The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Two velocipedists beat railroad train

Two velocipedists beat railroad train
near Havre, France, in 10 mile race.
A TREE in New Moxico fell the other
day upon Matthew Lynch, and thought he
was worth 81, 600, 900, killed him.
IT costs the Queen of England SIC, 900
year to ride between England and Scot
land.
A RUSSIAN teacher committed suicide
by jumping off a precipice into river on
horseback.
THERE is not much difference, says an
exchange, between grass widow and
grasshopper. Either will jump at the
first chance.
ALTHOUGH paper collars have 20 great
extent gone out of use within the last ten
years, 300, 000,0 600 of them are now man
ufactured annually.
THERE is said to be a cabinet maker in
Paris who fires small shot into his cabi-
nets to give them an appearance of
worm-eaten antiquity.
In the London geological society's col
lection there is black haired spider
which can stretch itself to several inches
in length, and eats mice.
OF the bishops, judges and other offic-
ial personages who took part in the cere-
mony of Queen Victoria's coronation
forty-two years ago, all are now dead.
LYDIA THOMPSON says that the costume
worn by an English lady at a ball would
produce hiss if worn on the variety
stage. But then English ladies don't
kick up their heels
KANSAS girls walk seven miles bare
footed to trade dozen eggs mt a country
store for spool of thread. Nothing
stuck up about girls who are cut out for
No. | wives.
A STATEMENT was filed recently of a cor
poration with thename: "Hall's Air Blast,
Dry-Placer and Pulverized Quartz, Gold
and Silver Extracting and Amalgamat-
ing Machine Company.
A cat at Wappinger's Falls, Dutchess
County, n. Y, revcntly gave birth to
five living kittens that were Joined to-
gether by ligament after the fashion of
the Simese twins. The kittens were
drowned.
FROM the fact that the lower animals
arrive mt maturity much earlier than man,
and the inferior races of men develope
more rapidly than the superior, French
biologist infers that precocity indicates a
low order of development.
He was little verdant, or he never
would have said: perhaps we had bet
ter walk on till we come to asettee where
we can sit together "Oh! no." she re-
piled sweetly; "you sit down i'll the chair
and | will be the settee
AREsPECTED woman ut Lafayette, Ind :,
has never been legally married to the
man whom she regards rs her husband
This is her way of keeping the property
which, by the terms of her first hus-
bands will, she would lose by marrying
again.
A YOUNG man in Dubuque, Iowa, has
become partially deranged over mus
tache which refuses to sprout. He was
formerly happy and good tempered. He
is now morose, Respondent and melan-
choly. One day he visited a prominent
drug store and purchased all the the diff
ferent hair restoratives to be had. After
completing the rounds he carried the bot
ties to his room and put them aside for
future use When he left the room his
sister found over a hundred bottles in the
bed tick, and all were warranted to cause
hair to grow on the smoothest skin.
A NATURAL ice house is one of the cur
iosities of northern New Jersey. 1T lies
behind Blue Mountain. The ice gorge
is several hundred yards in extent, ten to
thirty feet deep, with caves and clefts in
l.,
at the gorge is very dense, the sun APP
parently never penetrating it. The bot
tom of the gorge and the little caves and
crevices are filed with ice. The Their
mometer which registered the nineties i'll
Newton, marked thirty-eight degrees at
the bottom of this gorge. A few feet from
one end of spring the most delicious
sparkling water bubbles up. The water
in this spring stands at thirty-fOur
degrees.
THERE is ~ vide difference of opinion as
to the number of apples eaten by Adam
in the Garden of Eden. Some say Eve 8
(ate), and Adam 2 (two); total, 10; others,
Eve and Adam 3, total Is; others say if
Eve and Adam 8 2, the total is 30; but
if Eve 8 and Adam 2, the total is 1863;
if Eve 8 ! and Adam 8 l 2, the total is
1913; if Eve ate 1st cate one first) and
Adam 2, the the total is ] ,623; if Eve
/ Adam, and Adam 4 Eve the
total is S,93S; if Eve s 4 Adam, and Adj
am l 2 A 2 oblige Eve, the total is
82,056. Still wrong. Eve when she l
s l 2 many, and probably felt sorry for
it; so Adam, in order to relieve her grief,
s / 2. Therefore, ii Adam | = 40fy
Ewes depressed spirits, they both 81 ,S96,
S64 apples.-Chri9tj0n at Work.
Life.