The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-29
Current Items.

The refusal OF her husDahu 10 WASH
the dishes is said to be sufficient cause
for an Oregon woman to apply Tor d.
vorce.
GEORGE WASHINGTON family clock
was on exhibition last week at the lnsti-
tute Fair in Baltimore, and tinker set
it running.
APPLES are so plenty in some parts OF
the country that the supply of barrels
has been exhausted and dry goods boxes
have been substituted.
WITHIN the past few years Boston has
added to its population thousands OF
Young men and women from the lower
provinces of Canada.
IT would appear that the average
weight of a human being is 1870 pounds.
Sixteen thousand FIVE hundred persons
were weighed at the Cincinnati EXPOSE
ton this summer, with that result.
In proof Of the fact that the cotton
manufacturing interest OF the South Is
rallying from the effects of the war, the
New Orleans Picdyune notes that the con-
sumption last year was 10000 bales,
against 81 600 in 1870, and $4,000 IN
1869.
SOME person, who could have had
nothing else to do, has been making in
vestigations in regard to the amount OF
food consumed by the common house
fy, and after a patient investigation
reaches the conclusion that, estimating
sugar. at ten cents pound, each ny
costs the country twenty cents from Its
birth TO its demise.
In Italy, Savings Banks are estab-
lshed and controlled by the Govern
ment, and a writer for the Philadelphia
Bulletin claims that such should be the
case here. He argues that while our
banking system is so perfect that the
failure of bank does not affect the
holders of its notes, savings banksshouid
be so guarded that depostors cannot
possibly lose their money.
ACCORDING to recent report of the
Wilmington Del Board OF Trade, iron
ships and steamers can now be built in
Delaware ship.yards at twelve per cent,
exclusive of the gold premium, of what
| they would cost on the Clyde. 1t is also
stated that this margin OF twelve per
cent would be entirely removed if the
same inferior quality of iron were used
on American vessels as is employed in
English steamers.
THE work of preparing for the coming
of the beautiful snow" along the noun
tain division the Union Pacific is pro-
crossing rapidly, about 500 men being
employed, of whom 225 are engaged on
the snow sheds alone. Over 100 miles
of snow fence have been put up and
several miles of sheds. Fifteen miles
of track have been raised, and other i'm
provements made, by which it is hoped
that a blockade this winter will be pre-
| vented.
Truth is stronger than fiction. The
remark has been made before. but it is
now emphatically maze again. What
does the reader say to the corpse Of
young lady in Ohio getting out of her
coffin, going into the next room, and
there speaking family to the watchers {?
OF course it was shock to the watchers,
but they had the presence Of mind TO
take immediate measures for the restor-
alton Of their friend TO full ljfe and at
the last accounts she was doing we'll and
likely to recover.
A REMARKABLE criminal is described
by the Asheville IN. c. Pioneer-the ex.
Rev. William Wilson, of Yancey county,
who has Just been sent for nine years to.
the Pententiary. Before the war. he
was Baptist minister in good standing,
and commanded therespect and esteem
of large circle of acquaintance. Do
nestle infelicity led him to abandon his
wife. He thus fell into disfavor with
the religious community, so that he
abandoned the ministry and betook
himself to highway robbery. Singularly
enough, he goes to prison for robbing
wagon in 1865. For FIVE ears he evaded
arrest, was then tried carried his case
up on law points, and now the verdict
is sustained