The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-13
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DISCRETION in speech is more than
eloquence.
THREE horses out of every four in Ice
land are piebald.
MILWAUKEE is growing at the rate oil
5000 souls year.
RENTS are thirty per cent lower in
Chicago this year.
ENGLAND last year issued $500 pat
ents, to our 1854.
BosroN completed her Oath year on
Thursday, Sept. 18th.
FIFTY cocoanut trees are growing In
one of the public parks of San Fran
cisco.
THE sexton of Grace Church, New
York, has made Christianity profitable,
and saved $250,000.
ONO has 800 coal mines, from which
~, 900 men annually produce over D.
000, 900 tons of coal.
MEN who travel barefooted around
newly carpeted bedroom often find
themselves on the wrong tack.
PARTON, in his lecture on 1.-The
Kings of Business" says Vanderbilt's
wealth amounts to 800, 0O0,Oo
In New York there are 10000 indi-
viduals who manage to exist by preying
upon the earnings of other people.
The tea crop of Japan last season
amounted to 10, 854, 900 pounds, all OF
which the United States imported.
A MILFORD, N. a., man raised three
hundred and sixty-nine pounds of po-
tatoes from a single pound of seed.
IT was a bright boy who told his
teacher that there were three sects-the
male sex, the female sex, and the in
sects.
PEOPLE who propose to explore Africa
ought to know that it takes whole
month to dry dead explorer so that he
can be shipped home.
PHYSICIANS are specializing upon
probable paralysis accustomed by eating
fruit put up in lead cans coated with
impure or insufficient tin.
IT is proposed in England to provide
separate cars for the accommodation of
ladies on railroads, and for the protec-
tion of men from improper advances.
The New York Bulletin ii inks that
the tobacco statistics OF the world,
could they be seen in one mass, would
astonish the economists as well as the
moralists.
THE recent discovery of the fig tree
in the fossil deposits of the Seine valley
indicates that the region about Paris
formerly enjoyed a warmer climate than
at present.
A CHATTANooGARIsT bought strip of
Lookout Mountain land one mile wide
and thirty miles long last April, and has
been ofered-yea, and has refused it
also-$1, 000,0 900.
JOSH BILLINGS says If yu are going
to Civ man ennything, Civ it to him
cheerfully and quick don't make him
git down on hiz kneeze in front ov yu,
and listen to the 10 commandments, and
then yu Civ him cents"
IT is an admitted fact in Japan and
China that the older the tree the better
the tea. The shrubs which supply the
mobiles of Japan with their favorite bev-
erage are said to be in many instances
500 years old.
THE sap of the pine tree seems not
unlikely to become almost as valuable
as that of the sugar maple. Two stu
dents in the laboratory of DR.. A. w.
Holman, of Paris, recently succeeded
in extracting the aromatic principles of
the vanilla bean, which is known as
vanilline, from pine sap. We have no
information as to the variety Of pine
from which it is obtained, but the dis
coverers announce that it is their inten-
ton to manufacture the extract on a
large scale. A tree of medium size and
height is said to yield twenty dollars
worth of vanilline, and this without in
jury to the wood.