The true northerner., 1873-03-14
Personal and General.

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KANSAS has 25, ,OO0,OO acres of land
awaiting settlers.
j. II. SURRArr is teaching school in
Emmettsburg, Md.
DURING 1872 the products of thu
Michigan copper districts reached Sl2,-
000, 600.
A KENTUCKY man offers 10 wager SlO0
that he can outsleep any other man III
the State.
SHORT skirts, with immense panier
puffs, will reappear on the promenade III
the spring.
THe country packs TINS season 900
600 swine--an increase over last seasOnOf
7.23 per cent.
ELEVEN English steamers have been
lost at sea- with all on board during the
past three months.
VmaIsA has repealed all laws on the
subject. 40 that one can now marry hls
grandmother if he wants to.
WHITTIER being asked for an auto
graph, at once complied by penning
=" The name is but the shadow which We fnd
Too often larger than the man behind.
THE Governor of Pennsylvania has
so, 600 year and II furnished residence.
His salary heads the list of glbernato-
rial allowances.
THE new hotel now being built on the
site OF the Lindell, at 1T. Louis, will be
called the Ames House, in honor OF the
late Henry and Edgar Ames.
THE Boston AdUcrtiser says there are
2, 76S places iii Boston where intOXi-
eating liquors are sold in defiance of the
prohibitory laws of the State.
PENNSYLVANIA has an area Of 4G, 600
square miles ; population of 3,52l, 79l;
IN assessed valuation of s., ,3l9, ,235, ,0i2
number of miles of railroad, 5,ll3.
THERE are seven daily newspapers
published in the State of Kentucky
three at Louisville, one at Lexington,
one at Frankfort, and two at Paducah.
THE prisoners in the Missouri Peni-
tertiary receive Il pound of tabacco
apiece every month. mt an expense 10 the
State OF between 81, 600 and - 900 II
year.
MISS FAITHFUL says the superficial
education of girls, like dipping them
into weak solution Of accomplishments,
forms n coating that will not stand time
or wear.
THIS is the way they keep up the bal
auce of power in Kentucky: TO the
wife of James Bradley, of Fayette coun-
tv, a son-Jetf Davis. 70 the wife of
Robert Richie, of Fayette county, a son
L. 5. Grant.
The circulation OF the leading maya
zines in New York is, respectively, thus
H0Ipc''S, G0idry, ScTi6ncr'S, and At
Gdldic Hupcr's is nearly twice as
large as the Gaiary, and three times as
large the .iUantic.
CHARLES AsroR BRrsTED, who now
lives at Washington, has won social
distinction there by kicking ont of his
house fashion editor of one of the
daily papers, who attempted to "do up
one of his receptions.
THE San Francisco AHa. with sub
lime faith in the constructive ability of
the universal Yankee. proposes that We
supplant the engineers idea IF ship
canal over the Isthmus OF Panama bv
whisk loaded ships across dry shOd at
the rate Of twenty knots an hour.
CHEF JUSTICE CHASE has bought an
old historic homestead farm of some
sixty acres near Washington, from which
he often walks to the Capitol when the
morning is fair, distance of a mile or
more. He is spending some care and
cost III embellishments, and means to
end his days in this quiet retreat.
A GEORGIA liquor dealer has lost his
suit against non-payng customer be-
cause the latter proved that he once gave
him liquor when he was drunk. The
court decided that the whole bill for
year WAS lost, on account of the law
which provides that no barkeeper shall
sell liquor TO a man who is intoxicated.
Not long before his death, James
Gordon Bennett told friend that for
some years he had read but three books
the Bible, Shakespeare and Robert
Buns-but that he was never tired Of
reading these, and especially enjoyed
the Bible. In previous years he had
been a constant reader of new books of
every kind.
A New YORK magazinist breaches the
theory that the names of mankind are
lessening in number and va
riety, and the people becoming con-
solidated under few appellations.
One-half of the pulation-namely.
women-are perpetually losing their
names by marriage, while new names
are never created.