The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-01-22
interesting Items.

English capitalists are now seeking
to buy up paper and cotton mills In this
country.
Mrs Jane McGeoggie died at the
county hospital in Milwaukee, Wis, on
Monday, at the age of l04 years.
During the past year, $4,000 people
emigratcd from Ireland, and 254, 900
from the whole of Great Britain.
The railway bridge now being con-
structed over The 4 nth i'm Scotland,
has two spans of $3.50 feet each, max
ing it the longest suspension bridge in
the world
Steven V. White, John Clafiin, and
Thomas g. Sherman, of Brooklyn,
have generously offered to erect me-
mortal bniding to the late Henry Ward
Beecher adjoining the present church.
Miss Emily Faithful, the devoted
English woman who has spent her life
i'm alternating the condition of her
countrywomen, has been granted a
pension of S265 by the British Govern
ment.
Joseph IL Craig, of Kentucky, weighs
600 pounds and is tall in proportion.
He is an Odd Fellow and carries gold
medal, given TO him by his associates In
commemoration of the fact that he was
probably the heaviest Fellow who had
ever succeeded in going through the
third degree.
Thousands of bushels of corn are be-
ing consumed in Kansas for fuel, corn
being cheaper than coal, owing TO the
manipulation of the market by the com
bination controlling the output. Coal
is luxury that the average inhabitant
of Kansas cannot afford. Is the coal
trust "a public blessing!"
According to the best statistical au-
thority, the consumption OF sugar In
the world is 100000 tons year, of
which the United States consumes u
SOC, 900 tons, and Great Britain l, 100,-
600 tons. This Is a quantity about
equal to the best sugar production OF
Europe-that is, as much or nearly as
much beet sugar as cane sugar is pro-
duced in the world.
Chief Justice Fuller appeared on the
Supreme bench the other day with a
handkerchief as big as "A napkin, which
he waved all day in the face of the as
sembled bar. There was no hiding it,
the greatest judicial power on earth
had the influenza. During the entire
session he sat with brief III one hand
while he held this white cloth up to his
nose to petition truce with the grip.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was
the founder of the first journal ever
published on railroad train. He was
train boy, ~ years Old on the Cana
da a. Central Michigan, when he car
ried out the unique idea of printing in
in the baggage-car little paper of ref
erence regarding hotels, carriage ac-
cOmmodations at depots, etc, together
with the news caught on the fly; this
paper he would then sell to the pas
sengers.
Charles Beck, who lives near Milton,
Mass, is % years old but he doesn't
rest his claim to fame upon his age
He has in his possession pair of shoes
which were made for him in 1885, and
which he has worn constantly ever
since in his daily work about his barn
yard and garden. They are of the low
cut brogan pattern and are laced with
leather thongs, and the wear and tear
of fifty-five years of use have had no
more apparent effect on them than the
lapse of almost a century has had upon
their owner.
Among the curiosites of humanity
may safely be included the wealthy
Mrs DR.. Henry Hitler, of Wilmington,
Mass. About "A year ago her husband
died and was buried in $50, 900 casket,
which rests in a s., 900 temporary tomb
at Wilmington. Now Mrs. Hitler is
building $780, 900 mausoleum ut Win
chester, Mass, where she hopes ulti-
mately to be buried with her husband,
in deliberately carved sarcopl q, which
will cost $50, 600 apiece. Her own cas-
ket will cost a similar amount, and the
value placed on her burial robe, which
is of rare silk and lace, with silver
hooks and eyes, is S22 900. In the elab-
crate carvings on the tomb and sarcoph-
agi are represented characters from the
Bible, Shakespeare, Bunyan's Prilgrim's
Progress, etc, while many Inscriptions
are used. By the expenditure of about
half million, Mrs. Hitler hopes to
overcome the usual responsiveness of
burial Mrs Hitler has been great
traveller, and is woman of wide and
varied culture. She has had % children,
ii of them twins, but none of them
survive.