The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
General Notes.

THERE are 1904 volumes in the
Boston public library.
WHY shouldn't Vermont girls be sweet
when their fathers make five million
pounds of maple sugar year.
NEVER use soda or lime in washing
clothes, they are certain to rot them in
time. Borax is the only safe article.
SAN Francisco has its new directory
for 1874. The total population is est.
mated at 200,770, a gain of l2,447 in
one year.
A CASE to test the ownership of tin
bucket was lately tried in Union, S. G.
Value of the bucket, 80 cents costs of
court $l5.
A MILWAUKEE policeman recently ran
a mile in two minutes and twenty Sec
onds under the impression that burg
lar was after him.
MCALLIsTER, the great magician, has
received intelligence that he has fallen
heir to share OF the Old Mari estate
in Scotland, valued ut G64, 100000.
THE old plan of Mr.. Punch for pre-
serving furs is now seasonably re-
vived. 1t is to pull ont oil the hairs
with tweezers, and then to varnish the
skins.
THE Christian Register announces
that ga woman who cannot III any
emergency make or repair a garment,
has one art less than a Pottawatomie' S
squaw.
A GIRL in Georgia, though cross
eyed, has been the cause of three
duels and ten extempore fights. So
much for looking ut two men simulta-
neously.
The brewers tell us that the produc-
ton of beer III tins country is equiva-
lent to three glasses a day for each male
adult Some folks get more than their
share, though.
A WESTERN moralist seasonably re-
marks that it is painful to hear an I'M
godly man say, Its us hot as ginger,
when you know that he doesn't mean
"ginger" at all.
The explosion of 1000 pounds of
nitro-glycerine in the Government
magazine, four miles above Shreveport,
La, scared the people worse than the
yellow fever did, but no ono was killed
by it.
The use of tobacco seems to be fall
ing off in England. The declared
value of the importations for the first
quarter of the year was only E322 ,3O2,
against G343, S75 for the same period of
last year.
PUT on your right glove first, then
you have your left hand ungloved to
button your right with. If you put on
your left glove first you have to button
your right glove under a double disad-
vantage.
In this age of womans rights, when
it is proposed that avocations hitherto
monopolized by men should be open to
bold and adventurous spirits of the
other sex, it is curious to observe that
some branches of artistic industry gener-
ally occupied by women are invaded by
masculinity. In Paris there are now
nine women's dressmakers and six MILL
ners carrying on large establishments,
and all of them men.
A CAREFUL estimate by DR.. Dawson
Burns of the amount of proof spirit J"
consumed during 1878, by the people
of Great Britain and Ireland, III the
shape of brandy, whisky, ale, wine,
etc, shows that it was 153, 55l, 397
gallons, or between 70,000,0 and
SO, 600, 600 gallons of absolute alcohol.
This is for each man and for every two
women nine gallons and two pints of
proof spirit. The pecuniary cost OF
these beverages was G12J, 900, 600
sterling, an increase of $4,000, 900 over
1872.
The Rev. Mr.. Featherstone, of the
Vicksburg District, is Methodist
minister of the old indomitable stamp.
He is the presiding elder of those re-
gions which have been recently for the
most part under water-a beautiful field
for a Baptist, but not quite so nice for
Methodist But the Rev. Mr..
Featherstone was not to be daunted by
moist difficulties. He went from point
to point i'll boat (; he preached in a
boat and when it became necessary to
| wade he waded.
A cENTURY-PLANT is Mr.. George
Castator, of Hagerstown, Ind. He is
10 years old, very little bent, has a full
head of hair, several preserved teeth
eyesight tolerable. appetite good
, though he eats only two meals a day
: but lie has lost the power of locomo
J ton. Consequently he sits in his cas-.
r chair, by window, and chews tobacco
{ from morning till evening. This habi
, of masticating he acquired after he wa
80 years old, since which he has faile1
: very fast for 90 years.