The true northerner., 1875-06-11
People and Things.
BRIGHAM YOU'VE is IA years old.

People and Things.
BRIGHAM YOU'VE is IA years old.
The ShinpaO newspaper, of Shang-
hal, prints choice pieces Of news in blue
ink
A NEW YORK clergyman shows how
quite decent funeral can be had
for S25.
A WOMAN in Lancaster county, S. c.,
has made proAtof $9Oin one year from
three hens.
SETH GREEN says that fish never be-
come deranged; but we have seen lots
of fish inseine.
MINISTER WAsHBURNE, il is said,
dances well, always preserving the Dig
nifty of an ambassador.
THE grasshoppers have devoured the
tombstone of the Kansas man whose
memory was ever fresh and green.
A PRUssIAN soldier of good family
committed suicide recently because an
officer bored his ears for awkwardness in
drilling.
In Belgium it is proposed to punish
the unexecuted intent to commit crime
the same rs if the crime had been COM
mitted.
The first railroad in Prince Edward
Island was recently opened for traffic,
and the first train took ten hours to
travel 103 miles
A New ORLEANS husband never tells
his wife he is "going down to the post
office this evening"" There are seven
lady clerks in that institution.
THERE was more sense than sentiment
in that court in Clay county, Minn.,
which admitted the murderer Sullivan's
plea of insanity, and then sent him to
the Insane Asylum.
Mr.. HALLErT, a member of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, had his pockets
picked just as he was starting for home,
after the adjournment, and is minus his
pay for the entire session.
THE young ladies of the senior class
of Adams School, Mt East Boston, voted
to dispense with the costly muslin dresses
usually worn at graduation, and appear
in plain cambrics or calicoes.
"THE City of Shirks," is the heading
of an editorial upon our delinquent tax
list. The writer evidently supposes the
true name of the Garden City to be
Shirkago.-Chicago Tribune.
THE rural papers of North Carolina
announce that the failure of circus con-
cern down there was entirely due to
lack of advertising, and sternly re-
mark "Let this be warning to
Others"
JUST remember, says the Free Press,
if you are called upon to contribute to
the Pennsylvania fire sufferers, that two
shillings in money is worth twice as
much to them as All old coat with the
tails off.
Mr.. JEWELL finds that the new system
of preparing postage on newspapers at
the office where newspapers are pub
hshed isn't bringing the POstoffice De-
partment but about half as much as the
old one.
RED CLOUD has acknowledged that he
told Prof. Marsh "heap big lie about
those poor rations. He also furnished
him specimens of food that had been
prepared for "inspection " by soaking
in the river.
The last Legislature Of Arizona passed
an act awarding premium of So, 900 for
the first artesian water obtained at
greater depth than 500 feet, or So, 900 for
artesian water obtained at a less depth,
in that Territory.
THE Warsaw (Ky.) girls got together
lately and pledged themselves not to buy
piece of dress goods for year that cost
over twenty-five cents per yard. Their
papas are happy, and think it would be
better if it Warsaw everywhere.
LESEUER county, Mimi, has offered
bounty of 81 per bushel for grasshop-
pers and the consequence is that the
plague will touch lightly upon the crops
, there. This is the most sensible method
of fighting the trouble yet advised.
WHEN young Mr.. w. Flaherty fell
into the canal at Waterloo, n. Y, few
days since, Miss Lynch, who stood near,
did not faint away, nor shrek and run
off, but she reached right down toward
the drowning man, as best she could, and
saved him.
not take the parole and be released at
COIt INtuttull, HIS NY lllS ucI DISuSub
| forth a decision from the Attorney
, General that there is no law to punish
criminally an American citizen for going
upon the Black Hills reservation until
after he has been once removed.
IT is said of Bishop Miles, of the col
a ored Methodist Episcopal Church, that
! he bought his freedom before the war,
: for $1,000, and earned the money in
: three years, rs boot and shoemaker.
: When he was sold, at the death OF
Q his mistress, citizen of his place adj
= vanced him the money to effect his pur-
. chase.
: The PRNTRR's SToRY.-We Ice saw q
! young man gazing at the Fry heavens,
with in Rsas" and 49, of pistols i'll
), the other. We Ndeavored 2 attract his
at lotion by .fng 2 paper we held in
4, our bay", relating 2 a young man in that
! S of the country who had left home in
4 stS of arrangement. he dropped the t
and pistols from his Bs2y- -s1a, with the
ssIt 20 r ~ whom III real i left homo