The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-01-26
People and Things.

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Dom PEDRO is padding up the Nile.
FLORA TEMPLE is not dead, but she
is 81 years old.
A Nova SooTIAN mail train recently
ran 81 miles in go minutes.
CELIA LOGAN says there are hearty
1000 ballet girls idle in New York.
Don CARLOS has left France for a
time, and is skipping around in Italy.
BEEcHER declares that Vanderbilt be-
gan to sing hymns thirty years too late.
The corn crop of Kansas last year, at
% cents bushel, would be worth $780,
600, 900.
FIRST Bennett was engaged to dual
with the sister, and next to duel with
her brother.
MARK TWAIN never laughs. He
"smiles" occasionally, though, when
he's invited to.
TwENTY-THREE HUNDRED wells were
completed in the Pennsylvania oil
regions last year.
OVER seventy members of the Yer
mont Legislature attend prayer-meet-
ing every morning.
PROF. SWINE says that common sense
is the best guardian angel any young
man can have around.
THE skeleton hands of Tom liver and
Yankee Sullivan are preserved In
Philadelphia bar-room.
Two HUNTERS killed in two weeks, on
the Neuces river, Texas, eleven deer,
one bear and 142 turkeys.
THE artists, Mr.. Albert Bierstadt and
Earl Dunraven, are travelling together
in Colorado, making sketches of winter
scenery.
PROF. CHAPLAIN, of the Maine State
College. goes to Japan as professor Of
civil engineering in the Yeddo Uni
versity.
JOHN BRIGHT wants England to give
Turkey fits, if she has to fight to do it.
He believes in the Russian way of doing
things.
JEEMs BENNETT is said to be one of
the best shots in New York. We should
like to see some of the other fellows
shoot, now.
THE Oil City Derrick believes that it
may be years and it may be forever be-
fore the price of crude petroleum falls
below So barrel.
GEN. LESLIE CooMBs, of Kentucky,
has recently married woman So years
old, and probably without the consent
of her parents.
Col. NATHAN HUNTooN, of Unity, N.
H., is reported to be the Oldest Mason
In this country. He has been one
seventy years, and his age is 90.
The petrifed carcass of large rattle
snake was found imbedded in solid rock
by miners blasting at Paskenta, Cal. ),
recently. Even its rattles are preserved.
Mr.. CoxwELI. the eminent English.
aeronaut, indorses the opinion that the
North Pole may be reached by balloons
under favorable circumstances and dur
ing comparatively mild weather.
A QUEER fish was caught in Lowell
canal recently. 1t was flat, with. two
clumsy feet, three feet long and two
wide, has mouth twenty-four inches in
circumference, and weighs twenty -four
and half pounds.
THE late Cornelius Yanderbilb always.
pronounced his name Vanderbilt, and
there is story told to the effect that
having bought once a trunk upon time.
for his eldest son, and ordered his
initials painted omit, it was sent home
marked "V. II. W."
The last newspaper that Gommodons
Vanderbilt read contained report of
the Bennett May fracas, which he pc
rused with greet interest, and he re-
marked upon ths assault, What pity
it was young man should place him
self in such a position"
BRIGHAM YOU'VE printed circular
letter of felicitation to his family and
, friends of Salt Lake ard elsewhere" in
the papers Gf that city the day before
,, Christmas. Not many men, happily,
have families SO numerous that. they are
, obliged to address them threugh the
newspapers.
I Gov. BRADLEY, 81 Nevada, estimates
A the valve of the Qaines OF tie State at
< $50. COS. 900, and their gross product at
: 1856. OOA0 900, while only $4,000, 900 OF
7 mining property was assessed for taxa
. ton. The entire taxable property of
g the Slate, real and personal, Is but $O,-
r OAN 900. exclusive of the proceeds of
y mines. It is thus seen that five-sixths
: of the property (not counting proceeds
= of mines) Ia untaxed, and this IS owned
chiefly by pon-residonts of the State.
Q WHEN Mr.. VIM. III. Seward was die
4 tating the speech delivered at Rochester,
1 N. Y, in October, 1853, known in his
Q works by the title, The Irrepressible
Conflict" Mr.. Seward had used the
Q word irresistible. But presently stop
: ping as he walked about the room, and
!. looking over the shoulder Of his amanu-
r ensis, he observed the word, and said /:
Z "That is not exactly the word; ire
!, pressible--irrepressible is what mean, {"
9 and so the famous phrase was COM
h pleted.