The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-02
BREvITIES.

OnEv Il1ESs
ALL pedestrian matches end in being
a contest between cripples.
A VISITOR to Queen Victoria has to
be announced by five different per
sons.
BISHOP GILBERT HAVEN is in an al
most hopeless condition from kidney
troubles.
THE Regents of the University Of
California have entered upon q crusade
against the Undergraduate secret socie-
ties.
A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ranchman
boasts of having killed two Indians with
the same bullet, which passed through
one into the other.
CAPT. JAMES B. EADs, of the Missis-
sippi jetties, has been travelling in Asiatic
lands for several months. He has Wis
tied Jerusalem, Jaffa and Cairo.
JUDGE ELDRDGE, of Memphis, fined
himself $40 for hardness at court. Two
lawyers made able arguments for the
remission of the penalty, but his Honor
remained firm.
A CURIOUS sight was presented at La
grange, GA, last week. In the midst
of snow-storm might have been seen
green grass and the peach and pear
trees in bloom.
MISS ALICE LoNGFELLow, daughter
of the poet Longfellow, has recently
accepted the appointment of Vice Re-
gent for Massachusetts, of the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN LANDERs, of Con-
necticut, has been presented with twelve
wooden nutmegs," made from the
wood of the Charter oak. He will dis
tribute them among old Congressional
friends.
PIERRE LoRILLARD doubtless counts
the figures in the English turf statistics,
which have just been printed, with pleas
urable emotions. He ranks fourteenth
in The list of winners, with seven win
nings and f5,376 to his credit.
Miss KATE FIELD brought from
Strattord a slip of Shakspeare's null
berry tree, which she has presented to
the Central Park Commissioners. It
is to be kept in greenhouse until
April and then planted with proper
ceremony probably upon the poets
birthday.
HENRY LAVA SELwyN, full-blooded
Sioux Indian and son of leading
chief of the Yankton tribe, has been
ordained pastor of the church at Yank-
ton Agency. If the brother should take
a notion to get up revival in his parish
he will have it if he has to come down
and scalp the whole congregation.
TRAUTz-BAUzoNNET, the great book
binder of modern times, has just died
in Paris. His finest bindings in mosaic
compartments of colored morocco cost
from 1000 to 5000 francs. He did the
gliding himself, and was aided in his
work by two assistants only. Of late he
had been monopolized by one OF the
Rothschilds.
The recently published collection of
Dickens letters brings to light one very
happy thing. He did say one kind,
generous, heartfelt word of praise for
America. He drank the whisky cock
tail of our native land, he loved it, and
embalmed it in words of commentator.
1t seems that if the Americans had only
kept him little drunken while he was
here. he might have loved us.
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY has been SO
quiet of late years that the public is in
clined to forget about her, but she is
still living and hopes to see the Six
teenth amendment passed before long.
II have turned my three score years"
she said to reporter, "but then Luz
cretia Mott is 81, you know" Miss
Anthony at 60 is looking remarkably
well, retaining her old-time sprightli-
ness.
ACCORDING to official statistics, there
were, from 1888 to 1856, no fewer than
ninety-four persons buried alive,
through accident or ignorance, in vari-
Gus parts of France. DR.. Thouret,
while disinterring bodies from grave
yard converted into a public square,
observed many skeletons in such strange
and difficult postures as to convince
him that they had been buried before
life was extinct.