The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

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is worthy of his hire" He got 500, 900
for his fee.
People and Things.
LITTLE MARY NEWTON :nherits good
scientific name.
A PoMProN On. j. man of 80 was
born, always lived and has just died in
the same house.
The Times is the only lively news
paper in Philadelphia. 1t has four libel
suits on hand.
AN Indianapolis dog arrested burglar
who was operating on his masters resi-
dence, the other night.
SENATOR DORSEY, of Arkansas. is keep
ing the st. James Hotel, New York, for
Senator Jones, of Nevada.
A LAKE in Lower California that in
1873 was $50 square miles in area Is now
small pond, and fast dwindling.
A YOUNG married woman became in
sane while witnessing circus perform
ance at Nebraska City, the other day.
THE Wisconsin penitentiary is going
out of the furniture manufacturing bus
mess, and entering more largely into
the manufacture OF wagons.
A TEXAN has musk hog, OF peccary.
that follows him like a dog. Its kind
were once numerous in Texas, and very
ferocious in their wild condition.
A RUN ON the Dry-Dock Savings Bank,
of New York city, prompts the Sun to
give list of eleven insolvent savings
Ho, ,1ra IN Naxx VArlr x,hncn 1nnro haxa
been closed within the last five years.
The Old South Church is covered
with posters announcing the merits of
the Police Gazette and SIMILAR publica-
tons, and stand for the sale of that
kind of literature thrives at the door.
MABEL, the African dog which faith
fully accompanied the body of DR.. Liv
ingstone from the interior to the coast,
and was brought to Bombay in Novem-
Der last, by Lieut. Murphy, has died.
MAKE a little fence of trust ttAl
Around to-day
Fill the space with loving work.
And III rein stay.
Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon tomorrow.
God will help thee bear what comes
OF JOY or sorrow.
-independeat. rl.
COLLEGE and West Point examiners
lament the lack of a thorough training
in common school studies that they dis
cover in students presenting themselves
for admission TO these institutions. One
half of the Freshman class at Kenyon
College were conditioned in spelling OH
being admitted this year.
PULLMAN, the palace car man, has
given European lady pull-back. She
asked him why there were no locks on
the doors of the ladies' dressing rooms
on the cars, and he told her it was be-
cause if women could lock themselves in
only one would get chance to dress.
She would hold the fort and dress ut
leisure.
For more than two months street
car has been propelled by compressed
air on road in Paisley, England. 1t
has operated successfully in every con-
dition of traffic and weather, running its
trip of three miles for each charge of air
at a cost of about one cent per mile; and
in good weather surplus of air is left
in the tanks.
AT Ceylon, the headquarters of pearl
fishing, the shellfsh are sold by the
thousand to smallspeculators, who either
open them themselves or retail them to
all who are inclined to try their luck, a
general sale of fish taking place every
evening when the boats arrive, as there
are few persons at the fishery who do
not speculate more or less.
THE total value of books Imported
into the United States from Great Brit
ain in 1875 was 9269, 607. We exported
to that country during the same year
books to the value of Ell, 452. AS some
Offset 10 THIS discrepancy, it must be re-
membered that the importation was
partly made up of old editions and
books in foreign languages.
THE New York Herald has concluded
that "the brilliant colored fluids which
decorate the average bar derive the least
of their favors from either grape or
grain, but are the fabrication of so-called
liquor compounders, and are, in reality,
mixtures compared with which the hell
broth of Nacbeths witches may be called
innocent and nutritious SOUP"
JOHN WALDEMIRE, of Rochester, mar
ried after sixty years of single life. He
had rigid ideas Of economy, as shown in
sending his wife with cent to get meat
for dinner, and cents for wine. All
the time his bank account vas large.
Mrs. Waldemire bore with his penuri-
business for three months, and then parted
with him I; whereupon he hanged him
self.
A CURIOUS provision of French Ell
quetts is that which exempts the Duke
d'Aumale from requesting the honor"
of the Marshal Presidents company, as
all ordinary entertainers who are in a
position to extend invitations at all are
expected. The Duke, being of royal
blood, is only expected to request "the
pleasure" of seeing the President of the
Republic.
British FoOd-Supplies.
Indian corn, or maize, has now &C
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