The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-20
BREvITIES.

! CENTRAL PARK has cost something
Ike $15, 100000.
BUFFALO CHATS are killing the horses
and mules in Texas
SUICIDES for love are matters of daily
occurrence in Italy.
A GRAND canal between st. Peters
burg and the sea is projected.
AMERICANS eat more potatoes than
any other nation on earth.
A NAN living in Henrietta, Texas, has
domesticated four buffaloes.
On account of dry weather the rice
crop in Louisiana is endangered.
The seventeen-year locusts have ap-
peared in the woods near Dallas, Tex.
THERE are no symptoms of the Kan
sas fever in the Louisiana sugar par
ishes.
A GEORGIA belle chops out four acres
OF cotton and then goes to town shop
ping.
HE negroes in Mississippi are work
ing with unusual energy in all parts of
the State.
DALLAS (Texas) farmers are Offering
$1.5O a day for harvest hands and can
not get them.
The capital employed in brewing
lager beer in New York city exceeds
$25, 100000.
THERE are nearly 1000 inhabitants
less in Fall River, Mass, this year than
there were last.
CHECKERBERRYING is now favorite
pastime with the boys and girls in New
England. Rarely have these berries
been so abundant.
The orchards in Northern Pennsyl-
vania, which is the greatest Embarrassing
region of the State, never looked more
promising than now.
HARTFORD has just had Grand Jury
whose average height was 6 feet Ii
inches. and average weight was 1876
pounds. The tallest was feet inches
The city Of Rochester is being sued
for 81 900 damages for the destruction,
by order of its Board of Health, of rags
supposed to be infected with the small
pox.
AN Englishman says that the English
race-cOurse is scene of ruffianism and
vulgarity, while the French race course
is presided over by good order and re-
pose.
MICHAEL SHEA, of Bath, Me-, receives
100000 by the death of an uncle in
Ireland, the legacy being the second
heavy one he has received within few
months.
The Bank of France has in its Office
an invisible camera, which is used to
take the portraits of suspicious persons
while they are engaged in conversation
with the cashier.
The Philadelphia Walnut st, eet
Theater is the oldest theater in the
United States. The owner is J. S.
Clarke, the actor, who lives in London
most of the time.
RAILRoADINa is in SO primitive q
stage in Hungary that on pig escaping
from a pen en- route the trains are
stopped, and the officials engage in a
futile chase after him.
"IT is for You to say" said Judge
Butler of the United States District |
Court to Philadelphia jury, whether
a man who plays poker tor money can
have good character"
A PRoHIBIToRY liquor law is enforced
so rigidly in Worthington, Ind, that a
communion service was lately celebrated
with cider, the sexton having been I'M
able to procure wine.
COMPLETE returns of the result of the
popular vote in Switzerland, ON MAY
lS, shows that the proposal to re- estab-
lish capital punishment has been APP
proved by 191 ,197 against III, 1863 votes.
A CINCINNATI woman is suing sew
company for $4,000 dam
ages. She bought machine, and, de-
fiulting payment, the agent took it
away after struggle in which she was
injured.
In q recent German debate Herr
Tiedemann stated that there were in
Germany 100000 landed proprietors,
2 100000 of whom were untaxed as hav-
ing incomes under $l05 a year. Out of
the actual taxpayers there were not
more than 10000 whose incomes ex-
ceeded $3.50 year. Forced sales of
lands and farms are of daily occurrence,
and general distress prevails.
A PROCESS has been patented in Ger
many for retaining the aroma of ground
coffee by pressing it into cakes in cast
iron molds. The cakes, like those of
chocolate, are crossed by lines that they
may be broken into sizes needed for
use. The volume of the coffee is re-
duced to less than one-third of the
original bulk. Like chocolate, il is
placed in tin foil for preservation. !