The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-14
BREyITTES.

nj. LAcoUR says of Ernest Renan that
he thinks as "A man, feels as a woman, and
cts as child.
The longest office-holder in this coun-
try was Postmaster at Lynnyille, Pa.
who was in from 1923 to 1876.
The bones of mastodon have been
found IN excavating well at Dallas,
Tex. The width of one shoulder was
over seven feet.
Ii we could see others as we see our
selves, there would be more cookbook
ing people in the world, says the New
Orleans Picayune.
A VERMONT man spent 100 successive
days in trying to run down and kill
fox, and, when at last he got sight of him
and fired shot, the bullet killed 500
horse and the fox sloped away.
A cAPABILITY of standing still and be-
ing silent, or of dancing and not con-
versing of anything that can be remem-
bered, and of having good appetite al
ways about one, is all that can now be
expected of a guest.
In the struggle to capture party OF
colonists bound for Kansas by two rival
railroad passenger agents at Rochester,
the fare was reduced from S31. 81 to S.,
one agent selling ninety-three tickets
and the other forty-four.
AT Lynchbrrg, Va, a gentleman lost
pocket-book, containing 1915, on the
platform mt the Union depot. 1t was
found by colored bootblack, who de-
clined to receive 800 for his honesty
when he presented it to the owner.
"A GUIDE and hunter, known as Colo
RADIO Bill, at Fort Sickle, is astonishing
the far West by his wonderful pistol
shooting A short time ago he broke
ninety-two out OF 100 glass balls with
45-calibre Colts revolver. He chal-
lenges the world to shoot with him at
any distance, from ten to 300 yards.
THE Boston Transcript reports case
of cruelty in Boston school. Because
little girl ID years old did not know
her history lesson, the teacher made her
"stand up" until she tainted away, cut
ting and bruising her face as she fell.
Worse than all, when the matter was
brought before the School Committee,
they endeavored to whitewash the
teacher.
GERMANY spends more money per
capita for school education than either
England, Austria-Hungary, France,
Spain, Italy or Russia. The expendi-
ture is about 70 cents head of the
population England's, about A cents
Austria Hungary's, about 40 cents
Frances, about 36 cents SPANS, about
30 cents Italy's, about 20 cents, and
Russia's, about 6 cents.
MAY Is very busy month"; and there
is SO much work crowded into it that
farmer is in danger of being in hurry.
Every hour of work should be so planned
that it will tell most effectually, and
this requires considerable thought in
order to do the most urgent and impOr-
tant work first, and leave undone those
things which may be done almost as
well by-and-by. As we SOW so do we
reap, and, as this is the month of SOW
ing, the work now will in great meas
ure determine what the harvest of the
year shall be. Keep pushing on, but
with a plan.
The total number of Turkish prison.
ers who fell into the hands of the Rus
slams during the war amounted, accord
ing to statement lately printed in the
.ptCOt, I'd "a, 100 OluCeTS anu Lleu Vi III
arms and branches of the service. The
maintenance of these until the day of
the signing of the treaty of Berlin cost
Russia 5,775,2 53 rubles, the average
cost of providing for Pasha during his
term of imprisonment being 1913 rubles,
while superior officer cost 465 roubles,
and nOn-commissioned officer or pri-
vate "a rubles, or $50.