The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DIR. ScHLIEMANN has unearthed relic
that looks like n swollen baseball bat.
A SAN Francesca bride made her we'd
ding trip upon a vessel ON which she was
born twenty years ago.
The new Sultan of Turkey is the hus-
band of one wife, who is said to be o
Belgian, very pretty and very clever.
THE electric light is becoming COM
mon in Paris in connection with works
that have to be carried ON during the
night
A LITTLE girl in Savannah, Ga, was
bitten on the finger by playful dog,
and dled in nineteen days OF hydro
phobia.
WITHIN five years the police of Phila-
delphia have committed eight murders
and shot seventeen persons without ia
tally injuring them.
MASSACHUSETTS pays SIS, 900 year for
the encouragement of horse-trotting, di-
viding. the money among thirty so-called
agricultural societies.
AN Edinburgh professor says of liter
airy stimulants that the best recipe is,
"Scott for boys, Thackeray for men,
Shakespeare for heroes"
ANDERSON NJ. WADDELL, of Nashville,
gave So, 600 to the widow of a man whom
he had killed. He had been acquitted
on charge of murder.
A WOMAN in Detroit tried to kill her.
self, and the reason that she gave was
}hat she 6" got mad at the world" because
1t gave her nothing to eat.
BREAD hereafter is to be sold in Read
ing, Pa, by weight A fine is imposed
for not conforming with the law, as also
for using improper materials.
NEARLY 100000 Germans are settled
in some forty counties in Texas, particu-
larly Comal and Guadalupe, and they are
highly successful as agriculturists.
A NEGRO exhibited in Arnoldville, Mo-,
has tail like that of a pig and he can
curl it "just as natural as life." So says
letter in the st. Louis Republican.
THE charger upon which Emperor
William rode through his battles is dead.
The old war-horse dropped off the other
day OF the advanced equine age OF 20.
A SUMMONS has been issued at Cardiff
against one DIR. Edgar Jones, who, it is
alleged, cut open n woman's wounds after
having dressed them, because she could
not pay the fee.
THERE was n fight at the burial of q
man in Mayfeld, Mich, for the posses
sion of his child. The relatives were
divided into two parties, and the hand
to-hand conflict lasted fifteen minutes.
The San Francisco Common Council
has passed a special bill permitting a
certain Cinnamon to carry II pistol three
months because his life is threatened by
persons against whom he has testified.
THE old mode of detecting Il woodpile
thief by charging sticks with gunpox-
der was recently tried by a Minnesota
farmer, and it worked as well as ever
A neighbours stove was blown into
pieces.
A VEIN of copper has been discovered
mt Westboro, on the West Wisconsin rail-
road, eighty-three miles above Stevens
Point 1t is eleven and one-half miles
long aud from one and half to twelve
inches thick.
JOHN TURNER, one OF the proprietors
of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, got
bad shave twenty years ago. Leaving
the BARRIERS shop he said he would "be
id if he would ever shave again." He
kept his word, and his beard flows to his
knees.
NJ GUILLEMARE has reported to the
French Academy Of Sciences that, from
the gum OF pine trees in a sandy waste
between Bordeaux and Bayonne, he has
extracted very valuable oil, particular
ly suitable where white and steady
light is needed.
A BILL introduced into the Legisla-
ture of Delaware enacta that where
bride and groom, or the bride only, are
residents of the State, and leave the
State for the purpose OF being married
beyond its limits, they shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor.
Count HERBERT DE BISMARCK, son OF
the Chancellor, lately offered himself as
a candidate for membership in the Wen
ma Jockey Club, but withdrew under n
suggestion that he would be blackballed
for his fathers hostility toward the
Catholic Church.
SECRETARY robson leaves his Office
in good worldly circumstances. Com
modore Aulick, Mrs. Robeson's father
in-law, left her considerable property,
besides $100,00 to her son, which, with
the Secretary money, gives them control
of some 100000.
A New MILFORD, Conn. maiden, who
found herself in unpleasant company af-
ter accepting an invitation to take a
sleigh-ride with young man, dropped
her handkerchief on the road, and, when
he got out to pick it up, piled the whip
and drove home without him.
EDWARD M. Fry, a San Francisco
broker, married the daughter of a mill
ionaire two years ago. They did not get
along amicably. Lately they agreed
upon separation, divided their prop
erty, and separated. He has gone to
Europe to live, SO as to be as far from
her as possible.
TIMOTHY DREYER owed New Bedford
merchant SO, and was frequently
dunned. One day he said, "Ill pay
you next Monday If Tn alive, and if L
don't you may know am dead" Mon