The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-12

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
WOMEN first appeared on the stage in
England in 1861.
THE Black Hills region proper covers
5000 square miles.
A SUNDAY SCHOOL hymn-bo has jun
been completed in the Spanish Ian
guage.
The common string telephone has
been in use in East India from time i'm
memorial. ar.
FIFTY quarts of potato-bugs were
gathered from two-acre Pennsylvania
potato fell.
LIGHTNING recently knocked the knit
ting needle out of the hand of a young
lady in Montreal.
The Reformed Episcopal church holds
about $500, 600 worth of real estate for
educational purposes.
The estimated value of the works of
art contributed to the Paris Interna-
tional Exhibition by England is 81
$50, 1000.
The Elmira advertiser sets down one
real, genuine, simon-pure hump backed
baggage-smasher against any twenty In
dams on the continent.
FIFTY-oNE metals are known to exist.
thirty of which have been discovered
within the present century. Four hun
dred years ago but seven were known.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON has shown how.
by careful use of the microphone. dis
eased bone. bullets or other foreign sub
stances can be detected in the human
body.
COINAGE executed at minis of the
United States during the fiscal year,
ending June 80, 1873: Gold, S52,77O,-
400; trade dollars, 81 1878, 0lO; standard
silver, IS, 600, 500; subsidiary silver coin,
81, $780, BIT; minor coins, $80,676. To-
tai, $S1, 118. 921.
ACCORDING to the latest returns. the
cultivated land of France is divided into
$500, 900 properties. Four millions are
under six acres. Belgium has a like
subdivision of property. In Ireland, on
the other hand, ITO owners hold more
than one-fifth of the soil.
The number of equine births in
France in 1877 is stated to be nearly
300, 900, of which tenth part is thor
oughbred. The French army REQUIRES
SO, OCO horses when on a peace footing
the Russian army, 80, 900, and the Aus
tro- Hungarian army, 10000.
THE Turkish Sultan is grievously in
want of money, and has great difficulty
in even feeding his extensive household.
Bakers, grocers and other tradesmen, to
whom he is already much in debt, re-
fuse further supplies without pay, and
attempts to borrow, except in very small
sums, have been without success.
FREDERICK HAssE graduated at the
head of his class in a German univer-
sity in 1870. He was heir to $50, 900,
and his prospects of successful career
could hardly have been brighter. A few
days ago he died in St. Louis, where he
had for year been a porter in q meai-
cal college. An appetite for opium
killed him.
ALLEN LYLE lodged over night in the
cabin of Missouri negro named King.
He had hundred dollars in his pocket,
but was careful to show only ten-dol-
lar bill, for fear of robbery. However,
he moderated the amount for which
King would commit a crime, for in the
morning he was found MORALLY wound
ed, while King and the ten dollars were
gone.
The demand for the Scent Testament
issued by the American Bible Society is
so great that it led to the issue of
thousand copies a day throughout the
month of May. A new price-list has
been adopted, in which the various pub
LEGATIONS of the society are greatly re-
duced. The receipts for May were $24,-
1923; copies of Scripture issued, 104,-
087. ~ ,i,. ~
In list of British places, pensions
and sinecures, in 1919, appear the names
of Edward Shipper Arnold, James Rob-
ertson Arnold, Geo. Arnold ana Sophia
Matilda Arnold-the first three for G4OO
a year, the last for e100. They are pen
sions given by royal sign manual, and a
note is appended: "N. B.-These are
the children of the notorious American
General Arnold"
PROF. RICHARD HEsoHEL, the Vien-
nese pathologist, says that, while among
GONE 1000 or 800 Westphalian hams
one is infected with trichinosis, of the
American hams inspected in North Ger.
many, according to an official report, one
in from five to ten is condemned, and
there is great probability that several
epidemics have been caused by trichin-
osis from American hams.
THE North Carolina Legislature to be
chosen this fall will elect successor to
Senator Merrimon. Among the candi-
dates for the place are Gov. Vance,
Gen. Thomas L. Clingman, James
M. Leach, and Mr.. Merrimon, all Dem
ocrats. There is much bitterness be-
tween the Vance and Merrimon factions.
Clingman was in the Senate in 1861,
when the war broke out.