The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-17
People and Things.

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The Hotel du Louvre, Paris, has been
sold, together with its furniture and
01O).
1T is now proposed to enlist men i'm
the army as cooks. and at each recruiting
depot to establish a school for their
training.
BALTIMORE correspondent writes
A merchant who does not advertise can
no more succeed than young lady who
does not wear hustle.
The Presbyterian Church in this conn.,
try has thirty-six synods, 4,8O6 minis.
tors, 5O6, O34 communicates, and 500. 452
Sunday school children.
AIKEN, s. c., has debating soc;etv
which recently wrestled with the ones.
ton, (Which is de most beneficialist de
horse or de cow" The COW carried II
Now WE know why the Chicago folks
want Mullet's Custem-house hewn down.
even to the foundations thereof. There
are three bottles of whisky in the corner
stone.
THE Patterson On. j. Guardian says
that recent fire in stable in that city
was produced by the spontaneous COM
bustion of new hay, stored away while
damp.
PRAIsING the ugliness of the Saxon
uniform, Julian Hawthorne says "That
army will be found most efficient whose
uniform is least seductive to the female
mind.
SAN Francisco is to build separate
establishment for the 1913 coiored chill
dren in her limits, as the authorities
will not allow them to attend the public
schools.
RICHARD II. DANA was born before
Byron, Shelley and Keats, and was con-
temporary with Mozart, Burns and Cow
per. He will be SO years old in Novem-
Der next.
In order to avoid confusion, growing
out of the similarity of color existing
between the two and five cent stamps,
the former will hereafter be printed in
vermillion.
In the order of the Daughters of
Rebecca," says the Hon. Schuyler Col
fax, care 10000 American women, and
yet no one outside knows anything about
the society. Who says woman can't
keep secret -
Two Long Island girls are having a
lawsuit over a knife which was given to
one of them by her lover, three years
ago, but has ROW turned up in the pos
session of the other, who claims that it
has been presented to her.
Miss SUSAN AUGUSTA FENNIMoRE
COOPER, daughter of the novelist, is de-
voting her life to the support and train
ing OF little homeless boys and girls, the
orphanage being situated on Otsego
Lake, near Cooperstown, New York.
The Hon. j. H. Brown, of Texas,
thinks Nettie Houston, the youngest
daughter of Gen. Sam Houston, "the
sweetest poetess that Texas has pro-
duced. He wants to get her clerk
ship in the Constitutional Convention.
A RHODE ISLAND man, clad in three
pairs of pants, was found dead on top of
railroad car the other night His sad
fate should be warning to all who
would attempt to wedge themselves into
that State with three pairs of pants on.
THERE are are over 2,7O0 varieties of
apples known by over 1900 names
1900 of pears, 200 of cherries, $50 of
plums, 300 of our native grapes, so of
currants, so of raspberries and 30 of
blackberries, according to counting up
of somebody.
OTHBhLo SUTPHEN, Albany, n. y
This is a spring-suspended egg-box,
having guide slots, in combination with
pivot pins. The pins serve as guides
and pivots for the different positions of
the egg box, so that an easy vertical
and side motion is allowed to the same.
GOVERNOR DAVIS, of Minnesota, has
appointed committee of three to inves.
tigate the ravages of the grasshoppers in
the State, giving to each fifty dollars
from his own pocket to defray personal
expenses, and promising to recommend
their claim for additional compensation
to the Legislature.
REvERDY JOHNSON lost one of his eyes
twenty-eight years ago by the rebound
of pistol-ball while practicing at tar
get. He had accepted the honor of be-
ing second to friend who had duel on
hand, and fearing something might pre-
vent the appearance of his principal, was
getting in trim to take his place. A re-
Cancellation was effected, but not q re-
covery of the eye.
AN Irish farmer, James Berry, of
Glannoy, came to grief for the crime of
being found with hare. He was
first fined for trespass $3.50 and $3.50
costs, then S45 penalty to the Excise,
and finally $40. 80 for being in possession
of the forbidden animal. Catching his
hare preparatory to his stew, without
being legally licensed so to do, therefore
cost the farmer over $40.
Two DEATHS were recently reported in
the London Times from the effects of
chloroform administered in anticipation
of surgical operation. Either is re-
gar6ed as a safe anesthetic when pure !;
and the question is asked by CORE
spondent of the Times whether, when
one anesthetic is dangerous and another