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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

GAMBETTA INTERVIEWED. A CORE
spondent had personal interview with
Gambetta on the 18th. | asked whether
the war would be continued if Paris
fell.
He replied with great earnestness that
" the fail of Paris would have no effect
whatever in stopping the war if the
Russians conditions of peace were
maintained but | cannot bring myself
to believe that Paris will capitulate. |
believe that the people themselves
would burn her like second Moscow
before they would allow the enemy to
take possession"
But supposing she does capitulate,"
| asked, "what then p
In that case,n said Gambetta, eve
must fight in the Provinces. We have
now, without the Army of Paris, half a
ter of a million ready to join them,
without touching the levy of 1871 or the
enrolled married men. The former will
give three hundred thousand recruits,
and the latter two million able men.
We have arms pouring in from all quar-
ters."
In regard to England, Gambetta spoke
with some bitterness. He said that
country had made fatal mistake when
she allowed fear and selfshness to pre-
vent her interference in allowing France
to be dismembered and destroyed. Eng
land has lost her only ally on the Con-
tinent; has virtually handed over the
balance of power to Prussia, whose close
and secret alliance with Russia is un-
questionable No one with sense can
doubt that in ten years we shall see
Russia at Constantinople, Prussia in
Holland, Belgium in Trieste, and the
whole control of the world handed over
to those Powers. The Car looks fur
Their westward toward English possess
sions."
81 believe myself" said Gambetta,
" the English people now see their error,
and will hold the Ministers responsible
when Parliament meets"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

BRUTAL MuRDER.-About one o'clock
Sunday morning, J. 5. Weisner, a clerk,
was brutally murdered on Franklin
street bridge at Titusville. He was found
lying upon his back with his arms out
stretched, his head and neck covered
with fearful gashes, and his abdomen
pierced by a pointed blade. No clue
has been found to the murderers.
The pockets of the murdered man were
turned inside out. The motives of the
assassination are shrouded in mystery.
The deceased was man of good habits,
and not known to have an enemy. He
carried no valuables on his dress, was
very plain, and not person who would
be attacked for motives OF robbery. One
theory of the public is that he was mis-
taken for another man. The only child
of the deceased, who was a widower, is
alleged to be the heir of an immense
landed estate in the city of Chicago. 1t
is suspected that a pecuniary. motive
existed for putting the deceased out of
the way. None of these suppositions
seem we'll supported by the evidence.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

CLERICAL INAPTITUDE.-Unworthy men
occasionally find their way into the min
istry of every denomination. AS rule,
however, their misdeeds are generally
discovered. The following instance OF
impertinent clerical officiousness,
promptly rebuked, comes to rs from a
Kansas correspondent:
Old DR.. - is Kentuckian, fond of
a cigar and a little game of cards. In his
employ was young man who, though
professedly a Methodist, had so far
backslidden as to play a little some
times. The two were sitting in the
house one rainy day having a game of
euchre. The Rev. Mr. -, the resi-
dent Methodist minister dropped in,
and after glancing at the doctors hand
passed around the young man, took a
seat, and quietly watched the game.
The young man was about to play GER
tain card, when the minister whispered
to him:
" Don't play that; if you do you'll be
euchred sure"
Whereupon the doctor, waxing irate,
said:
" See here, Mr.. -, / amt playing
this game against the whole Methodist
Conference. If the Conference wants
to put up a V, I'll play them rub
This reverend brother was soon dis.
covered to be mistake" and was de.
posed from the ministry Harpcr'S
Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

Two DUTcH FARMERS at Undertook,
whose farms were adjacent. were out in
their respective fields, when one heard
an unusually loud hallooing in the di.
rection of gap in high stone wall and
ran with all speed to the place, and the
followings brief conversation ensued :
"Shon, vat ish tie matter?" Veil,
den," says Shon, ~ was trying to climb
on tie top of dish high stone wall, and !
fell off, and all tie stone wall tumble
down onto me, and has broken one OF
mine legs off and both of mine arms,
smashed my rib in, and deese pig stones
are laying on de top of mine body.
:" Ish dat all ?" says the other; "vy, you
hollow so loud | tot you got te toot-
ache"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
The Bank OF st. George, Genoa.

