The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-08
PeOple and Things.

the heavy boots, but brought the oil
skin coat back"
People and Things.
FOBTY-oNE cities of the United States
have an aggregate debt Of almost $780,
600, ZOO.
THOMAS MARTIN, circus performer,
fell from trapeze ut Farnestburg, Pa,
and was killed.
THERE is mill at bingham Harbor,
Mass, which was built in 164S, and is
still in running order.
BIRMINGHAM, Conn.,, has a Professor
of whistling, with two classes of pupils
under his instruction.
THERE is coal dealer in Philadelphia
who five years ago was worth quarter
of million, who is now not worth q
dollar.
AN Eastern railroad has adopted an in
noyation by placing cane seat chairs in
some OF their cars, In place of the warm
plush ones.
SAN JOSE, CAL, has been sued by O
Fourth of July orator. He wants 81, 900
for speaking his piece, while the city
offers him $40.
A WEEKLY German newspaper, called
the East Asiatic Gazette, is published
in Toxic, Japan. The compositors are
all native Japanese.
A CONVICT in the North Carolina peni-
Tertiary has very ingenious knife, the
blade of which is made from a ten-cent
piece, and the handle of which was
carved out of the handle of tooth
brush.
A PHILOSOPHICAL woman writes to in
quire: "Why is it that just at the mo-
ment when young man finds out that
his girl will have him, he wants to back
out of the engagement9"-Globe- Demo-
crdt.
been received from a Virginia City
New gambling saloon in one year in
the way of license. The money is col
lected monthly, and gambling is not re-
stricted at all.
The Dutch have way of curing lazi-
ness by putting the patient in cistern
and turning on stream of water, which
runs in at one side as fast as man, by
steady work, can pump it out. There
is nothing to do but pump or die.
The bark True Love, just arrived at
Edinburgh from Norway with cargo of
ice, is one of the oldest vessels afloat.
She was built in Philadelphia in 1764,
and has been in active service since. At
one time she was a successful whaler.
ALBERT HARRIS, of Pettis county, Mo-,
has brought suit against the Adams Ex-
press Company for So, 600 damages, sus-
tanned by the killing of his wife by al
legged employees of the company in search
of Sam McKeelan, supposed to be one
of the Otterville train robbers.
A DETRoITER who didn't know exactly
how to get letter registered, sent some
money away the other day and wrote on
dollar bill inside" Fearing that this
might not be strong enough, one of his
friends wrote : I'll swear that 1 saw
Jim put two dollars in this"
CoUNT PAc, who died in 1885, in
Paris, bequeathed two-thirds of his per-
sonal estate to be divided among Poles
then living in the United States, and
who had been in military service. Noap-
plication has yet been made for any OF
this money. There is So, 400 to be dis
tributed.
THE GL0w-wORM.
Softly beaning and content,
A gow-worm lay upon the ground
Unconscious of the light she lent
To less distinguished worms around.
From out messy bed close by,
A toad crept forth the worm to view,
And CHANGING with an evil eye,
It's venom at the bright thing threw.
sOh, say, what harm I've done to thee"
The worm exclaimed, f" can't divine!'
Enough" the toad croaked angrily,
Enough that you presume to shine"
From Pte5ei
THE Turkish restaurants at dinner
time are wonderful sight. The guests
SQUAT round mat, the host brings in a
whole sheep and tears it open with his
hands, whereupon the guests seize upon
the rice, with which the interior of the
animal is stuffed, and after kneading it
in their fingers into balls till it is quite
brown, they put it into their mouths; the
flat cakes of horrible, indigestible maize
bread supply the places of napkins, and
are then eaten.
THE difference between the enterprise
of English and that of American Jour-
nails is shown in a comparison OF the
dispatches from Bayreuth, published
respectively by the New York Times
and the London Times during the Wag-
ner festival. The former journal pub
lished each Cay about $500 words, the
latter about forty words. The London
journal, of course, had the advantage as
regards distance and expense OF .tele-
graphing.
Gen. Harvey on the War.
Gen. w. s. Harvey, whose reputation
al an Indian fighter was won in many q
hard fought contest among the Florida
everglades and on the Western plains,
was recently interviewed by reporter
of the st. Louis Republican, to whom
he gave his views on the present sioux
war: eff they had carried out the