The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-13
General Notes.
BUFFALO has 81, 900 Catholics.


CHICAGO has IA, 600 marriages year.
SACRAMENTO shipped $3.50, 900 worth
of fruit last year.
SINCE 1S48 California has dug up
gold to the value of 81, $50, ZOO.
GEORGIA planted 1927, 646 acres of
corn last year, against 1850, $50 acres
of cotton.
"SATAN Bounced" is the headline
of the Chicago Times for its religious
column,
CoLT's REVOLVER COMPANY is making
a gun which will discharge ], 200 bullets
per minute.
THE city debt of st. Louis has in
creased from about s., 600, 600 in 1881 to
SO, 000 600 in 1873.
THERE are more than 13, 600 persons
in Maine, over the age of 10 years who
can neither read nor write.
IT is a curious fact that all the Presi-
dents of the United States but four had
each but one Christian name.
THE New Orleans Times says that
taxation in that city is simply intolera-
bic, uncomfortable, insufferable.
COMMODORE Vanderbilt, William 3.
Astor and A. L. Stewart are all nearly
the same age, verging on eighty.
Two millions and quarter of people
have emigrated from Ireland to America
during the last twenty-five years:
THE number of miles of railroads in
the United States is nearly four times
greater than in any other country.
GLADSTONE and Disraeli, the two RI
val British statesmen, are nearly of the
same age-the first being Ga, the second
SO.
The London Times places the num-
Der of cattle annually available for the
butchers of Great Britain, at 1890, 900;
and sheep at II ,033, 900.
THE assessed valuation of the real and
personal property of Pennsylvania is
81, III, 96S, 977 the true actual value is
estimated at 50, 475, S31, S51.
THERE are two reasons why some peo-
pie don't mind their own business. One
is that they haven't any business, and
the other that they haven't any mind.
Few people have any idea of the ex-
tent of the coal fields of Iowa. The
state geologist estimates them to en-
brace 1000 square miles, or more than
the area of the entire State of Massa-
chusetts.
A VETERAN observer says that cold
friends are like old boots. We never
realize how perfectly they were fitted to
us till they are cast aside, and others,
finer and more stylish perhaps, but
cramping and pinching in every corner,
are substituted.
THE Penang China Gazette is the
Oldest journal in the world. 1t is prin.
ted on large sheet Of yellow silk, and
appears in the same form, with the
same characters, and on the same kind
of material as it did thousand years
ago. The only change is in the wri-
tiers.
New YORK, with q million inhabi- |
tants, uses about as much water every
day as London does with its 1920, 600 |
other words that the average |
~" 'NAhN Times as /
much as the average Londoner. The !
daily supply in London is 110,S7 600 |
gallons. In New York it is 104 800, 600,
The stations from which the coming
transit OF Venus is TO be observed num-
Der forty-five. They are distributed |
among the different nationalities as fol-
lows Russia, 10; America, 8; Eng
land 8 /; France, 5, Germany, 4; and
the private enterprise of Lord Lind
say.
The New York Herald says "The
diamonds and point lace worn by the
wife of the Hon. Benjamin Wood, at the
Roman Catholic Orphan ASYLUM hall,
were valued at over $40, 0O0." Imagine
he lady weighed down with seven hun
ired thousand bushels of twenty-cent
'orn or its equivalent in diamonds and
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