The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-30

AN onion field in Texas yields Sl,Oo
per acre. f1ftIlDC
The hulk Of the old Merrimac is to be
manufactured into canes.
The Yale College faculty includes
Brewer, Porter and Beers.
The nearest kinsmen of George Wash
ington have homes in Texas.
DIR. J. G. HOLLAND gets s., 900 year
| for his services on Scribner's.
A ROCHESTER, horse-shoer has for his
motto. "Not slow but shoer."
The London and Northwestern rail-
way is now at its two-thousandth en-
CINE.
DALLAS, Tex, is 30 infested by gam
blers that the respectable citizens begin
to talk hemp.
Miss OLIVE FULLER, OF Marston's
Mills, Mass, has attained the age of
one hundred years.
The Albemarle Club of London, holds
that women have no appreciation of
good eating and drinking.
ACTORS who die on the stage in Mu-
mich are now forbidden to come on and
bow until the close of the play.
A DAUGHTER of Gen. d. H. Hill has
been married in Charlotte, N. c., to
nephew of Stonewall Jackson.
The Italians bring up from the bot
tom of the Mediterranean yearly $50, 900
pounds of coral, worth 81, 100000.
CONSUMPTION, it is now asserted, can
be stamped ont of the system by the time
ly administration of the hypophosphites
of lime or soda.
The New York Times proves to its
own satisfaction that the humorous ras-
Gals are almost as bad as the grave and
reticent ones.
THE Rev. Norman Frederick Meneile,
M. A., has been appointed to London
curacy. He is stone blind, and reads
from raised letters.
The late Sultan was connected by ties
of blood with the Bonaparte family, his
grandmother having been the near rela-
tive of the Empress Josephine.
CALIFORNIA has more sheep than she
can pasture, and the owners are begin
ming to kill them for the fat and pelts,
the flesh being thrown away or fed to the
hogs.
AN attempt is being made to GUST the
only feminine jailer in the United States
Mrs. Jones, of Jersey City. Talks
too much to the defenceless prisoners,
perhaps.
CAPT. ALLAN You've has sailed on
another Arctic voyage on his steamer,
the Pandora. HIS principal object is to
communicate with the Alert and Discov-
cry. The Pandora goes provisioned for
two years.
In Philadelphia thief has turned his
attention to ladders, getting them by
saying that he wishes to hang curtains
near by. He intended, after accumulat-
ing stock, to go into the country ped
ding them, but he was arrested.
A GERMAN widow in New Orleans
has Just married her sicth husband.
Some of her German friends say she
buried two husbands before leaving the
old country. If this be true, the pres
ent husband is her eighth.
SAMBo has soul for music. A col
ored convict in Philadelphia prison,
manufactured an excellent banjo out of
an old tin pan, the heel OF shoe and
some strings, and kept up such twang-
ing during the whole night that nobody
in the prison could sleep. They took it
from him.
ABDUL AKA was the ninth Sultan de-
posed, like fate having overtaken Ba-
jazet III. in 1872, Mustapha 1. in 1913,
Ibrahim in 1913, Mahomet Nv. in 1857,
Mustapha III. in 1903, Achmet LII. in
1730, Selim III. in 1907, and Mustapha
Nv. in 1908.
Miss MARY HOOK, of Cherokee coun-
ty, Ga, has large hickory-nut with an
ostrich, an eagle, deer, squirrel,
hog, the initials "W. k" and "1731;"
flowers, etc., beautifully carved upon it.
The carving was executed by William
Kendrick, school teacher, who lived
somewhere near the James river in Vir-
ginia, In l73l.
A YOUNG woman incurably sick, i'll New
Haven, desires that after death her body
may be dissected. She says: at can do
me no possible harm, and it may benefit
science, and through it some other un-
fortunate affected like myself. More
over, desire to express in this manner
the gratitude feel to the many medical
men who have labored for my relief"
PROPHECY MADE IN LASS.
In twice two hundred years the Bear
The Crescent shall assail;
But IL the Cock and Bull unite,
The Bear shall not prevail.
But look! In twice ten years again .al
Let Islam know and fear
The Cross shall wax, the Crescent wane,
Grow pale and disappear.
The twice two hundred years brought
the Crimean war, and the twice ten after
that brings us to the present deposition
of the Sultan.