The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
Personal and General.

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can hire a gold watch and chain for 81
day.
TIDE Nation refers to Roscoe Conk-
ling as "that purple earthquake of
oratory."
BARNUM will spend S750,000 for ad-
vertising this year, and make $500, 900
by it. Printers ink pays.
SEVENTY horses on the American trot-
ting turf have made better time than
2:27, seven have beaten / 20, and Bon
ner's Pocahontas and Startle can do it
in 2:19.
GEORGE WAsHNGToN's nurses being
all buried, his private memorandum
book is beginning to crop out in South
ern items. When last heard of it was at
Shelby, Ky.
THERE are 1856 German newspapers
published in the United States IS of
them in New York, and 63 in Pennsyl-
vania. Twenty-four are political A
educational 30 religious.
AUSTRALIA is rising at the rate 16
feet century. By-and-by there will
be an overland route to the South
pole. Polar expeditions had better be
postponed to that more convenient sea-
son.
ABOUT the eleventh century the Chi
nese invented paper money. In the
thirteenth century this paper currency,
made from the bark of the mulberry
tree, was the legal tender of the en-
pire.
ACCORDING to the good old Jewish
custom, on the late Passover, Baron de
Rothschild, of Paris, opened his doors
to all corners, and the table was served
for the mendicant, as well as the man of
wealth.
JOHN BRIGHT is said to value the
gold-headed cane bequeathed to him by
Abraham Lincoln beyond any of the
presents and testimonials he has re-
ceived from his numerous admirers and
friends.
THE Modocs had been preparing for
war and laying in munitions for years.
They had bushels of powder-so says a
klamath Chief, who knew them we'll
and they accumulated war material de-
liberately for great length of time.
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Journal Of Commerce says twenty-one
national banks, with capital of over
81, 600, 900, had, up to the 1st of Janu-
airy last, failed, and all but half mil
lion dollars of their circulation had been
redeemed.
THE "pesky sarpint" is no joke in
India. Mr.. Duff, Under Secretary of
State for India, recently stated that in
1859 no less than IA, 020 people lost
their lives in that country, and in 1874,
Is, TO people came to their deaths by
various dangerous animals there abound
ing, chiefly snakes.
The st. Louis Republican chronicles
the fact of the arrival at st. Louis of
the first through Car from Port Royal,
S. c., via the Port Royal railway, COM
pleted to Augusta, Ga, and the Green
line and st. Louis and Iron Noun
tain railway. The car was freight
ed with barreled turpentine, and has
returned to Port Royal loaded with
corn.
OF the great centers of humanity
throughout the globe, there are nine
having a population exceeding one mil
lion souls, coming in the following or
DER London, 1921, 600; Soochow,
1000, 900; Paris, 1926, 005; Pekin,
1,64S, 0S0; Yeddo, 1,554, 600 Canton,
1,236, 900; Constantinople, 1,075,000 !;
Siang-tan, in the province of Human,
1000, 000 and Tenant han-foo, in the
province of Fokien, 100000.
AT the banquet given in honor of
Herschel V. Johnson by the Macon
(Ga.) bar, the following toast was Of
fered: 1.-The agriculture of the State
based upon liens buried in mort
cages controlled in its councils by
lawyers pcrfumed with the aromatic
odors of distant isles of the sea with
its corn-cribs and meat-houses in for
eign States; it's 'offenseis rank; it smells
to heaven"
The leading men of the Chinese COM
panies in San Francisco have deter
mined upon starting newspaper. An
order for supply of Chinese type, a
press, and the general apparatus of q
printing establishment has already been
sent to Hong Kong, and it is expected
that the arrangements will be sufficient
ly advanced to issue the first number
of the new journal, which will be pub
lished tri-weekly, some time in Septem-
Der.