The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-23
BREVITIES.

NiAoAhA ALLS ana mt NeSuV1uS are
now illuminated at night by electric
light.
LESS than one-half of Alabama's school
population of 1864 attended school
last year.
ENGLISH SoUIREs allow their sons in
the army less than formerly, on account
of the hard times.
A ZINC mine has been opened in the
mountains ten miles south of Elmira.
and stock company formed to work it.
Miss JENNIE FLOOD, it is reported
from the West, will be married to Mr..
Ulysses Grant, Jr., about the 18th Of
November next.
BEAcoNsFIELD's face, as he sits on the
front bench of the opposition, in Parlia-
ment, is said to be as expressionless as
the side of barn.
A FRENCH traveller, who has just COM
pleted trip around the world, saws that
the Americans are the most serious peo-
pie he encountered.
The Empress Augusta of Germany
has mania for wearing black silk
dresses, holding that no lady beyond
middle age should wear light colors.
GRAND ISLAND, in Niagara river, near
Buffalo, has population of /, 155, and
the mortality figures show it TO be the
healthiest place in the United States.
JOHN Francis, an old resident of Ston-
ington, Ct, died few days ago at the
alleged age Of 10S years. He was
native of the island of st. Helena, and
was at one time in Napoleon's service.
He emigrated to Stonington about forty
years ago, being then to all appearance
of advanced age.
The most original of advertisements
appeared lately in the Newark papers.
1t was put i'll by woman who notified
her absent husband that if he did not
return within three days she would
marry another fellow. She is from Po-
land, is this determined woman, and it
would seem that she is following a ma
tional custom.
In the Toronto Criminal Court, with
all due formality, the counsel for man
who had just been convicted of murder
made application for the crown to show
cause why new trial should not be
granted, on the ground that "several
parties had observed Joseph Redford,
one of the jurors, asleep during the
trial"
AT a wedding dinner in village near
Paris, siXty-five persons were poisoned
through the mistake of the cook, who had
used hemlock, and a good dose, instead
of parsley. All were dreadfully sick,
except little girl 10 years old. Four
persons died during the following night,
and four were, at last accounts, in dy-
ing condition.
A FREE ice-water fountain has now
been one week in operation under the
wing OF the postoflice, New York, and
has been used by 5000 people. AL
ready it is reported that the tipping
places in the vicinity have pecuniarily
suffered because of this fountain. This
brief experience comedies with that of
London in the same matter.
KEEPING cool by machinery appears to
be successfully practiced in at least one
place. Eight thousand pounds of ice
were consumed in the cooling machinery
at the Madison Square Theater in New
York during the Poe Monument Fund
benefit performance. 1t lowered the
thermometer III the auditorium II de-
grees below the outside temperature.
A WRITER to the London Times shows
that New Zealand is now in deplorable
state, thousands being on the brink of
starvation, while her indebt dness
amounts to the enormous sum of S175.-
600, 000 The writer fears she, like Ire
land. may he obliged to make an ap-
peal to the world for aid in her straits,
to which, he says, she has been reduced
by over-sanguine and ambitious states
men.
MANY artesian wells have been sunk in
California, and they have given a large
supply of water ut small expense. A
well near Stockton at the depth of 976
feet struck a stream which flows 800, 600
gallons day. At San Rafael Il well
twelve inches in diameter is being sunk
by improved machinery. These wells
may soon be extensively used for pur-
poses of irrigation.
A RUSSIAN priest of Eletz, in the Orel
province, recently declared from the
pulpit that the entire nobility of Russia
is tainted with Nihilism. He was ar
raigned before magistrate, and, for a
defense, averred that he only quoted
from the MOScOUskia VedODosi. This
was not considered sufficient excuse,
and he was depri ,ed of his Office and
banished from his native city.
A sHREwD Western circus and menag-
erie manager distributes i'll advance IL
Illustrated primers for children, in which
all the pictures and DIES riptions relate to
feats and beasts to be seen in his show I;
but the show itself is not mentioned,
and it is only when the posters are put
up and the familiar objects emblazoned
on the walls that the value of the adver-
tisement becomes apparent III the eager
ness of the young ones to see the show.
THE champion rat story of the era is
told by the San Francisco Examiner.
1t says "a remarkable occurrence
lately took place on our northern
coast A fore-and-aft schooner, while
lying in safe harbor, as was supposed,
and having no crew on board on account
of the safety of the position, was board
ed by rats in such numbers that they
ate away all her standing rigging, in
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