The true northerner., 1875-10-08
People and Things.


In Brittany bed-bug poison is a regu-
lar item in the hotel bill.
BoNAPAEIIsT documents are sent into
France packed in sardine boxes.
AT the end of this year Chicago will
have 10000 more houses than it had last
year.
HANNAH Hill. has very properly been
appointed to the postoffice at Lookout
Mountain.
HE gout is no respecter of RELIGIONS
faiths. Cardinal Antonelli and Spurpeon
both have it.
THERE Me miles enough of railroad in
the United States to go three times
around the world.
BRITISH COLUMBIA will send FLAG. pole
14O feet long, composed of single tree,
to the Centennial.
CAPE COLONY, Africa, has 800 miles of
railway in course of construction, at a
cost of $40, 900, 900.
FoRTY-FTvE Indian arrow or spear
heads were plowed up recently on farm
near Kingsbury, Ind.
SINCE the year 1900, England has
waged 40 wars, France 3S, Russia 22,
Austria IL, Prussia 3.
POSTAL cards don't diminish in popu-
larity. The factory at Springfield is turn
ing out 6OO,O 900 per day.
The people of Armenia are getting
into trouble by utilizing the telegraph
wires to hang clothes on.
AN American girl won the gold medal
at the recent examination at the College
of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.
The Ceylon government is trying to
prevent the capture of elephants, and the
price of fine animals has gone up to b.
600 gold
BOULDER CITY, Col, is a happy city.
Licenses for saloons, shows, etc, pay
all it's expenses, and the Tax Collector
is unknown.
THERE are in the United States seven
teen establishments where locomotives are
built, thirty-six car-wheel manufactures
and ninety-two car shops.
THERE are, according to Mrs Craw-
shay's calculation, 900, 900 women in the
United Kingdom for whom there is no
chance of marriage. What pity.
A Boston womans false teeth have
just been found in the attic, whittier
they were carried by hasty and un-
observing rat fully three years ago.
In Bell county, Texas, there is farm
of $500 acres, which is enclosed by one
fence and cultivated by thirty-two own
ers, every one of whom is unmarried.
The autumn atmosphere is driving
home nearly all the seekers of pleasure
ut the summer resorts. Passenger travel
is unusually brisk, and baggage-smash-
ers have an excellent time to get Ill their
work.
THE following epitaph, copied from Il
tombstone, has been sent
to the historical society of that State:
" Here lies the bodie of Margeret Fay
her would if her could but her couldn't
stay her had bad legs and a baddish
cough it We're her legs as carried her
off
A NORWICH antiquarian will take to
the Centennial a book published in 1923,
a cane at least 225 years old, a single
leaf from Bible brought over in the
and sample of the white
oak under which the first settlers of an
cient Woodbury. encamped the night
after their arrival.
A SOLDIER belonging at Fort Russell
walked down to Lake Mahpalutah, near
the other day, and deliberate
ly undressing himself and sticking his will
into one of his shoes, plunged into the
water and was drowned. He is the third
person who has committed suicide in
that lake this season.
The st. Joseph Mo- Herald regrets
that it cannot by the widest process
of versifcation possibly make "rhi-
noceros" rhyme with "Queen Eliza
beth," or "gazelle with "sewing ma
chine, and so has respectfully to decline
a poem by one of the most talented of
st. Joseph's fair daughters.