The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-09
PeOnle and Things.

IcVpic anu tuiuSSs
INDIANA has eighty females in her
State Prison.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, has ripe cherries,
and Vicksburg, Miss, has ripe figs.
The salaries of teachers in the public
schools OF New Haven have been raised.
THERE is in Douglassville, Berks
county, Pennsylvania, house built in
1716.
YOU can't wipe your eyes beside the
tomo OF Washington unless You pay ten
cents per wipe, and that's too tear.
A RECENT French writer predicts that
by the year 1900 the population Of Chi.
cago and st. Louis will aggregate 4,OOO,-
600.
RocHEFoRT has been Obliged to sus-
pend the publication of the Lanterne.
ut Geneva, on account of its extremely
small circulation.
THERE are forty-one American firms
who are getting rich by making better
imported liquors and wines than can
be made in Europe.
THE Canadian Rubber Company, at
Montreal, employing 400 female and 800
male operatives, will only run half the
time hereafter, owing to the dizziness of
trade.
ABOUT 5000 Americans annually visit
Europe. These on an average spend
$500 individually, which foots up to the
sum of $37, 100000 of money made in
this country and spent in foreign lands
in single year.
In an ordinary three-story brick house
10000 gallons of water is absorbed by
the brick and mortar in the construction,
and this immense quantity must all, or
nearly all, be got rid of before they are
safe as dwellings.
Two horses were left in stable in
Searsboro, Iowa, last Sunday night,
tied together by rope around
their necks. During the night they
twisted around each other until they
were both choked to death.
THE most profitable railroad trains in
Massachusetts, without exception, are
the workingmen's trains between Boston
and Lynn, distance of twelve miles,
for which the price is only five cents, or
less than half cent mile.
A CITIZEN of Portland, Me-, has a
valuable relic i'll the shape of a ring
once worn by the wife of President
Madison. 1t is of very heavy gold, with
a bloodstone, under which is little
braid of hair from the heads of Wash
ington and Jackson.
The Troy Times says: eft is a fact
that well known politician of this city
frequently bargains to head subscrip-
ton lists or charitable and other pur-
poses with liberal figure. the under
standing being that he shall not be called
upon to pay a cent. His iberality is the
magnet that attracts others"
Mr.. o. H. KELLEY, Secretary of the
National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
has received information of the death of
Col. r. ID. Powell, a wealthy planter of
Mississippi, who was one of the first men
in the State to organize oranges. He
held high Office III the State Grange,
and was rs years Of age Washington
Star.
THE iailer of Hartford, Conn.,, was re-
warded the other day by an enjoyable
'tuiOlStiuoiOu llOiu Ills pIlsOileIS. LILO
spokesman of the party that waited upon
him, in a voice tremulous with sup
pressed gratitude, said: "Mr. Belden,
in behalf of the other inmates of the in
stitution, come to thank you for the
improved quality of the hash"
SPENDING the Christmas in "our vii
lage," was told that the wears daugh-
ter, who was very proud of her Bible
class, inquired of one of her pupils in a
smock- frock how the Queen of Sheba
came to Solomon. He replied, "By the
railway, miss" On asking for an ex-
PLANTATION, she received answer, "Be-
cause, miss, the Bible says she came to-
Jerusalem with great train.
AS AN example of the extreme severity
with which petty larceny is punished in
England, the case may be cited of an old
woman GA years Of age, who, for stealing
half-penny worth of coal, was con-
demned to fourteen days imprisonment
with hard labor. There was but one
witness against her, and his testimony
was by no means conclusive. The woman
was staggered by the sentence, and left
the court crying bitterly.