The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-20
GENERAL NOTES.

METALLIC red is the color of the new 3
cent stamps.
GEORGIA manufactured products will ag-
gregate almost sICO OOO,O 900 this year
THE aggregate demands of Philadelphia's
Councils for appropriations for next year
foot up ut Sl3,2l0,i55
Two sUNFLowERs in Lancaster, Pa, meas
ure respectively forty eight and forty-nine
inches In circumference.
OVER II 900 California mountain trout and
565, 600 salmon trout have been placed in
Lake keuka n. u, this season
ONE HUNDRED AND sIxTY-FoUR bodies OF
drowned persons were taken from the East
river, Brooklyn side, during the year end
ing July 81, 1888.
THE Montana Assessors Convention voted
TO assess the roadbed of railways within the
Territory at 81, $50 mile and telegraph and
telephone lines at $500 mile
THE body of Joe King, one of the rioters
who was hanged on the 9th of Octob Der, 1882
at Eastman, Ga and buried at Cochran, was
unearthed recently and found to be petrifed.
IN a population of 800 900 New York
City has 81 o. real-estate owners 1t fur
ther appears that while the real estate an
nualiy increases in value the owners become
fewer.
RAFT measuring 200 feet long, twelve
feet deep, and twenty-fou feet wide, and
consisting OF ), so logs, has just been towed
down In safety from St John, \. B., to New
York a distance of go miles
FIVE sixtv- pound weights used in the ex-
ecution of William Fee, who was hanged in
1850 at Lyons, " Y, have since been playing
a useful part in pressing out tire white paper
on which a local newspaper is printed.
OLD FANCY, the war horse ridden by Stone
wall Jackson, is tenderly cared for at tho
Virginia Military Institute, ut Lexington
He is handsome sorrol, OF good form, but
his Joints are stiff. He is % years old
In Akron, Ohio, fellow who had been un-
, able TO urge his horse TO draw a. load up
hill unfastened the tugs from the single
tree and tied the poor creatures tail to 1t
He then whipped the horse until the indig-
nant bystanders interposed The fellow
had to escape from the town.
ARAB PAsHA seems quite reconcled to his
exile in Ceylon, and even admits that the
English are perhaps the best friends Of
Egypt. To show his sincerity in this pro.
testation he is studiously acquiring the Eng
| lish language. He would like TO see Egypt
again, but would not return at the risk Of
adding TO the complications
II no better in other respects than their
brethren in Eastern cities, San Francisco
| sinners certainly have the virtue of superior
| boldnesS In "A single number of Monday
newspaper published in that city there ara
| accounts or plgeon-shooting matches by
| three different clubs of a great billiard
tournament, and baseball match all Of
which took place on Sunday.
ONE OF the most important subjects now
receiving the attention of the Government
is the depletion of the American forests
| In order 10 obtain full details as to the ac-
| tual area of territory covered by timber
Maj. Powell Director of the United States
Geological Survey, has detailed an agent to
i fha tar 81 Waa u
| gnia This State is selected first because
he is familiar with the typographical bear
ings of West Virginia Circulars have been
sent to prominent men of the State, asking
| cooperation in the collection of informa-
ton concerning the timber area. Many an
| swers have been received Several have
| furnished the Office with county maps with
the timber areas marked. The result Of the
inquiries so far has been gratifying to Maj
Powell. and 1t is probable that the final re-
suit will be of sufficient value to warrant
the Bureau in continuing the inquiries in
the other Statea