The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-26
People and Things.

People and Things.
A WOMAN seats herself in q pew in
seven motions q man in one.
THREE new ironclads, ordered by the
Japanese Government, are being built
in England.
CHESTER, Pa, has colored peoples
hotel, which has been christened
Uncle Toms Cabin.
LAST year 1877 vessels, of 87,6O1 tom
mage, and valued at $4,000, 900, were
built at the seaports of Italy.
In 1776, it took about three DAVIS to
go from New York to Philadelphia. In
1876 it takes less than three hours.
The Emperor William, of Germany,
will not submit when travelling to be dis
tinguished in any way from his retinue.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is in favor
of putting the price of admission to the
Exhibition down from fifty to twenty
five cents.
ADMIRAL VERNON JACKSON, the origi-
nal of Maryatt's o 'Brien in "Peter Sim
ple," died recently in London at the age
of eighty-four.
MRS. BELKNAP is said to be losing
health, flesh and beauty. The carriage
has been sold, and she cannot walk out
without attracting observation and an
noyances.
BAYARD TAYLOR says that a COMPARE
son of the scenes at the opening of the
Centennial. with those of Vienna in 1873,
made him "proud and satisfied as an
American.
HENRY A. WISE is true to his temper
ance principles. When asked, at the
capital lately, if he would not take some
refreshments, he replied: "I would
like glass of pure milk, but / curse
whisky, brandy and rum"
AMONG the decorations of the Confed-
crate monument at Mobile, Ala, on
Memorial day, was a pyramid of flowers
from the officers of the United States
army, stationed at Mount Vernon bar
racks, in respect to the fallen brave"
In our day, the newspapers keep pace
with history and record it. A news
paper will keep sensible man in SYM
pathy with the worlds current history.
1t is an unfolding encyclopedia, an un-
bound book forever issuing and never
finished.
If Russia carries out the grand en-
ginnering project of linking the Black
and Caspian seas by canal between the
tributaries of the Manytch and Kouma
rivers, the resulting means of lconcen-
trating her fleet will double her naval
importance, and make her invincible in
that quarter.
The New York Mail tells young ladies
how to arrange their hair in q fashiona-
BILE style: Let it all down and comb it
out. Then go up on the roof and stand
still while the wind plays the very
(whatever is appropriated with it. Then
catch up the back with bow of ribbon,
and allow the front to stay as it is.
The French have not yet reached the
high commercial plane of selling eggs by
weight, as they undoubtedly should be
sold but they are considerably in adj
vance of the Americans in graduating
the price according to the size. A set of
measuring rings is necessary part of
French egg-dealer's outfit.
The second fight after her first hus-
band died she sat by the open chamber
window five hours waiting for the cats
to begin fighting in the back yard. She
said "This thing of going to sleep
without quarrel of some kind is so new
that can't stand it Let me alone till
they begin then I can doze off gently !"
PROF. LANGLEY, in the course of his
measurements of light from different
portions of the suns disc, finds a
marked difference of color. Not only is
the light fDom the edge of the solar disc
much feebler than that from the center !;
but, while the central rays are distinctly
blush, the marginal rays are of choco-
late-reddish hue.
The Latter-day people of Jerusalem
have been little hard on the pool of
Bethesda, that fount of healing" The
whole drainage of the sacred city is now
conducted there, making it a fount of
disease. If Jerusalem was properly
severed, it would be one of the health
est of oriental cities, as Sir Moses Mon
tefore says its atmosphere is very pure.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
BY the ftful wind that blows,
| BY the sneezing Of our nese,
| BY the aching of our corns,
| BY the need of sitter horns
| BY the landlords awful figure
By the gas bills, big aud bigger,
By the work we have to raise
Money for these settling days,
| BY the house that takes in,
| BY the carman's fees and din,
| BY the wheeling of the asthma,
| BY the first Of May phantasma,
| BY the deuce to pay at home,
We may know that spring has come.
-Neto York Mail.
AT the Alcester petty sessions in Eng
land, the other day, child only eight
years of age named Robert Pardy was
sent to prison for two weeks for mali
ciously injuring bridge near Alcester.
The damage consisting of pushing
bricks of the bridge wall into the water.
and was estimated at It's. Cd. with 15s.
for expense and Is. fine. The boys
mother not being able to pay, he was
locked up in default. The same boy
was convicted last July of placing stones
on the Midland railway, and was at the
same time sentenced by the Rev. Mr..
Gray and brother magistrate to one
months imprisonment.