The true northerner., 1873-02-14
Brief Mention.


DEs MONIES has female lamp-lighters.
FEMALE farmers form clubs in Kansas.
THE cat is not mentioned in the Bible.
ALL gipsies are to be expelled from
Italy.
CANNED death" is what they call coal
oil in Brooklyn.
PosTMAsTERs are not responsible for
registered letters.
SOUTH CAROLINA planters can't get
their cotton picked.
ATLANTA, Ga, claims to be "the Chi
cago of the South.
Ice on the Maine rivers averages 20
inches in thickness.
KENTUCKY and Tennessee produce the
tallest men in the country.
MILWAUKEE has n smallpox patient
with pit on the sight of his eye.
COLORADO estimates that it received Mt
least 81 100000 from tourists in 1872.
THBRE is a great deal of corn remain
WISCONSIN ranks as the fourth Ss,te
in the number of Indians within its
boundaries.
A NEWSPAPER is published in the South
African diamond district at the low price
of $50 year.
The Galveston NeWS rejoices greatly
over the immense tide of immigration
now pouring into Texas.
RAIN fell on 131 days in the year 1872,
according to the annual report from the
War Department Signal Service.
One hundred and sixty-eight persons
over 20 years old died in Providence in
1872. The number in 1871 was 100.
THE laws of Iowa no longer make any
distinction between husband and wife in
their control over their own property.
a ST. LOUIS paper wants to know why
Coroner should get $4,000 n year
more than Judge of the Supreme
Court.
The Alaska Seal Company report the
catch of seals for 1872 at 90, ZOO, on
which they paid to the Government
$52, 23l.
ONE of the most promising students
Mt Cambridge is a Hindoo in Christ's
College, who is distinguished as n math-
ematician.
OyE towel answers for twelve custom
ers III an indianapolis barber shop, and
the barber sharpens his razor on the
stOye-pipe
THE latest problem is, where does
Rhode Island put 105 postotiices with
such names as Escobeag, Quonochontaug
and Usquepaugh?
IT is estimated that there are between
two and three thousand buffalo hunters
i'll Western Kansas, and they average
about fifteen per day.
DoN'T do it. Don't advertise your
business; it's paying out money to ac-
commodate other people. If they want
to buy your goods, let them hunt you up.
The delicate operation of cutting a
man open to remove some false teeth
that ne had swallowed was successfully
performed, recently, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE Vermont Central railroad cannot
pay its employees, cannot buy any cars,
cannot even buy any wood, and the
State is going to sell it to the highest
bidder.
\ HIGH-ToNED Young Southern gentle
man ut Memphis recently challenged an
old farmer to mortal combat because
the latter sent him pigs tail to make II
whistle Of
WOODEN pavements are luxurious, but
expensive. The number of yards of
wooden pavements laid in New York
since 1860 is stated at 391 ,6SS, at cost
of 81, ,245,00
THE knowing ones tell us that the
only way to get pure port wine is 10 go
to Oporto, raise the grapes, press the
wine, put it into the cask yourself, and
ride on it all the way home.
THE Roman Catholic Mission for the
conversion of the colored population of
South, at the head of which was the late
DIR. Vaughan, has thus far failed to win
any great number Of converts.
The case of Phelps, Dodge Co., OF
New York, has been compromised, that
firm paying $500, 900, or one-half the
amount supposed to have been fraudu-
lently withheld by them from the Gov
cnment.
THE citizens of Illinois pay annually
for life insurance n greater sum than the
total annual revenue of the State. The
total amount of life insurance premiums
paid in 1871 was 81, 5S1 900, and the fire
premiums about 50, 100000
THE OLDEST JNHABrTANT.-H has
been found Mt last-the oldest man in
America. The discovery was made by
Herald correspondent possibly Stan
ley. The old gentleman name is George
lie Barre he lives at Delaware Water
Gap, Pa. was born in the same State in
1853, and is consequently 115 years old
he has been chewing tobacco and drink
ing whisky for the past 100 years, and is
gradually wasting away under the blight
ing influences of these vices he remem
bers Gen. Washington well, and shook
hands with him when he (the old mani
was 20 years old and he was over 30
years old Mt the breaking out of the war
of 1912, and consequently too old for en-
listment in that campaign. He expresses
himself freely on the great whisky rebel
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