The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-17
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| IEVI LIE AMI lHlNUSs
JAMES GORDON BENNETT is said TO
have made 100000 on OLeary's walk
ing victory.
BUTTER does not improve as cheese
does by age, therefore the SCORER it is
sold the better.
The hea-beetle is said to be doing
great damage to tobacco in certain Ten
nessee districts.
ENGLISH reserves are focking to their
colors with an alacrity highly gratifying
to English pride.
THERE sre no fewer than IA, 900 wash
erwomen at work on the banks of the
Manzanares, in Spain.
A FRIsKY Briton bit his wife's nose of.
and the patient woman testified in court
that she bit it off herself.
The statues of Robert Fulton and Pc
ter Muhlenburg are to be placed in the
National Statuary Hall at the Capitol.
PRINCE Louis NAPOLEON, who lately
drew number subjecting him to SER
vice in the French army, has obtained
exemption according to French law, as
the only son of widow.
A GENERAL municipal law in English
cities imposes fine or imprisonment
upon all persons throwing the skins of
fruits on sidewalks. Policemen arrest
such offenders whenever they can be
| detected.
THE st. Petersburg Erchaaoe Ga
zette estimates the cost of the war at
$500, 900, 900, which will, it is estimated.
| e
500, 900 annually to cover interest and
sinking fund.
FOLLOWING the lead of Tennessee, the
Legislature of Mississippi has reelected
woman, Mrs. Morence, State Libra
rian, and Mrs. Sarah E. Porter, a school
teacher, is being urged for like posi-
ton in Iowa.
SALES by candle" was the method of
sale during the seventeenth century.
A wax candle, about an inch in length,
was set on the edge of knife, and he
that bid most before the candle was out
was the buyer.
Two YOUTHS in an Ohio town, aged
respectively and 10 years, quarreled
and popped at one another with pistols.
One lad was killed, and the other
winged" 1t is next door to crime
for parents to permit children to carry
pistols
In view of the decision OF the German
| Emperor to exclude from the German
| tine-art section of the Exhibition any
picture recalling the war of 1870, the
French Government has resolved to ex-
clude French pictures commemorating
that war.
THERE is ga Celebrated Case" in
| Oakland, Cal. A woman was found
hanged in her own house with her
throat cut. IT was at first thought that
she had committed suicide, but s.
year-old daughter has given evidence
pointing to her father as the probable
murderer.
THE bee raisers in Los Angeles county,
Cal, have recently lost by death 20, 900
stands out of "a, 900, representing a
yield of 10, 200 pounds of honey year,
worth $75, 900. In San Diego county,
just south of Los Angeles, the loss is
about 100000 pounds.
The merchants of Manayunk, Pa,
formed a protective association against
persons of whom debts could not be col
lected. They prepared list of such
debtors and advertised it. Mrs. Broad
head, whose name was in the list, has
sued the newspaper for libel.
A BUFFALO clergyman, the Rev. d.
r. Frazer, of the First Presbyterian
Church, being disturbed by the exit of
three young men who marched out with
squeaking boots just after he had an
nounced his text, said: "That strikes
me as the coolest piece of impertinence
1 have experienced in some time"
SENATOR MoCREERY does well for a
humorist, because he is comical in ap-
pearance. His large head is completely
bald, except fringe of black hair to
border it, He is tall and broad-shoul-
dered, and always wears O swallow-tail
coat His face wears solemn express
sion, that renders his jokes all the more
surprising.
PERSONAL item in the Virginia Chroa-
icle about certain Police Justice: "He
sits with his feet on his desk, and his
head drawn down between his shoulders
like a mud turtle. This morning his
head was drawn 80 far out of sight that
his shoulder blades stuck up on each
side of his neck like the collar of an
end-man in q minstrel show"
A NOVEL offer has been made to light
the streets of Pittsburgh with powerful
rejecting lanterns, placed on three adj
jace1t hills. A company has been formed
for the purpose, and the proposition is
to charge the city nothing for the light
ing, an income being derived from the
use of the discarded lamp posts as stand
ards for revolving advertising drums.
SONGS AND FANCIES.
Down from what blue skies above,
Up from what black cavern below,
Descend the sweet songs that love,
Arise the bright fancies that grow
Through the hard, frozen ground and the snow
What matter whence the bright birds come,
What matter whence the sweet flowers rise,
If the birds still refuse to be dumb,
And sing as they sang In the skies,
While the flowers hold their original dyes?
/ care not who sowed the dark seed,
care not who built the high nest,
So my nightingales chant will heed;
40 my lilies blow on, am blest;
These blessings remain. fate may keep all the rest.
RI. II. Stodd1rd.
JefersOn's Heirs.