The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-18
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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first people to use forks at the table.
THE West Point graduates this year
will number seventy-seven, the largest
class on record.
A RAGGED old sachel kicking around
a Portland hotel for month was found
to contain over So, 900 in cash.
JENNY LIND says few other people like
her husband, but she does, notwith-
standing. He is so true and self-sacri-
ficing
A LONDON artift takes sand, lime and
clay and makes a handsomer sea-shell
than nature ever made for denizen of
the deep.
The Rev. w. III. H. Murray, of Bos-
ton, says. eff you want to hear minis
ter's faults, get another minister to talk
about him."
SHoPKEEPERsi in Raleigh, n. c., are in
tears because the military post, which
Melted them an average of $50, 900 year,
has been abolished.
SINCE the gubernatorial adjustment in
South Carolina the value of real estate
in Charleston is said to have advanced
very considerably.
THEY are fencing off the Yosemite val
ley, erecting barbados, building walls,
and preparing to make every patriot pay
cash down for all he sees.
Miss GEoRGIANA BOUTWELL,, daughter
of the Senator, is at the head of an or
ganization which is establishing q nor
NAL school for colored teachers.
AN oil painting of Gov Hampton has
just been sent to Germany to be litho-
graphed. More than 1000 copies have
already been ordered by his admirers.
THE United States Circuit Court of
Oregon adjourned tout of respect to
it's clerk, who had committed suicide at
the close of a month of constant intozi-
cation.
THE last vital statistics of France
show that tobacco chewers are the
longesthved men in that country. They
beat farmers by an average of three
years.
THE Gear has put a stop to the pur-
chase of American locomotives and rail-
road coaches by decreeing that the Rus
slams must manufacture these things for
themselves.
A WESTERN editor says: "The Ne
braska Legislature sits during the winter
in order to prevent its members from at
tending the sessions in their shirt sleeves
and bare feet"
MISSOURI has new law forbidding
officers of banks to receive deposits after
they know that their institutions are in
solvent, and making them individually
responsible for losses caused by neglect
of this provision.
THE Chinese claim to have originated
macadamized roads so long ago as to
have forgotten the circumstance. 1t is
said that the principal roads of the en-
pire have been constructed in this way
for many centuries.
STATISTICS show that more elderly mar
riages take place in Kentucky than in
any other State of the Union. Nothing
is thought on either side of the house of
tying the knot at three score years and
ten, and along there.
SENATOR STANLEY MATTHEWS began
his political existence as an Abolitionist.
Then he became a Democrat, and as
District Attorney under Buchanan filed
the last requisition on which warrant
was issued in Ohio for the return of
fugitive slave.
THE dogs on Mount St. Bernard saved
the lives of forty persons during the past
winter. At the distance of an hours
march they can discover, through their
wonderful sense of smell, whether trav-
elers are on the mountain, and begin to
howl as soon as they do.
SnKwoRM eggs are sent by the Japan
csc to the continent anu to this, country
by way of San Francisco instead of In
dia. The railroad from ocean to, ocean
enables japanese exporters to prolong
the season to the end of the year, which
is impossible by the Suez route.
JENNIE COLLINS. who conducts in Bos-
ton a working-girls' home called Bofin's
Bower, often receives letters from Pa
cific coast men seeking wives; and she
says that she has actually arranged sew
eral marriages, after satisfying herself
of the good character of the applicant.
Miss PORTER, daughter of Admiral
Porter, will be the fourth of Mrs. Sar-
toris' bridesmaids to be married. Miss
! Sherman was the first. Miss Freling-
huysen and Miss Dent were married about
the same date year later Miss Porter
is to be married to Lieut. Logan, U. S. N,
on May TO-
The San Francisco newspapers tell of
a case of what they call spontaneous
combustion of n human being. The
story is that topper, presumably satur-
ated thoroughly with alcohol by long
drunkenness, lighted his pipe at gas
Jet. Instantly his mouth was ablaze,
and he was burned inwardly SO, that he
died.
WILLIAM NEWELL, convict in Reno,
Cal, made plan to kill keeper and
escape. Then he tossed a cent to decide
whether to make the venture or to kill
himself, and the chance was decided in
/ favor of the former course. The con-
Wet failed to murder the keeper, and
was recaptured, whereupon he killed
! himself.
A PARIS newspaper gives the following
as the ages of some of the leading public
men of Europe: Prince Gortsclfakoff,
! 10: Lord Beaconsfield ~; Mr.. Gladstone,
s.: Prince Won Bismarck, CD; Lord Gran
vile, 81; Marshal MacAIahon, 80; NJ
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