The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-17
Brief Mention.
MURDERS multiply.

BROADWAY, New York, is to be
widened.
MIcmGAss saw mills are insured for
Sl0,000,000.
RABBITS are dull sale in Kansas mt n
nickel apiece.
THB Cubans annually smoke l,400,-
OOO,O cigars.
SEVEN million hogs will grunt their
last this winter.
THERE are 500 women postmasters in
the United States.
SIXTY sailors were drowned in Lake
Erie the past season.
OVER 500 widows of Revolutionary
pensioners still live.
IcE on the lake at Duluth is two feet
thick and still growing.
LAZY compositor in st. Louis is
called the beautiful slow.
ONE hundred and fifty million elliott
pens are manufactured annually.
THE New Hampshire Supreme Court
DEGREES that dogs are nuisances.
A New Hampshire lady has just
died from the scratch of kitten.
KANSAS has shipped more cattle East
than any Western State this year.
AN Indiana girl of IL is over 6 feet
high, and is still going heavenward.
SAN Francisco is ahead as regards the
number of female type-setters employed.
THE average monthly yield of the
Pennsylvania oil wells is 50, 900 barrels.
IT costs the Government $1,000, 900
annually to support the Thanking priyl-
lege.
THE Mormons have three powder
mills, cartridge factory, and large
arsenal.
THE heather Chinee is taking the
place of the colored laborer on the Texas
railroads.
ADVERTISING is the ladder by which
men climb up to fortune if they keep
their hold.
IT is a s. fine for Rhode Island man
to call another liar without being able
to prove it.
ERIE county, Pa, with a population
of 1000, pays $500 year to support
its paupers.
Ten thousand Cinnamon are at work
on the Texas Pacific railroad i'll Upshur
county, Texas.
THE two States now suffering most Sc
verely from smallpox are Kentucky and
Massachusetts,.
In the State of Illinois alone there are
over two hundred papers printed on the
cooperative plan.
THE negro population of the country
is 4, 1876, 106, having gained about 400,
600 during the war period.
THE Lutheran Church in America
numbers 2,309 pastors, 4, 10 congega
tions, 4S5, 900 communicates.
CHICAGO capitalists have bought 5000
acres of land in Jackson county, Wis, to
be converted into cranberry marsh.
LAKE SUPERIoRrTEs pronounce the late
cold spell as the most severe ever ex-
perienced in that hyperboren region.
THE Patent Office is more than self
supporting, the fees during the past year
exceeding the expenditures by S77, 400.
ST.. PAUL's Church at Titusville, Pa,
has received from Kaiser Wilhelm the
gift of heavy piece of orenance cap
tured from the French, to be cast into
bell.
Mules at work in the coal shaft of the
Leavenworth mine, seven hundred feet
under ground, and never seeing the
light of day, have fallen victims to the
epizootic.
THE center OF gravity of the popula-
ton of the United States, according to
Prof Hilgard, is located at Wilmington,
Clinton county, o., 40 miles northeast
from Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI made over 13,000 600 gal
Ions of beer for the year ending Aug. l,
using over l ,000 600 bushels of barley;
5000, 900 bushels OF coal; nearly 100, 600
pounds of hops and $3.50, 900 worth of
ice.
THE receipts of Niblo's Garden, New
York, on Christmas, for the day and
evening performance of LEO and Lotos"
we're in the immediate neighborhood of
S7,000-one of the largest houses on
record.
THE epizoo is an universal traveller.
Just now it Is visiting Manitoba, in the
frozen North, and at the same time it is
announced to be present in Cuba. The
epizoo is no respecter of localities, or of
horses.
DISASTERS on the lakes and the st.
Lawrence have caused loss this year of
nearly $3.50, 900, one-third of which,
81, 035, 900, occurred III the month of
November. The number of vessels de-
stroyed is 100.
In South Carolina there are 415,S
negroes to 2S9, 667 whites; in MISSISSIPPI
ri, 444, 201 blacks to $50, S95 whites; in
Louisiana, 364210 blacks to 362, O65
whites, and in 1 lorida, 90, 0S7 whites to
91,6S9 negroes.
BERdH ON THE WAR PATH.-On the
day of the great snow-storm in New York
Mr.. Bergh made his way through the