The true northerner., 1873-02-21
Brief Mention.

DURING 1872 Kansas built 5l1 miles of
railroad.
THE Troy gas company uses Austria
han coal.
MINNESOTA shipped $4,000 deer East
last year.
HoRsE-sHoEs made of iron were first
used A. ID. 4Sl.
TB courts in Ohio granted 1,O26 di-
vorces last year.
ONLY one person in 10, 600 ever reaches
100 years of age.
A TEN-YEAR-oLD Missouri boy slew
deer with n stone.
TEXAS has 3, 900, 900 cattle ready to be
converted into beef.
THE Alaska Seal Company captured
$4,000 seals last year.
THERE are l 100 male and 100 female
convicts in Sing Sing.
STARCH was first introduced into En-
gland in the year 1864.
COLORADO has over five hundred miles
of railroad in operation.
SMALL-Pox is epidemic in seventy
towns III Massachusetts,.
A VEIN of ithograph stone has been
found near East St. Louis.
THE permanent school fund of Kansas
now amounts TO $3.50, ,095. 30.
Missouri has paid $4,000 for wolf
scalps during the past year.
EIGHTY people die every minute, 1900
per hour, and 115, 200 per day.
CALIFORNIA and Oregon produced
S,972, 4S3 pounds of wool in 1872.
The manufacture of silk was brought
from India into Europe, 551 A. ID.
The Government is talking about
adopting cheese as an army ration.
KANSAS has more hedge and stone
fence than any other Western State.
NINETEEN newspapers are to share the
profits of the Georgia State printing.
THERE are 2,768 places in virtuous
Boston where Intoxicating liquors are
sold.
CONNECTICUT farmers are realizing an
average of S275 per acre on their tobacco
crop.
LACE handkerchiefs are going ont of
fashion, and embroidered ones COM
ing in.
THE capital invested in the United
States in railroads is computed at -, O00,-
000,0
TIE world, it is estimated, has 1000
different religions, and speaks s, 642 Ian
guages.
DURING 1872, 1924 barrels of whale
oil was taken, and 21,S7G pounds Of
whaiebone.
THE State debt of Kansas is nearly
$1,000, ,00O-iust one-tenth of that of
Missouri.
A MAN at Independence, Iowa, pleads
guilty to having stolen 672 chickens since
last November
A NIAlBLE woman, 137 years old, does
housewOrk and runs on errands for a
living in Los NietOs, Cal.
ONE Texan ranger has made 81 800
during the past year by taking scalps
under the Mexican bounty act.
IT is said that coal oil will be sold at
$1.5 barrel before spring. No family
need then be without vacant chair.
EVENING SCHOOLS for married men
have been started at South Adams,
Mass, from which the South Ewes are
excluded.
For 81 ,OOO,O cash in hand a New
Yorker agrees to tear down one of the
=. p, nj
1t up again.
UNCLE SANS real estate in the District
of Columbia, exclusive of public build
ings, parks and squares, foots up over
SIC, 100000.
EGGS are sixty cents per dozen in
Pennsylvania, and the man who owns
eight or ten hens is entitled to move in
good society.
A LAW of Pennsylvania makes the
taking of money at the door of theater
on Sunday illegal, wherefore it is inva-
riably taken at the window.
Mr.. GREELEY's memory will, it is said,
be honored by the establishment of q
professorship of journalism Mt Cornell
University, to be called by his name.
A GUSHING poet asks in the first line OF
n recent effusion, "How many weary
pilgrims lie ?' We give it up, but eX-
perience has taught us there are a good
many.
A NEW use has been found for mica.
1t is now attracting particular attention
as a material for roofing buildings, fol
which purpose it has been found to be
peculiarly adapted.
THE center of gravity of the popula.
ton of the United States, according tc
Prof. Hilgard, is located mt Wilmington
Clinton county, o., 45 miles northeast
from Cincinnati.
What rs 1t!
A Washington correspondent thus ex
plains the meaning of Credit Mobilier
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