The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-10
Pe0ple and Things.

GEORGE GIBBS fell against a circulal
saw in n mill at Cameron, Pa, and wa
cut to pieces.
FIVE Washington streets confuse the
American patriot who undertakes to stroll
through Boston.
IN Lewistown, Me-, you can't sweal
Tor less than $40 reasonable oath, ano
no Communication on account of the
weather.
A MEAN Chicago man phenomenon
has nailed TO his door card bearing the
statement that Everybody shuts this
door but you"
owing chiefly to tlfe military footing on
which that country persists IN standing.
Living is higher and wages.lower.
HARRIET HosMER, the sculptress, is
A, and unmarried. She is satisfied with
her marble family, though she might
have chiseled some other woman out OF
husband.-NeiO Orleans Republican.
AT religious revival of the colored
people now in progress Mt Palestine,
Texas, a song WAS sung, of which these
two lines are specimens
Dat makes you walk so light and square?
A SCHOOL teacher in Leandro, CAL, is
in trouble for brutal treatment of his
pupils. He compelled boy to walk up
flight of twenty nine steps one hundred
times for the otfense of looking over his
shoulder.
THIS is the way the newspapers talk
in Louisiana: eff that convicted thief
and robber, jim Walker, wants any fuss
with us, he can have steel or buckshot in
unlimited quantities by polMng his nose
around our corner.
CHARIvARI tells of negro named
Domingo, in one of the French colonies,
who, speaking of the advantages of the
Christian religion, said: There was a
time when l knew nothing of God or
the devil, but now ! know and love them
BOTH"
A West INDIAN schoolboy, after he has
committed his lesson to memory, crosses
and recrosses the pages of the book from
which he has learned it with "lucky
bean," after which he has no RESPONSE
bility, as, according to the prevailing
superstition, his lesson cannot fail to be
perfect.
The New York Tribune indirectly adj
vises women 10 marry men with ugly
physiognomies, on the ground that
man who is ugly, and who knows it, al
ways tries the hardest to please, and will
be, in fact, what the derivation of the
adjective would seem TO signify, home
-ly man.
THERE is no such poverty in South
Australia as is known in England. If
workingman is healthy, sober and indus
trious, his family can have good meat
two or three times a day, bread made of
the finest wheat, and fruit and vegeta-
bles are abundant AMI cheap. During
the fruit season, incredulous as it may
sound, the very pigs are fed on peaches
and milk.
MASSACHUSETTS has an old custom OF
pardoning certain number of prisoners
in the Penitentiary every Thanksgiving.
This year Gov. CASTOR pardoned four.
The intense eagerness with which the
convicts awaited the reading of the
names of the favored ones, the Joy of the
pardoned and the disappointment of the
others are represented as being affecting
incidents.
The French Government is about imi-
tating our own in detailing a man-of-war
as free training school for the mercan-
tile navy. A schooner carrying twenty
four guns has been selected, and will be
anchored in the Seine, either before the
Louvre or the Palace of Industry. I'm
mediate admission will be given TO poor
orphan child chosen in each arrondisse-
ment of Paris.
IT is fact to be noted that probably
for the first time the policy OF England
and Russia toward Turkey is identical
Without any previous understan ding,
the instructions given to Gen. lgnatietf,
the Russian Ambassador at Constantine
Pile, and Sir Henry Elliott, the British
Ambassador, proved to be in all respects
similar. The English message, however,
proceeded the Russian by more than two
months.
AS German girl approaches the COM
pletion of her education, her studies are
somewhat relaxed, and she attends, once
or twice a week, at Nahschule, where
lessons are given her in cutting out, fix
ing, piecing, patching and darning, and
all ornamental stitching. She will make
her brother n set of shirts and for her.
self complete outfit against the day
when she energies from schoolgirlhood
into young ladyism.
JOHN ALFRED, of Rome, Ga, as he
paid his taxes last week, remarked to the
Collector 81 am fifty-two years old
and don't owe a dollar haven't bought
a bushel of corn or pound of meat since
the war never had n cross word with a
neighbor in my life, and never swore an
oath never buy any clothing-have them
spun, woven and made at home I; never
had lawsuit with any one, and never
was a witness in court"
Mr.. JAMES O'DoNNELL, of Madison,
Ind, has accomplished the marvellous
feat of eating thirty quails in thirty con
secutive days, one each day. Much
anxiety was expressed for him when he
reached quail No. 90, as it was observed
that the bones did not disappear until
near midnight, but the patient rallied
successfully, and came out triumphant.
1t must be exp aimed, for the benefit of
the ignorant, that quail is very good eat
ing when taken occasionally, but quail
every day is nauseating.
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