The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Personal and General.

zJO carats, recently arrived IN London.
GEN. BUTLER continues to squirt at
the Gubernatorial chair of Massachu-
sets.
WHEN the Shah met Queen Victoria
he kissed her with perfect delicacy and
grace.
The little busy bees of the United
States produce annually S., 900, 900 worth
of honey.
IT is said that we consume about one
fourth of all the silk goods manufactured
in Europe.
GEN BANKS came pretty near getting
the editorship of the Boston Globe, at
salary of &c., year.
The two thousand three hundred and
second anniversary of Plato was cele-
brated lately in Germany.
THE Danbury Ne,0s man will get out
an almanac this fall, and the publishers
have already received single order for
20, 900 copies of the book.
THE number of persons killed in the
streets of London during the past five
years, by vehicles and horses, has been
535 manned or injured, 7,494.
AN indignant Republican paper in
Massachusetts, calls Gen. Butler ga dis
organizer, a boomerang, baggage
smasher in politics and government"
The Boston Post says that Prof. Light
made a Fourth of July balloon ascen-
sion, and at the height of 2, 200 dropped
a chicken from his basket, which alight-
ed unframed.
NEAR Beaufort, n. c., colored boy
went out to hoe corn. He failed to APP
pear at his usual time, and when hunt
ed for was found dead, with rattlesnake
coiled around him, the snake still biting
his body.
The word shah, the h of which is gut
teral, is an Authorization of the Hebrew
word meschiah, which signifies anoint-
ed. The Eastern Kings, from the time
of Saul, have called themselves anointed
of the Lord.
A TAME bear went over the Falls of
Minnehaha, the other day, fell fifty feet,
and struck on rock. He acted as
though he thought the ways of Provi-
dence were mysterious and past finding
out, but he wasn't hurt bad, only in his
feelings.
THE costume of young lady nova
days is q curious mixture of styles. The
arrangement of the hair is Greek, the
ruff is Elizabethan, the jacket probably
Louis Quatorze, the fan represents the
Trianon epoch, and the jewelry is prob
ably Moorish or Etruscan.
A BABY eleven inches in length, and
weighing only sixteen ounces, was born
recently in Altoona. The Altoona Ti'ib-
une says q common tea-cup was large
enough to entirely cover it's head and
reach down to its shoulders, while its
arms and legs were the dimensions of
ones little finger.
HERR EcKsTRIN, of Vienna, in an
analysis of the comparative value Of
different disinfectants, concludes that
chloride of lime is the cheapest and
best, and advises that the substance be
inclosed in parchment bag, so that it's
effects may be slowly diffused through
the polluted atmosphere.
RocHUssEN and Daelin, German iron
workers, have patented in England an
is so modified that more steel is pro-
duced from given quantity of iron than
at present, while the cost of blowing is
reduced more than one-third. 1t is also
claimed that by this process steel can be
produced direct from the ore.
YOUNG men who are studying for Jour-
nalists may derive comfort from the fact
that the Rhode Island Weekly Mercury
is 115 years old, has never missed pub
LEGATION day, and yet one of the report
ers who has been on the paper since its
birth, in 1853, now gets only SO week
salary, and has to pay his wash bills by
passes to negro minstrel shows.
THERE remains now no doubt of the
truth of the news of the taking of Talifu
by the Imperial Chinese, and of the
slaughter of all its inhabitants, includ-
ing Sultan Suleyman, whose head was
cut of. Prince Hassan, who lately Wis
tied England, was unable to get beyond
British Burmah on his return home, and
is consequently almost sole survivor OF
his countrymen and his family.
ELEVEN thousand five hundred people
were killed in the United States in one
year, we learn from the last report OF
the Bureau of Vital Statistics, after this
fashion: From burns and scalds, 1901;
, explosions, 900; falls, 2,074; falling
bodies, 49, railroad accidents, 1850
mining accidents, 1856; injuries by ma
chinery, 400; gunshot wounds, 429
other injuries, !, 1858; total, 11,574.
A RECENTLY patented improvement in
devices for musical instruction consists
of blackboard, on which are painted,
in large characters, the usual notes OF
the musical scale. In the center of each
note is movable key, which connects
behind the board with an organ. The
; arrangement is such that when the
.. teacher, with rod in hand, points out a
note and touches its center, the organ
sounds the corresponding tone, and thus
!, both eye and ear are instructed.