The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
People and Things.

People and Things.
AT Punxsutawney, Pa, there is a lib
erty-pole 195 feet high.
TIE roads that do smashing bus;-
ness-The trunk lines.-N. Y. Com.
Adv.
FIVE HUNDRED titles have thus far
registered at the Clifton House, Niagara
Falls.
JUDGE HnToN will finish the Stewart
Hotel for Women, in New York, within
a year.
The notto OF the watering place girls
=" Let no single man escape. "-Phila.
Bulletin.
A MARROW ridge of gold quartz thirty
miles long has been discovered in New
South Wales.
IT costs as much for forty-pound
child to ride in New York street car as
for 350-pound man.
DAVID SMALL, of Ludlow, Me-, has
killed seven bears since May /. The
skins bring him $40, and the bounty
$35.
ENrERPRIsING parties in the Black
Hills are building toll-roads, and the free
and ibeity-loving inhabitants don't
like it. =.
The chimney sweeps of London have
formed an association for the purpose of
"elevating the business financially and
socially"
A MoHAMMEDAN soldier has no fear of
death. To die on the battlefield is the
straight road to Paradise, and endless
sensual delights.
CARDINAL ANToNELLI, the Pope, and
Commodore Vanderbilt have no inten-
ton whatever of dying just at present to
oblige the press.
The White Star Line steamship Brit
ANNA has made another fastest time on
record-seven days, sixteen hours, and
thirty-six minutes.
The body Of Lieut.. Col. Keogh was
spared by the Sioux from mutilation be-
cause he wore upon his person Roman
Catholic emblem.
MASSACHUSETTS is paying about three
quarters OF million annually for inter-
est on the debt incurred in the construc-
ton of the Hoosac Tunnel.
Az old Tennessee slave, who is now
an agent for an English house in Lii
IBERIA, writes that he could not be in
duced to return to that State.
The West Point cadet who shot an
amateur hackman is an object of sym
pathy. Had he only shot book agent
he would have been promoted.
FORTUNE is painted with closed eyes,
and there is possibly an unknown refer
ence to this fact in the popular saying
of trusting to luck and going it blind.
| A LoNs BRANCH woman, or a woman
temporarily sojourning at Long Branch,
wears the golden collar of her terrier
dog as bracelet. She loved that puppy.
APoTHEoARIEs at the seaside resorts
are almost as bad as the hotel-keepers,
for they cheat and swindle fearfully on
the stalest OF drugs and cheapest of
medicines.
Nor many men are as sensitive as
James Forde, of East Norfolk, Mass,
who killed himself because a train of
cars had smashed gate which he ought
to have opened.
In 1897, while Lewis and Clarl, were
crossing the Rocky Mountains, number
of Indians followed them for several
days in order to restore some articles
that they had lost.
GAEl3ALDI is regarded with something
like idolatry by the workingmen of Italy.
He makes himself one of them, and is
never ashamed to own that he himself
was once workingman.
AcoUr 800 newspaper men have been
thus far dead-headed into the Centennial,
and each of these has had to DO IS worth
of running around and writing auto
graphs before gaining his pass.
A CHICAGO philosopher is trying to
learn if there's one champion in college
regattas who ever made stroke worth
noticing in any other capacity. SO far
he has failed to unearth case.
A FRENCH doctor claims that life dur
ing the act of drowning remains longest
III the intestines, and that by heroic
treatment they may be so stimulated
that the heart will resume its action.
A NORTH CAROLINA lad, plucly but
poor, sold subscription books after
school hours, made $93, attended the
Cincinnati Convention, went to Niagara
Falls, and spent two weeks at the Exhi
bition.
The young correspondent, Richard
son, shot and scalped by Indians near
the Black Hills, was a son of A. d.
Richardson, the New York journalist
who lost his life at the hands of Nc
Farland.
THE Duke of Cambridge, besides be-
ing Field Marshal and Commander-in-
Chief, is Colonel of the Royal Artillery,
Royal Engineers, Grenadier Guards and
Seventeenth Lancers, and draws five fat
salaries.
GEN. PLUME, of the New jersey mill
tia, recently took the First Brigade into
encampment. He chose for camp
site about three miles from the river,
and removed from any shade. In three
days nearly 200 men were suffering from
sunstroke. The encampment was
broken up.
What LOndOners Die Of.