The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-05
People and Things.

summers 10 the Centennial
IHE Treasury of Italy receives $12,-
oo0,ooO annually from lotteries.
TOUR newspapers published in Paris
are devoted exclusively to hair-dressing.
IHE Maine honey-dealers foretell that
this will be an excellent wear for their
business.
HE champion small baby is in Phil
lips county, Kan. Age, 81 days; weight,
30 ounces.
NEARLY torn off by rats was the hand
of child of Moses McEntee, of Eddy
vile, N. Y.
Two PERSONS, the other day, at Flat
brookville, Pa, with rod and line cap
tured 287 fish.
The Rev. M. Hugh, Methodist preach
er of Vermont, occasionally delivers his
sermons in verse.
FROM ! acres of sorghum Isham Viii
son, of Kosciusko Miss, made 1872 gal
Ions of fine molasses.
For some reason, skeletons for the
medical schools, usually quoted at $50,
can now be had for $35.
A MAN in Dusseldorf, Prussia, lately
murdered his wife and daughter because
they ridiculed his red hair.
HE Essex Institute, at Salem, Mass,
has acquired powder-horp marked
Camp Ticonderoga, 1859"
AN Indiana saloon. keeper made a bad
mistake when he advertised "Unap-
proachable Baltimore oysters :"
THHowater is so low in some of the
Western rivers that the catfish have to
stand on their heads to breathe.
A vENDER of lightning rods, bearing
the historic name of Hildebrand, has
come to grief ana the dungeon in Louis
vile.
A SWEET potato plantation of 700
acres, near Atlanta, Ga, is expected to
yield 10000 bushels of the fayorite
edible.
ALCoRN University, at Meridian, has
cost the State of Mississippi during the
last two or three years the sum of
S250,00O.
A MILKMAN of Dubuque drowned him
self-ln water-a few days ago, on ac-
count OF low spirits, superinduced by
highwines.
AT Red Wing, Mimi, the postoffice
clerks have formed a charitable associa-
ton for preparing letters deposited with
out a stamp.
A FIELD of 10000 acres is the prop
erty of gentleman in Nueces county,
Texas, and he recently filed an order by
telegraph for $4,000 beeves.
The Down-East Judge who decided
that an umbrella is personal property and
cannot be stolen with impunity, is a
great deal better posted in law than in
fact.
MENTION is made in Far-Westen
newspaper of an Indian maiden who
wears army pantaloons, uses tobacco,
and goes by the name of "Falling
Water"
In Bell county, Texas, there is farm
OF 1900 acres, which is inclosed by one
fence, and cultivated by thirty two
owners, every one of whom is I'M
married.
IN the four Pennsylvania counties of
Crawford, Venango, Erie, and Mercer,
there are 101 cheese factories, produc-
ing yearly an aggregate of 100000
pounds.
The result of recent experiments in
coffee culture in California conclusively
prove that coffee can be raised in every
portion of that State where the soil is
congenial.
Mr.. SwINBURNE has a novel way of
revenging himself upon that most persist.
ent class OF bores, the autograph hunters.
he employs an amanuensis to write his
autograph for him.
IT is represented to be very dull in
Paris, and the price of everything has
gone up. The hotels charge exorbitant
rates, and American travellers don't stay
half as long in the gay city as they
used to.
EVERY Monday morning a number of
negresses may be seen on the wharf at
New Orleans, near the French Market,
throwing pennies into the river to pur-
chase of some Voudou spirit good luck
for the week.
Gov. SKUNK, of Pennsylvania, We
toed the first bill that came before him
for the incorporation of telegraph COM
pany, on the ground that sit would in
terfere with the business of the United
States mails -
THERE are six European kingdoms,
ruled by crowned monarchs, which have
each smaller population than the State
of New York. These kingdoms are Hol-
land, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Ba-
varia and Greece.
WHEN you come to point out the hard
names of our National Dictionary, Mont
gomery, Ala, stretches out her longest
finger in the name of Mr.. John Phafael-
kalfnger, and says he's always to be
found on hand in that city.
SOME rogues cut the straps by which
Forepaugh's two largest elephants were
tied, at Bennington, the other night, and
the beasts ate up half an acre of potatoes
and frightened woman half to death by
rafting her window blinds in the attempt
to get some apples on the window sill.
1t was so dark she could not see foot
from the window, and when she opened
the shutter huge trunk was writhing
about after the apples. The poor woman
fell over backward, screaming, ooh,
what snake :"
The Geneva Award.
An attempt will be made early in the