The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05

People and Things.
Iowa raised last year l47, 900, 600 bush
els of corn and $4,000, 900 bushels of
wheat.
THKRR are eighty-four miles of solid
walking laid out inside the Centennial
buildings.
A LADY in London has offered $500 re-
ward for the conviction of persons who
are going about London systematically
poisoning dogs by throwing down pol
soned food in the streets.
| IT was heavy" vote, in more senses
than one, that was polled at the last gen.
eral election in England and Wales. A
Parliamentary inquiry has brought out
the fact that the ballots weighed five
tons.
A. Il. STEWART, in his teaching days,
was for a time the tutor of the Hon.
Hamilton Fish, now Secretary of State,
whom he prepared for college, although
he was only seven years the senior of his
pupil.
ALWAYS carry a law book with you
George Beedle shot at Sheriff Newton in
Alton, N. Y, the other day, but law
book in the Sheriff's hands stopped the
bullet after it had gone through fifty
leaves.
BARTON GABEL, aged eighteen years,
OF Berks county, Penn, attempted to
wheel gross ton of pig iron in three
wheelbarrow loads. He ruptured
blood vessel, and his condition is pre-
carious.
JAMES WARD, member of jeff. Davis
regiment in the Mexican war, died a
pauper in the county Jail in BRENNAN,
Tex, recently. He was seventy years
old. he fought at Beuna Vista and all
the hard-fought battles of that war.
A FEW days since a jury in Carroll
county, Ca, thought it would be a good
joke to bring in this verdict eve, the
Jury, unanimously agree to disagree"
They did so, and the Judge replied
81, the Judge, unanimously fine you
S5 EACH"
A NOVEL method of slandering their
enemies was recently adopted by some
men in an interior New York town.
They posted bills upon the walls an
nouncing a "Grand Centennial Lying
Match, " naming certain weli-known citi-
ZenS as the contestants.
CHEMICAL analysis of the contents of
cask of claret, to recover the value of
which wine dealer of San Francisco
had sued customer, showed the wine
to contain eight per cent. of alcohol and
traces of oenanthic ether, that the color
ing matter was myrtleberry juice and
that the acid taste was produced by sui
phuric acid.
A MOVEMENT is in progress to pur-
chase and set apart as public property
the house at North Woburn, Mass, In
which Benjamin Thompson, the Count
Rumford and famous scientist, was
born in 1853. 1t has been but little
changed since his day. The sum re-
quired is 50, 900 and good proportion
of it has been subscribed.
The New York Sun relates the follow
ing anecdote GA well-known finan-
cier of great taste and culture was one
day dining at Mr.. Stewards, when his
Prince Metternich blue-seal wine was
served in a manner showing it was
thought to be very precious. you have
tasted this wine before2 Mr.. Stewart
asked him. oh, yes, was the answer,
'and from larger glasses. ,"
A RAFTsMAN near Pembroke, Ont, was
attacked last week by two lynxes, but
after desperate struggle killed them.
On exhibiting their pelts at the town he
was promptly fined $40 for killing the
animals out of season. The poor fellow
must have felt pretty bad, when he con-
sidered that, by letting the lynxes kill
him, instead of vice versa, he would
have been just $40 in pocket.
CREATURE COMFORTS.
We may live without poetry, music and art
We may live without conscience, and live without
. heart;
w may live withoui friends, wo may live without
books,
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books-what is knowledge but
grieving7
He may live without hope-what is hope but de-
ceiving7
He may live without love-what is passion but pin
But where is the man that can live without dining
EMILY FAITAFULL says in "Women and
Work :" "We like unlady-ike girls.
We dislike to hear chit of ten or eleven
praised for being such q lady-ike little
girl We would far rather hear the
complaint, Mary is so boisterous T; she
never comes down the stairs, but always
down the bannisters; she tears about
like mad thing, and is never 80 happy
as when she is after some lark, as she
calls it.
The new Republican French Director
of the Press has decided that no foreign
newspaper shall be prohibited from en-
tering France, unless it contains an arti-
Gle for which it would be prosecuted If
il were French journal. In st. Peters
burg the Government censor and his
staff still detain every foreign paper for
several days after its arrival, and it is
only released after careful scrutiny as to
whether it contains anything obnoxious
to autocratic tastes.
IT is said of Heinrich Heine, whose
biography has just been published in
London, that having been born on the
18th of December, 1899, he wilfully put
forward the date to the LIST of January,
l 1900. in order to give an admiring pa
tron the opportunity of saving "You
are one of the first men of the century"
Heine used to say of himself that he was
born with three misfortunes-bornp poor,
born Jew, and born Prussian.
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