The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

will devote himself to preparing data
for history OF Pennsylvania's part in
the War.
Secretary Lamar's new wife is said to
be more fond of domestic occupations
and quiet charities than of the pleasures
oil fashionable society. She will be
awfully lonely in Washington.
The Cherokees want authority from
congress tn tax the railways running
through their territory. the same as the
states. and to compel the roads to cease
discrimination against the Indians.
Before there was railroad to the
Black Hills Deadwood paid 81 a hun
dred on freight from Chicago. Now,
with road within forty miles. the rate
is Sl1 40, and there is much bowling.
Los Angeles is so overrun with East
ern tourists that there is no room for
them AT the hotels, and every one hav-
ing bed to spare in town is urged to
report the fact, and take in the visitors.
A Maine woodsman saw rabbit on
the ice, and it did not run away rs he
drew near 1t had hoped into n shall
low puddle of water and had stood still
till It's feet we're firmly frozen to the ice.
DR.. William H. Gray of West Falls.
Nd. is the latest discoverer of perpetual
motion. 1t is the old scheme of wheel
with movable weights, and he claims to
have had one in operation for three
months.
Mrs. Golfer, who died few days ago
at Kanaho. Canada. had iifty-seven
grandchildren, sixty-three great-grand-
children, two great-great-grandchil-
dren, and four great-great-great-grand-
children.
A schoolmaster from the East who
was employed to teach in Saunders
County, Neb.. rebelled because he was
expected to Build his own fire, and, as
the people would make no concession,
he resigned.
Three good-sized rattlesnakes created
a sensation by crawling out of a hole in
a backlog which John Symons of Hol-
lidaysburg. Pa, threw on his fireplace
the other day. They were killed with
pair of tongs.
The divorced wife of ex-senator Fair.
to whom the courts gave four millions
and q half from her ex-husband's estate,
can not find places enough for the in
terest on her money, and is rapidly adj
ding to that sum.
1t is complained in New York that
some of the press accounts Of recent
parties and receptions mentioned as be-
ing present the names of ladies VINO
were dead, ladies who were in Europe,
and ladies who were under cloud.
Frank Greve. hunting deer on Blue
mountain, California. saw one pass over
a ridge He hurried up, and looking
down the slope and seeing what he
thought was the deer fired, and put Il
bullet through the leg of miner who was
STOPPING over shoveling.
A Santa Rosa, Cal, citizen recently
purchased can of honey, and on open
ing if found such n state of affairs that
he wrote the following to the merchant
from whom it was purchased: "Sir:
That can of honey got was not fit for
anything. 1t had snake in it, and the
snake had swallowed some mice, and
the whole thing was mixed up"
Peter Cooper was one of the greatest
benefactors of New York who ever lived
in that city, and when he died several
years ago it was proposed to erect Il
$40, 900 monument to his memory. Only
$50, 90 of the amount has yet been rails
ed, and the millionaires of the metropo-
lis are getting ready to pass the hat
among the school children for pennies.
Preserved Smith, who died recently
in Dayton, O., obtained mis- singular
name in this way: He was descended
in direct line from the Rev. Henry
Smith, who, in 1641, came from En-
gland to Connecticut. On the passage,
and in terrific storm, n son was born
TO him, which he named Preserved
Smith, and for two centuries the name
has been in the family.
IN Norm Adams, Mass, n short time
ago, one of the candidates for the post
mastership of that town hired promi-
nent member of the Knights of Labor
organization TO circulate petition
among the knights asking for the can
didate's appointment 10 the place. 1t
now turns out that the canvasser rubbed
out the name of the real petitioner, sub
stituted his own, and sent it to the de-
partment as an application for himself.
A constable at Bath, Me-, made use
of clever stratagem, few days ago,
In serving a paper on a man who was
hard to get at. He staggered into the
mans yard, and finally got around and
lay down on back stoop. The lady
of the house came out and ordered him
away, threatening 10 call her husband
if he persisted in not going. The con-
stable persisted, and when the husband
came out the officer jumped up and
served the paper on him.
William Fulton, wealthy farmer of
independence. o., who is suing for di-
vorce from his second wife, Rebecca,
testified the other day that, being unable
to keep any papers or other valuables
in the house without his wife getting
them, he made a package of them and
put it in the manger of his big bull.
They were pretty safe there" said Mr..
Fulton, "because il wasn't safe for any,
one On the farm except myself to 30
near the animal. He was n very handy
BULL