ceived an invitation from California to
deliver lecture on squashes, with an
offer Of $1,000 and expenses. He will
probably accept.
FORTY thousand dollars per annum
for ten years and the entire sum of
four hundred thousand dollars forfeited,
if from any cause he is removed before
the expiration of the period, is the new
contract between Mr.. Watson, Presi-
dent of the Erie railroad and the Di-
rectors. Why is it that railroads in
this country are not paying?
MEXICO is beginning to show signs of
commercial vigor. Congress is appro-
priating money for new lines of tele-
graph, and Mr.. Plumb Is about pro-
posing to commence the construction of
a line of railroad from Laredo, on the
United States frontier, to the Pacific
coast. It lis to be presumed there will
be no frauds or big jobs in the under
taking, as the enterprise is in the hands
of a man who is Plumb in all he does.
TUscUMBA, Ala, recently destroyed
by tornado, is a pleasant little town
of about ], 800 inhabitants, situated on
the Memphis and Charleston railroad,
IS miles west of Huntsville, and two
miles from the Tennessee river. 1t is
one OF the Oldest towns in Alabama, and
is chiefly famous for its spring, which
is the largest fountain in the United
States, and which formed the nucleus
for a settlement by the whites. The
town was the headquarters for the
Cherokee tribe, and in its earlier days
was the theater of many bloody
scene.