The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
Current Items.


Current Items.
CALIFORNIA salmon and Illinois prairie
hens are to be acclimated in New Zea-
land.
THE parents of an Legitimate young
ster in Warren, Ind, are aged IA and
Is, respectively.
A WAUsAU, Wis, female barber has
retired from business on account OF the
arrival of a little shaver.
THE Jacksonville (Oregon) Times re-
ceives gold nuggets taken from neigh
boring mines in payment OF subscrip-
tons.
CUNDURANGo has another rival as a
cure for cancer. 1t is an infusion OF the
blossoms of the red clover, applied ex-
ternally and internally.
THERE are 249 newspapers published
in the State of Iowa. Of these, 1873 are
Republican, 3S are Democratic, % with
politics unknown, and are neutral.
The daily papers in the State number
q, of which IA are Republican, and 7
Democratic.
A DAVENPORT, Iowa, man came home
late one night recently, and on going to
bed his wife said she was very i'll, and
packed him off to the drug store. On
the way he discovered that he was wear
ing another mans trowsers. On re-
turning he found his own pantaloons
gone. A divorce suit will follow.
A YOUNG lady in Rochester has sued
photographer for $4,000 damages, be-
cause he displayed one of her photo
graphs before his gallery with the fol-
lowing inscription "One half dozen
photographs ordered by this very stylish
young lady and payment therefor in
sultngly refused"
Mrs. AUGUSTA A. MILLER is a COM
position at South Bend, Ind. She learned
to set type in her fathers office, in An
COLA, when only Is years of age, and
proof taken the other day of 5000 ems,
having but two typographical errors,
proves that the coming woman" may
be compositor without stepping out Of
her sphere.
GEN. LAGRANGE, Superintendent of
the San Francisco Mint, seems TO have
tll OIl2ltldl way vi ScltlIlS lIu vi VIC
opportunities of office-seekers. He
gives positions to all who are strongly
backed then in little while discharges
all he does not care particularly about,
giving as a reason the necessity of re-
trenchment; and then few days later
he appoints new batch.
A WORKMAN in the Erie railroad build
ings at New York, while rummaging
through the unclaimed freight depart
ment lately, happened to break open a
soap-box marked Binghamton, and
found in it portions of two skeletons OF
a full-grown woman and young boy,
which had evidently been operated on
by some medical students. The box
had lain in Binghamton for a year past.
A NEW ISLAND, some three miles in
length, has been partly formed at the
mouth of Mobile harbor, nearly oppo-
site what is known as Sand Island, and
has already had the effect of deepening
the channel over the outer bar. 1t is
said already to have attained such
height above water as TO be the resort
of birds and other sea residents, and,
should it continue to increase, will have
the ultimate effect Of giving clear pas
sage up the bay to ships of the heaviest
draught.
OF Fisk and his wife, who was older
than he, Boston letter-writer says:
With his notorious sins against her,
there had never been estrangement be-
tween them. She excused everything,
and he held for her sort of platonic
affection. He wrote to her constantly,
and visited her often. She was his con-
fident always, and his adviser ia many
things. She was more like an elder
sister than a wife to this mercurial
being, who appears to have had the
highest respect for her traits of oharac-
ter, and to have been compassionately
regarded by herself as an incorrigibly
maynard member of the family, who
must be humored in almost any eccen-
tricitieso