The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-12
General Notes.

General Notes.
BASEBALL costs the country So, 000,-
600.
A READING man is the father of Al
children.
FRANCE will hereafter punish dueling
as murder.
INDIANAPOLIS now claims population
of 100000.
ENGLAND has three thousand temper
ance lodges.
MORE than 100000 votes were cast
in the late English elections.
TWELVE hundred and ninety thousand
watches is the annual product of Berne.
A WOMAN aged l1S years lives in Min
nesota Hername is Catherine Mayotte.
VIRGINIA pays $40, 900, 900 per annum
for whisky, but cannot meet the annual
interest on her debt.
ENGLAND takes from us annually agri-
cultural products amounting in value
to nearly 800, 100000.
THE Pennsylvania railroad annually
moves 10000 600 of passengers and 10,-
600, 900 tons of freight.
A GERMAN professor has undertaken
the task of counting the hairs on a
buffalo robe one by one.
The State of Nebraska contains 76,-
600 square miles of territory-nearly
80, 900, 900 acres of land.
In Scotland the salaries of certifcated
teachers, male and female, are respect
lively $3.50 and $500 per year.
SAPPHIREs, emeralds and water agrtes
of rare value, and even diamonds, are
being found near Denver, Col.
THOSE old-fashioned handkerchiefs,
big enough for any sort of nose,
are coming into fashion again.
THE butter product of this country is
600, 900, 900 pounds, and the cheese ex-
ceeds 200, 900, 900 pounds year.
IT is stated that while the railroads in
British India scarcely pay more than
expenses, the canals return large profits.
THE Siamese, like the Chinese, wear
their finger-nails very long. The ladies
sometimes have them tipped with silver.
A YOUNG man in San Jose, Cal, won
dered if he could get billiard ball into
his mouth. He succeeded, but it took
three doctors to get it out.
CANADIANS drank over eighteen million
gallons of intoxicating liquors last
year-over four gallons and half to
each man, woman and child.
A DENVER Col. physician condemns
the practice Eastern doctors have in
dispatching last-stage censumptives
thither, the atmosphere there being
rarer and containing less oxygen.
SMOKERS and chewers may take timely
warning In closing an address in New
York, the other day, Dio Lewis de-
clared that, "When this war against
whisky is over, we shall go for tobacco. "
DURING the year 1873 the aggregate
of gifts by individuals for educational
purposes in this country was 81 ,226,
977. Ia 1871 the amount given was
50, 000, 900, and in 1872 it was s., $50, 900.
ARTHUR LILLY, lad of - years, died
in Lowell. Mass, last week, from the
effect of blow in his leg by a baseball,
sustained about a year ago. His leg
was amputate d, but this did not save
his life.
SoYER. the cook of the London Re-
form Club, asserts that person living
to the age of fifty years, and conforming
to the ordinary diet of well-to-do En-
glish people, consumes no less than 36,
800 eggs.
THE Sacramento Beet Sugar Company
/, has sent $50 Cinnamon to Davisville tC
plant sugar beets. The company expect
to have 20, 600 tons of beets to work this
year, which ought to yield 1,750,00C
pounds of sugar
The terrible force of the desolatine
. cataract on Mill river is proved by the
: removal of an immense iron safe, weigh
: ing several tons, half a mile. This mass
of iron was a mere chip in resisting the
) swift and angry current.
/ THE average death rate of 1872 il
l Boston was about 30 to every / 200 in
habitants in 1873 about % to every
} 1000 inhabitants. This rate is doubl,
= that of ST. Louis, and equal to the
5 death rate of New Orleans.
ACCORDING to late census there ar,
!, $50, 900 cats in England, and a vener
8 able grimalkin attacked to the editoria
staff of the London Standard estimate
10 one mouse and five rats to every acre
o making a total of 81, 10000 of thes
q animals, consuming grain enough t.
% feed nearly 100000 human beings
70 70 And yet some people do not like cats