The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-09
Current Items.

AN Idaho invalid was ordered by
physician to take three ounces OF brandy
a day, and knowing that sixteen
drachms make an aunce, has patiently
been taking forty drinks day ever
since.
The new custom house and postotfce
in Chicago will be in the Florentine
style of arch; lecture, which is carried
harmoniously through the entire stluc.
| ture, and will be something of nov
city among public buildings in this
country.
The physicians of New York report
an alarming increase of cancer on the
nose caused by the practice Of wearing
eyeglasses that are held 10 the bridge
of the nose by "a spring.
The world will be set at rights very
quickly, for the woman's peace congress,
the prison-reform congress, and the no.
hanging congress are all in session at
London. There is no record of such
vast gathering of professional philan-
thropists in the annals of agitation.
THE Bureau of Education have sent
blanks TO all the .jails, pr sons and pen
itentiaries in the United States, asking
for statistical information in relation TO
education and crime, which will be
worked up into an interesting volume
TO be pu blished by the bureau for gen.
eral information.
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts, has in.
stituted a movement by which opera
tives who are under age are allowed TO
attend school one half of the week, and
the other half are employed in the fac
tories. This excellent provision enables
the children to get their living and their
education at one and the same time.
The demand for opium in the United
States is alarmingly on the increase.
Last year the statistics Of the exports
from Smyrna show that of thu entire
amount sent TO Europe and America
$50 600 pounds-the United States
took 100000.
A CARGO of Palmetto leaves was re.
Gently shipped from Savannah TO En-.
gland, for the purpose of testing their
value as material in the manufacture
of paper. 1t Is believed they will be
found well adapted to this use. If the
experiment is successful a new and
profitable business will arise in the
South.
A SUBSTANCE which it is believed may
become to some extent substitute for
cotton, was lately exhibited at a meet
ing of the Linen Society in England.
1t was forwarded by the Government of
Brazil, and is produced by climbing
plant of unknown relationship, but fire.
quent occurrence. The fiber is strong
and silky.
THE consumption of animal ivory is
something enormous. Sheffield alone
would demand the killing of twenty
thousand elephants annually were there
no other sources of supply. One great
source of late years is found in the
tusks of mammoths, an extinct species
OF elephant which lived in northern
Siberia some two hundred thousand, or
more, years ago, when that country en-.
| joyed temperature like that of the
tropics at the present day.
IT is stated that thirty of the best
European engravers are employed in
| New York city in manufacturing coun-
terfeit plates Of European bank notes.
| Fifty persons travel between New York
and Europe, carrying over the counter.
felt bills to the old world, and as many
of Europe for the circulation of spuri-
Gus currency.
The Connecticut Legislature has just
passed law compelling the attendance
at school, for a, least three months each
year, of all children between certain
specified ages. The good people of that
state reason that if they have right
TO punish crime they also have as good
a right to prevent it 10y such means as
they have adopted
THE spirit of improvement, which has
lain dormant in Charleston, 5. c., for
the past ten years, has suddenly awak-
ened, and new impulse seems to per.
wade the community. Heaps of brick
and mortar obstruct the streets, and ii
seems probable that the burnt dis
trict" of Charleston, which has long
been an eyesore, will soon be covered
with buildings. New houses are spring
ing up in all parts of the city.