The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-31
General Notes.

CALIFORNIA this year produces l,OOO
bales of cotton.
ANOTHER lot of fools are digging for
Capt. Kidd's treasures near Belfast,
Me.
A MINNEsoTA jury has decided that
BARRIERS work on Sunday is necessary
labor.
IT is noticeable fact that, so far as
known, no suicides have resulted from
the recent panic.
THERE are still eight hundred turn
pike gates in England, but the number
is decreasing yearly.
THE architect of new hotel in Den
yer has been instructed to make the
partitions bullet proof.
Our expectation of cattle to Europe
promises to become a very important
item in our foreign traffic.
A WOMAN stated to London magis-
trate. recently, that during her five years
OF married life her husband had knocked
her down 115 times.
THERE are 108 Democratic papers
printed in Texas; II Republican 6
neutral; religious and two devoted
to agricultural interests.
The Minnesota law compelling saloon
keepers to pay ten dollars annually to
the State Inebriate Asylum has yielded
twelve thousand dollars this year.
THE Tooth anniversary of the destruc-
ton OF the tea in Boston harbor comes
on the 18th of December, and will
probably be noticed in quiet way.
In Ceylon, the marriage ceremony is
performed by tying the couple together
by the thumbs. In this country they are
usually coupled together by the ears.
CAPT. JACK left three widows, one
grown daughter, sister, and host of
little children to regret that the old
man took just zone drop too much"
KRUPp's world-renowned iron works
at Essen, in Prussia, cover a space of
1000 acres, and employ $4,000 laborers.
The buildings alone occupy 200 acres.
BosToN has Fragment Society,""
now in its sixty-first year, which sup
plies the poor with clothing made from
fragments contributed by its members.
A LEDGER used by Patrick Henry as a
store-keeper in 1889, and his Textbook
as lawyer, beginning 1863, have just
been deposited in the Virginia State
Library.
THE periodicals of the United States,
according to the latest estimate of RO,O-
eiPs Newspaper Reporter, number
5,S7l, and those of all rest of the world
only 7,742.
IT is noticed as singular coincidence
that the three great Moslem sovereigns of
the world, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah
of Persia, and the Viceroy of Egypt,
were born in the same year, 1880.
IT is said that the wedding cake for
the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh
and the daughter of the Emperor of
Russia will be seven feet six inches in
height, and weigh go pounds.
The London Times has taken to spell
ing the word banns" with only one n,
and one of its contemporaries accuses it
of seeking to Americanize our English
by arbitrary and revolutionary innova-
tons"
THERE are $50, 600 in the savings
banks of California, and giving the
population of the State, in round num-
bers, at 600, 900, of all ages and sexes,
this would give net capital to each in
dividual of something over $S3.
IT is estimated that the surplus wheat
! crop of Minnesota for 1873, in it's trans
portation to market Mt Chicago, Mil
waukee and Duluth, will fill 100, 600 cars,
constituting more than six thousand
five hundred trains of fifteen cars each.
IT is sometimes very annoying to have
people volunteer information upon sub
jects in regard to which their ignorance
is remarkable; but the man was simply
aggravating who said that Pennsylvania
is so called because the lead pencil was
invented there.
" A HORSE horse my kingdom for
a horse !" cried a celebrated tragedian.
Would not a jackass do as well ~ in
quired an affected young man, rising in
his seat. eyes, triumphantly exclaim-
ed the actor, Just step up this way,
sir. The young man sat down.
THERE are at present but 10000 Jews
living in Palestine. The Je,oish Times
says: "They have no visible means of
support; spend their time in idleness,
praying and Talmud reading, and fool
ishly pining and signing on the ruins of
the Temple-eking out miserable
existence by the charity of the Jews of
Europe, America and Australia"
MORE evidence that the English
tongue is fast becoming the language of
the world comes from PARKWAY Siam,
the King of which realm has just estab-
lished two English schools for the
education of the sons of his mobiles.
These future Asiatic aristocrats are to
be able to converse with and read the
literature of the people of Great Britain
and the United States.