The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-25

SWEDEN is passing through a severe
commercial crisis.
A MAINE man has caught bat woigh-
ing nearly two pounds.
A BUSY summer is predicted in all
the Lowell Mass cotton mills.
A CHURCH to the memory of Cowper,
the poet, is to be erected at Olney, En-
gland.
THERE are 800 whites at Sitka, of
whom sixty-eight are capable of bear
ing arms.
The aim of q Chinaman's life in
America is to get enough money ahead
to 60 back to China.
A TEXAS jury arose after the evidence
was all in and requested that the case
go to them without "any lawyers
speeches" and it did.
OPIUM-sMoKING finds little federation
In Japan. A man was recently sentenced
to ten years hard labor in Yokohama
for violation of the law against the
practice.
A CALCULATING correspondent of the
Hartford Times estimates that an ounce
of honey consumed at luncheon costs
the bee who manufactured it 900 miles
of travel.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature appropriate
ing $3.50, 900 for the relief of the widows
and orphans of those killed in the Pitts
burgh riots of 1877.
Mr.. B. CHAMBERS, of the Postoffice
Department at Washington, writes that
there are no fewer than 1000 women
Postmasters in the United States, and
that the number is on the increase.
AN old woman at West Rutland, VT,
is singularly affected by music, which
paralyzes all her senses. Recently she
dropped senseless on hearing a brass
band-but that wasn't very remarkable.
CINCINNATI grocers advertise for sale,
in the Sunday papers, under exasper-
ating cartoons, the bills of their delin-
quent customers, giving the debtors
name, occupation, and residence, and
the amount of the little bill.
A CHICAGO man went up and down
the stairway of Bunker Hill Monument
the other day in minutes and 1874 Sec
onds. This is the quickest time on rec
ord, and it is said that the trip was never
made before in less than minutes.
The committees appointed at the re-
cent citizens meeting in st. Louis, to
promote the rebuilding of the Southern
Hotel, have made fair progress. They
have raised within $4,000 of the re-
quired amount to complete the project.
The works of reconstruction at the
Hotel de Vile, in Paris, interrupted
for time by the severe weather, are
now being resumed with great activity,
and it is calculated that this vast edi-
fee will be finished in about three
years.
The Librarian of the London Insti-
tuition thinks that in the course of time
the English language, like the old
Frank tongue, will acquire so many 10
cal forms in the various countries in
which it is spoken that its unity will be
impaired.
THERE are in England no less than
$500 couples of fox-hounds at present.
Some packs of hounds, with huntsmen,
cost as much as SIC, 900 a year to keepup.
The average cost is set down at 81, 1000.
1t is calculated that fox hunting costs
England annually $5,OOO,OOO.
BROOK trout are selling at Fulton
Market, New York, at prices which no
one except the rich can afford to pay.
Those from Long island bring 81 per
pound; those from Canada, 35 cents.
Salmon from the Kennebec are scarce,
and are selling at $3.50 per pound.
1T requires 100000 cubic feet of the
finest quality OF pine lumber to make
the yearly supply of lucifer matches for
the United States, and it takes 100000
cords of fine hard wood to make our
shoe-pegs. It takes 100000 ties to
supply our 10000 miles of railroad.
On board Mississippi river steamer
near Nashville, recently, Henry Num-
provoked difficulty with Felix Comp
ton. They fought across the table for
some time with large case-knives. Num-
snatched handspike and struck at
Compton, who parted the blow, and at
the same time plunged his knife to the
hilt into Num-, who fell over backward,
and soon died.
ONE of the small seeds OF grape has
caused the death of resident of San
Francisco by lodging in the intestines
and forming an abscess. Fatal results,
more especially in children, are known
frequently to have followed the swallow
ing of grape seeds, which pass out of
the stomach undigested, irritating the
small intestincs, and producing infam-
nation.
Rev. JOHN HEMPHILL, San Fran
cisco divine, in the course of a recent
sermon, said: "Your homes and your
liberties are endangered by tie threats
of set of idle, hisay-drinking, house
less, propertyless vandals, A voice
You lie.' A lively sensation was the
result. but the speaker continued without
hesitating,] whose secondary, if not
primary object, is revolution"
FARMER CoFFMAN, of Uniontown,
Pa. has secret but active enemy. One
night his dog was poisoned, on the next
night two of his horses were killed, on
the third his barn was burned, and on the
fourth his wife was hit by bullet fired
through the window. BY that time his
lethargic neighbors we're convinced that