The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31
General Notes.

RASPBERRY Juice is new color Ia
silk.
FORGED autographs of Thackeray are
prevalent in London.
THE custom of sending to friends
cards announcing births in family is
said to be increasing in New York.
A MUMMY, in very good state of
Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska
THE latest case of unexpected inherit
ance turns up in Pittsburgh, where an
orphaned domestic hast just fallen heir
to $3.50, 1000.
For $1,000 down any American or
English theatrical manager can pur-
chase Sardou's new play, 1.-THE Soldier
of Fortune"
CONGRESSMAN j. AMBLER SMITH, of
Virginia, leaves for Europe soon for the
purpose of stimulating immigration to
his native State.
The Japanese have defeated the
Formosans in two engagements. Nearly
all the southern tribes of Formosans
have surrendered.
ACCORDING to recent Canadian adj
vices, the people of the Dominion are
as little pleased with the new reciprocity
treaty as We are here.
THE Secretary of the Navy has just
issued an order epjoining increased
economy in every branch of expenditure
as indispensably necessary.
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A HOG weighing 1850 pounds is the
pride and admiration of Wayne county,
New York. 1t is pleasant to think one
is not hog in this weather.
A New YORK Judge recently pre-
scribed ginger ale for female prisoner
whose conduct showed that it was dan
gerous for her to indulge in spirituous
hbations.
A DEPUTY sheriff in Columbia county,
Ga, killed n whole family of colored
men, a father and three sons, on Friday
morning, who were attempting to escape
from arrest.
AN old lady in Pennsylvania recently
refused the gift of load of wood from
tree struck by lightning, through fear
that some of the fluid might remain
in the wood and cause disaster to her
stove.
Two PICTURES by Raphael, valued at
$25, 600 and belonging to Prince Pierre
Napoleon, have been attached by an
importunate milliner, whose establish
ment in London the Princess Napoleon
recently bought out but failed to pay
for
THEY have conscientious jurors down
in North Carolina. In recent murder
case, where there was strong sus-
picion that the prisoner was feigning
insanity, one of the jurymen wanted to
stick pin into him to Elf he dumped
naturally"
THE steamship Grenada has arrive
at San Francisco, from Hong Kong and
Yokohama, making the actual running
time from Yokohama to San Francisco
in seventeen days and nine hours, which
is the quickest time yet recorded.
David Dudley Fields was passenger.
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has
started another epistolary controversy.
This time it is with Gen. Robert
Toombs, and is mere question of
veracity concerning the use OF the
formers name as plaintiff in a railway
suit. Mr.. Hill is happy because it
gives him time to rest.
A JEwELER out West has had on ex-
hibition widows mite, an ancient
Jewish coin. 1t is about the size of
silver three-cent. piece, is of copper,
and very much worn. On one side the
head of the reigning Emperor Tiberius
Caesar can be seen ; the characters on
the reverse are not legible.
THE Hippodrome of Paris, which was
burned to the ground some years ago,
is about to rise from its ashes. The
restoration of this great circus will be
boon to certain classes in Paris, who
delighted in the performances at the
old establishment. On one occasion an
enormous python escaped from its cage
in the arena during a crowded perform
ance, and darted toward the audience,
who would soon have crushed each
other to death in their terror had not
the manager kept cool, and, sending for
large can of milk, placed it in the
way of the monster, who stopped to
drink it, and was thus easily secured.