The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-02
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The hungry man longs to eat and the
glutton eats too long.
The recent disturbances at Montreal.
CAN, it is estimated, have cost that city
about $40, 900.
The peasant of Belgium not only
feeds himself but his horse on coarse.
black rye-bread.
The city of Havana exports more
pounds of cigars than the tobacco raised
on the island of Cuba will weigh.
The greatest part of the sherry which
is consumed in the United States is made
in the city of New York from tomatoes.
CALIFORNIA will swap her wheat, this
summer, for $40, 900. She has al
ready begun to sing "This wheat buy
and buy"
so MUCH bronze money was paid in at
the Paris Exposition, few days ago,
that four large wagons had to be sent for
to carry it off.
| EXPLORER STANLEY is said to have ac-
cepted proposition made by the King
of Belgium to defray the expenses of
another trip across Africa.
The Partisan ladies are said to de-
nounce the electric light, because it
makes rosy complexion appear white,
and changes the white to yellow.
AN unsuccessful attempt to abolish
bull-fghting has been made in the
| Spanish Senate, where it was opposed
by the Minister of Public Works on be-
half of the Government.
THE Cassells, the English publishers,
have set apart, for the year 1878, So, 900
out of their profits, and propose to do
the same every year, for fund for
workmen who remain long in their serv-
ice.
The man who begins newspaper
card, My attention has been called"
is self-proclaimed idiot Men of COM
mon sense see things for themselves,
and don't lie about them.-LouisVilIe
| Courier Journal.
As rule, a woman writes we'll when
she writes for herself or her friends, be-
cause she writes what she feels; the
trouble is that when she comes to adj
dress herself to the public she will write
what she imagines she thinks.
FIVE months ago DIR. Field, of st.
Louis, removed the under jaw of can
Ger patient and fitted him with new
one of silver. Last week he told re-
porter, "Oh, the man-he's dead; but
the operation was successful"
FARMER MARRs, of Uniontown, Ind,
was decapitated in a curious manner.
The mule he rode to field threw him,
and, looping its trace-chain about his
neck, jumped the fence and completely
severed his head fire m his body.
THE pork-packers of the West and
East expect to produce 1856, 900, 900
pounds of lard this year. Twice as
much is shipped abroad as is used in
this country, the exports of the past
six years averaging 230, 900, 900 pounds
year.
| A GERMAN paper was so unfortunate
as to print as a mysterious advertise
ment the words, Tomorrow after
noon on the day before the attempt on
the Emperor's life. OF course the editor
was arrested, but succeeded in proving
his innocence of any completely with
Modelling.
The Oldest woman in the world is
claimed to be Mary Benton, of Elton,
England, who is in her 14Sth year, and is
as smart and bnsy as ever. Wheeling,
w. Va, has more reasonable old lady,
active Mrs. Dorcas Hamilton, who has
pulled away at pipe during most of her
103 years.
FRANCOIS DELAUP, who founded the
New Orleans Bee in September, 1927,
has just die1 at the age of 80, having
passed seventy years in the printing
business. He was a native of San Do
| 10 o. nf hn
after a few years, but remained upon it
to the last as proof-reader.
A PRACTICAL joke was played at Berry
vile, No., not long since, which was
followed by fatal consequences. AS
man was passing a graveyard at mid
night, two men sprung from behind a
monument and shouted at him. He ran
home and went to bed, but was 80
nervous that he could not sleep, and be-
fore morning died of commissions.
SILENCE.
All search of yours but Intellectual seems,
| To attain some reach of refuge year by year;
Since far in loneliest woods, in wastes austere,
| Winds call, beasts wander, yet the vuture
screams.
With bated sounds Of living all Nature teens,
And even among sleeps dusky depths you hear
The wild aerial voices, vaguely clear,
That float from shadowy throngs OF roaming
dreams
But weary in spirit and affrighted, too,
At last you hurry away, with footsteps feet,
To find, in doorous realms of dread eclipse,
Death your one lover, inalienably true,
Encrced amid whose CHASTITY arms you meet
The awful icy passion of his pale lips!
-Appletons' Journal for August.
A FEW years ago it was feared that the
} vices of civilization would destroy the
people of the Sandwich islands, as they
have depleted the Indian tribes of the
} United States, but within a few years
the mortality has 80 far decreased that
} it is hoped that the number of births
, will soon exceed the deaths, as is al
ready the case on some of the islands.
OLD AND YOUNG.
They soon grow old who grope for gold
In marts where all is bought and sold;
! Who live for self and some shelf
In darkened vaults hoard up their pelf,
Cankered aud crusted DER with mold.
, For them their youth itself is old.
Z They meier grow old who gather gold
, Where spring awakes and flowers unfold;
Where suns arise in joyous skies,