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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
Hints for the Housewife.

Washing Calcoes and MuStins.-The
first re quisite is plenty OF water; this is
even more essential for colored than
for white clothes. 1t should not be
hot enough to scald, and should have a
moderate suds of hard soap before the
garments are put in. Very white and
nice soft soap is preferable to hard for
hannels-does not shrink them as much;
but the latter is best for cotton goods.
Wash calicoes in two waters, using but
little soap in the second. When clean,
rinse them two or even three times in
tepid water. Good laundresses always
assert that the great secret of clear mus
Inns is thorough rinsing. o
The quality of starch used also affects
light colors, and for muslin dresses es-
pecially only starch of the purest quality
should be used. When no very great
stiffness is required, it is good plan to
stir the starch into the rinsing water f;
il assists in setting the colors where
they show tendency to run. For set
ting the colors of fading goods | have
used OK gall, alum, borax and salt-all
with good results, though they will not
clinch" green's and blues that are de-
termined on taking French leave.
One benefit in using a strong solution
of alum water is that it will positively
make cottons fire-proof. Mothers who
sit on thorns" at school concerts and
exhibitions, watching the dangerous
proximity Of gossamer dresses to the
foot-lights, will appreciate this advan-
tage. And so far from injuring the
looks of the muslin, there is no other
treatment that will 50 brighten and i'm
prove the colors.
Colored clothes should be wrun
very thoroughly, dried in the shade
and turned about two or three times
while drying.-Ohio Farmer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
Wise and Otherwise.

II wit is bad in age, what must it be
in youth?
THE stone to do good turn-The
grind-stone.
Why is the road of transgressors so
hard? Because it is so much travelled.
BY the same operation a man may
contract debt and stretch his credit.
WHY are our sidewalks in winter like
music? If you do not G sharp you will
b fiat.
IT is a mistake to suppose that the
sun is supported in the heavens by its
beams.
A RosE-BUsH, over thousand years
old and whose stem is foot in diane.
ter, covers the side of German Ca.
thedral.
A WIDOW of Liverpool has recovered
$500 in damages from the owner of
mad dog through whose bite her hus-
band died.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
The Inventor of Bessemer Steel.

1t is probably not generally under
stood that the Bessemer steel process is
really an American invention, and that
the term is itself a misnomer. The pro-
cess was discovered and used by Mr..
Kelly, in the State of Kentucky, long
before Mr.. Bessamer was ever heard of.
As soon as Mr.. Kelly heard that Besse-
mer had brought out the process in
England, he at once applied for a
patent, placing the matter in the hands
of patent solicitor, who retained the
papers just long enough to notify Bes-
semer, the latter securing the patent.
However, Kelly had procured a caveat,
and after hearing by the Commits
sioner of Patents, the case was decided
in his favor. Some years after the
patents of Kelly, Bessemer and Mushet
were consolidated in one company.
All the patents having expired in 1871.
renewals were refused to all except
Kelly, who secured an extension of
seven wears
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
Redemption Of Mutilated Currency.

The following changes in the regula.
tons governing the redemption of de
faced and mutilated currency of the
United States went into effect on the
LIST Of January:
After that date defaced and mutilated
United States notes and fractional cur.
rency, instead of being redeemable as
now by the Treasurer of the United
States, subject to discount for mutila-
ton, will be redeemable at their full
value III new notes, or currency, by the
Treasurer. and the several Assistant
Treasures and designated repositories
Of the United States, and all National
Bank repositories and will be received
at their full face value by all officers of
the Treasury Department, in payment
Of currency dues to the United States
Prorided, that three-ffths of the original
proportion OF such notes are presented
in one piece. Fragments of less than
five. eighths will be redeemable only by
the Treasurer of the United States. If
more than one-half, and less than five.
eighths is presented, half the face value
will be paid. Less than half note will
be redeemed only on affidavit that the
lHiSSIilS pOI tlOll HdS DtcH Totally ue-
stroyed.
Under the new rules, any person,
firm, bank, corporation, or public Off
Ger will be permitted to forward FIVE
dollars and upwards in fractional cur
rency, and fifty dollars and upward in
legal tender notes, for redemption to
the Treasurer, by express, at the ex-
pense of the Department, under the
Government contract with the Adams
Express Company. Heretofore nothing
less than $500 was entitled to transpor-
tation at Government expense. A cir
cular embodying these changes is now
preparing in the Treasury office. The
officers OF the Treasury are determined
to remove all cause for complaint con-
corning the condition of the United
States currency, and to that end have
concluded to extend to all the most
liberal facilities for its redemption. 1t
is expected at the Department that the
new rules will result in speedy and
marked improvement of the condition
of the currency.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
An Unfortunate Man.

