The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-06
CURRENT CURIOSITIES.

ago, and sentenced to death. A skcle-
ton found in the woods was accepted as
that of the missing woman; but Lowell
asserted, without being able to prove it,
that she had fed from his house with a
circus man. His sentence was com.
muted to imprisonment for life. The
report now is that Mrs. Lowell is alive
in the West.
DIR. WALTER BAILEY exhibited vel
low-fever germ at the recent Homeo-
pathic Convention at st. Louis. 1t is
fungus growth which formed in the OBJ
ject-glass of microscope that had not
been opened since last seasons cpl
demic. The doctor thinks that the little
dots in this invisible fungus hold fine
powder, which is cast upon the air by
the bursting of the small bag which
contains it. This powder, being in
hailed, causes fermentation of the
blood, which produces the fever.
Mr.. LEWIS Rolf, of Sidney, Ohio,
has wonderful COW, who churns her
own milk. A local paper says: "In
the place of cream raising on her milk,
it is actually butter, needing no churning
that is required is the working in" of
the necessary amount of salt to suit the
taste. The butter is pronounced ex-
cellent. This streak began last fall,
since which time no churn has been
used, but before that time the cream
was the same as other cows milk"
The Columbus (Ga.) Times says: "A
curiosity in the shape of corn-cob of
very unusual structure has been left
with the Times, by Mr.. j. II. Bulge, of
Meriwether county. It is only about
five inches in length, but measures
nearly six inches in circumference. It
has large, smooth and uniform hollow
all the way through, and we learn that
it constituted fullboarding- for O
mouse, furnishingit with lodging as well
as food. We suppose that the ear was
deformed one, and the hollow was
caused by the expansion that made its
bulk"
THIS is the season of miracles in the
matter of hens and eggs. The Barnes
vile (Ga.) Gazette has found the most
wonderful of wonderful eggs. 1t is
shaped like the head of man. Little
black feathers, which look like hair,
form the crown, and these feathers are
parted in the middle, just as young
man of the dandy order would part his
! fascinating locks. The white comb
line is clearly marked. The forehead
is plain, the arched black brow, the
eyes, the ear, the nose and chin, with O
little goatee, can readily be chased.
The editor of the Gazette declares, pom
honor, that the description is a true
one.
LOUISE HORTON, of Dighton, Mass,
went out to pick up some wood, under
what is left of an old barn built long
years ago by Zebedee Briggs, Revo-
lutionary pensioner. She accidentally
caught hold of stick, one end of which
was under ground, and, on pulling it
up, to her surprise, or copper cents
came with it. Her curiosity was ex-
cited. and she proceeded to Investigate
further, the result of which was the
unearthing of 426 copper cents, which
had evidently been buried in canvas
bag, as portions of the bag were found,
well nigh dscayed. There were cents
ranging from way back in 100 up to
1885, some of them being of the dates
sought after by coin-collectors. Specu-
lation is rife as to how these coins came
there.
A REMARKABLE case of lynching &C.
Cured at Cheyenne. Wy, not long ago.
A man named Dug Reed, obnoxious
particularly to the citizens, was taken
out of Jail. Then, with unusual court
esy the lynchers allowed Reed to select
the method Of death most agreeable to
hin and, when he stated that he would
prefer to be hanged, they went still
further and allowed him to be his own
executioner. He took the rope in his
hand, climbed a telegraph-pole, fastened
one end round the top, and formed a
moose at the other end. Then he made
his last dying speech, which was short,
being no more than "Good-by, boys"
and, jumping off, was launched into
eternity. Some Coroners juries might
find this to be case of suicide; but, to
some extent, the crowd at the foot of
the pole must be considered as aiding
and abetting.
A REMARKABLE scene in mid-air is de-
scribed bya gentleman living near Gen.
treville, Md, in the columns Of the
Kent Neios. He says: Il and my son
were standing near the farm house, in
an open field, when we deserted three
dark objects about the size of small
birds far up in the air, circling and
darting hither and thither. We watched
closely, and after awhile they APP
preached more nearly the earth. We
then discovered that they were two
ducks and bald eagle; the eagle Ell
deavoring to capture the ducks, and
the ducks exerting themselves to elude
their pursuer. Far away in the dis
lance we could discern the main flock,
from which the two ducks had been
separated, flying steadily to the cover
of the forest The eagle would first
pounce upon one and then relinquish
it, in order to capture the other. Drop
ping that he would return to his first
capture, seemingly, like the dog in the
fable, greedy to secure both. This kept
up for some time, when the eagle, sud-
denly darling forward, struck one of the
birds with his talons, then swooping