The Bank Of st. George was politi-
cal anomaly monetary phenomenon
that for four hundred years was the
marvel of European finance. A body
corporate, distinct from and indepen-
dent of the civil authorities, having its
own separate laws, officers, and admins
tration, it affords the rare spectacle of a
sovereignty within a soverignty-a strange
and ingenious politico financial contri-
vance, which eXcitedat once the wonder
and admiration of European capitalists
and political economists.
| Founded upon an abstraction, with a
national debt for its capital, and a bank
rupt treasury as sinking fund, with no
other security than the faith of the re-
public and the integrity of its directors,
its shares, nevertheless, command a
premium, and its bills were preferred to
coin. Gradually absorbing first the rev.
enues, and then the colonial possessions
Of the state, it had the custom-house for
an auxiliary, extensive colonies as col
latterals, with the wealth of the Levant
and the Indies as reserve fund. For
eign capitalists became its depositors,
sovereign princes its creditors, moribund
millionaires remembered it muniicently
in their legacies, while fire, plague, and
pestilence, by dimishing its liabilities,
augmented its resources.
1t was not, then, simply banking
house, exercising the ordinary functions
of bank of deposit, exchange, and cir
culation. 1t coined money, constructed
dock. yards, improved harbors, built
bonded warehouses, monasteries, chur-
ches, public bake-shops, and ducal pla
ces. 1t erected Notifications and manned
them, it CONSTRUCTED galleysand equipped
them, it acquired provinces and gov
erned them. 1t was savings-bank, a
sinking fund.- a revenue office, and, as
the prototype of the East India Com
pany, politico- commercial oligarchy,
that "made war like merchants, and en-
gagged in commerce like sultans."
AT time when the magnificent finan-
cial schemes Of John Law and the burst
ing of the great Mississippi Bubble"
were involving Paris in beggary, and
threatening the financial world in bank
ruptcy, st. George could boast the most
solid and substantial credit in Europe,
and became the model upon which were
subsequently organized the celebrated
banks of England and Amsterdam.
With an unlimited credit, at moments
notice it could draw all the gold of
Genoa into its vaults, and that, too when
the trivial sea-sueens" controlled the
rich commerce of the Indies; when
Genoa alone could dictate terms to the
Emperor of Constantinople, it main
tanned navy comparable to that Of
England or the United States, and
fought naval battles to which few mod
ern sea-fghts, except those Of Nelson or
Farragut, afford parallel.-Harper'S
Magazine for Febru ug.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

BYRoN's GRAvE.-ln Germany the fact
is being commented upon that Byrons
grave, at HacknaK Forkard-a small,
mean town some sixty miles from Not
tingham, England-is now more than
half forgotten by the world, though the
works of the poet seem to increase in
popularity as time goes on.
1t will be remembered that all that
remains to mark the place where the
author Of "Childe Harold was laid in
a simple white marble slab, erected 10y
Augusta Leigh Some months since a
writer in the London Times proposed
that Byron's remains should be removed
To the Poets Corner in Westminster
Abby. Surely, if genius only is con.
sidered, not one of the poets of England
had, or has, better right to lie in that
precious little nook than Byron
Shakespeare excepted.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

The JEWS IN RoME.-Among the con-
sequences of the annexation of the
Papal territory to the kingdom of Italy
is the elevation of the Jews to the rank
of citizens. BY a decree of Victor
Emanuel, all the inhabitants Of this ter
ritory are now placed on an equality
with his other subjects, and this has
liberated the Jews from the expressions
to which they have always been sub
.jected in the Papal capital. They were
brought there in great numbers after
the destruction of Jerusalem, in the
days Of the ancient Roman empire, and
when the ascendency of the church
begun, they were subjected to the most
stringent regulations and the severest
privations. They have still. however,
remained in the city, and in many in
stances have become rich and prosper
Gus, though they have generally pre-
sented the outward appearance only Of
poverty and wretchedness. They were
compelled to live in a quarter of the
city specially designated for them, and
were locked up by the police in their in
closure every night. They were long
deprived of nearly every civil right, and
were for the most part left to be visited
with every sort of cruelty which Chris
tians might choose to practice upon
them. Their only security for centuries
consisted in avoiding the notice alike of
the authorities and of the people of the
city.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
"What the Engines Said on the Compile.
tiOn of the Pacific Railroad,

