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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
Churning Sour Milk.

1t is not necessary for milk to become
sour or thick, before churning, to make
good butter. There is difference of
opinion among butter makers in regard
to the proper condition of milk best
suited for churning. Some contend
that milk but slightly acid makes the
best butter others that the milk should
be allowed to thicken. Good butter is
made by either plan, if the milk be good
and all the conditions for keeping it be
properly attended to. We know cer-
tain noted butter-makers who insist that
the best condition Of the milk for churn.
ing, to get superior quality Of butter,
is when the milk becomes thick and
moist on the top of the cream. Where
this plan is adopted, however, great care
should be taken not to let the milk
stand too long before churning as in
that case, in hot weather, it becomes
too sour, and the butter will be sour
also, and in cold weather it becomes
bitter.
As skillful butter,makers make good
butter by churning milk when slightly
acid, and also when it is thick or lop-
pered, we are hardly prepared to decide
as to the better system of the two. We
hold, however, that the best system of
butter-malling is to set the milk where
ii may be kept at an even temperature
of about sixty degrees for the cream to
rise, and which should be taken off be-
fore the milk sours. The cream then
may be allowed to become slightly acid
before churning. This is the plan usu-
Of h,y, h,,t tar l. ~
this country and Europe who make an
extra fancy article and obtain for it ex-
treme prices.
The square box churn, revolving upon
axles, is good churn where power is
used, and some think it quite equal,
and even superior, to the dash churn.
The dash churn is more extensively
used, and its efficiency in producing a
fine quality of butter has never been
questioned by our best butter makers.
In butter-making, it is essential to
have good, clean milk, to keep it in a
pure atmosphere, or at least out of the
reach of foul odors-holding it at even
temperatures, and getting up the cream
quietly. When milk is set in vessels
surrounded with cold spring water, the
temperature is more easily controlled
and by getting up the cream on this
plan and churning it, instead of the
milk, there is less liability of making
mishaps and of getting poor article.
We do not say but that good butter
may be made by other processes but
they require more skill and watchful.
ness on the part Of butter-makers, and
result in less uniformity of product
than the plan named.-Moore'S R,ral
Ne,o Yorker.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
The Difference Between a Violin and a
Fiddle.

Half century ago or less, the some
what facetious DR.. Pond dwelt in the
quiet and out-of-the-way village of
A. The doctors ideas were liberal
much more so than many of his con-
gregation nevertheless he kept on the
even tenor Of his way, and disregarded
the prejudices of some of his people.
He had son named Enoch, who at an
early early age manifested o remarkable
talent for music, which the father cher
ished and cultivated with care. In the
same village resided an antiquated
maiden lady, who, having no care of
her own to occupy her time and atten-
ton, magnanimously devoted herself to
those of her neighbors. One morning
she called at the doctors and requested
to see him. When he entered the room
where she was seated, he perceived at a
glance that something was amiss, and
before he had time to extend her the
usual How dye do?' she added
81 think, Mr.. Pond, that man of
your age and profession might have had
something better to do, when you were
in New London last week, than to buy
Enoch fiddle; and all the people are
ashamed that our minister should buy
his son fiddle! Oh. dear, what is the
world coming to, when ministers will do
such things p
"Who told you l had fiddler" in
CURED the doctor.
"Who told me? Why, everybody
says so, and some people have heard
him play on it as they passed the door.
But amt it true, doctor ?"
~ bought Enoch violin when went
to New London
"A violin what's that p
Did you never see oneY'
Never"
Enoch ~ said the doctor, stepping
to the door, bring your violin here"
Enoch obeyed the command, but no
sooner had he entered with his instru-
ment than the lady exclaimed:
La now; there why it is fd.
die"
"Do not judge harshly," said the
doctor, giving his son wink; "wait till
you hear it"
Taking the hint, Enoch played Old
Hundred. The lady was completely
mystified; it looked like fiddle, but
then who ever heard Old Hundred
played on fiddle. 1t could not be
So, rising to depart, she exclaimed: Z"
ana glad | came in to satisfy myself
La me just to think how people viii
! lie ~
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09

