The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-19
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
GYPsIEs are numerous in Indiana

GYPsIEs are numerous in Indiana.
DEADwooD is 4,823 feet above the
sea.
A sNow-wHITR robin is in store in
New York.
TAME offers and seals are the latest
pets in fashion in England.
IT is calculated that if all the insects
of the world were piled in one mass the
heap would be greater than that of all
the beasts and birds.
HARrFoRp's greatest income is from
insurance stock. The residents of that
Connecticut city hold 81, 474, 1851 of such
capital, as against only 81, 729, 1926 OF
bank stock.
AFTER July next kilograms throughout
France are to cost one sous Ga fraction
less than cent) word, but those con-
tanning less than ten words will be
charged ten sous.
THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
holds that new receipt upon piece of
paper containing due bill acts as an
extension of time when the due bill ex-
pires by limitation, as though it were an
alteration of the original transaction.
THE Peabody educational fund, devot-
ed to educational purposes in the South,
which in 1876 yielded an income of
800, 900, has produced only $50, 900 for
1877, and promises yet smaller sum for
1878. Depreciation of real estate is the
cause.
AT Montreal, last week, man of 46
was photogrs phed who has six hands,
four tiny ones growing on his breast.
He says the extra hands began to grow
upon him in 1860, and that he feels that
two more are about to make their ap-
pearance.
AN association of rich business men of
Philadelphia pension off literally for
life any old merchant who may fail, I'M
less fraud is involved. The names of
the pensioners are kept secret, and the
public suppose their wives to have
small incomes or wealthy relatives.
Tom THUMB and Commodore Mutt have
been vainly endeavoring to pass on one
ticket on an English railway, on the
ground that they were not bigger than
boys of IL. The authorities, however,
decided that they were to all intents and
purposes men, and 30 mustpay full fare.
THE Boston Transcript tells us 81
600, 900 per week of American products
have been shipped from that port since
the beginning of the year, making ST.
600, 900 more than the entire exports of
1870. The principal export was of
raw provision products from the West. "
CoNNEoTICUT's new State House has
been built without any increase of the
appropriation. The statutory limit of
$500, 900 year has not been exceeded;
the building has been paid for out of the
proceeds of current taxation, and the
State will not owe dollar on it when il
is finished.
THE editor of the Detroit Record has
been summoned as witness in the
United States Court at Yankton, Oak.
to testify to the sale of pineapple bitters
without license. The editor confesses
that he tasted of the liquor, but thinks
it hard to travel l. 400 miles to tell what
he knows about it.
ACCORDING to DIR. Bertherand, there
are 166 centenarians in Algeria, thus
proportional: lightweight persons are
100 years old, / of 101, 7 of 102, of
103, Is of 104, 6 of 105, 6 of log, 5 Of
lot. of 108, 8 of 100, 8 of 10, of Ill,
2 of 112, of 113, of la, Of lis, l Of
III, and l of 11S years.
Comfy twenty poets," says Miss
Braddon, "are born in q century.
Twenty Great Shakespeare what 9
blunder in the count Look at thai
bursting bushel basket! But hold-sht
qualities" and about 10000 rhyme
sters." All yes; good-very good
The amendment will do.-Breakfas
Table.
AMERICAN danes will have another op
portunity to go daft over Royal Prince
this time heir to crown. and that al
imperial one. Prince Rudolph, the
Prince Imperial of Austria, is, after {
sojourn in Prague, to make a voyage tc
the New World. He will visit the
United States and Brazil, returning
round the Cape of Good Hope anG
through the Suez canal.
IT is reported that London firm has
purchased one of the finest tracts of iror
land in Tennessee. The property men
toned is known as Lagrange, anl
has been owned and operated by {
Northern company, Of which j. @. Car
rett is President It is situated on the
Tennessee river, and embraces 40, 00t
acres, with three furnaces.
The Capitol grounds at Washington
have had nearly all the shade trees in,
proved off of them. They have los
their former beauty of foliage, and ar
now exposed to the full blaze of the sun
Until they were delivered over to tn,
tender mercies of theoretical gardeners
they were among the most beautiful
public promenade grounds in the coun
try.
| IMMIGRATION is picking up little
The number of foreign settlers in thi
country landed at Castle Garden sine
Jan. l is 3,219, against 1881 during tn
same time last year, and it is though
that the excess for the whole year Wi
be 10000. The expectation Of war i
Europe has something to do with tn
movement. The able-bodied start TO
the West Immediately on their arrival
Mr.. MOODY says that "men join tn
church for the purpose of obtaining pc
sition and the confidence of society, an
soon we hear of defaulters in 5000, 90
or $500, 000." He also adds that minis