The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-02
BREyITIES.

The street sweepings of New York
city are delivered on Long Island farms
at $3.50 per ton.
IRELAND's cause and the working
mems movement are prominent factors
in Colorado politics.
MAINE has sixty banks, two less thai
a year ago. The total deposits are more
than $23 100000.
The Arabs and the Turks do not
hate each other, but they both hate the
Turkish Government.
RAILWAY engines in Arizona carry
tanks of water, which are left at the
stations along the road.
EX-SENATOR ALCoRN is one of the
most extensive and successful cotton
cultivators in Mississippi.
The total number of fires in Paris
last year (chimneys excepted was ], 049.
The loss was little over 81 100000.
IT is officially estimated that there
are 10000 tenement-houses in New
York city, and that they contain 100000
people.
WALNUT knots from the Big Sandy
country, KY, now used for making fur
niture, are sold by weight at % cents
per pound.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN is II years old,
and he still wears his old claw-hammer
dress coat, with no other outer covering
for his body.
PHILADELPHIA calls for ST. 100000 or
SO to be spent in turning the place into
a seaport by removing distractions in
the Delaware river.
JOHN w. MACKAY is the richest man
on the Pacific slope. His wealth is es-
timated at $15,O0O,00O. He is liberal
and wears poor clothes.
EVEN the most innocent and harm
less of the royal folks across the Allan
tic are In mortal terror for their lives in
these days. Some practical Joker ex-
ploded fre-cracker as the carriage of
the Queen of the Belgians was passing
the other night, and her most gracious
MajesIy's hair almost stood on end with
fright until the nature of the incident
had been explained to her.
STRAsBoURG is excited over the ex-
ploits of a mysterious stranger who
goes about stabbing women. AS soon
as he perceives an unprotected fe-
male" he saunters up toher In leisurely
way and strikes her on the right breast
with his weapon, inficting a slight
wound of from half to three quarters of
an inch deep. He has succeeded in
stabbing no fewer than fifteen women
and girls in this manner.
A PUBLIC-sPIRITED citizen of Mime
apolis recently offered, from his own re-
sources, premium for potato bugs de-
stroyed. He now writes to the Tribune
of that city: No more boys from st.
Paul need come to my Office with their
oyster cans full of bugs, and l will not
be held responsible for any dry-goods
boxes said to be filled with bugs coming
from the interior of the State and ad
dressed to me-"
The correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, speaking of Mrs. Belva
Lockwood, says: "In the lower courts
she and some of her professional sis
tiers have undertaken the management
of several cases, which they have in
variably got into muddled condition,
either from hopeless confusion of
facts or from an absence of facts alto
gether, but they never will admit that
they are beaten, and they founder
along until the Judges have to stop
them"
A TRAVELLING glazier has been arrest
ed at Warrington, England, for stimu-
lating the law of supply and demand.
His method of creating trade was to
throw stone through window in the
evening and then appear in the morn
ing to offer his services. But he over
did the business when he smashed sew
enteen panes of glass in the church, in
one night, and came near hitting the
landlord with the bowlder thrown
through a plate-glass window of the
Bulls Head Inn.
A WOMAN disappeared from Reading,
Pa, leaving the following note behind
her: My Dear Husband left in
peace and JOY. My body will be found
by some one. Show this to mother, and
give my love and kiss to all. The lost
shall be found, and the dead rise. 1 will
neet you all again. 1 had to do this,
but, dear Lew, L had no in-feeling
against you" Dear Lew, was greatly
grieved until he found out that his wife
was alive and well with another man in
PHILADELPHIA