The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-27
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
BosroN has fifty-three national banks.
BENNINGTON, VT, has horse Al years
old.
CALIFORNIA farmers have got their mad
up, also.
HARTFORD man has left 500, 900 to
found lame horse hospital.
THERE are now in Rome seventeen
American, six English and nine German
sculptors.
A MAINE COURT has lately decided that
railroad ticket is good for six years if
not used before the expiration of that
time.
In late competition of speed and en-
durance between two Western reporters,
one of them wrote 1860 words in ten
hours.
NATHAN LEES, Manchester England)
cotton manufacturer, lately died and left
60, 500, 900 for his relatives to squabble
over. He had never been married, and
was seventy-five years old.
A RECENT calculation relative to the
principal European languages shows that
the English is spoken by ninety Millions
of persons, German by fifty-five millions,
Spanish by fifty-ive millions, and French
by forty-five millions.
WHILE Frenchman can get about he
is considered young. Count de Waldeck,
in his 10Sth year, has been appointed
director of n new theater in Paris. He
was soldier until he was 60, and then
the military youth turned painter.
THE Springfield Republican, in refer
ring to the plan of executing criminals
by anesthesia, remarks, by the way, that
"the Greeks, who knew howto do things
nicely, administered bumper of hem
lock. 1t worked well, too-they never
had but one Socrates"
A MILITARY funeral was passing a
fashionable church in Boston last Sun
day, and the band was playing the Dead
March in Saul, when the preacher gave
notice that the service would be sus-
pended "until the Sabbath breakers
had passed out of hearing"
A SINGULAR epidemic broke out in a
Kansas town last week. Every wife in
the town was suddenly attacked 10y an
irresistible desire to present her husband
with nice little dressing case, with
shaving materials complete. An attract
i've young woman had opened barber
shop in the village.
OHIO newspapers and periodicals num-
Der AL, with an average circulation of
from 500 to 6, 14S, and an aggregate an
/ lot Of fnr
each inhabitant. There are 800 weeklies,
53 monthlies, % dailies, 10 semi-month-
lies, 8 tri-weeklies, 5 semi-weeklies, 2
bi-monthles, and l quarterly.
The Ohio editor who said that Kel-
logg's genius shines with equal bright
ness in conquering the Louisiana rebels
or singing in opera, has started on a
deadhead railroad excursion with the
North Carolina editor who demands that
jeff Davis shall receive full and COM
plete amnesty as an equivalent for his
services in whipping the Modocs.
The miseries of a worthy paterfami-
las whose family has been abroad for
some years while he had been working
hard to earn the money to support them
at home are thus touchingly set forth by
an exchange: He met them in Paris re-
Gently, and his children speaking French
only, he was obliged to go to school to
acquire the language in order to con-
verse with his offspring.
THE farm lands in California are gener-
ally deteriorating, according to the San
Francisco Bulletin. During the last ten
or fifteen years the crops have constantly
been growing smaller. The trouble is
attributable to bad system of agricul-
ture, and the failure to SOW crops of a
fertilizing character. The evil is wide
spread and serious, and, if not abated,
will interfere with the progress and pros
perity of the State.
The Journal Of Nan estimates the
numbers of the various religious classes
on the globe as follows: 50, 600, 900 Prot
estants, 139, 900, 900 Romanists, 60, O00,-
600 members of the Greek Church and
branches, SO, 600, 00Mohammedans, ! 20,
600, 900 Brahminists, 800, 900, 900 Budd-
hists, 5000, 900 Jews, and 46S, 900, 600 of
all others total, 1870, 000,000 The
Protestans are about / in Oh of the
population Romanists / in 9 !; Protest
ants, Romanists, and Greeks together,
in 5.
The candidates for the Chief Justice
ship, ms far as classified, are Judge Noah
Swayne, Associate Justice of the SUI
preme Court Judge David A. Cartier,
of Ohio Judge Pierrepont, Justice Mil.
Ter, Roscoe Conkling, and Morrison r.
Waite, of Ohio /; Judge George H. Viii
liams, Attorney General ex-Gov. Nor
gan, the Hon. Z. r. Hoar, William
M. Evarts, Judge Benjamin r. Curtis,
of Massachusetts,; Senator Morton, Jere-
miah Black, Charles Sumner, Judge Doe,
of New Hampshire, and Lyman Trum-
bull, of Illinois, with twenty-eight
other States to hear from.