The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
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VRGINIA's oldest inhabitant ID 100.
How to test the weight of a wall
Scale it.
The Ripsaw, paper just started in
Mississippi, proposes to make things
buzz.
THERE are thirty EIGHT and half mill
ion Professionals and FIVE million Catho-
lies in the United States.
THE emigration for the present year
is estimated at 1876, 900, one-half what it
was last year and year before.
DELAWARE county, Pa, has venera-
BILE cat % years old, and q sheep ove~
whose wool 20 winters have passed.
THERE have been four State Conven-
tions in Nebraska and fifth is called.
People so hard to please are likely to be
fooled in the long run.
SCOTLAND has a grant of $4,000 a
year for the training of teachers. Ire
land has only 97, 600. The grant to
England and Wales is EOS, 1000.
AN actress in California, Miss Kin
lin, lately married professional named
Wood, and her stage name is now by
phenated into Nine. Kinlin- Wood.
A CONSIGNMENT of eggs was lately re-
| ceived in Baltimore from Ohio, and in
one of the barrels was found live
chicken, PATCHED since the eggs were
packed for market. Several other eggs
showed signs of animation, and on be-
ing deposited in basket near kitchen
fire each produced living chicken.
A BARBER on the Rhine has recently
celebrated his sixtieth year of service
with the razor. He had during that
time shaved 200, 012 persons, and earned
$500 thalers, from which it may be
easily computed that the average price
of shave In Germany for the past sixty
years has been less than one cent.
PROF. LOOMS, of Yale College, who
has been studying the United States
weather maps, says that storms original
ing among the high mountain peaks of
Oregon occasionally travel eastward
across the whole continent to the Allan
tic Ocean. This is not very common
occurrence, however. The weather maps
indicate that about three. quarters of
the storms which come to us originate
in the neighborhood of Nebraska.
GEN. SHERMAN has sold his residence
on L street, Washington, TO ex-Mayor
Emory. Prior to his election to the
Presidency this was the home of Gen.
Grant, the gift of New York friends.
Subsequently it was purchased of the
President by the friends of Gen. Sher-
man, and presented to HIM in 1869. The
property was also once owned by Vice
President John G. Breckenridge, who,
with Senators Douglas and Rice, built
the block.
THE remains of Bishop Miner, buried
forty eight years ago, at Wolverhamp-
ton, England, were lately exhumed, and
found to be in an almost perfect state
of preservation. The face had its natu-
raj color, save a small part covered with
a kind of white mold. The tip of the
nose was of dirt color. The hands
were discolored, though perfect. A
scapular was suspended from the neck.
The body was covered with an elegant
plated shroud, made of flannel, and
trimmed with amber silk.
Mr.. DAVID FORBES, T. r. S., in his
re port to the Iron and Steel Institute
on the progress of the iron and steel in
dustries throughout the world, mentions
a rumor that remains of immense iron
works, which must be not less than 3, 00O
years old, have lately been discovered
close to the Hills of Moses, near the
Red Sea. A ruined temple and traces
of barracks stand in the neighborhood,
and it is coniectured that soldiery were
kept there as a guard OF to maintain
order among the laborers.