The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05
BREyITIES.

THERE are 5000 Germans in Lead
vile.
RUSSIA is honeycombed with secret
societies.
IT will soon be time to shoulder the
rod and &c fishing.
A STEAM engine is being erected in a
-four mill at Jerusalem.
NEW YORK brewers have advanced
the price of beer 81 barrel.
NEARLY 100000 persons are employed
on British and Irish railroads.
ENGINES on the Pennsylvania railroad
use 10000 tons of sand annually.
ADDED to all her other accomplish
ments, Mrs. Ouray chews tobacco.
"SoFT SNAP" and "Phat Purse" are
the names of two Leadville mines.
A MAN in York county, s. c., "a years
old, is cutting his third set of teeth.
No PROCESS known will keep iron
effectively and durably from rusting.
DooToRs declare that the electric
light will eventually destroy eyesight.
FRANKFORT, KY, has nine turnpike
roads leaving the city and its vicinity.
A BALTIMORE family is reported to
contain nineteen children, the eldest of
whom is but Is years of age.
The Partisan authorities estimate the
damage done by the floating ice in the
Paris district alone at 100000.
Mrs. GEN. CUSTER is residing in New
York, where she is Secretary of the
Ladies Decorative Art Association.
IN Leadville, recently, a preacher who
made rousing good prayer was vigor-
ously encored by the congregation.
The Israelites of Austin, Texas, are
building synagogue which will be
| one of the handsomest buildings in the
city.
RUssIA's people are starving, while
hobby military agents dash around con-
scripting men for increasing the size of
the army.
AT Washington the daughter of the
wealthy Senator Sharon dresses with
the greatest simplicity, entirely without
jewelry.
ROCHESTER, and Albany, 229 miles
apart, have been brought within speak
ing distance of each other by tele-
phone line.
ONE-FIFTH, or 100000 acres, of the
vineyards OF France will be unproduc-
tive this year. This means loss of
$e0,000,000.
THERE is bird store in Boston where
the songs of the birds are only heard
on Sundays, when the hum of the busy
street is hushed.
SOUTH AMERICAN newspapers are
started by rich chaps who want to
strike at the Government. They.there-
fore contain nothing but politics and
death notices.
The Detroit Free Press does not be-
lieve in the new process which claims to
be able to make all fabrics waterproof.
1t would like to see a yard of waterproof
mosquito-bar.
CLAIMS to lots in Leadville are SO
unstable that the holders are extremely
suspicious. James Langdon looked out
of his window ut night, saw man
innocently crossing his ground, conject-
uICo bllttb TIC uuo oOilO oiulDbCI oCSlBn,
and shot him dead.
A BALTIMORE barber lost confidence
in the pecuniary responsibility of man
whose beard he was shaving off, and de-
handed his pay when the job was half
done. The man had no money, and
was turned into the street, where the
popularity of his face-half clean and
half covered with whiskers-drew a
throng.
WE'D CoNNoR was Chairman of the
Floor Committee at Colorado ball, and
avowed his intention of excluding ne
groes, if he had to shoot them. 1t was
deemed good joke to blacken the face
of burly white desperate and send
him to force an entrance; but We'd
carried out his promise by shooting the
intruder.
The boom of the bell punch in Texas
is gradually dying out. The scheme
that was ushered in with great deal
of pomp and circumstance, as certain to
enrich the revenues and become q
permanent institution, fails to secure
the popular favor that was predicted for
it, and is in q fair way to die upon the
statute-bOoks.
Dining SumptuOusly without Toll.
How the lilies of the valley, who
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