The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-27
WHOLE NO. 1852.
ALL SORTS.

? kicked off by COW.
A CIRCUIT COURT is now designated as
, the longest way home from dancing
school.
THE grasshoppers are overrunning the
northern portion of Bosque county,
, Texas.
TURN your ear toward any two women
conversing together Just now and YOU
will find the subject to be the spring
ashions.
PRESIDENT GARRETT has ordered the
employees ON the Baltimore and Ohio
road to make no distinction between
white and colored people.
THE whole population of British India
is close on 239, 900, 900. The density of
population varies from five to over $50
inhabitants per square mile.
BROTHER MOODY has converted news.
paper reporter in Boston, man who de.
scribes himself as having led ga wild,
rollicking, blasphemous life. :"
HEREAFTER the students of Williams
College must stay indoors on Sunday af-
ternoons, as walking on that day has just
been prohibited by the faculty.
THERE are about 5000 italian toilers
by sea and by land engaged in procuring
and preparing coral as an ornament for
the various nations of the earth.
The recent vigorous prosecution of
parties for the violation of the Gambling
law has had the effect of almost wholly
suppressing that vice in Portland, Ore.
In this busy age, that the poetical
must give way to the practical is aptly
illustrated by the fact that Glasgow has
tapped Loch Katrine for her city water.
The British army estimates provide
this year for 131, 720 men, net increase
of S36 3,S15 men deserted in the past
year; 29,350 joined the line, and IS, ,437
the militia.
OFF the coast of Virginia, about five
miles from the mainland, is an island
upon which roam numbers of ponies as
wild as the mustang. How or when they
settled there is not known.
ACCORDING to statistics of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, at Washington,
the wheat crop of 1876 reached nearly
$50, 100000 bushels. The corn crop of
last year amounts to about ], 1,295, 900, 900
bushels.
The disaster that followed a cry of fire
in Memphis theater was solely confined
to the boy who shouted. He was cutfed
and kicked out of the building, and when
he got home his father added a sound
whipping.
Six HUNDRED MILLION pounds sterling
areinvested in railways in the UnitedKing-
dom, and railway stock yields an annual
income of G53, 100000. Some $50, 900
persons are employed in connection with
the British railways.
IT is q curious fact that at the recent
election in New Hampshire the towns of
Exeter, Hanover, New London and Til
ton, all seats of noted institutions of
learning, all voted against the amend
ment abolishing the religious test
THIS inscription has been put on a
Connecticut tombstone Here lies the
body of Jonathan Richardson who never
sacrificed his reason on the altar of Su-
perstition's god, and who never believed
that Jonah swallowed a whale.
THE Southern humorist known rs Bill
Arp was recently killed in Texas by fall
ing from a wagon. He was not a literary
man by profession, but was a farmer.
His quaint ideas were put into shape for
publication by newspaper friend.
THIS is the way the world moves: A
lecture is to be delivered in Cincinnati
and telephoned to an audience in New
York, and, owing to difference of time,
it will be heard in New York "an hour
before its delivery in Cincinnati.
TWENTY-FIVE Greek Indian boys now
in the States attending school are located
as follows Wooster University, Ohio,
6; Central College, Ohio, 2; Henderson
College, Tennessee, 10; Howard Col
lege, Alabama, 5 Nashville College,
Tennessee, 2. The five Greek girls
Fort Smith, Ark, 2; Alabama, l Full
ton, Mo-, 2.
In conformity with the decision arrived
at by the International Conference of
1872, respecting the measures to be
adopted with regard to diseases of ami
mails, the Governments of Italy and En-
gland have agreed to communicate recip-
rocally by telegraph all news relating to
the cattle plague i'll their respective
countries.
The shipment of seventeen mules from
Kentucky to Glasgow, where they are to
do the work of dray-horses, is an incl
dent that worries the souls of British
stock-raisers. The introduction of Ameri-
can butchers meat has already cut down
their profits, and now the irrepressible
Yankees threaten to supply the kingdom
with beasts of burden.
AN anti-kettledrummer puts forward
the theory that tea is foe to fine COM
plexion because eff tea be mixed with
human blood, tannate of iron is formed,
turning the blood black, and, if the skin
is soaked in tea, it becomes like tanned
leather" Hence, according to the alarm
ist, it follows that tea absorbed into the
veins will give dusky hue to the skin.
TWENTY years ago there was fight in
Josiah Fields family, in Milton, Mass,
and Immediately afterward son disap-
peared, who, it was reported, had run
away. Lately the house was searched,
somebody having given important infor-
nation to the authorities, and the miss
ing son was found concealed in a room.
He was idiotic, and is supposed to have
been rendered so by blow on the head