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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17
son the Plea OF Insanity. -

OF fashions which forever rage
Midst fallible humanity
The foremost fashion of the age
Appears to be insanity
Whenever crime committed Is
Unusually bad,
Its author laus acquitted is:
OF course he must be mad
A scholar has shrewish wife.
Who little things complains about;
lie gets enraged and takes her life
by scattering her brains about.
He'd ne'er. had he retained his wits.
Have done an act so sad
His studies overstrained his wits
Poor fellow. he was mad
A woman. dragged by passions down.
To hide her criminality,
Sowed poison broadcast through a town
With hideous prodigality;
BY strychnine shed difusively,
She CHANGED one luckless lad
To kill-which proves conclusively
Tine she. OF course. was mad
Brought up on mad Dick Turpin tales.
And sick for notoriety.
An idiot the Queen assails.
And horrifies society;
But when TO tales he's read so oft
We nine more tails would add,
Again-it has been said so oft i
We're told. Poor thing. he's mad !"
OF intellect's vast march we hear
But this L say unteignedly,
The march of intellect. fear.
Is MARCHING March-hare- brainedly.
That madness is paronymous
With badness" seems the fad;
Ifso, why they re synonymous,
And every ones gone--mad!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17
Varieties.

JERSEY CITY youth keep the police
men in proper state OF subsection by
stoning them regularly.
The reason why Horace Greeley OPP
poses female suffrage is doubtless because
the ladies are all freetraders.
THE baseball fever is breaking out all
over the country, and promises to as
sumo an epidemic form again.
OssIAN Z. DODGE bought church at
auction in st. Paul, Mimi, the other
day, and is now wondering what he shall
do with it.
A MAN carries a pound and three
quarters Of phosphorus about him, and
it's no wonder he sometimes gets light
headed O. nights.
Ii some one would only get up sew
ing machine to collect rents, mend man
ners and repair family breaches, what
a sale it would have.
A LITTLE Rock, Ark, paper takes
pleasure in announcing the erection of
a peanuttery as an evidence Of the ma
terial progress Of the city.
A NEWLY married couple from Iowa
Falls, Iowa. on arriving at the hotel at
Fort Dodge, left their marriage certiti-
cate on the office counter by way of a
guarantee.
A MINISTER who thought that report
ing sermons was all vanity, afterward
concluded that if the thing must be
done it should be we'll done, and slipped
greenback into the reporters hand,
% M nnnHancn y,na ~
NUMEROUS residents Of Lafayette, Ind,
have established Druidical "grove,"
and their wives have got from the cir
culating library all the copies of the
Mystery Of Edwin Druid to learn
what sort of doings are contemplated.
HORACE GREELEY having heard Ger.
tain man alluded to as the leading milk.
man of Connecticut, wrote to him to
know whether he was at present culti-
waiting cocoanuts or COWS, and which he
found most profitable for butter and
cheese.
WHY should an autograph hunter
naturally call on Messrs. Edward Eggle-
ston, f. +. Hale, Emerson Etheridge, or
(were they living) Edward Everett and
Col. +. E. Ellsworth for autographs, with
reasonable hope Of success. Because
they all write their names with great
Els (great easel.
Mr.. LINCOLN used to tell story of q
boy who was ordered by his father to
scare stray urchin off the premises.
He departed on his mission with
turkey gobbler" strut, and shortly re-
turned with discoored optic, bleeding
nose and very much dcmoralized, and
told his father the "darn'd boy didn't
scare worth a cent"
"HoME AND SOCIETY,"" in Scribner's, is
to be enlarged and improved. Some of
the most accomplished OF American
women writers will here contribute to
the edification Of their country women,
in matters Of household economy, dress,
social ethics, the culture Of flowers,
home decorations, ETC., etc.
SOME twenty unfortunate young Phil
adelphians were arrested in the City of
Brotherly Love on Sunday last for
lounging on corners. Considering that
Philadelphia deems it sinful to keep
open Libraries or other places of limo
cent recreation on the Sabbath, and
that its bar rooms are closed on that
day, it would really seem as if the aver
age dweller in boarding houses had no
alternative but to lounge on corners.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17

