The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-04-03
General Notes.
BosroN is valued at $500, 600, OoO.

Ueneral NOTES.
BosroN is valued at $500, 100000.
GREECE is about the size of YER
mont.
THE Bible is read in 10000 Pennsyl-
vania schools.
BY industry good farmer in Europe
can get $50 year and q suit of clothes
as wages.
The census of Galveston, Just COM
pleted, shows an increase of 10000 in
three years.
THE German Empire contains about
1890 Catholic priests, 1000 monks,
and II, 900 nuns.
THERE is daily average of fifty. eight
and half tons of mail dispatched from
the New York Postoffice.
THE English channel is nearly as large
as Lake Superior, and Lake Huron is as
large as the Sea of Azof.
THE Mediterranean, if placed across
North America, would make sea naviga-
ton from San Diego to Baltimore.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Washing
ton to have statue of the late Senator
John p. Hale placed in the Capitol.
A DOCTOR writes to the Baltimore sun
that the nervous disease known as hy-
drophebia can be produced by the bite
of perfectly healthy dog.
IT cost the New York Central rail-
road $4,000 to throw Mr.. Morehouse
off q train because his dated ticket said
good for this day (the day before using)
only.
In many of the foot-hill counties
skirting the Sierras, genuine native cof-
fee is growing IN abundance. The plant
is indigenous to the soil and grows lux
uriantly.
SIR RICHARD WALLACE lost ESQ, 900,
Mr.. Wynn Ellis f200, 600, and Sir Sey-
mour Fitzgerald e200, 600 worth of pic
lures by the burning of the Pantechni-
con in London.
SENATOR SUMNER has no relative iv-
ing except one sister, Mrs. Hastings,
who resides in California. He has had
two brothers and several other sisters,
who are all dead
THIS is the percentage of soldiers I'M
, able to read and write in the several
European armies: Prussia, 3. 81 Rus
STA, 1l.85; Spain, 5000; Italy, 33. 90
, Great Britain and Ireland, 1900 !;
, France. $500.
DURING the political campaign of
1873, Patrick Healy had leg broken
with other injuries by the explosion of
fireworks while watching torchlight
E procession in Boston, and sued the
Committee of the Grant Central Cam
, paign Club for 81, 600 damages. The
, jury has just awarded him 1898.
TEA is now extensively raised in Hin
3 doostan, the exports to England in 1872
= exceeding 16, 900, 600 pounds. The India
, teas are of rare flavor, and are used by
r English shopkeepers to mix with the
3 Chinese. The culture in the Indies is
j now carried on by Joint stock compa-
f MES, which are paying from ten to
e twenty per cent. dividends.
(. MARSHAL BAzAINE, in his " seclusion"
: at Sainte- Marguerite, only goes out for
> two hours in the day, walking in the
. court belonging to his prison, under the
surveillance of two keepers. His meals
: are furnished by the boatman of the
. island, who is, at the same time, sutler
, OF the troops. His guard is composed
: of ninety soldiers of the line and five
: iailors.
t IT is said that the first iron-works on
l. this continent were erected near James
Y town, Va, previous to 1920. This en-
e terprise was launched under the aus
Q pices of the London Company, which
IS planted Virginia. On the odd of May,
l. 1922, the Indians commenced general
v massacre and demolished the works, the
= Superintendent and his workmen falling
= victims to the savages.
II THE population of the Island of Cuba
; is rather below l, 500, 900 inhabitants, OF
g whom 100000 are of pure European
4 race Of the latter number about 125,
= 600 were born in Spain. There are
J. 100000 slaves. The rest of the popu-
, / lation is composed of free people OF
l. color and small number of coolies.
Il More than one-half of the labor of the
> island is done by freemen.