The true northerner., 1875-08-27
PeOple and Things.

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ONE hunter recently shot seventeen
elk in single hour on the Humptulip
river, w. Il.
The great fshway at Holyoke Dam,
Mass, built at an expense OF $5O, 600, is
pronounced a failure.
In Scotch court witness swore to
the identity of chicken " from Its re
semblance TO its mother"
SIXTEEN cases of buggy-stealing in one
day in Chicago, lent interest to the GRIM
inal phenomena OF that city.
A MACHINE has been invented in En-
gland for making hay by artificial heat
at cost of eight shillings per ton.
ENocH NORRIS, 81 years old, has
cleared this year with his own haIhls IL
acres of new ground i'll Pauhing county,
Ga.
THERE is no such word as "liar " in
the Chinese language, and the Chinese
get along about as well as any other ma
ton.
QUITE number of poor students of
Eastern colleges and academies are act
ting as walters at the White Mountai
hotels, it is said.
ONE of Brigham Young's better frac-
tional parts has eloped with military
person but the Prophet, having few
more left, doesn't miss her.
The first day of the centennial year
1876 is fixed as the probable time when
the resumption of silver payments and
the incineration of fractional currency
will begin.
A KENTUCKY court lately sent man
for two years to the penitentiary for
killing another man, and n second culprit
for four years to the same place for steal
ing hogs.
JOSH BILLINGS is to make his "fifth
annual farewell tour" this year, with
his chilly concentrated lektur on
Sandwiches, " "iust for fun and 500
thrown ill.,"
To PREVENT her lover from "going
back" on his promise, Detroit girl al
ways introduces him to her friends as
"my intended husband" So says the
Free Press.
A RESPECTABLE young lady in Bow
doinham, Me-, has created excitement
and distressed her friends by eloping
with n lover who has served two terms
in the State Prison for horse-stealing.
IT is thought that her new census
will show Massachusetts, TO have not far
from l, 100000 inhabitants. The towns
in the eastern portion of the State ex
hibit marked increase during the last
five years.
In Hallowell, Me-, the other day, dur
ing thunder storm, several fishermen,
after some parley, concluded not to take
shelter i'll a shed they went on, and it
was struck by lightning before they were
out OF sight.
VELocIPEDEs have just been adopted
by the Italian army, and are now used
for the carrying of dispatches from the
various corps to general headquarters.
They go at the rate of twenty miles an
hour, and thus save a great deal of
horsehesh.
THERE was n Denver boy who pulled
the bung out of a barrel and stuck in his
thumb the barrel rolled over, the
thumb was fractured, and then ampu-
tated. And now the parent, anxious to
turn penny, has sued the owner of the
barrel for So, 900 damages.
AMONG other improvements introduced
in the United States Assay Office in Wall
street, New York, is pair of balances to
weigh gold and other precious metals.
Their capacity is equal to 10000 ounces,
or over S1,000,000 worth of gold, and
the scale is sensitive to one-tenth of a
grain.
FoUR statues have been placed on the
tower of the city hall inBuffdlo. Lib
erty " keeps a sharp look out over Mag
ara river, "Justice" looks across the
city, agriculture scans the wagons
of the farmers bringing their fruits to
market, while Commerce has an eye
to the lake.
A FROG said to be the size of a COW S
head has made its appearance near
Montreal, and has voice as loud as a
dog. Several unsuccessful attempts
have been made to capture his frogship,
but when pursued he dives into deep
water and keeps quiet for several days.
YOUNG men who have nursed latent
weaknesses by the use of tobacco, and
young ladies who have debilitated them
selves 10y foolishness in dress, will Tin a
majority of cases. never feel SO badly
another summer as they do this summer;
for this summers weather is malevolent-
ly seeking out just such weaknesses and
making them fatal
THE New Orleans Times saws: Three
hundred thousand dollars was expended
by the planters of Lnfourche last year
for corn alone. This year they will
have more than they will need. The
Picayune says that never before in the
history of Louisiana have so many white
men taken active part in the practical
details of agriculture.
IT has been declared by scientists that
the immense herds of buffaloes on the
plains are the descendants OF what was
once n stock domesticated by race OF
people preceding the present Indians.
1t is therefore believed that the buflaloes
can again be domesticated and the pro.
duction of buffalo robes carried on the
same as of domestic hides.
How MANY smokers know what the