The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06

hon. 81. 1ATHROP Moii4ii, ehc hio
torian, is passing the sunimerat Nahant
Mass.
THERE are forty-one American firm
who are getting rich by making bette
imported liquors and wines than cal
be made in Europe.
A GEORGIA farmer has raised from ON
grain of wheat 19l stalks and 1870 heads
The largest head has 1S5 grains. Thi
is the most remarkable reproduction OF
record.
A New BRUNSWICK court of equity has
seen its way clear to declare that n deco
given by drunken man, who received {
very inadequate consideration, should bt
treated as mortgage only.
GEORGE r. DEAN, of Sacramento, has
a vigorous coffee plant growing III his
door-yard. 1t is from Central American
seed, three years old, and will bear this
year, as it is full of blossoms.
Boston has 476 public schools, Ga
banks, 165 hotels, 1876 churches and re-
igious associations, IA courts, 1873 con-
stables, between 900 and ZOO lawyers,
and 1S9 newspapers and periodicals.
II. @. BINGHAM has purchased the
Montgomery (Ala.) State Journal, and
installed Sam Bard as editor. Bard still
cherishes his scheme of starting paper,
to be called the AdUance, at Atlanta.
JUDGE NYE, of Alameda county, Cal.
has decided that in future he will not
naturalize any person who has not read
or heard read the constitution he swears
to support. This causes a good deal of
caviling.
THE French and Belgian people pro-
test against the action of the local
authorities, who are planting trees upon
the roadsides, desiring that fruit trees be
planted instead, as is done in Germany
aud Switzerland.
No LESS than % trademarks have
already been secured in the patent office
for this word centennial" as applied to
various articles of manufacture, such rs
almanacs, cigars, backing, bitters, shirts,
watches, and even lager beer.
The Hogan family, of Ukiah, Mendo.
cino county, deserves to be classed with
the sons of Anak. The father stands
feet 2 inches in his stocking feet, one
son 6 feet 6 inches, second feet 81
inches, and third 6 feet inches.
A Troy lawyer has had letter re-
turned to him from Ireland with the fol-
lowing written ON the envelope "No
man of the name of Lawrence Kyley,
but there is one of the name of Catherine
Kyley, who says the letter is for her."
WHY don't enlightened American pa
pers translate their cable dispatches, and
make them speak of dollars instead of
pounds, francs, and roubles, and miles
and feet instead of meters, kilometers,
etc., Some readers may not have die
tionary or an encyclopaedia.
THE New Hampshire Legislature re-
Gently enacted law against tramps, who
have become an unmitigated nuisance
throughout the country and towns,
Under the new law, such characters may
be sent to Jail, by any Justice or Police
Magistrate, for a period not exceeding
six months.
A MAN was recently discharged from
the Berks county (Pa. prison, where he
had been serving term of 30 days for
vagrancy, who is only 80 years of age,
and has been in 81 different iails, spend
ing 20 years of his life in them, and
learning five trades. He seems to like
that kind of life.
In Cecil, Ga, last week, child about
eleven years old lost its life in remark
able manner. 1t had been missing for
several hours, and, when searched for,
was found in the woodward dead, with a
large black snake coiled round its body,
and its head in the child's mouth. The
child's limbs were broken.
Two young men of Mount Pleasant,
Wis, went hunting the other day. They
came upon what they supposed to be a
big wolf, which they shot. They got
their reward of So for the scalp and sold
the skin to man for another IS. Since
then a neignbor has been hunting for
his big "yaller dog which strangely
disappeared about that time.
ONE hunter, not long since, shot II
elk i'll single hour, on the Humptulip
river, in Chehalis county, Idaho. The
animals are bigger than beeves, weigh.
ing 800 and 800 pounds when dressed,
and their skins are also very large,
heavy, and of fine quality. The lucky
hunter probably made $50 from his hours
shooting, saving only the skins, and let
ting thousands of pounds of delicious
meat go to waste.
A REMARKABLE streak of lightning
visited Alton, Me-, one evening lately.
1t entered a house at one end, passed
between mother and son who were
sitting in a room, into a pantry, where
it pierced holes in the top of coffee
pot, Jared a dipper into tin water
pail, and soldered them firmly together.
A cat was singed as smoothly as though
she had been shaved, without other.
wise iniuring her.
An Unfortunate Suicide.