The true northerner., 1874-10-30
Current Paragraphs.

BOSTON 8 August WAS lHo coiueSV ioi
fifty years, barring 1886.
THE cotton crop, it is said, will
amount to 3, 700, 900 bales.
ONE hundred thousand men make
living out of the oyster trade.
THE books in the library belonging
to the British Museum occupy twelve
miles of shelving.
COMPULSORY rules for sailing tracks
across the Atlantic are held to be i'm
practicable in England.
AN apple, said to be the largest ever
ripened in the United States, has been
picked in Nebraska. 1t weighs 294
ounces.
A CALIFORNIA newspaper tells rather
a leothery story of a striped squirrel
which was seen leading blind rattle
snake to his hole in the ground.
THE people of Omaha complain with
little show of justice) that they are
mentioned by outsiders as Omahogs, :"
Omahosses, and Omahorribles.
A WOMAN in West Chester, Pa, re-
Gently testified that during profes-
sional career of nineteen years she had
prepared for the tomb lot fewer than
5000 bodies.
IT is estimated that Kentucky dogs
kill 500, 900 worth Of Kentucky sheep
every year but what would a Kentucky
heerth-stone be without ten dogs group.
ed around it
A NICE young gentleman has at
tracted attention in the streets of ST.
Paul. He is Is years old, seven feet
high, four feet across the shoulders,
and weighs 800 pounds.
A MAN and his wife, he 81 years old
and she 95, were fined for drunkenness
in Oakland, Cal, the other day. Such
people should be cared for until they
come to years of discretion.
FAIRFIELD, VT, glories in an elm tree
whose branches measure 105 feet across
at the trunk. One of the limbs is 60
feet long, and four feet from the ground
the tree is four feet through.
GEN. BUTLER is considered one of the
most methodical men living. He per-
sonally supervises and pigeon-holes
every letter he receives, and dictates a
reply to his photographic secretary.
BISHOP WHrTEHoUsE disposes of S4OO,-
900 by his will, of which S1e,O is
in personal effects. $40, 900 in books and
pictures, $50, 900 in real estate in Chi
cago, and $3.50, 900 in real estate in Vir-
ginia.
FROM the stomach of Capt. Otis Rog-
ers, of Marshfield, Mass, has been ex-
tracted an animal five inches long,
which he thinks he swallowed while
drinking from pool in South Carolina
during the war.
TIE Supreme Court of New York has
decided that Shanks. the city editor of
the Tribune, was guilty of contempt in
refusing to divulge the name of the au
thor of an article entitled, "The Brook
lyn Ring Method"
THE late forest fires in New Jersey
destroyed many thousands of mosqui-
toes, and the farmers are busy gathering
the skeletons and reducing them to
bone-dust for manuring purposes
Brooklyn Argus.
ARPIN, the younger, the famous
French wrestler, has just died from the
rupture of a blood vessel, caused while
he was practicing with a weight of
forty kilogrammes. He wrestled lob
times in public and was thrown only 81.
In Harrisburgh, Virginia, Mrs.
Nancy Doughtery, age 20 years, has
during the last year built herself cab
in, cleared II acres of land, and fenced
it, and, using only hoe, raised 200
bushels of corn. Honor TO the free old
Granger
THERE is temperance society upon
an extremely accommodating plan in
California. No member is permitted to
drink anything excect wine, beer, and
cider, save VIXEN "laboring under a
sense of Encouragement" and then
whisky is allowed.
A RATS nest was recently discovered
in piano in the house of lady living
near Brighton, Eug. 1t contained five
young ones. The old rat flew at the lady
who made the discovery, and she was
seized with q fit, and in the excitement
OF the moment the rat escaped. The
nest, with its contents, was secured.
WE raise annually here in the United
States nearly 150,000,000 bushels of
potatoes. representing a money value of
about 500, 100000 to the customers.
AS an article of food it has greater val
ue to us than any other that we call
root crop. Twenty. five per cent. of the
weight of the potato is solid dry sub
stance, and of this 62.5 per cent. is
starch.
A SWIMMING match was recently ar
ranged to take place at EastbourDe,
Eng, between a fisherman and dog.
The latter, when in the water, supposed
his duty was to save the mans life, and
persisted in his efforts to keep him
afoat by thrusting his head under the
fisherman's chin, much to the disap-
pointment of those who had assembled
to see the race.
WHILE Western journalist was writ
ing an account of a burglary, his own
room was broken into and robbed by
thieves. A warning to editors not to
write up burglars. And as the thieves
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