The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
General Notes.

DlATf TulWuys HhNc lulltu tO meet
their paper this year.
The British navy has 1900 vessels at
sea in different parts of the world.
The health of the whole body is tenn
pered in the laboratory of the stomach.
BROAD, fiat, low heels for boots are
now considered the thing among the
ladies of Paris.
THERE are, in London, Eng, 60, 600
Germans. 40, 900 French, 1000 Italians,
and 5000 Asiatics.
PRUSSIA thinks of enacting law
making marriages compulsory. Alas
for the men of Prussia
THE mustacbes of dry goods clerks
are unusually thin this season, and a
mild winter is predicted.
The aggregate wages of Government
officials amount to 81 ,000,0 900 month,
exclusive of perquisites.
ONLY about hundred millions of
cigars are manufactured annually in this
country. The rest are imported.
THE late Mr.. Thomas Barring, in his
will, left years salary to every clerk in
the firm of Boring Brothers & Co.
The Rothschilds, twelve in number,
are worth about one thousand millions
of dollars, as firm, including their in
dividual fortunes.
THE Misses Mixter, of Boston, who
were saved from the Vile du Havre,
were excellent swimmers. They went
down with the ship, and then "struck
out.
A BUFFALO compositor recently made
the critic say ga bloated actress" i'll
stead of "a beautiful actress, and yet
at last accounts he hadn't passed over
the falls.
The amount of timber annually con-
sumed i'll the form of toothpicks may be
judged by the fact that toothpick fac
tory at Canton, Me-, recently bought
600 cords of wood for making into tooth
picks.
AN English court recently ruled ex-
actly opposite to the opinions of Amer
lean judges, deciding that railroad
ticket marked "good for this day only"
could not be used by passenger on any
other day.
The total number of pupils enrolled
in the schools of Tennessee is 17S, 076.
OF this number 24,325 are colored
There are $50 colored schools in the
State now organized, and $40 colored
teachers employed.
A Missouri girl on her wedding day
sold her piano, and bought sewing
machine and materials enough for suit
for her husband and herself, and ut once
set to work making them up. Her hus-
band blowed it. In two weeks her four
sisters were married.
The wars between the houses of York
and Lancaster lasted 30 years, and cost
the lives of 2 kings, prince, 10 dukes,
2 marquises, u earls, 27 lords, 2 Wis
counts, l lord prior, / Judge, 1879
knights, AL esquires, and above 100, 600
private men, in II battles.
SIMMONS BROTHERS., of London and
Berlin, have the contract for making the
to New Hampshire. They get So, 600, 00O
for the work, which is now about halt
done, and agree to keep the cable in
working order for thirty days after it is
laid.
OUR lighthouse system is more extern
sive than any in the world, the lights
and beacons extending more than 10, 00C
miles along coast and shore. We have
521 lighthouses, 30 powerful signals
operated by engines driven by steam OF
hot air, 364 day or unlighted beacons,
and 1888 buoys.
ABOUT 10. 100000 pounds of adulter-
ated green tea were recently condemned
in London as poison, and large quantities
OF it have been exported to this country.
The New Workers have already had some
of the stuff, and there is no knowing
how many people all over the country
are drinking it.
AN English railway company derives
handsome income from the forgetful-
ness of its passengers. At recent sale
of unclaimed property which had ac-
cumulated during the past year, there
were sold II, 035 umbrellas, l, 156 sun.
shades, and 312 walking not to
mention various articles of clothing.
ABOUT HoGs.-The editor of the
Louisiana MO- Press, in relating what
he knows about farming, touches W
the hog question in this style "Tt
make Berkshire pigs out of your haze
| splitters, select a cool day, stand them
on their hams, tied to a sapling, and
drive their noses back into their shout
ders, leaving about all inch protruding
, If you look at the agricultural papers
you will see that all blooded hogs ar,
fixed that way. If you have any whose
T noses are longer than the rest of the
| body, better sell them to an artesian
well company for drills, as you canno
drive the nose back without telescopine
the whole pig. When you cut up hogs
leave the ham square, leave some hal
too, salt everlastingly, and they will b,
worth several cents less per pound thar
when trimmed and cured SO that {
, Christian can eat them.
WATER has a staple value in Colorado
The Greeley Tribune of that State say
that while immigrants can secure al
;x,r,apoa orao ~ land yool1 coof