The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-04-17

BUoKwHEAr came originally from
Eastern Russia.

General Notes.
BUoKwHEAT came originally from
Eastern Russia.
IMMIGRANTS from Ireland are settling
in North Carolina in large numbers.
HORACE GREELEY's estate foots up
about 1926, 900, free of all liabilities.
THE Roman Catholic priests in the
German Empire number nearly 32, 900.
A POODLE belonging to dentist in
Reading, Pa, ate SO worth of gold leaf
at one meal the other day.
CHICAGO has over 500, 900, 900 in
vested in the business of taking the
traveller in and doing for him.
A HORNETS nest, four feet one way by
three and half another, is the latest
addition to the armory museum at
Springfield, Mass.
THE only hotel in London kept on
the American plan is great success.
The owners have just been paid a
yearly dividend of IT. per cent.
AN aged couple recently travelled on
the Philadelphia and Erie railroad
whose united ages were 206 years. The
husband was 104 and the wife 102.
IT is estimated that there are 800, 600
life insurance policy-holders in this
country. the amount they are insured
fol being equal to the national debt
THE practice of contracting for the
collection of unpaid dues, and of giving
mOieties therefor, originated during
the administration of Franklin Pierce.
THE colored people of Richmond
have thirteen churches, four of which
are Methodist and nine Baptist. There
are Sunday schools attached to each of
these churches.
THURLow WEED pays his 1912 pen
sion money to widow named Mrs.
Cream, with whose mother he boarded
sixty years ago, while he was learning
the printing trade.
MICHIGAN is happy. A resolution
has been passed by the Legislature
that, in view of the large balance in
the State Treasury, no tax shall be
levied for this year.
THEY were going to put man out of
San Francisco theater for creating a
disturbance, when voice cried : He's
all right, he killed Chinaman !" and
they let the man alone.
IT is said that Caleb Gushing was
never i'll in his life. But it must be
admitted that something disagreed with
him just before the appointment OF
Chief Justice Waite.
Ar New Sweden, Me-, a Swedish boy
II years old has made this winter
10000 shingles. He cut down the
trees, sawed and split the rift, and
shaved and bundled the shingles him.
self.
A PATENT has been granted to two
citizens of Troy for an improvement
whereby all shuttle sewing machines
are made nearly noiseless, and they in
tend to apply it to all machines in the
market.
A SPLENDID wedding gift-a dessert
service of gold plate-of the value OF
1900 guineas, was presented to hel
Royal Highness, the Duchess of Edin-
burgh, on the part of the officers of the
Royal Navy and Royal Marines, on hel
arrival in London.
SIR GARNET WoLsELRY will take hi,
place in the list of England's second
class heroes-there are no living Mel
sons or Wellingtons. He served il
the Crimea, in the Sepoy rebellion, ant
commanded the expedition to put dow
Riel's rebellion in Manitoba.
DIR. HOWE, for so many years the in
innate friend of Charles Sumner, frs
met him in the great Boston riot o
1887. The rioters had got possession
of a quantity of whisky, and DIR
Howe, seeing stalwart young man
who proved to be Charles Sumner
endeavoring to knock in the head o
one of the barrels with an Ak, hastene,
to his aid.
The English language is spoken AM
used by about S0,000,00O people
German by about 70,000,000 Frencl
by about 45,000,00 The latter i
probably more familiar to natives o
other countries than either of the tw,
former, it being the court language o
Russia, and also being spoken and reaC
with more or less facility by the refnet
and educated classes of all European
nations and America.
TEYARKANA, Texas, is about Il
days old, built in dense forest. 1t il
located nineteen and half miles from
Fulton, Arkansas. 1t now number
over 900 bona fIe citizens and ther,
are 200 buildings going up. There il
general ticket Office, two railroads
two express companies, two telegraph
lines, and forty saloons. 1t is called
the enchanted village in the Lone Sta
State, and bids fair to outshine it
old neighbour.