The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-02
Personal and General.

STANLEY has gone to Europe again.
WARMorH has gone to practicing law.
LUCIA will stay in America for two
years.
THE peanut is source of Southern
wealth.
WENDELL PHILLIPS is still harping on
Froude.
A TERRE HAUTE man has fine collec-
ton of walking canes, which have been
thrown at an iI-natured dog III his front
yard.
The Memphis Avalanche says this
years cotton planting in the Southern
States will be the most extensive since
the war.
NEwBURYPoRT, Mass, has passed IAN
ordinance forbidding organ-grinders to
play longer than ten minutes on any one
block.
FIVE hundred and thirty women In
the United States are doctors, twenty
four are dentists, five lawyers, and sixty
eight a-e preachers.
STATISTICS, pitiless as ever, inform US
that 1895, 600 bouquets is the average
sale of the Bonapartist violet in Paris,
amounting altogether to about S24,0OO.
A YOUNG New Yorker has obtained
twenty-seven different card photographs
of 4" future wives" who are in store for
him, obtained from AZ many different
sorceresses.
The remains of man who was buried
in California cemetery ten years ago
were recently found to have become
petrifed, weighing between four and five
hundred pounds.
SOMEBODY is advertising preparation
warranted to keep lady's hand free
from chaps. Pinch knows another way
to effect this. Let her have it known
that she has no money.
Mrs. c.. III. NASH, of Columbia, Me-,
having been admitted to the bar, has
gone into partnership with her husband
in the law firm of Nash e. Nash, attOr-
neys and counselors.
A ROCHESTER, woman, married to her
second husband, recently said to him
"Oh, how happy poor Charles would
be, if he were still alive, to see himself
replaced by man as agreeable as you
are y
The saddest case on record is that of
| the want of Bible at the Inauguration
of Missouri Governor. The ceremony
was detained until a messenger was sent
over to the penitentiary to procure
copy.
A CONVICT in San Diego received from
his friends number of letters saturated
with morphine. When he had collected
sufficient he chewed them, and, by thus
poisoning himself, avoided death on the
gallows.
BONNER has expended over half mill
ion in advertising. He has paid 81, 900
for single advertisement, and $40, 900
for weeks advertising. He is now
worth more than 100000. A clear
case of cause and effect.
THAYER, the biographer of Beethoven,
says that the great composer looked like
a little ugly mulatto, was very short,
had yellow skin, broad, spread-out
nose, and projecting teeth, over which
his heavy lips shut with a slight In
dian look about the cheek bone.
A CALCULATING Yankee, who has been
keeping track of the immense fortunes
in England awaiting American claim
ants, finds that the fortunes he has
recorded for the four years ending March
/, 1873, aggregate $4,000, 900 more
than the appraised value of Great
Britain.
IRELAND is almost as hard a country
for editors as France. Mr.. McAleese,
proprietor of the Belfast Northern
Wig, was lately sentenced to pay fine
of 1920, with four months imprison-
ment, for contempt Of court, in CRITICS.
ing the punishment inflicted upon GER
tain of those concerned in the Belfast
riots last fall.
A NICKEL mine is panning out finely
on Prospect Mountain, near Litchfield,
CT. The mine was formerly worked for
copper, and exhausted. A German dis
covered that it contained nickel, and
bought the whole thing for 500. The
present owners now obtain enough sui
phur to pay the whole expense of min
ing, and realize enormously on the
nickel.
THE new telescope being made at
Cambridgeport, Mass, for the Wash
ington Observatory will, it is said, be
the largest in the world. The object
glass will have diameter of 26a inches,
and the tube focal distance of 80 feet.
The total cost of the telescope and it's
requisite machinery will be 100000,
of which the object glass alone will
cost S27, 900. 1t was cast in England,
and finished in Massachusetts,.