The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-13
ALL SORTS.

AMHERST COLLEGE needs $500, 900 to
supply its pressing needs.
THE cotton manufacturing business in
Great Britain is very dull.
TINS is the season when apples begin
to lose their flavor. The same cannot
be said of butter. ii'iI
The plague which has broken out this
year Mt Bagdad has been dormant for
forty-two years. uiflf
Mr.. ALBERT RHODES has Just become
the editor of the Daily Nation OF Wash
ington. 1t is to be an independent
journal. fI-t
A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal de
Geneve states that the medical staff of
the Turks does not exceed one per 1000
strength.
BOYS are engaged by farmers IN the
northern and western portions of New
York to pick potato-bugs at five cents
hundred.
NEARLY 250,00 passengers were con-
veyed on the London Underground rail-
road on Whitmonday, the largest num-
Der on record.
THAT merchant who doesn't advertise
can give the best definition of Nothing"
when he stands all day in his store and
looks in his till to find-nothing
sLEEP-wALKING young lady IN Cot
tonwood county, CAL, while passing
through her fathers sleeping chamber,
was awakened by his hand upon her
shoulder. She fell down dead.
SECRETARY THOMPSON is graphically
Haacriha1 no a fbiY, paryn,,o 1ittla man
with snowy white hair, quick gray eye,
and a wrinkled face without mustache or
beard; he wears rusty suit of black and
a white necktie.
A CINCINNATI clothing dealer, being
unable to suit a countryman, threat
ened to have him arrested if he did
not buy a coat. The simpleton there
upon paid $18 for q SIS garment but
the police compelled the clothier to re-
turn the money.
FRENCH publicists employ regular
staff of fighting men, who assume re-
sponsibility for articles rejecting ON
individuals, while imprisonment result
ing from censure of Governmental at
fairs is borne by substitutes, who re-
ceve 81 week.
of man whose life was saved by plug
of tobacco carried in his pocket. A pistol
bullet fired at him lodged in the tobacco,
and the man was unframed. Moral
If you will use tobacco, don't take is out
of your pocket.
OF the 40 members of the graduating
class at Williams College, IL are to be
ministers, 7 lawyers, 4 physicians,
business men, 3 teachers, q journalist,
and the rest undecided. Every man is
Free Trader, and there are 10 who
class themselves rs Independents in pol
tics
MAJOR BoLDEN of the Sixty-eighth
British Infantry in India, went tiger
hunting near Manselghur, in the estate
OF Shahpour. He was upon an elephant,
in the act of firing, when the beast sud-
denly started on run and threw him.
Matters were then reversed. The tiger
hunted the Major, and before assistance
arrived had killed him.
A wELL-KNowN clergyman of the
Church of England, in Liverpool, has
resigned his charge and left the neigh
bOrhood in consequence of having be-
come seriously involved in speculations
on the Stock Exchange. He was incum-
bent of one of the most fashionably at
tended churches in the town. His losses
are estimated at from ct, 900 to f10, 900.
LowELL's acceptance of the mission to
Madrid incites Western newspapers to
reproduce what, as Hosea Bigelow, he
wrote thirty years ago:
l du believe it's wise an good
To SEN out furrin missions,
Thet is on sartin understood
An orthydox conditions;
mean nine thousan' dolls. per ann,
Nine thousan more fer outfit,
An me to recommend man
The place 'ould jest about at.
A VIRGINIAN has Just compiled q
genealogy of the descendants OF Poca-
hontas. During the course of his
labors he incidentally gathered the
pedigrees of nearly all the prominent
families of Virginia, and his investi-
cations reveal the singular fact that
nearly every family in the State of any
duration of residence may be inter-
linked ineally or collaterally.
THE well-to-do pauper isn't person
to read about with much equanimity. In
Dubuque, Iowa, one woman who owns
several houses and lots, and another who
has a good bank account, have been re-
ceiving money all along from the county.
In st. Paul woman purchasing valu-
able lot of real-estate dealer asked that
nothing should be said about it in the
newspapers, as she was "getting little
aid from the county"
AT the Hammersmith Police Court in
London, the other day, q laborer named
Hemmings was arraigned for whipping
his child Mary with the buckle end of
belt. The magistrate, in order to test
the girls knowledge of the nature Of an
oath before swearing her, questioned
her as to her knowledge of the Bible,
and she replied that she never heard of
it. The magistrate, expressing sur
prise, adjourned the hearing fort
night, and gave instructions for the
child to be taken to q school and in
structed as to the Bible and the nature
of an oath.
so Is THE STORY TOLD.
A fair head meekly bowed,
shy glance coming after,
Voices not overload,
And low sweet laughter
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