The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-23
People and Things.

Tom THUMB is thirty eight years old,
but very small for his age.
In all England, Ireland and Scotland
there are only 1877 daily papers.
THERE are said to be fifty-seven women
editing newspapers in this country,
A PEoyIDENcE OR. ID firm Ia. com
pleted 800 rifle for King Kalakaus.
The coal fields of Colorado are larger
than the whole area of New England.
GREAT BRITAIN has but $50, 526 acres
in orchards. Illinois alone has twice AZ
many.
Two million fish We're Matched last yea,
by the government at the Michigan State
Fishery.
BRIGHAM You've has been reelected
of the Mormon community.
BOARD at all the summer resort hotels
will be materially cheaper than last
year, and well may We rejoice.
SWEDEN has no national debt, and
it's surplus revenue, last year, amount
ed to nineteen millions of dollars.
cts go.
THE latest addition to the umbrella is
a pane of glass, inserted i'll the front
breadth, through which the holder can
see his way.
The last Boston spelling-match was
bothered with such words as cerisas,
ptsymagogta giaour, tael, eyot,
tichus, euchamy, and demoniacal.
BALTIMORE ships 5O,OOO,O 900 cans of
oysters annually, and 10000 men
are constantly employed in sharpening
Oyster-knives and soldering up the
cans.
IT is almost hopeless to breed horses
for fast trotters when there have been
but five horses raised in Kentucky in the
last fifteen years that have records as low
as 2:21.
THERE are hundreds of warehouses in
the best part of New York city without
tenants, and thousands of houses are oc-
cupied by people who cannot pay their
landlords.
Two OR three dozen of the Boston doc9
tors have been investigating the boy
murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, and, as a re-
suit, have united in a petition to the
Governor to hang him.
FRANK WALwORTH the parricide, is
having fits and other complaints, and the
subject of pardon for him is again at
tracing attention. His mother is daily
visitor to her unfortunate son.
An oak tree near Arensberg, in Prus-
STA, more than thousand years old, is
about to be cut down by its owner be-
cause of TIN inconvenience suffered from
the numerous visits of strangers to the
place.
EX-SENATOR REvBLs, of Mississippi,
the first colored citizen admitted to the
United States Senate, has become Doc
tor of Divinity, and is an active preacher
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of
that State.
LEDocHowsK1, Archbishop Cardinal of
Posen, will be banished from German
soil as soon as his imprisonment is over.
Such is the will of the man of Berlin, as
Interchangeable as the laws of the Modes
and Persians.
VIM H. NEvIEs, of London, accused
of stealing $40, 900 from his employers,
started out strange countries for to see
and detective who went after him cap
trlred him last week in Brooklyn, after
an 5000 mile pursuit.
The Titusville Courier. says that the
production of petroleum in Western
Pennsylvania during the year 1874
would fill canal thirty feet wide at the
toy, fifteen feet at the bottom, seven
feet deep, and over seventy-fve miles
long.
AN important company has been
formed in England to import live cattle
from Texas to that country, with a CAPT
tai of f5,OOO,OOO. They will take
1900 at a load, and load the return
ing ships with emigrants at low rates of
fare.
A PETITION was presented to the Mas
sachussetts Legislature last week asking
that the sentence of Punishment against
Roger Williams, passed in 1885, be re-
voked AS he has been dead about 200
years, it is not likely that he takes very
personal interest in the success of the APP
peal.
ONE of the most horrible reports of
moral insanity induced by belief in the
supernatural comes from Pinar Del Rio,
in the West Indies. A mother, who sup
posed herself to be so directed by spirit
rappings, tore out her sons eyes and
prepared to tear out her own. This
was done in the presence of circle of
women who prayed in a loud voice while
the hideous operation was being per-
formed.
Hair Dyes.
The Heath Reformer, while asserting
that hair dyes are nearly always unsafe,