The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GEORGIA is raising her finest corn
crop.
THE best time for bathing is from 7 to
ii in the morning.
THE Sandwich Islanders estimate
women by their weight.
VERMONT proudly refuses to report a
single fatal case of sunstroke.
ARTIFICIAL ice factories are success
fully running this summer in several
Southern cities.
THE importance of ripe fruit as an ar
ticle of diet is gradually gaining its de-
served recognition.
THE population of the Australian col
ony of Victoria is now 1853, $40, with the
males in the majority by 100, 900.
THE ice-dealers are realizing fortunes
all over the country, while the butchers
are getting ready to go INTO bankruptcy.
SIX Spanish journals are being sued
by the Government for insinuating that
the late Queen Mercedes was poisoned.
The perfect imprint of tree may be
seen upon the breast of Thomas Briggs,
of Wellsburg, w. Va, who was struck
by lightning on July 4.
A SKELETON of AN enormous animal
has been dug up in Texas. 1t is fifty
four feet long from the root of the tail
to the joint of the neck.
BOSTON has no Coroners now. The
work is done better by medical examin-
ers, at a large saving of money. Many
abuses have been checked.
ACCORDING to Mr.. Wilfred Lawson Tin
the House of Commons), $50, 900 per
sons were taken up for drunkenness in
England and Scotland last year.
THERE are over $4,000 Touring mills
in the United States, giving employment
to 60, 900 men. These mills turn out an
nually 80, 900, 900 barrels of -four.
THE number of paupers in England
on the LIST of January was TAT, 81, de-
crease of GAIL from the number in
1875, Notwithstanding the "hard times"
IT has been decided by court in
Perthshire, Eng, in a case involving the
legal kinship of relatives, that brother
is nearer of kin to sister than is a
father.
The Bishop of Manchester SAYS that
some of the English clergy are SO poor
once or twice week, and are glad to
get the cast-off clothing of the parishion-
ers.
The Chinese are capable of being
civilized. A couple of them had law
suit in Salinas, CAL, not long ago. The
defendant was convicted, but declared
he would hire more witnesses, and try it
again.
A CANADIAN paper says that as the
telephone makes it possible for sounds
to be canned the same as beef, Holsters,
fruit, etc., missionary sermons might be
bottled and sent to the South Sea islands
ready for the table, instead of the mis-
sionaries themselves.
THE managers of the Northern Pacific
road intimate that they will place under
contract 200 miles of the main line west
from Bismarck to the Yellowstone, and
utilize the 5000, 900 acres of land be-
tween these points in the building of the
extension, which would cost so, 900 to
$12, 900 per mile.
A RISKY experiment was tried in a
Paris theater In the ballet the leading
danseuse came forward waving an olive
branch. Then all the flags of the world
were waved by the corps, excepting that
of Germany. Then the premier danseuse
displayed the German flag. The reoep-
ton given it by the spectators was very
cordial.
THE cultivation of the opium poppy,
which has hitherto been exclusively con-
fined to the East, bids fair to become
thoroughly established and remunera-
tive in Eastern Africa. Seeds of the
best kinds have been imported from
Malwa into Mozambique, where 10000
acres of uncultivated state lands have
been granted to company with cap
ital of 5000, 900 for the purpose of cul-
tivating and trading in opium.
IT is said that 100000 persons in
France are afflicted with inability to dis
tinguish colors Oaltonism). The num-
Der of women SO afflicted, as compared
with the number of men, is in the pro-
portion of one to ten. Nine cases of
Daltonism out of ten may easily be
cured in young subjects. The best
means of treatment consists ia methodi-
cal exercise upon colored objects.
NJ.