The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-17
! pecp,e and Things.


The latest histories leave off Pitts
burgh's "h."
Mrs. MILLER, of California, has a
line of stages.
THERE are one-fourth more blondes
than brunettes.
A WOMAN runs the Coast Line of stages
in Northern California.
TENNESSEE has 226 convicts at work
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
CALIFORNIA seems to be the only State
now that has Maj. Pauline Cushman.
HE business depression of the past
year has diminished the consumption of
Tennessee peanuts.
HENRY SALroNsTAI1 of Massachusetts,
recently owned COW that gave 13. O65
quarts of milk in year.
FRA DIAvoLo and Zerlina were real
personages. Gen. Hugo, the father of
the poet, himself captured the brigand.
The Haywood fund, for the benefit of
the Northtield cashier who lost his life
in defending his trust, has reached the
sum of $500
HEADLINES in a st. Louis paper ga
Book Agent Bounced-It was Done by
a Woman Whom He Insulted, and in a
Very Effective Manner"
A REFORM is about to be inaugurated
in the imperial Ottoman army. BY
order of the Sultan the officers are in
future to wear epaulets.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser states that Alex. Steel's canary
died recently, at the ripe old age of
"a years and 3 months. Mr.. Steel has
had the bird ssince it was 2 months
old.
WHEN races first came into fashion
in France the many went for fun, the
few to bet. Now the betting element
has assumed an alarmingly large pro-
portion, and great sums are lost and
won.
A CHILD years old has been pois
oned at village near Frodsbem, in
England, by drinking from a bottle con-
tanning carbolic acid, which its mother
had given it to play with in bed "to pac-
ify it."
The Boston Herald says that "the
man who takes up his morning paper,
and doesn't find an account OF a new
murder IN Vermont, knows it is the fault
of the news-g atherers and not of the Yer
monters."
IT is noted as singular fact that the
fifty newspapers in Turkey published in
the Turkish language are managed either
by Greeks or by Armenians. The very
official organ in COnstantinople is edited
by an Armenian.
MANY of the Indiana cities are estab-
fishing high schools for the winter
months, for the benefit of youths and
young men and women whose necessities
have prevented them from attaining
common school education.
JUDGE WEAVER was an eminent iur-
list IN Texas, a remarkable orator, an
honorable man-and q drunkard. The
latter trait has just killed him. After
failing in earnest efforts to reform, he
took a fatal dose of chloral.
WHEN a bright young preacher comes
along in London, and Mr.. Spurgeon is
asked if he doesn't fear rival, he calmly
replies: "When new coach is put on
the road, the old coach must make mp its
mind to horse up or lose customers"
Louis XIV. once submitted some of
his poetic ventures to Boileau, and asked
him what he thought of them. "Noth-
ing, sire, is impossible to Your Majesty"
replied the candid critic. You wished
to make bad verses, and you have sue
ceeded."
The initiative Chinaman of Shanghai
has tried his dexterous hand on coun-
terfeit $25 note of the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Banking Company, and has
produced an article that the most expert
teller could not tell from the genuine,
but for the fact that the date is "Dec.
30, 1871"
A MAN sweeping sidewalk will some
times stay his horrid broom to let a fell
low being pass; woman sweeping, and
better the passer had crawled into dust
cart. A sweet Inconsistencies of all
save her own existence seems to charac-
terize woman in all the walks of life,
particularly the sidewalks.
A BURMESE drama is q protracted en-
joyment. The performance usually be-
gins about 8 p. M, lasting until day
light, when an intermission is taken
until night again. Four OF five nights
are often consumed in single comedy.
The Burmese families sometimes carry
their beds to the theater with them.
THERE a tattered beggar- man,
And he loved lady we'll
''I have a heart 20 buy" he said,
"And you have gold to SELL"
There a Prince of high degree,
And he loved the lady we'll
al have a crown TO buy he said,
"And you have heart to SELL"
To the beggar-care she laughed laugh,
To the Prince she frowned a frown-
an give my gold for the beggar's heart,
Vtftta haa ~ for fha DriV ~
The Caucasian is "played out" in
Indianapolis. Says the Sentinel: Son
the Circle yesterday white man
knocked Chinaman down for some
real or fancied grievance, and the eternal
fitness of things was illustrated by the
promptness with which negro police
man arrested and took the assaulter to
the station house."
The number of convictions for muir
der in England has been greater in 1875
than in any preceding year, the exact