The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Current Items.
The United States has $1,000 miles of
completed railroads.

10 VIC only State That had
a railroad In running order when ad-
mitted into the Union.
The highest prices for magazine
articles are paid by the French and
American publishers.
Boston real estate valuation has in
creased $4000O,000 the past year, re-
ducing the tax TO Sll on $1,000.
The average cost of building a mile of
railroad is $44, 225 in this country.
The police of Vienna, Austria, have
notified the newspapers that the pub
lication OF matrimonial advertisements
must be stopped.
AN exchange says: "A clock in a
| New York factory has been seized by
the workmen, because it has not struck
for eight hours"
THERE will be enough wild grapes in
Texas this year TO make more wine than
was ever manufactured in France in
one year.
A GEORGIA farmer had SOW which
recently gave birth to four pigs. One
was like horse, one like an opossum,
the third like child, and the fourth o
pig. The owner of the SOW believed
this to be witchcraft, and had all of
them burned to death.
THERE is more than Sl,OOO,OOO in.
vested In the manufacture of lamps in
tins country. OF chimneys about l,000,-
OOO dozen are annually sold, at an
average OF fifty cents dozen.
NEVER before has such an exodus of
American clergymen been chronicled
o. I'm Irnn IN
the middle of June there have sailed
for Europe between thirty and forty
ministers of different denominations and
during the present month the number
will be largely increased.
The total annual circulation of news.
papers printed in the State of New York
is 4O2,770,S6S, being more than twice
the number printed in any other State.
The next greatest number of copies is
in Pennsylvania, where 233, 3SO.332
copies are annually printed. Massachu-
sets also prints l07 ,69l, $685. Illinois,
1855 ,204 Ohio, 90, 594, AIS.
A WRITER from Louisiana saws: What
impresses me, among other things, in
this novel region, are the gindly rela-
tons between whites and blacks. have
| III.
All the people are glad to see Northern
men all are anxious for immigration
and capital, and really they crescent
tempting inducements.
NIAGARA FALLS has been stormed by
bridal parties of late, and their Romeo
and Juliet exhibitions in public have
disguised bachelors and driven old
maids almost crazy.
To BE a swell at the seaside, the male
should dress in a suit of white flannel,
wear straw hat with blue ribbon band,
and insert round bit of window glass
in the right eye.
The New York Board of Education
have decided TO introduce music as a
distinct branch of education in the
public schools Of that city. This is a
long stride in advance, and. cannot fail
to bring forth the happiest results.
IT is common mistake that the Ku-
Klux law is repealed or has expired.
Neither is true. The law is still in
force. A single feature Of it, that au-
thorizng the suspension Of the writ of
habeas corpus, expired by its own limita-
ton with the late session OF Congress.
But the KuKlux law remains in force.
The people of Maine held a snow
picnic on the 4th of July. In the north
ern part OF the State there is a snow
drift of enormous dimensions, which,
although the mercury in the neighLor.
hood ranges from ninety to one hundred
degrees, bids fair to last all summer.
The drift was originally seventy-fve feet
nigh.
A LIBERAL estimate gives the follow
ing as the cost entire (including steamer
fare and cost of gold) of three months
trip (frst-class) in Europe and in this
country In Europe, 1924; in this coun-
try, 1862.
The old family servants of Washing
ton having about all followed their
master, obituaries are now in order of
the colored nurses Of Madison, who are
Just beginning to drop off at the most
patriarchal ages. One is reputed to
: have died in st. Louis, the other day,
at the age of l04 years.
THE drive of Texas cattle to Kansas
is estimated, from the most reliable
data, at 100000 head, and the cattle
will arrive in their full average condi.
ton, notwithstanding the hard winter
I through which they passed.
! APRoPos of the recent demise of the
! New York Standard, it is estimated that
: one hundred newspapers, embracing a
capital of upwards OF five millions OF
dollars, have died in New York within
!, the past twenty-five years.
:. ABOUT the middle Of June, Massa
chusetts farmer cut down a field Of
. spring rye for fodder. The rye haG
/. headed out perfectly. 1t was supposed
: that the grass would Immediately fol
y low, but with ten days the rye grew up
!. headed out, and is now the finest look
!. ing field of rye in that region. This il
n new departure in agriculture.
h SIXTY young officers have been dis
e missed from the Prussian army. They
n obtained their commissions during the
e. war for gallantry in the field, without
d passing the ordinary examinations
d They are now cashiered for not havin,
t, acquired the necessary qualifications
Is since the close of the war.
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