The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-04-10
General Notes.


CONNECTICUT has 4, 547 Odd Fellows.
THERE are $50 different tints of gray
displayed in spring dress goods.
ALL the deceased Presidents of the
United States, with the exception of
Washington, have died within the past
forty-eight years.
Two THOUSAND square miles of supe-
rior yellow pine timber, now wholly un-
touched by the AK, are about to be
opened to market in Florida.
The San Luis (Col.) Park has an
area of over 1000 square miles, being
in extent as large as several of the
smaller Eastern States combined.
ILLINOIS husbands are on an equality
with their wives in relation to property.
Instead of courtesy the widower is only
to have his dover right of thirds.
A Council BLUFFS milk dealer has
introduced the practice of delivering milk
in quart and pint bottles, which can be
conveniently placed on ice or in cool
water.
THE deacons of the churches in Sa-
lem, Oregon, have been appointed
special policemen. The congregations
will be compelled to behave themselves
hereafter.
PHILADELPHIA people are beginning
to be anxious about their finances. The
debt of the city now amounts to $780,
600, 900, more than double that of the
entire State.
INSCRIPTION on tombstone in Co
lumbia, Tenn. Escaped the bullets
of the enemy to be assassinated by a
cowardly pup-a kind husband, an af-
fectionate father.
A CALF born in Ludlow, VT, now no
more, had two heads, two necks, two
breasts and six legs. If he had lived,
what an ornament to the baIn-yard he
would have been
Pie annual international football
match between England and Scotland
came off recently at Remington Oval,
in the presence of some 1000 specta.
tors. The match was won by the En-.
glishmen.
The story of Cleopatra's pearl has
been surpassed. In Saugatuck, Conn.
at a supper the other night, about 100
pearls were found in the shell of 8
roasted oyster, all spoiled, large ant
small, by the cooking to which they hat
been subjected.
The editor of the Golden (Col.
Globe, in closing his first volume, says
eff we have hurt any ones feelings o.
prospects the past year, we're sorry
and if they will come around back o
them and be friends.
DARWIN ID. HALL, a prominent an,
rich man in st. Johnsbury, VT, com
mitted suicide the other day ION &C
: count of trouble with his hired girl.
If everybody having this sort of troubl
should do this sort of thing, how tragi
!. would the time become
: Mrs. CoUGHoRN, Marion county
+ Tenn, aged 113 years, last summer cul
g tivated patch of corn by her own la
Q bors. She goes about wherever sh
wishes, always walking, and is al
t together fine old Tennessee gentle
woman, all of the olden time.
g A LETTER from Italy says that durin
the three years that Rome has been tn
{ capital of reunited Italy, more ne'
S houses have been erected than durin
D the preceding 5000 years, and a create
e accession to the population has bee
Y made than since the days of the Cru
5 sades.
: The Green Bay Advocate says J. "
= Woodruff, of that city, has a COW tha
: had calf in January of last year, whe
: she lacked about two months of bein
- two years old. On Thursday of las
= week she had three more cafes, maxim
four calves in about fourteen month.
All of them are alive and doing well.