The true northerner., 1875-05-07

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No strawberries or peaches in the West
this year to speak of.
The season for broiling your neck and
catching no fish approaches.
MARTINsBSRaH, N. Y, has nineteen
inhabitants over 80 years old.
THREE hundred thousand immigrants
have moved into Texas since last
October.
The people of this extravagant country
expended 81, ,S41 500 for foreign buttons
last year.
GIVE me to write the songs of a nation
and L care not who does the outdoor
work.-N y. World.
JUDGE FULLERTON, of Tilton's counsel,
has bought 600 acres of land near Fair
fax Court House, Va.
ATpresent there are fifteen States of
Europe which recognize horses, donkeys
and mules as legal food.
NATIONAL banks are to be assessed for
the expense attending the redeeminga and
reassorting of their notes. ,rI.9
THIS is the way an " intelligent comp"
set up the Halls of the Montezumas
1.-The Hells of the Monte Games.
The Historical Society at Buffalo has
in its possession the tomahawk presented
to Red Jacket by George Washington.
NEVER spend any time musing on the
meanness of an enemy. Better use it
thinking of the virtues of your friends.
In Russia a commission is to examine
the expediency of reducing the number
OF holidays enjoyed by that too happy
people.
Mrs. THEODORE THToN will keep
summer boarding house at Cornwall, an
up Hudson resort, not very far from
Peekskill
DAN BRYANT, Nelse Seymour, Uns-
worth and Budworth were once mem
bers of the same minstrel organization,
and died within sixty days of one an
other.
A KENTUCKY coroner has purchased n
silver ball for the pupose of presenting
it to the base ball nine that shall show
the highest death rate at the end of the
season.
A DEAD Emperor is costly luxury at
best. Over $50,00 worth of valuables,
besides quite handful of widows, were
burned in performing the funeral rites of
the late Emperor of China.
A WRITER from one of Gordon's stations
in Central Africa, says that both sexes
tinge their hair with finered or golden
ointment and that magnificent natural
chignons are worn by the men.
In an old curiosity shop in Ninth street,
Washington, are piano formerly owned
by Washington at Mount Vernon, vio-
lin of "Tad" Lincoln, and the saddle
used i'll the last Mexican war by Santa
Anna.
CAPT. J. b. ,,EADs, the proprietor of
the jetty system for the improvement of
navigation of the mouth of the Missis-
sippi, has engaged the same contractors
who put up the st. Louis bridge to do
the jetty work.
IT is now believed that serious diseases
result from eating fish cured during the
exhaustion which follows the spawning
season. Among them is modified form
of leprosy and elephantiasis, diseases di-
rectly traceable to the causes referred to
both in Norway and in India.
LOUISVILLE has had sensation. A bull
dog belonging to a prominent citizen at
tempted to chew "spoon" fish-hook
one of the prongs entered his upper lip,
and the other the lower. No one dared
to take it out until chloroform was ad-
ministered to the furious animal.
A New YORK man got inside of eight
cen secret societies, but death had the
pass word at every door and found him.
The Masons managed the funeral, the
Odd Fellows held a service at the grave,
and the sixteen other societies had the
privilege of attending" " in body"
HENRIETTA ROBINSON, the "veiled
murderess," is one of the three women
now in the prisons of New York who will
be affected by the passage of the law for
the Communication of life prisoners after
fifteen years of good behavior She is
in the insane asylum at Auburn.
Two Englishmen in search of sulphur
on the island of Dominica, West Indies,
have discovered eight or ten miles in
land in the crater of an extinct volcano,
a boiling lake. 1t is half mile wide
and two miles in circumference, and
even at the shore the hand cannot be
immersed in the water without pain.
The rabbit forms an important article
of food in Great Britain and Ireland.
Large numbers are imported from the
Continent, and it is estimated that o.,
600, 900 are annually bred for food. The
flesh is sold ut twelve cents (gold) a
pound, which is fully third less than
the price of beef and considerably under
that of the choicer portions of the sheep.
The value of the annual supply is esti-
mated at $7,S75, 900.
HUNDREDS of thousands of chaf1inches
and skylarks are annually slaughtered
along the Dutch coasts and the last
autumn birdcatcher near the Hague
caught no less than IL 900 chaffinches in
the course of six weeks, and these bird
catchers may be counted by hundreds.
In Austria, Italy and Spain, matters are
worse still IN those countries not only
chaffinches and larks, but even robins,
nightingales, titmice, wagtails, in fact all