The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-31
ppopLE AND THINGS.

THE Spanish high comb Is coming
into vogue again.
ApsrNcE destroys triAing intimacies
but 1t invigorates strong ones a..
suNsrRuoK by the frost Is what 0s
Louis calls being frozen to death.
THE gold and silver ornaments en- so OF o sns
French people are worth $loo'ooo'ooV
BIRDS build their nests in the sea,
weed, floating along with the ouh
stream.
In Sweden they set all the clocks fol
the wear at midnight, when the new
year opens.
In 1850 the Roman Catholic popula
ton in this country was 3,OOO,VoO nowi
is 6,4OS,000.
A MARYLAND farmer has an apple
tree which produced last season eighty
four bushels of fruit.
LAST year there were launched on
the Mersey twenty-eight vessels, seven
teen of which were steamers. In 1877
there were forty-two.
THE latest smart-girl anecdote con-
Germs one in Illinois, who is said to earn
s26 week by her skillful working of
mink and muskrnt traps.
WoRK1NaMEN in Philadelphia have
over $7O,OOO,000 invested in co-opera-
tive loan associations, which they find
more secure than savings banks
AT the reunion of the Wholesale
Grocers' Association, of Philadelphia,
it was announced that there had not
been failure in that trade during 1878.
For four days a train stood on the
track at Erie, Pa, snow-bound, which
had upon it nine tons of silver bars and
$500, 900 in gold belonging to the United
States.
A New YORK oculist says it is mis-
taken idea to believe that person who
has once used glasses could not after
ward dispense with them. The reverse
is the fact.
WE would respectfully suggest to
Carl Schurz that the surest way to tame
the Indian is to marry him to strong
minded white female.-Philadelphi
Chronicle.
In Louisiana there are 62,SS3 white
voters who can write their names, and
1896 who cannot do so. Of colored
voters 10,390 write their names, and
300 do not.
The grave question has been pre-
scented to the Baptist ministers of New
York, Is it right for church member
to be a book-keeper in Wholesale
iquor-store
In Frankfort-on-the-M Main, the daugh
tiers and wives of the pawnbrokers In
the Ghetto drive to the promenade COW
cred with the Jewels left in pawn with
their fathers and husbands.
A GIRL IL years old recently died in
Liverpool from drinking too much
whisky. She was sent into the cellar
for some purpose, and, finding a whisky
bottle, set about drinking its contents.
CALIFORNIA thinks that it is rathe
hard that, while the national banks are
allowed to issue notes equal to 80 per
cent. of the value of their deposits of
bonds, the gold-note banks OF that State
can issue notes only equal to 80 per
cent. of their bonds.
THERE are 421 Chinese business
houses in San Francisco. In the Celes-
tial directory are included five board
inp-houses four opium shops, three
doctors offices, three pawnshops, pho
tographic gallery, an undertaker's store
and two newspaper offices.
OBITUARY notice in Fredonia On. Y.
Censor: "Mr. A. Bolster, in this
town, has just had hen die at the
remarkable old age of Is years, she be-
ing otherwise remarkable in laying an
egg every day in the coop when raising
n brood of chickens. She hath done
what she could"
AN incident of [" Maine law :" A Lewis
ton Me- young man, recently sent on
TO collect bill from q certain family,
found the old woman drunk, her hus-
band tipsy, three daughters becoming
excited, and several visitors warming up
over the hospitality of their host and
hostess, while all the satisfaction he
could obtain was an invitation to take
drink
Four young ladies, granddaughters
of the venerable Lucretia Mott took
their spades in hand, walked to the top
of the mountain at Orange, n. j.. and
threw up earthworks across stream,
which then overfowed o considerable
surface of ground, and made an elegant
skating pond; for which they have the
thanks of several young gentlemen who
are very fond of skating.
THE Richmond (Va) State objects to
having the rivers stocked with fish, as
that would encourage idleness among
the people, who, being furnished with
free food, would neglect agriculture.
The Baltimore Gazette points out that
idleness and effeminacy are not charac-
teristics of fishermen and fishing ma
tons, and, being great nourisher of
brain-power, prescribes for the editor
of the State small sperm whale,
boiled and served with anchovy sauce.