The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-11-07
General Notes.


FoRNEY aspires to be Mayor of Phila-
delphia.
KANSAS produces sweet potatoes %
inches in circumference.
ONE dollar each is the price of live
Demonstrators in Brazil.
THE breadth of ground sown in fall
wheat through the West is unusually
large.
FINE and durable leather is manufac-
tured in Canada from the skins of white
whales.
Now is the time to read the books of
nature, while autumn is turning the
leaves.
SIxTY-FIvE millions of postal cards
have been issued within the last five
months.
OUR forests are not producing one
twentieth of the supply we are annually
consuming or destroying.
DIsRAELI is reported to be engaged
on new novel, in which socialism and
communism will be discussed.
steers a side was lately played by
couple of cattle dealers at Wachita,
| Texas.
A COW in Kentucky, bitten in the I'D
der by a copperhead snake, was saved
from death by being copiously dosed
with whisky.
IT is supposed that there are not fifty
men in the world who have fortunes of
fifty millions of dollars-and only three
west of the Atlantic.
New JERSEY has got to have new
lunatic asylum. The one at Trenton is
so full that 200 patients have been sent
elsewhere for accommodation.
TWENTY THOUSAND sailors and eight
cen thousand women and children are
employed in France in catching sardines
and preparing them for market
The other day, when the Prussian En-
peror and suite marched into the French
department of the Vienna Exposition,
the French exhibitors all marchedout.
A NEW hote. is being built in Denver,
and the proprietor announces that "the
walls will be bullet-proof, SO that guests
will run no risk on account of 'an
affair in the next room"
A MAN in Gibson county, Ind, re-
ports that he has tea-kettle two hun
dred and fifty years old, and a goose
which has furnished him eggs and
feathers for forty-eight years.
THF Philadelphia Press has been
gathering statistics of the hotels of that
city, and reports fifty hotels with ac-
commodation for 1925 guests-three-
| fourths of which are constantly en-
gagged.
AN Ohio lady thinks that young
gentleman to whom she was lately in
troduced would be "quite presentable
if the Lord hadn't turned up so much
Of his legs for feet, and she archly told
him so.
AN enterprising genius advertises
great secret" How to write without
pen or ink" Upon receipt of twenty
five cents he mails card upon which is
printed in large type: "Write with a
! pencil.
The chief of the Boston fire depart
ment believes he knows why its so diff
cult to extinguish fire in that city, and
has issued an order requiring all mem
bers of the department to sign the tenn
perance pledge.
THE discovery is said to have recently
been made in Rome on the Esquillne
Hill, of some enormous ancient vessels
in pottery ware, the largest ever found,
and of such a size that man could
easily live in one.
A DISTINGUISHED French physician
has discovered that the odor of Russia
leather has a beneficial effect upon weak
lungs, and recommends consumptive
people to sleep upon pillows covered
with that material.
A JAPANESE youth, who at the age of
seventeen made vow to Buddha that if
he should not have acquired fame when
thirty years old he would die, lately
committed suicide by hanging, in full
flllment of his VOW.
The consumption of ardent spirits in
Great Britain during 1872 amounted to
30, 941 ,517 gallons malt liquors, 2S,-
591 1926 barrels; wine, 1G, 765, 46i gal
Ions other liquors, II 900, 900 gallons !;
total cost to consumers, $597, ia, 070.
THE very latest invention is porta-
bic travelling bed consisting of light
hair mattress, bolster and pillow, a
woolen blanket, camp-stool, and attach
ment for putting up the bed-the whole
can be rolled up like shawl into a
package about two feet long.
Value Of Tricky Horse.