The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-20
ALL SORTS.

THERE are four Jews in the Turkish
Parliament.
vAssAR COLLEGE sends out fifty sweet
graduates this year.
A FoND DU LAC Nimrod has killed
twenty skunks this year.
WHITELAw REID, editor of the New
York Tribune, is bachelor.
Boston gave very generously to the
st. John sufferers, her gift-funds amount-
ing to $4,000. tr ,w
The Cincinnati papers say there will
be more houses built in that city this
year than in any other since 1868. e.r,
IT is estimated that 1900, 900 buffalo
hides are awaiting shipment from the
trading posts west of Dallas, Texas.
THE demand from foreign markets for
petroleum has created unusual activity
in both the production and export OF
oil.
THE Colt Manufacturing Company, of
Hartford, have received an order for
twelve Gatling guns from the British
Government.
SPoRTsMEN may like to know that deer
are SO numerous at the head of the ALI
gator river, in North Carolina, that they
destroy the crops.
Two LITTLE boys quarreled over game
of marbles in Weldon, N. c., and one
drew pistol and killed the other. The
Oldest was only 8.
IT is calculated that about 80, 900 men
come into the city of London every
morning for business purposes, and
leave in the afternoon or evening.
DIR. S. WEIR MITCHELL says every
moving area of rain is girdled by neu-
ralgic belt $50 miles wide. 81 felt it in
my bones" is, therefore, simply natures
weather signal.
A SCIENTIFIC journal tells us that if all
the salt in the sea were taken from it
and spread equally over the whole sur
face of the dry land, it would make q
covering 900 feet in depth.
A MAN IN Santa Clara county, Cal,
two weeks ago sawed off limb of tree
to secure a swarm of bees which had
settled upon it. The branch in falling
knocked him down and killed him.
A MAN in Warsaw, Ark. has killed four
men ON as many different occasions. In
each case ne proved beyond question
that he acted in self-defense, and was
acquitted by a jury. He is not often as
sailed now.
GEORGE BELL, of Camden, n. j.,
picked up roll of bills amounting to
some 1856, and, instead of advertising for
the owner, spent the money. The owner
prosecuted him, and he was sent to jail
for nine months.
IT has been estimated that 800, 000,-
600 worth of property has been con-
sumed in this country by fireworks
since 1866; and within the same time 800
persons have been killed and $4,000
wounded by fireworks.
FUNERALS in Virginia City are gener-
ally made ostentatious and very expen-
sive. Father McGrath, Roman Catho-
lie priest, said in a sermon that more
money wns spent there in burying the
dead than for the curing OF the sick.
BABY is 7 years old, and, walking on
the beach, says to his mother, "Mam-
sea-. my child, you are stupid; re-
feet a little. How can the sea be killed."
"Well, then, the Dead sea; what did it
die of ?"
Mrs. SALLIE WARD Hunt, the once-fa-
nous belle of Louisville, has placed over
the graves of two Of her husbands q
tombstone with this inscription, Vene
p. Armstrong and Robert p Hunt, hon.
ored and loved upon earth for deeds that
won home in heaven"
TEXAS has fifty wheat producing coun-
ties, one-fifth of which, if fully cultlvat-
ed would produce $4,000, 900 bushels of
grain. 1t has also SO, 10000 cotton
yielding acres, which, if taxed to the ex-
tent of their productiveness, would yield
6,062, 900 bales-more than the entire
product of the world.
A MAN arrived in Buffalo recently who
had come long distance to place his
mother in an asylum for lunatics. He
went to bed in hotel saying he had
been so nervous about his mother that
he could not sleep for many nights, and
in the morning was found to have be-
come a maniac himself.
THE British Government, in view of
the supply of rubber falling short in
South America, is sending Young trees
to India. The native way of supplying
the trade with rubber is wasteful, and
the demand is increasing at an enormous
rate. 1t has been the practice to cut
down trees $50 or 200 feet high to secure
100 weight of rubber, and the forests of
rubber trees in Brazil are being dee
stroyed.
OFFICERS and criminals have many
exciting encounters in Arizona, but few
that are more thrilling than that between
Sheriff s party and four stage-robbers
near Eureka. There was long chase
on horseback, an exchange of about
twenty revolver shots, and finally hard
fight with knives. One officer and two
robbers were killed, and wounds were
numerous.
KISSING AWAY A TEAR.
Not what the chemists say they b.,
Are pearls-they never grew;
They come not from the hollow sea,
They come from heaven in dew
Down in the Indian sea IL slips,
Through green and briny whirls,
Where great shells catch II in their lips
And kiss ii into pearls
IL dew can be so beauteous made,
oh, why not tears. my girl?
| WHY your tears? Re not afraid