The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-15
Personal and General.

SEVERAL wealthy citizens have ex-
pressed their willingness, it is said, to
contribute money enough to put up the
contemplated monument to Horace
Greeley.
THE new Prussian Mauser rifles
maximum of fire is only eighteen shots
per minute; while our Springfield
breech-loader can be fired twenty-six
times per minute.
GEORGE H. BUTLER, our whilom Con-
sul-General in Egypt, holds a commits
sion in the army of Don Carlos, and in
case the latter becomes King, he ex-
poets to become Captain-General OF
Cuba.
THE following statistics were supplied
$50 square miles the total population
is 4,O25, $50; the total length of streets
and roads patrolled by the Metropolitan
Police is 1912 miles, and the strength
of the police is 1912.
AN exhibition of speed was given by
a steam wagon at Boston last week. 1t
made a quarter in 0:37, the half in 10,
the second half in LOAF, and the full
mile in 2:11t. 1t is thought that on a
straightaway course it can go a mile
minute.
AN Italian beggar-woman was arrested
in Philadelphia, recently, whose chief
source of sympathy was nearly-starved
child, which the mother, by threats,
compelled to lie all day in state of APP
parent stupor, while she ground hand
organ.
ODGER, the English republican, has
become bankrupt through his efforts
i'll behalf of liberty. His liabilities are
81, 800, and his assets $50. He is cob
bier by trade, and he lost his money by
disregarding the proverb, "Good cob
bier, ne'er forsake your last"
To "DUN," to press for money due,
comes from one Joe Dunn, a famous
bailiff of Lincoln in England, during
the reign of Henry VII. He was so un-
commonly successful in collecting money
that when man refused to pay, the
collector was asked why he didn't Dunn
him.
A NEAT reply was given by stutter-
ing man the other day, when telling a
story to some of his friends. "Speak
it plainly, man," said one. 81 ca-ca-
can't" he answered; bu-bu-but 1
wa-wa-want you to understand that if
m-m-my tongue shutters, m-m-my mind
don't stutter."
AN enormous sea serpent has lately
been seen in Lake Champlain, near
Dresden. His existence there has been
known for the last twenty years. He is
said to be from twenty TO forty feet
long, and to have silver-like scales that
glitter hideously in the sunlight. He
lives either ON land or in water, as his
taste requires.
FROM the records of the Leipsic OBJ
servatory it appears that the suns sur
face was subject to observations on 1913
days during the year 1872. On no day
was it wholly destitute of spots, and
usually the number was large. On the
thirteenth day of July sixty-fve spots,
divided into ten groups, were seen. On
the four days preceding, the least num-
Der of spots seen was forty-five, and the
smallest number of groups was ten.
A coLoRED debating society in Ten
nessee has just debated the question,
(Which is the most profit to man,
money or education ?" One of the
debaters argued that if it had not been
: for education the world would not have
been half so large as it is. This
clincher was met, however, by the ire
sistible argument, at least in the darkey s
opinion, that Z" if twan't for money how
you gwine to ride on de kyars 2" 1t wa:
at once decided in favor of money.
SINCE Webster's death, the family o.
the great photographer have been paid
more than $4,000 as copyright upor
the dictionary and spelling book. The
latter work has been printed for fifty
years at the average rate of five copie:
per minute for the ten working hours O.
each day. The dictionary finds buyers
; everywhere, and is, confessedly, thu
/, only book of which it can truly be sale
that none who read or write can afforC
, to do without it.