The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
THERE are sixty Chinese laundries in


THERE are sixty Chinese laundries in
Philadelphia. r.r--s7.ar.s.....-fss
The Portuguese population OF Cali
fornia is estimated at IL, 1000.
The number of cattle annually slaugh-
tered in this country is 7,500,0
IT is estimated that California will
have 100000 tons of surplus wheat
for export.
THE Rev. Mr.. Haskell, of Lewiston,
Me-, set a fy-trap and captured 7,0Ol
flies In ten days.
The Glasgow Times says next to a
young rabbit nothing is so hard to raise
as young newspaper.
THERE is no egg of bird known which
is not good food, or which could not be
eaten by hungry man.
The King of Burmah recently impris-
oned all his Ministers for several hours
because they were not punctual in at
tending council.
KANSAS has increased her population
over 10000 during the year ending
June 80, and over 1000, 900 acres of
Government land were taken up.
The names of several London public
houses have been changed to "The
Beaconsfeld," as has also that of Alex
andra Music Hall in South London.
The Wahabees have posted notice in
the mosques OF Northern India inform
ing the faithful that the world is to come
to an end on the 18th of July, 1879.
EMPORIUM, Pa, must be a nice place
to live in. The man who does not at
least kill one rattlesnake day in the
streets of that town is not regarded as
an enterprising citizen.
The number of native Christians in
India is given in the new Missionary
Directory" as 1891, an increase of
AZ, 1873 in four years, and of native COM
municants sc, $50, an increase of Is, 1878.
THE Postoffice Department has ruled
that man has no control over the cor
respondence of his wife, If she requests
the Postmaster not to place her letters
in her husbands box, it is his duty to
comply with her request.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the talk about
the depression of the iron business, it
appears the production of pig-iron in
1877 exceeded that OF the previous year
225, 900 tons, while the production of
1876 was 2, 093, 236 tons as against 987,-
$50 tons In 1860.
The Emperor of Morocco, was, at last
accounts, dangerously i'll. AS result of
the famine now raging in great part of
his dominions an instruction has
broken out in two provinces. One of
the Emperor's nephews, sent at the head
of troops to quell it, was killed.
THE following advertisement is en-
titled to the palm for muddled English
If the gentleman who keeps the shoe
shop with the red head will return the
umbrella of a young lady with whale
bone ribs and an iron handle to the slate
rooted grocers shop he will hear of
something to his advantage, as the same
is gift of a deceased mother now no
more with the name engraved upon it.
AN authority on the subject estimates
that not more than 5000 Indians have
been killed by the whites since 1889,
about 400 having been slain in the en-
counter with Wayne, and near the same
number during the famous Seminole
war, which lasted seven years, at an ex-
pense of $4,000, 900, making each In
dian cost $4,000 The Comanche,
Grow, Sioux and Ojibway tribes are
steadily multiplying.
THE carbonate territory in the region
! south of Pixies Peak, over the Arkansas
river, is frightening out Some of the
acknowledgement mines are turning
out rich beyond calculation, the ore
proving O thick chloride. Excellent
hard carbonates and high grade chloride
ores are brought to light every day.
There are crowds of people in the re-
gion, yet it is hard to get the right kind
of men to work for good wages.
IN MARBLE.
, No wise God sculptured thy bold, queenly face
And queenlier breast
Yet all thy radent beauty stands contest
Thy palor seems
The moonlit glory of dim, dying dreams.
oh my chaste love, thy snow-cold lips are mute
One word of thine,
More sweet to me than life-one word divine
Like magic melody of Tyre or lutte,
Would wake the soul
70 hope of loves imperishable goal
= All what are love, and life, and death to thee,
Sunlight or gloom?
Thy curved, coiled body is a rayless tomb
; Superb in soulless immobility.
= Why weep or moan
= For thee, alas "a death-born dream OF stone
q q -Scribner's Monthly for September.
0 A PARTY of men had started out for q
? sail on Lake Rideau, Ont. One of
2 them, named Flavier, waded in the lake
2 to push the yacht into deep water, and,
while doing 30, fell into hole. An
other of the party, named Adams, who
i was in the boat, reached over to secure
a him, but was dragged into the water.
. Paul Leeds, who was on the boat and
9 saw the accident, plunged into the lake,
a but, on reaching the other two, they
1 grasped him round the body, and all
q three were drowned.