The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-13
Personal.

Studies of the New York Sunday World.
TuURLow WEED, who is - years of
age, has given up smoking after half
century's indulgence.
MARK TwAIN's middle name has been
mystery. His full patronymic is Sam
uel Longhorne Clemens.
IT is Just as impossible to get along
without advertising as it is for a cross
eyed man to borrow gun.
THE wife of Jack Grant, Representa-.
tive from Polk county in the Oregon
Legislature, last year shot and trapped
$50 squirrels.
DR.. PAUL SCHGPPE, recently acquitted
of murder, after two or three years i'm.
prisonment under the charge, is lectur-
ing on "Science in Law"
Mr.. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS, ex-Con-
federate Vice President, is now sole edi-
tor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Sun, Mr.. j.
Healy Smith, the managing editor, hav-
ing retired.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, whose pic
turesque management of verse is known
and appreciated by all lovers Of poetry,
is wintering among the students OF the
Latin Quarter, in Paris.
A coLoRED woman in New Jersey is
under arrest for trying to kill neigh.
bors baby by feeding it bent pins. An
emetc was administered to the limo.
cent, and all the pins came 10 the sur
face.
SAMUEL AUSTIN ALLIBoNE, author Of
an enormous critical dictionary OF au.
thors, making 3,l40 pages, 40 indexes,
and including Is on lives, is secretary
and editor of the American Sunday School
Union.
Col. RICE, recluse, who, since the
war, has been living in an old barge at
Fortress Monroe, lately shot himself
fatally. He was at one time a promi
nent citizen of Richmond, Va, and
Colonel of the Black Horse Cavalry.
THE proof sheets of the remaining
pages of Mr.. Stewards book are now
being received at Auburn. The bind
ing OF the edition will be rapidly pushed,
and the book will be distributed for sale
throughout the country during the holt
day season.
A PITTSBURGH paper heads an oyster
dealers advertisement with Reader,
did you ever swallow a baby?' and goes
on TO say that if you never have done
80 you can realize the sensation of swal-
lowing two infants by eating one of its
advertisers oysters.
MASsARD-he Of the roof-was super.
intendent Of public buildings in the
reign of Louis XIV, of France. He
was wretched carpenter, but possessed
the subtle gift of fiattery, and frequent
ly fooled the astute monarch of France
with impracticable architectural plans.
PEOPLE generally are not aware that
Gen. Meade died a poor man. For
tunately, the fact of his poverty became
known to few wealthy gentlemen OF
Philadelphia few days previous TO his
death, and $4,000 was Immediately
subscribed for his family, and it has been
agre ed to make the sum 100000.
T. BUCHANAN READ, who wasn't much
of a poet himself, said of Tennyson
He looks no more like a poet than
does looster if compared with a gold
fish. Angular, awkward, with great
hands and feet, and coarse hair stream.
ing away, he is not the man that a
romantic lady would die for
The Stephen Pearl Andrews, who has
been arrested with Mrs. Woodruff and
Miss Clahin, in New York, was once q
resident of Houston, Texas. He came
here in 1859, we believe; but had not
been resident long until one day he
was conducted to the wharf by num-
Der Of citizens, put aboard of a boat,
, and requested to make himself scarce
, in Texas at once, which he did.-Hous
ton Union.
JOHN 2. JONES, the San Franciaco
operator in mines and politics, who ha:
! secured for himself the Nevada Sena
torshp, went out from Cleveland, Ohio
in lS49, in the bark Eureka, which yes
sci made the voyage from that city, vio
, the St. Lawrence and around Cape
, Horn, to San Francisco. He is now
considered one of the wealthiest, if not
the wealthiest, of men on the Pacific
coast-his possessions having been esti
/ mated as high as Sl0,000,0OO. On the
; Stock Tx change of San Francisco he
. occupies precisely the same position
that Commodore Vanderbilt does or
, Wall street.
, JOHN r. CoNKLIN died at Mt. Morris
2 n. Y, few days ago, aged 90 years
, His case was singular one: Twenty
, three years ago the past summer, de
: ceased was repairing fences on the edge
{ Of Owasco Lake, and accidentally struck
. his thumb with the hamn er, and it il
t supposed he hit the nerve; he imme
+. diately went to the lake and washed 1t
1 and thought nothing more OF it for sew
: eral days, when he felt tingling in hi
e hand and arm, which finally became
| paralyzed, and during the next eigh
: years, it gradually spread over his who'll
e body, rendering HIM perfectly helpless
e and for the past fifteen years he wa