The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-18

People and Things

THERE are IL, 600 men and boys In San
Francisco looking for work.
SoJoURsER Truth was slave in the
State of New York, and was set free III
1927. sa
OF the 1000 public schools in Penn
sylvania, IA, 900 have daily reading OF
the bible. flt
Mr.. FREES. of Pennsylvania, wears q
beard four feet long. under the impress
sion that it makes him healthy and
strong.
OF the negroes brought to Texas
direct from Africa by Monroe Edwards,
some fifty are still living in Brazoria
county.
MANY respectable" yocng men and
woman of Virginia City, New, nightly
visit the Chinese deps for the purpose Of
smoking opium.
The Mohawk, which went down in
New York bay the other day, is to be
turned into an oyster boat. 1t has been
sold for $4,000.
BIC soUAw-heap ugly" was the
exclamation of KNoniax, the Iroquois
chief, on being presented recently with
a portrait of Queen Victoria.
/ p. J. SMYTH, the Irish member OF the
British Parliament whose home-Jule
speech has attracted attention, was once
a workman in Brooklyn distillery.
OMAHA is nice place to die in. Here
IS one of the local obituaries "He was
splendid penman, systematic book
lseeper, and systematic drinker."
ON the hast day of June the first rail-
way in China was opened. 1t now runs
from Shanghai to Kangwar, and will be
ten miles long when completed to Woo
sung.
Al COUNTRY subscriber informs us that
while operating reaping machine the
other day one of his cows get in front of
1t, and he soon had beef o. 10 DaoaUed.-
NorrSstoD1e Herald.
The. Raleigh IN. c. Seet5nel men
tions it as an encouraging fact that there
is hardly city in the south which is not
increasing in population and wealth,
though times have been hard.
EVERY one has admired Parshenia's
definition OF love to Ingomar
What love is, if tAou wouldst be Taught,
Thy heart nust teach alone
Two souls with but single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
RICHARD JAMES, London (Oct.) ne
! gro, famous as "buttist," accidentally
lodged bullet in his head while fooling
with revolver, the other day, and the
surgeon found it fattened against the
skull.
A New YoRE, physician wants people
to understand that the bite of q, dog that
is not mad is capable of producing just
| as fine case of hydrophobia as the
wound from one that is writing with
the rabies.
The disagreement between Virginia
and Maryland as to their dividing line
will probably be settled, at a meeting Of
the arbitrators at Cape'May. The space
claimed by each is mainly water, and val
liable because it contains large beds of
oysters.
Some profane cynic, having no. fear of
Cupid before his eyes, perpetrates the
following villainous parody
Love is a nightmare with but one foot
Two children with one bun,
Two turnips with single root,
Two ca )DGge-heads. as one.
Accommodations, while hunting
horses on the range north of his place,
found several OF his, own in band of
wild horses numbering about twenty.
His own had become as wild as the rest,
and, being unable to separate his from
the others, he was obliged to go home
without them.
SENATOR SHARorS, in applying Cor
reduction in the valuation of mis- Palace
Hotel, San Francisco, which was put at
$1,000, 900, said that it was not paying,
nor soon likely to. 1t cost, he said,
$4,000, 900, but labor and material were
then high, and it could not be soil for
half that sum.
NJ. GRUNER, in calling attention 30 the
probable exhaustion of English coal
mines, estimated the maximum produc-
ton of the collieries for all time at
$50, 900, 900 tons. AS If has now reached
$50, 900, 900, he assumes that the nines
can be profitably worked for eight GEN.
turies to come.
An old physician who ought to know,
and probably does, says if man is
stricken by lightning, lay him Nat on
his back, open his clothing at the pit of
his stomach, and dash on it pail of the
coolest water you can get. In nine
cases out of ten it will restore conscious
ness, and save life if done within fifteen
or twenty minutes after the stroke.
IT is the boast of Lydia Tettro, of
Washington, Mass, that, in thirty-seven
years of married life, she has given birth
to twenty-five children, ten Toys and if
teen girls, with but one pair OF twins.
Sixteen are living, two having died in
infancy, and seven after getting their
growth. The grandchildren already
number thirty three. Mrs. Tettro her
self YVES one of family of sixteen, and
married at that age.
MEHsMET ALI PAsHA, the commander
of the Turkish forces operating against
Servia, is Frenchman. In boyhood he
deserted from "a ship on which he was
employed as cabin-boy, and took service
with an influential Mussulnaan. He was
educated in Ccnstantinople, changed his
religion, aud accepted commission IN
the army, where he speedily rose to the
| ;p,,,ortant cosnmand he now occupies.