of it. Brown gets up new thing In
the way of advertising and finds it a
mine of wealth. Robinson, though
really much astonished at these results,
merely says: Perfectly simple-any.
one might have done that" Yet Rob
inson plods on as usual; these
perfectly simple things are left un-
tried, and people soon begin to think
that r. himself is perfectly simple, as
are most men who continue 10 be left
always out in the cold.
The progress of population and set
Element is so rapid that a "good old
house" which does not advertise is in
danger of losing much sound custom.
Some people think it sn,ackS of dignity
to say they can live without advertising.
They may hivs upon this kind of dignity,
but life is one thing, and success in lite
is another. A good reputation in bust
ness - cans that you shall be widely as
we'll as favorably known. "A good adj
vertisement is worth good price. A
bad advertisement is worth nothing.
A French writer says that "the reader
of newspaper never sees the first
insertion of an ordinary advertisement !;
the second insertion he sees, but does
not read the third insertion he reads (;
the fourth insertion he looks at the
price the fifth insertion he speaks of
it to his wife the sixth insertion he is
ready to purchase; the seventh he pur-
chases." Your object in advertising is
to make the public understand what
you have got to sell, and if you have
not the pluck to keep advertising until
you have impaired that information, all
the money you have spent is lost.
If any one knows your firm to be the
best in your peculiar line, everybody
becomes your good and willing refer.
ence, and everybody's friend, who had
thought OF going to some rival house,
because he knows not of you, will, on
speaking of his determination, have
your name pronounced 10 him with
commedation. In fact, the man who is
thoroughly advertised must continue to
thoroughly advertise; but having once
made his name household word, he
receives much gratuitous advertising
from the great public, always DESTROYS
of helping those who have plainly
shown that they need no help.
The Importance of advertising is un.
disputed and universally admitted. The
extent to which it is carried proves, be-
yond doubt, its usefulness and advan-
tages. The man who advertises once is
sure to do so again, and from each out
lay in this direction he reaps more and
greater advantages. 1t opens the most
direct road 10 success, and offers equal
inducements to all parties. a glance
at any of our papers will show at once
the fact that those who avail themselves
most of this system are from the
highest rank in business life, and this
position they owe in great measure to
a steady exercise of the course we have
pointed out.
If you have good live advertisement
running through any good list of news.
papers, you have thousands of servants
at work for you, whether you wake OF
sleep, whether you be sick or well
No monarch's slaves ever scattered al
his bidding so fleetly or faithfully, or in
such bewildering numbers, as the liter
airy messengers that bear you individual
word to the people of this great nation
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17
WOman's Love.

A woman's love is like the stream
Incased in winters ice and snow;
Which by the suns warm vernal beam
Is made impetuously to flow.
Her love is like a stalk of rose.
Which in cold winter seems as dead;
Yet with tn summers breath il blows.
And then sweet flowers crown its head.
Her love is like the evening STAR
Though long on earth in vain il CLEAN.
Yet waits in its cold world afar.
Till loving eyes observe its CLEAN.
Her love is like the nigh tingale,
Which in its cage, though wounded, sings I;
Its heart and soul breathe in its wall,
When il laments imprisoned wings.
Boston Transcript.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17

children. Yes (raising his voice., he
had twelve sons, and, brethren, they
were all boys" With this he sat down
very suddenly, and then arose and gave
out the doxology.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17
The Russian Navy.

The Cronstadt Messenger states that
the fleet in the Black sea will be com.
posed this year of Is men-of-war and 3
floating beacons, with l46 officers and
LAS sailors. The hotilla of the Cas- plan
sea will comprise "a vessels, IS officers
l,O33 sailors. The fleet of the Pacific
will have % vessels, with 13l officers
and 1896 sailors. The total number of
vessels taking part in the evolutions in
the home waters and cruising abroad
will be l6 iron-clads and l64 steamers,
with l,3l5 officers and l7,7S4 sal lorA
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17

PATRICK McNULrY fell into a cauldron
OF boiling lye, in saleratus f.ctory in
Jersey City, Nj, and although quickly
rescued, his recovery is impossible.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17

A LITTLE boy once came running m
to his mothers room, and said: 40
mother | came so near being drowned
in the Chickahominy to-day ~ " How,
my son Z" exclaimed the mother in
great alarm. "Why, some boys asked
me to go with them to the Chicka-
hominy, bathing, and if had gone, l
should certainly have been drowned,
for YOU know can't SWIM"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17

SAN FRANCISCO has grown to be great
mart for raw furs. The furs imported
last year were valued at over two mil.
lions. All the Alaska fuYs and those
from Eastern Siberia now pass through
San Francisco as the nearest route to
their market, in this country or in Eu.
rope, and the trade Is rapidly CROWN
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17

THE Albany EUening Journal states that
the fortune which Hon. Erastus Corning
leaves his son and only child is esti.
mated ., no less than 100000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-17
4 Valuable Beauty.