u
What was IL the engines said,
Pilots touching-head to head
Facing on the single track,
Half "A world behind each back?
This is what the engines said,
Unreported and unread
With predatory screech
In a tlorid Western speech,
Said the engine from the West:
! am from Sierras crest;
And, If attitudes test.
Why, | reckon it's confessed
That I've done my level best"
Said the engine from the East
They who work best talk the least,
Spose you whistle down your brakes;
What you've done is no great shakes
Pretty fair-but let our meeting
BE different kind of greeting,
Let those folks with champagne stuting,
Not the engines. do the pulling.
Listen Where Atlantic.beats
Shores of snow and summer heats;
Where the Indian autumn skies
Paint the woods with wampum dyes,
/ have chased the flying sun,
Seeing all he looked upon,
Bless ing all that he has blest,
Nursing in my iron breast
All his vivifying heat,
All has clouds about my crest;
And before my flying feet
Every shadow must retreat"
Said the Western engine. "Phewv'
And long, low whistle blew
Come now, really that's the oldest
Talk for one so modest.
You brag Of your East You do?
Why, bring the East to you
All the Orient, all Cathay,
Find through me the shortest way
And the sun you follow here
Rises in my hemisphere.
Really-if one must be rude
Length, my friend. amt longitude"
Said the Union: Don't reflect, or
I'll run over some Director"
Said the Central I'm Pacific,
But, when riled I'm quite terrific,
Yet to-day we will not quarrel,
Just to show these folks this moral
How two engines-in their vision
Once have met without collision"
That is what the engines said,
UnrepOrted and unread;
Spoken slightly through the nose,
With n whistle at the close.
Bret HGrtc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.-A fire broke
out in the Halliday House, Kenesha,
Wis, on the 3lst, at about a. m., and
spread with great rapidity. The guests
OF the hotel were aroused as rapidly as
possible, but the fire spread so fast that
it was impossible to visit all the rooms.
Mrs. j. b. Merrill and four children,
who occupied front room on the Sec
ond floor, were cut off from the stairway
by the flames, and persisted before as.
sistance could reach them. Osmond
Capron and T. Fuller were rescued after
being so badly burned that their recovery
is very doubtful. Mr.. IT. r. Chase was
badly Injured by jumping from third
story window. Several others of the
guests received slight wounds and burns.
The chsrred remains of Mrs. Merrill
and her four children were taken from
the ruins in the afternoon. The cook of
the hotel, named Edward Waller, is
missing, and it il feared he has been
burned to death. The origin Of the fire
is unknown.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

The defeat of the Prussians on Sun.
day, at Dion, was complete. Ricciotti
Garibaldi destroyed the Sixty first Prus-
sian Regiment. The French behaved
heroically. After the battle the Prus-
slams retreated toward Mesigny and Sa-
vigny.le-Sur.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

GERMAN EXPLORATIONS IN GREENLAND.
Our readers will remember that the
German exploring expedition which
went out in 1860 for the purpose of
Arctic discovery has lately returned
home, the sailing vessel of the eXpedi-
ton having been wrecked on the coast
of Greenland, her entire crew, however,
being saved The steamer returned M
good condition. Enough Of the results
of the expedition have been published
to furnish the means of judging, to
some extent, Of the advantages secured,
which are thought to be of great inter-
est not the least being the acquisition
of a foothold Of property in the north,
possession having been taken of a pre-
viously unoccupied portion Of the coast
of Greenland; extending for abont thirty
German miles, or from latitude 750 to
latitude 10. An apology is made for
the absence ofany considerable amount
Of actual discovery, on account Of the
excessive rigor of the winds, this being
very much greater than that expert
enced in the neighboring regions dur
ing the previous explorations on the
part of English vessels. The portion of
Greenland explored by this expedition
is characterized by a very deep ford,
the head of which was not reached in a
distance of over eighty miles and it is
thought to be not impossible that it ex-
tended all the way across to the water
on the opposite side.
The most interesting feature of the
land, however, was the occurrence of
extensive meadows, starred with
flowers, with butterflies and bees play
ing about them, and having large herds
grazing near by of reindeer and musk
oxen. The lowest temperature expert
enced was about $50 Fair, this occur
ring on the DIST of February, 1870. The
wind was found to be of extraordinary
severity, Robinson's thermometer indi-
eating a rate Of velocity of sixty-seven
miles in the hour, which, it was be-
lieved, would render sledging parties
entirely impracticable The auroral
light, to the surprise of the beholders,
who expected to see it in the west or
southwest, was actually in the south
east.
Among the geological discoveries were
beds of brown coal, and numerous fossil
remains. Deep-sea soundings were
made, and collections taken from a
depth of 800 fathoms. One important
conclusion arrived at by the expedition
was that small vessels were suited for
polar exploration, and that it would be
madness to attempt, as is proposed by
the French, the use Of thousand-ton
ship. Steamers, too, were believed to
be the only form of vessels suited for
research on the eastern coast of Green
land, any thing like reaching the coast
in a sailing vessel being entirely out of
the question.-Editor'S Scientific Record IN
Harper'S Magazine for February.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

An INCIDENT OF LOUIS NAPOLEON s
BoYHooD.-Max Ring, the German au-
thor. has published new book, en-
titled Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,' in
which he gives the following anecdote
Of the early years of the exEmperor ::
When very little fellow he used to
pass, on his way to school, blacksmith
shop, around which he sometimes lott
cred. One day he made the discovery
that the blacksmith was in the habit Of
lighting his pipe with a long rod of iron,
and, watching for favorable opportu-
nifty, he drew the rod out of the fire and
replaced it with the hot end left stick
ing out, so that when the smith re-
turned in few seconds after tenn
porary absence, and, unconscious of the
change, took hold of the rod to draw it
out of the fire, to light his pipe as usual,
he burned his hand badly. His excla-
nation of pain and surprise was re-
sponded to by burst Of uncomfortable
laughter from the irrepressible Louis,
who had hidden himself away some
where to enjoy the success of his nice
little practical joke, and who thus, de
spite of himself, had revealed his secret
and his hiding-place. The consequence
was that he received the best beating
that he probably ever got in his life (Se-
dan excepted from the old smith,
whose name was Mayer, and who is still
living and well to do near Elbing.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
SpOnges from the Florida Reef.
Bret HGrtc.