vast collections of curiosities from
America, China, India, and Europe,
which, it is feared, were not removed,
being Of little intrinsic value.
THE HOTEL DE VILE.
The Hotel de Vile was the place OF
assembly of the municipality of Paris,
and was erected and embellished at an
expense of upward of 100000. 1t
contained several magnificent state de-
partments, decorated in highly artistic
manner, and furnished at immense ex-
pense. All the revolutions of France
were associated with the guard hall OF
this building. From it Louis XVI.
spoke to the populace with the cap OF
liberty on his head. 1t was in this
edifice, also, that Robespierre held his
council and afterwa-d attempted to de.
stroy himself; and it was at one OF
these windows that Gen. Lafayette en-
braced Louis Philippe and presented
him to the people.
The Palais Royal, which has shared
in the general destruction, was one OF
the most remarkable palaces of Paris,
and was fitted up in splendid style for
Prince Jerome ald Prince Napoleon.
There were historical associations OF
deep interest connected with it.
The Palace of the Legion of Honor
was built in 1856. The interior was
decorated with with elegance. 1t was
the home of the Grand Chancellor OF
the Order.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
The DafOdils.

Down by the wood side warm and low,
Their happy lives they spend
Beside them the waters leap and How.
Above them the tall trees bend.
Around them the minstrel blackbird sings.
The thrush calls loudly near.
And they wear their golden crowns like kings
The fairest and first of the year.
The waves run bright with a sunny flow,
All down through the hazel bowers:
Sweety and softly they sing as they flow,
A song they have learnt from the flowers.
Summer comes on with her plonteous gifts
White roses and harebells blue
And the stately crimson foxglove lifts
His head where the dafiOdis grow.
The earth is fair and fowery realm,
And the west wind whispers low
Through the heavy boughs Of the thick-leayec
elm,
And down by the waters flow
Down by the brook that all day long
Glimmers undor the alder bowers;
But il singeth not now the old sweet song
That il learnt from the golden flowers.
The days of summer run brightly by,
But the waves have IA sad refrain,
Which cannot be still'd: nor its place be hlld
Till the datfodils blossom again.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
A Strawberry Story.

The st. Paul Press tells the following
story, the locality being that part of the
old Minnesota territory which is now
called Dacotah
1.-THE writer of this has seen scores of
miles of country, degree of latitude
north of Fort Totten, which has an al.
most continuous plantation of wild
strawberries, growing in many of the
richer spaces. not on horizontal vines,
but on bushes, many of them three and
four feet high, on which the clusters of
this delicious fruit attained a size rarely
reached by the most assiduous cultiva.
ton. So profuse was this native pro-
duction of strawberries on what is called
the Pembina mountain that the cart
wheels crushing the berries as they re-
volved, were fairly red with this wild
vintage of the plains, and left long
crimson trails, as of blood, behind them.
Wild strawberries are abundant in every
part OF the Red river valley; but on the
fertile plateau, known as the Pembina
mountain, remote from every human
settlement, they grow with luxuriance
which is simply astonishing, and, so far
as we know, unrivalled. 1t is the only
region where we ever met with the bush
strawberry, and the plant seems there
to take the upright form i'm the very
pride of its exuberant fruitfulness, as if
it disdained to creep along the earth
with its scarlet crown Of glory"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
Fertilizers for Potatoes.

