The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01

20 People and. Things. e.
MISS BHAnH, of Providence, Ri,
swan two miles beyond the surf ct
Watch Hill Point last week. and all the
people marvelled. -------------.---
A FIEND in Kingston, r. l., has been
arrested for putting potato-bug in his
wife's stocking. His defense IS that he
heard the bite would cause lockjaw.
A FRENCH Florence Nightingale has
Just died, at the age of g." Sister
Martha" known in the armies of the
Crimea and of Italy as the little
The Captain of New London vessel
reports being boarded at sea by Col
orado beetles. They appeared in such
overwhelming force that the matches had
to be closed. ~,
SsME of the leading life insurance
companies OF Hartford are said to be
writing only from five to ten new policies
daily, the dull times having terribly
bad effect on life business.
A BOY in Tennessee committed suicide
the other day because his mother sent
him to the woods for O hickory stick,
with which he was to be punished for
"taking sugar out of the sugar bowl"
A sPEcIRs of trade tyranny, the cus-
tom of standing footing" still pre-
walls in England. At q London police
Gently for half hanging fellow-work-
man who steadfastly refused to strand
gallon of beer.
A WRITER in medical journal advises
those who have to take long railway
journey to use an air cushion as a foot
stool. He says the effect is agreeable
and highly beneficial to health, as the
trembling motion of the cars greatly ia
tigues the limbs.
The best whist in the country was
played in the club-room of the old United
States Hotel at Saratoga, when Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Gen. Wool, Reverdy John
SOD, and Judge Wayne, of Georgia, were
frequenters of the place. The club-room
was built about 1845.
The value of the Centennial buildings
at Philadelphia is estimated at 1874
900, and that of their contents at $97,-
343, $50, making total of $1O4, 800, $50.
1t is believed that there has never been
an aggregation of products of all the
arts and trades of such immense value as
that in Philadelphia.
A LOCAL paper having given circula-
ton to report that Rev. Charles Reilly,
pastor of the Methodist Church at Hast
ings, Neb., was addicted to saloon-visit-
ing and liquor drinking, the matter was
made the topic of formal investigation
by the church, resulting ip a complete
exoneration of the clergyman.
WHEN summer their radiance aing
Ger every bright and beauteous thing;
When, strong in faith, the evil day
OF pain and grief seems far away
When sorrow. soon as felt, is gone,
And smooth the stream OF life runs on;
When duty. cheerful, chosen, free.
Brings her own prompt reward to thee
lis easy then, my soul, to raise
The grateful song of heavenly praise.
The "black fellows" in Australia are
rapidly dying away. Trucanini, the last
Tasmanian aboriginal, died few months
ago, and even in New Zealand, the far
nobler Maori, who fourished during
centuries of cannibalism and internecine
warfare, is disappearing under the mys-
terious influence of the white mans
presence.
A DINNER has just been given in Lon
don which shows to what depths of de-
graduation high-born women can sink.
The feast was given by the Marchioness
of T and Lady Il. II. to celebrate
the elopement of their sister, Lady
D., or, as they are said to have put
it, the reuniting of the sisters on the
the common ground of divorces.
THE great French painter and en-
graver, Gustave Dore, is enjoying bit
of sweet revenge. Twenty years ago he
was Tilted by his girl, and the other fell
low whom she married is now serving
prison term of eight years for trying to
kill her. Gustave is now a confirmed
old bachelor and be has no desire to link
his destinies to those of the grass-widow.
FROM Oshkosh A man in the town of
Rushford killed another mans dog.
The son of the man whose dog was
killed, therefore, proceeded to whip the
man who killed the dog of the man he
of the man whose dog was killed was ar
rested by the man who was assaulted by
the son of the man whose dog the man
assaulted and killed.
HARTFORD physicians can't ne very
well educated set. Among the recent
death certificates sent to the city clerk
these causes of death appear "Colre
infantuim, scholafer (scrofula), sun strok,
applexy fit, coire fanthum, isfuside lin
fantile), absesse, direa, parletic shock,
reustism (rheumatism), general debility,
hearth disease, earsipless, long fever,
PARALYSIS, loung feovar, spinal meneget-
tes."
PROF. JULIUS Fl. SEELYE having ac-
copied the Presidency of Amherst Col
lege, the singular coincidence is pre-
scented of two brothers at the head of
two colleges in sight OF each other.
Rev. L. Clark Seelye is President Of
Smith College for Women at Northamp-
ton, eight miles across the valley from
Amherst, and the building is in full view.
A third brother, Rev. Samuel j. Seelye,
is pastor of the Payson Congregational
Church at Easthampton, near by.