The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-26
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ICE selis lOr IL Genus pOunu aJ COr
pus Christi, Tex.
CoTToN is turning out better than waf
expected in Texas.
ScHUYLKrLL county, Pa, has twelve
female postmasters.
THE Montreal bakers have reduced the
piice of bread 2cents per loaf.
THE present annual liquor bill of the
United States is $3.50, 900.
THE st. Gothard tunnel will probably
be finished within three years.
New YORK city is experimenting with
furnace to burn city garbage.
A NARRow-GAUGE railroad is to be built
between Deadwood and Central City.
A CABBAGE weighing twenty-five
pounds was "plucked" in Eau Claire,
Wis.
IT is proposed to bridge the Bospho-
rus Mt Constantinople; estimated cost,
$25, 900, 900; time, six years.
The best bricklayers in Paris receive
but $50 per day. The average wages
in this country for the same are So per
day.
THE son of Abd-el-Kader, who, it is
said, has developed considerable literary
taste, is engaged upon a life of his
father.
A NEVADA fockmaster has invented q
continuance for counting sheep that
makes the sheep count themselves, by n
register On dial as they pass through a
gate.
A KENTUCKY farmer poisoned some
watermelons to kill thieves, and then
sold them by mistake to his customers.
Several persons were taken sick, and
one died.
A LAKE has suddenly appeared at Cat
amarca, Buenos Ayres, and is swallowing
up land and trees. The loss of sheep
and cattle by flood is said to have reached
1000 head
WHEN new girl enters the Freshman
class at Wellesley College, Massachu-
sets, the others kiss her all round and
give her bouquet, and that is the way
they haze her.
IT is estimated by authority that in
Europe one person in ,537 is deaf and
dumb; IN Ireland, one in LIZA in the
United States, one in $500; while in
Switzerland the average is one in SOB.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Longfellow
and Bayard Taylor have recently been
elected honorary members of the Liter
airy Academy of Athens, which is under
the special patronage of the Queen of
Greece.
IT is estimated that the bell-punch in
Virginia Coy which alcoholic liquors are
taxed % cents drink and fermented
liquors J cent? will bring the State an
nually 1914, 900. Richmond alone will
pay $211, 900.
The Austrian soldier is about the only
one in Europe who receives only one
meal day in time of peace. That is,
indeed, very fair one; still, for young
soldiers hard at work nearly all day, it
is scarcely enough.
RECENTLY twelve of the multitude of
destitute men in the Black Hills offered
to draw a loaded wagon from Dead
wood to Bismarck on condition of being
fed by the way, and their proposition
was accepted by teamster.
SOME of the young bloods of New
York city have inaugurated series of
fox hunts after the English fashion on
Long island, and Anti Cruelty Bergh
has issued proclamation against the
sport to the farmers of the island.
ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY's will devises to
Cardinal McCloskey and Bishops Tough
lin and Corrigan all his property of
every kind in New Jersey, and to Arch
bishop Gibbons and Bishops Becker and
Kain all the remainder of his property.
The pupils in a school in Boston were
asked to give in writing the difference
between biped and quadruped One
boy gave the following: GA biped has
two legs and quadruped has four legs
therefore, the difference between biped
and quadruped is two legs"
IT has been demonstrated that the
cork tree can be raised without difficulty
at Los Angeles, CAL; and, as the demand
for corks in bottling wines and brandies
is very great on the Pacific coast, the
growth and manufacture of cork is likely
soon to become an important industry
there.
WHILE it has been generally claimed
that Manitoba has an unusually mild
climate, the published statistics of the
Canadian Government show that it is one
of the coolest inhabited portions of
British North America in winter, and
that the summer, although short, is very
warm.
DIR. DUFF, the venerable Indian mis-
sionary, severely censures the apathy of
the English people in connection with
the famine. He pitches into the Queen,
and particularly the nobility, who have
given next to nothing He thinks Vic
toria ought to have given 500, 600 at the
very least.
THE center of population of the United
States is said to have travelled westward,
keeping curiously ne ar the thirty ninth
parallel of latitude, never getting more
than twenty miles north or two miles
south of it. In eighty years it has tray
eled only 400 miles, and is still found
nearly fifty miles eastward of Cincinnati.
LONDON consumes daily about 300 tons
of fish, over 1000 sheep, nearly zoo
oxen, about 100 calves, 5000 pigs-in-
Guiding bacon and hams, not less than
5000 fowls, million or so of oysters,
eggs innumerable, with -four enough
| for | 000 000 loaves t,f broad on1