The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-10-10
BREvITIES.

DANlEL DhEW iclt III Will W ohcahs
PROF. PETERS has discovered POP
stars.
The Philadelphia tax rate is 81
hundred.
SENATOR BLAINE wears a blue coat
and iron-gray whiskers.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx has cleared SAC, 900
in four years as a lecturer.
OHIO papers complain that the forests
are disappearing in that State.
HAVANA has suffered less from yellow
fever than Memphis this season.
The cost of living is very low in Mel
bourne. Prime meat at A to 6 cents g
pound, and bread 12t cents for four
pound loaf.
THE family brandy bottle was left
within reach of little girl in Albany,
and she very nearly died of the effects
of the drink she took.
In the past year there were sixty
eight suicides in the ranks of the italian
army, said to rave been caused by
ennui from military life.
The house in which Milton was born
was burned in the great London fire of
1866, but its exact counterpart was
built on the site, and is occupied as a
lace factory.
FoR months this year there has not
been a drop of water in the Rio Grande
for distance of about 500 miles. There
is great suffering of the people of that
district in consequence.
The canal between the Caspian and
Sea OF Azoff, survey of which is being
made for Russia, is estimated to cost
$20,O00,000. Two rivers and chain of
lakes would facilitate the work.
WOODBURY. s. PENNELL thus adver-
tises in Portland, Me-. "Any man or
woman selling me one drop of intoxi-
eating liquor on or after this date,
will prosecute to the extent of the law"
A DENIsoN (Texas) girls foot was
badly wounded, resulting in lockjaw.
A physician was called, and terror at
the sight of the edged instruments pro-
duced reaction, and the girl was well
before anything could be done for her.
FELLOW travellers with Mrs. Gen.
Grant on the Toxic say that her favor
lite color for her dresses is black; that
she likes cashmere, and that she be-
lieves she has done her duty toward the
most fastidious of company when she
wears black silk dress.
A PHILADELPHIA lady is the owner of
manuscript copy of Wesleys hymns
in the handwriting of their author.
The book descended to her from her
grandfather, to whom it was given in
part payment of debt by the son of
the man who printed the first edition of
the hymns.
A New YORK man was made jealous
by the receipt of perfumed letter adj
dressed to his wife. He tore his hair
and raved around until it occurred to
him to tear open the missive. This he
did and discovered-a milliner's bill for
a new fall bonnet! Which same he i'm
mediately took pains to settle.
The Haverhill (Mass.) postoffice re-
ceived letter postmarked San Ber-
nardino, CAL, addressed to "The Old
Maids, Haverhill, Mass" 1t contained
an offer of marriage from wealthy old
bachelor to any widow or old maid be-
tween 20 and 40 who answered the let
ter first. The replies are numerous.
OF late wild beasts have appeared in
unusual numbers in Russia. In one
month ten bears near Burakoff de-
stroyed seven horses, four cows, and
several sheep, and such annoyances
have occurred in other districts. Even
in populous Odessa the police were oc-
cupied in chasing wolf in the open
streets.
THE Shah of Persia writes plays, and
decapitates such critics as speak adj
versely of them. "Once the Shah of
Persia painted picture in which a
camel in the background was higher
than tree in the foreground, and an
unlucky critic, who limited that the
work lacked feeling, in few hours
lacked both feeling and head"