The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-26
BREvITIES.

A SINGLE property in California is
half the size of Rhode Island.
MoRMoNIsM gained 400 converts in
Georgia and Alabama last year.
! NEVER argue. Consider it loss of
time, talent, patience and friendship.
To TAKE out a patent costs about
$780, of which about $50 goes to the So
lcitor.
HARD times in Berlin have led to dog
stealing and dog eating by the hungry
poor.
MAYoR-ELEoT POWERS, of Spring
field, Mass, few years ago was a news
boy.
IT has been decided to adopt Col.
George 3. Warnings system of sewerage
in Memphis.
| A FUGITIVE murderer, in Kentucky,
was pursued, captured and taken to Jail
by his own father.
MERCHANTABLE sugar is manufactured
at Gunnison, Utah, the first ever made
in the Territory.
THERE is a well in Robson county,
n. c., over 100 years old, which has
never failed till this year.
Total tonnage of the United States
is: United States vessels, 3,040,743
tons; to foreign credits, 10,718,394.
The Pacific coast annually consumes
more than 130,0O0,0O0 cigars.
THERE are at present 100000 tele-
phones in use in the United States, and
1000 have already been introduced in
London.
The American Union Telegraph
Company continues to employ mount
ed patrol to guard its poles and its wires
in New Jersey.
THE London Spectator considers that
Prince Bismarck has transferred the
diplomatic center of the world from
Paris to Berlin.
PROF. BELL announces that before
many weeks a person in this country
can converse with person in England
by telephone.
The earth is so cracked on the prai-
ries in Erath county, Texas, that it is
dangerous to ride on them. The last
rain fell on the Doth of July.
THEY say "a man is known by his as
sociates." OF course he is; man can't
associate with people for any length of
time without their knowing him.
IT is proposed in Congress to place
the name of Eliza Thornburgh, widow
of Capt. Thornburgh, who was killed
by the Utes, on the pension rolls.
The total production of rubber man
J features in the United States during
J the present year, it is estimated, will
reach nearly $50, 100000 in amount.
IT is estimated that there are 10000
) we'll educated young men in Paris,
; who, for want of more lucrative en-
ployment, accept franc per day as
copyists.
Two YOUNG men in Dublin forcibly
kissed two young dressmakers in a
public street, and for the offense were
sent to prison for three months at hard
labor.
A NORWICH (Ct) naturalist has one
, of the largest butterflies known to en-
, tomologists. 1t measures nine and a
! half inches across the wings and is five
: inches in breadth.
SHEFFIELD, Eng, sends large quanti-
ties of steel blanks to Connecticut to be
struck off into scissors. They are then
returned to England, where the fine
finishing is done.
THE Country Gentleman has this:
"At New Jersey agricultural fair re-
Gently man exhibited three packages
of butter, all from the same churning.
He took first premium for one, second
for another, while the third was strong
ly condemned"
EDWIN BooTH's first engagement in
, London, during September, 1861,
was dismal failure. The man who
played Richmond on the opening, in
the fight, fell back over one of the for
ward flies. A man from the gallery
cried: "Stick him, old man; he well de-
serves It," and the curtain came down
amidst roars of laughter.
SECRETARY MCCRARY asks that army
| officers be punished for gambling.
Apropos of The proposed reform some
one brings up a case where the Captain
I of cavalry company won every cent
) from twelve of his men and two of the
; officers of the company, all having just
received their pay. In two days pro-
, fessional gambler won all of the Cap
> tain's winnings and the Captains entire
: salary as well.
Pussy About Dress.
Talk about women being particular
and fussy about dress-did you ever