The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-23
General Notes.

AN exchange tells of an "under-
taking wisely abandoned before it was
begun"
THE Jews in this country are agitat-
ing the question of holding their Sab
bath on the Christian Sunday.
PLATFORM of the communist. Every
man who saves money must be made
to divide with every man who saves
hone.
THE President of the Swiss Republic
receives three thousand dollars a year
salary. 1t would pay to import few
of that sort.
THE saying, cts too thin," is not a
vulgarism. Sheridan Knowles puts it
into the mouth of Alasco in the play OF
" Rose of Arragon. F."
AN intelligent voter in Burlington,
Iowa, in scratching the name of Mrs.
Hager, wrote upon the ballot, "Doant
want no wummun III Mine.
THE reason boy gave for being late
at school was, that the boy in the next
house was going to have dressing
down with bed cord, and he wanted to
near him howl
SOMEBODY says that ore-legged sol
diers should be remembered. This is
the only respectable pun which we
have seen for five years ; and as such
we reprint it.
THIS is the neat toast given by
bachelor at banquet in Newcastle,
England; The women and coal of
Durham county-O, how desolate
would the ireside be without them
THERE were, at the close of June, 298
colleges in this country. Sixteen of
these were chartered before 1856. Ont
of 4,493 degrees, conferred during
1872-73, there were 191 given to femi-
nine scholars.
THE school population of New York
State is above 10000 of which num-
Der 1850, 600 were in the common
schools during the past year, while
175 600 were installed in the academies
and private schools.
PETER VAN DYKE, of New Hamp-
shire, lately deceased, requested in his
will that no one should smile or shed
crocodile tears over his grave, but
cover him up and then hurry home to
fight over his money" of which he left
$4,000.
THE Emma" mine was sold to Lon
don capitalists, after its walls were
plastered with silver ore, for one
million pounds sterling. Many of the
oil wells in Pennsylvania were sold at
fabulous prices after having the oil
pumped into them.
The native Sandwich Islanders are
rapidly going. The last census shows |
that while for the last six years the |
births of children of foreign parents |
among the native population exceeded |
the births at a rate that forebodes the |
extinction of the native race in thirty
years.
A MINNESOTA mechanic has solved a
difficult problem in railroading by the
invention of snow shovel, which
clears a roadway wide enough to allow
the cars to pass, takes all the snow
clear down to the rails, carries it up,
deposits on whichever side preferred,
at speed of from two to six miles an
hour, according to the depth of snow.
THERE is colony of five hundred
wild horses on the Island of Chirco-
league, about ten miles off the coast of
They are descended from a
pair thrown upon the island from a
wreck, two hundred years ago. They
have been considered worth very little
until recently, but now the people once
a year brand all the colts they can
catch.
A SCIENTIFIC writer has made the
discovery that tinker's dam" is not
profanity, but simply an inclosure made
of bread around the hole TO
be mended, that the melted solder may
be contained till it cools off around the ,
bread. After being subjected to ,
his process the bread is burned and :
spoiled, and is fitting type of utter
,
THE relative cost of running railway
rains by the Government and by char
cred companies is shown by recent re-
ports to be in favor of the latter plan.
IN Germany, the cost of making rail
'oads by the State for four years ending t
With 1867, was So per cent, and in I
,ther European counties 54l per cent. l
While the cost of working by companies '
veraged 40 per cent. in Germany and As |
,er cent. in other nations. t