The Orientals still carry on the trade
in Circassian beauties to large extent.
The Levant Herald speaks of a party
which lately arrived at Trebizond,
among which was young houri of fiji.
teen years, of such unusual beauty of
form and face tina. she was readily
bought for one hundred thousand
piasters by rich merchant.
IT is said that during the shocks of
the recent earthquake in California,
miners at work three hundred feet
under ground were entirely unconscious
Of the disturbance at the surface, which
ratified brick buildings into heap of
ruins. This would appear to support
the hypothesis lately advanced that
earthquakes are produced by electrical
disturbances on the surface rather than
by any internal agitation of the earth.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08
eating Timber fer Fe.eins.

A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph,
who was brought up in the belief that the old
of the moon in February was the best time for
cutting timber for durability, and that fence
posts ought to be seasoned, says he has learned
by dear experience that both theories are wrong.
He prefers to cut when the tree is full of sap, and
to set posts when green. Rails cut when the sap
is running, and the bark Immediately removed,
will last one-fourth longer than if cut at any
other time and the bark left ON. He has fonnd
that posts made from the limbs and upper part of
trees alwayslast the longest. Instead Of banking
around it to catch and hold water, believing that
as water excludes the air, the longer it remains
about the post the better He says:
had posts made from the body of a large
chestnut tree, that grew by itself; it was cut
about the middle of April, made into posts and
put up without seasoning. They generally stood
about twenty years; at the end of thirty years
not entirely rotten. Again, cut q white oak in
the beginning of May, when there was full flow
of sap; their general durability was seventeen
years; and some of those made of the limbs, were
taken up after they had stood twenty-five years,
and were not yet rotten.
Again, / cut another chestnut, and eighteen
feet from the stump made gate post of the
has been standing since 1911, and it shows no
sign Of being rotten except small hollow in the
top of it. cut another thrifty white oak at the
standard time in February, and planted the posts
the spring following. The ground in which the
fence was set, in all three cases, was alike. AT
the end of six years from planting this batch of
posts, there were so many of them rotten as to be
have not been in the practice of waiting for
posts to season, before they used, though it
sometimes happened; but the result was always
in favor of green posts"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08
Msef,ll aud Curious.


The evening previous to washing, all the clothes
should be gathered mp and assorted; wcolens,
col0red clothes, unblcached cott0ns, and linens
and line clothes into their separate bundies
Except woolcns and colored clothes, all kinds
should be put to soak over night the very dirty
parts having soap rubbed ON them. If you use q
washing fluid, it is usually mixed in the soaking
water; If you use no wash mixture, the next
morning wiring out the clothes, aud proceed to
wash them carefully through two warm waters;
then boil them in clean water rather briskly, but
not longer than half an hour.
Wash them ont of the boil, rinse through two
waters. The Last hnse-water should have deli
cate tipge Of blue, likewise small quantity of
starch for all cottons or linens reserve those you
wish sitter for the last and mix starch in the
water. Shirt bOsoms and collars, skirts, in short
any thing you wish very stiff should be dipped
while dry. Swiss and other thin muslins and
laces are dipped in starch while dry, and then
clapped with the hands until in right condition to
iron.
Calicoes, brilliants and lawns of white grounds,
are washed like any other white material, omit
ting boiling, until the yellow tinge they acquire
makes it absolutely necessary. Unbleached cot
tons and linens follow the white clothes, through
the same waters, but must in no case be boiled
with them, as they continually discharge p0r-
ton of their color, and discolor the white clothes
In directing the preparation for washing fluids,
we give the process employed with them but
colored clothes, in our experience, can be washed
in none of them, without injury to the color.
CalicOcs, cOlOred lawns and colored cottOns, and
linens generally are washed through two suds aud
and two rinsng waters, starch being used in the
last all clothes look better and keep clean long
or, if little stifened.
Many calicOes VIII spot if soap is rubbed on
them; they should be washed in lather, simply.
spoonful Of OK gall to gallon of water will set
the colors Of most any goods, soaked in it previous
to washing. A teacnp of I've in a bucket Of water,
will improve the color of black goods.
Il L -
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08

