The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-08-13
BREYITIES.

hhEN lIlESs
HOLMES and Whittier are of the
same age. Holmes is 20, and Whittier
is 20, too.
Mr.. EvARTs' professional income is
estimated at from 1000 TO 100000
Il year
THE Empress Eugene remained
alone all night at the scene of her sons
death.
SINCE last year twenty and a half
miles of sewage drains have been made
iii Memphis.
PEACHES are piled so high in Della
ware that they are rolling out over the
edges of that trim little State.
doctors bill for medicine and visits,
wrote that he would pay for the medi-
cine and return the visits.
A POSTMASTER in Campbell county,
Va, sent $50 Confederate bill to the
Republican Committee at Washington
III answer to an assessment.
! GAMBETTA has been dubbed "Geno-
csc Caesar" by Rochefort, and pro-
claimed as dangerous to the French re-
public as Julius Caesar was to Rome.
A LONDON firm advertises that it has
for sale one of the identical stamps by
which George LII. attempted to impose
the obnoxious tax on teas imported into
British America.
THE second of the many husbands of
the late Adah Isaacs is a pauper in st.
Louis. His name is Daniel X. Russell,
and when he married the famous Ma
| ha ,oin
ynlng comedian. Drunkenness has laid
him low.
The convicts at the Kentucky peni-
tertiary are employed i'll railroad con-
struction. One of them became ill
while at work, sank down in the shade
of tree, and asked the keeper for
drink of water. The official pounded
him to death with a club.
THE crown of the hat of the statue of
William Penn, which is to surmount the
tower of the new public buildings of
Philadelphia, will be just $50 feet above
the pavement. This is ten feet one inch
higher than the highest towers of the
Cologne Cathedral as they now stand.
Don CARLOS, the pretender to the
throne of Spain, has been convicted of
lying and doing all sorts of dirty things.
: His holy Bourbon blood breaks out in
him. He charged Gen. Boet with steal
ing his collar of the golden fleece, but
the truth is, he sold the jewels to raise
money and lied about it.
By general consent Gambettai is ranked
UNNECESSARILY above all other orators i'll
France. His greatest enemies intendly
listen to him from pure love of art, as
they would to some well-graced actor,
and hesitating friends find all scruples
swept away by the torrent of his dem
onstration.
In Difference to his rank, Chung Han,
. the Chinese Ambassador to Russia who
signed the Kuldscha treaty without due
authorization from Pekin, and was con-
, demned to death for it, will not be de-
capitated until next December, which is
considered the proper period of the year
for beheading men of his eminence.
OUT of 943 Harvard students gradual
ed between the years 1869 and 1875 in
elusive, $50 were Unitarians or Liberals,
217 Episcopalians, 1916 Congregational
, lists, 46 Baptists, 20 Presbyterians. Is
Methodists, II Swedenborgians, 8 other
Trinitarians, 2 Quakers, - Catholics, 2
, Jews, Mormon and 113 undecided.
FRED STINsoN, Boston theater man
ager, took company to Maine, but was
unsuccessful financially. He paid the
salaries until his money was all gone,
: and then committed suicide He left
, this on card Managerial Obituary
! I go where no salary day appears.
and where actors shall trouble me no
more.
Mrs. BROWN, the mother of Artemus
Ward, is mentioned by the Boston Jour
nal as a bright and busy old lady of 70
years, now living ut Waterford, Me-,
where her son is buried. She has great
love for gardening. Her pride and af-
lection are pleasantly shown when visit
ors come to look ut the house where the
| merry Artemus was born,
{ In Barlow county, Ga, Mrs. j. G.
2 Sprouts recently gave a barbecue to all
, her old servants. Invitations were duly
4 extended, and on the appointed day
! eighty negroes of both sexes and of all
sizes assembled on the plantation, and
were feasted to- their hearts content.
At night dance was INDUCED in by the
, negroes, and several speeches were made,
4 and jollity and merriment reigned SUI
l preme.
JAMES MORTON got married clandes-
timely in Pittsburgh, and took his wife
to Detroit, where they had their first
, quarrel. In order to brighten her, he
, declared that he was going to desert
her, and then went away from the hotel.
, On the following day he returned to find
that his plan had been most effective.
! Mrs. Morton had swallowed morphine,
IL - II
: doctors efforts could save her life.
Y JAMES JACKSON JARvEs declares that
| Boston, notwithstanding its serious
Y artistic aspirations, is singularly unes-
! thetic in temperament Like Athens
$ of old, it breeds men and women who
speculate ceaselessly on matters of eth
! les, science, and dilettanteism generally,
{ restlessly a9itating the abstract and
: practical problems of life, but, unlike
= the Athenians, manifest no passion for
Al, itoa1f =