The true northerner., 1873-10-10
General Notes.

season.
The largest room in the world is the
room for improvement.
The great Napoleon was scrupulously
neat III his personal habits.
Miss MARY L. BEEDY, who has been
making lecturing tour in England.
was formerly n teacher in the common
schools of st. Louis.
The Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of
Persia, and the Viceroy of Egypt are of
the same age, the three having been
born III the year 1880.
THE most certain wheat lands in Cal
ifornia lie In the mountains, unaffected
by drought or other causes of failure
peculiar to the valleys.
THE parties who attempted TO secure
the release from Newgate of the Bank
of England forgers are now known to
have been a couple of Michigan farmers.
KANSAS papers say it is generally be-
heved that thousands of cattle intended
for the fall market will be kept over
winter i'll consequence of present low
prices.
A NEW YORK paper suggests the use
of aluminium instead of silk for balloons,
asserting that with an aluminium en-
velope above him, the aeropaut might
float about for weeks or months.
Mrs. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, widow
of the famous naturalist, now in the
Seth year of her age, left New York last
week to visit Louisville, KY, where she
expects to spend the winter with family
friends.
OF the children born in London,
more than twice as many are raised to
maturity now than were raised one
hundred years ago. Then more than
one-half died under the age of five years !;
now only about quarter.
In view of the increased pay of Con-
gressmen, prices of furnished rooms in
Washington, in available positions, to
Senators and members, have advanced
very considerably. The rate of advance
is about in proportion to the increase of
the pay.
The two Bidwells, Mcdonnell, and
Noyes, the Bank of England forgers,
have been removed from Newgate to
one of the convict establishments to un-
dergo their sentence before leaving
they were shorn OF their whiskers and
clad in prison-garb.
IT Is stated that in England among
railway employees the post of money.
taker is much sought for, on account OF
the surprising amount of cash which
accrues to the taking clerk, by
way of perquisites-the money being
left by passengers in their hurry to take
their places in the train.
THE Spiritualists having rejected
Christ and elected Woodruff for their
head, their system may be considered
as fully developed. When the Jews re,
jected Christ and called for Barabbas il
was written "Now Barabbas was 9
robber." What this woman is we can,
not write.-NcW York Observer.
SEVERAL German scientific writers
predict that nations, far from improv
ing, will deteriorate, both in physical
and mental characteristics, if potatoes
become principal article of diet and
the celebrated Carl Voigt says tha,
the nourishing potato does not restore
the wasted tissues, but makes our peas
ants physically and mentally weak.
THERE is something painfully suggest
i've of horrors in the fact of the sealed
packet left by Capt. Hall, of the Polaris
with directions that it is not to be
opened during the lifetime of Lady
Franklin. All readers of the narratives
of Arctic explorers are aware of the
straits to which mariners have been re
duced in the melancholy regions of ice
and famine. That Capt. Hall obtained
some terrible revelations of suffering
and dire exigency experienced by the
members of the Franklin expedition
there can be little doubt; and this ac
counts for his concern that the brave
hearted widow of the ave-hearted ex
plorer should be spared details tha
would only serve to embitter still further
her declining years.