The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Personal.

ASi SVuuis
JOAQUIN MILLER is going to Europe
again.
STRAUSS is AZ years old, and is worth a
million dollars.
Mr.. l.. F. JOHNSON died in New Haven
last week, and upon examination his
stomach was found to be petrified.
IT is said that Hon. Mrs. Yelverton
is now in India, and is about to start out
in search of DR.. Livingstone.
Mr.. COBB, of Georgia, recently mar
ried Miss Webb. He knew that they
We're to be joined as soon as he spied
her.
JAMES Mcdowell, of Macon county,
n. c., aged 76, is the father OF p chill
dren.
Mr.. LEVI TURNIPsEED, an old and
esteemed citizen OF Georgia, recently
died, but, as he was buried, his resur-
rection is sure.
WHAT is the difference between the
entrance to a barn and loafer in a
printing office? One is "a barn door and
the other is darn bore.
JANAUscHEK wears $4,000 worth of
jewels in one of her characters.
GEORGIA girls use none but religious
papers for Sunday bustles.
THE oldest printer in the United
States is William Lawson Barry, OF
Nashville, Tenn. He began to learn his
trade in 1897.
M. d. CONWAY tells frightful tale Of
All Englishman who has just arrived
from New Zealand with a new poem OF
1900 verses. Who is this fiend?
The oldest singer in the Boston
Jubilee chorus was Dr. Ebenezer Alden,
of Randolph, Mass. His age is eighty
four.
The class that graduated from Prince
ton College, June 26, weighed just six
tons. The average birthday of the
graduates was July l3, 1850 The ag-
gregate age of the class was 2,O49 years,
months, l6 days.
Miss VIRGINIA GoLDsCHNIDT, Jenny
Lind's eldest daughter, young lady of
eighteen, is said to possess as glorious a
voice as her mothers ever was.
WILLIAM DoTY died in Marysville, CAL,
on the 10Th ult., having lived q days
with his windpipe severed. His throat
was cut by two robbers.
The DUKE DE NoAILLEs, the newly
commissioned Minister Of France to the
United States, is learned and most ac-
complished gentleman, very rich, Of
most distinguished lineage, and an ex
cellent soldier as well as an experienced
diplomat He is of the aristo- demo
cratic school of European politics, and
will, with the members of his family,
make a brilliant addition TO society in
Washington.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says his early
life in the West was rough-a large
room, two slabs for seats, and these not
full-tallow candles, each man bringing
one; but he was quite as happy then as
now. He processes great love for the
Hoosier Christians, and if God should
send him back to that humble kind of
labor, he would not cry.
A New YORK correspondent says that
DR.. Holland will temporarily sure nder
the editorship of Scribner'S Monthly, the
coming autumn, and 60 abroad again
his journey being prompted by the de.
Europe in respect to his wife, who, from
serious opthalic trouble, has become
nearly blind.
THE most sensible thing Eli Perkins
ever uttered is, that for a girl to whten
her face, pink her lips, redden her
cheeks and blacken her eyebrows is to
proclaim that she is one of the demi.
monde.
THE Pittsburgh Commercial says the re.
Gently published Life of Abraham
Lincoln" was not written by Ward III.
Lamon, whose name appears as the
author, but 10y Chauncey Black, son OF
jeremiah Black, Mr.. Buchanan's At
torney General. Lamon gathered much
of the material, and, as close friend OF
Mr.. Lincoln, permitted his name to be
used as the author. The two have been
falling out, Lamon being of the opinion
that some things in the book should