The true northerner., 1875-03-12
Persons and Things.

nave passed J3O laws.
A PRovIDExcE firm is making a $4OO
rifle for King Kalakana.
ENGLAND has' the cheapest and best
postal system to-day Of any nation in
Christendom.
THE daughter of Postmastor-General
Jewell teachesa class in colorcamission
school in Washington.
IN st. Petersburg it is not uncommon
for the Czar to go behind the scenes and
q performer.M
Ara Tennessee wedding the other
day the bridegroom was 7G while the
bride was a bllshing girl Of 16...
JAMES w. RoBINsoN, of Kokomo, Ind,
has been suspended from practicing in
the State courts on account OF conduct
an attorney.
An English Judge has recently defined
" gentleman" as term which "includes
anybody who has nothing to do and is
outside of the worlhouse.
THE late Chevalier dc Gaia considered
it a great consolation That during his
long military career he ,had not con-
sciously killed a human being
THE Polar sea has been remarkably
free from ice this year Tho Pacific/
whaling fleet sailed further east past
Point Barrow than ever before.
S1NEcoE KERR, Chief of the Silka Ia
tions, is dead. "Kirby" is nam&k to
succeed him. The position is WORTH the
magnificent sum of 500 week.
THREE columns of the Liverpool Her
cuJ.y are given to an account of one of
the revivals of Messrs. Sankey and
Moody, the American revivahsts.
Rev. DAVID WESTON, ID. D., Pro-
fessor of Ecclesiastical History in Ham
ilton Theological Seminary, died at his
residence in Hamilton. n. Y, on Sunday.
WHEN the electric spark is passed over
surfaces of glass covered with very
thin layer of lampblack the traces show,
under the microscope, regular structure.
VIRGINIA CITY, accepting the inevita-
ble, makes the most it can out of it,
There are sixteen faro banks there, each
OF which is licensed at 81, $50 per annum.
The goose-quill with which Judge
Belden signed the death-warrant of the
noted bandit, Vasquez, is owned by
citizen of Gilroy, Cal, who values it at
$1,000.
THE Troy QIan.) Uicf, concluding an
account of wedding, says: And then
the groom kissed the bride with a sound
as if he had swallowed tea-cup full of
oyster.
VAssAR COLLEGE opened its museum
on the 22d. Among the notables pres
ent were Louisa Alcott, James Freeman
Clarke, Peter Cooper, and Benson J.
Losing.
Mr.. SwINBURNE is working at his long
projected essay on the several stages of
Shakespeare's works, based on q study
of the progress and development of his
style and meter.
BLIND Tom, the negro pianist, is in
Columbus, Ga, on visit To his mother,
who is pure-blOoded negro, rs was his
father Tom is just as musical and fool
ish as ever, but his blindness is leaving
him.
CoRsETs have been the destruction of
days, say the sculptors. When Powers
made his Greek slave he worked it out
of sixteen different models, and then he
had to go back to the antique for his
bust. t.-BOstOn Post.
In Madagascar-not conspicuously
civilized country-beef cattle are ham
strung and then driven about with whips
and goads while thus disabled until they
are in highly fevered condition. This
is done simply that the meat may be
rendered tender and juicy, and as re-
fined method of slaughtering.
IN Illinois the highest salary paid to
male teachers is $3.50 month; the highest
paid to female teachers, $500. The re-
spective averages of the sexes are S4S. Is
and $33.46 in Massachusetts,, $94.33
and S34.34. In Massachusetts, one
teacher in eight is man; in Illinois,
three teachers III seven are men.
A PORTLAND gentleman is said to have
slept so soundly on the occasion of the
recent railroad accident at Kennebunk,
when seven cars were thrown from the
track, that he did not awake, and when
the train came out to bring the passen-
gers into this city he had to be aroused.
And he hadn't taken anything, either.
A YOUNG lady Of Troy, N. Y, received
from an unknown adnirer "a box 10y ex-
press. She found in it beefs heart
pierced with golden arrow, set with
Jewels, and estimated to be worth ut least 4
$75. A pet dog had the heart for his
dinner, and the young lady has been
prevailed upon by her friends to keep
the skewer.