The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-22
People and Things.


A WAR on the alphabet-the struggl
in Servia.
AN ounce of favor goes farther than
pound of justice.
SHOULD you wish divorce, there is
Troy On. Y.) lawyer who will take hold
OF your case and push it through for 50.
In Peabody's model buildings, Lon
don, the death rate is only ~ ANNUALLY
in every 1000, while the parish rate Is
pa.
JESSE PoMERoY is to endure the hor-
rors o. solitary confinement. which. If
the novelists speak truly, is worse than
hanging.
The first step toward making man of
your son is to train him to earn what he
spends F; the next step is to teach him
how to save his earnings.
A DANISH glove, which is much worn
in Europe, is laced in the palm of the
hand. The hand being liable to swell
in summer, it can be made tight or loose,
to suit the occasion.
MARY MONTAGUE, of CRANKY, Mass,
aged 20 years, has for a third of her life
been diligently searching out her gen.
Va
that she has established a twenty-fifth
cousinship with the British royal family.
JOHN b. COUGH, the eminent temper
ance lecturer, has in his possession four
large volumes wherein are written the
signatures of 100000 persons to the
pledge of total abstinence, obtained by
the personal exertions of Mr.. Cough.
AT present the whole constituency in
England and Wales numbers 2,340, 1853
electors, consisting of 843,803 in coun-
ties, and /, 484, S44 in boroughs, and H.
116 in universities. In Ireland there
are 230,773 electors, and in Scotland
295, 400.
BETWEEN 1865 and 1875 Fall River,
Mass, by reason of its cotton manufac-
tories, trebled its population, and Mr..
Bowles says that the danger of hasty
growth of city of undiversified indus
try is the accumulation of poverty and
ignorance.
AsBURY MACK, of Versailles, KY, had
habitually whipped his wife during
many years, usually with club. At
last he grew careless, and in one of the
chastisements dropped the weapon,
wherepon the wife picked it up and
killed him with it.
IFyou are the friend of the tiger it
may interest you to know that those
unfeelin'" felines in lower India ate
up, last year, ASP horses, 500 cows, 2O4
calves, 124 bullocks, 125 sheep, 1879
goats, horses or ponies, s asses, SO
dogs, and ~ pigs.
JUDGE SARTwELL, of Smithport, Pa,
died recently while bis son was engaged
in reading to him the details of the death
of the late Speaker Kerr. Without any
premonitory warning, he suddenly ex-
claimed, "I'm going too" and sank
away almost instantly.
WHITTIER sent this little verse to an
autograph collector in England
AMERICA AND ENGLAND.
Thicker than water in one rill
Through centuries of story,
Our saxon blood has flowed, and still
We share with you the good and Ill,
The shadow and the glory.
M. VoIsIN, the Project of Police in
Paris, has abolished the muzzles which
it has hitherto been imperative to put
upon the mouths of dogs in hot weather,
as a security against hydrophobia, hav-
ing come to the conclusion that the
muzzle tends to drive dogs mad.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has just
made a decision of no little importance
to faithless SWANS and forsaken maidens.
1t is to the effect that if promise of
marriage is by its terms not to be per-
formed within year, it is void except in
writing and signed by the parties.
Two YOUNG women who went from the
East to teach school in California, but
failed to find employment i'll that ca
pacity, started chicken ranch from
which they are making money at rapid
rate. The market price of eggs in their
locality ranges from 25 cents to $3.50
dozen.
Rev. JOHN WESLEY WHITFIELD, of
Green Island, New York, may not be a
Jack of all trades, but he comes pretty
near it. He is vouched for as "faith-
full preacher, skillful maker of math-
ematical instruments, careful astron-
omer, studious entomologist, power
full painter, painstaking sculptor, and
an average poet" "Average poet" is
good.
The manager of the Hoosac tunnel
speaks, in his report of the singular
lightning freak of June 3, at the tunnel,
Wueu tue DOlt Ihu TWO ullltS lutO tuo
mountain on one line of the track, dis
charging three prepared blasts in the
roof of the tunnel. The workmen had,
happily, just left the spot, and escaped
serious injury. There have been three
such experiences in the history of the
bore.
The New York bellies are adding an
other accomplishment C) to their long
list-that of opium eating and smoking.
They indulge the habit for the purpose
of giving that peculiar brightness to the
eye and the ruddy appearance to the
face; probably not aware that when the
narcotic influence is gone, the eye is
more dull and languid than ever, and
that by-and-by the face will look like q
piece OF par.boiled corned beef.
A WOMAN got. into Baltimore street
car, took seat, and carefully examined
a loaded revolver which she took her
pocket. Then she told the conductor to
let her out at John Nevins' house. A
friend of Nevins heard the remark, and,
getting out of the car ahead of her, ran
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