The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-19
Persons and Things.

EIGHT thousand four hundred gas jets
in the new Paris Opera House.
Or 20, $40 Welshmen who live in Liv-
erpool, 3,3lS are church-goers.
A LITTLE boy in Albany bit his tongue
while rocking in chair, and bled TO
death.
Mrs ROBBINS, of Conway, n. H., has
added four young robins to her nest III
IL months.
A CINCINNATI pork-dealer proposes to
furnish the world with his ought-to-buy-
biography.
A MINNESOTA man makes the winter
seem short by giving his note payable III
the spring.
The King of Burmah is going to start
a newspaper to be published in Burmese
and English.
THE number of sheep last year in
Australia was 50, 400, 900. II has doubled
in twelve years.
In the Gardner (Me.) Methodist Con-
ference there are sixteen persons between
the ages of 80 and 100.
The total strength of the volunteer
forces of Great Britain was at the end
of last year 236, 6S3 men.
In Minnesota wood is only 81 cord,
but then it takes a cord of wood to warm
one side of man up there.
SERVED him right. An Indianapolis
bigamist has gone crazy for fear of being
prosecuted for his duplicity.
WHEN the thermometer marked 43
degrees below zero in Sioux Falls, Iowa,
the people were afraid to go to bed.
The foremen of the Cincinnati brew
cries are paid $40, 600 per annum, which
is more than Circuit Judge gets.
THESE hard times are enough to make
n man hang himself. g. Aultman, of
Canton, only made $50, 900 last year.
The palLium of an Archbishop is
made from the wool of male lamb,
which is usually killed for the purpose.
A DRUGGIST in Lewiston, Me-, declares
that over ton of snuff is annually con
sumed in that town in dipping, chiefly
by women.
SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARCoURr is
said to be retained as the counsel of the
claimant, Orion Nchborne, IL motion
for writ of error.
In the next House of Representatives
there will be eighty-six ex-rebel officers
and soldiers, and twenty-three Union
officers and soldiers.
IT is estimated that Chicago will han
die hundred million bushels of grain
this year. Last year the quantity was
nearly ninetysix millions.
THE Centennial buildings in Philadel-
phia will cover twenty acres, and to
lessen the fatigue of thorough visit, an
elevated railway is projected.
Mr.. ALEXANDER XERMUs, of Dunn's
Lake, Fla, has found skeletons of by
gone race in the mounds on his planta-
ton, nine feet long, and traces of gold
also.
In England, recently, a tin of beef,
which had been prepared for the soldiers
i'll the Crimea i'll 1856, was recently
opened, and it's contents found perfectly
sound and wholesome.
A KENTUCKY young lady, who prom
ised her grandfather never to marry a
certain young man on the face of the
earth, went through the interesting cere-
mony in the Mammoth Cave.
THE present city horse-car companies
in New York, during the year 1874, car
ried lac, 800, 600 passengers, or number
more than three times larger than the
population of the United States.
DOUBLE eagles to the amount of
$500, 600 were turned out in single
day recently at the San Francisco Mint
the largest days work ever performed
by any mint III the United States.
A JACKSON Glenn man has built a
house seven feet high and ten feet by
twenty feet area, upon wagon. 1t has
two rooms and four windows, and ac-
commodities his wife and three children.
THE Good Templars of town in Cali
fornia have leased n column in the local
paper for the PRONUNCIATION of the tenn
perance doctrines, and hope by this in
genious device to make many converts.
SOME of the extensive prehistoric ruins
in Southwestern Colorado, discovered by
the Hayden expedition last fall, are of
such hliputian dimensions that they
must have been inhabited by mere hu-
man wrens and swallows.
LENrEN dinners are becoming fashion
able, the aim being to give as great va
riety as possible in the kinds and cook
cry of fish. A printed bill of fare on
one of these occasions mentioned fifteen
different fish served in multiplicity of
ways.
A TRAIN on the Albany and Susque-
hanna railroad was lately thrown from
the track, near Binghamton, by a
broken rail. The palace car was thrown
thirty feet and smashed, but fortunately
the passengers escaped without serious
injury.
THREE thousand bird nests have been
distributed at various points in the parks
of Paris. They are made for the spar
row, titmouse, cuckoo, blackbird, mag
pie and others-and in the forms re-
spectively rs the birds make them for
themselves.
FROM the Massachusetts Railroad
Commissioners report for 1874 il is