The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-18
Personal and General.

THE Bank of California has Chinese
clerks.
Iowa has $4,000 Patrons of Hus-
bandry.
ONO consumes more iron in the manu-
facture of farming implements than any
other State in the Union.
The Buffalo Express wants to know
what Ben Butler and the potato bug
were made for.
ABOUT 1900 years ago Ptolemeus
Philopater built ship at Alexandria
420 feet long, 81 feet broad, and ~ feet
high. Tonnage, 6, 445 tons.
A BOY ut Marietta, O., didn't want to
go to Sunday school, and, when his
parents insisted, he cut four of his toes
off with the Ak.
A Troy schoolmaster has been dis
missed for trying to beat proper pro-
nunciation of the letter u into the head
of little lisper.
MAX MULLER, Froude and Charles
Kingsley are all brothers-in-law, having
married the three daughters of rich
London merchant.
THE iron districts of Georgia are be-
ing rapidly developed, new companies
with heavy CAPT al having been recently
organized to push forward the work.
Now THAT the frank is abolished, the
Congressional Globe and larger public
documents will be excluded from the
mails entirely, being over four pounds
weight.
THOMAS MAST, it is said, has been en-
gagged to deliver one hundred and fifty
lectures next season on caricaturing, the
lectures to be illustrated by sketches
drawn III the presence of the audience
The present prosecution IF the Itch
borne claimant has already cost the
Government $4,000, and before the
trial is over the expenses of the Crown
cannot fall far short of EDO, 900.
A CATHOLIC father of st. Louis has
warned his congregation that he will
read from the altar each Sunday the
names of all persons belonging to the
parish who may have been found drunk
during the preceding week.
BoUssNGAULT has succeeded in pre-
serving beef-tea and sugar-cane Juice
fresh for eight years by first exposing
them in Theoretically sealed cans to a
temperature of four degrees above zero,
Fair.
A wRETcHED old butcher-knife, rusty
and Jagged at the edge, is displayed in
a Bowery window, with label inscribed,
"This scalping-knife was the property
of Boston Charley and was used in
the Modoc war.
MARSHAL BAzAINE's wife has written
to President MacMahon, begging to
have the trial of her husband begun.
The Marshal, it is stated, has replied
that the trial shall not be proceeded
with until after the complete evacuation
OF French territory by the Germans.
If whisky, diluted with seven times
its weight of water, be treated with
ozonized air, it will in short time be
entirely converted into vinegar. A
single establishment in France has manu-
featured ninety barrels of picking vine
gar day by this process.
AMULETs, as averters of evil, are COM
ing into vogue among women of fashion
in New York. Many of these knick-
nacks, such as petrified toads, rattle
snake rattles, gilt or bronze, owls
claws, ETC., are furnished by Bohe-
milan sorceress living on the West Side,
who warrants their infallibility.
IT is now claimed from the experience
acquired in constructing the Mont
Gents tunnel, which cost Sl5, 900, 600, or
81 900 per lineal yard, that similar
work could be performed at a cost of
$500 per yard, such being the advantage
of turningnew discoveries andinventions
! to account.
CANVAS and other fabrics may be
rendered waterproof by first washing
them in a solution of sulphate of am
monia, and then treating with some
resinous soap. BY this means there is
precipitated upon the surface of the ma
terial resinous alumina soap, imper-
vious to water.
DIVORCES are allowed in China in cases
of criminality, mutual dislike, jealousy,
incompatibility of temper, or too much
loquacity on the part of the wife. The
husband cannot sell his wife until she
leaves him and becomes a slave to him
by action of law for desertion. A son
is bound to divorce his wife if she dis
pleases his parents.
THERE is remarkable sink-hole on
the New Jersey Midland railway, near
Newfoundland. 1t is, in fact, quick
sand, which all efforts have heretofore
been unable to fill up. Large trees
have been laid across it, and a steam
shovel is constantly at work filling trains
with gravel which is dumped into it,
but still it sinks. One night the track
was raised three feet above the grade
next morning it was out of sight