The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-23

CALIFORNIA contains a greater proper
ton of foreigners than any other State
in the Union-336,393 natives, and
800, $50 foreign born.
The population of Boston is about
one.fourth that of New York, but the
valuation of the property is about one
half that of New York. The honesty
of the Boston Assessors is the cause,
they say, Of such a curious EXHIBIT.
New Orleans the other day of his peck.
etbook, which contained piece of towel
used as bandage for President Lincoln
after his assassination. Rosello had been
offered $500 for the relic.
THE growth of cotton as a staple pro-
duct in the warm valleys of California
has been attended with such satisfac
TORY results as TO encourage the belief
that, before many years, the production
OF the country will be materially aug.
mented by the supplies from that
source.
The Hartford ladies, especially the
property owners, are plucky, and they
don't mean TO pay taxes without repre-
sentation. So say nine tax paying la
dies, one of them representing 500, 900,
and they have made formal protest,
which accompanied the amount due for
taxes. t&3Sb I
TYING line, on the end Of which is a
fish hook, to large rocket, hitching
the hook to mans hat and then get
ting him TO fire off the rocket, is the
latest form of practical joking in Troy,
n. Y. 1t works to the intense aston
ishment of the victim, and the intense
amusement of the .jokers.
A THRIFTY Bostonian recently
"placed" $4,000 insurance on the life
of his wife, took home box of little
red Maryland plums, and enjoyed a
whole evening in seeing his wife eat
them. His enterprise had its reward.
Deducting $29S for funeral expenses, he
is now SO, 702 richer than he was a week
ago.
FELLOW in San Francisco theater
expressed his appreciation of the play
by firing salutes with his revolver.
When mildly demonstrated with by the
usher he swore he was going to have his
gentleman's hat, for which playfulness
he was locked up on charge OF attempt
ed murder.
The States which hold elections pre-
vious to the Presidential contest in
November are as follows: New Mexico,
Sept. California, Sept. 2; Vermont,
Sept. 3 Maine, Sept. 9 Colorado Ter
ritory, Sept. 10; Dakota, Indiana, Iowa,
Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Dis
trict of Columbia, Oct. 8 South Caro-
lima, Oct. l6: West Virginia, Oct. "a.
IT is stated that thirty of the best Eu-
ropean epgravers are employed in New
York city in manufacturing counterfeit
plates of European bank notes. Fifty
persons travel between New York and
Europe, carrying over the counterfeit
bills to the old world, and as many
more act as agents in the larger cities of
Europe for the circulation of spurious
currency.
PERSONS who have lived many years in
India say that the heat'of the present
summer in America is more oppressive
than anything they have ever expert.
enced near the coral strand.
THERE is to be convention Of fat
men at Putin Bay on the 10th of Sep
TENDER, when 1t is expected that there
will be greater weight of humanity in
proportion to the number than was
ever before accumulated at one point.
The quantity of obesity that will con-
gregate on that occasion is something
to alarm the imagination, and strike
CONSERVATION into the hearts of hotel
keepers.
A WOMAN, an infant and bottle of
milk caused great commotion on an
Indiana train the other day, when il
was running at the rate of forty miles
an hour The bottle dropped out of
the window, the mother franticly
pulled the bell.cord, stopped the train,
and wanted the conductor to go back
after the babes lost sustenance. lie
didn't 60.
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