The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-31
BRHVITIES.

GARIBALDI's body, below the waist, is
almost insensible.
SECRETARY THOMPSON says that he
will retire from public life.
THERE are 600, 600 fewer acres under
wheat in England than in 1874.
ILLINOIS is out of debt, having paid
off $l8, 900, 900 in the last few years.
The Standard Oil Company is reported
to have cleared 1000, 900 in nineteen
months.
THERE are only twenty-five match
factories in the country, seven OF which
are in New York.
A LONDON magistrate has pronounced
the bicycle "a most abominable and
dangerous nuisance"
A LADY teacher in the New York pub
lie schools is charged with teaching her
pupils to smoke cigarettes.
A NIoELY-DUG grave on his premises
was the gentle hint given Mr.. Lambert,
an Irish landlord, by his tenants.
THE most liberal gift to Harvard by
woman was from Mrs. Annie Z. p. Sever.
who last year gave the college $40, 900.
An injured woman in st. Louis has
sued her husband for divorce, on the
ground that he has called her ian old
cow"
ONLY three wooden shanties now
stand on the site of the little hamlet
where Jefferson was born, near Char
lottesville, Va.
Pools were sold in Pittsburgh on the
question whether Emmett, the actor,
would be sober enough to perform that
nighL. He was sober.
A BICYCLE has been invented which
carries the little wheel i'll front of the
big one, and embodies other radical
changes in construction.
LITTLE tables, covered with plush,
are the proper things for dark corners
in dull rooms, and if pretty vase be
set upon them, 80 much the better.
THE census returns from Beaufort
county, s. c., shows an extraordinary
predominapce of the colored people
q, 1852 blacks, and only 2, 43S whites.
THE last agricultural returns of Great
Britain show that the growth of woods
and forests is going on very fast, and in
the last five years has increased their
area nearly 500, 900 acres.
THE richest men in Germany are the
Rothschilds, of Frankfort : Krupp, of
Essen, and Bleichbroder, of Berlin and
Prince Bismarck is also reckoned among
the millionaires The number of Prus--
sian milhonaires is only 1875.
A YOUNG man in dentists chair in
Waterbury, Ct, fancied he was riding II
bicycle, and forthwith, striking out with
great vigor, put each foot through pane
of glass in the window before him. And
yet, while under the influence OF the an
aesthetic, he probably felt no pane.
TIE favorite dream, says foreign
writer, of most French boys having
fair amount of pluck and go in them Is
t. I've military men IN fine uniforms, and
the most cherished fancy of most French
mothers is to walk about on Sunday, in
matron majesty, on the arm of smart
young officer.
THE scarcity of small change in Cam
ada is giving business men much trouble.
Postage stamps are coming into circula-
ton, as they did in the United States
during the war, and Belleville (Onta-
rio) tradesman has gone so far as tC. Is
sue tickets for small amounts, redesm-
able by himself.
The anti Masonic Presidential ticket,
headed by Gen. Phelps, of Vermont,
was supported by two Connecticut vot-
ers. one in Wellington and the other in
Redding. The electors named were six
in number. As there were but two bal
lots cast il is evident that at least four
of the electors did not support their own
ticket.
A YOUNG couple eloped in Ballard
county, KY, and were overtaken by the
girls father, but not before clergyman
had united them. The parent drove the
bridegroom away by aiming q gun at
him, and took his daughter home, where
he locked her up. The husband prowled
around the house that night, and was
shot to death by the angry old man.
A LARGE number of foreign tourists
have been attracted to Naples to witness
the eruption Of Vesuvius, which is
very fair one, incandescent materials
being launched to quite height from
the mountain enables sight-seers to get
better view of an eruption than they
ever had before.
A FINELY-DREssED young woman was
the complainant in Washington police
court, and the prisoner an old woman In
tatters. "What charge do you makep'
asked the Judge. "Vagrancy," was the
reply. "Do you know her9' "She is
my mother, 1 am sorry to say" The
spectators Kissed, and the magistrate
declined to commit the mother.
A Doctors Joy.
A doctor tells, with pardonable pride,