The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-23
People and Things.

heved in the profitableness of hogs since
one of them rooted up box containing
$500.
The latest natural curiosity in London
is dog which has whistle growing at
the end Of his tail. He calls himself
when wanted.
HE Rev. DIR. Newman Hall says the
churches of Great Britain have lost
$4,000 members within three years by
intemperance.
Mr.. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, who
sits in the Harper Brothers Easy
Chair" receives $4,000 a year for his
editorial services.
Yesterday, an eccentric character in
New Albany, Ind, has devoted ten
years to learning the Bible by heart, and
has nearly completed the task.
A WISCONSIN newspaper says "The
Board of Education has resolved to erect
a building large enough to accommodate
500 students three stories high"
THE experiment has been made in
Germany, thus far with remarkable sue
cess, of substituting lettuce for mulberry
leaves, as an article of silkworm diet.
A WOMAN in West6eld, Mass, fought
with her husband until the noise aroused
the neighborhood, because he would not
let her go to church and be confirmed.
A NEW YORK lady who is accomplished
in swimming, intends organizing classes
of ladies, to whom she will teach this
art at the several prominent seaside
resorts.
Mr.. J. H. RNe has fulfilled the long
est consecutive engagement Of any actor
in America, having played continuously
at the Boston Museum since Tuesday
evening, August Is, 1863.
IMa recent address to female candi-
dates for confirmation the Vicar of Ken
sington, England, reque sted them to so
arrange their hair that the Bishop might
really lay has hands on their heads.
AN amendment to the State Constitu-
ton has been introduced into the Con-
necticut House declaring that clergymen
shall not be eligible to election to the
Legislature while engaged in ministerial
work.
AT Baden, Ont, last week, Miss
Zeiple and Mr.. Steinmetx were mar
ried. A supper and ball followed the
ceremony, and, while the bride was
dancing, she suddenly fell dead of heart
disease.
A PORTION of human skeleton was
found In an ancient mound at Nevada,
Mercer county, KY, recently, sur
rounded by about ten wagon-loads of
rocks. The body had been buried with
the head to the east.
Mrs. JOSEPH RGAN, of Christiana,
Rutherford county, Tenn, while eating
a green apple, day or two ago, placed
some strychnlne upon it, thinking it was
salt. Her life was saved with difficulty.
Always have strychnine handy in the
pantry.
IT is said that the Usage Indians have
manuscript written In Spanish on parch
ment that is 139 years old, and it Is now
in fair state of preservation. Several
of their ancient documents were dated
at New Orleans.
A DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE.
The esthetic French have taste in all they do
| That grosser Anglo-Saxons without,
For partial nature, that to them gave govt,
To us, alas has only given govt.
But all decide not in such Needless haste,
To incomplete analogies appealing,
French govt is only superficial Taste,
While English govt is deep nseated Feeling.
QUEEN VrCroRIAIs levee on the 22d of
May was held by the Prince of Wales,
the presentations being equivalent to in
Productions to the Queen. The list of
names of the persons presented on the
occasion takes up FIVE closely printed
columns of the London Times.
SINCE the passage of the act of the
California Legislature providing for the
punishment of wife-beaters by public
whipping, wife-whipping has largely in
creased throughout the State, and the
Police Commissioners think of organic
ing Sunday raids on the dwellings of all
Benedicts.
AN illusionist in San Francisco causes
the mysterious disappearance of cage
containing a canary. 1t is thought that
the cage is made of rubber, so as to be
wadded in the hands, and that bird
is killed at each performance Of the
trick. The Bergh Society of that city
will investigate.
Non long ago billiard player in Lon
don, i'm lighting his cigar, accidentally let
his match fall on billiard ball, which
at once began to burn with flame that
could not be extinguished. 1t was, ap-
parently, an ivory ball, but was made of
celluloid, a mixture of gun-cotton and
camphor, compressed and dried.
The latest "Order," "huts of which
are daily being established in the South.
is the % Oriental Order of Humility"
The officers are Most Potent Grand
Seigniors, Noble Viziers, Reverend Fri
| ars, Reverend Monitors, Chief Heralds,
} and Seneschals, all of which proud title
) suit well with an order so very umble.
: The bellies of Seville have adopted
: new and ingenious device. They keep
long India-rubber speaking tubes In
their rooms and drop them to their
lovers. who are thus enabled On the
lower level of the street to feel their
DANES breath on their cheeks and to
whisper soft nothings into the fair ones
ears.
A MISSOURI farmer, arrested unjustly
/. for obtaining money by false pretenses,
: tried to Kill himself in his cell, and his
.. friends, who had already insured his
speedy release, induced him to sign a
promise that he would not repeat the at
, tempt. After his discharge he wrote out
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