The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
BREvITIES.


called ill-9otten gains
A FIELD of jute in Sampson county,
n. c., averages twelve feet In height.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY, the British
commander in South Africa, is teeto-
taller.
Mrs. PRUDENCE LAKIN, of Newburgh,
n. Y, died the other day at the ripe old
age of JOG.
MAYOR We'll, of Paducah, was fined
/ cent in the City Court for engaging in
street disturbance.
THE Sophomores of Bates College have
chosen as their orator colored student,
the son of former slave.
A NUGGET of gold weighing two and
half pounds has been taken out Of the
Christian mine, in North Carolina.
An infant at Hickory, N. c., was bap-
tized Jesse Fido Ringtail Fillmore Han
cock Jarvis Dowd Harper, and is said to
still live.
THE population of Florida is 271, 764,
an increse of 84,016 in ten years. The
whites number 143, S21, and the coiored
1898
A 6-YEAR-oLD son of prominent mer-
chant at Grenada, Miss, attempted to
hang himself on account of disappoint-
ment in love.
UNDER the laws of Illinois what per-
son sees through a key-hole cannot be
accepted as evidence in court. But no
sewing society in the country would re-
ject such testimony.
SENATOR BLAINE wears nickel-plated
watch that cost him $3.50. He says he
refused to take $40 for it, and that he
means to carry it to the Senate as a
product of American skill.
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES, the indie
fatigable, is living in retirement in
Washington. Although she is 70 years
old, she is still as brisk and clipper as a
young widow of 40.
AN old man in Virginia jumped into
the well to spite his wife for running into
debt She let him stay there in three
feet of cold water until he agreed to
deed her the whole farm.
A CHANGE is coming over Venice.
Travellers who wish to see the old city
of palaces, logs and lagoons, as it was
seen and sung of by Byron, must HE
there speedily. The gondolas and gon-
doliers will soon have passed away.
The venerable Lucretia Mott is re-
ported in rapidly-failing health. AL
though confined to her room, her mind
is strong and bright. She resides with
her son-in-law, Edward M. Davis, on
Chelton hills, Philadelphia, Pa.
AT length the long history of the
United States, by Mr.. George Bancroft,
is drawing toward completion. The au-
thor set to work upon this opus mag
n,tn so far back as 1926, and has, with
little intermission, been laboring on it
ever since.
Mr.. r. Fl. MCDONALD, of San Fran
cisco, offers 500, 900 toward an endow-
ment for Christian University, on con-
dition that an equal sum shall be raised
by the Baptist, Presbyterian, Episco-
palian, Congregational, and Methodist
denominations.
horse ran into a crockery-
ware store Mt Bangor, the other day,
going the whole length of the floor be-
fore he was captured, and, although sur
rounded on all sides by crockery, he
was led out without having broken a
single piece.
A NEW process of using up old steel
has been patented i'll England. By it a
new metal Of extraordinary strength and
ductility is alleged to be introduced,
which is expected to prove of great
value. Steel remade on this plan has
sold rapidly at 1925 ton.
SIR f. ROBERTS, the conquering hero
of Candahar, and so-styled "Savior of
Afghanistan, is the son of a clergyman
of the Established Church in Waterford,
Ireland. His brother, Samuel U. Rob-
erts, is one of the Commissioners of the
Board Of Public Works in Ireland.
SENATOR BURNSIDE is reported to.tell
this story at the expense of his colleague,
Senator Anthony They were dining to-
gether one day when ham formed one of
! the dishes. eff ever / turn farmer"
said Mr. Anthony, shall raise plenty
of calves, so that L can get some nice
ham like this.
A WATCH which had not gone for two
years and detied the best efforts of the
matchmaker, was struck by lightning in
the course of a severe storm, near
Vienna, and now Vienna paper an
nounces with the solemnity of truth
that the watch has kept excellent time
ever since.
On the 18th Of January. 1867, there
existed only seventeen daily newspapers
in Paris, while on the 1st of September,
1880, there were sixty-one daily news
papers in circulation. Another curious
fact is that the number of daily journals
sold Mt one sou each amounts to seven
teen, or exactly the number of daily
newspapers existing in 1867.