The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-20
BREyITIES.

LAWYERS annually cost the people
about $70,000,000.
OF all living poets, James Russell
Lowell is the most precise and cold.
IT takes three years to tan hippopot-
anus leather.
LAST year Colorado produced $780,
600 worth of coal.
A CAPTAIN of the Russian army re-
ceiyes 5000 per year.
The Hoosac tunnel is stated to have
cost over SIS, 100000.
The orange crop of Southern Cali
fornia is assuming large proportions.
House servants are wanted in Mon
tana and Nevada; wages, $25 to $40
month.
A READING kid-glove manufacturer
uses each week 200 eggs for softening
the leather.
THE Mississippi river has ten bridges
with spans us long as those of the Tay
bridge.
KossUTH has made such arrangement
for the publication o. his memoirs as
to rescue him from poverty and place
him in affluence, and for his remaining
years he will live on his life
THE Speaker of the British House of
Commons has $4,000 year, house
rent free, $4,000 of equipment money,
1000 ounces of silver plate on his cleo
ton, $500 for stationery each year, and
fees amounting to $4,000 year.
WILL Col. Ingersoll please come to
the front to state whether he continues
to leave his pocket-book where the
children can help themselves? The in
terest in this experiment has never
abated.
THERE are many people in Scotland
and Ireland who see no fresh meat from
one end of the winter to the other, and
very little of anything else. And the
same is true of many of the settlers on
our far West frontiers.
A WIDOW, who lives in secluded
part of Michigan, talks very imperfectly
by reason of having lost her palate, and
her two daughters, aged 8 and IL, can
only speak the strange language they
have learned of her, though their vocal
organs are perfect.
The value of small boy has been
settled by the New York courts. The
boy was drowned from one of the ferry
boats by the carelessness of the COM
pany, and suit followed. Five thou
sand dollars was claimed and 81 800
awarded.
A YOUNG laborer of Montelimart,
France, has been visited by a singular
stroke of good fortune. An uncle from
whom he expected nothing has left him
100000 francs. The young man, who
is quite illiterate, was so overcome that
he has not spoken since.
A JUSTICE, at Abba, Ohio, performed
marriage ceremony, and was asked
how much he charged Cor the service.
"The law of this State allows me So"
he replied. "Well, here's 80 CENTS"
said the bridegroom, and that with what
the State allows will make $3.50
ISAAC MILLS was, at 75,still wonderfully
strong and courageous. Two highway
men attacked him, at Braddock, Pa,
, four years ago, and he fought them so
vigorously that to escape they pounded
him on the head, with clubs, until he
was insensible. The blows caused paral-
ysis, from which he has just died.
AFTER being lane for 600 years,
Drury lane becomes street 1t de-
rived its title from the residence of
once distinguished family, long since
extinct or sunk into obscurity, Drury
House. In few months the locality
will scarcely be recognized, such are the
changes to be made.
ANDAMAN-IsLAND widows wear the
skulls of their deceased husbands on
their shoulders. At recent lecture
on ethnology at the Royal College of
Surgeons in London, Prof. Flower
showed the skull of an Andamanese, to
which was attached an elegant webbed
sling by which it had been suspended
to the widows neck.
SATURDAY NIGHT balls at Fall River
are stopped at IL o'clock by the police,
at the request of the clergy, whose
principal complaint is, not that late
dancing is desecration of the Sab
bath, though that point is mentioned,
but that the dancers are too sleepy in
church on the following morning to pay
attention to the sermon.