The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04
Personal.

PORE PIUs is 81.
HENRY WILSON is 60.
CALEB CUSHING is in Paris.
BRIGHAM YOUNG has 6S children.
Miss NELLIE GRANT is coming home.
CHAs. O'CoNoR is entertaining his
father.
GEN. GRANT has returned to Wash
ington.
JOAQUIN MILLER is said to be betrothed
to Scotch Peerless.
MINISTER THORNTON is suffering from
an attack of hay fever.
A GIRL OF 10 years is the cham pion
pin roller at Long Branch.
A SON of Reverdy johnson is running
for Congress in South Carolina.
MISS MINNIE HAUcK is shortly to be
married to an Italian nobleman.
RUMoR has it that Schuyler Colfax is
the coming editor of the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
w. w. CoRcoRAN has presented Pow.
ers' Greek Slave" to the city of Wash
ington.
IT is said that George Sands seventy
novels have paid her an average OF
$4,000 each.
THURLow WEED, of New York, though
so years of age, is alert, lively and chatty,
living in fine style on Fifth avenue.
The summing up of all the English
criticisms on Stanley is: He may be
very plucky, but he is certainly very
ill.bred."
FRANCIS P. BLAIR, ST., 50 years old,
is good shot. few days ago he
brought down buck in Pennsylvania
at $50 yards.
A CANADIAN matron one hundred and
eight years old is still able to devote
much energy to bringing up little boy,
aged ninety-three.
A LUXURIOUS young Puritan of Boston
habitually wears 100000 worth of dia.
monds on his elegant person. His scarf
pin is worth $4,000.
A JAPANESE scholarin one of the New
Haven schools, having been insulted by
a schoolmate, sent a note to the instruc-
tor requesting permission to kill the
offender.
A Mrs. HUTcHINs, lady nearly so
years of age, died in Maine, recently,
who had been confined to her bed
twenty-six years, and for twenty years
had uttered only the word "no."
JOHN WESLEY preached $4,000 ser.
mons, at the rate of fifteen week. Mr..
Wesley never had clergymans sore
throat, or years leave Of absence with
all expenses paid.
LOUIS REL, who caused so much
trouble in the Red River region OF
Canada some time ago, is now cleo.
tioneering in the Provenche District OF
Manitoba, and is likely to be sent as
member to the Dominion Parliament.
The widow of Nicholas Moore, well.
known Harlem builder, who was in the
enjoyment of $4,000 left by her hus.
band, has married her coachman, an in.
dividual who has hitherto managed to
subsist on IS a week.
THE editor of the Drawer" in
Harper'S Monthly is the President of a
large insurance company, who likes his
work so much for its own sake that he
regularly makes over his annual salary
(S2, 500 to a very worthy charity in
New York.
MARX TWAIN, who has just gone
abroad, contemplates writing third
book, it is said, devoting himself this
time to the oddities and eccentricites
of the English people, among whom he
expects to reside for the next twelve
months in order to take their mental
photographs.
The " Recollectionsof an Old Stager,"
in Harpsr'S, and Desultory Sketches
and the "reminiscences of Tyler's ad.
ministration, in the GALAXY, were written
by Mr.. Il. n. Parmelee, OF New Haven,
who once edited a paper in Buffalo, n
Y, and was Private Secretary of Presi.
dent Tyler.
IT is reported that Robert Bonner will
retire from the active management oi
the New York Ledger next spring. He
has now been at it twenty years, and in
that time has converted a paper which
was entirely an advertising sheet into a
paper into which no amount of money
could purchase the way for an adver.
tisement.
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