The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-18
Personal and General.

VIoOuoA e1ssu VSmSSe
DIR. S. TYLER, q son of President Tyler,
lectures on temperance in San Fran
cisco.
A MAINE postmaster recently con-
tracted the smallpox from letter which
he handled.
THE new house of the President Of
Cornell University (New York; contains
a billiard room.
THE prize-package fend of the rail-
way train is about to be suppressed in
New York State.
FrFTY-FoUR thousand four hundred
and fifty of the people of Boston live in
tenement houses.
A DELAWARE Judge fined lawyer
only one dollar for calling him :" bloat-
ed old rhinoceros."
Prof. NUDGE says that, as Kan
sas becomes more thickly settled, many
fossllizep elephants will be dug up.
HORACE GREELEY's sanctum will not
be disturbed during the erection of the
new Tribune building in New York.
MACDONALD, the Bank of England
forger, turns out to be an old and prac-
ticed swindler, who has lived by his wits
for years.
THERE is now movement among the
railroad engineers throughout the
country to have Sunday freight traffic
on the railroads abolished.
IT took a special train with four cars
to carry Kentuckian's relatives to the
residence of his bride, where the nup-
tials were to be celebrated.
IT is said that maple tree does not
yield more than thirty cents worth Of
sugar per year, and that the labor re-
quired represents half of that amount.
THE Wyandotte (Kan) poorhouse
shelters two sisters, the elder of whom
is six feet three inches in height, the
younger six feet eight, and still grow
ing.
The temperance societies are disgust
ed with August Pickard, of Rochester,
who is JOG years old, uses tobacco to ex-
cess, and has weakness for mixed
drinks.
IT is said that after the approaching
opera season in London, Madame Ade-
lima Petit will make musical tour in the
United States. 1t is twelve years since
she left this country.
The United States has become the
leading cheese-producing country in the
world and from an expectation of
1,OO6, 600 pounds in 1852 the amount has
risen to 60,0OO,OO in 1879.
MIR. BERGH has placed in all the stables
throughout New York city cards bearing
the following inscription =" L promise
to protect dumb animals, and may the
Lord IN his mercy protect me"
Mr.. JOHN f. GREEN, Baltimore gen.
tleman who theoretically embezzled
good many thousand dollars recently,
was turned loose on trial because the
word " fraudulently" i'll his indictment
was spelled " fraudently."
ONLY four of the New York dailies,
the Times, the Express, the Ne,Us, and
the Journal Of Commerce, are regularly
delivered to subscribers in Russia. Most
of the other journals are confscated at
least four times week.
The first white man who publicly sang
q song with his face blackened is said to
have been parsonage popularity known
| uS Otplc IlcIbcIt. Ills song WIS ell
titled the Battle of Plattsburg," and
was sung by him in 1915 on the stage of
the theater of Albany
THE official journal of Georgia has
shown commendable bit of enterprise.
1t is now only little over ten years since
the 32 savages were executed at Man.
kato, Mimi, yet the journal in question
has heard of the affair, and in recent
issue publishes full details of the hang
ing. 1t is probable that the account will
be extensively copied at the South.
AMONG the presents at the old-fash-
Toned wedding in Indiana the other day
was gallon mug filed with beer. The
bride drank first, and then all the women
present followed her example. When
it came to the men there was nothing
left The bridegroom filled an old
fashioned, long-stemmed pipe, took the
initial Whit, and then all the men took
q long pull each in his turn.
THE question, "Was John Wesley
bad husband ?" has been settled by
correspondent of Philadelphia paper,
who gives the authority of an eye
witness" that Mrs. Wesley used to in
dulge in the luxury of dragging her
husband around the room by the hair of
his head This treatment no doubt gave
the great Methodist apostle realizing
sense of the necessity of some future
state of reward and punishment.