The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-03-26

two weeks.
"A former society young lady of North
Lansingis said to have joined the Salvation
Army
The will of Willard Dodge, Of Kala-
mazoo. gives $40, 900 to the female semi
nary at that place.
"A Burlington oldest inhabitant" re-
members that twenty eight years ago win
ter just like the past was experienced.
Sucker fishing has commenced in
Grand River. In some places fishing for
suckers is kept up the year round.-Free
Press.
Uncle Sam has made another Webber-
vile man happy. @. w. Smith. an old
veteran, has received his back pension,
amounting to $1,47O.
Miss Alice Freeman, President Of
Wellesley College, is a graduate of the
University of Michigan, and not of Welles-
ley College, as has been announced.
The Ar0onaut. published at the Uni
versity, has a circulation of 700, and under
Mr.. Brownlee's management is becoming
one of the best college papers in the coun-
try.
The catalogue of Hope College shows
that there are 151 students in the institution,
divided as follows: Preparatory depart
ment, lis; academic department, 81; theo-
logical. 5.
"A South Boardman, Kalkaska County,
grocer is pumping brine from an ordinary
22-foot drive-well. 1t is so salt that it will
be further probed. There is bit of ex-
ultant expectancy over the matter and per-
ceptible stiffening in real estate.
Six years ago a cnse was tried in the
Ingham County Circuit Court at Mason,
went to the Supreme Court of Michigan,
where the judgment was affirmed, was ap-
pealed to the United States Supreme Court.
where it was reversed, and has just been
sent back for trial
Bishop Gillespie, being unable to take
the foreign trip planned for him, has re-
turned to the donors the purse of 800 pre-
sented HIM to defray his expenses. He will
be urged to retain the sum and use it whes-
ever an opportunity for rest and travel shall
present itself.-Kdlamdzoo Telegraph.
Preparations are making for as large if
not larger and more extended cultivation of
celery the coming season than ever before.
Many of those who have been large planters
heretofore, propose to plant to a still greater
extent this season, and there will be a num-
Der of new planters. --Kalamosoo Tele-
graph.
Tally one for the roller skating rinki
For two years Ira Rogers and wife, of On
sted, have been living apart and divorce
proceedings were pending. Recently they
met at the Springville rink; both enjoyed
the sport; they glanced at each other; the
old love burst forth anew; reconciliation
! followed, and peace once more dwells in
their hearts.
1t is said that u Mahdi has become
passionately fond of playing the cornet.-
Exchange. Many Lansing citizens who
reside near amateur musicians will realize
with full force the added horror that the
British troops will have to contend with
from now on. The English situation in the
Soudan grows darker aud gloomier as it
il becomes more fully known.-Lansing
Republican.
There was big row at the Flint Sal
walton Army barracks Saturday night. Some
thirty or more young fellows went to have
good time. They turned down the lights,
broke the benches, and fired them from the
windows, destroyed the pictures and dec
oations, heaved one stove out doors, and
raised Ned generally. The officers finally
put in an appearance and stopped the dis
! turbance. Orren Stone. the owner of the
building, says that if his property comes to
any harm at the hands of the mob of roughs
he viii hold the city responsible.
Among the improvements to be made
at the Resort" on Mackinac Island this
season is the establishment of "a system
of water works for the benefit of the cot
tagers. An engine house will be erected at
the foot of Lovers Leap, and water taken
from the spring near the Devils Kitchen.
1t is also proposed to eject an elevator, us
ing the water works engine for motive
power AS the buff is $50 feet h IN at this
point, most any one would pay a..dime rather
than climb the very steep mountain path
which now leads 10 the Devils kiclen.
The university calendar, 1SS4-5, gives
total number of students enrolled in the
colleges as ,295. Michigan heads the list
with GA. Ohio 122, Illinois 100. Indiana 90,
New York go, Pennsylvania 80. Iowa 80.
Kansas %, Minnesota %, Wisconsin 10.
Missouri Is. Ontario %; others below 10.
From foreign countries Japan !, New
Brunswick 3 Hawaiian Islands 2. Nova
Scotia 2. Africa, Armenia, Costa R.ca. En-
gland. Germany. Manitoba. New Zealand,
Province of Quebec, Scotland. each |. To-
tai in each department Literature. science,
and the arts. 52i; medicine and surgery,
s34; law, 262; school of pharmacy, 81:
homeopathic medical college. "a; college of
dental surgery. so. The general, med cal.
and law libraries contain $4,000 volumes