The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-22
ALL SORTS.

iOt opAt w heP"y.
CANKER-woRMs are killing the famous
elms of New Haven.
ADVISE not what is most pleasant, but
what is most useful
RICHARD Fl. DANA has attained the
great age of 80 years.
SOME 800 dozen frogs limbs from De-
troit reach New York daily.
Forty journals are published in Ger
many devoted to Socialism.
Mosr of the Southern papers take the
side of the Turks in the war;
A BOUQUET of $50 flowers, each of
different kind, was exhibited at a Geor-
gia fair.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND men, women and
children are picking strawberries at Nor
folk, Va.
THE London papers employ seventy
four Parliamentary reporters, the Times
leading with fifteen.
ONE Boston gentleman has cook
who has been in the family fifty-four
years and still thrives.
The little town of Salem, n c., with
1000 inhabitants, has gathered and sent
to market, during the past three years,
more than 5000, 900 pounds of blackber-
ries, for which the gatherers received
nearly 100000.
In an election for school trustees in
Denver, Col, votes were cast by 1923
women. Only one was challenged, a
miss of Is years, who knew she was old
enough to marry and thought she was
old enough to vote.
TO-DAY Berlin is covered with the
wrecks of speculative credulity. Many
of the millionaires of few years ago are
i'll state verging on absolute poverty.
Over-production and over-speculation
have caused the crisis.
THE equality in point of numbers of
the sexes is most nearly attained in
France. For every 200 men there are
1,007 women. The other extreme is
found in Paraguay, where there are 2, 0S9
women for /, 900 men.
A CHURCH in Berlin, made of paper, is
octagonal without and circular within.
The material is made waterproof by sat
urating it with vitriol, lime water, whey,
and the white of eggs. The building has
fine relief work on the outside, and
papier-mache statues adOrn the interior.
HOBART PAsHA's valor, rash and i'm
petuous as it seems to the lazy Turks,
has been in the way of his preferment.
He goes among them by the name of
" Veli-Pasha" Mad Pasha), and they
hold, or affect to hold, him of little or no
account in council.
COOKED snails are said to possess the
power of restoring tone to the coating of
the stomach when badly injured by
strong drink. The sale of snails is a
source of much profit to the peasants of
Tiyoli, near Rome, Italy, and the flavor
is said to be more delicious than that of
oysters.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Hayes attended
the decoration ceremonies at Arlington
Heights, near Washington, and in per-
son and with flowers brought by them
selves strewed the graves of the dead
soldiers. Especially they decorated with
their own hands the Monument to the
Unknown.
A FARMER in Ohio was prevented six
weeks ago from cutting his throat with
n razor. He said he would starve him
self. He has since been kept alive on
such liquids as he could by pretext be
persuaded to swallow. He has had
his coffin made, and it stands i'll his
house ready for use.
REAL estate in Washington is at des-
perately low figure. The elegant man.
sion erected by Gen. Howard and subse-
quently purchased by Mrs. Schoolcraft,
was lately disposed OF for mere trifle.
The magnificent residence formerly
owned by John Chamberlain went off
last week for tritie.
PUBLIC opinion in Germany is thus re-
Elected in conversation between two
good burghers of Berlin, taken from a
Berlin paper: First burgher-"S So We
are likely to have another war with
France" Second burgher-" Let us
pray they may thrash us, so that they
may be as poor as we are.
A GROVE of the great trees of the Yo-
semitic has just been explored. 1t is OF
an altitude similar to that of the other
groves, 5000 feet. Instead, however,
of being only cluster of forty trees. it
is six-miIe-square collection of 10000.
There are trees in it estimated to be
from 100 to 1000 years old.
A COMPARISON of the dairy interest
with the cotton crop shows some pc
culiar results rather adverse to cotton's
kingship. The 100000 mich cows
in this country are worth $3.50, DOC, 900,
and the amount realized from their pro-
duction foots up to $275, 142, 5S5, while
the last cotton crop was worth only $780,
100000.
QUEEN VICTORIA has completed her
5Sth year; only twelve other of the
thirty-eight reigning sovereigns of Chris
tendon have attained to this age. The
oldest of all is the Pope, who is S5,
Emperor William is so, the Gar is SO,
Victor Emanuel is 81, Emperor Francis
Joseph is nearly Az. The youngest Of
the sovereigns is Alphonso of Spain.
HERE is remark from the La Crosse
Sun which will be appreciated by con-
sumers of breadstuffs "There is some
thing peculiar about -four. When wheat
goes up 10 cents n bushel, -four finds it
out by telegraph, but when wheat goes
down, -four gets the news from the east
by canal, and mighty slow canalat that.
The city should appoint some one to