A sad tale comes from Selma, Ala
bama. 1t appears that twelve young
men of that city swore off on New
Years day, 1871, and agreed to deposit
with one of their number, on the first
day of each month, $40 each, the total
to be divided among the members of
the association who on the first of Janu.
airy, 1872, should prove to have been
faithful their pledge. One by one the
members backslid and yielded to the
liquid temptation, until only single
individual was left, who at noon on New
Years day was 10 receive 81 400. This
Abdiel, faithful found among the faith
less, proceed to the rendezvous at the
appointed hour. He waited until ten
minutes after noon, and then thought
he would run into the saloon next door
and get nip. He had just swallowed
it when ten of the other members en-
tered to take their MONDAY Angostura,
and he found To his horror that his
watch was twenty minutes fast, and the
money was lost. The eleven, therefore,
proceeded to the residence of the treas
urer and found that he had lost all the
money playing draw-poker with one oil
the church trustees. The sad occur
renee has cast a gloom over the whole
community.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
NilssOn's Lost Diamonds.

A st. Louis dispatch Of the 18th says
1t will be recollected that last May
Christina Nilsson lost several diamonds
from car window while on her way
from Memphis to this city that re-
ward of $500 was offered for their recov-
cry, and that in August last Patrick
Flynns calf unearthed them in front of
Flynn's cabin, near Desota, on the Iron
Mountain railroad. Nilsson was mott
fed that her diamonds were found, and
it is stated she wrote Flynn to keep
them until her arrival here on Monday.
Flynn came to the city, called at the
Southern Hotel to see Miss Nilsson. but
while telling his story in the hotel office
was arrested, taken to the police station,
and, as he alleges, required to give up
the diamonds. Flynn feeling he had
been forced to yield possession of the
jewels in an unjust manner, and that
his chances for procuring the reward
were slight, put the case in the hands of
lawyer, who to-day had an interview
with Mr. Jarrett, Nelson's agent. and
the matter was settled by paying Flynn
800. The diamonds were stated to be
worth 1000, but now their value is es-
timated at only about 800.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
A Runaway Pond.

An East Hardwick (Vt.) letter to the
Portland Press revives the following
curious bit of local history:
Long Pond, or, as it is now better
known, Runaway Pond" is situated
partly in Glover and partly in Green's
boro.' This pond was one and half
miles long, and half mile wide, and
formerly discharged its water southerly
into Lamoille river. On the 9th day of
June, 1910, about fifty persons went to
this pond for the purpose OF opening an
outlet to the north into Barton river,
that the mills on that stream might re-
ceive an occasional supply of water.
A small channel was eXcavated, and the
water commenced running in north
erly direction. 1t happened that the
northern barrier of the pond con-
sisted entirely of quicksand, ex-
cept an encrusting of clay next
to the water. The sand was
Immediately removed by the cur
rent, and a large channel formed, and
the crust of clay was incapable of sus-
tanning the mass of water and broke, so
that the whole pond immediately took
noltherly course, and IN fifteen min
ute5' Time tne DOJtOm OF tne pOnQ was
bare. 1t was discharged SO suddenly
that the country below was instantly
inundated.
The deluge advanced in wall of
waters sixty or seventy feet high, and
twenty rods wide, leveling forests and
hills and filling up valleys, sweeping off
mills, houses and barns, fences and cat
tie as it passed, for distance of ten
miles, and barely giving the inhabitants
sufficient notice to escape. A rock sup
posed to weigh one hundred tons was
removed half mile from its bed. The
waters moved so rapidly that they
reached Lake Memphremagog, twenty
seven miles distant in about six hours
from the time they left the pond. The
dry bed of the pond remains; portion
is cultivated field, and to-day there
are many stacks of hay there. For the
last forty years the stage-road from
Montpelier to Barton has passed through
this DRY Pond and many tourists
visit it as great curiosity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
The Murderer of the Park Family,

