The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-11
Personal and General.
JOAQUIN MuLER has consumption

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Or Louisiana land there is now ,OOO,-
900 acres less in cultivation than in
1860, loss estimated in production an
nually at 100000, 1000.
JOHN RANDOLPH, of Roanoke, used to
say that "give lie five minutes start,
and truth, with her seven-league boots,
could not overtake It,.
WILLIAM H. BELL, the colored boy
who defended Seward when Payne at
tempted to assassinate him, graduated
at Lincoln University few days since.
. A PEEKsKII.L man has ground cof-
fee-mill ten hours without stopping, for
a bet of $3.50. He would probably
have charged more had he been working
for wages.
Miss LEO HUDsoN's will orders the
sale of her house in Baltimore, and the
investment of the proceeds in the bronze
statue OF horse, to be placed over her
grave near that city.
IDA LEWIS, the aquatic heroine, has
separated from her husband, William
Wilson, because he is shiftless, lazy
fellow, andwon't support her. She still
remains at the lighthouse.
A RURAL resident of Broome county,
n. Y, who carried his rat poison and
his chewing tobacco loose i'll the same
pocket, very nearly fell victim last
week to his bu-colic simplicity.
A sHREwD plaintiff in Wyoming re-
Gently engaged as his counsel the legal
wife of the defendant, and, as a matter
of course, won his suit; though they
say that the lady's summing up showed
the defendant to be equally shrewd.
The growth of the savings banks
business in New York has been ex-
traordinary. In twenty years the
amounts of deposits have increased
from $40, $685. 1873, to 1926, $50, 621.
Nearly 20 per cent, or one-fifth, of the
people have deposits, and the average
deposit of each individual is $346.73.
THE Houghton Gake SUPERIOR Ga
zette laughs at the ado made by the Pa
cific coast press over the gold yield OF
mines, set down at 81 800 to $4,000 per
day, whilst the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mines, in the neighborhood of
Houghton, last month produced 800, 00O
worth of copper per day, and still keep
up that rate.
THE eleven largest Libraries in the
United States, with the number OF
books in each, are as follows Library
of Congress, $1,000; Boston Public
Library, 1913, 900; Astor Library, New
York, 1884, 900; Harvard Library, Cam
bridge, $4,000; Mercantile Library
New York, 104, 800; Athen@um Libra
ry, Boston, 100000; Philadelphia Lii
brary, $4,000; New York State Library
Albany, $1,000; New York Society Ii
brary, $1,000; Yale College Library
10000; Georgetown College, 10000.
The Washington and Lee University
in Virginia has received from Kentucky
S25, 900 for the endowment of a chail
of history and political economy. Mis-
souri, has subscribed nearly $4,000 fo
chair of applied chemistry f; Louis
lana So, 800 for the chair of modern
languages Texas $25, 900 for one of APP
piled mathematics. Each professorshil
bears the name of the State endowinl
it. Last year the University received
nearly 100000 in requests and dona
tions.
AN observing exchange says the PEG
pie of the United States consume, an
nually, ten and half millions of for
eign fruit use nine millions worth o
tobacco and cigars take six millions o
foreign crockery and five of glass (; sew
EN- millions of India rubber ; five mill
ion dozen of eggs of foreign laying tw
million dollars worth of buttons ;
million dollars worth of sardines, an
nearly a million dollars worth.of "hu
man hair" We might get along with
out some of these articles, but wha
would become of some of us if Their
was to be falling-off of our supply c
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