The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-09-01
General Items.

General Items.
ALL the BARRIERS in Knoxville, Tenn,
have been indicted by the Criminal
Court for misdemeanor in shaving on
Sundays.
MANY of the new houses being built
in New York have the window-panes OF
delicate rose-colored glass instead OF
plain white.
The cost Of the five large hotels in
San Francisco is said to be 81, 100000.
Their annual receipts are reported at
100000.
The Courier DIES Etats Unis has coined
new word, acknowledgements, which
means the "mania for committing MUIR
der on passenger cars"
IT is asserted that every married man
lives twelve years more than bachelor,
but whether it means years of actual
experience has not been discovered.
MAcKEREL are caught in such quanti-
ties along the coast of Nova Scotia that
there is not salt enough to cure them.
The price at Halifax is Sc per barrel.
MANY ladies are obliged to indulge in
smoking, as it is one of the best rene
dies known for the hay-cold or rose
fever with which so many are afflicted.
ICEBERGs are very plenty in the North
Atlantic. Two of them, each estimated
to be half mile in length, recently
passed near st. Johns, Newfoundland.
A BITTER quarrel has been caused in
church in Maine, by the practice Of
some of the members taking their dogs
to church with them. The choir have
refused to sing if the dogs are not ex-
Guided from the sanctuary.
THE Neapolitan coral fishers this year
have been very successful, but there is
no chance of the price being lowered,
so increasing is the demand for this ar
ticle. Good pink coral is now worth
about 90 times its weight in gold.
A STRANGE case is pulling the people
Of Newark. A boy was frightened by
snake few days ago, and afterward GO
ing to battle while heated. came out i'll
with what the doctors affirm is original
hydrophobia, unmistakable in its char.
acter.
A CALIFORNIA genius has invented
what he calls the Eureka Boot-puller,
which consists Of leather belt, having
two hooks attached to it. He places the
belt over his right shoulder adjusts the
hooks in his boot straps, and then leans
backward, and the tightest boot is con-
quered.
WONDERFUL instance of bookselling
is furnished by the success of little re-
ligious work called The Sinners
Friend of which l,S50,000 copies, or
4l3 editions of over four thousand each,
have been Sold The book was written
by Mr.. Hall, Of Maidstone, England
the father of Rev. Newman Hall.
The Santa Clara valley, in California,
now irrigated by artesian wells. has 800
acres devoted to strawberries Between
1000 and 6,000 pounds are produced to
the acre, which at five cents pound,
give very nice profit to the proprie-
tors. Between 10000 and 10000 lbs.
of the fruit are consumed daily in San
Francisco.
THE troubles of the English iron. clads
continue. The Cerberus was found as
unwieldy and slow as a tortoise; the
Agincourt carried its 1000 tons Of iron
and oak on to a rocky reefin the bright
est weather and smoothest water a ship
ever sailed in the Megera was wrecked
in storm that one of our New York
yachts would have considered q zephyr,
and now the pride of the nation, the in
vincible Warrior, has gone ashore at
Leghorn.
VEGETABLE leather is now extensively
manufactured, the principal materials
being caoutchouc and naptha. The
product is only one-third as costly as or
binary leather, which it resembles so
closely that they can be distinguished
only by close inspection and the vege.
table leather has the advantage of being
made in entire pieces of fifty yards in
length if desired, and one and half
yards wide, Of any thickness demand
ed, Of uniform quality and ample
strength.