The true northerner., 1880-03-19
BREvITIES.

BREvITIES.
EX-SENATOR SIMON CAMERON is 81
years old.
Mr.. LoNavELLow writes easily, but
very slowly.
THERE is no such word as gent" in
the dictionary.
To ANNIHILArE the Indians, send them
the puzzle of fifteen.
LORD BYRoS's Bible was recently sold
at auction in London.
The testimony of experts in the Hsy-
den case cost $6,6222C.
In Turkey there are eleven different
Christian sects, all at enmity.
The students of st. Petersburg ara
among the ungovernable classes.
In June, Minister Noyes will start
from Paris for the United States.
The wealth of Harvard University
has increased $3,000,0 900 since 1870.
The deposed Archbishop Purcell has
passed his SOth birthday anniversary.
The "Tichborne claimant" has been
offered SIT 800 for his autobiography.
THE blood of the turnip is the seed
OF the church with some stingy people.
STURGEON violently assails the for
eign policy of the British Government.
THURLow WEED may be seen on Wall
street every few days engaged in specu-
lation.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT will be the
Prince of Newport, r. l., the coming
season.
The Truth says that in the last ten
years there have been 1852 strikes in
England.
THE University of Brussels has for
the first time admitted lady as sci
ence student
WHISKY has thrown Dan Rice again.
Whisky appears to be bigger man than
q trick mule.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, is the healthiest
city in the United States, and Stockton,
CAL, the next.
A CASE of leprosy has been discov-
cred in the Chinese quarter in Mott
street, New York.
IT is given out in the tobacco regions
that the plant this year will be nearly
double that of last
A PHILADELPHIA court has decided
that lying is not false pretenses, and lots
of people will feel safer.
Mr.. SETH GREEN, the fish-culturist,
thinks that trout "can hold converse
tions with each other like men,"
The city of Rome, Ga., counts upon
having $500,00O worth of buildings
erected within its limits this year.
A WRITER in Tinsley's Magazine
says that the physique of the Japanese
fails to inspire confidence in vege-
tartan diet.
ROBERT G. INGERsoLL may also be
called an Ohio man, because he lived
ct Ashtabula, Ohio, when boy, and at
tended school there.
OUT of every five loaves of bread eat
en- in England in 1880, says the London
Aduertiser, three must come from the
United States and Russia.
SIR G. w. OAKLEY, of Trittenden,
England, takes the prize for monster
cucumbers. He has raised one five feet
in length and foot in diameter
THIRTY-EIGHT silver-mining compan-
les have been organized in Maine, and
are sinking shafts in Oxford, Andros-
coggin and Penobscot counties.
SEvENTY-Two young men have been
sentenced by default, at Berlin, to
fortnight's imprisonment and $50 marks
fine for emigrating without permission
and evading the conscription.
Two YOUNG women of Bungalore, In
dia, have been admitted as probationers
into the postoffice in that place. They
are the first women who have been able
to get Government employment in
Asia.
ACCORDING to the London Truth, q
certain pedestrian, who halls from Wind
sor, has announced his intention of at
tempting to pick up hundred potatoes,
placed one yard apart, in an hour, each
potato to be brought back to basket
at the starting point.
SOME of the engineers of the Lesseps
party visited the Brooklyn bridge, and,
after examining the work done and the
plans for future work, pronounced the
enterprise much greater and a more diff
fcult engineering feat than the proposed
Panama canal.
Nova SCOTIA furnished the world with
the largest of women-Mme. Anna
Swan. The smallest of her sex will also
enter the outer world from this province
shortly. The little lady, Is years of age,
thirty-nine inches high, weighing thir-
ty-eight pounds, a native of Pictou
county, will be exhibited.
LAWYERS ALLEN and Taylor, the lat
ter an ex-Judge, had quarrel in court
at Newark, Ohio. While Taylor was
riding home, Allen invited him to dis
mount and have his hide tanned with q
whip. Taylor got off his horse, took off
his coat, and challenged Allen to attempt
the job. Allen tried, but failed, and
was badly beaten by the ex-Judge.
Powerful Magnet.