The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-17
General Notes.

81.
THE best summer resort is the shade
of a tree.
The women preachers now number
thirty eight.
THE New York morning papers cir.
culate $50, 900 copies.
EIaHTY-Two cities in Germany now
boast of cremation societies.
A CREMATION society at Zurich,
Switzerland, has 600 members.
The Queen of England is one of the
most unhappy of women. Everybody
knows her age.
"LADIEs, without distinction of sex"
are invited to mass meeting in Dublin
with a generosity Characteristic of the
noble Hibernian.
PAPER flour barrels are made in Iowa,
and are SO much better than wooden
ones that it is predicted no other kind
will be used five years hence.
ANOTHER American girl has created a
sensation abroad. This time in Italy.
She wiped Prince over the eye with
her parasol and BACKED 1.-THE eye.
ALEXANDER DUMAS has dramatized
the Walworth tragedy. He calls the
play " Un Parricide, apd in it answers
in the affirmative the question, Has q
son the right?'
GARIBALDI has seen his best days.
He is now unable to hold pen in his
hand or move his arm. He cannot 10y
himself bring food to his mouth-in-
deed, he cannot move at all. He re-
ceives no one except his most intimate
friends.
TIME was when Brigham Young was
wont to descant eloquently on the sim
fulness of silk dresses. Now he has a
card in the Salt Lake newspapers tell.
ing the sisters who wish to raise silk
that he has forty ounces of silkworm
eggs and any quantity of mulberry trees
for sale at reasonable prices.
A FARMER recklessly publishes the
following challenge 81 will bet $40 %
that my hired man can take longer to
go to the harvest field, get back to din.
ner quicker, eat more, do less, and bear
down harder on a panel of the fence
than any other hired man within fifteen
miles of the flagstaff in our town."
Two ST. LOUIS women applied for
positions as conductors of street cars.
and the managers gratified them. The
Superintendent, however, withdrew
their appointment, on account of the
promiscuousness of the company with
which they would have to deal, and
their theoretic inability to manage a
mule.
ACCORDING TO a statement in the Potts
vile Journal, the largest locomotive in
the world is the Pennsylvania, on
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad.
The diameter of the Cylinder is twenty
inches, the stroke twenty-six inches, the
number of driving wheels twelve, the
diameter of the driver four feet, and
the weight of the engine alone sixty
tons.
JACOB HALsrED, of Trenton, supposed
to be the oldest man in Michigan, died
June %. He was 107 years and
months old. Mr.. Halsted's health did
not begin to fail until quite recently.
He took his first trip on the cars about
two months ago, going from Trenton to
Detroit for the purpose of obtaining a
pension, he being a veteran of the wal
of 1912.
A VERMONT farmer sends an account
of aquatic biddy he owns. She has
chosen ducks and geese for her asso-
ciates, and has been seen to plunge with
them into the water, swim across the
pond, come out and shake herself like
any old waterfowl. In swimming she
naturally falls behind, in consequence
of her feet not being we'll adapted for
padding purposes.
A NEW air-machine was lately put
into operation in the British House of
Commons. By means of this apparatus
a supply of air, cooled to any required
degree, even in the warmest weather,
can be supplied at the rate of from
5000 to 10000 gallons of air, so that
when the apparatus is working at its
maximum, it is possible to renew the
air without sensible draft every ten
minutes.