An interesting experiment with pot
ash in the growth of potatoes has been
made by Mr.. Charles d. Hunter, OF
Blennerhosset. Cumberland, who COM
municates the results to the Mark Lane
Express. Mr.. Hunter experimental
upon several fields, the source OF pot
ash employed being muriate of potash
of so to SO per cent. strength priced at
los. Cd. per cwt. Mr.. Hunters recon-
mendations for potatoes are, super.
phosphate of lime, 6 l.2 cwt., muriate OF
potash, 3 cwt., and Sulphate OF am
monia, ID cwt. per acre. This will be
found for potatoes much better in coun-
teracting disease than farm-yard man
ure, and if the latter be valued at IS.
per ton laid down in the field, the
above mixture will be found cheaper,
even taking into consideration the after
effects of the farm-yard manure.
"These experiments" says MIR. Hunter,
"were tried upon Blennerhasset farm,
MANFRED and farmed by William Law
son, ESQ.,, and where in 1868 and 1869,
40 and 20 acres of potatoes have been
grown entirely with these chemical
manures and though IA and even Is
CWt. per acre nave DcCA dppiioo' viz
potatoes are to-day March 25) coming
out of the pits nearly as sound as wnen
they went in" The application of this
mixture in the case of grain cannot be
advised as a profitable investment.
"Upon grass CROP" Mr.. Hunter
states, erich in clover, the effects OF
potash are very marked, and when APP
piled in moderate quantities-say un-
der 20s. cost per acre-will generally
prove profitable if quality is wanted
but where a great weight per acre OF
rye grass is wanted, the addition of pot
ash to the manures suited for that pur-
pose has not proved profitable upon our
soils, though the quality Of the produce
was certainly improved. 1t has also
shown profitable results when applied
to turn ps, and probably all root crops
will pay for the use of potash along with
the ordinary manuring."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
Plan for Raising WatermelOns.

AS am very successful raising water
melons, thought | would send my
plan. The spot of ground that you ex-
pect to plant, prepare we'll early in the
spring, by blowing deep; the first OF
April lay off your hills eight feet apart
each way, dig out holes two feet deep,
two feet square in each hole put half
a peck Of rotted cotton.seed, half peck
of hog-pen manure and a tablespoonful
Of salt mix we'll with hoe. adding
soil until you get the hole full up to
three inches from the surface, then
draw on light loose dirt until you get it
level; do not elevate it, for, by so doing,
you cause them to die out when sum.
mer comes draw your hoe around to
form furrow plant half a dozen seed
in a hill-soon as up, thin out to four
second hoeing thin to two. Continue
to hoe them every four or five days, and
just before the vines start to run, side
with pillow, first one way, then the
other; pillow out first one way, then the
other-I mean cross-plowing. In about
ten days give another blowing and hoe
ing. Continue to keep the ground
loose just as long as you can do so with
out injuring the vines, for in no case
should they be moved. Drive little
sticks across the vines thus X. to keep
the wind from blowing them about.
BY the above plan, have gathered over
one thousand melons from half an acre
of ground, some weighing over forty
pounds.-Cor. Southern Cuhisator.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
Pasture for Pigs.

The Prairie Farmer, in answering the
query Of correspondent, says:
If you will turn your pigs into good
clover pasture, or, in the absence OF
such one, pasture of mixed grasses,
they will require little if any other food
than that which they can procure by
grazing from the time other stocks are
turned out till you can manure crop
of corn. OF course they must be well
supplied with water, and they will re-
quire salt the same as other kinds of
of stock. The most economical way OF
disposing Of skinned milk, ordinarily,
is to feed it TO stock hogs. They also
relish and derive advantage from char
coal and the ordinary soft Western coal.
Many of our best swine.raisers prefer
to summer their pigs on grass alone,
with the exception Of the articles we
have mentioned, believing that the ami.
mails are not only more cheaply kept in
that manner, but that they are much
more healthy. Where it is not conven.
lent to fence in an Enclosure for hog
pasture, it is comparative easy matter
to soil them during the summer. Ifthis
is done, the green food that is fed to
them should be raised very near the
yard where the hogs are kept, to save
the expense of moving it. Glover and
timothy, or, in fact, any of the quick
growing grasses, may be used to good
advantage for this purpose. Orchard
grass is said to be relished y hogs, and it
will bear cutting as often as once a
month.
In Canada they make use of oats and
peas, or oats and vetches or tarts, for
soilng hogs the plan being to sow once
fortnight throughout the season plot
of ground sufficiently large to produce
food enough to keep the hogs during
that length of time. In the New Eng
land States. where fewer hogs are kept,
and where it is not usual to let them
run at large, they rely largely on early
pastures to keep them through the
summer Several Eastern papers have
advocated planting largely of the Early
Rose potatoe each season, with q view
of feeding them to hogs. In our opin-
ion hogs would prefer almost any of the
substances we have named to raw tur-
nips, while we think they could be
easier raised.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
Strange Account Of q Girl Who Was &
Walking PincushiOn.

