The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-21
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

TEXAS is going to sell enough wild
lands to build new State House.
1T is now matter of individual
taste whether bride wears gloves or
not.
THE salary of the Governor of
Maine has been reduced from -, 500 to
81, 800.
EACH Bavarian is supposed to drink
fifty-three glasses OF beer in twelve
month.
THE superiority of American Indiae
corn passes unchallenged in the great
grain markets Of the world.
ALL the Chinese have been driven
from San Bernardino, Cal, and Los
Angeles expects to be relieved of their
presence by spring.
MANY people get their best health in
later life. The nonagenarian poet
Rogers said he never had three consec-
utive days of good health till past 40.
FARMERS in Georgia, South and North
Carolina and other Southern States are
banding together to resist the encroach-
ments of dealers in fertilizers.
A PETITION has been presented in the
Alabama Legislature, signed by hun
dreds OF Presbyterians, praying for a
law prohibiting the running of railroad
trains on Sunday.
THE first gaslight is said to have been
used by Mr.. Murdoch, of Reduth, in
Cornwall, England, who, in 1892, illu-
minated his house by an apparatus of
his own construction.
THE Malthusian, q monthly maya
zine to he devoted to the spread of
modern Malthusianism," is announced
to appear in London under the editor
ship of DIR. Drysdale.
A NUMBER of enterprising Jews have
been engaged in collecting the bones Of
horses that fell in the late battles be-
tween Russia and Turkey, and have
sold them to Austrian sugar refineries.
In London, the other day, an officer
found and seized number of sacks of
"fcur" containing rs per cent. of plaster
of paris, and proved that baker had
made up and sold la loaves of dread"
therefrom.
TEXAS ranks third among the wool
producing States, having 1874 900
heels of Ohio. California leads, of
course. Neuces county, Texas, has
more sheep within its limits than any
other county in the Union.
THERE is little or no hope of another
novel from the pen of George Eliot, at
least for years to come. George Henry
Lewes left at his death an additional
work on positive Philosophy" to the
completion of which George Eliot has
already begun to devote all her time
and energies.
THE new Bulgarian Assembly is to
consist of $50 members partly ex-offi-
clio, partly nominated by the Govern
ment, but chiefly elected. Every Bull
garian of % years of age, possessing
property, or engaged in a calling ether
than that of servant, student, or daily
laborer, is to have vote.
A wELL-DREssED, polite man walked
into the police detectives Office in Troy,
N. Y, and asked to see some novel tools
that had been used in trying to break
open safe. The things brought out,
he examined them with great care.
Much obliged" he said; IL have just
hnlshed hVe years In SlnS Olng, ana L
wanted to see what progress had been
made in my profession"
RELEASE.
If one had watched prisoner many year,
Standing behind a barred window pane.
Fettered with heavy handcnf and with chain,
And gazing on the hue sky, far and clear:
And suddenly some morning he should hear
The man had in the night contrived to gain
His freedom. and was safe. would tn bring pain
All would II not to dullest heart appear
Good tidings!
Yesterday looked on one
! Who lay If asleep in perfect peace.
His long imprisonment for life done.
Eternity's great freedom his release
Had brought. Yet they who loved him called him
dead,
And wept, refusing 10 be comforted.