The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-06
ALL SORTS.
TURNIPs cure hog cholera.

SACRAMENTO has established chain
gang.
New HAVEN sells its per cent. bonds
at 1861.
HOUSE rents in Brooklyn never were
80 low as now.
WHEREVER American goods get foot
hold they stick.
The public library of Boston contains
Sd, 265 volumes.
A BUST of Charles Francis Adams has
been made by his son, John Adams.
ADVICE to too many people-How to
make home happy-leave it.-Pwach.
WALES, the heir to the throne, costs
England 5000, 900 year, and still he is
in debt.
THE Bunker Hill Monument Associa-
ton has elected Dom Pedro an honorary
member.
The King of Italy gets $2,S50,0OO n
year, and, like Wales, he, too, is in debt
and misery.
HARVARD gives warning that after this
year her boat crew will row against no
other college crew than Yale's
BALTIMORE received 435-pound tur-
tie from North Carolina, and calls it the
biggest one ever brought to that market.
The lower lip of baby starts in first
and gets through with its part of the
cry before the upper lip can get up it's
motion.
AN Irishman has defined nothing to be
"a footless stocking without legs" A
description by another Emeralder:
What is nothing?" he asked. "Shut
your eyes and you'll see it,
COUNSEL.
Others will kiss you while your mouth is red.
Beauty is brief OF all the guests who come
While the lamp shines flowers, and wine, and bread,
In time of famine who will spare a crumb?
Therefore, oh, next to God, pray you keep
Yourself your own friend, the tried, the true.
Sit your watch-others will surely sleep.
Weep your own tears. Ask none to die with you.
-Apptetons for July.
Mr.. JAMES RUSSELL LowELLs accept
ance o. the Spanish mission will not be
permitted to sever his connection with
Harvard University. The Trustees have
refused to accept his resignation, pre-
ferring to fill the vacancy during his alb
sence. 1t is understood that the mission
was offered to Prof. Lowell in an auto
graph letter by President Hayes.
DURING the dividend periods of six
months each, ending March / and Sept
l, 1876, SOC national banks located in
the States and principal cities of the
Union charged Off as losses the sum of
S19, 719, 026 AZ, of which $6,S79, 759 oc-
Cured in New York city banks, 1895, 1902
in Chicago banks, 81, 59S, 872 in Boston
banks, 1876, 207 in Baltimore banks, and
$619, 701 in New Orleans banks,
The first submarine cable was that
laid across the Strait of Dover, twenty
seven years ago. 1t parted next day, and
the first working cable was laid, in 1851,
on the same route. The network Of cable
has now extended so far that, when Asia
is united to America by cabling the Pa
cific, the electric girdle around the world
will be complete from east to west, as it
now is between the north and south.
WHEN Frederick Douglass went to see
his former master, Capt. Aud, the other
day, Auld's son-in- law addressed the WIS.,
itor as Marshal Douglass" "No,
no." expostulated the Marshal, CT am
Marshal Douglass in Washington here
let me be Fred Douglass again. He
said that he left Mr.. Aud forty-one
years ago, not because he loved Caesar
less, but because he loved Rome more.
THE value of bones imported annually
into England to be used for fertilizing
the land is computed to be $10,-
100000. They are obtained from Rus
STA, Germany, South America, and the
United States. Throughout Great Brit
ain bones are collected from every pos
sible source of supply. So valuable are
bones considered in Germany that a
proverb there reads: Zone ton OF bone
dust saves the importation of ten tons OF
German corn"
DEAD dogs are really an odd kind OF
merchandise ; yet there is firm in San
Francisco which purchases at so cents
each the dogs slaughtered at the city
pound. The skins are removed and sold
to the tanners, the hair is disposed of to
the plasterers, and then the carcasses
are thrown into great boiler, and there
kept until the bones are separated from
the flesh, and these are sold to the sugar
refiners. The grease that rises to the
surface is made into cod-liver oil-at least
so it is stated.
FISHERMEN in China are called fish
catchers, and they make living by draw
ing fish with their hands from the richly
stocked lakes and rivers in the north of
the kingdom. The fish catcher wades
or swims in water only deep enough to
enable him to touch his feet ut will. He
strikes the surface violently with his
hands, soaring the fish to the bottom,
then by keeping his feet moving he feels
them in the mud, and dives and brings
up his prey.
IRREvOCABLE.
Because il did not yield me shade enough
Because the time seemed long till fruit should lre
smote at root my towering apple-tree;
IL the faircst tree in my scant grove,
And fell with little sound. watched above
And viewed 1t where it lay, content to see
My fearful handiwork, and angrily
shook its boughs, and plucked the leaves thereof.
Poor leaves that never a deep shadow made
Yet were 80 farl dropped them one by one.
And then wept, for what cannot saw
Unless my heart conjectured of some day
When should stand alone, and no such sbade
should interpose between me and the sun
-Fhitp BouTke harston, in Scribner for Juiv.
ENGLISH shippers and underwriters are
becoming nervous over the frequent loss
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