New Lisbon, Ohio, is certainly re-
markable town for sensations. Whether
this be owing to the peculiarities of the
people residing there and in the imme-
date vicinity, or to extreme fertility of
imagination on the part of the journal
lists of the place, we do not presume to
say, but verify some strange yarns origi-
nate Whereabouts. The latest, and per.
haps most remarkable, is the following,
which is from the New Lisbon journal
of Saturday: There is a family living
in the east end of st. Clair township,
this county, near the State line, whose
name has escaped our recollection, well
known in the community as respectable
people, wherein was girl Of some six
teen or seventeen years of age, appar-
emily i'll with chills and fever, but grad
ally kept growing worse until the doc
tors pronounced it typhoid fever, but
failed to cure. And she lay all last
winter with various symptoms of dis
ease, such as dyspepsia, liver complaint,
tape worm, &C., but the doctors did not
and could not tell what was the matter.
Finally, early this spring, she took to
bleeding at the lungs, with pain in her
stomach, side and one leg and foot,
which foot gathered at the heel, and
formed some matter, which the doctors
opened and took therefrom about one
dozen pieces of needles, and from which
they have taken at different times other
pieces Of needles, making in all "a or %
pieces out Of her heel, and about four
weeks ago one Of her breasts became
swollen, and upon examination, was
opened, and several pieces Of needles
and one pin taken out. And at various
times lately, till there have been 81
pieces of needles and four pins taken
from her breast and heel. The needles
appear to have been of various sizes,
and generally broken, in three pieces,
except in some of the smaller ones,
which are in two pieces. She is now in
comparative good health, so that she
visits Smiths Ferry almost every day to
have some pins or needles taken from
her breast or heel. The pins are all
bent as though there had been an effort
to break them in three pieces, and all
the needles appear more or less corrod-
ed from having been in contact with
the brass pins. How they got there is a
mystery that no one can solve. There
seems to be doubt that she swallowed
them, but how or when no one knows,
nor how many are yet to come out OF
her system.
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such manner that when left to them
selves and unsupported, they imme-
diately shut off the supply of water and
empty the pipes. They are prevented
from doing this in ordinary weather by
being suspended from small tube OF
glass containing water and especially
manufactured for the purpose. When
a sharp frost occurs this tube is broken
by the freezing of the water within,
and the valves, thus losing their sup
port, fall and shut off the water. Like
the governor of steam engine, the
contrivance is self-regulating-the sharp
or the frost the less it freezes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09

The Pine Grove correspondent OF the
Rochester Democrat says that he attend
ed church in the little place one
Wednesday evening, saw the contribu-
ton box passed, and when most of the
congregation had retired heard Parson
Wilks, Deacon Amory, and John Wiley
quarreling about the possession and
amount of the money deposited by the
good people. Seeing that it would take
some time to settle their little disagree.
ments, they adjourned to a neighboring
tavern to count the money. First the
parson counted it, contriving to slip a
fifty-cent note up his coat sleeve during
the process, and reported $6.42. Then
Mr.. Wiley, unsatisfed with the tellers
report, took the matter in hand but
could find only S6.l7. Then the deacon
went for it, but his hads We're so sticky
that he could find but S5.l7. Truly
this is strange" said the parson "let
me count it again; we ought to make il
agree;' but when he looked at it he
could discern but 1892, which Wiley
found to be too much, for on recounting
it he could find but S4.S2. And so the
precious trio continued TO count, till
Parson Wilks said 4: "This money seems
to be enchanted; it taketh unto itself
the wings of dove and fieth away 3
and the deacon proposed that as there
now seemed to be but So left, they
should each take fifty cents as remu
neration for their arduous services
They agreed, and the deacon signed q
receipt for $3.50.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09

