The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-23
BREyITIES.

THERE will be driven from Western
Texas this spring col 900 head of cattle.
GEN. IMBoDEN, the ex-Confederate
cavalry leader, who represents large
number of Northern capitalists, has
purchased AZ, 900 acres of mining land in
Scott county, Va, at 55 cents an acre.
A BASEBALL club has been organized
among the mutes of the New York Deaf
and Dumb School. 1t has assumed the
title, Hudson b. b. c." and is to make
a tour of the country the coming sum-
mer.
Two BosToN men put 81, 900 apiece
into a patent-medicine business, and
found, after the flight of the third part
ner with the money, that the stock con-
sisted Of neatly-prepared and labeled
blocks of wood.
THE expulsion of Kate McCloskey
Y, ON st. Patricks day, by Miss Carrie
l.. Paddock, because of her wearing
green sash, has been disapproved by
the Board of Education.
THE largest sale of oil lands ever
made in the history of the Pennsylvania
oil region was concluded few days ago.
1t embraces 1 200 acres, and on the land
are thirty-six good producing wells. The
price paid was S400,000
BECOMING engaged in a quarrel as to
which was the better organization, the
men in two rival fire companies, at Cort-
land, n. Y, each turned the water of the
hose upon the other, and let the flames
get fresh start.
EDWARD ADAMS and family, consisting
of his wife and two children and Miss
Carson, sister of his wife, residents of
Vernon county, Mo-, in attempting to
cross Clear creek, were all drowned ex-
cept Miss Carson.
A RETIRED British Foreign Office
copying clerk says that the worst writ
ten letters, in point of penmanship,
which reach that Office come from Wash
ington, and they are written on the
worst paper The best, too, come from
another republic-Switzerland.
Four inmates of a house in Baltimore
having lately died of scarlet fever, and
two others being fatally i'll with the same
disease, the Board of Health made an in
vestigation and found that the cellar,
after every rainfall, was flooded with
water, and that it was allowed to stag
nate, causing terribly offensive odor.
A LOCOMOTIVE which, if it equals ex-
pectation, will run ninety consecutive
miles in ninety minutes, is being built
for the Reading railroad. It's driving
wheels are foot larger than common
indiameter, its weight is five tons greater,
and its water tank holds 1000 gallons;
thus no stop will be necessary by the
way.
DURING the last ten years 1913 miles of
street-car rails have been laid in England
and Wales, ut cost of nearly S15,
900, exclusive of the outlay on horses,
engines, and cars. It cost one company
in London 81, 900, 900 to construct twenty
and a quarter miles, while another ex-
pended nearly double that on thirty-twO
and quarter miles.
THE Great Eastern, which has lain
idle at Milford for some four years, is
undergoing extensive alterations. Her
paddle engines are being taken out of
her, and she will in future be driven by
twin screws. She is being fitted for the
conveyance of cargoes of live cattle
from America, and her passenger
saloons are being redecorated.
THE cold winter has done great dam
age to the exotics in the public gardens
of Paris. Over 10000 trees and shrubs
have been wholly or partly killed in the
Champs Elysees; 100, 900 must be re-
placed in the Bots de Boulogne, and the
new park ut the Trocadero must be en-
tirely replanted. The sum of $500, 600
will hardly pay for the damage done.
In Binghamton, N. Y, last summer,
pair of Baltimore orioles built their
hanging nest in tree opposite a tin
smiths. The limb to which the nest
was suspended recently blew down, and
the nest is now preserved in evidence of
the remarkable skill and instinct of these
birds, for the nest was found securely
wired to the branch with pieces of wire
which had been picked out of the sweep
ings Of the shop.
In 1927, in Jessamine county, KY,
were born at the same hour and of the
same mother, Martha, Mary, and Mar
garet Debol They grew up together,
caring for no other society. When they
were just verging into womanhood their
father died, having first extracted from
them promise never to marry and
never to separate until death. They
have kept the VOW, and now in their SD
year live in their old home.