The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-03-21

The Shah OF Persia has written q new
book.
BosroNIANs fry sausage in egg and
cracker dust.
A NEWSSTAND The home of the fe-
male gossip.
A CHILD was born at Hurdtown, Sus-
sex county, N. j., few days ago, minus
its right hans.
MOST OF the South African diamonds
are of inferior quality, although few
are very fine stones.
SINCE the discovery of the African
diamond fields the price of diamonds
has fallen about 20 per cent.
THERE are over CT 900 Sunday schools
In the country, with an aggregate at
tendance of 100000 children.
A MONUMENT to commemorate it's tri-
umph over Turkey has been ordered ia
France by the Russian Government.
A HOT brick was the cause of the
burning up of the bed of an Ohio Wild
ow, and her house was with difficulty
saved.
THERE is a bill before the Nevada
Legislature for the election of United
States Senators by the direct vote of
the people.
MUNKAsY's picture of Milton and
his daughters, which figured at the
Paris Exhibition, has been sold at Wen
ma for $4,000.
TAKING a thousand married men
from 25 to 80 years of age, only six die
yearly, while of Like number of bach
elors ten drop off.
WHAT is called the largest sturgeon
ever recorded, a gigantic fish eleven feet
four inches long, and weighing over $50
pounds, was recently caught off Heligo-
land.
THE brickmakers in the peighbor-
hood of New York, anticipating very
active business season in that city this
year, have tried to get up corner in
brick.
THERE is no duty on uncut dia-
monds, and, as a consequence, the in
dustry of cutting them is now carried
on quite extensively in New York and
Boston.
GEORGE HARGREAvEs, 80 years of age,
n Liverpool merchant of good standing,
has just been sentenced to five years
penal servitude fer forging bill Of ex-
change for $4,000.
AN eminent English mechanic thinks
that foreign competition would be i'm
possible if the trades unions spent their
money in educating their men instead
of fighting for masters.
THE fatal effects of long-continued
the case of a man at Broglie, France,
who died lately smoking his pipe. He
was 100 years and months old.
REV. ABEL MANNING, Congregation
alist, of Gofstown, Mass, is now 81
years old. He has preached 5000 SER
mons, delivering 800 in one year. He
ridicules the idea some ministers adj
vance, that there should be but one SER
mon a week.
The Iturbide is the swell hotel OF the
the City of Mexico. 1t was built in the
last century by a Sponish nobleman for
his own residence, and is spacious but
gloomy. The Emperor Iturbide Sc
lected it as his palace when the Spanish
dominion was overthrown.
STEPHEN GAMBRILL, aged 80, has been
lately executed for the murder of n
young Kentish county gentleman
named Gellow, who detected him injur-
ing an agricultural machine. This is
probably the first agrarian murder
known in England for fifty years.
A SALT WELL at lie Roy, N. Y, has
been bored to depth of $50 feet, when
rush of gas was ignited at the mouth
by contact with stove, aud the blaze
rose 100 feet into the air. A volume of
water came next, smelling and tasting
strongly of sulphur. The superstitious
workmen fled in dismay, supposing
that the internal regions had been
tapped.
THE usual number of men employed
to clean the streets of Berlin is 700.
But during almost the whole month of
January it was necessary to supplement
the regular staff by corps of 400
assistants in order to clear away the
snow. During January over 100000
cart loads of snow were carried away,
and yet great number of streets re-
manned impossible.
The Dresden Academy for the Teach
ing of Tailoring and Dressmaking was
attended last year by 26i pupils, male
and female. Of these, 1877 followed the
class for the cutting of women's dresses,
20 that for the cutting of mems, linen,
and % that for arithmetic and book
keeping. Among the foreign pupils
there are natives of Belgium, Denmark,
Holland, Russia, Sweden and Norway,
Switzerland, Austria and North America.
A MAN who ran a clairvoyance bust
ness and faro game in Fortville, Ind,
was mobbed by his fellow-townsmen,
who broke all the windows of his house
with stones, and drove him out of the
place. There we're other fortune-tellers
In Fortville, and other professional
gamblers, none of whom were molested,
but Tor one man to combine the two
callings was more than the people
would stand.
A HARTFORD dog has died of a broken
heart. 1t was fine setter and loved
his master. One day last November
while they were hunting for muskrats.
the young man fell into North Meadow
creek and was drowned. The dog went