The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-08-06
Interesting Items


Turkish women eat rose leaves with
butter to secure plumpness.
The cultivation of pecans is increas-
ing in the South. +. A. Swinden has a
farm of 400 acres near Brownwood
Texas, upon which he has IL, 900 trees
planted.
The heat i'm North Dakota is said to
be intense, the THERMOMETERS register
ing 105. Great damage is being done
To crops One does not look for such
reports from the land of billiards and
Boreas.
The prospects are that there will he
a better and bigger crop of corn this
year in Nebraska than ever before rails
ed in that state. AT the present mo-
ment the outlook throughout the West
is excellent.
The total shipments of tea from
Shanghai to the United States and
Canada from May 3lst to date were l.
542, 800 lbs, all blacks, against 4, l45,-
700 lbs. same time last year, made up
of 1874, 900 lbs. blacks and 1901, 700
greens.
The total wealth of the United States
This would give nearly every man,
woman and child in the country 81 900
each. Some people seem to have more
than their share of the good things of
this life.
Large and valuable deposits of nickel
have recently been discovered i'm Silesia
The discovery gives great satisfaction
to Germany, who hereafter will not
have To look to foreign countries for its
supply. Russia is said to possess the
most valuable coal deposits in the world.
A couple of boys aged respectively 1G
and II years, who were working min
ing claim in the vicinity of Denver,
Col, not long ago struck ore which
they say is worth from $23, 900 to s25, 900
per ton. This is the richest strike ever
made in the state, and miners are flock
ing To the field.
Corn has recently advanced and is
now nearly 80 per cent higher in price
than at the time of the greatest de-
preston last winter. 1t is thought
there will hardly be three fOurths as
much of a crop as was raised in the
country last year. Droughts which
have been prevalent still continue.
The valuable tin mines at San Jancito
have just been sold to an English syndi-
cate for 81 800 600. This syndicate pro-
poses to operate the mines on an eX-
trnsive scale. A large smelling estab-
lishment will soon he established and
great number of Cornish men are
coming from the old country to set as
miners.
General Grants cabin, which is to be
brought from the banks of James River
and placed in Paramount Park, Phila-
delphia, for preservation rs a war relic,
is fast going To decay. In this cabin
Grant issued orders for Sherman's great
march to the sea. In it the rebel com
missioners treated for peace, and after
Sherman reached the sea, under its
humble roof Lincoln. Grant. Sheridan.
Meade and Admiral Porter met in con-
ference.
Crops in South Dakota are said to be
i'm very poor condition and farmers are
much discouraged. In June they prom
ised well and had the rain and moist
weather continued throughout the
summer, the crops would have been
the largest on record; hut n long drought
withered them until they are ruined
The weather in some counties is in
tolerably hot. A gentleman who has
Just returned from a trip through that
country declares that Dakota must have
irrigation or she cannot succeed as an
agricultural country.