The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-23
BREVITIES.

STURGEON is but As.
JAY GOULD is 60 years old.
Mr.. TENNYsoN is Spiritualist.
LoNGFELLow is 70 years old,
The death-rate of Leadville is very
high.
SooT imparts remarkably bright green
to grass and grain.
1T is said that tight-lacing makes red
noses and cold feet.
THERE is an average of one suicide
per day in this country.
EVERY day in this world the births
exceed the deaths by 25,020.
FIG trees bear fruit in California the
second year after being planted.
VIM III. VANDERBILT's annual income
from his bonds alone is $640,0OO.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS has lost fifty
pounds of flesh since last summer.
A MODERN philosopher SAYS that men
do not go to pantry to buy pants.
IT will remain for future generations
to bore tunnel through to China.
spend their spare time in gambling.
PHILADELPHIA got the contract for
lighting the lighthouses of the country
AZ 600 gallons of lard oil.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has
adopted new and more stringent re-
quirements for admission to its bar.
ABsTEMIoUsLY and facetiously are
said to be the only two words in which
the vowels follow one another in alpha
betical order.
A ROCHESTER widow, long after re-
ceiving aid from the Overseer of the
Poor, was found to own the house in
which she lived and 81 500 in bank.
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS is offered
by the American Humane Society of
Chicago for stock Car in which live
animals can be carried long distances
without needless suffering.
FINDING basket on her stoop, a eau
tious woman in Newport, r. l., took it
to police station, and was surprised
to learn afterward that it contained a
twenty-pound turkey and not found
ling.
4NO OIhEh HAL III Vic WOTlu Oh Ills
years has known and conversed with so
many celebrated and interesting persons
as has the Prince of Wales, and conse-
quently he is unusually well-informed,
though little of reader.
BosToN eyes are the poorest in the
world. While a by-stander on a fash
ionable street of Boston was taking
notes he saw in an hour and half fifty
five people who wore eyeglasses. Thir-
ty-four were ladies and twenty-one
were men.
A CHICAGO thief shaved off his mus
tache after robbing lady in the street,
and by that means made it impossible
for her to identify him when he was ar
rested; but he could not long resist the
desire to look his best, and three
months later, when the new mustache
had grown like the old one, she recog-
nized him in crowd, and he has been
convicted.
JOHN MADDocKs and Henry Quin, of
Dublin, the former in the clear and un-
incumbered possession of 10000 a year,
and both in full possession of health
and competence, committed suicide
early In the century for no other reason
than that they were tired of the unva-
ried repetitions and amusements, to
them unexpectedly insipid, of exist
ence.
A LITTLE boy starved to death, at
Pittsburgh, in consequence of throat
disease that prevented his swallowing
anything. He lived four weeks without
eating or drinking. His pleadings for
food were pitiful, and he frequently
dreamed of enjoying sumptuous repasts
only to awake to dreadful hunger and
thirst. Just before he died he asked
his mother if they would have good
dinner for him in heaven.
"GooD-BYl"
listen to the laughter in your room;
And do you laugh because my sad heart greves
O'er buried forms of JOY? The flowers perfume
Meier fingers IN dead branches and sere leaves
So DAYS have lived whose meier shines again,
And other nights had more and brighter stars
Ali rocks our storm SCARED boat gay as when
In youth we sailed across yon harbor bars?
l leave you now, and shall not breathe sigh,
Because herr your slowly coming feet;
Aud could face a lannon's mouth. and die
Rather than have you see my sorrow, sweet!
CHICAGO, III. ELI OMAL.