The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-24
General Notes,

LIVING is now dearer in France than
in the United States.
A New YORK dentist advertises
"teeth of Jewish extraction.
Six young ladies are announced to be
studying for the bar in London.
IN 1873 we gave S9,957, 454 to our
universities III the United States.
EVERY hotel in Berlin, Prussia, has
10000 tleas to each and every guest.
NoIsELEss steam carriages are to be
introduced on the English railroads.
CALIFoRNIA complacently talks of ex-
porting 100000 tons OF flour this
season.
IL this country there is one doctor to
every GlS of the population, while IN
France and England there is only one
to every 1900.
Mrs. DR.. WALKERS trousers and UNI
brella are said to wear baggy and PEN
sive aspect since she didn't get that
appropriation.
In nineteen counties in South Caro-
lima, during the past year, 90, 239 acres
of land have been sold for unpaid taxes,
and 343, 97l acres have been forfeited
to the State.
THE difference between mans being
out of temper and out of money is, that
when he's out of money he shows the
least of it, but when he's out of temper
he shows the most of it.
The silver beet is being raised in Can
ada as a crop for blowing under as
manure. 1t produc mass of leaves
thirty inches high, which furnish a large
quantity of green manure.
THERE are at present fifty-eight to-
bacco factories in Richmond, Va.
working on full time, and employing
on an average about 100 hands each.
OF cigar manufactures there forty-four
III operation III Richmond.
ACCORDING to the official agricultural
statistics, ii would seem that of the
whole surface of England and Wales
less than per cent, or only ,453, 900
acres out of n total of 1873, 600 acres
are occupied by woods, coppices and
plantations.
JUST as Anna Dickinson's voice was
beginning to die away III the distance,
and the public was beginning to hope
for little rest for its ears, it is an
nounced that her sister Susan, with lungs
fresh and in good order, is to follow in
her footsteps to the platform.
THERE is a movement in progress in
England, Germany, France, Belgium,
in fact in the whole of Europe, the i'm
mediate effect OF which is to raise the
price of agricultural labor in those
countries, and the effect of which event
ually will be to raise it in the rest of the
world as well.
The Glasgow KY Times mentions
the fact that DR.. y. p. Allen, one of
the most progressive and successful
farmers in Warren county, has sixty
or seventy hives of Italian bees, from
which he has taken this year over 1900
pounds of honey. Two of the hives
yielded over 800 pounds each.
An instance of plucky women to be
noted is the walking tour of the Misses
Ward and a party of five American la
dies, who are now iourneying on foot
through Germany The ladies are ac-
companied by lad of ID, and they are
travelling with sketch-b books and light
haversack, picking up information and
making an art-tour of the German
towns.
CHARLES Dickens said that the first
external revelation of the dry rot in a
man is tendency to lurk and lounge
TO be at the street corners without any
intelligent reasons; to be going any
where when met to be about many
places rather than any to do nothing
tangible, but to have intention of per-
forming number of tangible duties
tomorrow or the day after.
Ar the recent Sabbath School Con-
vention III Iowa the following were sub
mitted as the statistics of the Sabbath
schools in the State: Number of schools,
., 1853; teachers and officers, %, S24 /;
scholars, 145. 7S9; total membership,
279,6l3. The number received into the
church from the Sabbath schools during
the past year was 1876; amount ex-
pended for Sabbath school purposes
during the year, $50, 29l.