Sponges were very numerous, though
we were told that Il large portion We're
not worth gathering. The sponger
could readily distinguish the best as he
pushed his boat over them. Some of
the coarser kinds, not marketable, are
four feet III diam eter. They are all
more or less concave at the apex. A
black membrancous tunic covers them,
and soft jelly-like portions project into
the pores and cavities, constituting the
slight claim they have to a place in the
animal kingdom. Animal mucus and
fat oil have been found in their analysis
so the vexed question is settled by
chemistry, and they are unquestionably
admitted to the ranks of animated ha
ture, though far from active members.
A slight current is observable over the
openings, and nourishment is probably
absorbed as it circulates through them.
The framework is made up of silica, a
wonderful proportion, in the form of
specule or splinters. Unlike most
other marine objects, sponge is less at
tractive in its living state; only after
the soft parts are removed is it pleasing
to the eye. The pretty urn and other
shaped sponges found on the beaches
are merely the skeletons.
A large trade is now carried on at Key
West in this article. Small schooners,
from ten to twenty tons burden, are en-
ployed. They are much the shape Of
half an egg, and as flat as is consistent
with due regard to sailing qualities APP
preaching, probably, as near as is posi-
bic the mythic craft that is said to
" float in a heavy dew" These vessels
lie at anchor in the channels, while the
spongers push their small boats over the
flats to gather the sponge. In some
places they dive for it, and in shoal wa
ter grapple them. The specimens are
very heavy, being loaded with water
and the jelly like animal matter. They
are buried in the sand of the beaches
until the matter is decomposed, when
they are washed and carried to Key
West, collected upon strings of conve-
nient length, and bleached in the sun.
That portion of Key West called Conch-
town is the principal depository, where
the yards and fences are loaded with
them. For many years nearly all the
sponge collected on the Florida reef
was sold at Key West to an lsraelte of
New York, one Isaacs latterly others
haye entered the trade, and very re-
spectacle income is derived from it.
Harper'S Magazine for February.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

SUPPOSED NATURAL ORIGIN OF SOME
FOREST FIREs.-The great frequency of
fires during summer in the pine forests
of Germany and France, under circum-
stances where there was no suspicion of
accidental or willful incendiarism, has
suggested to Mr.. Schrader the idea that
these may possibly be in measure
spontaneous. In most of these forests
the resin is collected in large quantity
from punctures made in the bark, and
an emulation of the same substance
may take place whenever the bark is
accidentally cracked. Mr.. Sehrader
suggests that the tear-shaped drops of
resin, in running from the tree, may
form lenses, through which the rays of
the sun may be concentrated, and act
upon the inflammable surroundings, and
thereby set fire to them. In many cases,
possibly, a vapor of escaping turpentine
may also, by its combustibility, cause
the fire to spread with greater rapidity.
Haper'S Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

DEATH OF AN IRISH NoBLEMAN.-The
Marquis of IIeadfort, who died lately in
Ireland, was step-father of Lady Lisgar,
wife of the Governor General of Canada.
He twice married widows; his second
wife being widow of Sir William Mac
naughten, who was murdered in India
some twenty-five years ago. Lord Head
forts eldest son, the Earl of Beehive,
married the only child of Alderman
Thompson, of London. This lady had
a fortune of "a, SOC, 900 in money, besides
large real estate. At her death all went
to her son, who, reversing the usual
order of things, made his father an
allowance.
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HOME MIRTH.-Don't be afraid of a
little fun at home, good people Don't
shut up your houses lest the sun should
fade your carpets, and your hearts, lest
hearty laugh should shake down some
Of the musty old cobwebs there. If you
want to ruin your sons, let them think
that all mirth and social enjoyment
must be left on the threshold without,
when they come home at night. When
once a home is regarded as only place
to eat, drink and sleep in, the work is
begun that ends in gambling-houses and
reckless degradation. Young people
must have fun and relaxation some
where; if they do not find it at their
hear;hstones, it will be sought at other
and perhaps less profitable places.
Therefore, let the fire burn brightly at
night, and make the homestead delight
full with all those little arts that parents
so perfectly understand. Don't repress
the buoyant spirits of your children.
Half an hour Of merriment round the
lamp and freight of home blots out
the remembrance Of many care and
annoyance during the day; and the
best safeguard they can take with them
into the world is the unseen influence
of bright little domestic sanctum.
Canada Farmer.