The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-24
Poole and Things.


RExrs viii be lower in New York this
year than since 1861. ,4 say
! TIE Washington matrimonial market
is said to be in bad way.
GENERAL BRAGG is at the head of a
new colony in Western Texas.
PorAToEs are quoted at seven cents
bushel at Liberty, Steuben county, N. Y.
1T is said the wealthiest people of New
Iork are quite carried away with the new
style OF gold-mounted collins.
A CABINET lady in Washington men,
tons as her outlay for visiting cards.
during the season Of 1876, $40.
BOSTON temperance folks are trying to
introduce free coffee, but the topers saw
coffee Injuries the nervous system.
WHEN anything pleases you at the
opera, bear in mind that "bravo" pron-
erly applies to the gentlemen and
"brava" to the lady performers. Don't
say either, young man, unless YOU part
your hair in the middle.
PRoF. HITCHCOCK, of Dartmouth Col
lege, is preparing model of the State
of New Hampshire, to show its topo-
graphy. 1t is on the scale of one inch
to the mile horizontal and one inch to
the thousand feet vertical.
A coLoRED clergyman in Brooklyn,
being accused last week of knocking his
landlord down, said that he had merely
taken hold of his coat to shove him to
one side, when the man fell down, but
then he took hold from the shoulder.
A YOUNG girl in Nevada, who had been
IL l. &aI Il
confronted him in BARRIERS chair, with
his face well lathered and one side
shaved. The cowhiding that ensued al
most bankrupted the descriptive re-
porters.
The Sultan was careful to tell his doc
tor before work commenced on that car
buncle that the fee would be paid in
cash and not in Turkish bonds, and that
it would be lump job. The cure was
speedy, and the doctor pocketed $4,000
in British gold.
The Canadian Minister of the Interior
announces the total Indian population of
the entire dominion to be 81, $40. The
total of their personal property is set
down at $489, ga, and of real estate at
81, 638, 708. OF invested capital they
own $2,844,972.
A MINE of whitewash was recently dis
covered in deep ravine on the farm of
Joseph Bowles, near La Belle, Lewis
county, Mo. The deposit 10 snow-white
clay, which possesses all the properties
Of the best lime whitewash. The mine
seems TO be inexhaustible.
The Government employees in Wash
ington have petitioned for holiday on
the 14th of April, the anniversary of the
emancipation of slaves in the District,
and also of the assassination of Abraham
LINCOLN. The freedmen erect monu-
ment to the martyred President on that
day.
For long time the door-bell of a
house in Wilmington, Del, had habit
of ringing when nobody was at the knob,
and the superstitious attributed it to un-
earthly causes. The other day, how
ever, it was discovered that the ringing
was caused by rats fooling with wire
in the cellar.
! KEoKUK Constitution Z: GA young
lady in one of our public schools was
called ON to read a composition Friday
afternoon, and on her arrival on the
platform she was Mortified, and the
young urchins crazed with delight, to
find that her pin-back worlld not allow
her to ascend the platform.
ACCORDING to the Buffalo Courier the
relief of the canal horses from the Calling
yoke on the Bergh method would cost
the navigators in the State S., 600, 900,
and impose an annual tax on the New
York grain trade of 100000. It is not
at all likely, however, that these figures
will move Mr.. Bergh from his purpose.
AT Huntington, w. Va, Anderson
Grafton eloped with Miranda Thomas,
married her, and returned to the house
OF her guardian, G. w. Williams. The
latter, incensed, shot them both with a
revolver, killing Grafton instantly and
seriously wounding the woman. Viii
liams is in custody. The parties are all
colored.
| The locusts are leahess and bare
The bleak world is mantled with snow;
! stand in the cold, wintry air,
! And think Of the sweet long-ago.
On a dark lonely house, DER the way,
The silver stars silently CLEAN;
Alone in the starlight, it stands
Like the ghost of beautiful dream.
The locusts are leaness and baro;
The bleak world ID mantled Win snow
The light in the window is gone
The light Of the sweet long-ago.
Eugene J. Hall.
All KI, the Chinese interpreter in the
Nevada courts, has better thing than a
post leadership. The official pay is
pretty fair when business is good, and
when it is dull he can always stir up a
quarrel among his fellow Celestials with
the result of lawsuit and improved
business. And besides his pay there is
always something to be picked up from
suitors who can afford to pay for having
the testimony interpreted with extra
care.
} A VERY knotty question has been
raised at Toulouse, France. An oyster
, opener of that place, in filing a small
! order for immediate consumption, found
{ in one of the oysters q magnificent pearl
worth several thousand dollars. She
promptly put the pearl in her pocket,
I but the person who ordered the oysters
insisted that it was his. The claim he
makes is that shells, juice, oyster, and
everything in the shells belong to him
when he has bought the oyster, and he
{ has asked the law courts to 80 decide.