The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-09
General Notes.

LOUISVILLE consumes 100, 900 glasses
OF whisky and beer day.
The Huns used canoes /, 900 years be-
fore Columbus came over.
POLAND has had 81, $3.50 cases of cholera
this year, and Prussia 1924.
THE export of specie from New York
since Jan. l, 1873, is $47, 62S, 400, against
$69, 905, 284, compared with the corre-
spending time in 1872.
SINCE the establishment of the Gov
eminent it has given away "A, 1852, 800
acres of land to soldiers, making in all
half million farms of 100 acres to
each.
SOME financial writer's think that so
apiece for every man, woman and child
in the country would bea safe and proper
limit for the circulating medium of the
country.
AFTER all the scorching and i'll luck
Of Boston, the value of her real andpe
sonal property is greater by eighty
millions than that of the whole State of
New Jersey.
NEwsBoYs were first introduced into
the streets of London as late rs 1S42, by
Isaac Pray, an American, who started
cheap newspaper in that year called the
Evening Star.
ga VERY Young COUPLE" is the
title of neat and interesting little book
just published by Scribner, Armstrong
IL Co., of New York. 1t is sketch of
everyday life and is highly appreciated
by all who read it.
The Gazette de France. of Paris, is
the Oldest newspaper extant, having
flourished uninterruptedly since its
foundation in 1888. 1t was the official
organ of the French Government until
the Revolution, and is still the Sin
spired" paper of Count de Chambord.
WOMAN suffrage is declining in En-
gland. The Liberal party originally
supported the movements but it is
found that, SO far, the women who have
voted on the basis of property qualifca-
tions develop into full-grown Tories as
surely as the pollywog becomes the
frog.
The salt crop of the State of Michigan
for the year ending Dec Is, 1873, ac-
cording to the report of the State In
spector, was S23,346 barrels, of which
TAG, 702 barrels was fine salt, 3,671 was
packers, 32,267 was solar, and 20, FOG
was second quality. This a total in
crease over the previous report of 9S,-
S65 barrels.
THE Boston advertiser remarks that
Prof AgassiZ died on the seventy fourth
anniversary of the death of Washington,
and almost at the same hour of the day,
Washington dying between IL and II
o'clock ON the night of the 14th of De-
cember, 1899, and Prof. Agassiz be-
tween 10 and II o'clock on the night of
Dec. IA, 1873.
The Congressional Directory is now
completed and ready for press. In
making up it's biographical sketches of
members the fact has been developed
that about forty held military or civil
offices in the late Confederacy, and also
that considerable number, especially
from the South, were connected with
the Freedmen's Bureau.
The Ashland (Wis.) Press, mention
ing Thanksgiving dinner among the
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thing Chippewa Indian likes, it's dead
boss, and especially one that has died
natural death. old Curly as usual,
took part in the feast, and when last
seen was gnawing the port hoof of it's
hind leg. He has lived about 20 years,
has eaten everything from a fine-tooth
comb to square meal, and still he
enjoys good health.
THE old military prisonsat Richmond,
including Libby and Castle Thunder,
stand just as they did during the war,
their internal arrangements having been
altered little if any. They are both now
used for tobacco factories. From the
south wall of Libby still swings the
weather beaten old sign, Libby
Prison." put up by the Confederates
during the war, and it is proposed to let
the old sign swing until it falls by its
own weight.