The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-10
People and Things.

People and Things.
CHINA is said to be honey-combed with
secret societies.
Elk CHIEF JUSTICE NoGoLE, of the
Idaho Supreme Court, is insane.
The shop-girls of Boston number
nearly tenth of the entire population
OF the city.
THE first book ever published in Jeru-
salem has been dedicated TO the Reths-
child family.
New YORK is going to have the next
worlds fair in 1886 you can console
yourself with that.
ONE HUNDRED bushels of Kansas corn
to the acre has been grown in Rock
county, Wis, the present season.
The man who pays more taxes than
anybody else in Brooklyn is shoema-
ker, and yet he keeps pegging away.
A GIRL II years of age has been fined
and imprisoned ut Melbourne, Aus
tralia. for cutting out the tongues of
four kids.
JOHN ROBINSON gave young couple
who were injured by seat giving way
at his circus, in Atlanta, $500 to dismiss
suit for damage.
SPANISH bull-fghts are not yet thing
of the past. An athlete killed two bulls
in the presence of sixteen thousand
people couple of weeks ago at BARGE
Iona.
An epidemic of single breasted listers
is threatened. The pattern is taken
from Shem, the fashionable son of Noah,
as attired when entering the ordinary
child's ark.
SAN FRANCISCO boasts the champion
cocktail consumer of the century. A
saloon-keeper has sued him for 81, 100 in
payment of $4,000 of these matutinal
beverages.
The following notice is posted con-
spicuously in Scotch office "Shut
the door, and when you have done talk
ing on business serve your mouth tho
same way"
KING KALAKAUA was royal deadhead
IN the United States, but he has obtained
from his Parliament $50, 900 for the ex-
penses OF his tour in America. Mileage
is great study.
SECRETARY OF WAR CAMERON was one
OF the jurors drawn recently in Dauphin
county, Penn. He was excused from
service on the ground that he held
Government Office.
SEVERAL walters who wereriniured by
the explosion of steam table in the
Lick House, San Francisco, thirteen
months since, are suing the estate of the
late Mr.. Lick for $4,000 damages.
Go SAM, Chinaman, has been mar
ried to pretty American girl called
Sally Brown. Her name is now Sally
Sam, and Go thinks Mclean girl can't
be beat. Just let him try it, that's all.
WHILE Baron Camille Rochtaillee,
who has of late been very successful on
the turf, was staying at a hotel in Lyons,
his trunk was forced and ali the ped
ierees indispensable to him on the turf
of his horses-stolen. Nothing else was
taken.
A Mr.. RooUET, of New Orleans, has
an income of upward of $1,000 year
from the sale of silk worms eggs. He
does not make silk, as he finds il more
profitable to ship the eggs to Messina
from Louisiana, where he has met with
great success in raising sound and
healthy silkworms.
STURGEON admits that there are per-
sons who should never go to church
those who wear boots that squeak and
ladies' whose umbrellas are always fall
ing down with q snap. The great
preacher believes in ventilation, and
when the windows won't open he di-
reefs the smashing of few panes Of
glass.
AFTER reading Sitting Bulls modest
application to the agency for more am
munition, we can't but reflect what q
splendid lightning rod agent or sewing
machine canvasser has been lost to
America by the failure to catch him
when young, and thus bring him up
under the genial influences of our mod
ern civilization.-Ne,0 York Com
naercidl
The Anaheim (Cal.) Gazette says :
"The story is told-we don't know how
much credence to attach to it, however
that an old Swede, who is the chief en-
gineer of freight-wagon plying be-
tween Anaheim and Santa Ana. has fallen
heir to over 81, 900, 900 by the death of
some relative in the mountain Businesses
of Switzerland"
PAUL mozart, a noted manager of
minor theaters at Paris a generation
since, is dead. He opened theater but
to fail and be imprisoned for debt, and
was almost as speedily discharged to
open another theater. One day Dumas
went to the jail to see him. He has
just been set at liberty" said the keeper.
every well, said Dumas, taking chair,
81 will wait for him."
} THH extent to which facility in the
{ use of means of expression may be in
jurious to the user is illustrated In
schools tor the deaf and dumb, where ii
will be found that the pupils have more
expressive countenances than those who
are provided with organs of articulation
as if the face were assisting to convey
the meaning which could not be given
in the ordinary manner.
ENGLAND.
: While men pay reverence TO mighty things,
n They must reyese thee, thou blue-tinctursd is,a
4 or Encland-not to-day, but this long while
, | In the front Of nations, mother OF great 6ngs,