The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-03
People and Things,

Icopie anu Inihgs.
The hard times are felt in New Ea-
gland colleges.
DURING the past four years 8, 46S, 227,-
OOO letters passed the postoffices of the
world.
U. 3: GRANT. JR., the Harvard gradu-
ate OF the White House family, has been
acting in Babcock's place as Private Sec
rotary to the President.
A PHILADELPHIA Jury lastweek award
ed 500 damages to person whose
flower beds had been invaded and in
iured 10y a peighbor's chickens.
THERE'S many trouble
Would breal ike a bubble,
And into the waters Lethe depart
Did not we rehearse IL,
And tenderly nurse IL,
And give IL permanent place in the heart.
A BOY baby in Buena Vista, Ca, has
a mother, grandmother, and great-great
grandmother living in the same house
with it. The happy father of the child
Is well provided with mothers in-law
The Boston police had to charge on
the crowd gathering relics from the
wreck Of the old elm. Some of the old
est clergymen i'll town made good time
in getting out of the way.
THERE is no danger of the British
soldier waxing fat and lazy. His only
rations between his dinner at 1870 ID.
M, and his breakfast the next morning
is cup of coffee and bit of dry bread.
THERE has been marked diminution
in the quantity of water in the Rivers
Danube and Rhine of late, owing, accord
ing to the Vienna Academy of Sciences, to
the fact that so many trees have been cut
down all over Europe.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY claims the honor
of graduating the first colored female
medical student who has ever received n
diploma in New York. Her name is
Sarah nj. Logan, and she has begun
practice in Washington.
Mr.. GEORGE PARKER, who kept res
taurant in olden times in New York,
died recently, a millionaire. In his
obituary it is stated that in one winter
he sold in the form of cakes five and a
half tons of buckwheat. He lived not
in vain.
Mr.. JOHN MUIR. The California geolo-
gist, says that there are sixty-five glaciers
in the mountains of California. One of
them he watched forty-seven days, and
in that time it moved forty. six inches.
Yosemite and similar valleys were dug
out by glaciers.
SENATOR CHRIsTIANCY's bride has let
millions of dollars slip through her fin
gers, and has long been young lady of
note. Cincinnati Commercial. Ave,
and of title likewise for the Senator's
bride was for many years a countess in
the Treasury Department. -DetrOH 1ri-
6une.
THE New York Eveni,aq Post says: GA
man has been found who does not COM
plain at the laws delays. He lives in a
house which is the subject of O lawsuit,
and having been ordered by both liti-
giants to pay no rent to the other, he
hopes the contest may continue for
years.
DANIEL MCFARLAND, the assassin of
Albert ID. Richardson, has been arrested
in st. Louis as common drunkard. He
raves continually about the trouble upon
his mind. No better illustration of the
demoralizing effects of drink could be
found than this poor wretch. He was
once man of intellect.
A LADY played sharp on a Lowell
Mass. saloon-keeper. He advertiseda
free lunch and she got all the hungry
children in the city together and fed
them at his expense, while a crowd of
thirsty bummers stood outside and gazed
helplessly over the heads of the children
at the drinks that were spelling for GUS
toners.
A PATERSON On. j. coal dealer, con-
victed of cheating by the use of false
weights, and sentenced to fine of $3.50,
publishes card in which he announces
his intention of having the proceedings
reviewed before another tribunal, and, if
he fails there, of taking them before
"the Eternal Judge"
A READING woman, who has been mar
ried two months and three days, is seek
ing divorce because her husband is not
what she took him for. The objections
are that he does not wear clean shirts,
that he stays out late at night, and that
he chews tobacco, and does not come
regularly to his meals.
KIT CARsoN's remains have lain since
1868 in coyote patch, under the shade
of a couple of cottonwoods by the road
side on the Arkansas Southern Colo
rado), without even a piece of picket
railing to protect the grave from the
wolves, or pencil mark on shingle for
headstone, to tell the traveller that Kit
Carson sleeps beneath it.
This is the way to reconstruct the
South After the cruel war was over,
f. S. Swami, of Caroline County, Va,
returned home, bought farm of 200
acres for 800, carried it on with his own
labor and that of his two boys, IL and IA
years old, while they were, also, at
school four hours day, and made 81 400
on tobacco alone, last year.
THEODORE, the son of the monarch of
Abyssinia, has just left London for
Paris, where he will spend the remain
der of the winter. So complete has
been the young Princes English train
ing, tn, he has forgotten his native Ian
guage, and is only able to converse free
" in English. He is a very amiable
youth. and has been the lion lately at
several parties in the West End.
In West Roxbury, Mass, few DAYS