The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-02-08
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Iowa has %, 1850 tradesmen.

IOWA uhs -, foJ Jrauesmen.
The moonstone is again fashionable
jewel.
/ A PENNSYLVANIA has died from the
bite of a man. sf
A WAR Of 1872 pensioner has Just been
married in North Carolina.
THE physicians say that promiscuous
kissing spreads disease. Heart troubles
especially. Do
THERE are no less than 124 foreign en-
tries in the five great races OF 1873 in En-
land, and among these are five American
horses.
Mr.. p. Il. BARNUM calculates that he
has sold, since he began his business of
amusement, no less than $50, 600, 900
worth of tickets. 81
NEwsDEALRRs in Boston and in Troy
have set good example by stopping the
sale of illustrated sensational story
papers for boys.
THE amount of sugar annually con-
sumed in Great Britain is 900, 900 tons,
being about sixty pounds for every one
of the population.
IT is DIR. Fordyce Barker's opinion
that city women are healthier and hand
somer than country women, as a result
of better food and more diversion.
ACCORDING to the Governors message
Kentucky owes only about $3.50, 600, and
ample provisions have been made TO
meet this debt on its becoming due.
THERE were five steamers. twenty
Maine last year, the aggregate tonnage
hAt -
over 1875 and 1876.
A NEW design of postage stamps is
soon TO be announced. They are pre-
pared with inclosed borders of white
to prevent the fraudulent practice of
washing" cancelled stamps.
ENGLISH authors produced and had
printed last year 3,049 books. There
were also 2, GAG new editions, making the
total book production of England 5,O95,
against 4, 1888 the preceding year.
The expectation OF fresh meat is look
ing up again, and, on recent Saturday,
six steamers arrived at Liverpool with
9,112 quarters of beef, /, AGO sheep and
80 pigs, all from the United States.
THE total earnings of the'Mexican rail-
road, the only railroad in Mexico, for
last year amounted to about $1,000, 1000.
The total operating expenses amounted
to 81 SOC, 900, or about 60 per cent. of
the gross earnings. W EfJkit1
The largest oyster on record in the
United States was one taken from the
beds in Mobile in 1870 1t measured
three feet and one inch in length, and
twenty three and half inches in breadth
across it's widest part.
THE English feed for fattening sheep
consists of cotton-seed aud turnips.
They claim that it will put on the most
fat, is the safest feed, makes the best
mutton at a less cost, and produces the
best and strongest manure.
CLARA LOUISE sang in Titusville the
other night. Like the smooth, unc-
tuous trickling of the oleaginous COM
modify from hundred barrel well, says
the Herald, "were the liquid, oily notes
of the handsome, bediamonded Kellogg
to the enraptured Titusvillers.
FROM 1870 to 1874 the Austrian Gov
eminent realized nearly $35, 900, 900
from the public lotteries; the ticket
holders won $16, 100000. In Italy the
net receipts of the Government lotteries
in three years reached $40, 500, 900, while
the sum won by the people was $780,
600, 900.
THIRTY years ago J. w. Mackey left
Ireland penniless boy. Twenty years
ago he was travelling in this country as
drummer" Sixteen years ago he was
bankrupt. Now he owns some of the
richest mines on the Pacific coast, and
has yearly income estimated at $14,
0OO, 200.
A HUGE mass of metal, weighing four
or five tons, resulting from melting down
counterfeit plates and dies captured by
the detectives of the Treasury Depart
ment, has been laid as the "corner-
stone" of the foundation in the erecting
shop of the engineering department in
the Navy Yard at Washington.
An CHUNG, San Francisco murderer,
has kicked the bucket, literally as well
as metaphorically. A prison-keeper
found him hanging by the neck in his
cell. He had passed cord through the
air-holes at the back of his cell, fastened
that end, made a moose of the other end,
put out the gas, and planted himself
upon q water-bucket. Then he kicked
the bucket.
In Falls county, Tex, Miss Moore
was preparing for marriage, and invited
, a friend, Miss Williams, to assist her.
,, In rummaging through some clothes, an
old pistol was carelessly handled by
Miss W., resulting in the shooting and
instant death of Miss Moore. She was
buried on the day that was to have been
the nuptial occasion, and the other
young lady, who was the innocent cause
of it, has become deranged.
VICTOR HUGO is so strong a person
that he can go out in all weathers with
out a greatcoat. 1t is his " custom, al
ways, of an afternoon" to take long
ride upon the top of an omnibus, and, in
this elevated position, commanding a
view of the busy life of Paris, he jots
down his fast-coming ideas, and when
he reaches home throws them into shape.
It is asserted that he has written vol
umes on the knife-boards of omnibuses.
y. B.