The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-02
People and Things.


ALEXIS whiskers have realized their
original promise.
A DAUGHTER of George Francis Train
is favorite in Washington society this
season.
A MISERABLE Minnesota man named
Peter 1. Green speaks of his wife as
Mrs. P. 1. G.
The latest paragraph from Georgia
paper has it that Lucille, Western
actress, is dead"
MISS COLEMAN, daughter of the late
Robert Coleman, is the wealthiest lady
in Washington.
The sweepings of Paris are sold for
5000, 900 per year. The old paper col
lars alone bring $4,000.
GAIL HAMILTON has another volume
in press, and literary editors are send
ing their shears to be ground.
The editor of the Brooklyn Jefferson
ian lodges the snow as a subject of
editorial comment because it is so deep.
ABDUL KERN, the Turkish command
er-in-chief, is Prussian. He has been
in the service of the Sultan since 1912.
The Baroness Coutts has purchased
property in Shoreditch, London, for
50, 900, in order to establish an institute
of science for that district.
THREE HUNDRED bouquets, sprinkled
with $780, worth of diamonds, was
stage, at her Moscow benefit.
Mr.. RUSSELL SAGE, who aspires to
succeed Vanderbilt as the King of Wall
street, is now worth $5,000,000, and
began life as counter-jumper.
IT takes German life-insurance agent
to overcome the uninsured. The Ger
man word for life insurance company is
lebensversicherungsgesellschaft.
THERE died in Middlebury, VT, a
few days ago, cabinet-maker named
Nahum Parker, in whose shop Stephen
A. Douglas served an apprenticeship.
PETER COOPER will be 81 next month,
and is one of the few millionaires who
enjoy the distribution of their wealth
among the people during their own
lives.
In the New York Assembly the other
day Senator made speech on life in
surance, and he asserted that there were
not four reliably sound companies in this
country.
But little is heard of Boss Tweed
these days. 1t is stated on good author
ity, however, that he is still cat home,"
and that he will stay there until some
thing gives way.
MRS. LANDER, it is asserted, was the
original of Miss Crummies, the infant
phenomenon in gauze and long pant
elettes, who ornaments the pages of
"Nicholas Nickleby."
OLIVE HARPER says that the Turkish
women are short and fat, ignorant, ex-
travagant, deceitful and gossipy. They
are Informed and not handsome, and
make unfaithful wives.
IT is said that the late Commodore
Vanderbilt once bruised and battered
Yankee Sullivan, the pugilist, and that
MIR. Sullivans nose never pointed
straight ahead after the encounter.
The great French publishing house
of Firman Didot, which dates back into
the seventeenth century, has $50 female
compositors, and its collection OF Greek
classics has been entirely set up by them.
Mrs. AMELIA BERRIAN, photographic
writer of New York, wrote the other day
the extraordinary number of l, o54 words
in four minutes, an average of 1854
words in a minute. She wrote 307
words in one minute of the four.
"wHAr are another's faults 10 me,
I've not a yultures bill,
To pluck at every straw see,
And make IL wider still.
1t IL enough for me TO know,
I've follies Of my own,
Ard on my heart the bestow,
And let my friends alone"
THIRTEEN advertisements for young
women to accompany young men on the
Queens birthday have been clipped out
Of Glasgow paper by M. d. Conway
and sent to the Cincinnati Commercial,
to show that personal advertisements in
Europe are as bad as those published
in America.