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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-13

second premium Of SO was taken by
w. L. Moon, who made IL pounds in
the week from pure Jersey cow. both
COWS were on pasture only.
A LECTURER at Cornell University re-
commends variety of grasses in seed
ing meadows. English farmers often
SOW as many as rs varieties when laying
down pastures.
A VERMONT farmer says sheep are the
most profitable stock he can keep; hay
fed to sheep has brought him SIS "A ton
in wool and lambs, while that fed TO
cows yielded only 81, and there is less
labor In sheep.raising than in dairying.
FRESH eggs, according to the Prairie
Farmer, afford great nourishment TO
weak animals. 1t tells of colt which
TO al appearances was nearly dead, the
breath OF life being barely perceptible,
which almost instantly revived by Civ.
ing it one or two fresh eggs. The same
results have attended the administer.
ing of eggs to weak cattle, and TO fee.
Bile, chilled lambs. The remedy is
simple one, and farmers would do we'll
to bear it in mind.
AMERICAN nurserymen generally bud
trees in the following order, beginning
with each when the bark separates
freely from the wood Plums, cherries,
aprcots, pears, apples, ounces, and
peaches. When one is anxious to fruit
in a short time new variety, "a piece OF
the young wood with three or four eyes
may be beveled on one side and insert
ed in the same way as bud, and when
carefully done the graft will grow, and,
if circumstances favor, produce fruit in
two years.
SAwDUsT may be used as a mulch, but
will not answer for manure. If it is
applied in sufficient quantities to keep
down the weeds, a little lime should
occasionally be added to prevent acid
ity in the soil, as we'll as to destroy
fungi which is always present in decay
ing wood. AS a rule, do not think it
would be advisable to use sawdust as a
mulch for grapevines, although there
may be soils where it might be applied
with good results.
JOSEPH HARRIS says summer fallows
on strong, clayey land are often the best
and cheapest means of killing weeds
and enriching soil at the same time. A
true summer fallow is preparing land
for crop, and then not sowing It until
the next season. 1t cleans the land
and concentrates the plant.food, which
is rendered available in two years into
manure for one crop. Instead of rails
ing two wheat crops of fifteen bushels
each, it enables us to raise crop OF
thirty bushels, and cleans the land at
the same time.
A CORRESPONDENT makes the sensible
remark that, winter or summer, except
in stormy times, there is no place SC
comfortable for colts or tired work.
horses as good pasture lot. To tie up
horse at night in a narrow cell, with
plank floor to stand on, is a species OF
cruelty that civilization ought to be
ashamed of. If the poor animal must
be confined like convict in dun
geon, for PHYS sake let him have his
head, and give him at least twelve feet
square, with soft dry floor to stand oil
| Ito on
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Wheat 10 Bring A High Price.

Mr.. Joseph Harris, OF New York,
who has long been known as an intelli.
gent writer upon matters pertaining to
agricultural affairs, offers the following,
through the columns of the New York
Tribune
81 have contended ever since last
harvest, that wheat would bring a high
price this summer. based my opinion
principally on the fact that Mr.. Lawes's
experimental field showed that the
wheat crop of England was decidedly
below the average, and that consequent.
ly there would be an active demand for
export. | know, too, or | think /
know, that our surplus is rarely as large
rs is estimated. Our population is rap
idly increasing. Taken as a whole, we
are the most active and industrious PEG.
pie in the world. Just now, especially,
there is a great demand for labor. We
work hard, get high wages, and require
and will have abundance of good food.
An man earning his 81 rs or 81 day on
railroad can afford t. eat bread from
The best wb eat -four. Few of us realize
how much wheat 100000 of people
will eat in 365 days. Just after harvest
every year, the millers, spectators,
railroad bulls, and newspaper CORE
spondepts all unite to exaggerate the
yield of the wheat crop. Wheat may
not bring price equal to the actual
cost of production but no matter, far
mers are urged to sell, and when wheat
is low we are all more inclined to sell
than when it brings high price. Last
fall we sold freely, and large quantities
were shipped abroad and as soon as
the surplus was got rid of, and the re-
naming wheat was in the hands OF
those able to hold, up 60 prices to "a
point far higher than the price abroad
would warrant, We sell our wheat to
the English at less than the cost of pro-
duction, and make our own consumers
in the end pay the loss
81 am not prepared to suggest a
remedy. | leave that to ADLER men.
But one thing feel certain of, farmers
need not abandon their business on &C
count of temporary low prices. There
is chance for US yet. Let us study to
raise good crops, improve our stock,
keep up the fertility Of our farms, vote
for honest men, and we need have no
fear that the country is going to the
dogs, or that agricultural products on
the whole will not sell for what they
are worth. We want to raise better
wheat, better beef, better pork, better
mutton, better cheese, and better but
ter. The best is the cheapest, and /
think consumers are beginning TO find
| it OUT
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The Press in Russia.

