The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-13
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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100000.
The plaintiff in San Francisco di-
vorce suit is a man SO years old, and the
wife is 20.
FRANKLIN county, Miss, has been with
out a Jail for the last six months, and
moreover has no need of one.
The village of Port Jackson, N. Y,
emulates South Carolina and Louisiana
by having two sets of officers.
WoMAN's suffrage has come within one
of victory in the Rhode Island Legis-
lature. The vote stood 26 to 25.
The Government survey boats to be
used on the Ohio are to be named J.
Donald Cameron and Gen. w. T. Sher-
man.
The United States sends more pupils
to the Royal Conservatory of Music in
Leipsic than any other foreign country
save England.
AN English ticket-of-leave man, who
could obtain no work, recently committed
a petty theft that he might be returned
to penal servitude.
A CINCINNATI quack, known as DIR.
Raphael, became conscience-stricken be-
cause of the death of several patients,
and killed himself.
DARwIN's admirers in Germany have
made q present to him OF q magnificent
album, containing the photographs of
over 200 Darwinists.
Gov. STANFORD states that the South
ern Pacific will be built 140 miles be-
yond the Colorado into Arizona before
the next session of Congress-
THERE is girl 10 years old in Kinds
county, Miss, who is six feet, weighs 100
pounds, and has six fingers on each
hand, and six toes on each foot.
A Texas sheep-raiser says there are
about 1900, 900 head of sheep on the
borders of the Rio Grande, the finest
sheep-raising country in the world.
A MAN living near San Antonio, Tex,
cut ~, 900 shingles from one cypress tree,
which he sold for $780, enough to pay for
the whole tract of land upon which the
tree grew.
SECRETARY SoHURz has detailed one of
the lady clerks in his department, a ma
tive of this country who was educated in
Germany, to take charge of his German
correspondence.
ABRAHAM T. BEIDLER, of Reading,
Pa, vaccinated himself with impure
virus, which produced great swelling of
the arm and inflammation of the system,
resulting in death.
THE Duchess of Marlborough intends
to make it condition of the ST. Patrick's
balls in Dublin Castle that women shall
wear Irish poplins. This is done to re-
vive trade in that fabric
In England, in 1873, iron and steel
rails were selling at G15 and 600 per ton
respectively; now they may be had for
f5 SIS and f7 5s. Pig iron has fallen to
less than half it's price in 1873.
WHEN the new Postmaster General is
surrounded by the horde of Washington
house-agents offering their establish
ments for lease, it is said he smilingly re-
marks that he has nine children.
SECRETARY FISH, on salary of $4,000
year, lived in house the rent of which
was $1,000. His total expenses were
about $4,000 year, which his large
fortune made it easy for him to sustain.
Miss MAXWELL GRAHAM, of Williams
wood, England, has left $4,000 to four
charitable societies, wherewith to relieve
poor Professionals, who are named Hutchi-
son or Maxwell, and to educate their
children.
A CHINAwoMAN was sold by her hus-
band to ellow-countryman in Califor-
mia for $3.50 She was then healthy, but
she soon fell sick, and was disabled for
work, 80 the purchaser killed her with
cleaver
DURING the twenty-five years of his
reign the Russian Gar has failed to in
dorse single sentence to capital pun
ishment. From 1856 to 1860 90 SEN
fences were submitted TO him and set
aside.
LIVE Holsters are the latest imported
edible from the United States to Great
Britain, one steamer having recently
carried a tank containing 700. A con-
slant flow of sea water was kept in the
tank by means of a small engine.
PEOPLE want whisky pretty badly
sometimes. An Allegheny pa man
went on spree, the other day, with
money obtained by selling his dead
childs shoes, and also that intended for
the purchase of coffin to bury it in.
THE business of fortune-telling is per-
lions in Nevada. CASTILLO, gypsy, told
Truckee man that his wife was unfaith-
full, and the wife, on learning what had
been said about her, whipped the gypsy
with rawhide until he fell from exhaus-
ton.
LATEST advices from Africa indicate
that Miss Alice Wren was killed by saw
ages, and not strangled by Mile. Cora,
as at first reported. 1t is now feared
that the whole Cora troupe have been
murdered, as nothing has been heard
from them.
THE notion has been started that COM
pressed tea, by process which reduces
It to one-tenth of its ordinary bulk, is
economical. The theory is that the COM
preston thoroughly breaks the cells and
smaller vesicles of the leaves, so that
boiling water acts effectively on it.
| NEST-BUILDING.
Lady bird lady bird, wake from your dreams
| The winter all dreary, is over
| I hear the murmur of myriad streams
Singing soft through the upspringng clover.
| i've wooed You by melody tender and low,
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