The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-16

- 'v'A"A onW VVuVtoAs
EPIzooTIc has subjugated California.
DEBTS of all nations, 81, 400, 900, 900.
OLIVE LOGAN sails for Europe in
June.
THE Grand Duke Alexis is still on his
travels.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is booked for
Europe next month.
Now you have it. Captain Jack
is troubled with fits of emotional in
sanity.
THE COngregationalist thinks that
:" the coming woman comes faster and
faster" M
HE New York ,Sun wants him called
Old Certainty, in view of his weather
wisdom.
A MONTREAL dentist pulled the wrong
tooth out for patient lately, and had
to pay s75 damages.
IT is rumored that the Harpers are
about starting daily illustrated sheet
to compete with the Graphic.
HARpER's MAGAZINE rejects about 100
miles of poetry per year. Ninety nine
miles OF it are devoted to spring.
JOSH BILLINGS is going abroad. He
will endeavor to introduce his celebrated
system of photography in Europe.
The first postal card mailed from
Washington went to New York, and
bore over 1,500 short hand words.
The Fairplay (Col.) Sentinel has
reached the highest point of journal
lsm-1O, 600 feet above the level of the
sea.
ACCORDING to Faraday, no man, if he
strictly observes the laws of nature, is
entitled to decent burial under the age
of 100.
Mrs. O'LEARY that owned the COW
that upset the lamp that fired the barn
that burned Chicago, has recently
opened millinery store.
NINE hundred and seventy-five yards
OF rag carpet in ten months, besides all
the housework, has been achieved by an
old woman OF ~, at Morris, n. Y.
THE New York Times is anxious to
have the remains of the late President
Lincoln transferred to Mount Vernon to
reposc by the side of Washingtons.
The experiment of running railroads
by government agency has not proved
successful in Canada. Expenses exceed
the income, and increased taxation is
likely to ensue.
SILK handkerchiefs, or any garment
dyed with aniline red, should never be
worn in contact with the skin, as serious
cases of skin-poisoning have been
directly traced to this cause.
The astronomical observations made
at Sherman during the last summer
proved that at this elevation, eight
thousand three hundred feet above the
level of the sea, q telescope of nine and
four-tenths inches aperture was as
effective as one of twelve inches sta
toned ut the sea-level.
The st. Paul Pioneer mourns over
"the spectacle of miserly rapacity and
selfish greed presented in the case of
Vanderbilt, who at the age of 80, and
said to be worth from $4,000, 900 to
$780, 1000, has gone to law to escape
paying share of his taxes"
HENRY WARD BEECHER has nearly
completed the second volume of the
Life of Christ" He is said to have
become heartily tired of his work, hav-
ing found it much more of n task than
he had anticipated. Cynics intimate
that he lacks sympathy with his sub
iect.
AN official statement has been made
that five hundred and eighty-six vessels
were lost within the two months of Jan
uary and February, 1873. This includes
two hundred and twenty-one sailing YES
sells and thirty-four steamers in Janu-
airy, and three hundred and twelve sail
ing vessels and nineteen steamers in
February. The heaviest losses were of
English, French and American vessels.
In the two months two hundred and
eighty-four English sailing vessels and
twenty-three English steamers were lost.