In Russia the newspaper is not what
it is in America. For seven years the
press of the two great cities, Moscow
and st. Petersburg, has been compare
lively free. All censorship and admin.
istrative interference was at that time
abolished, and any attack upon the
Government has been punishable only
through the courts. The Government
has latterly found that the common
law is very inadequate means OF keep.
ing the press in order, as it has been re-
peatedly non suited in charges against
opposition papers, thereby stimulating
the latter TO greater vigor and energy
in their attacks instead of Furnishing
them. The law courts are entitled to
condemn only the open avowal OF
reasonable or otherwise punishable
principles, whereas attacks by implica-
ton and insinuation at present pass I'M
censured. As might have been expect
ed, the Government grew tired Of being
forever defeated, and took the only
possible means of preventing the repe'
tition of such a result. Whether muz.
cling will be found in the end a more
polite method than allowing free speech
is doubtful matter.
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Scientific and Practical.

The British Museum now possesses
920 specimens of serpents, represented
by $500 examples.
THE chisels used for breaking the
chains of rock in the rapids near
Davenport, Iowa, weigh each from
1000 to 5000 pounds, are about fifteen
feet long, and one foot in diameter.
A FEATURE of one of the mountains of
Georgia is the vernal belt, about half
way up the east side, which is never in.
.iured by frost, even when every thing at
the foot and top of the mountain is
killed by the nipping cold.
In his experiments on the freezing of
water, Boussingault, the French chem
list, has proved that water cannot be
frozen so long as it is confined within
steel cylinders which render expansion
impossible.
IT may not be generally known that
snake poison is used for medicinal pur.
poses in these days, and that, under the
name of "Crotalus Horridus," the poi
son of the rattlesnake is utilized in
homeopathic pharmacy.
A rLAN has been submitted to the
French Academy for storing wheat in
portable sheetiron granaries, in which
a vacuum is maintained equal to at least
from three to four inches of mercury,
this being found sufficient to destroy all
insect life and to insure the evaporation
of any moisture in the grain.
A CALIFORNIA man has patented de.
vice for the purpose of effecting on the
stages of theaters the rising, sinking,
rolling and pitching motions of vessels
at sea. So perfect is the imitation that,
in connection with sheet.iron thunder,
saltpeter lightning and bellows wind,
the actors are made seasick.
A PIECE Of bituminous coal lying on
some dry pine boards, against the side
of building in Millport, n. Y, spon-
taneously burst into flames on one of
the recent hot days. 1t had been ex.
posed to the rays of the sun nearly all
day, the thermometer ranging from 100
to los degrees in the shade.
A GENTLEMAN, addicted TO scientific
inquiry, has discovered that thirty.three
days complete the cycle of the potato
bug generation that seven hundred OF
the critters are the average product OF
one female, from which the family grows
in the second generation to 245,0 900, and
in the third TO So, 100000.
THv use Of mineral oils has never been
ties ed in this country, as such oils have
been considered unsafe. The French
Bureau of Lighthouses claim to have
overcome objections, and are now sue.
cessfully using coal oil, at very great
saving to the Government
OSE of the uses of storms, according
to DR.. Angus Smith, seems to be to sup.
ply the world with salt, derived from the
waters of the ocean. A friend of
mine," he says, "tells me that the
amin ais on the high Alps are peculiarly
attracted 10y salt, as if the height pre-.
vented the usual supply in the rains"
Two CASES have occurred in Germany.
one at Frankfort and one at Jena, where
persons using green glazed paper shades
were attackedwith symptoms of arsenical
poisoning, which only ceased when the
use of the shades was discontinued.
The heat volatilizes the small amount of
arsenic present, rendering its effect
most dangerous.
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The Spinner.

