The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-04
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The grasshoppers are disappearing
from Texas
SHAD are becoming very plentiful in
the California rivers.
A SON of Stephen A. Douglas is study
ing law in North Carolina.
HOLDERS of Centennial stock will get
about % cents on the dollar.
BERLIN, by the late census, is found
to have 1000, 800 inhabitants.
A MAGNIFICENT table clock lately
fetched s., 415 at auction in London.
Francis JOSEPH of Austria is a great
fiddler-one of the best amateurs of vi
emma
A BILL offering bounty of cents for
every rat killed in the State has passed
the Missouri Legislature.
THURSDAY, April 26, was the fifty
eighth anniversary of the establishment
of Odd Fellowship in the United States.
HENRY SLADE, the Spiritualist, who
was imprisoned in London, is performing
in Holland, and exciting great amount
of interest among the Dutchmen.
The will was lately contested in the
English Probate Court of lady who
married when 80 years a man of 40, and
at his death married again and survived
her second husband.
BEFORE the war the States of Missis-
sippi and Alabama were the largest cot
ton-producing regions of the South, but
neither one ever exceeded the ESQ.,
600 bales produced by Texas last year.
j. G. MURPHY, negro-minstrel, adj
vestises in the Clipper that he has OBJ
tanned divorce form his wife, and adds:
"Once more L stand erect, and assume
the godlike attitude of freedom and
single man..
AT the close of 1876 the public debt of
Spain stood at nearly G470, 600, 900.
The manufacturing industries of the
country are comparatively insignificant,
its natural resources almost undevel-
oped, and its population little more than
5000, 900.
The will of Miss Mary Dancer,
daughter of the New York gambler,
"Matt' Dancer, giving over $500, 900
to charities, is to be contested by an
uncle and about dozen cousins, but
with small prospect OF success, except
for the lawyers.
The English postoffice is going to en-
ploy much fewer women in telegraphy,
! because they cannot work at night
Young ladies are found to do very well
as railroad ticket clerks, except that they
are so fascinating that male passengers
daily ut the ticket office and cause delay.
THE CLIMBING ROSE.
Climb, oh climb the golden ladder,
Song of mine;
Climb till thou dost reach her heart
For whom pine.
Cease not, lest thou lose the bliss
For which 1 sigh;
Climb till thou dost touch her heart
All why not L?
-Gdla1y for May.
JOIN III. BRIsTow, of Circleville, Ind,
was awaiting the arrival of train upon
which he desired to go to his home,
few miles distant. While on the plat
form talking to two friends, in apparent
good health, he suddenly threw his hands
up and sank to the floor, dying inside
of three minutes.
New YORK hotels The ST. Nicholas
Hotel rents for $120, 600; the Fifth Ave-
nue. for $500, 600; the Windsor, $685.
600; Metropolitan, $1S0,000 st. James,
5000, and Grand Central, 100000.
Very few of the hotel proprietors in
town have been able to secure any re-
duction this year.
BIRDS killed on our prairies, packed
closely with paper in barrels, and with
out any freezing or other artificial pro-
cess of preservation, now go regularly to
Leadenhall, and are eaten in the dining
rooms of London and the West End side
by side with the much more expensive
cartridges and fowls which are reared in
England.
Mr. AxTELL, who was sent to Congress
by the Democracy of California for two
terms and who never returned to San
Francisco after his second incumbency,
has turned Mormon, become Brother Ak
tell, and is now playing the part of q
Mormon John the Baptist, crying aloud
in the wilderness of New Mexico, and
making the paths straight for Mormon
exodus to that Territory.
A NUMBER of young Frenchmen under
took to smoke and jest at midnight
mass, on Christmas eve, in parish church,
near Tours. One of them seized burn
ing taper and set it under the chair of
oious gentleman who was absorbed in his
devotions. For these and other eccen-
tricities they have been recently SEN
fenced to terms of imprisonment ranging
from a fortnight to month.
| CARCANET.
Not what the chemists say they be-
Are pcarls-they never grew;
They como not from the hollow sea-
They come from heaven in dew
Down in the Indian sea il slips
Through green and briny whirls,
| Where great shells catch it in their lips,
| And kiss il into pearls
| II dew can be 80 beauteous made,
| Oh why not tears, my girl?
| Why not your tears? BE not afraid
| l do but kiss pearl
r.. II. Stoddard, in Scribnor for Mey.
MORE than 125 mountains in North
Carolina were measured by Prof. Guyot.
OF this number the lowest is some $500
feet, and the highest is 6,7O7 feet.
There are fifty-four mountains over 5000
feet in height forty-five mountains over
5000 feet in height, but not as much as
5000, and fifteen mountains over 1000
feet, but not as much as 5000 feet.
Black mountain is the highest, being
6,707 feet.
Two BODIES, tightly fastened together