The true northerner., 1879-10-17
BREyITIES.

RowELL made SO every minute of his
walk. lN uif
THE Czar of Russia is in declining
health.
MOODY AND SANKEY are reviving
Cleveland.
The exodus is now known as the col
ored boom.
Mrs LIvERMoRE mas decided to make
engagements to preach as well as lect-
ure the coming winter.
IT is estimated that American travel
ers have expended in foreign travel the
past summer $l7, 100000.
Ex-SEoRETARY OF STATE McLINN. of
Florida, one of the members of the fa-
nous Returning Board of that State. is
dead.
SALLY SWAN is heroine at Granite.
New, because she seized buck by the
hind legs and held him until her father
arrived.
A FASHION of putting false hair on
children, and, in some cases, dyeing
their natural hair, is coming into vogue
in France.
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT is under
stood to have an agent in Europe who
is authorized to expend 100000 for
works of art.
The New Orleans Picayune has
made the startling discovery that the
fine feathers on the back of a goose are
upside down.
The ex-Khedive of Egypt has fort
une of $S0,000,000, but assumes to be
in poverty-stricken condition when
facing creditors.
DANIEL DREW was philosophical
enough in his old age to say that ali of
the money he had saved was that which
he had given away.
The 2-cent postal-cards are out, "and
now there need be only one sent where
there were formerly two sent" says the
Norristown Herald.
CLAY RHoADEs committed suicide at
Greenfield, Ohio, because Rob Nc
Kinnie had threatened to murder him,
and he knew Bob was q man of his
word.
DEACON JOHNSON fell asleep in front
gallery pew in a church at Chatham,
Va, and fell over the railing, turning
somersault in the air and striking on
Deacon Fuller with crushing effect
CAPT. EDWARD DoHERTY, who COM
manded the detachment which made
John Wilkes Booth a prisoner, is a
street contractor at New Orleans. He
received a reward of $4,000 for his
capture.
ADA JONES WAITE, the daughter of
ex-Mayor Jones, of Toledo, whose alb
duction by the members of free-love
institution several weeks ago created so
much excitement, has become a hope
less maniac.
SAYS the Albany Evening Journal:
"One of the Rothschilds has been filled
with JOY unutterable by discovering
that it would be possible, if Cleopatra's
needle had an eye, to drive an ordinary
camel through it,"
MARRIED three times and but II
years of age is the history of Mrs.
! Rhodes, now confined at the New
Hampshire Reform School. She was
sentenced on complaint of her husband
for disorderly conduct.
A PARIS newspaper relates that Car
on, the serpent tanner, has been lately
crushed to death by python, and that
an American Immediately bought the
serpent for its weight in gold. The ac-
count does not say what he is going to
do with it.
AT recent auction sale of ostriches
in Cape Land the lowest price paid for
pair was 5000, and the highest 81 ,425.
Since the development of ostrich farm
ing as an industry the value of the
birds has risen enormously, and bunch
of choice feathers was lately sold at
Port Elizabeth for 1887 pound.
DURING Gen. Grants visit to Toxic,
Japan, he and Mrs. Grant each planted
sapling near the Toshogu temple. A
craven stone to commem crate the event
has been placed in front of each tree,
one bearing the inscription, "Grant's
Hinoki," and the other, Mrs. Grants
Giyokuran."
The official dog killer of Boston,
Alfred Watts, sometimes called DR..
Watts, reports that from July 2 to Sept.
27, of this year, he dispatched 10 ca
mines; from July to Dec. %, last year,
he destroyed 759; the year previous,
S48; total, 2,317. Also, 600 cats were
massacred by the same fell hand.
QUEEN VICTORIA once signifed to
Viscount Macduff, now Earl of Fife,
that she would not be unwilling to have
him for a son-in-law. The nobleman
respectfully declined the honor. He
is not yet 30, was schooled at Eton,
has eight residences in the Highlands,
and is warmly spoken of by all classes.
The Charleston IS. Co. Courier
claims that for white people Charleston
is probably the healthiest city on the
Atlantic coast. Out of population of
$4,000 white persons there were only
seven deaths in September, being an
annual death-rate of 14.50 per 1000.
OF these seven deaths there were
three infants and two persons over 60
years of age.