The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-17
People and Things.

| ICOplC ouu IuiuSSs
"SnvER to any amount taken at par "
is the sign that meets the eye at every
turn in San Francisco.
Coz. FRED GRANT saved his father
from being run over by street Car the
other day, and wretched little one
horse car ut that.
| Don CARLOS is not yet twenty-eight,
and if he lives may be regular King of
Spain. It's slippery situation, though,
and much avoided by solid men.
GEORGE ELIOT, it is said, thinks out
her books even to the structure of the
sentences before she begins to write
them. The printers like her for it.
A PROMINENT lawyer at Petersburg,
Va, was so confused recently by the
entry of his wife into the courtroom, as
a spectator, that he broke down in his
| argument.
PRINCE ALFRED stood it all until his
wife swore mt him in Russian, and called
him third-rate fiddler. Then he or
dered up his ship for two years cruise
in the Mediterranean.
SURGEONS say that finger nails, bitten
off, often find lodgment in the stomach,
where they remain for years adhering
to the tissues and running ones feelings.
Don't bite your finger nails.
MASSACHUSETTS expects soon to have
quorum of ex-legislators in State Prison,
and is reserving for Winslow cell ad-
joining that occupied by ex-senator Pond
and ex-Representative Best.
The Khedive has passion for improv-
ing Egypt, where he is at once the vir-
tual sovereign, the largest land owner,
the principal farmer, the most consider
able merchant, and the leading hotel
keeper. His ministers call it public
spirit.
A MAN will see, where there is house
full of children, one or two of the eldest
are restricted and the youngest ruined
by indulgence; but in the midst there
are some that are, as it were, forgotten,
who many times, nevertheless, prove the
st.-BocOn.
A MAN in New Bedford is fitting up
steamer for the purpose of towing ice
bergs to India, where they sell for six
cents pound. Another proposes to do
still better-to fit screw in the iceberg
itself, and thus avoid the expense of
shipbuilding.
AT the Dublin Lord Mayors banquet,
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland said the
country had been more prosperous last
year than ever before. Emigration and
pauperism had senslbly decreased, two
prominent banks were paying a divi-
dend of II per cent, and the deposits
in the Bank of Ireland amounted to
FL 600, 900 more in 1875 than in the
preceding year.
SUCCESSFUL experiments have been
recently made in France with a view of
determining whether lines could be sent
ashore from stranded vessel by the
aid of pigeons. The pigeon from the
wrecked vessel, when set free and nat
urally flying to land, is able to convey
thread 400 feet long and two-thou-
sandths of an inch in diameter. People
on the shore, by pulling the string,
obtain a cord, and at length strong
rope, by which communication is had
with the ship.
A YEAR ago there were still living five
college graduates of the last century.
Four of these have since died: William
Hail, of Wilmington, Del, a graduate
of Harvard, aged o. Samuel Swift, of
Middlebury, VT, Dartmouth, aged 90;
Horace Binney, of Philadelphia, Har-
Yard, aged 95i, and Judge Herring,
Princeton, aged nearly so. The only
survivor of the five is the Rev. DIR.
Thomas Williams, of Providence, r. l.,
graduate of Yale, and well advanced
in his 9th year.
Mr.. BURROUGHS, of South Africa,
having no dog to love, bought an Os-
trich, and now he advertises as follows
+" e10 Reward-Lost, tame ostrich.
Said ostrich was missing yesterday, di-
rectly after having devoured certain
pieces of machinery, which one Of the
ladies of the advertisers household had
apart and was cleaning on the front We
randa at the time. The pal Is wanting
are face plate, needle-bar and shuttle
of sewing machine. 1 am not partlcu-
lar about the ostrich.
The Virginia Chronicle reports that
the Consolidated Virginia mine is now
the shipment of bullion for the first sew
enteen days of February amounted to
S1.126,52 In the California mine they
are now working 1,700 feet below the
surface of the earth. The Belcher yields
| ua1ly 4OU COnS Oh ore. III Tile STOWn
Point they are also ZOO feet below the
surface. In the Julia mine the shaft has
attained perpendicular depth of 1850
feet. The Sutro tunnel now extends
II, 242 feet into the mountain.
| BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP.
Dear Father! all this lovely day
| Ny hand has lain warm in thine
That all along the fair, lowered way,
| Mine eyes have seen Thy footprints shine.
| Follows upon Thy day sweet night;
When creep closer to Thy heart,
| Reminded Of that hour whose flight
Shall make and keep me Thine-apart!
| Hold me through all the dim, soft hours
| Hold me, my Father! close and fast
| As sweety safe folded flowers,
And wake me with Thy smile at last
Howard Glyndon.
An Awful Big Snake.
In the geological gallery of DIR. Cum
ningham, Carthage, Mo-, may be seen
the greatest American wonder extant-a