The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-10-24
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WHEN III iIhtc puIcub uPpucb Tie
hickory to his offspring, we suppose he
is pooling his issues"
REV SURGEONS church in London
has eighty colporteurs. They visit
$4,000 families every month.
THERE is Spanish proverb which
says: when you choose a wife, shut
your eyes and commend your soul to
God"
M. ALEXANDRA DUMAS plays billiards
with his friend Vollou, the painter. the
former stalking books, the latter pict-
ures.
DURING Georgia revival meeting q
few evenings ago shouting negro
woman kicked sister on the leg and
broke it.
The Fenian organization in Manches-
ter, Eng, has been entirely broken up
through the vigorous action of the RO-
man Catholic authorities.
The ravages of the phylloxera in the
vineyards throughout Switzerland and
Italy are reported by the local papers to
have been greatly exaggerated. There
will be an average crop this year.
The "Mary" who "had a little lamb"
was Mary Sawyer, of Sterling, Mass.
The poem was written sixty or more
years ago, by John Roulstone, Boston
boy.
The Montreal Witness is annoyed
because Montreal cabs are decorated
with such American emblems as the
eagle and the stars and stripes. Uncle
Sam is good enough, thinks the Wit
ness, but the Queen is better.
1T is stated that in Eastern France
and the North of England hawks have
learned to notice the railway trains
put up" coveys of birds as they rush
on, the birds, like unframed animals,
being startled by the noise. The hawks,
therefore, fly after the trains, and, when
tue birds have risen in alarm, pounce
upon their prey, and then fly after the
train again.
QUEEN VICTORIA once s:gnifed to
Viscount Macduff, now Earl of Fife,
that she would not be unwilling to
have him for a son-in-law. The noble
man respectfully declined the honor.
He is not yet 80, was schooled at Eton,
has eight residences in the Highlands,
and is warmly spoken of by all classes.
His four sisters are ladies of extreme
beauty, but have not all been enviable
in their welded life.
GEN. SLOVENIAN derides Gen. Ere
mont's scheme for turning the waters
of the Colorado into the desert basin of
California and Arizona. He says that,
presuming the connecting canal to be
1000 feet wide and ten deep and run
ming at five miles an hour, it would
take 200 years to fill the basin. After
being filled it would, he asserts, require
an additional cutting of the same depth
and $50 feet wide to compensate for
evaporation.
THERE are now at the Johns Hopkins
University, in Baltimore, four gradu-
ates of Harvard, four of Yale, four of
the University of Virginia, and form
one to three from Amherst, Dartmouth,
Williams, Bowdoin, Cornell, Hamilton,
Princeton, Rutgers, Lafayette, Colum-
bia, Washington and Lee, Hampden-
Sidney, and other colleges, and from
Leipsic, Gottingen, and London univer-
sites abroad. This shows how high the
university ranks, and how widely its
fame is extended.
The President of the Wesleyan Con-
ference, in England, has issued circu-
lar to the superintendent of circuits
suggesting that day should be set
apart for Humiliation and supplication
before Almighty God on account of our
national sins, and with especial refer
ence to the depression of our agricult-
ural and our various manufacturing
interests, and the lamentable wars in
which we are engaged, as well as to the
decrease in the number of members in
our societies."
To THE circular of the English Bish-
ops warning the churchm On against rit-
ualism two signatures were wanting,
those of the Bishops. of Salisbury and
Durham. The former, ritualist,
would not censure his friends, and DR..
Barring refused TO sign so milk-watery q
document. During his administration
of Durham DR.. Barring, just dead, caused
to be erected in that diocese 119 new
churches at cost of G363, 900, and 1873
schools of elementary education at a
cost of 9137 900.
RAILROAD companies are interested
in the subject of ties. The scarcity OF
timber for the purpose has raised q
question as to a substitute. Cast-iron
ties cost three times as much as the
wood, but the difference is more than
made up by the length of time they
wear. English lines have introduced
glass ties, or slecpers. By a new
process the glass is toughened, and the
cost is about the same per ton as those
| of cast iron, but there are about three
times as many to the ton.
The son of German farmer, return
ing from military service, threatened to
commit suicide when he found that his
younger brother had supplanted him
in the affections of girl. She laughed
at him and said she didn't believe he
could muster courage to drown himself
in the neighboring lake. He said he
would kill himself in manner that
would make her hair stand on end, and,
soon afterward attached himself secure
ly to young horse and put q
lighted slow-m match to it's ear. After a
frantic gallop across the country the
maddeked animal plunged into the
| laka The voupO mans body was