The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-16
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


GERS survive.
In London twilight doesn't disappear
until 10 o'clock.
AS LATELY as 1916 Lord Beacons6eld's
name was commonly spelt DIsraeli.
DIsRAELI has nobody to share his tri-
umph, his nearest relative being q
nephew.
DURING 1877. 80, 500, 449 pounds of
sugar were used by brewers in Great
Britain.
LORD BEAooNsFIELD says as long as
there shall be an England there will be
a Belgium"
ABOUT 10000 Indian troops, with
three battalions of British, will form the
garrison of Cyprus.
The Portuguese population of Cali
fornia is estimated at IL, 900, of whom
1000 or 1900 live in San Francisco.
A NORTH CARoLNIAN, who fought
clear through the war without scratch,
kicked at dog, the other day, and
broke four of his toes.
A FISHERMAN at Ocean Beach, N. j.,
lately caught shark eight feet long in
a net. The fish is now on exhibition at
10 cents a head, and the fisherman is
happy.
PROF. HUGHES microphones, highly
finished, are offered for sale in London
at the reasonable price of 81 each, and
of course they meet with ready sale.
Together with battery, switch and re-
ceiving telephone, the instruments cost
but IS.
A DELICATE mechanical feat was re-
Gently accomplished by matchmaker
in Providence, r. l., who drilled hole
throughout the entire length of COM
mon pin, from head to point, just large
enough to admit the passage of fine
hair.
ACTIVE opposition to the billiard sa-
loon is continued in Oberlin, Ohio. A
committee of women took seats in it
every evening, until the proprietor ex-
cluded them, and now two are constantly
on duty on the sidewalk, dissuading
young men from entering.
THE yield of the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine for the year ending June 80,
1878, was 1877, 572 tons and 900 pounds
of ore, which produced bullion to the
value of SIS, 1853, 1850. The California
mine yielded 222, 276 tons of ore, pro-
ducing ST., 649, 1923. 40 of bullion.
A CURIOUS candle used in Alaska is a
fish eight inches long, almost trans
parent and very fat, the fat being pure
white and very sweet. The Indians dry
this fish, then light it at the tail, and it
burns with a clear, sparkling flame,
which the wind will not extinguish.
In the Armagh Jail, in Ireland, one of
the rules requires the prisoner to lie on
plank and sleep with his clothes on for
the first month. A Judge lately gave a
shorter sentence than he otherwise
would on account of the rule, remarking
that he considered it nothing more nor
less than torture.
ACCORDING to telegram to a Paris
paper from Vienna, landed property in
Cyprus increased in value tenfold on the
: mere news of the occupation of the
island, whereas in Bulgaria the finest
. properties do not find a purchaser at
the twentieth part of the price they
would have fetched before the war.
A CALIFORNIA tobacco-chewer has
ceased to masticate the odorous weed
because he found a mans finger in a
, paper of it, and got sick. 1t is rare
that man who passes his life in turning
the stomachs of others is thus made to
realize, through his own stomach, some
thing of what he has been guilty of.
Much litigation is likely to grow out
Of the mill explosions in Minneapolis.
The insurance companies refuse to pay
for the whole damage, on the ground
o that they are liable only for the actual
: loss by fire; but the mill-owners hold
that fire caused the explosion, and that,
1 therefore, the entire loss was in conse-
y quence of fire.
HENRY JACKSON, aged II, took a
younger boy out into deep water, at
g Leavenworth, Kan, and deliberately
:: drowned him. The deed seems to have
u been without motive, except to kill
+ somebody. Jackson says that he had
no ill-will toward his victim, but he had
e made up his mind that he would like to
be hanged as a murderer.
= A HORRIBLE murder was committed re-
" Gently at Neriad, in India. A religious
7 mendicant and frantic seized boy from
y among several of his play-fellows and
. stabbed him in the throat. The muir
, derer made no resistance, but calmly
6 told his capturers that the boy was an
"a enemy of his god Rama, and he was
a moved by the god to kill him.
In 873 Europe underwent visitation
% of grasshoppers far worse than that
= ever experienced here. They are re-
ferred to in Spanish and German mo
- nastic archives, and are described as hav
ing hidden the sun and devoured crops
% on 100 acres in one hour. After devas
n tatihg France they we're supposed Il
a. have persisted in the Atlantic.
THERE is tradition in the East thai
le one of the tests by which the Queen o
he Sheba tried to prove the wisdom of Sol
J. ONION was by placing on a table before
him two bouquets, one of natural, tn,
at other of artificial flowers, and requiring
that he should distinguish the one from
~ the other; whereupon the wisest man or
ir dered the windows to be thrown open
m and in came the bees.
A TRIAL was lately going on in Gers
re France, of peculiarly. savage murders
OF named Courtade, who, having a dispute
lie with his landlord, got the Juge de Pai1