The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-20
Personal and General.


CHINESE is taught in the London
schools.
ROGER A. PRYOR is said to be the best
lawyer in the South.
THE farm products of Kansas in 1870
were worth $27, 640,951.
ANNA DICKINSON has concluded not to
get married this season.
OVER 5000, 600 acres of land is open
for homesteads and presumption in Da-
kota.
The ornaments of the Hindoo
women are estimated to be worth $780,
000,00
A LIVERPOOL paper speaks of carte
mus Ward Beecher, the great American
humorist.
THE "Fat Contributor found that
publishing a newspaper was more fun
than profit.
SERGEANT BATES, the fag-bearing fool
of two continents, has gone to work for
bread and butter.
AFTER the first of July all packages
weighing over four pounds will be ex-
Guided from the mails.
CALIFORNIA claims an Indian popu-
lation of 20, 900, of whom about one-half
know how to play seven-up.
The Shah of Persia sports 1900, 900
roubles worth of diamonds and other
precious stones on his uniform.
The cucumber collie has commenced
its ravages, and the family lamp CLEANS
suddenly through the midnight dark
ness.
JOHN B. COUGH was book binder,
and turned over new leaf when he
abandoned his trade to become a lee
turer.
A NASHVILLE (Tenn.) correspondent
says that Andrew Johnson believes most
reGgiously that he will be the next Pres
ident of the United States.
A BOY of ID at Bloomfield, Ind, has
constructed steam engine the size of a
coffee-cup, which makes one hundred
and fifty perfect revolutions per min
ute.
ToBACCoNIsTs and drink mixers lose
$4,000 by swear-ofs on New Years
day, but make double the sum the
third week in January, when the lambs
come back.
REPORTS to the contrary notwith-
standing, Thomas Mast will return here,
early next autumn, and resume his
labors on Harper's Weekly. Instead
of being very poor, as has been repre-
sented, he is said TO be worth over
800, 000.-NeW York Letter.
MARK TWAIN has been the most sue
cessful humorist, in monetary view, at
least, in the United States. According
to an affidavit sworn to by him III New
York, he estimates the annual returns
from his books $50, 900, and places the
small figure over one published volume
of sketches of S95, 000
HARVARD, in it's triennial catalogue,
has list of eighty Smiths, and Yale
just twice as many. Harvard has nine
ty Williamses, and Yale eighty. At
Harvard the Adamses and Parkers come
next, and the Clarks and Baldwins at
Yale. At Yale, if you don't know a
mans name, you call him Smith.
The parents of a Cincinnati young
lady, whose intentions were suspected,
removed all her wardrobe from her
room, and left her only robe de mutt !;
but in the dull waste and middle of the
night, her Romeo arrived, carried her
off just as she was, and an obliging cler-
gyman did the business for them.
CALCRAFT, the English hangman, has
concluded to retire from official life, and
seek repose in cultivating roses,
dahlias, tulips, for which he has great
though unsupported taste. His princi-
pal regret at leaving the profession is
that he has not had the opportunity of
performing" on newspaper report
ers
THE Court Journal understands that
DR.. Livingstones discoverer, Mr.. Hen
ry Stanley, who has returned to En-
gland, has done so in connection with
the New York Herald, and that he is
not unlikely to arrange for an English
branch of that journal being estab-
lished in England, if not in Liverpool,
too.