The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-04
BREVlTIES.

BkENlIlES
FATHER, son and grandson were
caught stealing together at Hubbards-
ton, Vt.
The 1890 miles of French railroad
brought in last year revenue of
$1S1, 177, 043.
The officers of the five degrees of the
Legion of Honor receive respectively
$50, 500, 5000, 5000 and 81 200 year.
The custom of saddling districts in
which disturbances occur with the cost
of an additional police force has worked
very successfully in Ireland.
Two BOYS of years went on the wa
ter in boat, at Senickley, Pa. One
fell overheard, the other plunged in to
rescue him, and both were drowned.
GEN. WALKER, who is to superintend
the United States census of 1880, esti
mates that the population will be be-
tween forty-six and forty -seven millions.
The latest official returns show that
the war with Turkey cost Russia $685.
O0O 0O0, of which $50, ZOO, 900 was spent on
artillery and Notifications, and the rest
in the actual conduct of the war.
For want of tenants, Sir John Rams
den, who owns Huddersfeld, England,
and has an income of 100000, has been
compelled to take six of his huge Scotch
sheep farms into his own hands.
NATcHEz, Miss, has built a cotton
factory in the past two years, every dol
lar of the stock being owned at home,
and it is said that the return on the
investment is now nearly 20 per cent.
ALTHOUGH Henry Lunday, of STRAIT
ford, Ct, was 70 years old, he not only
fell in love with woman of 20, but was
hopeful that she would marry him. She
was cold and persistent. Finally she
forbade him to cali on her. and then he,
after bequeathing all his property to an
Episcopal Church, committed suicide.
The Bank of France had an invisible
Photographic studio behind the CASH
ier's desk, whence hkenesses can, at q
signal from the latter, be taken. The
camera is much used, too, In the exam
nation of documents. An erasure is
often obvious in the photograph of a
document which is not seen in the doc
ument itself.
THERE is religious movement
against tobacco in the Oneida Com
munity, where the weed has been freely
used. The reformers do not take any
pledge, nor abstain whenever they de-
sire to smoke or chew, but pray for
God to remove the appetite for tobacco,
and many declare that they have thus
been entirely cured.
The misrepresentation of funds by the
Treasurer of the Home Missionary So
ciety, according to the official report to
the Massachusetts, Congregational Asso-
citation, amounts to $4,000, and in
cludes all of the society's investments.
He destroyed his correspondence and
books, so that his operations cannot
be fully traced.
The gallery of the Paris Louvre
of art. A mother, in showing her little
boy the Venus of Milo, was asked by
him, "What did they cut her arms off
for?" Because she put her fingers in
the sugar bowl" was the reply. Little
Jacky secretly resolves to be no longer
liable to such terrible infection.
AT sale of portion of the Firmin
Didot Library, few days ago, in Paris,
a missal bequeathed to Queen Gather
inc, wife of Henry V. of England, by
her father, Charles VI, and afterward
the property of Henry VI, Henry VII
and Henry VIII, was bought by Paris
bookseller for $4,000. A manuscript
which belonged to Mary, Queen OF
Scots, fetched $4,000. The five days
sales realized $126,600.
The widow Ashlock, aged AZ, lived
on her own extensive farm at Elizabeth.
town, KY. and one of her employees was
William Lewis, aged Is. She fell III
love with him, and he doubtless fell in
love with her money. The relatives
opposed a marriage, and drove William
away from the place with guns, but the
determined widow joined him in In
dianapolis, tought him new suit o.
clothes, married him, and took hin
home.
The Interior Department has accept
, ed the map of the amended route of The
Northern Pacific railroad through
, Washington Territory, and, as conse
, quence, millions of acres of land in tina
Territory, up to this time withdraw
Z from settlement, are thrown upon tn,
5 market. The route of the road through
this Territory, as originally contemplat
ed, followed a circuitous course through
s the northern part, and the land TO
a forty miles on each side of the proposed
b route was reserved for the benefit o
= the road. The amended route is mucl
}, shorter and more direct, running fror
Q the main line to Puget sound in
g northerly direction.