The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-12
Personal and General.


$50, 2SS, 900.
THOMAS MAST already has 100 lecture
engagements for the coming season.
The American navy is supplied with
fourteen Admirals and twenty-five Com
modores.
DIAMONDS have declined 30 to 40 per
cent. IN the London market, owing to
the great supply.
SOMETHING THAT TAKEs.-The three
fold combination agency for selling "Wedhh
and Wonders Of the Boundless West" There
ID much sure money in it. See advertisement.
AN Iowa debating society has decided
that the world will stand for 81 ,25S, 1853
years yet. Therefore, why this sadness?
The Danbury NeWs man emphatically
declines all offers from lyceums or indi-
viduals to lecture in the coming or any
succeeding season.
THE locomotives on English railways
have no cowcatchers. They are also un-
provided with a cab for the driver and
fireman, so that in n rain storm these
officials have decidedly wet berth.
The Modocs have history, accord
ing to the Rev. II. Weisen, who makes
them out to be lineal descendants Of a
band of Welshmen who came to Ameri-
ca about 800 years before Columbus.
IF Judas (our Savior was opposed to
all monopoly had put one dollar at in
terest, six per cent. compound, for his
posterity, at the end of 700 years it
would have amounted to over $3.50, 000,-
600, 600, 100000.
CHRISTOPHER SHEARER, fruit farmer
near Reading, Penn, has probably the
largest refrigerator in the country. 1t
is fifty-five feet square, and holds, when
full, about 145 carloads of ice, and
4, 600 bushels of fruit.
A WESTERN farmer tried the expert
ment of transplanting fruit trees in
bloom at night. They perfected their
crop and showed no injury from having
been removed, while others moved by
day shed their blossoms and produced
little or no fruit
THE Citizens Association of Des
Moines, Ia, have sent their President
to New York, to make arrangements
with the owner of reaper factory to
settle in that city. The factory will en-
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payroll of $4,000.
The Prussian army is the most famous
army in Europe. The men are all under
thirty, most of them under twenty five,
and include many students, clerks and
other intelligent men in their ranks.
Fully half of them were in the late war,
and all are well acquainted with the
topography of the Rhine.
ITALIAN wit is highly dramatic, spon-
taneous, genial. Among it's proverbs
are: 1.-The dog earned his living by
wagging his tail" Make yourself all
honey and the flies will devour it,"
1.-The smiles of pretty woman are the
tears of the purse. "He who takes an
eel by the tail, or woman by the
tongue, is sure to come off empty
handed"
The people of Springfield are puz-
zling themselves over the conundrum,
why it should cost ST. Is per hundred to
move tirst-class freight from Springfield
to New York, while the same class of
freight is moved from New York to
Springfield mt As cents per hundred. If
the Springfield people attempt to solve
all the railroad conundrums, they will
have little time for anything else.-
quincy (W.) Wing.
From the top of Kearsaage mountains,
in New Hampshire, may be seen the
birthplace of Ezekiel and Daniel Web
ster, William Pitt Fessenden, Gov. John
A. Dix, Vice-President Henry Wilson,
Lewis Cass, ex-United States Senator
James w. Grimes, of Iowa, United
States Senator Zachariah Chandler, of
Michigan, Levi Woodbury., Horace
Greeley, Gen. Benjamin f. Butler, ex-
President Pierce, and Chief Justice
Chase.
THE London Examiner says that the
present year will see an immense in
crease of the tide of emigration to
} America and the colonies, chiefly in con-
sequence of the agitation among the ag-
ricultural laborers. In the colony of
Queensland ten thousand laborers are
offered free passage out by the Gov
} eminent, and there seems to be no
doubt that this number will go. In
many English counties there is already
an insufficiency of labor in consequence
of the exodus going on.
THE condition of the slaves liberated
by the Russian conquest OF khlva IS
said to have been wretched in the ex-
IRENE. The Mabometan tribes of Cen
trail Asia excel all competitors in cru
city, and to their natural instincts they
added hatred of Christians, in the case
of Russian captives enslaved, and hatred
of anti-orthodox Mahometans in the
case of the numerous Persian captives.
The general departure out of the coun-
try of the enfranchised slaves leaves the
Khivan freebooters without laborers for
their fields or focks, unless they can re-
sumo the trade in slaves at once, keep
{ ing clear, of course, of Russian sub
, jects.
, How to Cure q Cold.
If n cold settles on the outer coverings
of the lungs, it becomes pneumonia, in