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


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FRESH TOPICS.
A National Hard Money Conven
ton" is to be held at Cincinnati on thI
18th of October.
Or the 255, 900 headstones just finished
to mark the resting places of Union sol
diers in the national cemeteries, 1876, DOC
are for graves of the unknown.
A CHICAGO firm has received sn order
from Glasgow, Scotland, to send to that
port sixty head of cattle per week during
the season. The first shipment has been
sent forward via Montreal.
Two TWINS were recently born Ill one
piece, joined together in the Siamese
fashion, at Sarnico, Lombardy. They
were exhibited at fair in Bergamo, and
during the exhibition first one and
quickly after the other died.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER declares:
81 have no fears but that, even III tins
life, my husband will stand acquitted
before all men-save such characters as
those who have plotted against him, and
even they know that he is guiltless.
A HEN of Jonathan Bodwell, of Middle
town, Conn, ceased to lay, few weeks
ago, and rapidly fattened up till she
could scarcely walk, when she was killed,
and mass Of ten full-sized eggs and
q number of smaller ones taken from
her.
THE richest woman in America is the
wife of Prof. CANNED, formerly of
Brown University, Rhode Island. She
has an income of at least a million
year, her fathers estate, which she has
Just inherited, being estimated at fully
$40, 100000.
ga SUFFERER, who wrote to a Chi
cago editor asking what course to adopt
in order to relieve himself and his family
from the nuisance of being kept awake
night after night by the barking dogs OF
a near neighbor, was recommended to
try strychnine in piece of raw beef.
CHICAGO Tribune: Copy was out.
The devil picked up paper and said,
Here's something About Woman =
must 1 cut it outl Nor Numbered
the editor; the first disturbance ever
created in the world was occasioned by
the devil fooling about woman.
FRANK NORTON resigned position as
Clerk IL the Interior Department to be-
come a professional ball-player. He
married young Brooklyn girl with a
maiden aunt worth half q million, and
the considerate old creature gracefully
withdrew from this world, leaving the
property to her niece.
The Centennial Board of Finance an
nounce that, in addition to collections
and subscriptions already made, 81 ,0OO,-
600 will be required for building pJlr-
poses alone in the last four months of
this year, and make further appeal fol
aid to citizens of Philadelphia and the
country at large.
JOHN WELSH, President of the Cen
tennial Board of Finance, estimates the
total cost of the exhibition at SO, 500, 0O0
Tie city of Philadelphia and the State
appropriations, together with private
subscriptions, reach $3,0OO,000. The
stock basis will thus be about So, 600, 0O0
and this, it is expected, will be met by
admission fees and sale of materials alter
the exhibition.
The London papers are giving de
served attention to the case of little
girl who was sentenced by the magis
trates at Spalding to imprisonment {
fortnight and reformatory for foul
years, for plucking a geranium flower
"British Justice" as thus illustrated
would appear to be in the hands of grin
and dyspeptic giants such as are tn
bugbears in nursery tales.
MILWAUKEE is entitled to be classed a
the beer capital of America. That city
with It's 100, 900 inhabitants, consume
during the month of June %, 1927 barrel
of lager, making 14,050, 1872 glasses, at
cost of 500, 10000 to the consumers
AS half of the population may be a.
sumed to be minors below the beel
drinking age, the remainder must hav
taken ten glasses each per day.
AT Altaville, Sicily, hogs have the FIRE
about N