The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-03
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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Nor one dollar is spent in Cuba TO
public education.
New YORK bellies dress more richly q
the opera than ever.
THE Khedive and family, includin;
his secretaries, receive now only 81 300,
600 year.
THE Portland cement of England i
made of chalk and clay from the vale,
of the Midway.
In Thibodeaux, La, there are fit,
lepers. The original one arrived Their,
twenty years ago.
THE oyster business of Virginia JUS
now employs 10000 men catching, open
ing and shipping.
New ENGLAND railroads have decided
to discontinue the issuance of half fare
passes to clergymen.
One MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOU.
SAND dollars worth of carriages were
made this year at Amesbury, Mass.
FROM the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually 100000 tons OF
excellent fuel, and Belgium 100000
TONS
The first American saint was col
ored woman, st. Rose, of Lima. There
is church in New York city dedicated
to her.
The English agricultural laborer re-
ceives the year round little more than
50 a week, with small allowance of
beer money.
Mr.. Cross, the English Home Secre-
tary, will hereafter refuse to allow re.
porters to witness whippings in the En-
glsh iails.
The Typographical Union of New
York numbers 1000 members In the
course of its existence it has disbursed
about 100000.
SCOTLAND, says the Edinburgh Daily
ReUielC, is $75,000,000 poorer than it
would have been estimated by an aatu-
AIRY few weeks ago.
NEARLY 5000 of the descendants of
the old Six Nations of Central New
York are at Forestville, Wis, on Gov
eminent reservation.
A CLEVELAND physician has recently
written protest against the custom of
shaving as being antagonistic to health
as well as good looks.
ROBUST women often work in the
Pennsylvania coal mines in male attire,
but without taking the trouble to pre-
tend that they are men.
THERE is negro lunatic in the Dan
vile, Va, Jail who claims to be George
Washington, to be 1000 years old, and
to be worth $2,000,000.
A WOMAN at Lawrence, Mass, has Just
given birth to her twenty-second child,
while her two married daughters have
contributed baby a year to the popula
ton of the State during the seven and
three years of their respective welded
lives.
THE Government of Samoa has sent
this country a mat six feet square, made |
of cocoanut fiber. 1t is 300 years old, |
and valued at $4,000. Inside of it, as n
token of goodwill, was wrapped up
the recent Samoan treaty with our Gov
eminent.
HYDRoPHoBIA has been uncommonly
frequent in the foxhound kennels of |
this year. Several famous
packs have suffered greatly from this
terrible disease, and now it is announced |
that the malady has broken out among
the Queens buckhounds.
THE days of public executions are
probably numbered in Paris. The dis
graceful scenes which occurred at the
taking off of the murderers Barre and
Lebiez have led the authorities to con-
slider the propriety of erecting the gull
lotine within prison walls.
New YORK State aboun7s in lawyers.
In the Senate are sixteen, which is
nearly double the number from any
other business or profession. In tho
Assembly are twenty-four, and the same
number OF farmers, and these two main
'ain numerical supremacy over those
If all other classes.
To BEAUTIFY the coats of eight horses,
value $4,000, and also four oxen, Cam
England laborer put SO
much arsenic in their food that they all
he'd. Sentence: A months hard labor.
This treatment Of horses is common at
Vienna. 1t makes them foam at the
mouth, too, or is supposed to do so.
A FRENCH FABLE.
King of Persia, on a certain day.
Iode with his courtiers TO the chase away.
thirst overcsme him in a desert plain;
,ong time he sought cooling fount in vain
i last he CHANGED upon garden fine.
Veil stocked with luscious orange. grape and pine
Now. God forbid that my thirst should Stake "
he monarch said. " for this fair gardens sake;
or. II one single fruit 10 pluck dare
iy Viziers here will strip the orchard bare"
The following are the highest prices
# gold for each of the years of sus-
pension:
-62. ................134 ISL .11 liza
65'........ ...l529 ls12...............115M
o6t........ ........&5 lls13...... '''''' ...11yM
40 ..........,...@ S3s4 1o74.............. 11iM
et8. 1874 1876. 117%
-NI ..............145ss 1876. .............. 115
Soc ''''.............l0 ileI................1r1L
NbV. 1929 1873. lO7