The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-12
Persons and Things.
THURMAN is great snuff-taker.


THE smallpox is raging fearfully in
Cuba.
THE mummies belonged to the first fam
lies of Egypt.
AN unpublished poem of Milton's has
been discovered.
THE Erie railr lad killed ninety-eight
people last year.
SAM WARD, the lobbyist, is brother to
Julia Ward Howe.
THE silver mines in Massachusetts, will
amount to something after all.
TRAsK, the famous anti-tobacconist, died
at fitchburg, Mass, recently.
Ir is fact that the Yale College Trus-
tees pay Evarts' fee for defending Beech
en-
JUDGE REED, of Iowa, has decided that
paying for n game of billiards by the
loser is gambling.
MARTINsv1ILE, Ins., has produced II
hog weighing /, 1912 pounds-the heaviest
i'll the United States.
Matched for the government ut the State
Hatchery i'll Michigan.
The grand jurors of Lucas county,
Ohio, have presented church rallies ms
an illegality and a nuisance.
PERHAPS we hadn't better exterminate
the Indian. 1t cost $411 900 to bring
Modoc Jack to the gallows.
That famous hotel, the Astor House, of
New York, is to be closed on May
|, and converted into business offices.
In Dewitt county, Texas, fifteen in
dictments have been found against rs
many persons for carrying six-shooters.
Ir is whispered that christening may
occur at the White House III the spring,
which hasn't happened since Tyler was
President.
WILLIE GooI.DY, of Terre Haute, aged
II years, travelled "on his own hook to
San Francisco and back. Now his parents
call him Windy, because he goeth where
he listeth, and no one knows whence he
cometh or whittier he goeth.
SOMEHOW one can't help thinking of
that citizen of Syracuse who has thirteen
children, all girls. Probably there is not
Il corner of the bureau in that mans
house that hasn't cold chew of spruce
gum sticking to il. -.NiiU0ukec Sentinel
The following are the statistics of the
schools in Japan: Public schools, 1895;
private schools, 5,721; total, 13,7l6.
Scholars: Boys, 97S, $50; females, 310,
AT; total, 1,2S9,307. Percentage of
scholars in proportion to population,
Alb.
THERE is man in the condemned cell
in Paris who cannot be glillotined until
the authorities ascertain his name. He
was condemned by name since found
to be false, and there is no precedent for
the execution of man whose name is
not known, so he must wait.
THERE is no question as to the proiita
bleness of some of the Nevada silver
mines. The Belcher mine was sold in
November, 1870, for $40, 900. Since that
time it has declared dividends of $12,-
064, 900, and called i'll assessments of
81, GAG, 400; and the present value of the
mine is estimated at Sc, 1876, 600. Here
is Il clear profit of $l5, 932, 800 on $40, 800
in four years. The Virginia consolidated
mine has risen in value from S5S, 200 TO
500, $50, 900, besides dividing $64S, 600 in
dividends. Other mines have proved
quite as profitable.
Miss MINNIE HAUcK, at the close of a
short but very successful engagement at
the Royal Opera House of Berlin, has
gone to Weimar. In October she is to
begin another series of star per-
formances at Berlin, and after
that she will enter upon q several
years engagement for season of six
months annually in the German capital.
The prosperity of our young country
woman, whose artistic career and
estimable personal character have both
been so creditable to America, will be OBJ
served with great satisfaction on this side
of the ocean.
Dr. GEORGE n. BEARD, of New York,
has been challenged by the Eddy
Brothers, "mediums," of Chittenden,
Vermont, to prove that they are "trans-
parent and interruptions humbugs.
They offer to put up 81 900 in the hands
of three umpires, one competent scien-
titic man to be chosen by DIR. Beard,
another to be chosen by the Eddys, and
these two to decide upon the third.
They offer him every test that won't
"infict pain or bodily harm on the me-
dunn, and darkened room as the only
condition. If the doctor establishes
fraud in the manifestations he is to have
the 1000. If he fails the medium is to
receive it.