The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-30
People and Things.

People and Things.
The State of Texas embraces larger
extent of territory than the whole French
empire.
ACCORDING to present plans, some OF
the Philadelphia Centennial buildings
will be a mile APART.
FoRrY-FIvE dollars in greenbacks were
paid in Helena, Montana, few weeks
since, for forty dozen eggs.
FLORIDA people are beginning to cul-
tivate pineapples with considerable sue
cess. Over 80, 900 were raised last year.
HoEL DE SAINT GILBERT, the last page
of Marie Antoinette, was turned over at
the age of 104 years at Vienna the other
day.
THE orchards of this country are esti-
mated to occupy 500, 900 acres, and con
tain 20,000,0O0 trees in various stages Of
growth.
TWENTY-FIVE lives have been lost in
the Canada Pacific Railway survey, and
steps have been taken ut Ottawa to raise
a memorial.
DURING the recent food in the Ten
nessee river, cornfield, with a man
working it, drifted down for consider
able distance.
SENATOR boutwell, has been expert
menting, and finds that it costs sixty
eight cents per bushel to raise corn in
Massachusetts,.
ALBERT PUGsLEY, an engineer on the
New York Central Railroad, has run his
locomotive twenty years without meeting
with an accident of any kind.
DAN BRYANT loved children dearly,
and when one of his little friends heard
he was dead she wondered il Dan would
sing "Shoo, Fly ?" for the little angels.
A CURIOUS automaton spider has been
invented in Paris. The spider is life
size, and is made of copper. BY pressing
q spring it will move round the table in
IA marvellous way.
In Minnesota there are 9,154 persons
entirely destitute, owing to grasshoppers
and the hard winter. In the adjoining
Territory of Dakota there are over 5000
enrolled for government aid.
Ex-Gov. CoBURN, of Maine, during a
lumber business extending over a period
of twenty five years, and involving sales
of logs to the amount of $5,000000, is
said to have made no written contract.
RUSSIA deserves her title of Northern
Colossus if soldiers by the wholesale go
for anything. She numbers 2,901 600
armed men, including 100000 Cossacks
i'll apple-pie order. They are as ready TO
burn as tallow candles.
CURIoUsLY enough the Empress of
Japan and the third wife of the khedive
of Egypt have about simultaneously un-
dertaken the establishment of training
schools for girls in their respective
countries. Here are signs of dawn III
the East.
In Switzerland there was a marriage
by proxy. A woman there was married
to man i'll America, the proxy being a
neighbor and a man already married.
The authorities are discussing whether
this much married man has not commit
ted bigamy.
CORONER SPELLMAN, of Memphis,
Tennessee, believes that luck is against
him. There have within a month been
four street shootings there without fatal
results, and IN three instances the bodies
of drowned men have tloated out of his
jurisdiction.
SOMEBODY suggests that if anybody
wants to send a transient newspaper
from one city to another-say from New
York to Brool1lyn-the cheapest way
would be to send it ''via Liverpool
The present postal laws almost warrant
such statement.
An ambitious Texan having read some
where about the "Pope's bull" an
nounces in one of the papers published
in the interior of the State that he has a
three ear-old brindle steer, blind of one
eye, that he will match TO whip any bull
the Pope can produce.
The harmony of public Worship was
considerably interrupted in a Boston
church, few Sundays ago, by the or
gan's refusing to discourse sweet sound.
but giving forth doleful shrieks when
the wind was let in. So the congrega-
ton sang without organ accompaniment
while the sexton investigated the matter
and finally hauled cat out of the in
strument, though how she got there is a
mystery.
A POLITICAL arithmetic-man in Gin
cinnati has been comparing the votes
cast in st. Louis, Chicago and Cincin-
matt at recent municipal elections, and
his results are tabulated thus
Highest vote in ST. Louis for last two years 29O7I
Highest vote in Chicago for last two years AZ 800
Highest vote in Cincinnati for last years 80 72O
AS against Chicago, the Cincinnatian
admits, his case is hopeless but he is
willing to back the population of his ma
tive city against that of st. Louis at long
odds.