The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-22

Personal and General.
| A CLEVELAND man saw rats and
snakes in his pew at church.
IT is twenty-one years since the Maine
Democrats elected Governor.
The horse-chestnut is now used in
France for the manufacture of starch.
AN India rubber tree is on exhibit
ton in Syracuse. 1t was brought from
| Brazil.
In Saxony, no man, unless he is Jew,
can be married until he has been bap-
tized, vaccinated, and confirmed.
Miss NELSON, the pretty English ac-
tress, is the best woman swimmer that
ever tried the surf at Long Branch.
A YOUNG Englishman has recovered
heavy damages from a tailor who sent
him an insolent dan on postal card
IT is very hot in California. The
thermometer reaches 10 in the shade
frequently, and at one point reached
ia
THE wife of the British Governor
General of Australia is a daughter of
David Dudley Field, the well-known
New York lawyer.
WITH the exception of the Great
Eastern, the new steamship City of
Chester, of the Inman line, is the larg-
est screw-steamer af1oat.
The total valuation at Newport, r. l.,
is $37, 4S7, 500. Taking the population
at ID, 900, this gives an average of more
than 50, 900 to each inhabitant.
A GARDENER in England claims to
have discovered method of varying
the colors of flowers by means of chem
ical application to the earth in which
they grow.
THE farmers, through the mediation
of the oranges, have saved, according to
statements of leading patrons, 81, OOO,-
600 during the present year, by pur-
chasing at wholesale rates. The number
of the order is above 1000, 600.
THE New York World says that there
is project on foot, suggested by the
Iowa outrage, to have each train of cars
on the Western railways provided with
mitrailleuse," to be worked from
the roof of the car by an experienced
gunner.
A COLONY of $50 families is being or
ganized in Indianapolis, Ind, with
view to settling in Southern California.
Their plan is to purchase not less than
10, 900 acres of good farming land, lay
out town in the midst of it, and then
allot each member farm and a block
800 feet square in the town.
Two men disputing about the pro-
nunciatiOn of the word either"
saying it was ee-ther, the other i-ther-
agreed to refer the matter to the first
person they met, who happened to be
an Irishman, who COMPOUNDED both by
declaring "it's nayther, for it's ay-
! Their"
JUDGE VIM. H. COOLEY, killed by r.
Barnwell Rhett, Jr., in the late New
Orleans duel, was considered one of the
best story tellers in Louisiana, and he
exercised his talent to wide circlo of
admiring friends. On his way to the
fatal ground the morning of the meet
ing, he kept those with him in the rail-
way train in continued roars of laugh
| ter.
AN official statistical statement shows
that during the first six months of the
present year the imports of France
amounted to 1861, 100000 against
1,67S, ZOO, 000f. the same time last year.
Exports, 1852, 900, 000f., against ], 727,-
900, 000f. last year. Customs revenue.
113, 900, 000f., against $4,000, 000f.; and
total revenue from all sources, SIC, O00,-
000f., against 404, 900, 000f. for the same
period last year.
DoN'T let the flies locate in your nose.
A man at Castleton, VT, blew worm
half an inch long from his nose a few
days since, which was preserved, and,
after four days, entered the chrysalis
state, and, six days after, Matched into
a large green fly. Inquiry developed
the fact that fly had suddenly entered
the persons nose, some time previous,
and considerable difficulty was expert
enced in dislodging it. The ova was
doubtless deposited at that time.
The condition of Hon. John P. Hale,
of New Hampshire, has lately much i'm
proved, and is now more hopeful than
at any other time since the fall by which
he fractured his hip. The parts of the
bone seem to be slowly uniting, and it
! Is unOuBnU prODdDle bnab he Will, aIteT
all, fully rally from the prostration in
which the accident left him. OF course
he will remain practically crippled, but
considering the nature of the accident,
and his age and recent state of health,
even this rallying is quite remarkable,
and betokens considerable vitality yet
remaining.
A DISPOSITION is manifested by the
Emperor of Japan, says the Japan Her
aid of July 7, to open the whole coun-
try to foreigners so soon as Iwakura
and the chiefs of the mission shall re-
turn from Europe, instead of awaiting
the revision of the treaties before taking
this important action. 1t is feared that
some of the interior provinces of the
empire-those where foreigners have
never been seen-may be disposed to
give trouble should this course be
adopted, but due care will be taken to
allay their preiudices.
Water Boilers Upon Stoves.