The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
People and Things.

People and Things.
SpIRrrUAIIsM has just reached Russia.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, is II years cid.
LIZARDS are household pets in Ceylon,
being priced for the way they use up the
mosquitoes.
kED CLOUD and Spotted Tail will not
JON the Improved Order of Red Men
until they die.
As preliminary step toward the
abatement OF crime Hartford, Ct, has
abolished Its detective police force.
GEORGE DERBY, of st. Louis. son of
the late Lieut.. Derby John Phmnix).
ranks second in his class at West Point
A MAN has read the Lancaster RaD
HteiIigencer ever since 1927, and paws
for it now out of pocketbook lO2 wears
old.
EXPERIMENTS with carbonic acid gas.
as a motive power for war vessels, are to
be made by the direction of the Navy
Department.
PEMBERToN, Pomeroy and Piper, Bos-
tons three most bloodthirsty murderers,
occupy cells in the jail side by side and
in the same row, like so many P's in
pod.
JOSEPH BLACK, of New York, is the
champion buzzard. He has been on
Coroner's jury 232 times in one year, and
the corpses are beginning to reIhon-
strate.
The late Henry Upham, of Brooklyn,
left $40, 900 to the Church Home for Or
phans and Destitute Children, and $50
600 to the Episcopal Theological School
at Cambridge.
Ir isn't often that any ordinary person
accumulates board bill of $40, 900, but
San Francisco man has brought suit
for this amount for boarding the wife of
a relative from March, 1919, to July,
1862.
A MAN in France who had his foot am
putated refused to pay the fee charged
by the surgeon, and commenced an ac-
ton against the. latter for damages be-
cause the foot, instead of having been
buried, had been dissected in the inter
ests of science.
ONE of the Eddy family at Chittenden,
Mass, has accepted the challenge of the
medium detective, Chapman, to exhibit
their naturalization before disinter-
ested committee, and proposing that
each side shall stake 81, 900 on the re-
suit.
New YORK is given to thinking that
there can little of merit come out of what
it is pleased to term provincial towns;
but some of the country" bands of
music at the Masonic ceremonies fairly
surpassed the noted bands of the me-
tropolis.
GEN. SHERIDAN will take his young
bride out on the plains for the wedding
trip, visiting, among other places, the
famous Yellowstone river, the rival of
the Yosemite of California. Secretary
Belknap and others accompany the bridal
party, and Gen. Clusters cavalry expe-
dition of /, 200 troopers will furnish the
escort.
The latest wrinkle with the woman of
fashion is that of having model of her
bust made, stuffed with wool and COW
cred with cambria. This is deposited at
her dressmaker's, and upon it her new
dresses are fitted, saving the aforesaid
woman of fashion all the arduous labor
of trying on" etc. What next 9-Bos-
ton Post.
TRUE love is no respecter of law.
When Constable Damon, of Cabot, VT,
went down into Mr.. Ainsworth's cellar to
attach some potatoes, Mrs. Ainsworth
suddenly closed the trap door and sat
down Oh. it until he promised to goaway
without attaching anything. As he
came up from his prison she sealed the
agreement by hitting him three or four
times with the fire-shovel.
Ten years ago the Bishop of London
established fund, since known as the
Bishop of London's fund, for the pur-
pose of building churches and schools in
his diocese. The sum voluntarily sub
cribed amounts now to $4,000 and
lib new churches as well as 100 new
schools have been built with it, besides
the addition of 400 clergy to the diocese.
A BEAUTIFUL young lady got aboard
the Nashville-bound train at Decatur,
Ala, and insisted on going into the loco
motive and running the machine. The
engineer willingly surrendered his posi-
ton to the fair amateur. She started
the engine off and kept her going at
the rate forty miles per hour till Pulaski
was reached, when she went back into
the coach and took seat
AMONG the passengers who have re-
Gently arrived in England from the west
coast of Africa, is the son of Coffee CAL
cali, the late King of Ashantee. The
young Prince, whose name is Coffee Ju-
tea, has been sent home for the purpose
of being educated, according to the
terms of agreement made when the treaty
of peace was made last year. He is said
to be an intelligent-looking boy about IA
years of age.