Thoroughly pillow the ground as early As the
spring will permit, put it in nice condition, and
strike out the rows the same as for corn, three
feet apart, and shallow. Then drop the seed
about fifteen inches apart and cover it with q
hoe; about one inch deep is sufficient to keep ont
frost, and the heat of the sun the surface soon
sprouts the potatoes.
generally grow buckeyes for early potatates.
There may be earlier varieties, but not so good.
Last season used them continually from the
eighth of June, and that was before thre was any
potatoes in market except few from Norfolk.
don't want any long manure about my pota-
toes; would sooner have none. This plan Of raj
sing potatoes is equally good for late ones, on
stiff or wet land.-Cor. GermaRtora Telegraph.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08
Ihe fuu Of the Thiug.
suuEDODY,s SON.

seusbsdy's son vas out last night
Brushing about the town;
And Il mistake not he was tight
Tight a. Derby clown"
k,ov he's considered . moral ysutA,
Above suspieiSn-but that
4 nc reason, 10 seI the truth.
he bad Q brtck IN his hat"
p.vheht 'nofaiity ofssn takes
oesnes fnpdss Into kis AsaA.
And play the "a" oe Jump up naksA"
whsa tie public sysis IN hsd
NV soa esar dsnea," sonebedy ~
.for psver 8 Isason took h"
Int be danced last night When yoa vsrs n -.
AaA twilight was tsezs % ~
Yea nsy can it dancing o. not sy0u Ssa,
Thoogh for . half an hour OF MORE
He danced o. "jisged . "singis-foot rel
In trout Of my of6ce door.
~Ny son can't ding" somebody svsars
But he Gang last night know,
A .ough Q song - demon dares
To sing in ths regions bea0w.
.Ny con don't imbGbs," sousbody think,
Wei, may Be be don't but thso.
That he acts very much like one Who drinks
Con b proved BY . hundred msn-
Yea consisting vas tight-ysa, drunk lass night
81 drunk IL could hardly crawl;
Perhaps twas the brim Of crowies nss
Thai found By my garden WAL
%. for fear am wrong and sonsbedys tight
Ny hssty words recall
And say that the thing saw last night
Wxs noOodys son-tbats al!
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08

YOUNG man having put crown-piece into
"the plate" in an Edinburgh church by mistake,
instead Of a penny, asked to have it back, but
was refused. In once, in forever. "Aweel, aweel,"
grunted he; 81 will get credit for it in heaven"
INA, ma" said Jeems, the doorkeeper, "yeT get
credit for the penny we meant to gle"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08

To SwEETEN BUTTER FIRKINs.-Before pack
ing butter into frkins, put them out of doors in
the vicinity of the well, fill them with water and
throw in few handfulls of salt. Let them stand
three or four days, and change the water once
during that time. Butter firkins should be made
Of white oak, and this process effectually takes
ont the acid contained in the WOOD and makes
the firkins sweet. If the butter is well made and
rightly packed, it will keep good all summer,
even il the frIins be kept in store above ground.
To cleanse old frkins in which butter has been
packed and left exposed for some time to the air,
fill with sour milk and leave standing twenty
four honrs; then wash clean, and scald with
brine. This makes them rs good as new.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08
Cheap WAY - Keep Ice.

