The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-11
General Notes.

49S men.
FLOUR is $3.50 barrel in Helena,
Montana.
IT takes 26O rails to lay mile of rail-
road track.
A BOLD young lady was killed by a
bowlder while climbing Pixies Peak last
week.
In Australia you can hire n man-team
to draw you around all day for twenty
cents.
THE rate of taxation in Boston this
year will be between $l5 and $40 per
1000.
THERE were forty-eight Americans
studying at the university of Berlin last
winter.
CATCHING and canning turtles is a
new and profitable branch OF industry
in Mexico.
OVER fifteen per cent. of the popula-
ton of the United States are engaged in
agriculture.
THE majority of the male population
of Switzerland die before they have at
tanned their fiftieth year.
WHENa Tennessee husband will horse
whip his wife for washing potatoes in
his Sunday plug hat, it is time to inquire
whether this generation of men isn't
getting to be too confounded high-toned
for the age of the country.
AN aeronaut writes to the London
Times complaining that his balloon was
deliberately shot at no less than three
times during recent ascent from Lon
don, and offers reward of Gl00 for the
apprehension of the person who fired
the shots.
ACCORDING to the Chico (Cal. En-
terpriSe, child died at Tehama, and
was being buried lately, when the
mother uttered cry and threw herself
upon the coffin, exclaiminS that the
child had spoken. The coffin was opened
and the child found to be alive.
Much interest was excited week or
two ago by the discovery by Mr.. E..
Riviere of sundry prehistoric skeletons
in the caverns of Baousse- Rouse, near
Mentone, they presenting some marked
peculiaiities as compared with the hui
man framework of modern times.
WoMAN-L1KE: At recent commence
ment in the West, a young girl read a
fine essay. On the way from the hall
she heard one of the lady listeners re-
mark to another lady "Wasn't that
fine ?" eyes," was the cold reply
"but what mean little train she wore. y
HENRY MULHoLLAND, man who has
Just left Toronto after thirty.three
years residence there, is the sole sur
vivor of the three who brought home
the tidings of the victory of Waterloo.
He was the late Maj Hurd's orderly,
and wears the Waterloo medal as dis.
function.
BARON ANsELM DE RoTHsCHILD, who
died recently at his country seat, near
Vienna, possessed wealth estimated al
more than $500, 000,0 By his ex-
press desire his funeral was celebrated
without any pomp. The hearse was
drawn by two horses and followed only
by few servants.
THE Louisville belle bending grace.
fully on the banks of the Ohio, and the
Milwaukee lass leaning on the bridge OF
its creek, both listening attentively to
hear the compliments bestowed upon the
others ears, erect an auricular awning
which, meeting midway in the heavens,
obscures the sun and gives to Chicago
an umbrage grateful to body and soul. -
Chicago Times.
AN amorous young gentleman il
Thomson, Ca, under the impression
that the sweet voice Of his beloved was
calling him, lately walked in the night
out of his second story bedroom win
dow. When he struck the ground anG
broke his ankle, and pain and anguish
were wringing his whole leg, he was
forced to get along without any minis
tering angel, for there was none to be
seen.
CHICAGO and Boston are adopting al.
most opposite policies with regard to
public parks, the one seeking to increase
and the other to destroy some of its re.
servations. Chicago has scheme fol
tearing down her infammable buildings
which are grouped in one district, and
of turning the vacant ground into park
or boulevard, and Boston has recently
encroached upon one OF her commons
and destroyed score or more of fine
old elms which formerly adorned the
city.