The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-26
PeOnIe and Things.

newspapers.
SPAIN has had forty governments in
orty years.
FRANCE is organizing regular postal
service of carrier pigeons.
Ir is stated that the Dutch Cremation
Society now numbers about 1000 men,
bers.
THE old Catholics of Baden-B Baden and
Pfonzheim have abolished suricular con-
fession.
THERE are twenty-one universities in
Italy, the Oldest being at Bologna, which
was founded A. ID. 11l9.
Two San Francisco capitalists recently
bought 1900, 900 acres of land in Oregon
at the rate of 81, gold, per acre.
The mohawk Ministries is the,
name of negro minstrel troupe which
is meeting with success in London.
The Massachusetts school fund now
amounts to S2,500,000. The finest
buildings III Massachusetts, are school
houses.
Mrs ELLEN CLEMENS starved to death
| uI IaNIOu, w., uilNi WIS bA--Aca ~ VIC
Woman's Christian Association. She
left two children.
ARTIFICIAL leather was exhibited in
Vienna last year which was perfectly
waterproof and sixty per cent. cheaper
than the real article.
The National Society of the Baptist
denomination have been invited TO hold
J IL 10. lc1, Inv
ing the month of May.
A YOUNG man named Zimmerman, liv
ing near Martinsburg, Pa, died very
suddenly the other day from the effects
of eating frozen apple.
Mile. ANGELO is the most beautiful
actress in Paris. Her only defect is her
large hands, which even squeezing will
not reduce to proper limits.
SOME time ago Bret Harte and Bouci-
cault attempted to write play together.
When they reached the second act they
gave it up by mutual consent.
FEARS are entertained by horticultur-
lists in various parts of Iowa that fTnit
trees have been seriously injured by the
unusual severity of the winter.
PRAYERS have been offered IN Plym-
outh Church every morning since the
trial of Mr.. Tilton's suit WIS begun.
Mr. Halliday is at al Of the meetings.
In six years previous to It's census of
1872, France lost somehow about three
fourths of million Of Inhabitants; and
its figures in that census aggregated &c.
1872, 921.
PHILADELPHIA has 10000 Jews in her
midst, but only one in her prisons, and
that for trivial offense; which the Je1C-
ISL Messenger thinks should be made
note of.
One of the largest honey-raisers in the
world is Adam Grimm, of Jefferson,
pounds, and his apiary consists OF lbs
colonies.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Baltimore Sue
has found i'll Florida young girl named
Neuralgia. She was christened after
bottle of patent medicine which her
mother esteemed.
AN ice bridge now covers Niagara
river below the falls, which will re-
main till spring. The ice mountains
reach nearly the edge of the falls, and
the visitors climb to their SUBMITS for
the best views.
A GIRL only sixteen years Old was ar
rested few days ago in Boston, for hav-
ing "raised" q certificate of railroad
stock from one share 20 sixty. The ap-
parent value of the certificate was in
creased from 500 to S4,CS0, and 81. 600
was obtained on it before the fraud was
discovered.
THE friends of the late Admiral Wins
low are about TO place over his grave at
Mount Auburn granite bowlder weigh
ing several tons, taken from the summit
of Kearsarge Mountain in New Hamp-
shire, surmounted by a granite shaft
emblematic of the ship and mountain he
rendered famous.
THE following extremely improbable
story comes from Morris county, VT:
cat the golden wedding of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Baird, of Green Village, of
this county, the fact was acknowledged
by the aged couple that never in their
lives had they kissed each other" Curl
Gus folks "down East.
GETTING up in cold room to make a
fire is Like getting up in life. If you
crawl timidly out of bed, go on tip-toe
to the stove, and allow the shivers TO get
control of you before the lindling starts,
your fire will probably be failure, and
You will half freeze 60 death III the OPP
Grafton. But if you jump out bravely,
hustle around, put on your clothes,
knock over chair or two, and pitch in
the stove-wood, you will probably be too
warm by the time the fire gets to burn
ing and have to open a window So in
life. Attack it timdly, and you will fail.
Grapple with it, hurry up things, stir
around, conquer fortune, and you will