The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-16
People and Things.

People and Things.
KEY WEST, Fla, sends 156, 900 cigars
to New York every week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edinburgh are going to
Russia to see the old folks.
THERE is man in Waseka, Mimi,
whose name is Finger Fingerson.
HARVEST hands in Missouri are CON-
handing as much as $3.50 per day.
IT is reported that a large silver mine
has been discovered in Wright county,
Missouri.
LIE SUEUR county, Minnesota, still
continues its bounty of 81 per bushel for
grasshoppers.
A HISTORY of the life of poor John
Howard Payne has been written by Ga
briel Harrison, the artist, and published
by an Albany house.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to keep her
"real" birthday alone with her family,
and allow her subjects to celebrate the
suspicious event some days later.
SAMUEL CHUBBUcK, of Utica, n. Y,
died last Sunday. Mr.. Chubbuck was
the inventor of telegraphic apparatus,
and the first manufacturer of them.
Tom ALLEN has once more decided to
withdraw from the prize-ring. AS pre-
viously limited, Mr.. Allen is noted as be-
ing of retiring disposition about once
in SO often.
A DAUGHTER of Minister Schenck is
soon to be married in London, and she
sets American ladies abroad good ex-
ample by marrying one of her own
countrymen.
Mr.. ZPPEvER, of Lowndes county,
Ga, has 1900 silkworm cocoons of diff
ferent colors ready for spinning. This
is a new industry for the South, and one
they should increase.
THE Russian government spends. an
. nually $37, 900 for carriages in behalf of
singers at the ST. Petersburg opera in
order to keep them out OF the snow with
warm feet and clear voices.
IT lessons ones confidence in Mr..
Gladstone's S familiarity with Scripture to
find him speaking, in his paper on "The
Prince Consort," of "Daniel walking I'M
scathed through the fiery furnace.
In Central Kentucky a mysterious
change has come over the tops of the
beech trees, the leaves of which have
turned brown and apparently dead, while
the lower parts remain III full leaf.
Mr.. WALTER p. PHILLIPS, we'll
known in Boston and Providence as a
telegraph operator and journalist, has
been appointed Assistant General Man
d os off ha iafn &C No T,,;t o1
States.
The widows of Canon Kingsley and
Sir Arthur Helps having accepted Crown
pensions of 5000 year each, the London
Examiner declares that they have done
their utmost to discredit their husbands
teachings.
COUNT VoN ARNIM says he is the worst
prosecuted man alive, and that the Berlin
goddess of justice, instead of being the
usual maiden with even-balanced scales,
is a rufiian with whacking big club in
his hand.
The union of the Black and Caspian
seas is in contemplation, snd project
for the construction of canal $50
leagues long for that purpose, is meet
ing with great favor at st. Petersburg
and Moscow.
| A KENTUCKY preachers horse has de-
veloped n wonderful liking for spring
chicken, eating all that come in its way,
| feathers and all. Heretofore it has been
only the preacher who depleted the
chicken-coop.
The claimant to piece of ground in
which q body is buried near Scranton,
Pa, has put up the following notice or
the grave: NoTIs-This corpes is re-
quested TO remove immeaditley or Will
remove the same.
AFTER all the talk about the universal
destruction of the peaches it is now an
nounced that the Eastern crop will be
| largest ever known. Thus, if our home
crop fails, the market is likely to be even
better supplied than usual with canned
/ fruit.
MOTHER and son exchanging pulpits
was one of the queer sights of Jersey
City and Little Falls, New York, not
long ago. The Rev. Phebe Hanaford,
of the first named city, and the Rev.
Howard Alcott Hanaford were the
preachers.
KEEy-EYEp Californians killed Next
can bandit and then appointed Coro-
ner's jury to investigate. The jury rem
dered q verdict that the deceased was
Jose Maria Guerro that they found him
in n canon "and buried him according to
Hoyle."
Mrs. T.. ZURICH, the first woman who
ever sat on jury, has just opened So
loon at Winnemucca, New. She lived in
Wyoming Territory at the time, and
found verdict of guilty against noto-
rious criminal who was tried for murder
and afterward hanged.
Mr.. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, intending to
be absent for two years in Europe on a
professional tour, his "entire elegant
private establishment, including horses,
carriages and cattle, was sold at auction
in New York. The proceeds of the sale
were about $4,000.