The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-08
JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.

IT is estimated that Michigan has no.
$40 farms, and produces $4,000 900
/ bushels of wheat per annum.
The personal property of California "
valued at $l1S, 304, 451, and the real es-
tate at SAG, $3.50.
GEORGE TUCKER, an inmate of a New
York penitentiary, has just inherited $12,-
600. His sentence will expire in 1885.
In 1874 the entire orange crop of
Florida was represented by $500 half
barrel cases In 1879 it amounted to
100000.
A Massachusetts boy about as high ~
the counter recently came into O book
store and asked for "a book for ten cents
with n murder in it.
DID you ever see n bald-headed man
who didn't have such beautiful head
of hair till that fever" or something
or other, took it off?
A RECENTlaws,iit in London incidentally
brought out the opinion of experts con-
corning the value of land in the city, that
one acre was worth "a, 116, 400.
EDITOR THORN, of Notes and Queries,
has retired from the office of Assistant
Librarian of the House of Lords, at the
age of seventy-seven, on pension of 49,
$50 a year
The Khedive has sent his harem to
Smyrna, his wives having shown ten
dency to elope at Naples. He got tired
at roll-call of finding two or three os the
pretty ones gone
RALPH WALDO EMERSON contemplates
a visit to England next year. He is ex.
tremely DESTROYS of meeting Carlyle,
Cardinal Newman and Mr.. Herbert
Spencer.
WIEN we reflect that every woman has
children of surprising genius, it is mat
ter of serious inquiry where all the or
binary men come from who cross our
path in everyday life.
A GEORGIA young man asked his sweet
heart whether she had ever read Romeo
and Juliet. She replied that she had
read Romeo, but she did not think she
had ever read Juliet.
SQUARE umbrellas have been intro
duced Ill Paris; but some one says they
are just as bad as the old kind because
they are never round when wanted
Phitadelphia Bulletin.
A New YORK paper says that lady
teacher in Philadelphia Sunday school
has horse whipped the Superintendent,
Fisher, with an umbrella for "showing
her an unlimited partiality."
Lon. MOORE, Greenville man, now
has convenience III the shape Of n grass.
cutter The people say Lon. Moore pur-
chased the lawn mower, as he could get
along more conveniently with it.
A LABoRIoUs calculator of the London
Statistical Society has computed that the
population of that city three centuries
from this will, following the rate of in
crease of the past fifty years, be over
166, 900, 900.
Establishing newspaper is like pour
ing water into leaky cask-if You have
got grit enough and water enough to
keep the vessel full, possibly the slaves
may swell up aud become water tight
cecil e. Ba1naU.
The Croton aqueduct is taxed to its
utmost power for supplying the wants OF
the people of the metropolis. New York
daily consumes upwards of 81, 900, 900 OF
gallons of water, while the capacity Of
the aqueduct is put at 95,000,000 of
gallons.
Il DON'T like Newport" says the Sar-
atoga swell, ''because everything down
there tastes as if it had been caught with
hook. And then ii a man stops at a
hotel, you know, in Newport, he is taken
for a tramp Now man doesn't want to
be taken for a tramp, does hep"
An exchange says that young girl
wants the paper to notify the young men
that she is worker, and to illustrate,
she says, that she picked twenty-five
geese in one day. We didn't know that
geese were ripe yet. However, that is
not very heavy picking. When we were
in the army we could go out with sabre
minutes. -Peck's Sun.
THE Holyoke Mass. Gazette says: IT
is stated upon excellent authority that in
this neighborhood there is lady who
has built house out of fund made 10y
selling rum to her own husband. He is
drinking man, and so his wife struck
the bargain with him that if he would
drink he must agree TO buy all his liquor
of her. She thus pocketed the profit,
instead of the regular rumsellers.
Mr. Fred. Wilhelm, on opening a
twenty three pound watermelon on Sun
day last, discovered within it another
melon weighing, by actual weight, seven
and three quarters pounds. The rind
of the interior melon was of an orange
color, and the flesh was of q brighter red
than that of the enclosing one. Any of
his friends anxious to see this freak OF
nature can do so by calling at his room,
where it will be on exhibition for few
days.-CoiunaJus (Ga.) Enquirer.
A CORRESPONDENT saws that the "crop"