The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-13
ALL SORTS.

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BRooKLYN's horse disease is subsiding.
THE population of Texas is 1, $50, 900.
DELAWARE peach-growers are buoyant
over the prospects of an unusually large
crop.
A LIVE bat was found imbedded in the
center of solid tree at Hartwell, Ga,
recently.
THE plums grown in Martin county,
Mimi, will be converted into brandy
this year.
ROLLED steel axles for railroad cars
are being experimentally tried on the
Lehigh Valley railroad.
THE wooden mills at Minneapolis,
closed on account of hard times, are to
begin operations shortly.
Ex-Gov. SPRAGUE, of Rhode Island, is
in Columbia, S. c., negotiating for the es-
tablishment there of large cotton facto-
ries.
THE Ancient Order of Caucasians (anti-
Chinese) is spreading in California.
Hlbernian names predominant In the
lists of officers.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Sacramento
to establish laundries to be run by Amer
ican women. San Jose has several in q
hourishing condition.
A BILL is pending in the Nevada Legis-
lature declaring 1T unlawful for the Chi
nese to transport the bones OF their dead
from the burying grounds.
AMONG the latest departures for the
Black Hills have been 165 barrels of
whisky from Frankfort, KY. The partic-
ular point of their destination was Gus
ter City.
LORENZO Cox, who had during his life
killed six men in private quarrels, died
in Marion county, Miss, last week, of a
pistol-wound received several months
before.
Mr.. NING-CHoY, formerly interpreter
in Hong Kong, has been called to the bar
of Lincoln's Inn, London. He is the
first Chinaman who ever attained that
distinction.
PORTLAND, Me-, proposes to suppress
Sunday papers. Such, at any rate, is
the inference, from the fact that all the
little newsboys there were arrested on
Sunday week.
THE spring styles of vests will be so
short and the trousers will be cut 80 high
in the neck that our best young men will
be able to button their collars directly on
the Wristbands.
The Pennsylvania oil country seems
to be overstocked with laborers. The
Edenburg Herald says about one per-
son in fifteen seeking employment at
that point gets it.
TWENTY rounds were fought between
two men employed in Roach's ship-yard
at Chester, Pa. the other day, when the
wives of the combatants put in an APP
pearance and led their british husbands
home.
A RECENT event in Nevada was the
marriage of the Piute Princess, Sarah
Winnemucca, to buck known as Bob.
She had previously been the bride of an
officer of the United States army, Lieut..
Bartlett.
THE fish of Wallows lake, in Califor-
MIA, are blood red in color and very fat.
There are only four lakes known in
which this fish is found-Payette, in
Idaho, lake in Maine, one in Scotland,
and Wallows lake.
A PARTY of Chinese fishermen caught
sight of q sea serpent near the Coronado
islands, in the Pacific, ON Feb. q.
Length of body, so feet; length of
head, 10 feet length of tail, 100 feet;
diameter, feet; color, brown.
WHERE is GOD?
"Oh where is the sea 2" the fishes cried
AS they swan the crystal clearness through,
| heard
| And we long TO look on the waters blue.
The wise ones speak of the infinite sea;
| Oh, who can tell us If such there be-"
| The lark few up in the morning bright,
And sung and balanced on sunny wings;
And this its song: g. see the hight,
look DER a world of beautiful things
But flying and singing everywhere,
| In vain have searched TO find the air"
| -Scribner for april.
THEY have had singular electoral tri
bunal in village of Ava, Japan. The
neighborhood was harassed by mid
night robber, whom nobody could detect.
The head of the hamlet summoned the
entire male population under his charge,
and directed every man to write the name
of the person whom he suspected and
deposit the ticket in box. Fifteen bal
lots bore the name of Abe Tanihei, the
rest being blanks. The man whom
everybody distrusted was so overcome
with astonishment that he made full con-
fession and went to prison.
SPRING SONG.
From the cold stiffness of the night
Where icy caverns, fields of snow
And shadowy visions, wan and white,
Make life dull and ghosty glow;
song that shaines this soug of mine
More light than any bird that flies,
Flows gently past the leahess pine,
Then family iutters, weeps and dies.
But soon to towering life newborn,
IL thrills the snow-bound dreams of death:
And all the golden light of morn
Throbs with mild, exultant breath.
Sweet, magic music of the spring,
Awakening of diyiner day
The sunlit souls of angels wing
To blooming earth their rosy way.
George Egdn Montgomery.
The Beginning.
Remember that those who are drunk
ards did not intend to become so they
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