The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-21
BREVITIES.

The Turkish press hates ENGLAND.
AUSTRIAN finances are going from bad
to worse.
NORWAY has become great resort
for rich English people.
WELL-ExECUTED counterfeit half
dollar pieces are circulating in San
Francisco.
CLEVELAND is to have pipeline laid
to the oil regions at cost of half a
million dollars.
ABOUT $lO,OOO,0OO of Eastern capital
has been invested in Utah mining circles
during the present season.
MANY of the people of Afghanistan
are as fair as Englishmen. The boys
are noted for being particularly hand
some.
AN English traveller says that the
secret of cutting and dressing steaks
is a monopoly of one or two London
taverns.
OUIDA, the novelist, says that the En-
glish court is altogether the stiffest, ug-
lest, and most absurdly managed in
Europe.
The Gear has recently granted re-
igious liberty to the Baptists, who are
put on an equal footing with his ortho-
dox subjects.
A5-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 is clamoring for preach
er, and offers $4,000 year in miscella-
neous mining stocks, beside numerous
grub stakes in prospects"
The late Mrs. G.. F. Train showed
great business capacity in the early his
tory of the Pacific railway, making at
one time 100000 in commissions.
A RECENT squirrel-hunt by the young
men of Hudson and North Pelham, N.
a., resulted in count of between 900
and 200 for the successful side, with
about 200 less for the other.
TRANSFERS along the Gila river, Ari-
IONA, complain of the large herds of wild
camels that have of late taken posses
sion of the main roads, to the consterna-
ton of horses and mules.
IT is said of Gen. Eli Warren, of Per-
ry, Ga., that he has been engaged on
one side or the other in every murder
case that has been tried in that county
during the past fifty years.
For the first nine months of the
present year $500 merino sheep have
been shipped from Vermont alone for
breeding purposes, and of this number
more than one-half went to Texas.
Col. WILLIAMSON, noted Texan law
yer, stood up in church and called on q
young lady to come forward and marry
him. The suddenness of the proposal
threw her into a swoon. Williamson
had become insane.
In Milan there are no fewer than
eighty-fve establishments engaged in
the supply of theater costumes and
properties, as many as 1000 persons
being employed in the manufacture of
silk tights alone.
The mother of the James brothers
says that no one-eyed kid like Shep-
herd can ride alongside of G son of hers
and get the drop on him, and then she
adds: ut takes two-eyed man, and a
mighty sharp one, too, to play roots on
my boys"
The old trick of getting up O sham
fight in the gallery of a theater, and
then throwing the stuffed figure of a
man over the railing, was successfully
played at Leadville. The excitement
in the lower part of the house caused
q panic, and an actress tainted on the
stage.
ROBERT GooDPAsTER, of Owingsvills,
KY, was sensitive bankrupt. Being
accused of trickery, he said that he
would live just long enough to clear
himself of suspicion and then kill him
self. A trial at law indicated him, and
Immediately after the verdict he swal-
lowed fatal dose of poison.
EIGHTEEN of the States have Civil
Damage Liquor laws. Their provis-
ions are substantially the same, making
dealers responsible pecuniarily for all
harm resulting from the sale of alcohol
ic beverages. New York, Maine, Mas
sachusetts and Illinois have statutes
precisely alike.
Two PRIZES have been offered by the
Royal Agricultural Society of England
the largest yield of grain and straw per
acre, with smooth and thin husks, full
and white kernels, high specific gravity
in the seed, and with bright, firm and
stiff straw.
The Great Eastern steamship, which
has been long laid up at Milford Haven,
is about to be overhauled, provided
with new machinery, and adapted to the
conveyance of live cattle from Canada
and United States. She will be ready
for operations next March.