The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-04-14

=. Messrs. Alcorn,. Allison Burnside, Chris
uyncy, Conover, Dennis, Eaton, English,
hitchcock, Johnston, Key Mcmillan Merri-
mon, Ogiesby. Patterson, Ransom Robert
son, sharon oa Wallace, West, Window, Withers,
People and Things.
The Popular Science Monthlv saws
that In less than 10, 900 years the Atlantic
Ocean will wash the base of the Rocky
mountains.
ELLEN FITzGERALD, of New Orleans,
was found dead in her bed night or two
ago. She had smothered while trying to
sleep off drunk.
The Register general of England be-
lieves that the illness of $4,000 fever
patients reported last year cost more
than $5, 900, 900 in money.
A WOMAN with two children has lust
been discovered in starving condition
at Providence. They were living in an
old garnet, were nearly naked and frozen.
The woman's husband deserted her,
taking every article of furniture and
clothing, not even leaving mattress for
the deserted ones to lie on.
ALL the "big bonanza men in Cali
fornia, and the Pacific slope generally,
belong to the San Francisco Stock board.
1t takes "bonanza," too, to secure a
place in that select body, the price of
membership being at present $35, 900,
and none for sale at that. There are now
100 members of the board.
NEW ballot-box has been invented
by citizen of Great harrington, Mass.
A l. 81. L.
of the box for the depositing of the bal
lot, and on the front are two dials, one
registering every ballot and the other
every hundredth ballot. The ends are
of plate-glass, so that the inquisitive
citizen can watch the accumulation OF
votes.
LEFT-TAKEN.
The tenderest love at last is mute,
One or the other silent grows:
Then comes the quiet of the SHOWS,
And then the robin with his flute.
over the one the seasons fly;
birds note to tell of June
And the tossing branches tune
Their twigs TO wintry melody.
The other sitting in the glow
OF the red hearth, with dropping head,
Thinks of the lost one cold and dead,
Whispering: "we loved each other OF"
-"Lucrece" in the Golden Rule.
PRoF. TYNDALL has discovered tina.
air can be rendered OFFICIALLY pure by
merely leaving it undisturbed three or
four days in close chamber. ALI the
floating matter subsidies, and the con-
fined air will not transmit light. Solu-
tions placed therein remain unaltered,
though left for months, while similar
solutions open to the ordinary air swarm
with bacteria in twenty-four hours or
two days.
The Bavarian government, with a
view to putting a stop to the practice of
dueling, has decided that when one of
the CONTESTANTS is killed he shall be con-
sidered to have committed suicide, and
therefore denied the privileges of burial.
In conformity with this decision the
body of a Bavarian count, killed in a
duel with an officer, has been handed
over to one of the Munich hospitals for
dissection.
YPsnASTI Mich, has q resident
forty years old who was never
drunk, never had lawsuit, never swore,
never voted straight ticket, and never
had $500 in cash ut one time. Oh, well
Send him along. 'Spose we must make
room for him in some department.
Ii the Agricultural building is full, we
can send him over to the Zoo. A man
to live in Typsy-land forty-seven years,
and never get drunk once, is curiosity.
-Phttadel1hi0 Bulletin.
THE meanest thieves on record are
those who recently broke into the house
of Mrs. Milly Carpenter, of Edgefield
county, North Carolina, who is in her
11lth year, and stole trunk containing
her relics, mementOes, and money, in
GLIDING various ornaments and articles
of clothing not worn by her for fifty or
sixty years, several very valuable Span
ish and other coins, some old Mexican
silver dollars, and $135 or $40 in cur
rency. The old lady, though consider
ably deaf, sees astonishingly well, and
weaves at her loom almost every day.
Four San Francisco boys organized
themselves into thieving association,
excluding another because he was only
twelve years old, they being about year
older. The excluded boy, knowing
where they were going to commit their
first robbery, preceded them and got
the bottle of wine that they had planned
to steal. Then they took him in, fitted
up "robbers cave in a cellar, and
went out on predatory excursions, until
by selling their plumber, they had $7.4
in the treasury. At a business meeting
they quarreled 50 loudly about divi-
dend that policeman overheard them,
and they were arrested.
TEE Progress de rOise (France), re-
lntes the extraordinary murder of Nine.
Lepine, wife of wealthy merchant,
who was slain with an axe in her parlor
during the husbands absence. No mon
ey or valuables were missed, 80 that the
local police was utterly bewildered. The
case being, however, telegraphed to the
head of the department, it was soon
found that dangerous lunatic, who had
for years been confined in the neighbor-
bood had few days before the murder
been liberated as cured, and Immediately
started on tour of destruction. When
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