The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-04
BRIEF MENTION.


TEXAS has prospects of a big fruit
crop.
The debt of Peris is nearly $780,
100000.
THE drought has been so severe that
butter is not to be had in Austin, Texas,
at any pr,ce.
SLEEvE-BUTToNs, with Japanese fig
ures traced and in relief, are in the list
of novelties.
A ST. Louis undertaken advertises
that he has the most comfortable
hearse in the country.
The treatment of the insane in asy-
lums is receiving much discussion in
the press of the country.
The Erie railway claims to be saving
in its oiling expenses 80 per cent. by
using paraffine on passenger-car jour
nails.
IT was the within of st. Paul man to
be married in white, and he went to the
church, on cold day, clothed in a suit
of linen.
APAssENGER who was elected from a
passenger train on the Wabash railroad,
last September, has sued tie company
for $4,000 damages. They must have
been constructive damages.
CHARLES WING, Chinese cigar
maker and member of the Episcopalian
Church, was naturalized in New York
city. His witness was Wong Zee, who
has already been naturalized.
A wuNDFALL of $4,000 has just come
from England to Samuel Mousley, one
of Wellington's soldiers at Waterloo,
who has been living humbly at Oxford,
N. H., for the past thirty years.
SINCE the South African affair the
lingo doggerel takes new twist in
London, as thus
We did want to fight but by lingo. at Zulu
We lost our men, we lost our guns, and we lost our
money, too.
New YORK city is extraordinarily
weighted with Office holders. There
are $4,000 individuals drawing salaries
from the city and State, and 1000 who
are paid out of the treasury of the
United States.
A BALTIMORE lady pursued a man
through the street, laid her hand upon
his shoulder and accused him of rob-
bling her. The pickpocket was SO
startled that he took the pocket-book
from his pocket and handed it to her,
begging her not to prosecute him.
DURING the last tyenty-four hours of
Congress the Government Printer re-
ceived orders for 100000 copies, in
pamphlet form, of speeches made.
Garfield has taken 10000 copies of his
sugar speech, and Hewitt AZ 1000 copies
of his speech on the election laws.
The Pope has been much vexed at
the significance attached to what he is
alleged to have said in conversations he
has had with certain journalists. He
does not wish war with Italy. All he
desires is better assurance than he
has at present for his personal liberty
and independence.
MARY ANDERSON played in Holyoke,
Mass, one night last week. An excur-
sion party of 100 persons arrived from
Westfeld, half an hour late, and, as they
had been told that the performance
would not begin until they came, the
first act of Romeo and Juliet" was re-
peated for their benefit.
THE ingenious device of Boston
machinist proved worthless, because
somebody had already patented the
same invention, and the disappointment
crazed him. He is possessed by the
hallucination that his brains were taken
out to be repaired and have never been
put back into his head That is why, he
thinks, that he cannot control his mind.
A MAN was found dead at Fifteen
Mile bayou, near ST. Francis river, Ark.
A jury held an inquest, and brought in
q verdict in accordance with the facts
after which the Squire, noticing pis-
tol on the person of the dead man,
again called the jury together. who
found him guilty of carrying concealed
weapons, and fined him $25, and some
stock of the dead man was then sold to
pay the fine.
AN old nickel mine has been discov-
cred in the town of Dracut, Mass, near
Lowell, which was originally opened
200 years ago. The resemblance of
nickel to silver probably deceived the
first workers, and the mine was aban-
doned. The value of nickel was not
known before 1751. The old shaft was
forty-three feet deep. A company has
recently sunk it sixty-one feet and
found nickel enough to pay, and pro-
poses to operate the mine.
THE BURIAL OF THE POET.
In the old churchyard of his native town.
And in the ancestral tomb beside the wall,
| We laid him in the sleep that comes to all.
And left him 10 his rest and his renown.
The snow was falling, as IL heaven dropped down
| White flowers of Paradise to strew his pail;
The dead around him seemed to wake and call
His name. as worthy of so white a crown.
And now the moon is shining on the scene.
And the broad sheet of snow IL written DER
With shadows cruciform of leafess trees,
! As once the winding sheet of Saladin
With chapters of the Koran: but all moro
Mysterious and triumphant signs these.
| III. ". LOnnLelLOln. IN ATLANTIC AOnLhIn for IncH