The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-08
Current Items.
ST PorSr has 249 cadets.


YALE COLLEGE has SSS students.
CHINESE women sell for S700apiece in
British Columbia.
THERE are TIVE million Methodists in
the United States.
MAINE has Just admitted TO practice
it's first female lawyer.
CAIRO. H., with over 10000 population,
has only 500 church members.
A New HAVEN lady's hustle burst in
church, and out rolled Police Gazette.
CLEVELAND, with population of little
more than 100000, has ninety.tive
churches.
TIE cereal crops of the United States
for Isl aggregated ! ,65Q,0OO,O 900 bushels,
valued at 81 900, 100000.
OF 6O.OOO,OOO feet of logs put into Bad
river, Mich. last spring, less than e,OOO,-
600 feet will reach the mills. Bad, bad
river.
IT is stated by some of the profession
that there are less than sixty really COM
petent shorthand writers in the United
States.
The Boston journal was the first paper
Stanley handed to Livingstone, and from
it the latter got his first information OF
the Franco Prussian war.
Six establishments in New Orleans,
with en- aggregate capital Of 81, 100000,
are engaged in the manufacture Of oil
and oil cake from cotton seed, the ) !eld
being 100000 tons per annum.
The total quantity of coal used in the
world is estimated at 1851 million tons
Europe yielding 1871 millions America
~ millions, almost entirely from the
United States Asia and Austria nearly
- millions.
THE fees of Mayor Blackmore. of Pitts
burgh, are now at the rate Of SIS, 600 per
annum, and will be at the rate OF S25,-
600 when, few months hence, the
South Side comes into the municipality.
1t is therefore proposed 20 salary the
next Mayor on $4,000
\ REVIEW of the amount of gold and
silver yielded in California shows that
there is slow but steady decline in the
product. Numerous claims that have
been worked by sluicing and the hy-
draulic process are exhausted every
year, and very few are opened.
SIR FREDERICK ARROW, deputy master
of Trinity House, who has laterly visited
large number of light. houses on the
lake and Atlantic coasts OF this country,
stated that our system of fog signals is
ahead of England, though the English
lighthouse system is superior TO ours.
SAN Francisco recognizes a great rival
in San Diego, the western terminus or
the Texas and Pacific road The Alta,
of the former city, says that " Oakland
will do the exporting and importing OF
the State and coast, and San Diego the
overland business, in connection with
all the trade of the Southern country.
CTxcIxSArI builds its stock pens on
the bank of the river above the city.
and then puts its water works below the
stock pens, and so obtains a bucolic
flavor in the fluid mud it supplies as
water. Uultra fastidious Cincinnatiars
are now debating the subject whether
the cattle and hog pens don't slope too
much toward the river.
THE absurdity of postdating weekly
1
Ledger the edition CT which bearing date
Oct. % was printed on the 10th of that
menth. This paper says their popular
contributor, Fanny Fern, is extremely
i'll, when the fact is she will be dead lust
sixteen days when the date of this paper
shall have been reached.
1T is somewhat remarkable, the nun.
Der of fortunes that are lying about this
season waiting for servant. girls, washer
women, and other useful members OF
the community 10 come and claim them.
The last of which we have heard is the
snug little sum of 100000 francs. said
to be ready for a st. Louis washerwoman
whenever she proves her title thereto.
SOME of the Chicago packers are con-
tident that the coming winter packing
season will be an unusually active one,
and opinions are expressed that that
city alone will pack 100000 hogs dur.
ing the months of November, Decen1-
Der and January, or an average of &c.,
COO hogs per week. One firm calculates
to pack $4,000 hogs during the season.
A WOMAN of the period has been found
in Market street, San Francisco. She
keeps fruit store, teaches a private
school, runs a sewing machine, does
knitting, pinking, and embroidery, goes
out as nurse, and "attends ladies'
In addition 10 her other accomplish
ments, she is widow, and having
hunted one poor devil out of the world
with her barbarous industry, is now
spreading her net for another.
The Commissioner of Patents has
granted the application of Ross Winans
and Thomas Winans, of Baltimore. for
an extension of their patent for " cigar
steamers 1t was shown that Messrs.
Winans, in attempting to demonstrate
the utility of their invention, have ex.
pended over $l,000,000, without receiy.
ing cent. They have built one cigar.
shaped vessel in Baltimore, two in En-
gland, and one in Russia.