The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-09
Personal and General.

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FRoUDE will come over again next
year.
THE Rochester Union has feminine
| foreman.
VERMONT claims the nativity of Brig
ham Young.
OUR railroads use 1000, 900 acres of
timber land annually.
A STOCKING tied around the throat
will cure its soreness.
POWDERED hair is again in fashion.
Blonde and white are the favorite styles.
DIR. Z. THOMAS, the slaughtered Peace
Commissioner, had his life insured for
$4,000.
LYYCHBURG, Va. has received during
the past six months 7,44S, $50 pounds OF
tobacco.
If the best mans faults were written
on his forehead he would draw his hat
over his eyes.
An Anglo German bank with capital
Of $4,000, 900 is to be established III
San Francisco.
CYRUS w. FIELD, when in England,
sent telegram to his wife before sitting
down to dinner, and received reply
before dessert.
MARK TWAIN and Charles Dudley
Warner have combined their humor and
cynicism in book which is shortly to
be published.
A CALIFORNIA firm recently shipped
hundred bales of cotton to Liverpool,
being the first consignment of California
grown cotton.
Hon. A. III. STEPHENS, of Georgia,
weighs ninety-one pounds. His friends
think he will be the "great light" of
the next Congress.
AN Indiana lawyer lately defended a
man for keeping his saloon open after 10
o'clock at night. He made the plea that
it was 10 o'clock until it was IL, and won
his case.
IT has cost New York city $500, 900
to do its advertising during the last five
years, Notwithstanding the gratuitous
notices it has got from the press of both
continents.
An Indiana miss teaches school dur
ing the day, instructs class in tele-
graphy in the evening, and then spends
an hour and half each night in literary
composition.
A GENTLEMAN in Washington proposes
the raising of Sl0,0 for the purpose of
presenting Whittier with stereotype
plates of his own works, with steel en-
cravings to illustrate them.
In st. Louis the experiment of Chinese
labor is about to be tried. The pro-
prietor of an extensive cooper establish
ment has set fifty of the bronze-colored
race at work making barrels.
RANCID butter can, it is said, be
washing it thoroughly with lime water,
and then removing the lime by subse-
quent washing in cool spring water.
Ir is said that the late Horace Greeley
read on an average three books week
for the last twenty years of his life.
Nothing he relished more than to be al
lowed to Craze in a choice library.
A CONVICT III San Diego received from
his friends a number OF letters saturated
with morphine. When he had collected
sufficient he chewed them, and, by thus
gallows.
A YOUNG man at Kenosha, Wis, bet
50 that he could take certain mans
nose between his thumb and finger.
Although the said certain man was a
church deacon, the said young mans
doctors bill was $l4.
SLOWLY but surely the tremendous
social pressure brought to bear upon
the point is pushing the drunkard be-
yond the pale of law. A Baltimore
Judge, for instance, has ruled that death
by detirium henaenS invalidates life
insurance policy.
PROBABLY the only man who knows
anything about the provisions of A. 7.
Stewards will is A. t. himself, but a
correspondent says that, i'll addition to
giving large sums for hospitals, museums
and other things, he will give his splendid
mansion to the city for an art gallery.
He is "A, and never had any children.
ACCORDING to the censusreturns, which
show wonderful increase in the value
and diversity of the manufactured pro-
ducts of the entire country, the eleven
States whose manufactured products ex-
coed 500, 100000 annually were as
follows
annual pro- annual pro-
States. ducts. States ducts.
New York. S7S5, 1884, 51 New Jersey .SG9 237, 732
Pennsylvania I'll, 1874 344 Connecticut 161 065,474
Massachusetts $50, 81 ,56S Michigan $50 1ls,3g4,676
Ohio ...... 239, 1850 Rhode Island Ill 41s,3j4
Missouri 206, 213 429 Indiana .... 10S,6l7,27s
Illinois. ...... 2O5,620G72l
A Memorable Month.
The month of April is full of days