The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-27
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
GET out your furs.
COFFEE has been successfully grown
in California.
CREMATION has been made optional by
law in Gotha.
MILLIONS of our fellow-creatures shave
with stone razors.
IcE-CREAM from buttermilk is an Ala
bama achievement.
AMERICA took the prize for paper at
the Paris Exposition.
The United States Supreme Court
was established in 1889.
DIR. BUCKNILL, of London, pronounces
the inebriate asylums of the United
States practical failure.
FROM the spire of the Congregational
Church at Pawlet, VT, over 125 pounds
OF honey were taken recently.
A Mrs. CASSIDY, of Bladensburg. Nd,
gave birth, Aug. 30, to three girls and
two boys, who were all living at last ac-
counts.
ONE of these days Aleck Stephens
will fall through a crack in the floor, and
solve an intricate and Notwithstanding
problem.
THERE are 100 cases of typhoid fever,
of malignant type, in Bradford, Nc
Kean county, Pa, said to have resulted
from bad drainage and filthy living.
AJAPANEsE paper says that Japan has
already thirty-eight banks, and that six
ty-four others are being established,
while other finance companies are APP
plicants for official license.
A BERLINER taught his dog to howl
when Bismarck's name was mentioned.
In the seclusion of the prison cell he
has plenty of leisure to mediate over
his success as canine pedagogue.
A CHICAGO hosier claims great skill in
adapting his wares to his customers. For
thin legs he recommends ringed stock
ings, for plump ones stripes, and for
thick ankles combined with lean calves
he advises rings above and stripes be-
low.
The Government statistics show that
the mortality among infants is far
greater in South Australia (of which
Adelaide is the capitaD than in any
other city, being 175 in 1000. Causes
defective drainage, contagious dis
eases, early marriages, improper feed
ing, and intemperance.
AT Dalmarnock, Scotland, as man
was fishing, he felt something on his
hook and pulled up the body of child
that had been drowned just after birth,
and near Cork a sportsman's spaniel,
going in to retrieve a wild duck,
brought ashore the corpse of another
little one that had been murdered.
The ugly-named street, Rue d'Enfer
Hell street,, in Paris, is hereafter to be
called Rue Denfert Rochereau in honor
of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Colonel, the
hero of Belfort; but it is a curious CO.
incidence that to the public the first
name, which is alone likely to be COM
monty used, is precisely like the old
name III sound.
PROF WATSON, of Ann Arbor, reports
that he has discovered two intra-Mer-
curial planets, Vulcan and larger one.
Prof. Swift, of Rochester, reports that
he has confirmed his discovery of Vul-
can by discovering that it has disap-
peared-that is to say, it isn't where it
was July 20, which demonstrates that
the object he saw was planet, not a
star.
In the year 1877 the imports of mer-
chandise into Great Britain were of the
value of 1884, 419,682 of which g304,-
S65,674 was from foreign countries, and
ESQ 1858, 1913 from her own possessions.
This is equal to Ell los 10d ($59) per
head of her population. For the year
ended last June the United States aggre-
gated $694,SS4, 200, or about $40 per
head of population. Mr.. Gladstone's
prophecy of the future of the two
countries is fortified by facts
JOHN STEELE, or Coal-Oil Johnny,
who was put in sudden possession of
80, 100000 by the discovery of petroleum
on his otherwise almost worthless Penn
sylvania farm, only to become poor
again through wild extravaganza, is now
station agent on the Atlantic and Great
Western railroad. He has given up
drinking, and thinks that he is so much
wiser from experience that he would not
waste another fortune if he could get
one.
DISCORD.
o that some poet. with awed lips on fire
OF far, ineffable affairs, would arise
And with his consecrated songs baptiZe
Our souls in harmony, that we might acquire
Insight into the essential heart of life
Beating with rhythmic pulses! There is lost,
In the gross echoes of our brawling strife,
Music more rare than that which did accost
Shakspeare's Imagination when 1t swept
Nearest the infinite. Our spirits are
All out of tune; our discords intercept
The strains which. like the singing Of a star,
Stream downward from the Hollies. TO attest,
Beyond our Earring restlessness rest
Richard ReaI, Ia Hayper's Magazine for October.
MARY HALEY, a supposed widow, was
killed in Steubenville, Ohio, by rail-
road accident. Her baby was left to the
care of her brother, who sued the rail-
road company in its behalf, securing
verdict of $4,000 Soon husband
turned up to claim the custody of the
child and the money. Afterward an
otbar buabapd came with an insurance