The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-03
People and Things.


The Christian Advocate calls poor
Huxley an " evolved pollywog."
A CALIFORNIA man has cleared $1,000
this year from eight acres Of black
berries.
A MANS reputation for sobIiety often
hangs upon breath, says the New Or
leans Republican. I..,
DURING its 140 years of existence, the
Presbyterian Church at Cranberry, N.
D., has had but six ministers.
IMMENSE herds Of buffalo have APP
peared on the Red river, in Manitoba,
after ten years Of total absence.
IT is asserted that snake with q fin
has been captured in Maine. Even the
snake stories are becoming fishy.
In Vergennes, VT, the other night, q
young woman attacked burglar and
scratched and bit him so that he was
glad to get away.
IMITATION Limburger cheese has been
manufactured 80 successfully in Wiscon-
sin that families living near the factory
were obliged to close their windows.
BAYARD TAYLOR thinks that what loaf
ing round bar-room is to the body, the
humorous newspaper writing which turns
suffering and death into derision is to
the mind.
The Boston Boniface in one of the
swell Anglo-American hotels remarks,
"We sharn't take any one heah whose
in trade, and I've to be awfrIly careful,
don't you know"
CT The "cubic air law" in San Fran
n SEQ is persistently evaded by the Chi
ese, who seem to delight in crowding
themselves into spaces where white men
would be suffocated.
PARsoN MURRAY expresses willing
ness to do little lobbying for law
compelling parishes to lock their church
doors on Sunday afternoon against all
who had worshiped in the morning.
FRANK BUcKLAND, the English nat
uralist, tells of finding trout lying
dead on its back with dace fixed tight
in one of its gills. The big fish had
tried to swallow the little one, and both
had persisted in the attempt.
A VERY precise person, remarking
upon Shakspeare's line,
bones,"
carefully observes that this interment
can generally take place without crowd
ing the bones.
PLAYING at chivalry, remarks the
World, at least engenders the chivalric
sentiment, which is still good thing,
and worth looking after in our work-a-
day world. SO is playing poker. It's a
nightly sort OF thing, and introduces
lot OF kings and queens, not to mention
knaves, who generally play the deuce.
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT is interesting him
self in raising Egyptian donkeys on his
estate in Glamorgansbire, Wales, and it
is expected that these animals, which
are very tractable as we'll rs pretty to
the eye, will soon be in great request i'll
the fashionable world of England for
ladies' saddle use and for use in pony
carriages.
The splendid orang outang in the Ber-
lin Aquarium died of consumption. Its
friend and playfellow, the chimpanzee,
died the next day of consumption and
grief. The young gorilla, the only iv-
ing specimen ever brought to Europe,
is still alive, but ailing. Hamburg not
long ago offered 100,00 marks for the
gorilla; it is feared that he will soon be
sold for less.
New JERSEY sportsmen have taken TO
hunting cats, and recently fifty-seven
were killed in day. Rabbits were
plentiful there till some years ago, when
the cats commenced killing them, and
eventually took to the woods themselves,
aud the result is, the rabbits disappeared
almost entirely and O race of semi-wild
cats sprung mp. Hence the war of ex-
termination that the hunters are waging.
In the London Divorce Court, lately,
. woman prayed for dissolution of her
marriage on the ground that she was
insane at the time it took place. She
was then SO FRUSTRATED with grief at the
loss of her husband as to lose her reason,
and man in q much humber station OF
life than herself persuaded her to marry
him. She had been in an asylum, but
was now sane. The evidence being per-
fectly satisfactory, the marriage was dis
solved.
ONLY WEEK AGO.
Only week ago the warmth and glow
or sweetest summer time
Only week ago the bud and blow
OF some fair tropic cline.
Olly week ago. and now the glow
Of fervid heat has turned
To wintry snow, and sharp winds blow
Where tropic splendors burned.
Only q week ago-ah, very low
Ny cherished buds are Is ing;
30 low, so low, do not know
II they dead or dying.
So low, 30 low, drenched all with mire and snow,
Their beauty smirched with earth;
SO low, so low-only Gods breath can blow
Them back to fresher birth.
Nora Ryry, in the Gallery.
A PARIs landlord, not being able to
squeeze the rent out of one of his ten
ants, recently made visit to the fifth
floor and caught him in the act of con.
cealing something under the tablecloth.
The poor lodger finally yielded to threats