The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-29
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

hESS tilan ~ per cent. OF the land liz
Pennsylvania is improved.
THE streets of st. Petersburg are TO
be lighted with electricity.
NORTH CAROLINA claims the vegetable
phenomenon OF an apple growing on a
grapevine.
The California Constitutional Con-
vention is discussing the abolition of
Grand Juries.
SOME dentists assert that eight chill
dren out of ten inherit the fathers teeth,
not the mothers.
ST. PETERSBURG is, with a single ex-
ception, the unhealthiest city of the
world-Madras, India, being that ex-
ception-
The Indebtedness of four firms to the
Bank of Glasgow was $2S, 100000. The
value of their securities is put down at
about 81 100000.
BUTTER for export is being success
fully packed in California, in kegs made
of white fir, which impart neither smell
nor taste to their contents
CHCCoRY factories in the San Joaquin
valley, CAL, are making up large guam
tity of this adulterant Of coffee for the
San Francisco market.
ALEXANDER MCGILL, of Allegheny
City, bequeathed $4,000 to the Demo
cratic party, after his relatives have had
the use of it during their lives.
A CALIFORNIA bee-keeper, Mr.. Harbi-
son, expects to take over 100 tons of
honey from his hives this year. This is
said to be the largest quantity ever pro-
duced in one year by one man.
A MAN was too thoroughly converted
in a revival meeting in West Green
witch, CT. He went home a raving
maniac, chopped upa dog, and tried to
shoot his father, whom he took for the
devil.
The law in the canton of Zurich,
Switzerland, which, until lately, confis-
Gated the property of girls for the bene-
fit of their brothers, has been amended.
7 A newspaper there says that the male
peasants consider themselves ruined be-
cause their sisters are now to share in
the family inheritance.
A WOMAN at a hotel table in Spring
field, Mass, refused potato that wait
ress brought to her because it was not
mealy. The waitress took it away, and
returned with one of monstrous size.
The guest regarded that as an enormity,
and boxed the waitress ears. The wait
ress retaliated by scratching. Then the
two women fought like cats until parted
by force.
A BosToN woman induced her rather
weak-minded husband to will all his
property to her, and then locked him up
in wOodhOuse to die, while she re-
ceived the courtship of the man whom
she intended to marry when she became
widow. In her absence the husbands
| friends made search and found him,
emaciated, drugged and nearly dead.
She was arrested.
The Government of Victoria, Austria
liza, contemplates making 900 miles of
new railroad, although the revenue of
the colony last year showed decline.
Inasmuch as there are thousands in the
colony craving work, railroad extension
is probably a polite measure at the
present time; but these Australian colo
mics are, with one or two exceptions, ac-
cumulating enormous debts.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS began his careerin
the United States as a runaway from
his English home, having obtained
money by forging his fathers name. He
became Professor of Languages and APP
piled Sciences in the University of Vir-
ginia, and was rated high among col
lege savants, but has just finished his
career as peddler of apples in the
streets of Dallas, Texas, drunkenness
having ruined him.
THE Rev. William Parry, of Wcrces-
ter, Mass, comes out of an investiga-
ton badly damaged in reputation. One
witness testified that the reverend gentle
man was for several days on frolic in
Bristol, r. l., where he slept in bar
room, putting bottle full of whisky
under his head before he went to sleep
on a bench, and taking it out empty in
the morning. He did not pay his liquor
bill until threatened with exposure.
A BRITISH tourist has made an uproar
in Rheims. One night, about 8 o'clock,
the town was alarmed 10y the sound of
the tocsin, or big bell of the cathedral.
The inhabitants rushed out of their
houses expecting to find a revolution or
fire, but they were agreeably disap-
pointed. The dreadful knell was merely
the work of an English traveller, who,
having been locked up in the cathedral,
thought the best way to get out would
be to set the big bell going.
WHEN Shakespeare died, aged SO, the
following were among his eminent adult
contemporaries then living: Lord Her.
bert of Cherbury, aged 35; Sir Edward
Coke, &C.; John Hampden, %; William
Harvey circulation of the blood, IS;
George Herbert, %; Archbishop Laud,
43; Bacon, 55; Rubens, 80; lingo Jones,
A; Teniers, "a; John Barneveld, 81;
Bishop Juxon, "a; Lope de Vega, "a;
Sir Walter Raleigh, 65; Sir Henry
Spelman, antiquary, 80; Sir Thomas
Wentworth, afterward Earl of STAFFORD,
%; Admiral Van Tromp, 81 Isaac We'll
ton, %; Sir Henry Wotton, As; Wal
lenstein, 33; Richard Hooker, IS; Ben
Jonson, AZ: Philip Massinger, 80 Robert
Herrick. ohm Seldom, 80.
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