The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-14
PeNnle and Things.

assessed at 1913, 993, 1856.
ONE hundred and nine persons in New
York State claim to be over 100 years
of age.
Mr.. BEECHER received 1,193 New
Year callers, an increase of 200 over last
year.
A POPULAR actress who died recently
left an unprotected husband without
visible means of support.
Do YOU want good story and sketch
paper at half the usual rate See adver-
tisement of CHICAGO LEDGER.
A NEW pocket compass invented in En-
gland has the novelty of pointing to the
true and not the magnetic north
'PRAIsE to them. the bold who spoke,
Praise to them, the brave who broke
Stern expressions CALLING yoke,
hundred years ago."
THE Fitch diamonds are still in the New
York Custom House, where they will prob
ably remain, Mrs. Fitch having turned
over the proprietorship of them to her
father.
HENRY BERGH has written two plays
and published two poems. Yet this is
the same man who founded the New
York Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Animals!
New YORK points proudly to the fact
that her police court cases for the past
year foot up 1890, or one to every
twelve of her population. This is doing
very well for the close of a century.
A MAN who stood in money order
Office for half an hour the other day no
ticed that the persons who were sending
money off were males, and that the per-
sons drawing money out were females.
OK and after February visitors will not
be admitted to the Centennial grounds
without pass. Lately the crowd of
visitors has been so great that the work
men have been very much retarded and
interfered with.
SHE wanted her better half TO step
into the store and take just one little
peep at that lovely sealskin sacque." He
hesitated and was lost. When they came
cut she was radiant in the new garment,
and his face was as long as your arm.
A BALTIMORE shopkeeper, who told
lady that she was one of the kind who
"came to look around and not to buy"
was cowhided by an indignant husband.
The shopBeeper sued for assault, and
the husband entered counter plea OF
insult.
IT is reported that the island of Sagha-
lien will be utilized by Russia as penal
colony, in place of Siberia. The San
Francisco Bulletin thinks that the Ameri-
can coast will suffr by this change
that escapes from the island will be much
more frequent than they nave been from
Siberia, and that California will receive
most of the fugitives.
Rev. Mr.. WRIGHT, primitive Baptist
minister in Dooly, Georgia, while return
ing home from his mill, stopped to warm
himself where an old stump of tree had
been fired and burned into hole Search
for him discovered that he had fallen
into the hole, accidentally or in fit,
head foremost. His head and shoulders
were burned to crisp.
The health experience of New Or
leans, according to the last report,
proves, on the data of the last eight
years, the entire feasibility of combining
yellow fever to the places where it first
appears, by strict disinfection The
total mortality from ordinary diseases is
much greater among the colored than
among the white population of the city
nearly double.
PROF. WALKER has ascertained from
the census that about two-thirds of the
million of domestic servants in the United
States are OF native birth. Leaving out
the colored servants, who form about
one-third of the million, more than half
of the white servants over Is years of
age are native born. The fact is that
the immigration of those who are fitted
for domestic service has greatly dimin-
ished of late years. In n fewyears more,
foreign born servants will probably he
very rare.
Two GENTLEMEN engaged in q pitched
battle with the ushers and q special po-
hceman in San Francisco theater, re-
Gently, in order to retain two reserved
seats which one of them had wrongfully
taken possession of for himself and lady.
After hard fight, which was relished
hugely by the gallery, they were con-
quered and marched off to the police
station.
a FARMER at Erie, Pa, went to his
stable one morning, lately, for the pur-
pose of feeding a three year-old colt, and
while in the act of giving him hay the
vicious brute seized him by his long
whiskers. and tore them all off the left
side of his face, leaving frightful
wound. The animal was considered
very docile and gentle, and had never
before shown the least symptom of
viciousness.
A BEvY of young men were playing
poker in Richmond, Va. One of them,
out of luck, exclaimed, "I wish an
earthquake would shake these cards up"
Whereupon the earthquake came and
rocked the guilty crowd, though it in
volved the necessity of shaking up the
State. This is the origin of the late con-
vulsion, on the word of honor of Rich
mond preacher.
A PRETTY GOOD WORLD.
Behold an idle tale they tel,
And who shall blame their telling IL?
The rogues have got their cant to sell,
The world pays well for selling il.
They say this worlds a desert drear,
Still plagued with Egypts blindness;
That we were sent TO suffer here
What b. God of kindness?
That since the world has gone astray,
IL must be so for ever,
Al. .l.,ts11 aea1g an oh