The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-01
PeOple and Things.

THE number of American colleges is
1913.
Messy proposes to open law Office in
Washington.
DAVID T.. PORTER, son of the Admiral,
mas accepted position on the staff of
the Khedive.
"A TEA-cHEsT that came over in the
Mayflower has just been sold in Boston
for one dollar.
A CANADIAN Agricultural Society offers
prize for the best bread made and
baked by bachelors.
Two MORE lawyers have started for the
Fiji islands. The natives will find them
rather tough eating.
AT Abilene, Kan, is wheat field of
1900 acres, the yield of which is expect
ed to soil for $4,000.
DUBLIN and Belfast are the only cities
in the British Isles, outside of London.
that support seven daily papers.
THUS far thirty-seven foreign govern
ments have signified their intention of
being represented at the Centennial.
A BRAKEMAN on New York railroad
has been fined five dollars for replying
eyes, SIR" to common-l Looking tras-
eler.
A WYOMING woman on a jury refused
to agree on verdict until boy could
ride three miles and bring her box OF
black snuff.
ENIGRANTs are going into San Fran
cisco at the rate OF $50 : day. They
would get out of San Francisco at the
rate of 300 day-if they could.
THERE are nearly 10000 more
women than men i'll Germany. But the
police system over there is so efficient
that the men are comparatively safe.
An Indiana court has decided that the
fact of girl being engaged to several
lovers at once is no legal bar TO her SUI
ing every one of them for a breach of
promise.
Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS is accompanied
on his Western tour by his son, Mr..
Jefferson Davis, Jr The latter is 81
years of age, and has spent the greater
part of his life in Europe.
THE "Texas Cattle King" Capt.
Richard King, recently contracted by
telegraph to furnish $4,000 beeves. On
his rancho, near San Antonio, he has
GO, 900 acres inside one fence.
The census-taker of Winchenden,
Mass, has encountered woman 20
years of age, who was married Mt IL
years of age, has ten living children, the
oldest of whom is ID years old.
The North Carolina lawmakers pro-
pose the re establishment of the whip
ping post for the relief of the peniten-
tiary, which is now becoming SO full as
to become n burden to the State.
THERE is a case in the Massachuso tt
courts between parts of a Hebrew congre-
CATION. The majority want to put family
pews i'll the synagogue and the minority
oppose this as forbidden commingling
of the sexes.
4 MAN who thinks he is doing great
thing for his fellow-men writes to New
York paper that n piece of ice, applied
to mosquito bite, will instantly allay
all irritation. Why didn't he get around
with his news while the birds were
here?
IT is announced that the Khedive of
Egypt has invited Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to
organize a body of troops for him, to
consist of veteran soldiers, and also
suggests they shall be picked men from
the whole American cavalry in the late
civil war.
In an agricultural convention at Dal-
ton, Ga, few days ago, gentleman
called upon all present who owned q
sheep and no dogs to rise, and thirteen
rose up. He then called upon all who
owned dogs and no sheep to rise, and
sixty or seventy responded.
TIE mode of furnishing a criminal in
Quebec is rigorous, slightly. They bury
him to the neck in the earth so that all
movement is impossible, keep his mouth
forced open with spike, and then drive
all kinds of horrible insects to take
refuge in the mouth, ears and eyes.
Mr.. SLUsIER, the largest man ever
born in Tennessee, died at Greenville,
in that State, last week. He was but 10
years of age, and had he not been bent
by an attack of rheumatism would have
been nine feet high. His boot was Is
inches long, and one of his hands was
about the size of four ordinary ones. He
could sit on chair and pick up any
thing three feet from him. His head
about IA inches, and his chest
"a feet in circumference. His coffin was
81 feet long, % inches wide and q feet
deep.