The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-24
People and Things.


assistant, is Barnum's new aeronaat.
The Shakers of Mount Lebanon. N.
L., are rapidly decreasing in strength.
The proudest people are invariably
those who have the least to be proud OF.
The number of patents granted in the
United States up to August 10, 1875, was
166,676
A FIRM at Columbus, Ga, has ordered
keg OF one-cent pieces from the Phila-
delphia mint.
Rev. GEO. w. WILLIAMS edits the
COmnao''er, new Washington organ of
the colored race.
IDA LEWIS has been married and di-
vorced, but she saves drowning men all
the same, nevertheless.
GALVESTON papers report fair pros
poets for an unusually good yield of cot
ton in Texas this season.
DoN RAFAEL GONZALES, who lately
died in Cuba, lived to be los years old.
and was never sick but twice.
DAVID T.. PORTER, son of Admiral
Porter, has sailed for Egypt to take
position on the Khedive's Staff.
Boston has had eleven Postmasters
since 1889, and all but Jonathan Has
tings AMI Aaron Hill are living.
DR.. MoBINs, scientific man, has Just
discovered in Knox county, Me-, ma
rine worm nine hundred feet long.
NEwBURYPoRT has had but one house
burned during the last fifty-one years.
No wonder that the fire companies have
disbanded.
IT is pretty we'll decided now that in
stead of an insurance of $350,000 the
late ex-President Johnson had none
whatever on his life.
The New York Commercial insists
that the barber is a man of parts.
Which is really very weak compliment
to the great head scenter.
Mr.. JOSEPH O'CoNNoR, late editor-in-
chief of the Indianapolis Sentinel, has
accepted position on the editorial staff
of the New York World.
THERE is blind man in Des Moines
who never had any eyes. The skin
grows over the place usually occupied by
them, the same as over the rest of the
face.
Mrs. RACHEL GARDNER, of Salem,
Mass, celebrated her Tooth birthday on
the 4th instant Her descendants num-
Der III, and eighty Of them are now
living
A
who tried the experiment of going bare
headed for two years, now has luxuri-
ant head of hair, the result of exposure
to the sun.
YOU'VE MAN, go to Boulder City, Col.
No taxes have to be paid there. The Ii
censes for saloons, shows, ETC., pay all
the city expenses, and there is pretty
balance left.
SENATOR DENNIS, of Maryland, re-
Gently captured a shark weighing 600
pounds, whose liver nearly filled -four
barrel. and yielded seven and half gal
Ions of nbricating oil.
PELEG II. GALLUP, of North Stoning-
ton, Conn, has found turtle in his
meadow bearing the date of 1853 cut into
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too faint to be decipherable.
A MAN in Philadelphia has a postal
card with over 4, 700 words written upon
it, and he expects to write 1000 words
more upon it, making 6,700 in all. 1t is
to be sent to the Centennial Exhibition.
A GIRL in Iowa was bitten by rattle
snake, was cured by whisky and soda
water alternately, and now the doctors
are bothered to know whether it was the
whisky or the soda water which saved
her.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal: Robert Dale
Owen drove into the city Yesterday
morning with DR.. Evarts, Superintend-
ent of the Insane Asylum. He looks
quite well, and appears to be very nearly
if not quite recovered.
ACCORDING to Vicksburg newspaper
there is not a broom factory in the South.
If there was market for broom corn,
farmers could realize 800 per acre by its
production, and the capital invested in
its manufacture would pay 40 per cent.
A REMARKABLE cat, belonging to r. G..
Russell, of Fair Haven, which rejoices
in twenty-five toes, four more than the
regular allowance, has just given birth
to kitten with twenty-four, seven on
each fore-foot and five on each hind foot.
A. B. SEYBoLT, of Chenoa, ILL.,, caught
boy stealing apples from a barrel in
his store, and tied his hands behind him
and fastened him to the railing in front
of his store. The result is a suit for
$1,000 damages, brought by the boys
father.
BIG men and women are the remarka-
BILE productions of California. In Men,
docino county is the Hogan family. Pa
ter familias stands feet inches in his
stockings; son No. is 6 feet 6 inches !;
No. 2 is 6 feet 81 inches, and No. is 6
feet inches.
A GENTLEMAN who is farming near
Macon, Ga, heard smart futtering in
the water the other day, and upon inves-
tigation found that large water moe
casin had caught catfish nearly foot
long, and was trying to vanquish it.
The serpent was killed and the fish cap
tured.