The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-10
General Notes.

DELAwAREs peach crop is estimated
at 602, 900 baskets.
A PIcKPocKET never amounts to much
IN his business until he gets his hand
in.
One hundred and twenty eggs per
year is about the limit of public
spirited hen.
A QUARTER of century of mining has
relieved the Pacific coast of sixteen hun
dred millions of gold.
THE genius who is TO invent practi-
cal substitute for work has not yet been
born-and never will be.
THERE is in the Canton of Obwalden,
Switzerland, law making it penal for
minors to indulge III smoking.
CALIFORNIA shows no sign of giving
out as producer of the precious metals
New gold and silver mines are frequent
Yy reported.
EXCURSION tickets to participate in
the festivities attending the execution
of Jim Davis" are advertised at half
price i'll Texas.
INDIANAPOLIS makes a tlourishing ex-
hibit of her growth since 1860. In that
year the population was $4,000, and 1t
is now estimated at so, 900.
THE estimated amount of beer drank
In New York city is two barrels every
minute, day and night, and the cost is
about SO, 900, 600 per annum.
A COUPLE recently married at Taun-
ton had been counting thirty years, hav-
ing been aflianced before the birth of
the clergyman who united them.
RUsK1N advises the Oxford students
to get up their muscle by building pub
lie highways, instead of wasting their
strength on cricket, boating, etc.
A HoMEsIcK Pennsylvania schoolboy,
IL years old, walked nome, 70 miles, in
two days and half, with no noursh-
ment whatever except green clover
leaves.
STREET railroads do not pay in Bir-
mingham. A company which has been
in operation for three years past has
spent Gl00, 600, and lost 80, 600 in the
working of the lines.
THE marriage of Mr.. Fitch, of the
United States navy and Miss Minnie,
daughter of Gen. Sherman, is an
nounced for Oct. Il, at the Generals
residence III Washington.
THE Emperor of Russia, on leaving
England, made the London police
present of about 50, 600, besides giving
to number of the chiefs articles of
jewelry, such as rings, pins, etc, some
of them worth as much as 81 900 each.
A BosToN man who has watched the
weather for thirty-four years says that
during that time the average number of
snow-storms yearly has been twenty
nine and fraction, and the average
depth of snow four feet anda small frac-
ton.
A PENNSYLVANIA writer thinks that
the frequent murders in the rural dis
tricts of Pennsylvania are attributable
to the habit of Pennsylvania farmers of
sleeping in close rooms, which causes
impure air and vitiates mind as well as
body.
WHEN Gen. Gregory Omitted States
army went TO Texas, he visited q law
yer at his office, and asked him for
copy of the laws of Texas. The lawyer
opened a drawer, took out a large and
handsome bowie-knife, and gave 1t to
the General.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
Amerjc0n says a certain cure for nose
bleeding is to extend the arm perpen-
dicularly against wall Of post, or any
convenient object for o support. The
arm on the side from which the blood
proceeds is the one 70 elevate.
THE public analyst of Sheffield, under
the Food Adulteration act, lately testi-
fed before committee of the House of
Commons. In describing authorizations
of tea, he said (amid much laughter)
that he had found Chinese toe-nails IN
tea, but he did not consider or rule that
to be an adulteration.
A BARBER on the Rhine has recently
celebrated his Goth year of service with
the razor. He has during that time
shaved 200,012 persons, and earned
3, 900 thaIers, from which it may easily
be computed that the average price of d
shave III Germany for the past sixty
years has been less than one cent.
A VERY remarkable case of self-love at
Athol, Mass, is mentioned by the Bos-
ton Post. 1t is that of a lad who is lit
orally, little by little, consuming him
self. He is so much to his own taste
that he takes large bites out of himself,
and masticates bits Of his own person.
In four years he has reduced all the fin
gers of both hands to stumps, and he is
now engaged upon the thumb of his
left hand. Whatever may be the
scarcity of his ordinary rations, that boy
is provisioned for lifetime.
TILE area of coal and iron land extend
ing from Pennsylvania to Alabama is
875 miles in length, varying in width
from 30 TO $50 miles. 1t is estimated
that this is about one-quarter of all the
coal and iron deposits of the country,
but this quarter contains, it is asserted,
ten times as much coal and iron as all
Great Britain. The whole coal area of
the United States is about 300, 900
square miles. The anthracite coal de-
posts in Pennsylvania, from which
some 20,000,000 tons are annually
taken, are embraced in 400 square
miles. -StOckhOider.