The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-12

PeOple and Things.

People anu Things.
BRIsrow smokes more cigars than
Grant. -,.--.--'.-s-.-.-rsr--
THE wealthiest Chinaman in San Fran
cisco is a doctor. lr..s.
RosooE CoSKLINa and Horatio Sey-
mour are brothers-in-law.
THERE are 1906 Japanese in Paris,
many more than there are Frenohmen
in Japan. nod
THERE is firm in Boston named
Gray a. Lunt. Half of their letters
come to them addressed Lay & Grunt.
THERE are i62,552 churches in the
United States, with sittings for II, 1885,
o42 people We forget the exact number
of backsliders.
The San Antonio Herald disapproves
OF closing the saloons at night it's so
convenient, it says, to know where to go
to look for policeman.
A RESIDENT of Madison, o., has re
Gently buried his seventh wife. He
now looked upon with as much curiosity
as was Bluebeard of romantic renown.
THERE is an old proverb to the effect
that great war leaves the country with
three armies AN army of cripples, an
army of mourners and an army of
thieves.
MIR. JOHN LEMorNE, the distinguished
French journalist, thinks that the title
of Empress conferred upon Queen Vic
toria will prove the first step toward an
English republic.
WHAT" asks the New York Mail in
pathetic way, "becomes of old school
masters and schoolmistresses 2" Per-
haps they become past participates, or
retire into the dust to look for roots.
IT is reported by the Boston Tran
script that Judge Hoar recently said
that he would jump out OF two-story
window to elect Blaine, and out of a
three-story window to elect Col. Bris-
| tow.
MIR. COLLAR, in declining to run for
Congress, explains that the happiest
years of the past quarter of century
have been the recent ones, in which he
has ''belonged to his family" and not to
Z" the rest of mankind"
WHEN Mark Antony threw himself
upon the " dear remains" of his loved
Cesar in Pittsburgh theater the other
|
the stomach, which had the effect of
doubling it up with grunt, that rather
detracted from the solemnity of the oc-
casion.
The Queen of Madagascar has heart
that beats in unison with the hearts of
those Ohio ladies vino went forth "cITl-
sading" last year. The Madagascar tax
on spirituous liquors is paid in kind, and
when the annual collection is made the
Queen orders the tax to be poured into
the ocean.
AT Paris, workingman, Habay, a
horny handed shoemaker, entered the
canvass. He was running very well,
and was supported by some of the prom
inent papers. Finally it was discovered
that he owned a house worth $4,000
francs, and the workingmen threw him
overheard.
ONE Worcester Mass man is going
to sue another for the possession of
house which was built and owned by the
former, but was moved by the food up
on the ground of the latter. The owner
of the land informs his neighbor that the
house must stay where it is, being put
there by an overruling Providence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN wrote to Secretary
Cameron during the war requesting him
to appoint Jacob II. Freer, of New Jer-
sey, ga Colonel of q colored regiment,
and this regardless of whether he can
tell the exact. shade of Julius Caesars
hair" The letter is now In existence,
and is considered great curiosity.
In has just been proved that a negro
can be killed by blow on the head. In
an Alabama prison recently, negro
convict hit another with an iron pot
weighing ten pounds. The wounded
mad died of concussien of the brain,
but the post norton examination failed
to show that the blow had affected the
skull in any way.
BROKEN RHYTHM.
My oars keep time to half a rhyme,
That slips and slides away from me;
Across my mind, like idle wind,
lost thought beateth azily.
Adream, anoat my little boat
And alone steal out to sea;
One vanished year, oh lost and dear!
You rowed the little boat for me-
All! who can sing of anything,
With none to listen lovingly?
Or who can time the to rhyme,
When left TO row alone the sea?
"A GENTLEMAN WHO, IuIct ulOuIuS dBO,
borrowed $40 from capitalist, to whom
he gave as security first mortgage on
|, his watch, went Saturday to pay it off,
and was surprised rather than satisfied
, to learn that his bill was $20. 16. Wher
, he demonstrated with the capitalist, the
i latter replied "Wel, the interest d.
look little high, but there are 80 many
> losses in the business, you know"
A SINGULAR instance of female preco
. city in juveniles came before the War
ringtLn magistrates in England few
!, days ago. A girl, only eleven years old
3 was charged with stealing 6s from thu
9 person of woman. A bag containing
Q e. was found in her possession, ant
Q when questioned she admitted that sh'
d had been systematically engaged II
g picking pockets for three years. Prout
g of her skill, the child illustrated it IL
}. presence of the police by emptying thu
pocket of q woman without attracting
her attention. The bench ordered the
i delinquent to be imprisoned for one
d month, and detained in reformatory