The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-22
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ONhh biAuy uatlOnS now Durn Hen0-
sylvania coal oil.
JOHN BRIGHT will, il is reported, visit
this country next year.
A CHINAMAN and an Irishman run a
candy store in partnership in New
York.
THE membership of Plymouth Church
is made up of 1,504 females and 8S6
males.
COLORADO and Wyoming are doubt
less the most wonderful fossil fields on
the globe.
ACCORDING to Punch, Gladstone has
abandoned the works of Homer for
those of Pope.
IT cost Denver sport $4S to cut off
the pig-tail ornament of q Celestial
resident in that city.
j. s. CLARKE is the only American
comedian who has successfully played
English comedy on English soil.
"AND now," complains the Omaha
Bee, "the barbarians of the East refer
to our female population as 'Oma-
hens.'"
A TERRE HAUTE newspaper begs the
policemen of indianapolis, when they
visit Il. H. for 81 big drunk" to leave
their uniforms behind them.
IT is the opinion of the Galveston
NeaOs that the trade between that city
and the New West in tropical fruits is
destined to be very important.
A LETTER in the New York Tribune
says: Papa has given us three cents
day for not sucking our thumbs. We
send 81 for a child in Kansas"
CINCINNATI people spend $S, 900, 900 a
year for intoxicating drinks. and still
are greatly troubled to know how
to keep the poor of the city from starv-
ing.
THE Rev. Florence Mccarthy, of
Chicago, counts so, 900 conflicting read
ings in the New Testament, and says
that eve are at the mercy of the trans
lators."
DR.. JOHN HALL says that in England
people are divided into churchmen and
dissenters, but that in America they
might properly be divided into church.
men and absenters.
THE government of France is enor-
nous, consisting of ] 100000 soldiers,
$50, 900 clergymen, and $50, 900 office
holders, making a total of 100000
rulers of less than 10, 900, 900 people.
ENGLISH and German architects fre-
quently visit the ancient Greek temples
of Pasturn and return filled with praises
Of the Grecian beauties. For modern
building purposes, however, they are
pronounced useless.
NJ. HURoUERLoT left $120,0 to the
city OF Paris to found a railroad school;
but as the same was insufficient for the
purpose, and the city had no funds to
put with it into railroad schools, the
money was Reluctantly sent back to the
heirs.
AN incendiary thrashing- machine is a
novelty. While one of these labor
savers was in operation in the barn of
William Shoemaker, in Franklin county,
Ohio, a piece of iron slipped in with
the grain, striking fire under the cylin-
der, which resulted in the destruction
of the barn and contents.
In the time of Pope Pelagius II.
plague ragged at Rome of so fatal ma
ture that people seized with it died sneez-
ing and gaping, whence came the Gus
tom of saying "God bless you - when
person sneezes, and of Roman Catho-
lies making the sign of the cross upon
the mouth when any one gapes.
A LETTER from Hardyville, Arizona,
says the tide of emigration is steadily
increasing. All agree that great rush
is near at hand. The great point of at
traction now is the Sandy country.
Towns and cities are talked of, and
qnartz mills, new roads, ferries, and
stage lines, are among the improve
ments of the day.
This is rattlesnake season in Texas.
A letter from there says: "Thirty-one
rattlesnakes were caught and Gagged at
Elgin during the last cold spell. Two
sink-holes were attacked, and thirteen
taken from one, and eight from the
other. They measured from three to
five feet, and some of them had as