The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-11-28
General Notes.


THE biggest bore in Nevada is 4,5OS
feet long.
A FASHIONABLE virtue for the winter
is economy.
Our of 1919 Quakers in Kansas, only
324 use tobacco.
OBERLIN COLLEGE CO.. has catalogued
1850 students this year-and more COM
ing.
SHREVEPORT, La, consigns 100 orphan
children to the charitable care of the
State
THE expenses of New Haven for 1874
will be less than any other city of the
size in the country.
FIFTEEN hundred thousand head of
cattle have been driven from Texas into
Kansas this season.
OF the 10, 140 arrests in Boston last
year, 1904 were for drunkenness, and
only one for burglary.
Pixies PEAK may be seen any of these
bright days from Los Animas, Col,
though distant $50 miles.
hE pucIaHleHJO tIttON Says luIly
twice as many emigrants are coming to
California this year as last.
A FRENoHMAN has invented boot
with wheels, which, he says, will enable
the wearer to go considerably faster than
n horse.
ONLY forty-nine of one hundred and
five youths who were recently examined
for admission to the Naval Academy
were qualified.
A MAN at Dallas, Tex, succeeded in
getting whole apple into his mouth,
but 1t had to be cut to pieces before it
could be got out
THERE are more than 500 cases on the
United States Supreme Court docket
enough to occupy the attention of the
court until next June.
THB Grand Master of the Masonic
order of Kansas has decided that a Mas
ter Mason who keeps dram-shop should
be suspended or expelled.
CONDUCTORS on several of the West
ern railroads are now supplied with sill
yer, and make change with all the eci0t
OF old-time bank cashiers.
RUssAs Khivan expedition is said to
have cost the Government, mt the low
est estimate, $500, 000 The figures are
copied from English journals.
THERE are six savings banks in Low
ell. Their aggregate deposits amount
to ten millions of dollars, of which at
least three-quarters are owned by the
operatives.
STOKES is now at Sing Sing, in his
striped suit. 1t is stated he will be en-
ployed as clerk in the cigar mandatory
of the prison, and not be compelled to
do hard work.
OHIo's tobacco crop this year is stated
at 30, 900 hogsheads. A reviler of the
weed says that it will probably find its
way into a million of hogs heads all
over the country.
A NEW YORK chemist claims to be
able to reduce boot-legs to beefsteaks.
This sort of thing has been in success
full operation at the average boarding
house for many years.
Mrs. PERU, of Delta, Iowa, postponed
her daughters wedding four times in
order to get n sunshiny day. When she
got such a day the bridegroom had con-
cluded not to marry.
WESTERN editor met well-edu-
Gated farmer recently, and informed him
that he would like to have something
from his pen. The farmer sent him a
pig and charged him S9.7 for it.
A COMPANY has been formed in En-.
gland, with capital of 100000, to be
raised in 400, 900 shares of Is. each, for
the purpose of having historical pic
ture of the Tichborne trial painted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Curtis, OF
Bridgeport, Ct, who recently celebrated
their golden wedding, lad all their
children and grandchildren present. Nc
death has occurred in the family for hall
a century.
THE costliest piece of terra trina on
the globe is said to be the lot upon
which the new banking house of Droxe
& Co., of New York, stands. 1t cost
81, 900, 900, and measures 107 feet IL
inches by l02 feet 10 inches.
The New York correspondent of the
MlnneapOns LT3OWG says tlat tne Lor-
lizards method of advertising their
chewing tobacco, by putting money in
the packages, has not proved effective
that the firm expended $65, 900 in all,
and one of the proprietors acknowledged
to the correspondent that the same
amount expended in legitimate news
paper advertising would have paid far
better.
The Paperless Man.