The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-28
Miscellaneous.
BRET HARrE has two little Hartes.
ILLINOIS is practically free from debt.
Iowa burns 10000 bushels of corn


ILLINOIS is practically free from debt.
Iowa burns $4,000 bushels of corn a
day.
SADDLES came into use in the fourth
century.
MICHIGAN is reyiving the old-fashioned
spelling schools.
PETER CARTWRIGHT only cleared SO, 900
by 40 years itinerating.
RAILWAYS of three feet gauge are
rapidly growing in favor.
A PROJECT is on foot to annex n slice
of South Carolina to Georgia.
CAKES AMEs is said to consider himself
the honestest man in Congress.
THE penalty for using postage stamp
second time is fifty dollars fine.
A SING SING convict ate whole box
of matches, and yet didn't suicide
SAMUEL SINCLAIR, late publisher of the
Tribune, has gone into bankrupthcy.
CAPT. Halls skeleton has been sent
from the Arctic regions to Eng land.
MARYLAND ItCtlNtN iIS llttiAlC IiolIi tllN
Queen of Charles L., Henrietta Maria.
FLOUR is $50 a barrel in Texas, but
the staff of life is only ten cents drink.
"GREAr is bankruptcy" says Carlyle;
cit brings an end to all shams under the
san"
SAMUEL GIBBs, the colored cadet, failed
to pass the January examination at West
Point.
THE agitation for the adjustment of
the ranking privilege began twenty-five
years age.
THEY do not call Senator Pomeroy
'sOld Subsidy any more, but cold
Subside."
OVER three-fourths of the weather
predictions from Washington for 1872
proved correct.
SENATOR BRowNLow has written to n
Tennessee editor that he has no idea of
resigning his seat.
Col. C. C. TEw, Of North Carolina,
Confederate prisoner, is still detained on
the Dry Tortugas.
CONSIDER ABLE interest is felt in
Minnesota as to the authorship of
Beautiful Snow"
SAMUEL L. TWAIN (alias Mark
Clemens raised 81, 800 for charity in
Hartford last week.
CoSNNCTICUT's name was Mohegan,
spelled originally Quon-eh-to-cut, signi
flying ga long river.
The marine losses within the last
twelve months, both of life and property,
exceed any similar period.
The California Chinaman will make
clock and case ont of an oyster can bits
OF wire, two nails and piece of lead
AFTER July few newspapers will pub
lish that little item commencing We
are indebted to the Hon. -- for valu-
able pub. docs.
WHAT is supposed to be the oldest
coin of It's kind III this country is an En-
glish piece, dated 1861, held by Mrs.
Turner, of Phoenicia, \. \.
\ SUBSCRIBER of a paper in Columbus,
Ohio, has withdrawn his patronage
because the editor treated their recent
little earthquake with leyity.
THE refuse which passes into the
sewers of the forty-three cities of this
country is estimated to have an annual
cash value of over 81 900, 900.
The Thames tunnel, thought such
novelty, was anticipated by that under
the Euphrates at Babylon; and the an
cient Egyptians had Suez canal.
FEBRUARY is sometimes called the
German month, because of the many
German festivities by which it is marked.
There are commentators, however, who
suppose it is dedicated to the Germans
on account of there being bruary in it.
THE aggregate indebtedness of the
counties, cities and towns i'll Kansas,
arising from subscriptions voted III aid
of railroads, now amounts to s., 900, 600.
In many places townships have voted
bonds equal nearly to the full value of
tba land