The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-01-04
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


IT is fact that Digger Indians actual
ly eat dirt.
The courts of Wisconsin annul the
Utah divorces.
TEXAS would make 210 States equal in
size to Rhode Island.
MINNESOTA courts uphold the peda-
gogue in the punishment of children.
IT costs 1915, 900 annually to keep the
trees and shrubbery of Paris in order.
GUANo is found in caves in Texas
which are inhabited by millions of bats.
MICHIGAN will manufacture more salt
this year than during any previous win
ter.
But for the steam engines in America
there would be work for IL, 600, 900 more
men.
THERE are 4,150 miles of railroad
west of the summit Of the Rocky noun
tains.
PEANUTS yield large percentage of
oil that is as good for all purposes as
olive oil.
THE Russian war, should it last year
longer, will cost $50, 100000 roubles
1864, 900, OOC.
NINE hundred and thirty-five men own
O. third of Great Britain, or twenty-five
million acres.
THERE are one thousand oil wells in
Bradford, Pa, which produce six thou
sand barrels day.
THE Secretary of the United States
Treasury decides against the big copper
pennies as legal tender.
OAK wood which has remained long
time in water finally acquires the APP
pearance and hardness of ebony.
The value of logs and lumber stolen
from Government lands in Mississippi is
estimated by special agent at 1884, 900.
THE military telegraph line around
the Texas frontier to FL Paso and up to
Misula, New Mexico, has been COM
pleted.
Mr.. LYMAN, Geologist of the Japan
ese Government, estimates that there
are in the island of Yesso 0,000, 900
tons of coal.
THE RailrOad Gazette thinks the year
ending in July last was, the Centennial
Notwithstanding, the worst for railroad
interests since the war.
The tickets for the Paris Exposition
are to issued by the Bank OF France.
Season subscriptions Will be through
little books, purchasable for $50.
The Georgia Supreme Court has de-
cided that murderer, "to be too drunk
to form the intent to kill, must be too
drunk to form the intent to shoot"
THE vineyardists of Southern Cali
fornia are discouraged, and many are
proposing to cut up their vines, because
they can only realize $5 ton for their
grapes.
OF forty-three varieties of apples
tested by M. Truelle, of the Chemical
Society of Paris. the red American renette
was found to contain the largest amount
of sugar.
A CONFIDENTIAL clerk of the Roths-
childs, in Paris, lately absconded, after
robbing his employers of over $500, 900.
The money had been nearly all lost in
stock speculations.
A SCoTcHMAN has proposed that every
body who drinks alcoholic liquor should
he compelled to take out a license.
This, at So head year would, raise
very pretty revenue.
A WOMAN SO years old, with her son,
arrived i'll La Grange, Ore, recently,
having walked thither from her home In
Indiana. She carried pack weighing
seventy-fve pounds.
THE amount Of the fund for the relief
of the widows bereft by the Custer fight
has been rendered. 1t shows total re-
ceipt of $14,06S, of which S7,476 was
distributed to the widows of officers,
S.. TO to those of enlisted men.
A BROTHER and sister, each of whom
supposed the other dead, met by acct
dent in Charlotte, N. c., few days ago,
after a separation of thirty-seven years,
only to find they had been living in the
same neighborhood all the time.
DIR. ENGLEMAN read paper recently
before the Academy of Sciences in st.
Louis, in which he said that during the
many years that he had taken regular
observations of the weather he had never
known warm December to be followed
by severe winter.
MERCEDES, future Queen of Spain,
has a peculiarity-sbe is rarely seen
without coral ornaments of some sort.
1t is for this reason, probably, that coral
has become very fashionable in Paris,
single row of fine coral beads now costs
there from 5000 to $3.50.
The theory of evolution is constantly
gaining ground. A child was recently
born in Arkansas with an arm where
leg should be, and with leg in place of
right arm. He will probably be tho
only man in the world that can kick
straight from the shoulder.
SKoBELEFF says: This is a new era
in war, and we are making experiments
for the benefit of others. The shovel
and the breech-loading rifle have
changed everything. Artillery goes for
nothing; the infantry assault is the only,
though most precarious, mode of sue
cess"
THE Hudson Bay Company, for a
fourth year, has had to complain of the
very low and depressed condition of the
fur market. Buffalo have gone down in
price 80 per cent. since 1872, and the
trade in mink, marten, beaver and musk
rat skins for 1876 represent falling off
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