The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16
General Notes.

UDhOA "a ANVs>es
THE State of Wisconsin is practically
out of debt.
D1sRAELI will probably visit America
early next year.
The Rothschilds are worth about
81, 900, 900, 600 twelve of them-includ-
ing their individual fortunes.
The total cost of fences in California
is SOS, 100000. Annual cost of same,
including repairs and interest, $S,000,-
600.
CHICAGO boasts the heaviest pork
dealers in the world One man bought
1877, 497 head last year and paid there
for $l3, 1876, 071.14.
The City Council of Yeddo, Japan,
has passed an ordinance directing all
children TO be labeled with the parents
names and residences.
THE arsenal at Rock Island when
complete will have a capacity equal to
the manufacture of munitions of war
sufficient to equip 100000 men every
six months. 81.
THIRTY-oNE years ago corn sold at
Mansfield, o., for twelve and a half
cents, oats at ten cents, wheat at forty
cents per bushel, and dressed hogs at
one cent per pound.
IT is noteworthy, says the Boston
Transcript, that just forty years after
Caleb Cushing published his =" Rem
iniscences of Spain, he was appointed
Minister to Madrid.
The bonded and floating debt of
Chicago has been increased since 1869
by SO per cent, or from SO, 1887 to
$15, 1893, 1872. The expenditures for four
years have amc united to $2S, 500, 600.
IT is now ascertained that the Rev.
Mr.. Drake and wife, who died in La
grange county, Ind, recently, were
both poisoned by the operation of tear
ing from wall green paper containing
arsenic.
THERE are on this globe about 100
nationalties, ruled by nearly as many
men, for there are but three Queens,
Victoria l., of England /; Poplare, of So
ciety Islands, and Ranavola H., of Mad
agascar.
The average of winter wheat sown
the present season, compared with that
of the previous years, shows an i'll
crease in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas,
Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee, averag-
ing 1Ol per cent.
THE total property valuation of Colo
RADIO Territory has increased from $16,
045, 524 in 1870 to $35, $3.50, 030 in 1873.
BY the census of 1870 the population OF
the Territory was 80, 1854. The popula-
ton at present, based on the Septem-
Der vote, is 104, $50.
AT Gloucester, Mass, record is
kept of those who perish at sea in the
fishing feet, and once a year services
are held in their memory. The record
for 1878 is that ia have persisted, and
all the pastors in the town have joined
in the usual service recently in the town
hall.
OUR lighthouse system is more exten.
sive than any in the world, the lights
and beacons extending more thar
10000 miles along coast and shore
We have 521 lighthouses, 80 powerful
signals operated by steam or hot air
354 day or unlighted beacons, and 2, 1886
buoys.
The annual statistics of the city Of
Milwaukee show a considerable i'll
crease in her population, which is esti
mated at 104, 900. The Improvements
in the way of buildings foot up 50, 800,
600 articles of manufacture, $27, 600,
600; losses by fire, $500, 600; deaths
1000; arrests, $4,000.
The tower to be erected in the Cen
tennial Exposition building is to be
200 feet in the air, of circular iron
$50 feet at the base, and thirty at top
with a spiral staircase for the use of any
one who is foolish enough to attempt tC
walk up, and an elevator for those who
are willing to risk ride.
The total number of deaths in New
York city for the last year was little
over 20, 900, some 1900 less than it was
for 1872. Surprising the population OF
the city to be l, 900, 900, the death rate
is twenty-nine to /, 900, a high rate com
pared with the smaller cities and coun
| try districts