FROM tine chicago lrlDune.
The opinion which has already been
expressed in these columns, that the
negroes who were lynched for the muir.
der of the Park family in Indiana, were
really innocent of the crime, and that
the murderer himself was one Of the
lynching party, is now confirmed. The
statements published in the Ipdianap-
oils Journal, shortly after the lynching,
formed chain OF testimony in favor OF
the innocence Of the negroes which
was irrelragible, but did not fasten the
crime upon the guilty party. The latest
intelligence from Clark county, where
the murdered family resided, completes
the testimony relative 10 this foul deed,
shows that the murderer is known, and
that the evidence against him is con
elusive. Hewas one Of the most prom
inent of the lynchers, and was particu-
larly active in having the negroes
hanged. Other villainies are limited at
in connection with the murder, which
are to be duly investigated as soon as
arrests can be made safely. it is the
first duty of the Indiana authorities to
see that arrests are made not only
safely but promptly, and that punish
ment to the extreme limit Of the law
shall follow arrest. That State cannot
afford to allow such a stigma to rest
upon her name without doing something
to remove it. The whole case adds
point to what we have more than once
said against the enormity of lynch law
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
A Peerless Joke.

Hearth and Home says it is better for
a man 10 be child and be sent away
early, than to trihe with his wife's feel
ings in this manner:
It's all very well to talk so much
about the Grand Duke Alexis" said Mr..
j, "who will so soon leave us and
be forgotten. But have you heard of
the two noblemen who will remain per.
manently in this country?'
No." cried Mrs. ! with radiant
countenance; "and who are they?r
Why the two piers of the Brooklyn
bridge, to be sure" answered the hard
hearted j
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
A Brain EXPOSED.

There is curious case at the Military
AsylumMaine, which excites considera-
bl interest among the medical profess
sion. One of the inmates there had
some disease of the scalp, which resulted
in necrosis of the bone, so that quite a
large piece of the plate of the skull
dropped out, taking with it both the
dura and pia matter, leaving the deli.
cate arachnoid membrane as the only
covering over the substance of the brain.
The man seemed quite cheerful, and
other than this has enjoyed good
health.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
A National LiUuOr Bill.

In England, as in every other land, the
greatest popular expense at present is
the liquor bill. Taxes are heavy there, no
doubt; royalty, too, costs a round sum !;
pauperism is drag up n industrial en-
terprises the Government expenditure
is immense but all these drawbacks to
prosperity are eclipsed by the money
expended for drink. From a publica-
ton called the pictorial Drink Bill"
of the British nation, we clip the follow.
ing statistics, which may be interesting
to political economists
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
Torn to Pieces by Lions.

The Bolton correspondent of the
London Daily Echo telegraphs under
date OF Jan. 3: Last night Massarti,
the lion-tamer at Mander's Menagerie,
now exhibiting in this town, was torn
to pieces by the lions with which he
was performing. He struck one of the
lions on the nose, which Immediately
seized him by the scalp, and tore it al.
most off. The other lions then sprang
upon him, and tore off the flesh COM
pletely from the lower part OF his back
and thighs, and inflicted serious inju-
ries upon his chest, breaking, also, his
right and only arm. The excitement in
the show was so intense that the slides
dividing the cage could not be got in.
One of the lions then dragged their vic.
tim from the separate compartment
back to the Infatuated group, which
again set upon him. The mangled
body of the lion-tamer was then re-
rovered and taken to the Iufrmary,
where, however, he died in ten min.
uteso
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02

the common pillow passing frequently
over at the same depth. The operation
of subsoiling needs only to be gone
through with in most cases once in a
rotation, say every five years. Still, it
it can be done oftener, so much the
better.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02
Niagara.
ny c.P. oRANoH,

.tIrI BIZ G. p. ORANoH. ~
wandered through the ancient wood
That crowns the cataract-isle;
I heard the roaring OF the Hood.
And saw its wild. fierce smile.
Through tall tree tops the sunshine fecked
The huge trunks and the ground:
And the pomp of fullest summer decked
The island all around.
And winding paths led all along,
Where friends and lovers strayed;
And voices rose with laugh and song
From sheltered hooks Of shade.
Through opening forest vistas whirled
The rapids foamy fash,
As they boiled along and plunged and swirled.
Nearing their last long dash.
/ crept to the islands outer verge,
Where the grand. broad river fell
Fell sheer down, mid foam and surge,
In white and binding hell!
The steady rainbow gayly shono
Above the precpice:
And the deep. low tone of a thunder-groan,
Rolled up from the drear abyss.
And all the day sprang up the spray.
Where the br Jad. white sheets were poured
And fell around in showery play,
Or upward curled and scared.
And all the night those sheets of white
steamed through inc speclrul lnlsl,
When Ter the isle the broad moonlight
The wintry foam flakes kissed.
Mirrored within my dreamy thought
| see itI-feel it all:
That island with sweet visions fraught--
That awful waterfall.
With sun-hecked trees and birds, and flowers
The Isle of Life is fair;
But one deep voice thrills through its hours
One spectral form is there:
pow or no mortal can resist.
Rolling forever on
A floating oloud--a shadowy mist
Eternal undertone!
And through the sunny vistas CLEAN
The fate--the solemn smile:
Life is Niagara's rushing stream,
It's dreams--that peaceful isle!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02