A STRANGE AFFAIR.-A young man
James Brown, in company with friend
named James H. Sapp, went to Fall
creek, Ind, short distance from India
napolis recently. In the car were two
young girls, whom they invited to ac-
company them. Brown remarked that
he believed he would drown himself.
The two young men stripped and went
into the creek. Brown fioated a while
upon his back, and then sank. His
disappearance alarmed Sapp, who tried
to find his body. The neighborhood
was aroused, and after several hours the
body was recovered near where it sank.
The young man was the dependence of
a widowed mother, was industrious and
of good habits, and no cause can be de-
vined for the act, which would be re-
garded as accidental but for his remark
that he would drown himself.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09

TOMATO TRELLIsEs.-The cheapest and
most convenient trells for tomatoes is,
to make a four-square frame for every
hill, of four pieces of hard wood, two
feet long and one inch square, for the
four corner posts. Let three pieces of
lath, each one foot long, be nailed on
each side. Such trellises will cost only
a few cents each, and they will save
four times their cost in the value of
tomatoes. Let such trellis be placed
over each hill, before the plant has be-
gun to bend sideways; then the fruit
will all be kept off the ground. This
kind of trellises may be made in the
winter, or when laborers cannot work
advantageously at some other employ.
ment. If made of durable timber, and
carefully stored during winter in pile
on one side of the field, they will last
half score of years or more, especially
if they are dipped in kettle of hot
coal tar, before they are to be placed
over the tomato hill.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
Modes of Sanitation.

The usual salutation at Carols, "How
do you sweat PA dry, hot skin being
sure indication of destructive ephe-
neral fever.
Greenlanders have none, and laugh at
the idea of one person being superior to
another.
persons hand or foot, and rub il over
their face.
Laplanders apply their nose against
the person whom they salute, very
strongly.
In the Straits of the Sound, they raise
the left foot of the person addressed,
pass it gently over the right leg, and
thence to the face.
The inhabitants of the PHILIPPINES
bend very low, placing their hands on
their cheeks, and raise one foot in the
air, with the knee bent.
The Dutch who are considered as
great have morning salutation, COM
mon among all classes" Smaakely-
keeten." ("May you eat hearty din
merry Another is, "Hoe waart 1--WE p
{" How do you sail ?")-adopted, no
doubt, in the early periods of the Re-
public, when they were all navigators
and fishermen.
Some author has observed, in con-
trasting the naughty Spaniard with the
frivolous Frenchman, that the proud,
steady gait and inhexible solemnity of
the former were expressed in his mode
of salutation-" Comic esta?' - How
do you stand Ply while the Comment
vous porter vous Pr {" How do you carry
yourself?'') was equally expressive of
the gay motion and incessant action OF
the latter.
In some parts of Africa, a young wo-
man, an intended brings little water
in calabash, and, kneeling down be-
fore her lover, desires him TO wash his
hands. When he has done this, the
girl, with tear of JOY sparkling in her
eyes, drinks the water. This is consid-
cred the greatest proof she can give him
of her fidelity and attachment.
An Ethiopian takes the robe of an
other and ties it about him, so as TO
leave him almost naked.
The japanese take off a slipper, and
the people of Arracum their sandals in
the street, and their stockings in the
house, when they salute.
Two negro kings on the coast of AZ
"ica salute by swapping the middle
finger three times.
The inhabitants of Carmine, when
they show particular attachment, open
a vein and present their blood to the
friend as beverage.
If the Chinese meet after a long sep
aration, they fall on their knees, bend
their faces to the earth two or three
times, and use many other affected
modes. They have also kind of rit
ual, or academy Of bows, by which they
regulate the number Of bows, genuflex
ions, and words to be spoken on certain
occasions. Ambassadors practice these
ceremonies forty days before they APP
pear at court. The common salutatior
in the southern provinces of China
among the lower orders is, Z" Yafen ?
{" Have you eaten your rice?'O
In Otaheite they rub their noses to
gether.