The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-07
Personal and General.

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LOUISA Nj. ALcorr's little stories
bring her $4,000 year by way of copy
right.
A KENTUCKY dog went up hollow
tree 90 feet after coon and brought
him down.
Rev. GEoRGE c. VALLANDIGHAM, broth
er of the late G. l.. v, died recently ut
Cincinnati.
A MAN in Kentucky who was cowhided
wants $4,000 from the man who per-
formed the job.
URIAH HEEP is the name of the hum
BILE individual III charge of the postoffice
at Dry Run, Ky.
FoUR-FIFTHs of the champagne sold in
New York city is made in New Jersey,
from various chemicals, but principally
from cider.
GLASS barrels are to be used for the
transportation of petroleum in order to
save the heavy loss from evaporation in
ordinary packages.
CAREFUL estimates prove that horse
requires for his sustenance the produce
of eight times as much land as would
furnish food for man.
A GENIUS has invented a double-bar-
relied combined rifle and shotgun. The
rihed barrels fit inside the others, and
can be taken out at pleasure.
THE foreman of the Newbern Journal
Of Commerce is only is years old. He
and his brother, aged IA, set up i'll day
fifteen full columns bourgeois.
A MAN at Houston, Texas, wanted to
gite something toward paying off the
church debt, and not having any money,
he laid six-shooter on the contribution
box.
LANCASTER HODGES, now resident at
Fryeburg, Me-, is curiosity. He was
born at Danvers, in the State of Massa-
chusetts, Of stare parents, and is now
lO3 years old.
ELEVEN small but practical iokers at
Niles, Mich, daubed the door-kobs of a
popular church with printers ink lately.
The shops did lively trade in kid
gloves next day.
A SERVANT girl in Pittsburgh, Pa, has
sued her employer for IT'S weeks wages
at 50 per week. She says she began her
work Jan. l, 1859, and has never received
cent IN remuneration.
THE newspapers down East have dis
covered a family i'll Oldtown, Me-, in
which there are fourteen children, all
boys, the oldest of whom is but years
of age. There are four sets of twins and
two sets of triplets.
The Jacksonville (Oregon) Times says
the Indians under Capt. Jack in the late
fight used howitzer or small cannon,
which, it is supposed, they captured
from Gen. John G. Fremont, or rather
forced him to abandon, III 1916.
THE Canadian way of measuring a tree
is said to be us certain as it is grotesque.
You walk from the tree, looking at it
from time to time from between Your
knees. When you are able to see the
top in this way. your distance from the
foot of the tree equals its height
MEXICO has no Credit Mobiler, but it
has II game called draw poker. A repre-
sentative of one of the leading railroad
companies recently lost $780, 600 while
playing with some of the Government
authorities, and his subsidy scheme got
through their Congress without any diff
ficulty.
FREMONT, now under indictment in
France for fraud, had his character ana
lyZed once by II California orator, who
styled him "a statesman who never made
speech, a General who never fought
battle, pathfinder who always lost his
way, and millionaire not worth con-
tinental d-n.
WoRKSrEN III digging a well in Anne
Arundel county, Md, have found, forty
eight feet below the surface, some very
curious petrifactions, including the foot
of deer of gigantic size, and oysters
and marine worms. The form of the
animals was perfectly preserved, but
how the deer's foot came where marine
animals existed is for biologists TO de-
termine.
DIR. L. Il. MINER, surgeon in charge
of the United States Marine Hospital at
Port Townsend, on Puget Sound in
Washington. Territory, near the western
terminus of the Northern Pacific rail |
road, in private letter, dated Jan. %,
1873, and addressed to a friend in Phila-
delphia, thus tells the story of the eli
mate of that region. He says: 1.-THE
wall-fowers and English violets are now
in bloom in my garden, and L have peas
two inches high and cabbage plants set |
out.
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