The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-06
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New York has 1890 policemen.
AUBURN Prison contains 1,19S con-
victs.
THE average car horse endures four
years.
ENGLAND has a surplus of 100000
women.
FoREsrvILLE, Conn.,, turns out 1000
clocks daily.
THE school population of Kansas has
doubled in five years.
In 1873 the population of Austria, ex-
elusive of Hungary, was 20,97O,OOO.
In st. Peter, Mimi, is pig only six
months old and weighing go pounds.
INSCRIPTION on fence in Hardwich,
Mo-: "Nobuddy hich bosses 2 this
fens."
a WONDERFUL chicken in Bowling
Green. KY, has a coat of red hair in
stead of feathers.
THERE is musician in Cincinnati
who plays simultaneously Cor nearly so)
upon sixteen drums.
A SEVEN YEAR-oLD boy is awaiting
trial at New York for stabbing play
mate of 10, who called him names.
The drought has been unprecedented
along the Rio Grande the past year. In
many places it has not rained for over
year.
PATTI receives higher pay in London
| Io, ha
hundred guineas night and the latter
two hundred pounds.
THE King of the Friendly Islands is
a licensed Methodist preacher, and his
wife. Queen Charlotte, class-leader of
the same denomination.
EACH thing lives according to its
kind the heart by love, the intellect
by truth, the higher nature of man by
intimate communion with God.
BENpIGo, formerly a noted pugilist,
is now Methodist preacher, devoting
his time to the spiritual interests of the
lower classes of Great Britain.
The "Army of the James," at its re-
cent reunion, refused to join in the
movement to secure the re-opening of
the case of Gen. Fitzjohn Porter.
CHICAGO has figured up her fruit
trade and finds that it amounts to q
daily total of about So, 900, or over
81 600, 900 for the six months season.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH has introduced
at Cornell University one of Oxford's
genial customs, that of inviting the
senior class to dine with him at the
close of his lectures.
A LITTLE girl in Paris who was play
ing with q toy balloon drew in her
breath while initiating it, and the col
lapsed balloon went down her throat
and choked her to death.
The explosive force o. the " fire
Damp" which is the cause of so many
J accidents in coal mines, has been calcu-
lated 20 be equal to 1865 atmospheres,
or more than 1000 pounds to the inch.
ACCORDING to an official report, there
were no less than 1873, 295 cases of chol-
era in Hungary last year. Of this
number 237, us recovered, 1872, $40 died,
and the remainder were under treat
ment. The deaths were therefore about
AZ per cent.
THE statistical editor of the Times,
Grand Island, Neb., says 80, ZOO, 000,-
600, 600, 900, 600, 900, 600, 000, 900, 900, 90
grasshoppers, at least, passed over here
yesterday. There might have been a
few more or less, as we did not count
them very closely.
A FRENCH writer declares that Tur-
key is in much better financial con-
dition than France. The expenditures
are less per head than those of France,
tie taxes 20 francs per head, against IS
in France, and the debt Ia francs per
capita, against $40 in France.
EVEN as the New York Tribune is to
honor its founder by q full.fgured
colossal statue at the doorway of its
new building, so the Louisville Journal
is to honor the man who made it
famous with statue of George ID.
Prentice at the portals OF It's recon-
structed domicile.
A MILK adulterer was lately arrested
in Sheffield, Eng, and during his exam
nation admitted that he carried in his
cart a can of milk and can of water,
and mixed the liquids according as cir
cumstances favored the adulteration.
No chalk was found in the milk can,
and he was discharged with repri-
mand.
A WONDERFUL clock has been in
vented by German ieweler living i'll
Norwich, Conn. The whole discern
ible mechanism is a transparent dial
plate and pair of black walnut hands.
The latter turn loosely on pivot, and
If whirled in different directions will
Immediately readjust themselves to the
exact time.
Our English visitor, Mr.. Forster,
finds himself surprised at the early
start our democracy takes, as shown III
the public schools. He can't yet COM
prehend il nor conceive it practicable
that son of his could sit beside son
of coachman, and both graduate to-
gether through all the stages, from the
primary school to the university.
AN interesting statement is made of
the number of Protestant divinity
students in old Prussia the past twenty