The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-20
General Notes.

brooklyn.
OxALIc acid dissolved in water cleans
zinc nicely.
SCIENCE shows that heat can be
out OF ice.
A VESSEL with iron masts has been
launched at Quebec.
THE best hotel in New York saves all
its scraps for soap fat.
ALL the carpet scraps in Stewards
store are made into slippers.
AT 60 deg. below zero brandy gets
pasty but not actually frozen.
ST. LOUIS has 100000 children, of
whom 80, 900 never go to school.
ST. PETERSBURG sends $1,000, 600
quilts to England in single year.
FEBRUARY was so warm a month
ninety-nine years ago that lads went in
bathing.
HUNGARY had nearly half a million
cases of cholera last year, OF which 1872
$40 were fatal.
THE number of letters sent to the
Dead Letter Office, at Washington, in
1873, was 4, 402, 34S.
Boston has more corns than any other
city. Her popular corn doctor has
gathered $500, 900 worth.
In China, two people of the same sur
name dare not marry. The Smith
family would suffer in that country.
The greatest number of persons
known to have skated in one fine day at
Central Park, New York, is 60, 900.
A LITTLE Duluth boy, 16 years old,
hung himself, the other day, because
he could not whip his teacher in fair
fight.
THE simplest kind of burglar-alarm is
to throw newspapers loosely on the
stairways and near the doors and win
dows.
MYRA CLARK GAINES is after Caleb
Gushing to make him return to her
6S,0 900 acres of land conveyed to him in
trust.
THE Oldest tombstone in Trinity
church gard, New. York, is that of
Richard Churcher, who died on Aug. 8,
1851.
LOUISIANA has become the banner
cotton State, producing, last year,
100000 of the $500, 900 bales raised
in the South.
THE English Postoffice carries annual
ly about so, 000,000 letters, $4,000, 900
postal cards, 1O3, 000,0 900 book packets,
and SO, 100000 newspapers.
A FRENCH paper points out how the
passion for gambling is shown in this
country, so that even in wedding notices
it is necessary to state that there were
"no cards"
IT is an honor to womanhood that not
q dollar has ever been missing from
the Department of the Comptroller of
the Currency, where women exclusively
are employed as clerks.
A YOUNG man in Kingston n. H. was
led into the water and baptized, on
recent cold, stormy Sunday, from which
he took cold, sickened and died, his death
being caused by the exposure and con-
sequent shock received.
THEY have genuine case of leprosy
in Detroit, and it is asserted that the
disease is more or less prevalent in a
number of cities of the country, especi-
ally San Francisco, where it has been
introduced by the Chinese.
IMPRISONMENT for crown debts is still
adopted in England. There were 1888
persons convicted last year as to Gus
toms duties, of whom 115 were impris-
oned, and the Board of Inland Revenue
caused $50 to be locked up.
The Legislature of Illinois has passed
bill for the encouragement of. the
planting and growing of forest trees for
timber, offering bounty of so to every
person who shall plant and cultivate for
three years an acre or more of forest
trees.
RESIDENTS of Virginia City, Nevada,
propose to present silver brick to
Lambton Lorraine, commander of the
British war ship Niobe, for his manly
action in the case of the Virginius,
scription "Lambton Lorraine, you
are q brick.
ACCORDING to the report of the Ser
geant-at- Arms of the United States SEN
ate, there are now ready for Senatorial
use, 122 dozen toilet soap, l box of
Kitchney's crystal soap, 2 boxes of cas-
tile soap, so soap, and 80 nail-brush
dishes, 3 dozen nail brushes, quarts
each of bay rum and cologne, and 32
dozen towels. The members should
certainly have clean hands.
A BRUTAL massacre of Chinese has re-
Gently taken place in Costa Rica. Some
of the men employed on the railroad
offended the chief of the camp, an
irascible Frenchman, in consequence of
which he thrashed them with whip.
The Chinese resented this treatment
and drove all the white men out of
camp, whereupon one of the contractors
telegraphed to Carriage for troops. A
force of drunken soldiers arrived about
midnight, and commenced firing into a
body of 800 Chinese as the lay asleep,
causing terrible slaughter.
A Terrible ENHANCEMENT.
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