The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-04
Personal and General.

fall.
"SuNsEr" Cox is lecturing in the
South.
BAYARp TAYLOR was Tribune report
er once.
AND now paper -four barrels are pro-
posed.
PROVIDENCE will have a Roger VIII
lams park.
THE Lacrosse railroad bridge will cost
81, 000,0
A SON of Gov. Dix, an artist, died re-
Gently in Paris.
HAUNTED houses are multiplying all
over the country.
FIFTY THOUSAND people are delving for
gold in California.
THE buffalo grass of Colorado yields
an aromatic butter.
MORE than 8, 600, 600 of briar-wood and
other wooden tobacco pipes are made
yearly in this country.
An Iowa newspaper proprietor has
trained large bull-terrier for the posi-
ton of fighting editor
THERE is now Democrat on the SUI
preme Bench of Massachusetts for the
first time in nine years.
BEHcHER sees danger when men strive
for sudden wealth, but he takes his 81 200
per night without tremor.
JEFFERsoNs first inaugural address
has been more quoted than any one de-
livered on similar occasion.
THE total value of iron and copper
produced in the Lake Superior region
since 1916 is estimated at Sl20, CTS, 1853.
JAMES LIVINGSTONE, druggist, broth
er of the African explorer, was burned
out Mt Listowell Canada, the other day.
THE Director of the Philadelphia Mint
has been ordered to pay but S1.20 per
ounce for silver hereafter. The price
has heretofore been 81. 221.
THE Maine Legislature has authorized
Judges of Probate to change names of
persons on application. Heretofore the
power has been limited to the Legisla-
ture.
GEN. r. E. CoLsoN, of Wilmington,
n. c., has accepted an offer from the
Khedive of Egypt of professorship in
the Government Military Academy at
Cairo.
Mrs. MCDANIEL, of Atlanta, Ga, who
recently recovered S95, 900 from the Gov
eminent on some old war claims, had
been for some time employed as sew
ing-machine operator in that city.
THE State Mineralogist of Wisconsin
announces that there is enough iron ore
in the neighborhood of Black River
Falls to supply the whole demand of the
United States for the next ten centuries.
A LocKsMrrH in Tyrol has immortal
lied himself by inventing pistol which
can be discharged twenty-five times a
minute, and kill somebody every time.
None but IL sane man can use it, how
ever; SO there's no danger of it's being
adopted by intelligent murderers.
AN Ohio man attached medal to an
eagles neck and set him ct liberty with
much ceremony on Washington's birth
day. Two days later the proud bird
made descent on farmers sheep-pen,
and his brief career was ANONYMOUSLY
brought to close by charge of buck
shot.
A CURIOUS disease has broken out in
Utah. The patient is attacked by pain
in the left knee; the leg below the knee,
down to the toes, becomes much swollen,
hardened and red. The pain then abates.
Then the swelling recommences above
the knee, and extends up to the body,
when inflammation seizes the bowels
and the patient dies.
A FRIEND of the Hon. John p. Hale
writes to the Christian Union: "His
mind is clear, his perceptions quick, and
his voice strong, while his right limbs
are enfeebled by paralysis, and his phys
ical system weakened by long confne-
ment, caused by paralysis and subse-
quent breaking of his leg. He reads
much, and takes lively interest in, and
just view of, all Congressional proceed
ings."
The cotton manufacture Mt Lowell now
employs 520,0 900 spindles, $4,000 looms,
5000 males, and $500 females Until
recently Lowell was the principal seat of
the cotton manufacture in America, but
now Fall River largely exceeds in the
number of her spindles and looms. Next
to the cotton comes the wooden manufac-
ture, which now employs, in Lowell,
$4,000 spiIdles, 1000 looms, 1000 fe-
males, and 1000 males.
THESE are about all the component
parts of n piano: Pine, maple, spruce,
cherry, walnut, whitewood, apple, bass
wood, birch, mahogany, ebony, holly,
cedar, beech and rosewood from Hon
duras, Ceylon, England, South America
and Germany. There are used of the
metals, iron, steel, brass, gun-metal and
lead. There are in an instrument of
seven and a half octaves, Ola strings,
making total length of 1877 feet Of wire,
and 500 feet of white (covering) WIRE
Such a piano will weigh from GOO to 200
pounds.