The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-13
General Notes.

General Notes.
FRANCE has no male boarding house
keepers.
THE combined weight of the Iowa
State Senators is s, 527 pounds.
LITTLE Norway has more than twice
as much tonnage as the United States.
MARSHAL BAzAINE is treated with Sc.
verify and no one is allowed to visit
him.
A 299-YEAR-oLD newspaper of Stock
holm, Sweden, circulates $4,000 copies
daily.
INDIAN MEAL as fertilizer is enthusi-
astically recommended by New Jersey
farmer.
A SENSITIVE Californian killed himself
because the Legislature wouldn't change
his name.
THE Indians have invented new pro-
cess of scalping, and not even a bald
headed man is safe.
THE spirit-world is sixty millions of
miles from the earth, some spirits tell
us who have come back.
SOMEBODY has discovered that the
"Fenians" date back their origin to
within 242 years of the deluge.
In China two people of the same
name dare not marry. The Smith ia
mily would suffer in that country.
IT is stated that lamp chimney put
in water and allowed to remain till the
water boils will not readily break.
The ladies of Chicago are reported to
wear $500, 900 worth of false hair, or
enough to buy Bible for every heather
in Africa.
IT is estimated that in less than n
century the whole arabic land of the
United States will be taken up by ac-
tual settlers.
NARRow-GAUGE railways have now
/ 1864 miles in operation in this country
and Canada, and over 5000 more are
now contemplated.
THE winding ways of the drunkard of
the future, if these women crusades
continue, are likely to take the shape
of private corkscrew
THE highest inhabited spot in the
world is the Buddhist cloister in Thibet,
where twenty priests live at the enor-
nous and elevated height of 16,500
feet.
SENATOR SUMNER is as deliberate in
private as in public. He studies his
phrases and synonyms as closely as
though he were addressing public
audience.
A RHODE ISLAND paper claims that
Rhode Island has the purest Legisla-
ture in the world, and believes that the
chief reason is because members receive
only 81 per day.
ANDREW JACKSON was accused of bad
spelling, but John Randolph defended
him by declaring that ga man must be
a fool who could not spell word more
ways than one.
THERE is man in Kentucky who has
for several years past been drinking
coal oil. He takes a teaspoonful at
dose, and he says it has cured him of
consumption. This is authentic.
A DELAWARE physician some time
ago grated piece of his own skin
(white) on the body of a negro. 1t
grew, but at the end of three months
was as black as the surrounding cuticle.
THE word bankrupts is from the
Italian words bancO rOttO-broken
bench. Bankers and merchants in Italy
used formerly to count their money and
write their bills of exchange upon |
benches in the street, and when -mer-
chant or banker lost his credit and was
unable to pay his debts his bench was
broken.
In 1s4s the United States had 5000
miles of completed railroad. In Janu-
ary, 1873, the total had grown to II 900
miles in actual operation, with 5000
niles more in course of construction.
The average railroad growth of the
United States for the last five years has
oeen nearly 5000 miles per annum.
Few people have any adequate idea
IF the extent to which the inhabitants
If Holland have an interest in Ameri-
IAN railroads. In proportion to its pop
llation, not over $500, 900, that coun-
~ owns more than any other country
n Europe, amounting to nearly $780,
100, 900, besides large amounts of
United States bonds and other Ameri-
AN securities.