The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-28
BREvITIES.


The coming year-16SO.
JAMES REDPATH will never again msn-
age lecture bureau, so he says.
The French explorers have discov-
cred the source of the river Niger.
THERE never was such drought a.
the present one in Texas since it became
State.
FROM Oct. 26, 1867, to Sept. 30, 1879,
the church property sold by auction in
Italy yielded $109,0O0,00O.
SOME enemy of Minnesota saw-mill
owner drove spikes into the logs so
that $500 worth OF saws were spoiled.
Ex-6EcRETARY AND MRS. BRIsrow
have taken house on Forty-ninth
street in New York for the winter.
The Portuguese Minister at Wash
ington has taken the house which SEQ
rotary McCrary occupied last winter.
The Widow Oliver is described by q
lady who recently saw her as living ON
dry bread and water, and clad in cast-off
clothing.
The crops have been so bad in North
Italy this season that emigration to
South America has received a new and
powerful impulse.
Now THAT Blackwood is gone, Will
lam Chambers is the last remaining of
the old Edinburgh booksellers. He
often writes in his magazine.
The Rev. George Randall, of Yancy
county, N. O., has killed SIS ground
hogs this season and preached two SER
mons every Sunday.
DIR. CRAIK, professor of anatomy at
the McGill College in Montreal, has
been poisoned dangerously by dissect-
ing subject.
"A PEW for sale commanding q beau
tiful view of nearly the whole congre-
CATION" is the wording of an advertise
ment in Rochester paper.
VICTOR HUGO predicts that in the
twentieth century, war, capital punish
ment, monarchy, dogmas and frontiers
will all disappear.
Now THAT Nine. Bonaparte and Mrs.
Eaton are no more, Mrs. Gen. Gaires
is the most notable woman of q past
generation now living.
ANNIE LOUISE CARY is welded to her
art, and her art gives her $20, 900 year.
She couldn't have done better, per-
haps, had she welded man.
A NEW kind of sweet potato is Guilt
waited in Kern county, CAL, picked spec
linens of which weigh from fifteen to
eighteen and twenty-five pounds.
A CHICAGO opera audience was kept
waiting nearly an hour because Faust's
red tights had not arrived, and he
wouldn't go contrary to usage by wear
ing blue ones.
BANANAS as material for the manu-
facture of alcohol are proposed. It is
said that their great cheapness in coun-
tries where they are grown and their
richness in sugar eminently fits them
for this purpose.
Mrs. HUGO stood up in the midst of
a service in the Methodist Church in
Caro-, Mich, and began to defend her
self against charges that had been cir
culated about her. The pastor ordered
her to be silent, and, when she refused
to obey, had her voice drowned with
loud peals from the organ.
A 12-YEAR- OLD boy, who had been
three days in the employ of Broadway
dry-goods house, in New York, was ar
rested as an embezzler, and proved to
have stolen $50. His system was to de-
stroy the cash checks as they were
given him by the sales-ladies, and put
the money in his pocket.
ONE of the largest of the dry-goods
stores of Paris was visited in one day
recently by 64,920 persons, and the
money taken amounted to 1,135, 1872,
francs, 80 centimes. There were sold
100000 franks worth of silk, 1000 francs
worth of umbrellas, $4,000 francs worth
of artificial flowers, and $4,000 francs
worth of fichus.
The Glasgow Bank creditors
have received their third divi-
dend, making lbs. 4d. on the
pound out of the total. That total is in
round numbers Ell 100000, of which
e7,4OO,OOO is paid and G3.6O0,0OO is still
to pay. There is every probability that
the Ell 100000 will be liquidated to the
farthing, but the interest is doubtful.
Two of directors have emigrated to
Australia; another of them is living
with his family in handsome villa near
the Italian lakes.