The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-26
People and Things.


People and Things.
A New ORLEANS goat can play euchre
and seven-up.
BISMARCK, believes that military men
make the best foreign ambassadors.
A DAUGHTER of Jefferson Davis is soon
to be married to Memphis bank cash
Ter.
MR.. BERGH will be after the New
Workers who clip their horses this sea
son.
AN odd marriage is reported in Bland
County, Virginia-that of MIR. Allen
Hannah and Miss Hannah Allen.
The South Carolina earthquake shook
four negroes out of a smoke house which
was supposed to be securely locked.
DURING the last three months LAO
horses, 81 donkeys and five mules were
killed i'll Paris for public consumption.
DIR. JOSEPH THOMPSON of Atlanta,
Ca, has carried the same pocket-knife
every day since 1921 and it is pretty
good knife still.
FRANCE produces only one-half of the
wood she uses for fuel, despite the
considerable forests that everywhere
cover the country.
Miss LAURA SPENCE, of Camilla, Ga,
weighs 203 pounds, and stands six feet
two and half inches high. She is finely
formed and quite good looking.
The plans for fashionable wedding
in Newport have been rudely disarranged
by the discovery that the proposed
bridegroom has one wife already.
The Gar recently gave young He
brew commission in the Russian army.
This is the first instance in which Jew
has been made an officer in Russia.
THE original hemlock log foundations
of Long Wharf at Boston were unearthed
few days ago, and found to be as solid
as when first put down, 164 years ago.
A $4,000 chime of bells has just been
cast at Boston for church on st. Paul's
Island, in the Behring Sea, off Alaska,
and about 3, 900 miles from San Francisco.
The California trade with Australia
now employs more ships and more ton
mage than with any other portion of the
world, with the single exception of China.
NEARLY all the fat cattle in Colorado
have changed hands recently or will do
so soon. Never in the history of the
Territory has the trade in cattle been so
active.
The State University at Athens seems
to be nice place. According to The
Georgian, the students are required to
swear that they don't pay more than 500
a month each for board.
Trrux, bax,a found N ,,akx,eal Moxc,o,,
In Utah, and from the number of dents
in the head, evidently made with poker
and fiat-iron, it is judged that he had at
least thirty-three wives.
IT may be interesting to teachers out
of employment to know that very high
wages are paid in the Cherokee Nation
of Indians, namely 1926 per month for
males and 5000 for females.
A BLACK duck flew against the light
house at Sankaty, Nantucket, the other
day, with such force as to break in
large plate glass window almost half an
inch thick, killing itself instantly.
IT is now reported that the Union Pa
cific people, with J. p. Jones, intend
continuing the Los Angeles and indie
pendence Road to Ogden. The cost is
estimated at SIS, 100000 to $2O,OOO,OOO.
The people of Great Britain paid last
year internal taxes to the amount of
1888, 962, 1856 56 in gold, while the peo-
pie of the United States paid similar
taxes only to the amount of $110,545,-
1923 in currency.
ONE hundred blackfish were driven
ashore at Cape Cod one day last week.
They sold on the shore at $3.50 to 81
each. The six or seven men who drove
them ashore made a good haul. OF
Providencetown fish are now plenty.
The experiments made with naphtha
as fuel for steam engines, in the south
of Russia, have yielded such satisfactory
results as to induce the Imperial Gov
eminent to order its regular use hence
forth in all vessels stationed OH the Cas-
plan.
NEW ORLEANS young men, says the
Bulletin, care thinking seriously of
ceasing their visits to all houses where
they are compelled to entertain the
whole family in order to sec the young
lady whose society they desire to cult
vate.
A SOLDIER has just been .drummed out
of the army at Fort .Whipple, to the tune
of the " Rogues March, for calling an
officer "an Internal italian organ
grinder" They don't allow private to
cut up any monkey-shines at Fort
Whipple.
We notice in a prominent daily that
Crank q. Green, of Chicago, aged AZ
years, committed suicide this morning
by shooting at the house of his mother"
We have often shot at barns, and never
thought we were so near being suicide.
Well never fire gun again. Marquette
Mining Journal.
ACCORDING to the Just issued Yale
Catalogue, there are 80 students in the
theological department, against 103 last
year; law rs, against SO; philosophy
and the arts go, against So; undergradu-
ates $50, against 537; Sheffield scientific
224, against 24S, making total of 1,O41.
There are 81 instructors, an increase of
two.