The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-22
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Bedouins eat locusts fried in
butter.
The common cat is fed on fish and
bred for its fur in Holland.
A MAGISTRATE in Caldwell county,
KY, has held his place since 1910.
The capital invested in sewing-ma-
chimes is estimated at about $30,000,00O.
NINETY THOUSAND bushels of peanuts
will be produced in North Carolina this
year.
Sailed rats are actually exported
from India to China as an article of
food.
DURING the season that has Just closed
over 1000 Mormons have left Liverpool
for Utah.
The silver product of this country is
estimated at 100000 to 100000 ounces
per week.
LETTERS are pouring into Memphis
containing offers to adopt orphans left
by the plague.
A CONVICT in the Texas penitentiary
got a pardon by means of forged petit
tons and letters.
A BALTIMORE dentist says that eight
children out of ten inherit the fathers
teeth, not the mothers.
GERMANY turns out annually $50 doc
tors thoroughly educated, about 100 of
whom emigrate to foreign parts.
The receipts of the Pullman Palace
Car Company for the year just ended
were $2,160,S29; their operating ex-
penses were $S78,57S.
A COMMUNION service was celebrated
in Bridgeport with brandy instead of
wine, the druggist having made blum
der in filling the order for sherry.
THERE are fewer blind people in
Switzerland, in proportion to popula-
ton, than in any other European coun-
try, and more deaf mutes, idiots and
lunatics.
CIVILIZATION has it's disadvantages.
Some police returns which have lately
been published in Japan show large
increase of crime in 1877 over the pre-
viOus year.
THE once greatly praised tempered
glass has now fallen into disfavor It's
liability to explode is fatal to the future
magnitude of the industry of which it
is the basis.
A LITTLE girl at Heeley Falls, Ont,
while straying around her fathers farm
came across young bear, and, mistak-
ing it for dog, tied string around its
neck and logged it home.
In 1874 there were 1000 miles of
railroad in Russia, whose gross receipts
were $10O,000,000; in 1875. 10000 miles,
but the receipts were only 100000 more
than in 1874. In 1876 the mileage had
increased by 200 miles, and the receipts
by $2,500,000.
AN Albanian owns goat, not yet 2
years old, that is the mother and grand
mother of eight. Two kids are usually
born at time, sometimes three. The
increase of goats is more than double
that of sheep. Goats are taxed in Ala
bama as nuisance.
A SWARM of bees took possession of
the chimney of Middleield (CtD
Methodist Church during the summer,
and, when fire was kindled in the
stove on a recent Sunday, the floor of
the church basement literally flowed
with honey.
VIRGINIA can boast of another great
natural curiosity, wonderful cave hav-
ing been discovered in Page county. A
correspondent who has explored it repre-
sents it as containing great vaulted cham
bers, from the ceilings of which are
thousands of pendants as white as snow.
The Russian Inpolide pnts the num-
Der of troops engaged in actual fighting
during the last war mt 282 900 infantry,
81 600 cavalry. or $4,000 men with 1 ,2SS
field guns. The artillery used 204, 1923
charges, and the infantry md cavalry
1O,O57, 764 cartridges. The Turks are
reported to have lost altogether nearly
15O, 900 killed and wounded.
Down at Benton, Ga, woman %
years old bought from his mother
young man aged 20, for the purpose of
making him her husband The trade
was made on Sunday, the quid pro quo
being muslin dress. The young man
was delivered to his purchaser, who
walked three miles through the rain to
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