The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-06
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


WHITE walls in bright sunshine tend
to produce ophthalmia.
A FULL font of Japanese type CON-
prises go, 900 characters.
THE statutes of South Carolina make
arson punishable by death.
This is the hottest summer England
has experienced in eleven years.
The phylloxera is committing dread
full ravages among the French vines.
CHALK is composed of myriads of very
small creatures, which were once alive.
The tobacco crop of North Carolina
is said to be very good, notwithstanding
drought and hail-storms.
THE Chinese have a saying that an un-
lucky word dropped from the tongue
cannot be brought back again by coach
and six horses.
AN eminent German traveller in Africa
speaks in the highest terms of petroleum
as a protection for men and animals
against mosquitoes.
THE birth rate of the 30, 900, 900 of the
Madras Presidency has decreased to Less
than one-half of what it was before the
famine in India began.
RUSSIAN ladies are apt to exceed la
| dies of other countries in the number of
bracelets they wear. From twelve to
twenty are often seen on their arms.
A BosroN brewer has employed Gin
cinnati man to superintend his brewery
at salary more than twice as large as
that of the President of the Harvard
University.
| BRITISH COLUMBIA contains about
5000 Chinese, most of them engaged
In gold mining. 1t is said that they
have crowded the white laborers out Of
employment.
Or the Cars 1000, 600 subjects only
1000, 900 receive public official instruc-
ton, and the larger fraction of that
number are Firms who have remained
Scandinavian.
DURING heavy storm in Macon coun-
ty, Ca, Mr.. Henry Barefeld was struck
by lightning and instantly killed, also
dog that was near him. He held an
infant in his arms and the child was not
hurt.
A NEW rope-making material has been
found in the fibrous leaves of New
Zealand aloe. The long, tough threads
are said to exceed iron wire of the
game thickness in tenacity, and they
are not affected by immersion in salt
water.
If people would for couple of years
drown all the kittens they find OF the
male sex they would mitigate great
nuisance-still more, if they would
drown all but one kitten of every litter.
| VUa bova Y,oillinpc too roopu aofc in, fhio
country.
OUT of 563 persons in Berlin accused
of offenses against the Emperor, forty:
two have been acquitted; five among the
accused or condemned have committed
suicide, and thirty-one females have been
sentenced to punishments varying from
one to two years.
SPRING AND SUMMER.
| In spring note the breaking
| OF every baby bud
| In spring note the waking
| OF wild flowers of the wood;
In summers fuller power,
| In summers deeper soul,
We watch no single flower
| We see, we breathe the whole.
Dora Read Goodale aged IL, in 81. Nicholas for
| September.
"PHANTAssIoGRAPH" is the latest. 1t
is an instrument in process of invention
by James Gresham, of New York, who
expects soon to be able to photograph a
ship on the high seas 5000 miles dis
tant. Clouds of carboniferous smoke
are to be sent up from the decks of the
ships, and mirage is to be thus formed.
AT San Angel, Mexico, last month, six
ladies and three gentlemen assembled to
open box said to contain Lourdes water
and rosaries. They took off one cover,
and found another inside; this they re-
moved, and it disclosed zinc plate;
they started to rip that off, and then
there came burst of thunder sound,
and only one person was left alive in the
room. The box had contained nitro
glycerine.
AN Official statement of the public
debt of Great Britain gives the following
figures: Funded debt of the United
Kingdom, 9710, 843, 007; and the un-
funded debt, EGO, SOB, 900; capital value
of terminable annuities in 3 per cent.
stock, SAG, 1886, $50, and the deficits due
to the savings banks and friendly So
cieties on the Goth of November, 1877,
"a, 1886, 1853 5s.
TIE Prince of Wales travels, in the
course of the year, more miles than a
New York drummer. A few days ago
he and his wife went down to Dart
mouth, in Devonshire, 220 miles, in the
morning, to distribute the prizes on the
training ship, where his boys are being
educated, and returned with the young
Princes, who are home for the holidays,
in the evening. A special train does the
journey in Al hours.
THE Russian Government lately gave
it's sanction to the proposal for founding
a new university in Siberia. Tomsk is
the town chosen for this new seat of
learning. At present the donations for
this establishment amount to 430, 900
rubles. The Russiche Revue suggests
that the year 1882, the third centenary
of the Russian possession of Siberia,
would be the right time for opening the
new university.
TIE effect Of balloon descent was
tried on a camp meeting near Cincinnati
lately. The balloon came sailing down
in the middle of prayer, like an answer