The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-14
BREvITIES.

| NEunO luiuliSIutiOu ID uOu LOier0CoO
in Cuba.
Pope LEO Is the power behind the
Spanish throne.
PRINCESS LOUISE will return to Can
ada in January.
QUEEN VICToRIA's income is over
$4,000 900 a year.
DIR. LIE MoYNE left 100000 to his
three sons and five daughters.
BosToN expends the most money per
capita for education of any city.
IT is thought that Gen. John F. Mil
Ter may succeed Senator Newton Booth,
of California.
The net income frolh the English
crown lands last year was 9410,000, or
about $2,O50,0OO.
ROBERT INGERsoLL charges Joseph
Cook with mixing German sauer-kraut
with Boston baked beans.
The Eat Contributor" says that the
game of high spy was introduced into
this country by Maj. Andre.
REV. ROBERT CoLLYER continues to
give his New York congregation valua-
CALIFORNIA is infested with swarms
of wild geese, which seriously draw up
on the farm crops to fill their own
crops.
The only surviving son of Davy
Crockett is an extensive farmer at Gran
bury, Texas, and a grandson edits a
newspaper there.
The citizens of Elmira, n. Y, think
of erecting monument to Adam, the
founder of the race. 1t should be made
of adamantine rock.
A WOMAN goes about Grand Rapids
at night, with lantern, declaring that
she is bride of heaven, and exhorting
sinners to repentance.
ROME, Italy, has been startled by a
bicycle race between two ladies who be-
long to the best society, and are cele-
brated for their beauty
A 5-YEAR-oLD girl, left alone in
house at Holyoke, Mass, drank whisky
from bottle that she found, got drunk,
fell down stairs and died.
LEADvILLE already has three daily
newspapers, four churches, and pub
licschool system; but there are, also,
los gambling-houses.
The School Board of Covington, KY,
is trying to stop draw poker among the
pupils; but the public lottery drawings
continue without opposition.
SECRETARY ScHURz is at the head of
he Indian Department in the East and
Chief Douglass at the head of the In
dian Department in the West.
HoRsE-RACINGh has declined in France
of late, the authorities of the republic
failing to give it the encouragement it
received under Louis Napoleon.
A scHooLMAsTER at Tiffin, Ohio, used
piece of rubber hose with which to
whip his pupils, and it proved so effect
i've that a little girl was nearly killed.
WILLIAM HABRoN, who came near be-
ing hanged for murder committed by
the notorious Peace, has just been
awarded $4,000 by the British Govern
ment.
TRANSFERS along the ella river, Ari-
IONA, complain of the large herds of
wild camels that have of late taken pos
| session of the main roads, 90 the con-
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The active metropolitan police of
Paris is composed of 5000 men, chosen
from the ranks of the army. Their
qualifications are tested during one year
prior to being put on the force.
Mrs. SIEG had a quarrel with some
neighbors at Wright, MINI, and told
her son, aged II, to shoot one of them.
I Inx IL 70 no
trial with his mother on a charge of
murder.
A LARGE box shipped on railroad at
Cleveland was found to contain live
man, flask of whisky, some sandwich
es, and kit of burglars tools. 1t is
supposed that he intended to rob the
express car.
PIcXPocKETs frequent all great flu
nerals in New York, and are only cap
tured by detectives shrewd enough TO
keep their eyes on the members of the
cortege who seem to be the most
deeply and solemnly affected.
A RIVAL marksman of DR.. Carver has
appeared in California. His name is
DIR. John Ruth, and one of his common
performances is to shoot apples and
cigars from the mouth of an assistant,
who stands considerable distance
away.
The Rev. DR.. Crary, in the Christian
Aduocate, speaks of the Utes as those
dirty, bloody freebooters, whose highest
hopes and ambition are in murder,
rapine, and scalps," and says that one
white Agents life is worth more than
every Ute that breathes."
The novel engineering feat of build
ing bridge on shore and then showing
it across the river has been accom-
plished at Dinard, France The struct-
ure is 314 feet long, weighs over 200
tons, and was projected into its place
with twelve strong windlasses.
The Boston Police Commissioners,
in whom is vested the power of hcens-
ing shows in that city, have decided to
permit no performances by children.
The case aS issue was that of a Juvenile
Uncle Toms Cabin company. A
Massachusetts, statute authorizes such
prohibition.