The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-14
BREvITIES.

! BkEVlTIES.
CONNECTICUT has 622. 6s3 inhabitants.
DUBUQUE is the most populous county
in Iowa.
The Detroit merchants are agitating
the passage of the bankrupt law.
A MAN and his wife simult ineous.y
went insane at an Indiana camp-meet-
ing.
A New YORK publishing house has
! just issued book on economy which
costs 50.
SANTA FE, N. NJ, the oldest city in
the country, is rejoicing over the recent
introduction of gas-light.
Mrs. BAYARD TAYLOR is busily en-
gagged in translating the prose works Of
her late husband into German.
MANY fish are dying in Tampa bay,
Fla, mysterious poisonous current
having found its way in from the sea.
SENATOR Brown, of Georgia, is tall
and angular, with bald head, sallow
complexion. and long white whiskers.
IT is stated that the family OF j. w.
Mackey, the bonanza king, live in Paris
at the rate of nearly 81, 100000 per an
mum.
THEY are figuring it in Nebraska in the
fuel famine that it is cheaper to burn
corn that to buy wood or coal at present
prices.
BRONSON ALoorT, the philosopher of
Concord, n. H., is described as tall,
stoutly-built man, with fresh complexion
and shining blue eyes.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD, it is now stated,
wrote "Endymion twenty-five years
ago, and it has been published with no
mater. al alteration.
JUSTICE HUNT, of the United States
Supreme Court, has learned to write
with his left hand since his right hand
became paralyzed.
WoRKMEN repairing the roof of
house ut Yountville, CAL, discovered
that bees had built under the rafters
AMI slowed 200 pounds of honey therein.
Mrs. HELEN E. CUNNINGHAM, of FL
mira, has recovered 500 from liquor
firm, the complaint being an injury to
means of support in consequence Of
liquor sold her husband.
The Russian police have succeeded in
tracing Chalturin, the author of the dy-
Mantle explosion In the Winter Palace,
to London, where he would appear to
have been living for some time
SHAKESPEARE fixed the age of Juliet at
IA, but on the stage the maturity of ac-
tresses capable of playing the part makes
an alteration in the text necessary. San
Francisco is to have 14-year-old Juliet
in the person of Ida Aubrey, a prodigy.
An ingenious machine has been de-
vised for separating sound cranberries
in a barrel from the unsound. They
are poured into it at the rate of six bar
rels an hour, and the sound ones, having
elasticity, bound over barrier, whilo
those decayed remain.
MARK FIRTH, wealthy manufacturer,
who died recently at Sheffield, England,
during his lifetime gave that place
public Jark at an expense of $1OO, 900,
provided almshouses ut an expense OF
$50, 900, and also founded and, literally
endowed Firth College, in Sheffield.
THOMAS Mcguire, the widely known
San francisco theatrical manager, is on
visit to New York. II at one time sold
newspapers in the streets OF New York,
went to California in 1849, has lost $780,
600 by fire alone, built the first San
Francisco theater, and is now an extern
sive capitalist.
GEN. E. F. BEALE, of California, pub
fishes notice warning all persons against
hunting on his lands. As his domain
| extends distance of sixty miles i'll Kern
county, hunter would consider it
good long walk from the hunting
grounds on the north Of these lands to
the game Oh the south.
Two PHYSICIANS in Toledo murder
rial were asked whether the wounds,
which they had already described, were
he cause OF death. They refused to
.nswer on the ground that such would
)e expert testimony, for which they
would receive no compensation. Judge
Rouse sustained them.
NINE. CHR1srISE NILSSON says that it
muses. her to hear people in France
peak of the dreadful habit that Ameri-
ans have of conveying their food to
heir mouths with their knives. She says
hat she has been at table between q
herman Prince and diplomat who went
through the same sleight OF hand.
A RATHER interesting experiment is
bout to be tried i'll London. Persons
pprehended for being simply drunk and
Incapable are to be kept III custody until
he effect of the liquor passes of, then
ley are to be liberated on their own
ecognizances. But, in the event of
leir neglecting to appear before the
Magistrate Of the district, their recog-
iZances will be escheated.