The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
Personal and General.

VANDERBILT is nearly 80, and never
drank liquor.
Hon. JOHN p. HALE recently broke a
hip-bone by fall on the sidewalk, at
Dover, n. III.
THE Shah offered $4,000 for three
English ladies whom he SOW and adj
mired, but he did not get them.
DIR. HERMANN KLEIN concludes that
the earth has been 1900, 100000 years
forming since first it had crust.
A New YORK paper would like TO see
cleTgymen take off their coats on hot
Sunday and push back their sleeves as
they go for Satan.
PEARLS require airing as much rs
horses and babies. Unless they are
constantly worn they change color, and
finally crumble to pieces.
THE Grange has reached Vermont.
The Ethan Allen Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry is the name of the first
one, organized in Milton, Chittenden
county.
A RESPECTABLE English magazine
records with evident pleasure, that of
the so, 600 clergymen of the Church of
England fully 1000 abstain from the
use of spirituous liquors
IT is now reported that the real Itch
borne, Arthur Orion, under the name of
Cosgrove, and by occupation an Aus
tralian bushranger, was shot several
years ago, while endeavoring to escape
arrest.
FREDERICK BATES, of Richmond, Me-,
the oldest man in the State, died last
week. He was born March p. There
is dispute about his age, whether he
was 1O2 last March or 105. He was
exempted at the 1912 war on account of
age.
AT the Natural Bridge, Virginia, last
week, man lost his pocketbook, which
fell over the precipice and lodged 100
feet below. A young brother of the
loser was lowered by means of rope
and he with the treasure safely hauled
up again.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Journal Of Commerce says twenty-one
national banks, with capital of over
1000, 900, had, up to the 1st of January
last, failed, and all but half million
dollars of their circulation had been
redeemed.
THE Hon. Asa Packer, of Pennsyl-
vania, don't do things by halves. He
has given 81, 900, coo and fifty-six acres
of land to Lehigh University, in which
the tuition is free, the lodging rooms
are given to students without rent, and
board provided at cost.
July 2, 1859, Prof. John Wise made
a balloon voyage from st. Louis to the
upper part of Jefferson county, n. Y,
travelling distance of eleven hundred
and fifty-six miles in nineteen hours and
twenty minutes. This was the longest
balloon voyage ever made.
THE exports from Philadelphia for
the fiscal year just ended foot up S24,-
203, 125, an increase of 50, 900, 249 over
last year, and $7,300,000 over 1870.
Boston also shows large increase, and
the same is true of New Orleans. New
York, of course, holds her own.
THERE is fly ia Cayenne, Guiana,
known as the man-eater, which is the
CduSe VI llldlly ueuIuS Ill tnaU pelldl
colony of France. NJ. Coquerel, who
has Investigated the subject, describes
the insect as laying its eggs in the
mouth or nose of u sleeping person.
The offspring in their larval state usually
bring about the death of the victim.
AT the funeral of Mrs. Utica V. Clafin
Brooker a sister of Mrs. Victoria G.
Woodruff, in New York, there was no
display, no Grape, no indication of death
about the house. The corpse was at
tired in pink wrapper, with lace en-
circling the neck and wrists, and was
quietly buried without any of the usual
hollow mockery attending funerals"
TIN new Illinois railroad law is be-
coming to be felt in all parts of the
country. Merchandise coming to this
State from New York and other points
East is now billed to the State line at
certain rates, but, after it passes the
Illinois Rubicon, the way-bill reads :
"Subiect to the conditions Of the Hi
nois roads" Parties in this city have
already received freight from the East
billed in this manner.-SprinaJfeld
(IU.) Register.