The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-07
PEOPLE AHD THINGS.

ANrI-PoLYaAMY petitions are raining
down on Congress.
HOUSE rent is cheaper than for years
past in New York city.
HArcHnG eggs by electricity is one
Of the novelties at the Boston poultry
show.
THE Rochester Express is waging
war against the gambling houses of that
city.
THERE are in the United States sos
periodical publications, against 8,340 o
year ago.
A WRITER gives as a principal reason
for badness too frequent washing Of
the scalp.
THE Tyrolese take large quantities of
arsenic to enable them to bear up against
physical fatigue.
THERE were published in England
last year $40 novels, and 2, 800 new books
in other classes.
PoTiToEs are being sent from Michi-
gan to New York in cars having double
walls, which are warmed by means of
stove.
THE New York sub-treasury is to be
fitted with steel gratings and shutters,
and turrets on the roof, with musket-
holes for greater protection.
The Philadelphia Inquirer estimates
that the real and personal property of
the United States is worth SOC, 100000
600, against $4,000 100000 for Great
Britain, and $40, 600, 900, 900 for France.
SYLVESTER CORNING, of Londonderry
N. H., left his horse standing out doors
oil night, and he is now held in $500
bail to answer to a charge of cruelty to
animals.
FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS of oranges
Florida hopes to export this year, and
in four years her orange crop will, it is
estimated, exceed in value her cotton
crop.
A SET of false teeth was found on
the floor at a ball In New Haven, CT.
The finding was announced from the
stage, but no one went forward to claim
them.
A NAPLES journal asserts that there
are members of the Parliament at Rome
who literally do not know how to read
or write, and that corruption and medi-
ocrity are the characteristics of the en-
tire body.
ASoUTHERN paper says that Gen. Al
bert Pike is now engaged in organizing
the knights of the Cactus" to be COM
posed of the veterans of the Mexican
war, and the order to descend to their
male children.
THE late Dean Richmond once asked
a wouldbe deadhead the grounds of his
application for free pass. Simply
because 1 don't want to pay" The
testy old railroad king at once handed
him pass, and said: "Sir, I respect
you. You're the first deadhead that
ever told the truth"
VERY recently a new French cable
company has been constituted, with, it
is stated, capital of 100000 francs
and $4,000 shares. The company pro-
poses to lay two cables, one from Brest
to Cape Cod, and the other from Lands
End to Nova Scotia, both by the way of
st. Pierre.
THE will of the late John l.. Davies,
of Davenport, has been filed. The es-
tate is worth $4,000. The wife gets
$4,000 in cash, payable in nine,
eighteen and twenty-four months, this
being the amount named as an ante
nuptial agreement; the sons, Lewis and
Frank, get the machine shops; the
daughter Blanche and the son Frank
are to hold the homestead for ten years,
which is to be supported wv tents of
tenement-houses at the end of ten years
the homestead is to be sold and divided
among five children.
THE son of King Theodore, of Abys-
sinia, who was brought to England after
the fall of Magdala, is being educated
for the army. He is slender youth,
of dusky hue, naughty, as becomes q
descendant of the Queen of Sheba, and
shrewd, as becomes a Prince Graded in
adversely. The lad has added ten years
to his life since the British Government
became his patron, and this interval he
has spent in acquiring the education of
an English gentleman. He admits that
q spring mattress and an ulster In
London are preferable to a mat and bare
legs and blanket in Abyssinia.