The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-21

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Joseph, Mo.
ALL work on the Hoosac tunnel has
been completed.
The Cincinnati hotels made $3.50. 900
by the convention. ilfIi'
A WOMAN in Newman, Ga, traps a
bushel of flies day. - -
A LITTLE girl of 10, in state of beastIy
intoxication, was seen on the streets of
Fort Wayne, Ind, the other day.
| OF the books taken from the Cincin-
natl Library in 1873, more than eighty
three IN every hundred were fiction.
ONE Of the earliest printers ON rec
ord is said to have been the Emperor
Trajan, who set up column in Rome.
QUEER. Edwards Pierrepcnt is our
Minister to England, and Pierrepont
Edwards is British Consul at New-York.
A TENNESSEE fugitive from Justice
finds hiding places in the residences of
his wives, of whom he has four in as
many counties.
GRACE GREENWOOD rode on a cow
catcher. Her impressions are summed
up in the impressive remark, 81 shall
never do that again"
AMONG the notable degrees of Doctor
of Laws this summer is that conferred
upon Gen. Sherman by Yale College, and
upon Carl Schurz by Harvard.
A New YORK Judge has decided, in
the case of Mrs. Annie Eva Fay, that
spiritual seances are exhibitions of Jug
glery, and must pay license accordingly.
POET.
He sings because he needs must sing,
AS birds do In the May.
Not caring who'll be listening,
Nor who may turn away.
The million dollars required for the
construction OF that railroad bridge
across the Hudson at Poughkeepsie has
been subscribed, and the work will begin
Immediately.
THE New York Board of Health has
decided that it is unsafe to have church
or public funeral in the case of any per-
son dying from smallpox, scarlet fever
or whooping cough.
In the Sdnitarian DIR. Peck calls at
tention to the odor of the ailantus tree,
and say that the whole medical profess
sion should raise its voice against using
the poisonous tree for city shade.
Would anybody believe that there are
to-day something like 900 American
youths, aged from II to 20, ferociously
engaged in the business of "amateur
journalism Yet such is the fact.
1T is anything but respectable to be
on the beach at Long Branch after dark.
That is the hour when the romantic
hackman and the coy hotel servant do
listen to the music of the waves, etc.
A ST. LOUIS man has invented a steam
substitute for hand-car, which will
carry six persons at q rate of about thirty
miles an hour, can be turned in any d.
rection and taken from the track in a
moment. Several Eastern roads are
adopting them.
AT Mazas, and several other French
prisons, "Suicide's Album" is kept,
which is constantly open to the inspec-
ton of the prisoners. 1t depicts in the
most vivid manner the agonies of those
who have attempted, or committed sui
eide to defeat the ends of justice.
Mr.. PERRY NELSON, of the town of
Concord, Dodge county, Mimi, while
strolling along the river bank, found
quite a curiosity for that county, not
especially noted for mineral produc-
tons. 1t was a nugget of apparently
pure copper, weighing thirty-four
pounds.
THE uncertainty of poetic fame is
well illustrated in the case of Charles
Wells, in England. Fifty years ago he
published poem called "Joseph and
His Brethren" No one took the trouble
to read it. The world mas suddenly dis
covered that this is the greatest poem of
the age.
An aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Z. Peoples, live in Barnwell, S. @.
They We're born in Gloucester county,
on the James river, IN Virginia. Mr..
Peoples is 121 years old, and his wife
123. This is, perhaps, the oldest living
couple in the United States. Mr.. Peo-
pies is machinist by trade.
THE Paris Observatory has received
from M. Melendez, a Spanish photo
grapher, remarkable photograph of
the moon. Melendez invented process
which enabled him to obtain picture
showing mountains and volcanoes upon
the surface of the orb, and indicating
forests OF huge trees, now petrified.
AFTER the Oxford authorities had
tried many schemes in vain to obtain
orderly behavior on the part of the un-
der graduates on commemoration day,
they hit upon the plan of admitting no
student to the hall unless accompanied
by girl or woman. For the first time
in years, there was good order during
the exercises.
In Baltimore two-wheeled drays are
used, and, instead of skids or cart
rungs, to form bridge from the cart to
the doorway of the warehouse, pair of
shafts are built into the dray, sticking
out far enough beyond to cover the dis
lance from the curbstone to the ware
house. Some of the drays have only
one bar each, and the dray is about the
shape of an immense spade, mounted on
two wheels, with the handle sticking out
behind.
The green outer husks of walnuts
contain yellow-brown and remarkably
fast dye, which is well suited for dyeing
wooden or cotton materials, staining
wood, etc. Wool thus dyed requires no
mordant. is very soft to handle, and not