The best and cheapest plan for preserving ice
consists in covering the bottom of box or ice house
with layer Of sawdust to the depth of six inches
or SO, level, and well packed. Upon that com
mence storing the ice-leaving a space of ten to
fifteen inches between the outer layers and the
sides of the INSTRUMENTATION box or regular
building. Pack this space with sawdust as the
successive layers Of ice are added one upon the
other. When the requisite amount of ice is in,
add light covering of sawdust, and the thing is
done. When the ice is needed for use, commence
by taking it from the top, as deposited in layers.
As the ice is removed the sawdust will drop down
from the sides and gradually accumulate upon the
top of the hcap-giving additional protection to
the whole mass from heat and air as the warmth
of the season advances. If there is any cheaper
or better way for packing ice with any tolerable
degree Ofsecurity, We would like to know it. The
philosophy ofthe advantages gained by dispensing
with inner walls, aside from the economy of it, is
plain to any one at all conversant with the laws
of heat and cold.
We regard cellar-that is, such an ore as will
preserve roots and vegetables from the effects of
frost, less favorable for keeping ice than place
above ground. The temperature is too high at
the time it should be put up to make good job.
To keep WELL ice should be packed in frosty freez-
ing weather-the colder the better-and fully ex-
posed during the process. All the crevices be-
tween the several layers and blocks should he
chinked up with snow, and water poured upon
that and the work done in freezing weather, thus
cementing the whole mass in one body. This is
very essential in packing small as
would suffice for the wants of one or two families.
In packing large quantities for commercial pur-
poses, SO much care would not be practicable or
necessary.
1t is the easiest thing in the whole routine of
farm life, to have supply of ice all through the
summer season. OF its luxury we need not speak.
Any and every farmers family may enjoy it with
out any outlay alittle labor at the right time.
And yet how few families there are in whole
community of farmers who ever make provisions
for, ever pound of ice from spring to fall!
The use of ice in dairy business in summer, is alb
soutely indispensable to success. If more ice
were used, We should not see much miserable
butter in our western markets.-Iopa Homestead.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08

OYSTER SAUCE FOR BOILED TURKEY.-Take two
dozen large oysters, put them in a stewpan and
let it come to a simmer-nOt boil. Skim ont the
oysters, add small cup of milk, u teaspoonful Of
flour mixed up with piece of butter as large as
an egg; salt and pepper. Let it all boil for ten
minutes, and add the oysters just as it is served
SANDwICHEs.-POund up tender ham and boiled
tongue, equal parts; season with salad dressing
and spread between slices of bread cut thin as
possible. Made in this way they very deli
cious and there is fear of the slices of meat fall
ing out. Pounding the meat with pestle, in
stead of chopping it with knife, renders it
more tender.
Picked OYsrERs.-Take the largest oysters
you can find-what are called "cOunts '-and two
hundred of them will make q fine dish. Rinse
from the liquor with boiling water, and put it in
a stew-pan, boil and skim it; then add a quart of
pure cider vinegar, q tablespoonful each of whole
cloves, pepper-cOrns and mace, and salt to taste.
Boil ten minutes, add the oysters, boil until they are
plump. When served, add q few raw cranberries,
and some slices of lemon garnish.
To Boil HAM.-SOak it over night in warm
water, scrape and clean well; add pint of cider
vinegar to the boiling water and put in the ham.
Simmer slowly for four hours; then take it out,
skin it, and cover the whole top with grated bread
with cut paper frill about the bone, and cover
with bits of currant jelly and parsley.
BOILED TURKEY-Select tender hen turkey
not over eight months old; draw, clean and SINCE
with great care. Fill the breast with dressing
of breadcrumbs, raw oysters, chopped celery, salt
and pepper. Stuffit soas tolook round and plump.
Flour a cloth and pin it round the turkey; put it
into boiling water; skim it when it first boils;
simmer gently for two hOurs-On account let it
"gallopn Garnish with the green tops of celery
aud small slices of boiled ham.
MINCE PIEs.-Boil beefs tongue until broom
straw will run through it; skim and when cool
chop fine, with two pounds of boiled beef, tender
and free from gristle. To every teacupfnl of meat
add two teacupfuls of good tart apples, chopped
fine; sweeten with sugar to taste, and season with
quarter of an ounce Of cloves, the same of pepper
mace. nutmeg and allspice; add two |
pounds Of stoned raisins, one pound of currants
and half pound of citron. Chopped fresh lem |
ons or oranges add much to the flavor of the pies
and the syrup of cherries and Strawberries or of
sweet pickles, is excellent to mosten the mince |
Two quart bottles of cider will be needed, if no |
other liquid is used. Halfa pound ofbutter chop
ped fine can be added, if one desires the pies to be
rich. The practice of using suet is nearly passed
away; it is the cause of the indigestiveness of
mince pies, in . great degree, although the fruit
and spices are also rich.