The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-29
BREvITIES.


The enrolled militia of Massachusetts
numbers 245, 1852.
CANON FARRAR is said to have sweet
and musical voice.
SENATOR BLAINE wears nickel-plated
watch that cost $3.50.
APPLES were never before so plentiful,
OF such fine quality, and so cheap.
AT recent dinner the Queen of En-
gland plucked ripe peaches from potted
trees.
"SwEAR not at ALL" not even when
putting up depraved and ungoverna-
bic stove-pipe.
Nun YEw CHUNG, Chinaman who
weighs just 100 pounds, is coxswain of
the Yale crew.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL has postponed
her visit to the United States for the
present season.
JOHN L. OWENS, the actor, has given
up the stage for mining speculation i'll
San Francisco.
BELL, the telephone man, has been
elected professor in Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore.
lover who pressed his suit was a tailor
or clothes-cleaner.
THERE are in Georgia SO, 500 colored
men who own, by the tax receivers re-
turns for their respective counties, 551,
1879 acres of land.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., has twenty-five
national banks with capital of 49,
l45, 900, and SD, 25l ,203 surplus and un-
divided profits.
"GHAsTLY Jolly" is given as the latest
addition to fashionable slang in England.
1t was probably created for use at
mother-in-law's funeral.
Mrs. JOHN G. GREEN has given $780,
900 to the American Sunday-School
Union, to be used in developing higher
order of Sunday-school literature.
THERE are hundreds of entertaining
writer's who would be good historians if
they did not know 80 many things that
have never happened.-NeW Orleans
Picaya7ae.
MARK TWAIN draws and paints little.
He drew the lumber to build fence at
the back of his house, and the white
washing on said fence is said to be one
VI tIic liuSSG olSuIS III IlhItloIu
"IN what condition was the patriarch
Job at the end of his life ?" asked "a
Brooklyn Sunday teacher of a
quiet-looking boy at the foot of the
class. dead" calmly replied the boy.
A HORSE in Nevada, being sick with
collie, ended his suferings 10y delber-
ately dashing out his brains against the
stone wall OF the corral. 1t was in Ne
vada, also, that pet dog recently COM
mitted suicide by drowning.
W. n. ARMSTRONG, n lawyer of New
York city, has been appointed Attorney
General III the new Cabinet of King
Kalakaua, of the Sandwich islands.
His father was one of the first mission
aries to the islands, and he himself was
born there.
SUICIDES are on the increase in France.
The number i'll 1870 was 4, 157 in 1872,
5,275; in 1874, 5,617; in 1876, 1904;
in 1877, 1929; and in 1878 to which
only statistics have been made up
6,424. A great number of cases, too,
are hrshed up and never appear.
A PRIZE was offered for the mother
who presented the greatest number of
her own children ut the Indiana State
fair. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Line were
each accompanied to the fair by nine,
but Mrs. Line gave birth to tenth ON
the grounds, and SO took the prize.
A THEOLOGICAL professor asked his
class the question whether they could
think of any reason why the grave of
Moses should have been SO strictly con-
cealed, and a simple youth, who, I'M
fortunately, stammers, thought it must
be "be-because they would t-take him
up and st-styltf him"
AMONG the languages of civilized ma
tons English is the most widespread. 1t
is the mother tongue OF about 80, 600, 600
people; German, of between sc, 900, 600
and 60,000,000 French, of between
4O,000,000 and 10000 600 /; italian, of
%. 700, 600, and Russian, of between
50, 900, 600 and GO, 100000.
The correspondence of Peter the
Great will shortly be published by i'm
perial authority at ST. Petersburg.
The work of editing the materials has
already been seven years III hand. The
text is calculated by commentaries from
the pen of the Russian Academician
Bytchkoff. The appearance of the vol
umes has long been anxiously awaited,
and is expected to be literary event Of
the first order, no less on account of the
monumental character of the work than
the elegance of it's execution. 1t is
probable that it will contain many inter-
esting revelations.