The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-07
General Items.

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Afoor-year old girl of Eagle, Ingham county
has pieced bed-quilt.
schoolcraft proposes celebrating the Fourth
OF July in old-fashioned style.
The salary Of Mrs. Tenney, State Librarian,
has been increased from $500 to $1,000.
national convention Of colored editors is
| to be held in Cincinnati on the I'd of August
next
The new asylum for insane at Pontiac is to
cost 100000, and will be the building second
in importance in the State.
The irrepressible potato bug Is so lively
around Kalamazoo that the people in that
locality think all the bugs in the State went
into winter quarters there.
The ladies' library association Of Birmingham
will celebrate the Tooth anniversary OF the bat
tie OF Bunker Hill Dune 17th) by giving an
old-fashioned tea party, with all the patriotic
accessories.
The reported prevalence OF smallpox at
Vicksburg, Kalamazoo county, has raised con-
siderable excitementin and around that village.
DR.. Pratt, Of Kalamazoo, at the request of the
Village Trusteesf held an investigation, and de-
cided that the fatal case, and dozen or 30 of
similar cases now under medical care, are severe
cases Of chicken-pox. The business of Vicks-
burg was almost entirely suspended.
In spite OF all University regulations to the
contrary the ''smart" young man OF Ann Arbor
still takes an occasional lesson in saloon. The
other day he resolved to have some fun at the
expense of an inexperienced bartender. Gath
ering crowd about him, he stepped up to the
bar and called for Z" ten cents worth of mind
and was promptly kicked into the street. The
crowd enjoyed the joke immensely, but not at
the expense Of the bartender.
Hon. Ethan A. Allen, Representative in the
Legislature from Berrien county, died In Lam
sing April 2Sth. His funeral took place from
Berrien Center church, near Berrien Springs.
last Sunday. The Niles commandery of Knights
Templar and Western Star Lodge attended
en- nasse. 1t was the largest funeral pageant
ever seen in Berrien county, the procession
being nealy two miles long. The Rev. ID. H.
Reter, Of Berren Springs. preached the
funeral sermon.
The following is description of the inven-
ton left by Mr.. Frederick P. Warren, who
died recently at Three Oaks, in this State
This production is called calculating ma
chine, and though hardly complete, bids to be-
come OF such value as to make famous the |
name of its maker. The machine is beautiful /
in it's appearance and astonishing in its opera
tons. 1t will use a multipler or divlsor of .
twelve figures, the multiphcand and dividend
being limited only by the number of wheels
placed in front to receive the answer. The ma
chine contains over 2, 100 pieces. and yet 1t
works with perfect freedom and accuracy. 1t
divides, adds, substracts and multIplies, at one
operation, in fractions or whole numbers, "a
desired, BY putting the first power Of number
into It, the powers of that number. up to the
full capacity Of the machine, can be obtained.
Difficult examples in compound interest for
long time, aud many other intricate examples
are mechanically performed and the result
shown by this marvellous machine in few
seconds. Scientific men pronounce it a much
more wonderful and practical production of
genius than the French talking machine.