The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-05
Personal and General.


FUNERALS IN New York average
$1,000.
THE Danbury Ne,os mans hat is the
latest style.
NINE grand industrial exhibitions in
as many cities of this country this fall.
A WISCONSIN man has found that
green cranberries will cure the dys-
pepsia.
GEORGE Francis TRAIN says he does
not care to return to America until his
dead body is brought back for burial.
THK iron trade in the United States
gives employment to 1877, 545 operatives,
and the lumber trade to 1853, 1897 opera
tives.
PENNSYLVANIA tobacco, next to that
grown in Connecticut, is said to be the
best for smoking purposes raised in the
United States.
FORTY years ago, when New Bedford,
Mass, was the great whaling port, city
lots were 800 per foot. Now they can
be had at $40.
CALEB CUSHING says that he believes
his late affair about the yellow dog has
given him greater notoriety than any
other act of his life.
GOLDEN CRY, Colorado, is rejoicing
over a bar of black sand nine miles
long and one mile broad, which yields
5000 gold to the ton.
NEAR Fort Negley, Tenn, may be
seen Il fence. the palings of which are
made entirely of tail-boards of deceased
Government wagons which figured dur
ing the late unpleasantness.
THE Government of India estimates
that the expenditure for the next five
years on 2,700 miles of railway will
amount to $135, 100000. Some works
for irrigation are, however, included.
AN Australian gentleman, Mr.. Hold
son, who has for some time rented the
where Shakespeare used to visit, has
just bought it for the sum of EDS, 200.
THERE is a bridge in Japan made en-
tirely of bamboo. 1t is single span of
sixty feet, hundred feet above the wa
ter, and without railing. 1t sways in a
manner which terrifies nervous pedes-
TRANS.
THE "Jubilee Singers of Fisk Uni
versity are reaping golden harvest in
England. 1t was lately announced at
Mr.. Surgeons Tabernacle that they
had already got $4,000 of the GA, 900
which they are trying to raise.
THERE are upward of 100 miles of
ha Of
bee. The gauge is 4 feet 81 inches.
The running time is about 16 miles per
hour, but the trains have been run at
the rate of 35 miles per hour.
LEATHER made from the skin of the
white whale is now a regular article of
manufacture at some of the villages on
the st. Lawrence below Quebec. 1t is
both fine and durable, and shoe-thongs
made of it are said never to break.
THE East India revenue seems to be
in satisfactory condition. The receipts
for the year ending March 81, 1873,
were S249, $40, 900, and the expenditures
S242 110,000 The Government at Cal
cutta had cash balance of S95, 900, 900.
THE natural increase of population in
England last quarter was 81, S67, at the
rate of 966 per day. Against this is to
be set the emigration return. which
shows an exodus of 45, 202 persons for
England, 10, S5S for Scotland, and Al, 1872
for Ireland.
. THE last Legislature of Indiana
passed law against the killing at any
and all times, of any turtle-dove, mead
ow-lark, robin, mocking- bird, blue
bird, wren, sparrow, red-bird, pewee,
martin, thrush, swallow, oriole, yellow
hammer and cat-bird.
THE State of Mississippi has law,
passed by the last Legislature, by
which it is provided that every person
holding office in the State who shall be
found drunk shall, upon conviction, be
deemed guilty of high misdemeanor,
and shall, by the Judgment of the court
and sentence, be removed from office.
THE Dominion immigration report
for 1872 shows that the number of i'm
migrants who entered the Dominion in
1872 was SO, 1876, of whom 35, 57S set
tied in Canada, and so, COS came to the
States. The Dominion and Provincial
Governments assisted many of the i'm
migrants by paying a portion of their
passage-money. 1921, 1853 being expend-
ed in this way.
HENRY WArTERsoN, editor of the
Louisville COurier-Journal, has been
elected an honorary member of the Cob
den Club, in London. Mr.. Watterson
is writing the sauciest letters that have
ever been sent over by an editor for
publication. We are led to look for the
bankruptcy of the London Times with
in the next sixty days, and the extinc-
ton of the British monarchy before
Christmas.