The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-06-10
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.


THE most mysterious man, as / see
tn ngs, is the one who appears to be al
ways without emp oyment, writes Saun-
terer in the Free Press. lie is variable
as To dress, figure and nationality, and
sometimes he Is even respectable i'm
speech and manner, but he has nothing
TO do. He does not even lounge about,
and yet he seems never TO have ANYTHING
on his mind or To be going anywhere.
lie is mystery, and often | wonder IL
he lives in any given place, because he
Is visible everywhere.
AUGUST STEINBACH, "a years of age,
while attempting TO beard moving
train at lshpeming, lost his balance and
fell under the wheels and was killed.
If things go on as they are going
there will be financial talent enough i'm
the Pennsylvania State Prison To start
bankers club OF ali the unlucky States
in the Union, Pennsylvania seems TO be
in the worst fortune, for its banks go
up like champagne corks at wedding.
The best thing that the Pennsylvania
who has money TO do is TO put il safely
in his inside pocket and come TO Michi-
gan, whore the political and financial
atmosphere is pure.-Free Press.
If l had as much money as a Penn
sylvania politician can't resist tempta.
ton, I'd dig a monument TO myself as
tall as an artesian well.-WilLis HdlUkins.
TRAVERSE CITY will be second-class
poStoiiice after July /, the only one in
Northern Michigan.
BERTHA WILSEY, aged II, living at
Alamo, committed suicide because disap-
pointed in love.
SIGN on railroad restaurant not
hundred miles from Detroit reads:
DINNER READY!
You don't have to watt
We have men hired To do that!
OK the banks Of tho Cedar River,
about one mile northwest of Gladwin, a
farmer keeps quite number of hogs
and pigs, which run in the field at their
pleasure. A short time ago he ccm-
menced to miss some Of his young hogs.
Night after night some of them would
come up missing. He searched the
neighbOrhood, but to no avail Then he
shut them up in tight pen, but still the
depredations went on until, at last, he
set guard to watch the thief. Night
wore away and no one mOlested the
pigs. 1t was just at the break of day,
and, as the Waterman was about TO seek
repose, he heard a commotion among tha
hogs, and, on approaching near TO get
sight Of the burglar, he saw monster
snake crawling away from the pen with
Il shoat With a stout ironwood hand
spike he killed the snake, and upon
measurement, il was found to be 10 feet
: inches long. The snake will be stuffed
and presented to the Detroit Exposition
Company.
Mis-. SMITH, clairvoyant, told George
foc It.ip fau
Sault Ste. Marie, that he should stop try
ing TO make money out of the products
of his mortgaged farm. She told him
that if he would dig in the vicinity of n
large boulder on his farm, at thirty feet
DEF tin, signs of gold would appear and
that when he reached 100 feet his for
tune would be made. This prediction has
produced Veritable fever in the neigh
borhood Of the Lee farm. George Lee
is hard at work digging for his fortune.
Two thousand feet of plank have been
taken to his farm for cr.bbing. His
neighborS have confidence i'm his labor
and are helping him bear the expense.
The men are now down about forty feet,
and claim TO have found gold and to have
brought 10 the city excellent specimens.
I h neighbors Of Mr.. Lee have for years
been collect ng specimens found on their
farms, and some have every indication
of being gold.bcaring.
A COUPLE of verdant Mo.roe County
clippers. both deaf mutes, wandered into
Toledo to get MARI ed They could not
make it and left for Monroe to carry out
their original intention.
DICK BAssErr, the Grand Traverse
hermit, has been made happy. He
served throughout The war with a West
crn regiment, and served with great gal
lantry. He was several times wounded
in battle, and TO this day carries three
or four rebel bullets around in his body.
During his wanderings after the war he
lost his papers, and was unable to provo
up his claim for a pension. This did not
worry him particularly, as the fish of
Traverse Bay and the product of his
island home are sufficient for his pur
poses Last fall the interesting story OF
his life was told to the Detroit NclCS, to-
gcthcr with a description of his hermit
h mc and his mode of living The pa
per 70 into the hands of the Captain Of
the company in which BasSctt served
during the war. The Captain lives in
the East, and remambcr.ng Fassett as
one of his boys, he opened communica-
ton with the hermit The correspond
ence has resulted i'm Bas>ett getting
pension, with a goodly sum of arrears,
the Captain being able TO furnish tho
III ssing links in the chain of evidence
required at the pension Office.
HEARD an elderly gentleman patron
izingly say to a man not yet away from
the delicious privileges of youth: ayes.
he's well informed, but he has learned
about all he knows from observation"
The speaker was learned man in the
bookish sense and he is not TO be patron
lied because of it, but he has observed
so poorly that he did not realize how
stupid il was in him TO patronize
the man who has observed well. In
these days Of whole continents Of paper
and oceans OF ink with steam and cleo
tricity as controlling powers, the man
who has not become learned by observa
ton is not, in the language of the street,
"a James dandy. Free Press.
Two MEN found a boys skeleton in
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