The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-23
BREvITIES.
GEORGIA has 1000 convicts.

BLACK velvet bracelets are revived.
The heart beats 100000 times in
twenty-four hours.
STOCKING the Thames with trout has
been decided failure.
A CLASS has been organized in Gin
cinnati for instruction in the IRISH Ian
guage.
AN inmate of the Widows Home,
Allegheny, Pa, is known to be 112
years old.
UNDERGROUND telegraphy is attain
ing considerable importance in Great
Britain and Germany.
ANTHONY COUNT, Paterson On. j.
Frenchman, died of grief while attend
ing the funeral of his little son.
Six THOUSAND Cinnamon are en-
ployed in the construction of the South
ern Pacific railroad of California.
The New York Central railroad has
forbidden the sale of anything on the
trains, except books and papers.
A CARGO of hogs from Philadelphia
was slaughtered at Liverpool in conse-
quence of typhoid fever among them.
A ScoTcHMAN has built large manu-
factory for chloride of potash on the
borders of the lake that covers Sodom
and Gomorrah.
INDIA pays annually to England
100000 sovereigns for interest on
debt, pensions, salaries and other
charges.
The farmers of California complain
that all agricultural enterprises in that
State are Improbable, because labor is
higher now than fifteen years ago.
HuRDwAR, Upper India. has expert
enced an outbreak of the cholera. The
indications are that disease and death
will hold high carnival in the Old World
the coming year.
BAsE-BALLs are covered with horse
hide, but the inexperienced man who
catches one is always ready to take oath
that it is covered with bee-stingers.-
Chicago Journal.
Miss MARY f. RAYNER, of Memphis,
Tenn, who kept a boarding house, was
driven to despair and suicide because a
neighboring clearinghouse keeper en-
ticed all her patrons away.
JOSH BILLINGS is occasionally wiser
than his generation, as witness the fol-
lowing: "Thare liz no good substitute
for wisdum, but silence is the best that
haz been discovered yet"
THE famous Shoe-wae- cae-mette crew
have been ruled out of the forthcoming
Henley lowing regatta, in England, as
being professionals. The crew and their
friends are bitterly disappointed.
ONE of the crack restaurants at Ber-
lin, the proprietor of which has failed,
reveals creditor who has created a
sensation by sending in his bill of 1900
francs for horse-fesh supplied.
AN English jury lately returned
verdict in the case of man accused of
stealing salmon, to the effect that che
did not steal it, but took it with the in
tention of making it bis own property"
A YOUNG woman recently died in
London of CHAMBERS, contracted by liv-
ing above stable where horses suffer
ing from this disease were kept Her
sister had previously died of the same
malady, and an investigation shows that
the flesh of the dead horses was dis
posed of for cats and dogs meat and
for other purposes unknown.
IT is well to remind people that when
they commence the periodical renova-
ton of their domiciles, especial atten-
ton should be given to cellars. They
should not only have the benefit of
thorough ventilation, but they should
be whitewashed, and any particle of de-
caying vegetable matter or other objec-
tionable substance removed. Scrupu-
lous care in these particulars may pre-
vent sickness.
THE fanatical murder at Pocasset,
Mass, recalls case at New Haven,
where, some thirty years ago, a religious
fanatic chopped woman's head of
with an ak, after persuading her that it
was her duty to be sacrifced. A number
of other fanatics were present, and when
the police came after the murderer he
begged them to allow him to continue
his devotions, assuring them that they
would either fall dead or meet with
terrible vengeance if he was interfered
! with.