The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-13
Current Items.
CHICAGO has 627 LAWYERS.

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The Philadelphia Leaqer is small
newspaper, but it employs $50 men
regularly.
1T is said the corn crop of Tennessee
the present season will exceed any raised
there for forty years past.
A RICHMOND man has worn the same
pair of linen trowsers forty.nine sum-
mers. They have been in style seven
| times.
THE total membership of the Orthodox
Quakers at present in the United States
is 81, 405, being an increase OF rs IN 20
years.
THE Nebraskans want the National
Capital moved to Fort Kearney. For n
young people, their modesty is remark
ably vigorous.
JESSE HAMLET, of Lexington, Mo-,
caught a catfish weighing l45 pounds in
the Big Muddy. A twelve-pound fish
first swallowed the bait, and then the
catfish swallowed it.
The report that there was but one
daughter still living of any Of the signers
of the Declaration of independence
turns out to be untrue. Two daughters
of Elbri ige Gerry are still living in New
Haven, CT.
The Winchester Arms Company, of
New Haven, CT, recently shipped their
first installment of 10000 rifles to the
Turkish Government. Mr.. Winchester
is now in Europe, arranging for another
large contract.
The statistician of an Eastern news
paper AYERS that the flies are so good
natured this season that well organized
one will allow himself to be brushed off
ones nose eighty seven times, and not
show any temper.
DURING a recent game of Baseball in
Missouri town, ball was thrown by
one of the players, which struck another
player on the shoulder, bounded to the
ground, and then struck third party
on the neck, killing him instantly.
The project of constructing a canal
between the Tennessee and Coosa rivers,
with view of opening new riverroute
from the Mississippi TO the Atlantic sea-
board, continues to attract considerable
attention in the Southern States.
In the New York Directory, the
Smith family have no less than 1887
members and their Smidts, Smidths,
Smiedts, SHIFTS, Smyths, Smy thes,
Schmids, Sch limits, Schmidts, Schmitts,
and Schmitzes near $50 more; the
Browns number more than 900, and
the Joneses about 500.
LATE decision in the Chicago courts
gives a verdict in favor of a lawyer
who lost his library by fire after Lis
policy of insurance had expired. No
notice had been given by the company
of the expiration, and the court decided
that such a notice was imperative.
THAT iron manufacture has received
q vigorous impetus from the ruling high
prices may be gathered from the state
ment that manufacturers of blast fur
nance machinery everywhere are driven
to their utmost capacity, and more
work is ordered from the different shops
for general distribution than can be
turned out in twelve months.
1T might surprise some Of our readers
to be Informed that there are manufac-
tured in the United States q little over
2,500,00 packages of pins per annum.
Each one of these packages should con-
tain 3. 800 pins, giving the enormous
amount Of 6, 425 100000 pins made an
nually. One factory alone in Boston
turns out eight tons of pins per week.
THE Philadelphia North american says
there are $4,000 square miles of coal
field in which Pittsburgh is interested,
and Slj,000,000 of Pittsburgh capital is
invested therein. Probably S75 ,00C 900
more is invested in transportation, and
the total of allinterests dependent upon
these coal fields cannot fall short Of the
enormous sum Of $l00,000,000.
Hon. b.. r. WAITE, of Toledo, one of
the American counsel at Geneva, writes
to friend in New York that the Amer-
cans can see their way clearly through
the whole business, and that he expects
to leave for home about the middle Of
October. This item adds to the already
excellent prospect that the Arbitrators
will finish up their work without any
further serious difficulty.