The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
people and Things.

FIVE THOUSAND men are now employed
on the centennial buildings and grounds
in Philadelphia.
THE total assets of the eight life in
suranoe companies of Hartford figure mp
TO within fraction Of Sl00,000,000.
In two years the number of cases triel
in the San Francisco Police Court
has increased from 800 per month TO
1000.
The total value of the WOODEN goods
turned out from the Maine mills during
the past year. is placed at some ST.
1000.
FLORA TEMPLE is thirty years old, ard
her kindhearted owner Is doing al that
he can to sooth her pathway to the glue
factory.
A MAN from the north of England stood
higher III French in the examination az
Woolwich than did the French Prince
Imperial.
SOUTHERN journals are urging upon
the farmers of that section to plant less
cotton and more oats and corr the com
ing season.
THE I5S savings banks of New York
hold an aggregate OF 1903, $3.50 Of
savings placed TO the credit OF 81, 4SS
depositors.
A LAW forbidding the payment Of diff
ferent salaries i'll the public schools, on
account of sex, has just passed the Legis-
lature of California.
THERE are in Massachusetts, $4,000
children growing up in ignorance, In
consequence of their exclusive employ
ment at too early an age III factories.
THERE is such an increase of the dis
gusting habit of snuff dipping among the
factory operatives of New England that
snuff factories are increasing with the
demand.
New JERSEY has just passed law in
posing a fine of So, 900 and imprisonment
for term of one year upon any per-
son who shall transfer his property TO
avoid taxes
MARCH |, 1864, the New Haven papers
published a list OF 12j people IL that
city who were over 20 years of age.
March /, 1875, there were but eleven Of
them living
Mr.. MEDRI SAYS British farmers pros
per because they have at their doors con-
suners in the manufactures, while the
corn and wheat producing countries have
not these advantages.
Down in Connecticut butter is being
made at cost OF three cents a pound.
When an unfortunate man gets mouth
ful OF the compound, his chief anxiety is
TO get a good place TO have fit.
OF late, that is to say within the last
year or two, titles and grades of honor
have become abundant IN Berlin, where
everybody, says a writer, is now field
marshal or professor OF something.
IT appears that the last cotton crop
was not a large one, after all, and that if
the Southern planters had not marketed
their staple so soon, they would have got
two cents a pound more, amounting 10
some millions of dollars.
THERE are only five states in the Union
where the Governor receives a salary Of
OF but 81, 900, These are Michigan, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
and Vermont. Louisiana and Indiana
pay $1,000, and Pennsylvania SO, 600.
The contractors who have undertaken
to furnish 100000 headstones for the
national cemeteries, cut the names in
their works at Rutland, VT, by means of
the sand blast. This cuts name in four
minutes, and they complete 500 stones
daily.
Mrs. LUCY HOOPER tells us that they
make infinitely better butter il France
than we get in America" solid cream,
with breath OF milk in it, she calls the
French best. And as for the cheeses-
we don't know much about cheese, with
all our factories.
THE Boston Traveller states that The
Board OF Underwriters will take up nj all
early day the discussion of the subject
OF reduction of insurance rates in that
city, 1t being proposed to place the rates
twenty per cent. lower than those gov
erning transactions at present.
IT has frequently been maintainedt that
wetting coal increases the amount Of
neat gwen out in combustion, buta care
iUl inquiry has shown, first, that there is
no increase of heat second, that loss
of heat always follows the addition Of
water third, both the amount of heat and
the temperature of the fire are consider
ably diminished.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle, in speaking
OF the reduction of the wages of the 100
engineers in the employ of the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company, says: "The main cause of the
reduction is the extraordinary light
freight and passenger traffic. Business
was never so light on the Hudson River
railroad as now"