TRANSLATED PROM THE GERMAN OF yOss.
sat and spun before my door.
youth along the road came straying;
His hazel eyes a deep smile wore.
And bushes on his cheek were playing.
Ny glance was from the distah won;
/ sat abashed, a d spun and spun.
In friendly tones. Good day u" he spoke.
With timid grace approaching nigher.
Startled was |. the thread II broke,
Ny foolish heart leapt hig er and higaer.
The thread once more / fastened on,
And sat abashed. and spun and spun.
lie clasped with tender touch my hand.
And vowed none could with 1t compare
The very loveiiest in the land.
So swan-like, plump. and dainty iair'
As with his praise my heart he won,
sat abashed. and spun and spun.
Upon nv chair he laid his arm.
And praised the finely wroughten tnread'
So near his mouth. so red and warm.
How gently sweetest maid it said
The while he gazed my face upon.
1 sat abashed, and spun and spun.
His handsome face toward my own
Meantime he bent, with chances winhlhg'
Ny head that nodded in the spinning;
lie kissed me, this audacious one!
sat abashed. and spun and spun.
7 turned. reproof in earnest tone
Upon his forwardness bestowlng;
He clasped me close, and. holder grown,
He kissed my face with bushes glowing.
O. tell me, sisters-every one
Is't strange that now no more spun
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-13
A Clever EscaDe.

AT one of the Partisan concert sa.
looms is "a Chinese waiter, who dresses
in the European fashion, wearing his
pigtail coled round his head. He
speaks French tolerably well, and ex.
cites much curiosity on account of his
strange history. He was formerly in
the service of the Empress of China.
who had contided to him the charge of
certain fan, representing the imperial
dragon, worked in green upon yellow
field. The fan was sacred affair, and
descended from the late Emperor, and
the Empress intended to deliver it to
her son upon the day of his marriage.
Unhappily, Tsang one day broke the
fan, and was condemned in consequence
to decapitation. Being a person of in.
genuity, however, Tsang managed to
extricate himself from his dilemma by
selling the throat of his intended exc.
cutioner before that functioner had
drawn his sword, and thus strangled
him. AS there was no witness TO this
affair, he dressed himself in the extinct
executioner's attire, escaped without
suspicion, and embarked upon a
French steamer which was about leav.
ing port.
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Varieties.

ALL fish caught in seines are net
profits.
The happy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. be-
tween two ladies.
A LApY's last glass before going to bed
The looking-glass.
WHEN is man 'scapegrace? When
he is late at dinner.
MIss-coNsTRUcTIoN-W halebone, wad-
ding, powder, and paint.
TIE We stern wits now call bigamy
Utah-lizing the female sex.
AN old hat is said to be like an iron
kettle because it represents hard wear.
EVERY man may be said to be in
tight place." when he enters a bar
room.
A BIG dose of 'lasses and water-One
hundred and thirty.tive blooming dam
sells all bathing in the surf at one time.
Why are washerwomen the silliest of
people? Because they put out their
tubs to catch soft water when 1t rains
hard.
A YOUNG woman once married man
bv the name of Dust, against the wish
Of her parents. After a short time they
began to Quarrel, and she attempts to
return to her fathers house, but he
refused to receive her, saying: Dust
thou art, and unto Dust thou shalt
return And she got up and " dust
ed
WHEN was Rome built ?" asked a
school committeeman OF the first class
in ancient history. I" In the night"
answered bright little girl. " In the
night I" exclaimed the astonished ex-
aminer. How do you make that
out ?" "Why, l thought everybody
knew that Rome wasn't built in
day."
CoRPULEST old lady-"I should like
a ticket for the train" Booking clerk
| (who thinks he will make joke
% Yes'm will you 60 in the passenger
train, or in the cattle train? ?" Lady
"Well, if you are specimen OF what
shall experience in the passenger train,
give me ticket for the cattle train by
all means"
"WHY does the operation of hanging
kill man ~ asked medical professor
of his class. Because" replied one of
the students, "inspiration is checked,
circulation is stopped, and the blood
suffuses and congests the BRAIN
Fudge" said another, "it is simply
because the rope isn't long enough to
let his feet touch the ground"
IN recent debate member of the
California Legislature exclaimed: "The
honorable gentleman from Calaveras
county is undoubtedly person of great
Abilities man of talent-a natural
born genius; but there is one thing |
defy him to do and that is, TO bite the
bottom oft ct'a FIRING Pan oittOm shutting
has nose"
A YOUNG lady at an evening party,
some time ago, found it apropos to use
the expression, " Jordan is a hard road
to travel" but thinking that too vulgar,
substituted the following: "Perambu
lating progression in pedestrian excur.
sion along the far-famed thoroughfare
of fortune cast up by the banks of the
sparkling river of Palestine is, indeed,
attended with a heterogeneous con-
glomeration of unforeseen difficulties
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The Old Mans Funeral.
BY W. @. RRYANr.


