The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-26
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
SARATOGA has twenty-five different
kinds OF springs.

tablished in Pennsylvania.
The total yield of the Bonanza mines.
to June 30, was 500, 70l, 709.
JAPAN has opened at Toxic Military
College similar to West Point.
JOHN G. WHITTIER will issue a new
volume of poems next autumn.
THREE-FoUBTHs OF the cotton import
ed to this county comes from Brazil.
PREPARATIONS are on foot for grand
agricultural exhibition in London next
year.
IT is calculated that 400 900, 900 num-
mics must be deposited in the pits of
Egypt.
Texas has more miles of railroad be-
ing constructed than all the rest of the
Union.
EXTRAORDINARY fact-The woman who
asks no questions is queer one, but the
woman who does Sd is the querist.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY is an appl-
cant for admission to the Union. She
has greater population than Nevada.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE Gu
bans who were transp rred to SIP lin dur
ing the insurrection have been liberated
| there.
/ THE exact cost of construction of the
Paris Exhibition buildings and grounds
is now estimated at As, 800, 900 francs, or
SO, 060,000.
GEN. CHARLES LEE, of evolutionary
fame, used to hold that the Declaration
of Independence contained only two
grammatical sentences.
The teasel, which is used in raising
the nap on wooden cloths, is grown in
Gloucestershire, England. 1t is the
flower OF the dipsacus fullennna.
TEXAS sold the first bale of new cotton
in New York. She did the sane thing
last year. This years bale is two
weeks earlier in the market than last
years.
SPENCER thinks that the custom of
touching the hat is only relic of the
process of unclothing himself, by which,
In early times, the captive signifed sur
| render.
A LITTLE Irish boy fell down and bit
his tongue. He arose from the ground
crying and sobbing, end sa d TO his
brother: Stephen, think VII 1 ever
spake again."
Miss BETsEY CARR, deaf mute, has
died at the Sullivan county IN. e. poor
farm, aged Ill ears and months. She
was born at Salisbury, Mass, her age
being proven by records there, and up
to within a shC TT time she was as active
as most people of rs.
THERE are many women in the better
walks of life who have imbibed the love
Of on l,.i,n 80 oh hot
the drunkenness among them, to a con-
siderable extent, is due to the practice
of physicians in recommending the use
OF liquors as stimulants.
THE Pittsburgh Post says the prospects
IL the iron business there just now are
rather encouraging. 1t is customary
with most mills to shut down every sum-
mer for two weeks from the Fourth of
July, but most of the MILL have started
up on encouraging orders.
. A BOY named Crowley, an inmate of
the New York Juvenile Asylum, dreamed
that he was struck by lightning and
killed. He related the story at the
breakfast table. In less than an hour
after, while playing ball, he was struck
by the bat, and killed instantly.
Two BUTCHERS at Sunderland, En-
gland, have been sent to prison for three
months at hard labor for butchering a dog
and selling the flesh to their customers
for mutton, and, as several large dogs
have been missing of late, it is thought
that this was not their first offense.
ANOTHER cremation is recorded at
Milan-that of Nine. Adelaide Oliver, a
native of Paris, aged so. The process
lasted three and three-quarter hours,
and was perfectly successful, the body
being reduced to fine ashes, which were
placed in an urn and sent back to Paris.
LATE Chinese Masonic funeral in
Eureka, New, was the most gorgeous
barbaric displ v ever seen in Eastern
Nevada, in which brass bands, Chinese
bands, heathens in their robes, and hired
female mourners were inextricably
blended. The defunct one was All
Hing, big Mason, and he went out i'll
blaze of glory.
ENGLAND has at length taken step
against the British WIFE whipper. The
Matrimonial Causes Amendment act, re-
Gently become a law, pr vides that
live with brutal husbands. The magis-
urateS may ALSO ISSUE al Oruer WHICH
shall have all the effects of legal ju-
dicial separation.
SAN Francisco has a large number of
very rich lawyers. The fortune of Chief
Justice Wallace, of the Supreme Court
is estimated at from 800. 600 to $780,
600. Ex-Judge o @. Pratt is thought
to be worth a million or so. Eugene
Casserly and Judge Hagar are accounted
wealthy. j. b. Haggin, who took to
finance more than law, is r'puted to be
worth S.. 600. 900 or Sc, 600 600. Lloyd
Tevis, OF similar tastes, is worth about
the same. Many other wealthy lawyers
might be mentioned.