The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
General Notes.

Two dollars per day and eighteen
hours work are given the Philadelphia
street-car conductors.
BERNvILLE, Penn, boasts of four
landlords weighing total of 1894
pounds; the heaviest 1927 pounds.
A GERMAN writer says that thieves
are so scarce in this country that the
authorities are often compelled to offer a
reward for them.
THE best thing that ever green Mrs.
Malaprop has said lately is that "she
doesn't want to vote because she
couldn't bear the shock of the electrical
franchise"
CONTENTS of a rats nest lately dis
covered in Augusta, Me-: silver
spoons. l silver fork, ID cotton stock
ings, j peck of butternuts. A rat of
the Upper Ten
SUICIDE was committed in an extraor-
binary way by young man at Paris,
Bear Lake Valley, Utah, lately. He
deliberately drove nail into his head,
and died in a few hours after.
AN Iowa Judge has decided that it is
more of sin to steal horse than to
elope with another mans wife, because
there are 5000, 900 women in the United
States and only 5000, 900 horses.
A"ooUNTRY lad, IL years old, lately
visited Dubuque, bringing with him the
scalps of nine timber wolves-a mother
and eight young ones-all slain by his
juvenile but potent hand. He received
$40 bounty from the county, and went
home rich and happy.
The new boot in Paris is the Pom
peian. 1t is of black velvet, and very
high, the Logging in front all Venetian
cut-work, embroidered with silver cord,
and pink or Pompeiian red silk stock
ing is thus seen through the open clover
or diamond shaped design.
DIR. Brown. SEoUARD has been meas
uring the amount of nerve force in
frog, and finds that ga frog could lift
weight of twenty grammes to point,
which was about line and a quarter,
or 600 or 700 times in an hour and a
quarter" This is important. We
didn't suppose one frog in hundred is
aware that it can lift twenty grammes to
a point-and probably would not be any
happier if it was.
The value of printed books exported
from England i'll the year 1873 was
e912, 534. The late Charles Knight
computed that the whole people of En-
gland, 100 years ago (1744), did not ex-
pend more than 100000 a year in the
purchase OF books, newspapers and
and publications of every kind-an
astounding comparison between now
and then, and indicating one of the
main sources of the increased consump.
ton of paper.
A GENTLEMAN, named Stedman, writes
to the Fairmont (Minn.) Chain, or
dering his paper discontinued, giving
as one reason that his wife says cit
won't even clean lamp-chimneys. To
this, among other things, the editor
answers, that the Withdrawing subscrib-
er may be man of influence, but is
no gentleman, and has "no right to
betray what his wife told him in conf
dence, and we presume she will not
thank him for it"
The Viceroy of Egypt is absolutely
prosecuting his design OF annexing Cen
trail Africa to his dominions. Colonel
Baker, the explorer, established Egyp-
tian supremacy at Khartoum, the CAPT
tai of n large extent of country west of
the great lakes which form the source
of the Nile, from this point the Egyp-
tlans are now moving further on with a
strong force, headed by Col. Gordon,
who has been nominated Governor of
the country by the Khedive.