1 saw an aged man upon his bier,
His hair was thin Snd white. and on his brow
record OF the cares of many year.
Cares that were ended and forgotten new.
And there was sadness round. and faces bowed,
And woman's tears Tell fast, and children walled
aloud.
Then rose another hoary man and said.
49, In talter NJ accents TO that ,weePing train
Why mourn We thai our IA cd friend Is dead
Ie are not al 20 see the gathered grain,
Nor when the mellow fruit the orchards east,
Nor when the yellow woods shake down tho
ripened mast.
Ye sigh not when the sun. his course fulfilled.
Ills glorious course rCjOicing earth ana say,
In the soft evening. when the winds are stllled,
Slaks where his islands of reireshment lle,
And leaves tae smile of his departure spread
Ger the warm. c0iOred heaven ana rudy noun
tain head.
Why weep ye then for him. who, having won
The bound of mans appointed years, nj last,
Life's blessings all enjoyed life's labors DONE
Serenely TO his final rest has passed;
While tho soft memory OF his virtues, vet
Lingers like twilight hues when the bright sun
is set?
HIS youth was innocent; his ripper age.
Marked with some act of goodness, every day
And watched by eyes that loved him. calm and
sage,
Paded mis- late declining years away.
Cheerful he gave mis- being up, ana went
To share the holy rest that waits life we'll spent.
That life was happy every day he gave
Thanks for the fair existence that was his;
For "A sick fancy made him not her slave
To mock him with her phantom mlseries.
No chronic tortures racked his aged limb,
For luxury and sloth had nourshed none for
him.
And am glad that he has lived thus long,
And glad that he has gone to his reward;
Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong,
softly to disengage the vital cord.
When his weak hand grew palsied. and his eye
DIRK with the msts of age II was his time 10 dle'
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RIeHT.HANDEDNsss is common to many
of the lower animals as well as to man,
and similar preference for the use OF
the right foot, the right eye. and in
deed the whole right side of the body,
to the neglect of the left. is frequently
noticeable. Prof. Daniel Wilson, of UNI.
versity College, Toronto, shows, by
evidence gathered from various trust
worthy sources, that the right hand has
always been the one chiefly used, and
that the Egyptians were not, as has been
asserted, a left-handed race. The cause
of this preference is yet to be explained.
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AT the Chenango County IN. " Fair
II. Grain received premium of SIS for
the greatest produce of butter in one
week from one COW. The cow was a
grade Shorthorn, and l5l pounds of
butter were churned in the week. The
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-13
Agricultural Items.

HEREFORD cattle are gaining in favor
in Eng land. During ten years the num-
Der exhibited at the principal agricul.
tural fairs had increased from 2ll to
574 head.
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A CASE of poisoning by strychuine is
said to have been cured in France by
the inhalation OF chloroform.
, 1872-11-14
SPRINGFIELD.

The Penitentiary Commissioners
Report--A Gratifying Exhibit.
SPRINGFIELD, Nov. 13.-Ihe Board OF Peni-
tentiary Commissioners are how in session at
the prison, preparing to make their triennih
report to the Governor, which will be ready
promptly when due, on the 1st proximo.
From advance sheets Of the Warden's report,
it is learned that the institution ia in rnost
prosperous condition. Tho Warden's report will
be most comprehensive, giving statistical
tables and details OF all the
various departments in full. These show that
the priso is supplied With gone. SIX Thousand
bushels Of potatoes, paid for; soma Eve hun
dred tierces Of mess pork and corned beef. paid
for; years supply Of boots and shoes, paid
for; besides all the 1ninor incidentaIs necessary
to the complete equipment of the institution,
The institution does not owe single dollar be-
yond the current monthly expenses, and has On
hand a sum equal to any ordinary demand. The
grounds in front Of the Wa-den,s house and
wings, which have been so long neg
lected, are being leyelled off; area walls
built, and the other improvements betoken great
care and desire to make d presentable appear
nnce, as well rs to secure q good sanitary, con-
dition. These improvements in aud around the
Penit tentiary are very gratifying to visitors who
have heretofore been IN the habit of visiting the
Penitantiary from time to time. The Commits
eioners have been untiring in their efforts to
Bhow abundant success in the management un-
der the system recently inaugurated, and their
report will convince the people Of the StAte that
succeas in the Penitentiary management ia no
longer problematieal, but assured,
, 1872-11-14
TEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.


