The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-27
General Notes.

General Notes.
A NEwBURYpoRT, Mass, man sold his
| fathers skeleton.
A DUCK killed rooster in fight for
$50 in Chester, Pa.
FISHERMEN constitute the healthiest
class in Massachusetts,.
A New YORK lady is experimenting
with Japanese servants.
THE newest oil well in Pennsylvania
spouts 1000 barrels day.
THE number of officers of foreign
birth in our regular army is 244.
A HEN in indianapolis has been SO
affected by the Siamese Twins excite
ment, as to lay hyphenated pair of
eggs.
A RAID on a Boston hotel resulted in
the seizure by the State Constable of
the private decanter of an ex-Gov-
einor.
A MAN with turn for relics in Lewis
town, Maine, possesses "his first and
only pair of kid gloves, purchased
thirty-two years ago."
THE Maine Legislature has refused
to repeal the law abolishing capital
punishment. The vote in the Senate
was ID to II and in the House 70 to 81.
THE first railroad in India was COM
pleted and the first train of cars started
in 1852. Since that time 5000 miles of
railways have been built and put into
operation.
THE new charter of San Francisco
provides that women shall be paid the
same salaries as men teachers in the
public schools of that city. This is
simple equity.
THERE is minister near Bonneville,
Ind, who has been married three
times, his first two wives being sisters
and his third wife step-mother to his
first two wives.
AN idea of the terrible nature of the
Indian famine may be gathered from
the statement that rice is selling at four
cents per pound, which is exactly the
price of a laborer's daily pay.
Mr.. SARToRoUs, who is TO marry
Miss Nellie Grant in May, owns a farm
in Wisconsin, which he superintended
until the death of his elder brother
made him heir to the English estate.
THREE of the nine Judges of the
United States Supreme Court are ma
tives of Connecticut - Chief-Ju stice
Waite, of Lyme Judge Strong, of
Somers, and Judge Field, of Haddam.
LOVE me, love my dogl A German
woman recently walked to Window,
Minnesota, ten miles, after a stray dog.
On her return she died from exhaus-
ton, and was found with the dog in her
arms.
SOME Cnlebs may thank us for the
information that the woman in Kansas
who has used one broom for fifteen
years is widow. For our part, we
should like to know how often she has
used it.
THERE has never been clergyman,
lawyer, physician, editor, deacon,
steward, church warden, class leader,
nor son of clergyman in the New
Hampshire State Prison. They are
too smart for that.
The press law of Japan prohibits
newspapers from discussing the laws,
attacking the government, or publish
ing any articles of an evil tendency
The penalties vary from the chain-gang
to being burnt alive.
A MAN named Kelly returned to his
home a few miles below Dubuque, re-
Gently, after an absence of eight years,
and found his wife married to another
man, she believing that he was dead
She has two children by her last hus-
band.
REMARKS of a Nevada Judge upon
opening his court, and after taking out
n revolver: " III any man goes frolick-
ing around this courtroom during the
trial of this case, shall interrupt him
in his career" The strictest decorum
Immediately prevailed.