The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30
People and Things.

IT is unlawful in New Jersey for rail-
way trains Except mail trains and milk
cars) to run on Sunday.
A FARMER of Hamden county, Con-
necticut, freed his potato patch of
beetles 10y sprinkling them with soft
soap and water.
FIVE million eggs from Prince Edward
Island, British America) formed part
of the cargo of steamer which arrived
at Boston last month.
THERE will be an abundance of peaches
in New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware,
this season, all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
FLORIDA killed 10000 alligators for
their hides last year, and at this rate al
ligator steak will soon be numbered
among old recollections.
THE friends of Bowdoin College are
making great efforts to raise $4,000 for
the establishment of Longfellow Pro
fessorship i'll honor of the poet.
A FEMALE slave died in Turkey, re-
Gently, at the age of 10 years. She had
served in the harem over ninety years.
Her funeral was conducted with special
honOrs.
THERE is an orange tree near Waldo,
Florida, which measures at the ground
eight feet five inches in circumference.
1t will probable bear this year 5000 or
anges.
A CINCINNATI darkey was saved from
the pistol shot of a policeman by the bag
of chickens on his back. But it was bad
for the chickens, several of them having
been killed.
A MATCHING machine is in operation at
Omaha, Neb., by which the eggs are
carefully heated by steam. The fourth
trial of the machine Matched seventy-two
chickens out of $50 eggs.
THE widows of Canon Kingsley and
Sir Arthur Helps having accepted Crown
pensions of 5000 a year each, the London
Eranincr declares that they have done
their utmost to discredit their husbands
teachings.
ELDERLY maiden ladies who patronize
the camphor bottle will read with some
thing of regret that the Chinese are
burning up the camphor groves in For
mosa. They will agree that ''the Chinese
are acting like monsters.
A LONDON architect has submitted TO
the municipal authorities of that city a
plan for gigantic pyramidal metropolis,
which is to cover five acres of ground,
and yet be capable of holding in its
vaults 625, 900 corpses.
FATHER HENRY NJ. BoEHM, the Oldest
Methodist minister in the American Con-
ference, and who has of late spent his
time in preaching in the different
churches of Staten Island, was 100 years
old on the Sth of June last.
A BODY was recently buried in a cene-
terry at Scranton, Pa, which was under
litigation, and one of the parties posted
over the deceased man the following no.
tice: "This corpse is requested TO re-
move Immediately, or 1 will remove the
same.
A sTEAMTUG of Hamburg, while tow
ing vessel down the Elbe to Cuxhaven,
lately, was blown to pieces by the burst
ing of her boiler. OF the hull nothing
was seen save the fragments floating
down the river, and of crew of five men
not one escaped.
THE following is one way to cut bot
possibly over q low gaslight flame for
about ten minutes. Then dip steadily
in water; and the sudden cooling will
cause regular crack to encircle the side
at the heated place, allowing the por-
tons to be easily separated.
The change in the system of examin-
ing baggage arriving at New York from
foreign ports has already been justified.
On single steamer last week S4,100
was collected in duties upon articles
which the owners unquestionably in
tended to smuggle; and large number
of trunks were sent to the custom house
to have their contents valued.
SOME boys at Red Lick, KY, few
days ago, saw in a shallow tributary of
a river an immense pike basking in water
about twelve inches deep. Quietly
walking few rods down stream they
built a dam of logs and rocks to prevent
his escape to deeper water, and after
something of chase they succeeded in
catching the fish, which weighed thirty
six pounds.
TIE library of the latessMr. Brinley, of
Hartford, is judged by bibliopolists to
to be one of the finest private collections
in the United States, it's value being
estimated as high as $250000. 1t is no.
table for rare works, among them seyen
copies of the famous Elliott's Indian
Bible, the first Bible printed in New En-
gland. These are valued at 81 900 each.
The collection is especially rich in early
American books.
A NEW source of danger in railroad
travel has been discovered in the spread
ing of the rails under the influence of
the suns rays. A freight train in Ne
vada was stopped a few days since by
danger signal in the hands of a China
man, and an examination showed that
the heat had so expanded several of the
rails as to force them from their position
and even to draw the spikes from the
ties. 1t was necessary to shorten the
rails in order to replace them.
SOME of the laws of Paris are worth
into this country. In many
of business honesty is enforced.
If q jewelcr sells plated or washed ar