The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-03-14
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IEVILE AND IhlN6Ss
VEsUvIus supplies Naples with ashes.
BRAZIL is full of impecunious Amer
leans.
A WHITE bear was recently captured
in Utah.
Cow PLEURo-PNEUMoSIA begins with
u cough.
PORK is not admitted to the best So
ciety in Italy.
THERE is a small community of Nor
mons in Paris.
The most songful kittens are import
ed from Persia.
BLUSH GRAY is stylish color in la
dies kid gloves.
CALIFORNIA has eighty Congrega-
tional churches.
A sNow-wHIrE crow is exhibited at
Boston's bird show.
SPRoUTING the potato will advance
the crop two weeks.
THE Scientific Monthly says snoring
is an acquired habit.
THE new fan is mother of pearl and
satin, and costs about $50.
CONCERTS to aid the Robert Lee
monument fund are being given
throughout the South.
FROM the time the average minister
is ordained until he dies he breaches, it
is estimated, 1000 sermons.
TRAINS on the Southern Pacific rail-
road are now running to point 800
miles south and east of San Francisco.
THE walking nuisance has grown to
such proportions in New York that there
is a loud call for the police to rut stop
to it.
ALTHOUGH wemen are now allowed to
practice law in all the courts of Ohio,
not one is permitted to act as notary
public.
TEXAS expends from $50, 900 to $780,
600 annually to support battalion of
State troops for the protection of its
! frontier.
AECHNEsE Romeo went to serenade
a Chinese Juliet in Carson, New, and
was shot dead by a rival, who was hiding
on the balcony.
GEN. BRIsTow says it looks as if Grant
would get the Republican nomination.
The nation sees Grant and Tilden COM
ing up in 1880.
OUT of 500 newspapers that appear
in Russia forty-two are German, several
are French and few are in the dialect
of the Baltic provinces.
THE State National Bank of Raleigh,
N. c., has chosen Mrs nj. G. Williams
Director and President, to take the
place of her late husband.
A BOY travelled from Quincy, ILL.,, to
Deadwood and back without cent, yet
rode all the way. AS an able deadhead,
he rivals member of Congress.
BosToN has long talked of a tunnel
to Charlestown, and it is now proposed
to build one on shore, float it to the
site chosen, and sink it into place.
OF the Senators in the Legislature
of Massachusetts, only two were born
out of New England; and of 245 mem
bers of the lower house, only five are
of foreign birth.
The rivalry between the Gray and
Bell telephones is likely to be fought out
in Boston, where each company has be-
gun lawsuit to compel the other to
cease the use of the disputed invention.
THE Melbourne Exposition is to open
Oct and close March 81, 1880. 1t is
expected to do great things for Aus
tralian trade. January and February
are very hot months in Australia.
The Russian Government has offered
special privileges to such among the
medical students as will volunteer to
offer their services to the medical men
in the localities where the plague pre-
walls.
A CONCORD On. H. man put his
money in a savings bank. The bank
went into liquidation, and scaled its
funds down 10 per cent. Then he put
it into another bank, and that took 30
per cent. The remainder he put into
third bank, which has now failed.
CHINAMEN wear five buttons only on
their coats, that they may keep in sight
something to remind them of the five
principal moral virtues which Confu-
cius recommended. These are jett, hu-
mainly; y, justice; ly, order; tche, pru-
dence and siu, rectitude.
AMERICAN coal is sold in Switzerland,
going from Philadelphia by sailing
ships to Marseilles and thence by rail
to Geneva, where it costs about $40 per
ton. The price is a little under that of
German and French coal at the same
point, and the quality is pronounced
better.
JOHN RICHARDS, of Philadelphia, after
seventeen years of persistent labor, has
perfected machine that will measure
the 2O-1, O00th of an inch. The object
in inventing such machine is to secure
the incest accuracy in the manufacture
of watches, sewing machines, fire arms,
lenses, etc.
The Shah of Persia, in recently or
dering that no soldier should do any
thing but his military duties, has put
an end to an ancient custom by which pri-
vate soldiers by acting as butchers.
money changers, doorkespers, ETC., have
added to their pay, which is only about
80 year and three pounds of wheat
per day.
The willow is fast becoming q rival