The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
BREyITfES.

LORD BEAcoNsFIELD's "Eadymion
paid him about so cents word
ONE of the new journals started In
Paris il called Neither God Nor Mac
ter.
A KNIFE with 19l blades was lately
sent to the Prince Of Wakes on his birth
day.
THE Emperor of Brazil has translated
some of Whittier's poems INTO Portu-
guese.
KANSAS made Is, 905, 3A pounds Of
butter and FOB, 447 pounds OF cheese last
year.
A METHODIST minister of Vrden, Ill,
won a bet of So and preached sermon
defending 1T.
JUNE /, 1882, is the official date fixed
upon FOR the Inauguration oil the St
Gothard tunnel.
MAYOR SroKLEY, of Philadelphia, when
boy worked for 81 week and slept
under O counter.
GEN. GRANT purchased m Washing
ton suit OF clothes for his grandson,
who lives in England.
THERE is romance in figures. A young
man met girl, Ter, married her and
took her ON wedding Der.
MARKET report for travelers-Trunks
are heavy and are going down with
crash-at all the railway stations.
1.-THE white race is greatly overrated,"
said a speaker in Boston meeting OF
negroes relative to the Cadet Whitaker
case.
OUT of a total of 5000 railway en-
ployes in Great Britain and Ireland
1000 are either killed or injured every
year.
The report of the State Auditor 81
North Carolina shows that .ale valuation
of land has increased in eight years Sl3,-
$4,000.
KING KALAKAUA, of Hawaii, Is coming
to this country in February. He has
personal friends in Omaha whom he In
tends to visit.
Mr.. PLmsoLL, who has done 80 much
for English sailors, now proposes to
benefit the coal miners by improving the
colliery laws.
ApELrNA PATTI is undoubtedly COM
ing to this country next autumn to re-
main two years. All arrangements are
made, and the contract signed.
CONGRESSMAN O'BRIEN, of New York,
has instituted suit for absolute divorce
! from his wife, TO whom he has been
married for twenty-three years.
PRESIDENT GREW is 70 years OF age,
but does not look it, being solDy bunt,
robust and firm on his legs, and still a
mighty hunter before the Lord.
LIZ is funny to see country editor
asking for cordwood on subscriptions,
and grooming in an adjoining column
about "the glut of silver dollars.
| A CANDIDATE for the situation of
coacbman advertised in Cork paper
that he had good testimonials, and is
"both courageous and good shot.
DELEGATE BENNETT, Of Dakota, wants
the Territory to be cut in halt, the south
| ern part to be made into State. The
! growth of that section Is remarkable.
SENATOR CARPENTER has lost flesh
since last session, and his face has be-
come more refined. He has lost none
of his keen wit and weight OF intellect.
WHEN Henry S. Foote drew his pistol
| in the Senate To shoot Benton, the latter,
catching Mt his breast as if 10 tear it
open, roared out, Let the assas-
sin shoot T.
THR young unmarried men in the
| West of Ireland are now pledging
themselves by the hundred, at public
meetings, meyer to marry land-grabbers'
daughters.
A LONDON paper says that, since the
days of Henry w., no English Prince
has been so popular in France as the
Prince of Wales, who visits Paris several
times year.
w. BARNET LIE VAN read paper be-
fore the Franklin Institute, at Philadel
phia, In which he held that ninety miles
an hour was safely attainable speed on
straight and level railroads.
AT the request of Thomas Hughes,
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, viii
make the new Rugby settlement his Of
fetal and private home, and will build q
residence In the spring.
The Baron Charles de Rothschild, Of
Frankfort, is reported to have just pur-
chased for his collection one of the
most superb and expensive silver-glt
cups in the world. 1t cost $150,0O0.
THE fourth child of Mrs. Sartoris,
formerly Miss Nellie Grant, was born in
England last month. Her first child,
boy, died when about l year old. OF
her living children one is a boy and swo
are girls.
The State of New Jersey offers $50 to
every free public school in the State with
which to start a library, upon the cordi-
ton that the district raises as much
more. And $40 is added yearly upon
the same condition.
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