It may be question OF some interest to know
in what condition the late Presidential election
has left the Democratic party. The organiza-
tiona OF that party in 80 Of the 81 States Of the
Union seut delegates to the Baltimore Conyen-
ton either instructed or advised to nominate
Horace Greeley and 3. Gratz Brown. This ac-
tion WAS decided and unanimous in e7ery State
where the Democratic party Was in the ascend-
ency. The opposition to It, except in Delaware,
WAS strongest in such States as Vermont, Massa:
clusetts; Ohio, Iowa. and Michigan, which
States had not given a Derocratic majority for
20 years, The Baltimore Convention contained
the best representative men of the party. Ey-
cry one who might have Aad aspirations tor the
candidacy favored the nomination OF 4lr, Gree
ley. The Baltimore Convention, with q unaniua-
ity unprecedented in Democratic National
ConSsnhons, not ooly indorsed Greeley, but
formally nominated hi1p as chs Democratic can-
didate for President.
It is now matter OF history that tho candi-
date thus nominated YVES defeated by the refusal
OF the rank and fila Of the party to yoto for him.
OF tho Democrats who REJECTED Greeley, one
half probably voted fer Grant, ard the other
half did not vote at all. Grants vote in 1879
will lot exceed his vote in 1868 in those States
which voted in tho latter year, showing that
, 1872-11-14

moved. Hanover street, the retail dry goods
and notions street Of the city, has been widened,
and Commonwealth. avenue, one of the most
elegant streets in the country, has been laid out
mile and half in length, with width Of two
hundred and fifty feet between the houses on
each side, q park running through the centre.
planted with trees and adorned With statues.
One Of the principal reasons, undoubtedly, for
the rapid spread Of the fire among these maa-
sive granite piles grew out Of the narrow spaces
between buildings on different sides Of the
streets and the furious currents OF air which mnst
have been created by the heat in this labyrinth
Of intarsecting courts and short thoroughfarea.
While this calamity ia terrible one, viewed
in the most favorable light, it is, nevertheless,
source Of pleasure to remember that Boston has
not lost its great public buildings it's churches,
hanke, theatres, hotels, its resorts Of art and
music, and that it has not suffered in its pri-
Vate residences, nor in its special public adoTn-
ments. The number Of thoae who have lost
their homes is so small that they can be easily
relieved. The burden of business loat comes
upon those who nre in the main able to bear it.
The aggregate OF loss has been greatly reduced
from the fret reports, and the large insurance
companies OF the country seem to be able to
make good their loases. The outlook brightens
with 1reaher news, and there is every reason to
believe that the energy which has built Boston,
and established it's trade, will speedily enable it
to recover what it has lost.
, 1872-11-14

The cloud Of war which is now threatening
Northern Asia is one which has been gathering
for long time. Tho Russians have long CON-
planned that the rebellion Of those Of
their Kirghis subjects living between
the Aral and Caspian had been active
" supported by KhiFa; that the Khan
Of this hostile Province has endeavored to e1-
cite rebellion in Rokhars; and thata number
Of nnsaiau prisoners in Khiva have been com-
PEELED to accept Mohanmedanism and marry the
women OF that Province. The object Of the
Russians, according to the Berlin correspondent
Of tbe Londqp Times, is not only to punish tho
auaaeity Of tbe Khan pqt also to Incorporate Xiii
-, WHICH will soon be CONNECTED With Rnsaia
both by railways and steam navigation. As this
would extend tho Russian line OF eommunlca-
ton to the borders Of the Britah possessions IN
the East. the movements Of Russia ere just now
watched With intense interest in England and
may, before, long, produce decided remon-
STRANGE fxow tAe latter. ENGLAND n alfesay