The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-29
People and Things.

People and Things.
The turkey might as well get ready for
Thanksgiving.
ONIAwGARAH is said to have been the
original name of Niagara.
STANLEY says that African mosquitoes
are as big as Kentucky chew of to-
bacco.
SEVERAL Atlantic ciuies are trying to
put down the fiddling, harping, and beg
ging nuisance.
A CALIFORNIA butcher has found an
Indian arrowhead well imbedded in the
liver of an OK.
THERE are 800 students in attendance
mt the Valparaiso Normal School. One
fourth of them are ladies.
STANLEY's experiences in Mpwapa,
Usagara, Kagehyi, Mgongo Tembo, ETC.,
have jaw-breaking flavor.
The Ames Plow Company, Easton,
Mass, which in good times employs $50
men, now only has six at work.
ITALIAN wines are getting to be fash
ionable in Germany and France. They
are of improved quality, and very
cheap.
The skeleton of a mastodon has Just
been unearth9d in Broome county, n.
T., the tusks of which are ten feet in
length.
PRINCE BISMARCK recently prosecuted
IN person washerwoman who had spoken
with contumely of him in beer saloon
at Konigsbrg.
CALIFORNIA hunters say that grizzly
bears, when captured alive, though not
wounded, soon die of broken heart, in
duced by excessive rage.
Gov. OsBosN says that the surplus
grain raised in Kansas this year, if
loaded in cars, would make train 900
miles long.
The reports of the Minnesota wheat
crops are to the effect that the yield will
average not less than 80 bushels to the
acre throughout the State.
MARE ANTRIM, a deaf mute, dying re-
Gently at Antrim, N. H., his funeral was
attended by fifteen deaf mutes, to whom
the sermon was interpreted by signs.
LARGE apes are now regularly en-
ployed on the island of Ceylon, India, to
pull cocoanuts. They are said to select
suitable fruit with great discrimina-
ton.
IT is estimated that 5000 speeches
were made in Ohio during the canvass.
Wind enough was expended to drive
the wind-mills of Holland for a CEN
tury.
A GEORGIA Judge instructed jury
few days ago to the effect that an officer
who shooJs man whom he is trying
to arrest for petty offense is guilty of
murder.
A DRUGGIST in Bethel, Me-, after
closing his store, the other night, was
home by large bear, which
made no threatening demonstrations,
but only left him when he got inside his
house.
A RIGHTEOUS and an upright Judge on
the Indiana Supreme Bench has decided
that the habit of requiring the loser in
playing billiards to pay for the game
does not constitute gambling.
Mrs. CASE, of Shoals, Indiana, during
the course OF single week knocked one
tramp down, broke q rib for another.
shot at third, and knocked fourth
so vigorously that he had to go to
the hospital. This is the liveliest Case
on record.
A SINGULAR parcel recently passed
through Omaha. 1t was box, one foot
square, filed with fish worms, and was
addressed to Lieut. Fowler of the regu-
lar army, Fort Sanders, Wyoming. The
worms we've sent to start q colony in
Wyoming to furnish the officers with
fish bait
In Hols county, Mo-, the early lover
catches the bride. Alice Carson engaged
herself to. Mr.. Wheeler and Mr.. Kretzer,
naming the same day and hour for her
wedding with each. Mr.. Kretzer was
so fortunate as to reach the church with
his Clergyman shortly after Miss Carson
had become Mrs. Wheeler.
Mrs, BLACK, whom Byron apostro-
phized as the g Maid of Athens" is still
living in Athens, and is now an old
lady about IS years of age. A CORE
spondent who lately visited her describes
her as a tall old lady, with features in
spring reverence and showing that she
had been beautiful woman.
a CURIOUS little Bible, said to be the
smallest ever made, has been sent to the
London Standard from the Oxford Uni
versity Press. 1t is printed on tough
India paper of extreme thinness, meas
ures Al by q by inches, weighs, when
bound in limp Morocco leather, less than
81 ounces, and can be sent through the
post for penny. 1t is also beautifully
printed.
TIE steamer Chancey Lamb, while on
her last trip up the Mississippi, between
the Minnesota and Wisconsin shore,
sighted fine buck swimming across the
river. Another boat made the discovery
about the same time and lively chase
ensued. The men on the Chancey Lamb
were successful in capturing the
prize, however, and he was taken on
board alive.
A LAWSUIT has been in progress in
Carthage, H., for some time, having
been carried from Justices Court to
the Supreme Court of the State. The
claim is for 81, the balance alleged to be
due on the price of a pig. So far the
costs are S160, and the lawyers fees
more than 800 on each side. Tho de-