The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30

THE orchards of this country are esti-
mated to contain over 20,000,000 fruit
trees.
GEN. SBLEY, inventor of the Sibley
tent, has entered the japanese military
service.
PETER ROYAL, of Lee, Va, has
reached the 105th year of his age. A
royal old age, truly.
WHEN men publish their acts eff
charity they doubt the ability of tho
Lord to keep accounts.
Rev. WILLIAM MORLEY PUNsHoN, the
eloquent English Methodist, will visit
America again next year.
ANNA DICKINSON has been advised by
six hundred and fifty-seven newspapers
Lot to go on the stage.
IT took 1,500 columns of the New York
Tribune to contain all of the proceed
ings of the Beecher trial.
FLORIDA is said to be the best timbered
State in the Union, there being in it over
30,000,00 acres of timber land.
THE peach crop of the Maryland and
Delaware peninsula is estimated at from
100000 to S,000,0 900 baskets.
SOMETHING new was observed in New
York the other day, in the shipment Of
2,300 barrels of sugar for Turkey.
A New YORK paper has information
that there is not one-half the demand for
soda water that there was two OF three
years ago.
Mr.. JEWELL says that he is pleased
with what he saw on his trip through
the West. He thinks the postoffices are
all well conducted.
A CANADIAN can lend you his news
paper by mail for one cent postage, but
it will cost you four cents to return it to
him over the same route.
IT is now believed that the grape crop
of California has not been injured 10y the
severe winter and wet spring. A full
yield is anticipated.
The strikes of oil near Titusville with
in the past few weeks have been so numer-
Gus and so rich that relapse into the
oil fever is imminent.
BARNEY ANDREWS sat on keg of pow
der in a Missouri grocery store and
smoked a cigar for fun. The fun didn't
commence until the powder exploded.
A MINE of liquid sulphur has been re-
Gently discovered near Palermo, Sicily.
The sulphur runs from the assures in a
rock at the rate of forty or fifty tons a
day.
SICILY has 1850 known brigands,
besides large number of chaps who
skulk along the roads and esteem it a
duty to kill an Englishman whenever
they can.
"OUR inside contains to-day" says
Minnesota editor, "' DYSPEPSIA
Crooked Whisky, "A Chinese Restau-
rant, and various other interesting
selected articles"
TWEED, the boys say, was never in the
habit of getting very full. And yet it
seems to take q good while, in the pres
ent instance, to bail him out.--NetO
York Commercial advertiser.
A WASHINGTON paper says: "John
Langston, late President of the Howard
University, at Washington, has accepted
the lead of land company, the object
of which is to purchase lands in Virginia
and sell them in lots to colored persons
at cheap rates."
4 MILLIONAIRE of Granville, Wis, has
recently made a will, in which he leaves
$50, 900 to any incorporated town or vii
! lage in Wisconsin that will not tolerate
brass band. How pleasant it is to see
a man devote his fortune to acts of pure
philanthropy
Hoy. ASA PACKER, of Mauch Chunk,
is said to be worth $20,000,0 900. There
are few larger fortunes in the country.
He was poor boy, ana has ac-
cumulated this large estate by good
management and industry, assisted,
probably, by good luck.