A YOUNG man becoming engaged re-
Gently was DESTROYS of presenting his
intended with ring, appropriately in
scribed, but being at q loss what to have
engraved on it. called upon his father
for advice. Well" said the old man,
"put on when this you see remember
me " The young lady was mucl sur
prised a few days after with receiving a
beautiful ring, with this inscription,
"When this you see remember father"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02

A GENTLEMAN from Lowell, Mass, is at
Battle Creek, Mich, negotiating for the
purchase of large part of the water.
power there, with view to the erection
of extensive cotton-mills. He is said to
represent capital of 100000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02

A BosToN banker has just imported
the largest diamond in the city, at a
cost of $4,000.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1872-02-10

pcrbet, uno IL ppate er baS @eflbl Der
@ltern eurh feline @e9enpart nt1t be-
euAen.
r@ate,"-iaste ct auf ttnmal teutz
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ppn @aludsen fat erftdter @timme,
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Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1872-02-10
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man MueebGriee ODE, 6reunoe gut tefprst taben
nil.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1872-02-10
Gin Art in Chicago

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Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1872-02-10

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tieen ptr ielblt, unite: @arantirung Der Redt
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8!aueiguus berielben.
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The Portland daily press., 1872-10-07

ARRESTED FOR SrEALING.-Saturday night
officer Merrill arrested two boys named George
Sexton and George Roach for the larceny Of
$50 from the store of II. G. Quincy. under
Market Hall The officer found the places
where they had spent some of the money quite
lavishly for musical instruments and sweet
meats.
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-07

In spite of the unusual attractions of this
doubt that large audience will greet Charlotte
Cushman on Thursday night. An artistic of
reputation limited only by the bounds of civil
lied humanity, with all her great powers UNI
impaired by time, she will give an entertain
ment delightful to all lovers of high dramatic
art, which will serve as a standard by which to
guage all similar efforts. The reports of her
readings elsewhere show that she is this sea-
son even excellng her former triumphs and
adding new laurels to her wonderful wreath
of fame acquired during her brilliant career
An omission to hear her will be a thing always
to be regretted as it is most probable that the
opportunity will never again recur to our eit-
zens, The sale of seats begins this morning at
Stockbridge's.
The Boston Globe of Friday gives glowing
account of her readings in Music Hall on
Thursday night from which we make this brief
extract:
The Bay State course opened last evening
with readings by Charlotte Cushman. Music
Hall was well filled with an unusually select
audience. introduced by Mr. Roberts, Miss
Cusbman, tastefully attred in black silk, trim
med with white embroidery, came upon the
stage with an elastic step and winning smile,
yet with the characteristic air OF an American
noblewoman Before she had finished single
line of her first selection it was apparent that
her voice had lost none of its magnificent vol.
ume, and that its incest modulations would
easily reach the furthest nook of the hall.
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-07

EEwIN BOOTH AS HAMLET.-A peculiar in
terest attaches itself to Mr. Edwin Booths i'm
personaton of Hamlet, for it is in the same
character that his father won some of his
greatest laurels. Most of us know the elder
Booth as Hamlet only by tradition; some of
our middle-aged citizens remember his appear
ance well, and often chatted with the great
tragedian during his frequent visits to Port
land and naturally there comes up mental
if not an expressed comparison between the
father and the son. We do not propose to in
stitute any comparison. In the hands of the
younger Booth the play becomes broader and
deeper as it progresses, absorbing the minds of
the audience more and more until the climax
is reached. Mr.. Booths guiding principle is to
put play upon the stage with every attention
to scenery and costume, and historical accuracy
that the facilities of the theatre will admit Of
He never disappoints his audience in these
things, and there is a certain refinement upon
the stage which increases the power OF the
play. Of course the interest on Saturday night
centered in Mr.. Booth, who gave most COM
manding Interpretation of the character,-at
least we were not disappointed in it. There
was one noticeable feature; the subordinate ac-
tors realized their positions and were not striv-
ing to get before each other in prominence; a
careful observance of stage etiquette that was
pleasing. The audience, it is almost needless
to say, was both large and fashionable, and the
week will be highly enjoyed by. our citizeus.
Tonight the Iron Chest will be given; for the
first time in Portland for many years, VIC be-
liave