The true northerner., 1880-02-13
BREvITIES.

DAsA aAA<Aoe
SEvENTY-FoUR streets were added to
London last year.
THERE is one COW to every four per.
sons in this country.
CAMEL coal has been found forty
miles south of Denver.
CoLoRADo papers claim 100000 vot-
ers at the next election.
ALEXANDER STEPHENS is stronger
than for fifteen years past.
GUILFoRD COUNTY, N. O., kills and
sells 100000 rabbits annually.
The peach blossom, Persia's mystic
flower, is favorite in embroidery.
SACRAMENTO electricians claim to
have discovered the best electric light.
IT costs $3O,OOO,OOO per day to run
the world. Are you paying your share?
WHEN clock is wound up it runs
on, but when business is wound up it
stops.
LAST year is said to be an unprotit-
able one for fire and marine insurance
companies.
Doors and shoes for dolls are turned
out by one London house at the rate of
1000 pairs week.
PHILADELPHIA groans under its street
railroad tariff, which exacts from each
passenger cents for fare.
DETECTIVES constantly watch over
the footsteps of Lord Beaconsfield, to
see that no harm comes to him.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE inherits an in
come of $l50,000 q year from her
mother, the Countess of Montijo.
Two OMAHA teamsters unloaded car
of coal each in sixty-six and sixty-seven
minutes respectively, on wager.
GEN. SHERMAN says that the allow
ances to crippled soldiers in this coun-
try exceed far what is granted in any
other.
ALTOONA, Pa, boasts of hot-bouse
cucumber four and half feet long. It
looks like the whole State of Rhode
Island.
ONE-FIFTH of the 100000 acres of
vine land in France will be unproduc-
tive this year. This means a loss of
$s0,000,000,
GEN. HORACE PORTER, formerly on
Grants staff, has made about 100000
in New York since he left the Presi-
dents household.
SoJoURNER TRUTH, 105 years, recent
ly went 175 miles across the prairies of
Kansas in an open wagon to help needy
colored immigrants.
The Cologne Gazette, in recent
article, deemed inspired" observes
that nobody can be on good terms
with the German empire who cultivates
political intimacy with Russia"
NATURES PROMISE.
Through winters dearth upon the earth,
ith biting winds and naked trees,
Know that the spring hath blossoming
And songs of brookets, birds and bees.
SHABBoNAs GROVE, ILL., DIR. LA NOBLE.
AN English inn, over 1000 years old,
fell to pieces at Belpre. Four hundred
year ago, under the sign of the Peacock,
it was the only tavern in that quarter,
and travellers obtained access to their
bedrooms by the stone staircase outside
the house.
NOTWITHSTANDING the law in Austria
guarantees full religious liberty, yet for
the last nine months all public worship
and meetings for religious exercises
outside the state accredited churches
have been interdicted, and this has led
to severe persecution.
The projec. to build one tunnel
twenty-six feet in width by twenty-four
in height, under the Hudson river at
Fifteenth street, New York, has been
given up as impracticable, and work
has been begun on two separate tun-
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: diameter.
The number of suicides at Vienna
; and it's suburbs last year attained the
,, considerable figure of 297, of which
forty-six were of women. In most cases
reverse of fortune, misery or want OF
: work was the disposing cause, and the
majority of the upfortunates belonged
to the poorer classes.
SALARIES paid to ministers in Holland
are miserably small. DR.. Heodemaker,
! leading Dutch clergyman, who visited
Edinburgh during the last session of
the Free Assembly, gets only $l.1OO q
! year, and yet is among the best paid.
l Out of this sum he has to pay $500 q
: year for the rent of his house.
OWING TO the disease of the vine, the
area of the vineyards in France has de-
creased by about 100000 acres since
!. the year 1874; though great portion of
:. the soil in which the vine formerly
; Hourished is unfit for any other cult
ure. The area of vineyards in the
), country is at present about 100000
acres.
, A LOVELY WOMAN.
! Woman. sweetest of the flowers
Tnat bloom amid earth's loveliest bowers,
. With sweetest buds of every cline
And sweetest pinks of summer time.
With every incense breathing bud
That emblem all that's pure and good,
She's all that's lovely fair and gay
All b ended In one live bouquet.