The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
Personal and General.

JANIS PARTON is contemplating the
Life of Charles Dickens.
The Claimant has cost himself and the
other side $500, 900 SO far.
RUSSIA only owns 100 newspapers,
while Germany claims $500.
WASHINGTON IRVING received for his
entire literary labors $40, 900.
AN Ohio schoolma am has killed Ia
snakes on her way to and from school
this summer.
THE wheat crop of Russia the present
year is one of the best ever raised in
that country.
PORTLAND (Me.) harbor, ninety miles
distant, can be seen in clear day from
the top of Mount Washington.
HORACE MAYNARD, of Tennessee, has
given up his idea of attempting to dis
pute the Speakership with Mr.. Blaine.
The Persians believe that the dia-
monds all fell from heaven during the
earliest ages of the world, and are en-
titled to religious generation.
THE aggregate valuation of the real
and personal property of the State of
Indiana, for taxable purposes, is $943,
$50, 320-an increase since 1860 of $202,
1885.
A FRENCH physician has discovered
that the peculiar odor of Russia leather
has q very beneficial effect upon weak
lungs, and he advises consumptive pa
tients to repose upon pillows covered
with that material.
The Erie railroad has recovered
S,312, $3.50 worth of property during
the year from the ring by which it was
plundered in the days of Fisk and
Gould, and expects to compel the resti-
tuition of much more.
The Italian soldiers have meat only
twice week allowed them, and then
it is boiled. Their ordinary food is
bread, oftener dipped in hot water than
in broth. If they want wine they are
obliged to provide it themselves.
ASA JONES, bitten by rattlesnake Mt
South Bend, Ind, applied tobacco to
the wound and swallowed few quarts
of whisky. Mr.. Jones recovered from
the bite in forty-eight hours. 1t is. not
stated how long he was recovering from
the whisky.
ENGLAND has had monopoly, hereto
fore, of the borax trade, and the price
has ruled at thirty-fve cents a pound,
but as soon rs it was found that borax
could be produced in Nevada, the En-
glish monopolists put down the price to
fifteen cents.
ENGLAND, it seems, is outstripped in
the iron trade not merely by the United
States, but by France. The contract
for II, 900 tons of steel rails, recently adj
vertised for by the Belgian Government,
has been taken by an iron manufacture
ing firm in France.
A CONNECTICUT paper announces that
the General Assembly, at its late SEES
sion, very wisely, and after much delib-
Grafton, passed an act allowing anybody
and everybody to catch fish in East
Hampton pond, through the ice, each
month IN the year.
THE treasures of the Sultan of Tur-
key, on exhibition in the Weltausstel-
lung at Vienna, are worth forty millions
of dollars. The principal piece is the
throne of Nadir Shah. 1t is of gilded
wood, covered all over with garlands
and flowers and tracery in pearls, rubies
and emeralds.
Gov. HENRY S. FooTE has been
offered large salary to go on the New
York Herald as reporter, on account
of his display, in Washington daily, of
eccentric English There is felicitious
redundance about "reminiscences OF
the Past which shows his fitness for
the position.
A MAN in Fayette county, Pa, while
gathering blackberries, heard a rattle
snakes peculiar note of warning, and
looked around on all sides before dis
covering that he was standing with
both feet on the reptile, but so close to
its head that it could not bite him. He
changed position Immediately, but
killed the snake.
HERE are few of the reasons why
horses are whipped For stumbling,
owing to careless and reckless driving
for slipping down, owing to smooth
shoes for shying, when frightened
for any vigorous efforts to be relieved OF
torturing flies for the breaking down
of the vehicle and, sixthly, because
| the wind blows off the drivers hat.