The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-23
People and Things.

EDMoNIA LEWIS, the sculptress, is to
be married soon.
LOUISA ALcoTr has earned 100000
from the sale of her books.
THERE are 500, 900 acres of soil in In
dia under jute cultivation.
THE great schism in the Greek Church
of Russia is called the Raskol.
Mrs. CLNcH, of Georgia, wants to
whistle against any man in America.
ROCHESTER, has prohibited religious
exercises of any nature in its public
schools.
GEN. DAKIN shoots from a body that
weighs 200 pounds. He should have no
difficulty in Dakin steady aim.
You must sneeze thrice to pronounce
| the name of noted Russian engineer
now visiting ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
A. T. STEWART will give no informa-
ton to census takers regarding the pro-
duction of his numerous manufactures.
Col. VILETTE, the accomplice in the
escape of the ex-Marshal Bazaine, has
| been allowed to retire from the French
army on pension.
IT will crafty the temperate every
where to learn that at the recent fire in
Dublin thousands of puucheons of whis-
ky were destroyed by fire.
The count of the cash in the Treasury
vaults, amounting to S16,000,000, dis
closes a discrepancy of only $50, and
! gives general satisfaction.
Miss SUSAN Il. ANTHONY has edited
the Leavenworth Times during the time
her brother, Col. ID. r. Anthony has
been confined to his room by his wound.
An enterprising youth has started for
Harvey City, in the Black Hills, with
the material fora newspaper office. The
new venture will be known as the Black
Hills Tribune.
ALTHOUGH the late Anthony Radford
Strut, OF England, owned property
worth e15,000,000, he said the pail
bearers and mourning-coaches must be
kept away from his funeral.
TEA is now consolidated into cakes by
powerful hydraulic press, in which
form it is said to retain its flavor better,
and consequently be more economical
than IN the ordinary loose condition.
A YOUNG man at Wheeling, w. Va,
got up a picnic, invited twenty-eight
girls, took them all himself, provided
the dinner at his own expense, and went
home to find eighteen challenges waiting
him.
The European ladies at Bangkok,
Siam, have signed n petition to the King
praying for the abrogation of the law
which allows n man TO pawn his wife in
payment of debt contracted by gam
bling.
AT Middletown, Del, an immense
peach refrigerator is to be built, capable
of holding 300, 900 baskets of fruit, which
the protector guarantees to keep, by
a peculiar freezing process, for six
months.
SAN FRANCISCO has n pedestrian club,
the members of which lately walked to
San Jose, distance of fifty miles. Two
did the task within twelve hours, and the
rest were from fourteen to twenty hours
about it.
THE Connecticut House has passed a
bill providing that all theaters, public
halls, churches, school buildings, facto-
ries, ETC., where fifty or more persons
congregate, shall have all of their exit
doors open outward.
FRENCH journalists maintain that
England must raise a bigger army if she
wants to exert any influence in European
affairs. A hundred thousand regular
troops are mere bagatelle compared
with the immense armies of the present
day. England is too near the continent,
they think, to be indifferent to compli-
cations in European politics.
A CANADIAN exchange says: 1T has
been discovered that during the races at
Muchmore PARK $50 kegs of gunpowder
were slowed away under the grand stand.
Only thin board partition, full OF
holes, divided the powder from a smolS-
ing-room. If lighted cigar had got
among those kegs, there wouldn't have
been Mutchmore racing done that day. .