The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
ALL SORTS.


THE first newspaper in England wa
issued in 1888.
VENEZUELA sentences tramps to tn
police force.
THE Florida woods are full of peopl
gathering vanilla.
MEMPHIS has SIC, 600, 600 in delinquen
taxes standing out.
LONDON increases in population at TIL
rate of $4,000 year.
THE Wisconsin huckleberry crop will
not be large this year.
THE most ancient known coins are o
the fifth century b. @.
LUMBER has been reduced to $50 pc
Thousand at Deadwood.
A MAN 81 years old has started writ
ing school at Newport, Vt.
ONO promises to produce 80, 1000, 00(
bushels of wheat this year.
HAL-sToNEs weighing two pounds ant
a half fell in Vera Cruz, Mexico, not
long ago.
THE Southern railroads, whose poor
credit saved them from contracting
great mortgage debts in the era of expan-
sion, are now prosperous.
TURKISH soldiers are taller than the
Russians, and will average Mt least five
feet and ten inches. They wear full
boards, but have their heads shaved, or
the hair cut very short.
WHILE compositor on the Montreal
Witness was setting up an advertise
ment of lost canary few days ago,
the bird flew in Mt the Office window
This shows the value of advertising.
A TRICK resorted to just now by n
class of sharpers in London is to pint
the feathers of sparrows SO as to make
them look like bullfnches. They are
disposed to OF amateur bird-fanciers at
good prices.
PERMISSION is TO be given to French
soldiers Ill future to wear spectacles, rs
III the German army. Medical men have
urged upon the Government that good
glasses greatly ease sight, and even
it.
LAST year in France, out of 306, 900
young men drafted for the army, there
were but from 800 to 600 who did not re
spond. In Germany, during the same
year, out of 406, 600 drafted 40, 900 neg
lected to respond.
ACCORDING to the Chairman of the
Grand Trunk railway that road has lost
81, 100000 In two and a quarter years
from competition, and railways in Amer
lea have lost S47, 100000 in the same
time from the same cause.
THE number of Jews in Russian Eu-
rope is estimated at 1852, 145. In the
time of the Crusades they fed to Poland,
and thence passed into Russia. There
is a district in the Government of Mo-
hilew where they form half the popu-
lation.
JOHN TExTER, who farms 1000 acres
ties, Pa, with extensive crops to harvest,
loes not own moving and reaping ma
chine, but cuts his grass with a scythe,
and grain with the sickle and cradle. He
and his son are old-fashioned in every
respect.
Bob INGERsoLL, when he went through
the ], 600-foot level of the Ophir mine,
struck heated current of air with a
of 40 degrees, and re-
marked piously and perspiringly that if
there was any place hotter than that, he
would be, ETC., if he didn't join the
church.
LADY (aspiring to secure an Office by
a ciyil-service examination): "Pray,
Mr.. Professor, what is periphrasis p:
Professor: Madam, it is simply cir
cycle of oratolical sonoros-
Ity, circumscribing an atom of ideality,
lost in verbal profundity." Lady
g Thank you, sir.
DURING the past year more than 60, 900
have been made to the Brit
ish Postoffice for missing letters, most of
which contained property, and largely
in some shape or another.
In about 10000 cases the inquiry and
search made for these letters proved sue
cessful, leaving, however, more than
40, 900 letters unaccounted for.
The champion servant-gal lives in
The family, returning after
a short absence, found her tied to chair,
and the house robbed of money and
jewelry worth about $500. Her story
was that some men had bound and
gagged her, but the detectives suspected
the girl herself. A search of the house
revealed the stolen treasures hid in the
coal cellar. She was locked up.
THERE are irregular tides in the great
lakes. One day not long ago there was
a sudden fall of one foot in the level of
Lake Ontario, the cause of which is I'M
known. These tides occur at all hours
of the day, and have been known to oc-
casion accidents to boats in shallow
water, the sudden receding of the water
leaving the boat on rocks where few
before there had been an
of water.
The Southern gold mines are. rising
again to prominence, the product of
North Carolina for the fiscal year 1856
to $10,335, 900, that of
Georgia to 81, 379, 900, and that of South
Carolina to 81 1891, 000-a total of $10,-
096,000 The product for the year just
closed is supposed to be much greater.