The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-09

UssIA has 100 legal holidays.

ICE Ii manuIacCureu III tennessee at
l cent per pound.
CUBA is growing restless on account
of 80 much peace.
THE New York postoffice is to be
lighted by electricity.
A BUcKsPoRT, Me- dog killed twenty
seven hens the other day.
CHINESE "rice paper" is not made
from rice, but wood pitch.
BAcHELoRHooD is q sickness which
may be cured at any moment.
EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND base balls
are made in this country each year.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY companies
are playing Pinafore " in this country.
The population of Atlanta is said to
be increasing at the rate of 5000 q
year.
New YORK dandies wear pansies in
stead Of roses now in button-hole adorn-
ments.
THERE is drought in Cuba, and
disastrous fires have occurred in con-
sequence.
A SINGLE rosebud with leaf is the
nobbiest thing in the way of button
hole bouquet.
BRUNSWICK, GA, claims the champion
raipfall-ten and one-half inches in
eighteen hours.
A DEvIL-FlsH was captured mt Santa
Barbara, Cal, which measured fourteen
feet in diameter.
A WOMAN in Mt. Sterling, KY, 10
years of age, has been married six years
and has three children.
A MORRILL, (Me.) man woke up the
other morning and found his dog had
chewed up his false teeth.
TWELVE members of Congress have
taken their own lives since the for
nation of the Government.
The Shoe-wae-cae-mettes will go
abroad again this year, and row an
other race over the Thames.
RESULTS of systematic vaccination
Out of $1,000 deaths in New York last
year, but two were due to smallpox.
GRAIN is carried from Davenport to
st. Louis, 374 miles, for 10 cents per
hundred by the rival steamboat lines.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON is the cham
pion pedestrian of Washington, and
with one of his daughters takes FIVE
mile walk every day.
The rules of the Albany Ball Club
prohibit the use of liquor, under penalty
for the first offense of $25 to $50, and
expulsion for the second.
The manufacture of beet sugar is to be
tried in earnest at Northampton, Mass.
A factory is to be built, and 400 acres of
beets planted this season.
In Florida there are seventy cigar
factories. The largest is that of Seiden-
burg & Co., at Key West, where 10,708,-
ITO cigars were made in 1873.
Rev. DIR. SUMNER, a cousin of Charles
Sumner, who is travelling in the South,
says that there are IL 900 colored Cath
olics in one ward of New Orleans.
The aggregate age of 227 persons
who have died in Baltimore since Jan.
l, is 1851 years an average of about
70. One woman was 100 years old.
LITTLE pigs in gold and silver are now
worn by everybody in Vienna as jewelry.
Pins, charms, bracelets, stick-handles-
everything is, for the moment, porcine.
A GLASS mandatory in Hanover,
Germany, makes glass which is close
imitation of marble, and tables and floor
tiles which are preferable to marble on
account of hardness.
A RECENT report submitted to the
House of Lords shows that in England
the amount of drunkenness varies in al
most exact proportion to the variety of
climate, the vice being most prevalent
in the North.
The manufactures of the State of
New Hampshire amounted to over
96,000,000 last year, among them
being $50, 588, 200 worth of cotton goods,
81 100000 of boots and shoes and 3d.
1920 of woolens.
A TEXAS Postmaster has put up q
notice requesting shippers of rattle
snakes to pull the teeth out of the
things before mailing. He says he has
been bitten twice already from neglect
of this kind, and it is growing monoton-
Gus.