The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-24
People and Things.

People and Things.
A RICH Baltimore ieweler OF 70 ia con.
tent to marry girl Of only IL.
San FRANCISCO papers advertise ripe
Strawberries at ton cents pound"
A MOTHER and her daughter married
brothers in Tuscaloosa, Ala, and the
mother got the youngest husband.
A SINFUL New York sheet ianagines
that Mrs. Stanton and Miss ANTHONY
must be direct DESCENDANTS of the peo-
pie who settled by the rivers of babble
on.
THE Brooklyn argus says the man
who rode in a horse-car by the side of a
woman who had just returned from the
Centennial is suffering from severe at
tack of the earache.
A LoNDoNER having read in Boston
paper an advertisement headed, "Ameri-
can Steam Safe Company" remarked
that he was glad if the Americans had
made steam safe company.
AN old resident Of Midway, Mass.
was sent to the poorhouse the other
week, on the same day that his son laid
the foundation of a fine house for his
own use in the most aristocratic part of
the village.
THE COWS of the noted Glastonbury
Conn., sisters have again been driven
off by remorseless tax collector-a
gentleman whom they spitefully de-
scribe in the Woman's Journal as large,
fat, and lazy.
A NEW method of circulating handbills
in cities is by throwing them from the
upper stories of high buildings, by
which means an under current of air
carries them great distance before
they fall to the ground.
The annual income of the charities of
London amounts to nearly So, 900, 900.
OF this large amount nearly two thirds
is derived from voluntary contributions,
the other third being derived from divi-
dends, property or trade.
WHEN Lord Dufferin went to ball at
Reykjavik, he knew no Icelandic, and
so hazarded to the young ladies some
little complimentary observations In
, Latin. But he adds: 81 cannot say
that found that language lends itself
, readily to the gallantries of the ball
ROOM"
MY FRIEND.
The friend who holds a mirror TO my face,
And hiding none, Is not afraid to trace
My faults, my smallest blemshes within;
. Who friendly warns, reproves me If / sin
Although 1t seems not 80, he IL my friend.
| But he who ever flattering, gives me praise
Who ne'er rebukes, nor censures delays
To come with eagerness and grasp my hand,
And pardon me, ere pardon demand
He is my enemy, although he seem my friend.
{ THE New York churches have a curious
3 prejudice in favor of imported ministers,
} which leads the COngregationaiist to in
quire if the American ministerial stock
Y is giving out. No less than eight of the
/ metropolitan pulpits are filed by foreign
/ born clergymen, all of whom have been
l called from active pastorates in their
: own country.
/ A JEALOUS Baltimore husband, p. j.
Tracy, swallowed morphine after writ
ing to his wife cit is for you that 1
; have done this, and when I am dead you
can do what you like about marrying
Schlutter." Mrs. Tracy got the letter,
but before she had time to marry Schlut-
!, ter her husband had been pumped free
= of the poison.
e A GENTLEMAN in Virginia City, New,
/ whose Chinese cook left him, was unable
y to retain any of numerous "Johns" for
l. over day, until he induced one of
u them to explain that some apparently
:, meaningless strips of red paper on the
d kitchen wall contained the Chinese in
y scription, "Boss woman, long time
o tongue. Muchee jaw, jaw"
= The London Society says railway
!! traveller, provoked beyond endurance by
:; the, to all appearance, endless delay at
some obscure station, demonstrated on
this subject at last with the guard, who
! explained "This engine-dr'ver of
= ours is a very clever man. He gives
!. pianoforte lessons here to the station
:, masters daughter while The train waits. F"
J, RIcHFoRD, VT, furnishes the plot for
p q first-class romance. A married couple
d quarreled and were divorced twenty
II years ago. The woman has since been
O married once, and the man twice. Last
|. week they met for the first time and ate
It each other. Afterward they were intro
II duced, made up, and were married that
|. night.
i !, A WALK through the Vienna Imperial
= Hoiburg shows the striking likeness be-
!" tween the Hapsburgs of to-day and their
' ancestors GOO years back. The broad
y y neither lip of Rudolph, elected Kaiser
= of the German Empire in 1916, forms a
- very marked feature in all his descend
!, ants down to the present occupant of the
y y throne, Francis Joseph 1. They pride
. . themselves on an unbroken descent OF
= thirty generations.
g The Phoebe Record says that a rich
, man in that place died in 1861, and
l. there was pompouns funeral. The
e following is added by way of moral les
8, son: "In 1871 we visited the grave
d and saw four bob-tailed pigs roofing at
N the sods of the grassy mound that COW
cred all that was left of old pomposity.
And that was the end-a neglected
s. grave, with four stub tailed porkers
roofing up the subsoil."
le The humanitarians of London have
D. come TO the conclusion that the Italian
D. juvenile beggar nuisance is sustained
10 solely by the well-mcaning aims giving