The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
BEWARE OF bronze-green kid gloves.
They are said to poison the hands.
DRESSED rabbits sell in Indiana, Ken
lucky and Illinois four for dime.
THE new line of Vanderbilt ocean
freight steamships is gaining success.
SOME of the mails in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan are carried by
dog trains.
The Postmaster General has issued
an order abolishing all agencies in
Washington for the sale of postage
stamps.
SEALING-wAx was first made in Eu-
rope by the Portuguese, who learned
the Eastern method in their Bengal set
Elements.
DURING the year 1878 the Coroner of
Storey county, New, held 81 inquests.
OF these "a were the results of mining
accidents.
ENGLAND is pushing her way into
Africa, and that continent, like Asia,
will soon be largely tributary to the
prolific mother of colonies.
THIS is the seventh year. Rain
prophets say that wet years were ex-
perienced in 1880, 1887, 1874, 1851,
1858, 1865, 1872, and may be expected
ig 1879.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's grave is guarded
against resurrectionists by two men day
and night. The wives of the Prophet
rarely visit the tomb, and many have
remarked.
PROF. BARKER, of Philadelphia, is
making an effort to equalize the salaries
of men and women who render equal
service as teachers in the public schools
of that city.
MISS ALICE BLAINE, the eldest daugh-
ter of the Senator, retains no trace of
the wound in the face which she acct
dentally gave herself last year. She is
still at school.
A THOROUGH training in the arts of
the dairy, of both girls and boys, in the
rural schools, has become the subject
of earnest consideration on the part of
some of the French agricultural socie-
ties.
The late State Treasurer Mackey, of
Pennsylvania, left 100000, and was
supposed to be bachelor, but woman
appears upon the scene and claims to
be his widow, and wants share of the
money.
Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToR wore dia-
monds worth $250,000 at ball in New
York, q few evenings ago. They were
the family diamonds and consisted of
necklace, earrings, comb, four bracelets
and tiara, and were remarkable for their
purity and beauty.
VENICE, with its GLORIOUS climate"
had from the middle of October until
near the middle of December almost
constant drenching rains, and then
there was week of snow and frost,
during which time travellers, not finding
fires, were compelled to go to bed to
keep warm!
THE Cherokee Council seized and
ordered the sale of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith railroads property in the
Indian Territory, but the company dis
mantled and removed its buildings, and
took up its track as far as the Arkansas
line, and all that remained to sell were
few rotten ties and seven two-inch
| boards.
| The daisiea sleep under the snow;
| The pansies and violets blue
Have closed their sweet eyes to the Light OF ths
As though of the winter they knew
The robin aud bluebird are fled,
And the lark has forgotten TO sing
The sunshine but seems the pale ghost Of the
| CLEANS
That gladdened the fsr-awsy spring.
| All things are forgotten and sad
And hushed is the pulse of the year,
But we know that the rest of nature is blest
And the time of AWAKENING is near.
Minnie C. Ballard.
A RETURN has been issued of the
acknowledgement, Scotch and Irish
of the individual members of the
British army. OF the total of 1860
men not quite 10000 are Irish, that is
to say, about % per centum. The pro-
portion according to the ratio of the
population of Ireland to that of the
whole empire would be only about IL
per centum. Scotland contributes A.
600 men to the total, or about z per
centum, while her proportion would be
nearly 10. England, including Wales,
contributes the remaining 70 per CEN
tum, which is not far from her ratable
allowance.
The death is announced of Sir
James Matheson, remarkable as the
second-largest landed proprietor in the
British isles, and a man who struggled
to the top against difficulties of an I'M
usual kind. He was compelled by
family circumstances to accept, at a very
early age, clerkship in Calcutta, and
was dismissed by his employers as too
stupid even for trade" At the earnest
request of the Baptist missionary the
firm agreed to give him further trial
of six months in their China branch.
He made in China q splendid fortune.
and returned to Scotland probably the
richest subject in that kingdom.
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.