The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-28
General Notes.

IHE real estate OF New iolh 10 Nolucu
at $SS2, 900, 600.
GAME is plenty at Cape May. 1t is
principally euchre.
A LITTLE ammonia water is one of the
best head cleaners there is.
1T is now alleged that the odors of the
alianthus stifie the mosquito.
THERE were only thirty-three sum-
mer resorts opened this season.
WATER forms nearly three-fourths
of the entire weight OF the body.
A FEW weeks ago there were l ,093, 800
bales of cotton IN the port of Liver
pool.
THESE are the days in which to ask
favors. Everybody is in melting
mood.
CHINESE laborers on Georgia planta-
tions give satisfaction to the owners of
the lands.
FLORA McFLMsEY surpasses even
herself this season by wearing colored
silk hose worth So pair.
In London churches they are giving
notice that five minutes after the bells
cease to ring all pews are free.
EIGHT colts which had taken shelter
under tree in Lancaster county, Pa,
were killed by stroke of lightning.
A BELLEvnLE Gil. hermit has sold
his farm for 81, 900 in gold, refusing
greenbacks, rs he had no faith in them.
f. .o.l- 40 l,loo &c Ter oo44l. A. g..
nish leather for three huge belts lately
sent to Augusta, Ga, by n maAufact-
urer at Chlcopee, Mass.
An old gentleman died recently at
Allentown, Pa, who had been married
four times, the ceremonies having taken
place on his fortieth, tiftieth, sixtieth
and SEVENTEEN birthdays.
EVERY true Anne rcan is born in a
fever, lives ON dyspepsia, and seeks re-
lief IL death at every railroad station,
ferry ami crowded thoroughfare. Dom
Plat.
a PENNSYLVANIA farmer states that
he cured his daughter of the Grecian
bend bypouring water on her and hold
ing her out III the sun till she warped
back again
AN official return gives the total num-
Der of the forces lately engaged in
the Ashantee war at 1857 mer. The
total casualties, including those from
disease, were 723.
"YoU hear me is going out of fash
ion. "That's me that's coughing" is
absolutely the latest way of emphasiz-
ing and calling attention to your re-
marks. Chicago Tribune.
WHEN a well-known Omaha thief
meets policeman and hands him So it
is the duty of the officer to go and sit
down in an alley and see nothing tor
the next hour-nothing but the So.
A SOUTHWESTERN journal informs its
readers that at night, "when you see
the big dipper with its handle toward
you and the tail of the comet in the
bowl, it is about time to go home and
go to bed.
THE triunphs and the troubles of
any of us don't seem so important after
all, when we reflect that each of us is
but one of the 1891 ,032, 900 who are
creeping, walking, or lettering over the
earth's surface.
The steam shovels used on the Cen
trail road along the Mohawk Valley, in
New York State, cost $1,000 each.
They scoop one and n half yards of
gravel at one motion, and load plat
form car in three minutes.
A NEGRO who lived near Madison,
Fla, went with his son to watch for q
bear that had been eating his corn. He
told tie son to fire on whatever passed
a certain point, and the consequence
was the boy killed the old man.
PACIFIC coast salmon are being
shipped to the East and to England by
the overland route. The rivers of the
Pacific States are teeming with salmon
of the choicest quality, and there is
prospect of great trade with the East
that will bring down the price of this
delicious fish.
THERE are said to be 500 paper mills
in operation in the United States, with
a capital investment of $40, 600, 600 and
a total production of so, 900, 600.
These mills give employment nominally
to 10000 people, whose earnings are
footed up at SIC, 600, 600 annually. Last
year was not profitable one for the