The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-04
BREyITIES.


The number of red men i'm Florida
has been reduced to 295, and, as they
are all good Indians, it is probable that
the tribe will soon be extinct, as good
Indians always die young.
GEN. ROBERT PATTERSON, of Phila-
delphia, is 80 years old. He took part
i'm the War of 1912, the Mexican war,
" awaiting revival in his line of bust
ness.
THEY buried Prof. Dascomb, of Ober-
lin, with torpedo at his side, but the
fact that no medical students have come
down in adjacent counties would indi-
cate that the gentleman's rest had not
been disturbed.
The act of the General Assembly of the
State of South Carolina, incorporating
the city of Charleston, was ratified on
the 18th of August, 1888. The centen-
NAL of the city will be celebrated two
years hence on a large scale.
IT is proposed to celebrate the Tooth
anniversary of the battle of Kings
mountain, n. c., on Oct 7. The sur
rounding States have charge of the ar
rangements, but general invitation is
extended to all the commonwealth.
IT used to be common thing for
sailors to refuse to go TO sea on Friday.
We hear nothing of this in these steam
boat days. Steam has made every day
allie. Wherever steamboats, and steam
engines appear, superstitions disappear.
The number of visitors to the Yo-
semitic valley has considerably declined
during the last two or three years, but
the tourist-ticket agencies of San Fran
cisco report that, according to present
indications, the rush this season will be
unprecedented.
AUSTRALIANS are beginning to regard
the menacing increments of strength
which the Russian navy in the Pacific is
daily receiving with some anxiety. The
colonists ask if it is altogether prudent
to defer any longer the attempt which
was recently made to solve the problem
of colonial defense.
A LITTLE boy in Worcester, Mass,
who, six years ago, swallowed mixture
of lime and sulphuric acid, which caused
severe irritation of the throat and stom-
ach and nearly cost him his life, has
been i'll, with similar symptoms, at
about the same time each year since.
The regular recurrence OF the trouble is
a puzzle to the physicians.
A BOY was stamping some packages
at the postoffce in Macon, GA, when a
lady came in who bought Scent stamp,
and then, turning to the boy, coolly
asked him to run out his tongue. The
boy did so, when the lady moistened
her 3-cent stamp, applied it to the let
ter, mailed it, and walked off.
HERE is gallant explanation of one
of the fashions of the last century:
When the maid mean to marry
/ of evenings go to see,
invariably carry
Watches twain along with me.
One il hours and hours too fast
T'other hours and hours too slow;
BY the first meet, the last
1 consult when should go.
AT the head of Fall creek, Nevada
county, CAL, pines and frs over 100 feet
in height are so buried in snow that only
a few feet of their tops are to be seen.
Where dark forest lies in summer
there is now only to be seen white ex-
panse of snow, with here and there what
appears to be clumps of bushes, but are
really the tops of the tallest pines.
IT was only in July, 1901, that an act
passed rendering clergymen Ineligible
for seats in the British House of Com
mons. In the preceding February the
Rev. John Horne Tooke had taken his
seat for Old Sarum, which provoked the
Clerical Disability bill. Nowadays di-
vines can declericalize themselves, and
q quondam parsOn sits In the present
House of Commons
THE law of the ancients forbidding q
statue to be raised to live man, or to a
dead one except after lapse of GER
tain number of years, has. become quite
obsolete. 1t is the fashion now in Eu-
rope to erect monuments to the living
rather than the dead, and it has been
estimated that 200 busts and statues are
mt present being chiseled out in honor
of living men, of all sorts and condi-
tons.
JOSEPH KEARNEY's ingenious plan to
make money, in Philadelphia, was to
tell mothers that their sons had been
horribly mangled, and ask for few dol
lars in haste to buy medicine. The
trick was successful in several instances.
Then he boldly went to woman with
the false news that her sons body would
arrive on a certain train, with So due for
delivery She had heard of him, and he
was arrested
ONE of the coaches on the Great
Western railroad of England has been
painted with Prof. Balmain's luminous
paint. 1t is in appearance very little
different from ordinary paint, but, dur
ing the time the carriage is exposed to
the light, the paint is rapidly absorbing
the daylight, and, when night comes, it
throws out mild radiance. 1t has been
employed on life buoys, rendering them
visible from a long distance.