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

paper.
Prussia is building $2,OOO,OO
prison.
NED BUNTLINE has cleared $500, 900 by
his Indian drama.
THE health of Senator Sumner has
improved somewhat.
WOMEN in Florida make from S1S TO
$23 week braiding palmetto hats.
The last census of Palestine shows a
total Jewish population of 1928 souls.
THERE is only one eye-glass factory in
America, and this establishment employs
only three men.
The Rhode Island mill operatives
have got fOrty-two million dollars laid
up for a rainy day.
AN Alabama Congressman put his
back pay where it would do most good,
by giving it to his wife.
A GEORGIA paper announces that
twenty men are to be hanged in that
State within two months.
WHEN Cakes Ames failed he owed
$1,000, 900. Within two years he paid
every dollar with interest.
For the first time in twenty years
Louisiana sugar-planters are satisfied
with their crop prospects.
PORTLAND, Me-, furnished the Port
land part of the late Chief Justices
name His uncle lived there.
CITIZENS of Portland, Oregon, in three
hours made up purse of So, 400, gold,
and presented it to Mrs. Candy.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper congratulates
itself on the fact that Tom Scott can't
control the through route to Heaven.
The Princess of Wales last infant
lived only q few minutes, and yet was
called Alexander John Charles Albert.
ISAAC RICE, of Henniker, N. H., has
been Postmaster of that village since
1909, having been appointed by Presi-
dent Madison.
AN exchange says 5000, OOO,OOO is the
amount of Credit Mobilier and other
public frauds. A sum sufficient to build
1000 miles of railroad.
The Cuban Gen. Agramonte, seeing
that his capture was inevitable, COM
mitted suicide rather than fall alive into
the hands of the Spaniards.
PARIS talks of building theater capa-
bic of accommodating twenty thousand
spectators at once, and to be called the
"Great Eastern Building"
BRICK PoMERoY's Democrat still lives
in New York, although he has already
sunk $3.50, 900 in the enterprise. He
talks of returning to Lacrosse.
Do LEWIS says that travelling through
the country as a book agent is conducive
to longevity. He should be sent to the
same lunatic asylum Train has gone to.
THE Baltimore Sun has celebrated it's
Both anniversary, and presented each of
/ it's subscribers with reprint of its first
number, issued on the 18th of May,
1897.
A BosToN paper asserts that this year
valuation of land alone in the burnt
district is actually greater than that of
the land and all the buildings upon it
| before the fire.
SOMEBODY estimates that the money
and valuables stolen from citizens and
strangers in New York by pickpockets
reaches, on an average, from $l5, 900 to
$4,000 week.
The last square rod of land in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Niagara Falls upon
which visitor could plant his foot
without paying for the privilege has
been fenced in by spectators.
RAILROAD damages in England, during
the five years ending with 1871, amount
ed to more than So, 900, 900 paid for lost
lives or limbs, and nearly $4,000, 200
paid for destroyed or damaged property.
MORE spinning wheels are sold at
Boston now than in the days when they
were indispensable to every New England
household. They are mostly exported
to Nova Scotia and the other British
Provinces.
THE publicity given to messages writ
ten on postal cards may be avoided by
the use of invisible ink, the direction to
"hold to the fire" being written with
common ink. In France invisible ink is
sold for this purpose.
POSTAL CARDS addressed to initials
Will nave lue SitIue TileS dpplieo W tleHl
as applicable to letters where addressed
to initials. They will be forwarded
through the mails, but not delivered to
the parties by carriers.
ADD to the sales and taxes paid on
spirituous, vinous and malt liquors the
capital invested in buildings and ma
chinery, ETC., together with the expenses
connected directly with the trade, and
the last years business aggregates al
least 81 800, 100000.
AN English correspondent writes that
Mast is now in London, and has had
tempting offers, both pecuniary and
otherwise, to remain there. He thinks
of accepting some of them, for the
reason that there is nothing in America
to tempt him to return.
Mr.. CHASE was the last of his line
Although he had six or seven brothers
none of them had male issue, and al
died before the Chief Justice. And rs
he died leaving no son, it follows thai
the line and name of Chase, so far as his
fathers immediate branch of the famil,
is concerned, became extinct with his
death.