The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-02
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road track.
PREFERRED creditors are those who
do not dun.
SARATOGA SPRINGS were patronized by
the elite of 1892.
SULPHUR comes from Vesuvius; there.
fore it is good for eruptions.
A SPOONFUL of brown sugar added to
-four paste makes it stickier.
New YORK has just losta hundred-and
thirteen-year old centenarian.
ENGLAND and Scotland are said to
contain 600, 900 habitual drunkards, in
Guiding both sexes.
THE good, old-fashioned recreation of
nine pins is destined to lose it's charms
now that a machine has been invented
which enables the players to set up the
pins themselves without going down the
alley.
FROM 1904 to 1873 the Bible has been
circulated in 271 languages-over 49,
600, 900 copies. Last year every hour
of each working day 1900 Bibles were
printed, over 16, 200 every day, and in
languages spoken by 700, O6O 600 of
people.
AFTER reading that meerschaum is
manufactured into a choice cosmetic
for ladies', one need not be surprised to
hear that excellent plates for artificial
teeth are now made of fsh-scales dis
solved and combined with certain fbrous
and adhesive substances.
The coolie trade in Cuba is tainted
with horrible abuses. The poor China
man is bound out for term of years.
and though the term may be short, it is
long enough, in the hands of the heart
less overseer, to wear out heart and
body. Under this accursed traffic, only
one out Of twenty coolies ever survives
the term of slavery and returns to his
native land.
STEAMERS now leave New York for
Europe every day but Monday and Fri
day throughout the year. There has
always been a prejudice among sailors
against sailing on Friday (the super
stition being that it is an unlucky day,
but of late the feeling seems to be so
much modified that another year will
probably witness steamers starting on
their ocean voyage on Friday the same
as on other days.
In an ordinary piano there are fifteen
kinds of wood, namely Pine, maple,
spruce, cherry, walnut, whitewood,
apple, Eastwood, birch, mahogany,
ebony, holly, cedar, beech and rose
wood, from Honduras, Ceylon, England
and South America. There are used of
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gun metal and lead. There are in an
instrument of seven and half octaves,
2l4 strings making n total length of 7S7
feet. Such a piano will weigh from
600 to ], 900 pounds.
IT must be said that matters are get
ting to an alarming extent promiscuous
at Salt Lake, the salt of which is rapidly
losing it's SAVIOR. The latest novelty is
the doctrine preached by Mrs. Olsen.
She is an excellent Recommendation too
good a one in fact-for she has publicly
declared that she would like TO have
three husbands-one TO live with and
love her, and the other two to help sup
port her. We don't see why Mrs.
Olsen's doctrine is not as good rs Brig
hams. At any rate it reduces polygamy
to an absurdity-if any such reduction
were needed.
PERHAPS the smartest little eight
year old in the world is Charley Trip
lett, of Cedar Township, Iowa. This
bit of boy has worked as full hand
in the field this summer, running
three-horse double pillow, tending his
own team, and keeping up with the
smartest. He now drives milk wagon
to cheese factory, and makes HIM
self generally useful in the dairy
line. Moreover, Charley Eight-year.
old is capitalist, with fifteen acres of
wheat of his own, and an interest in
sundry colts and calves. If he goes on
as he has begun he will own all Iowa
before he is 80 years old.
NASHUA. Ogle county, H., has a wild
man. He inhabits the neighboring
woods, and wears dress which sug.
gests that he has employed the State
prison tailors. He has been pursued
by boys, whO report that his face is
covered with a pasteboard mask, with
painted lions on the cheeks, and that
his feet are enveloped in rag carpet.
He is a wild man of the timid sort, and
hees from the small boy as from the
wrath to come. His gray hair hangs
down his shoulders. He also groans
and growls like bear, and clears a
four-board fence with agility. Some
times he walks on his hands and feet
and altogether he is a rare bird.
A CAPITAL of one hundred thousand
pounds sterling is being raised in Lon
don, by joint stock subscription, for
the establishment of morning and
evening newspaper upon what is spe.
officially defined as commercial"
basis. In short, as we understand the
scheme, this journal, while giving all
the news very fully, is to sell its politi-
cal, literary, and other editorial services
to the public, just as great lawyer
puts his abilities at the command of all
paying clients Professional editors of
the best rank are to be placed over all
the different departments and, in fact,
this original newspaper is to be con-
Quoted strictly.in accordance with the
commercial principles of any other
business.
Sunshine and Sleep.
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