The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-20
People and Thiurs..

People and Things.
THIS years Havana tobacco harvest.
according to best accounts, is the worst
for many years.
LoTTIE GRANT advertisers in the the.
atrical newspapers that she is ga bewitch.
ing blonde vocalist"
THERE is not monument, bust nor
q statue to native New Yorker in any
public grounds in that city.
NEAR Summit, Miss, man jumped
of train to get his hat, and did not get
it because ne broke his neck.
In northern New York the social events
this season are pumpkin-pie parties.
Each guest brings a pie, and the host
supplies the doctor.
THE young ladies employed at the cam
ming factory at New London have struck
for an advance of 33 per cent. on their
wages. They say they cannot can at
the present prices.
IT is said the last few years have wit
messed a wonderful concentration of
Jews at Jerusalem. The Hebrew popu
lation of that city is double now what it
was ten years ago.
THE expedition against Poindi- Patch-
ouni, the Kanak chief in New Caledonia,
has had fatal termination, the leader of
1t, Capt. Mairet, having been captured
and eaten by the enemy.
RAT. ROASTING by means of kerosene
bath and touch of fame will probably
cause the loss of liberty to two brutes.
arrested yesterday for making such sport
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DEAD-LEITRRs, no more than dead
men, will tell tales hereafter, if the
proposition of the Postoffice Depart
ment, to burn all such missives not con-
tanning valuables, be acceded to.
UP to date, 1855 miles of new railroad
track have this year been completed in
the United States, against TAG miles re-
ported for the corresponding period In
1875, 1,O25 miles in 1874, 2,507 miles in
1873, and 1923 miles in 1872.
The theory Of free pews has come
around again to bother churches, and it
is being much harped on in the East.
1t is contended that rented pews keep
the poor away, and ON the other hand
that free pews keep money away.
The ranks OF the best-paid branch of
the English army, the Royal artillery,
are so uninviting to skilled mechanics,
that this body was ], 300 men below it's
complement ON Jan. /, and on July
there was deficiency of 1000 men.
EVERYBODY likes to be invited to
wedding ceremony; hence, unless strictly
private, it should always take place in
the church when the circle of acquaint-
ances are too large to be comfortably
accommodated at the family residence.
SOME murmur when their sky is clear
And wholly bright TO view,
If one small speok of dark appear
In their great heavens OF blue.
And some with thankful love are filed
II but one streak OF light
One ray of Gods good mercy gid,
The darkness OF theic night.
FIFTY thousand elephants are killed
every year to furnish the ivory worked
up in England alone. The best ivory
comes from Zanzibar, the silver gray
from regions south Of she equator, and
the favorite ornamental material from
Siam.
IT is said that there are in the United
States over 5000 idiots, estimating the
population at 100000, 09@-one for every
thousand. For the care of these "daft"
ones there are ten asylums, none OF
which have been in existence over thirty
years.
Two JEWS have just been elected to
the italian Senate, the first who have
ever held this honor in Italy. 1t is
hardly decade since the Jews had no
political and few social rights in Italy.
whereas now every avenue of prefer
ment is open to them.
| The mother-in-lawp problem has been
reduced to its lowest terms in Maine.
One man had four daughters end one
son; his neie hbor four sons and one
daughter; these were enamored of those;
net result-6ve weddings, aggregating
only two mothers-in1aw.
DANIEL DEvoR, a resident of Perth
Amboy, N. j., heard a suspicious noise
in his hennery, the other night, and got
up to ascertain the cause, taking his re-
volver with him. Ee went into the yard
and fired several shots in the direction
of the noise, the last one being followed
by groans. He hurried to the place to
capture the prisoner, when he was sud-
denly seized by several persons, who
beat him badly and robbed him OF his
watch, money and revolver. When day
light came, he found that they had taken
every chicken from the roost.