The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
GLEANINGs.

William Black makes about $40, 600
year from his novels.
Sunset Cox has had his photograph
taken in Turkish uniform.
An pathological puzzle was flock
oil countless humming birds Mt Edmon-
ton. Ky.
Madison Morton, who wrote BOX
and Cox, is living on public charity in
London, at the age of sc.
Bishop Taylor writes that mission
aries with big families are wanted in
Africa. They can dig and teach, hoe
and preach.
A large green stone taken from a
cocks gizzard in Alexander County,
South Carolina, turns out To be n ST.
900 emerald.
Perhaps the most beautiful writer
among well-known Englishmen is Mr..
G.. A. Sala, whose letters are as easy
as print TO read.
Neither the Capitol nor the White
House is fireproof, Notwithstanding the
millions, that have been expended up
on them to make them so.
A great English authority on dys-
pepsia speaks strongly in favor of milk
buildings and stewed fruits for the
dyspeptic, the bilious and the equity.
Mr.. Gerhardt, the artist, has been
offered $4,000 for the Grant death
mask, but declines TO sell it, nor will
he part with it till he shall be ready to
present it to the Nation.
Ten copies of the new ordinary
edition in fac simile of the "Vicar of
Wakefield" and ten copies of the large
paper edition have been bound in wood
from the panels of Dolly's chop-house,
where Goldsmith, johnson, and Gar
rick were accustomed to meet.
Physicians in the Sandwich Islands
have come to the conclusion that the
only way to stop the alarming spread
of leprosy is 10 begin vaccinating with
leproSy microbes, but no one has yet
been found who is willing to submit
10 the operation.
Capt. Shackleford, master of Jay
Gould's yacht, is on terms of social in
timacy with the millionaire. 1t is said
that he will soon be in Morosini's
shoes, as Mr.. Gould has never felt the
same toward that unhappy man since
the Huelskamp scandal.
Mrs. Langtry, not satisfied with the
natural color of her hair, which was
beautiful, and of which she took in
cessant care, has painted it kind of
reddish color-which. it appears, is be-
coming the fashion in Paris-and has
much injured her appearance.
Jonathan Findlay, now q resident of
Montreal, Canada, was more than sixty
years ago pupil of Carlyle's, who, Mr..
Findiay says, was Il cruel tyrant, ru-
ling class of trembling boys with
rod of iron. He was rough and un-
oouth in his appearance, and no one
suspected that within him were the
elements of u great and successful
writer.
Brass faucets are TO shine no longer
behind New York bars. Health OIL
GERS are busy going the rounds of the
10000 taverHS of that thirsty town and
the order is that John Barleycorn's
blood shall be drawn through harmless
wooden or giass-lined faucets, instead
OF through the communicating metal.
The new White Cross Army is grow
ing. 1t has a membership of 500 in
New YORK, and is being established in
all the large cities OF the country. In
Glasgow il is $4,000 strong. 1t is in
creasing rapidly ia London. All its
members sign pledges to maintain per-
soual purity and to see their influence
in REFRESHING immortality, indecent
language and coarse jests.
The queen wrote 10 all her family
and announced her marriage 10 them,
says Charles Greville in his memoirs.
When she saw the duchess of Glouces-
ter in town and told her she was to
make her declaration the next day the
duchess asked her if it was not a nerv-
Gus thing TO do. She said. "Yes, but
i did a much more nervous thing a
little while ago" What was that?"
IL proposed to Prince Albert"
Charles Summers Washington home.
his only home during the later years of
his life, now belongs to William w.
Corcoran. No traces of its former
i!lustrious occupant remain. The fur
niture, selected with much care, has
been scattered far and wide under the
hammer of the auctioneer. His pic
lures are all gone, and there are few
things at the capitol to remind one of
the upholder of the Union.
In the great Northwest it is no longer
Hail Columbia, but Hail Columbus"
The latter song is to be sung by many
thousand throats at the next meeting
of the National Saengerfest. The song
is in German, and was written by Carl
Joseph Brambech, of Bonn, Germany,
TO whom has just been paid $1,000
the Plankinton prize 1t was Joel
Barlow of old, who began his epic
thus:
sing the man who first unfurled
An Eastern banner DER the Western world.
AT Middlesboro. England, the other
day, DIR. Strathern appeared as a wit
ness at Petty Sessions, but declined TO
take an oath, on the ground That it
was very serious thing to kiss book
which was handled by all kinds of peo-
pie. After some argument the doctor
offered by way of compromise to kiss
the book if a clean sheet of paper were
placed over the cover. The bench de-
cined 10 accede TO this or TO allow the
doctor to make an Affirmation, and
eventually he consented, under protest,
10 run the risk of catching disease"