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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11

OF the center is from west to east but il
may depart several points from the cardi-
nal line.
The preceding congratulations of po-
sition apply to the Northern Temperate
Zone. A little consideration will help
us To understand that, in the Southern
Temperate Zone, the direction of the
rotary movement is the opposite TO that
of storms in this region the winds blow
round the vortex the same way that the
hands of n watch move. In the Iorrid
Zone, within what are technically known
rs the doldrums' (the limits of true
cyclone action, the difference between
the lengths of the successive parallels of
latitude is so small that the conditions
Of rotary motion are present but feebly,
and not at all on the equator.
1t is evident that this knowledge is OF
much greater practical value on the
water than on the land added to which,
storms move with more regularity on the
ocean than on shore, the motion not
being interfered with by irregularity of
surface. On land our theoretical circle
often becomes an irregular ellipse, but
on the ocean the circular form is very
nearly preserved. The mariner may
avoid serious damage, and perhaps total
loss, by n knowledge of these facts of
storm motion, by steering as nearly as
may be away from the vortex. This may
be accomplishedby keepingthe starboard
side to wlndward, and getting out of the
track If the storm-center be moving to-
wards the first noted place of the vessel.
Some of our going seamen are
already educated up to knowledge of
these facts, and an appreciation of their
value and there can be no doubt that a
more thorough dissemination of the
principles of storm science will result in
a material diminution in the annual per-
centage of loss by 'shipwreck. Elias
colbert, IN Chicago Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
Foreign Items.

QUEEN VICTORIA has oltlived official
ly, twelve of her premiers. Niscount
Melbourne was her first.
Col. Hunt, an American officer in the
Khedive's service, was recently killed in
Alexandria, Egypt, by being thrown
from his horse.
A REPORT just issued states that the
Irish railways aggregate about 1000
miles in length, with an invested capital
of $135, 1850
THE Brazilians are not reading peo-
pie, supporting only two newspapers,
and scarcely ever indulging in such use
less articles as books.
A COMPANY has been organized in
London to insure railway luggage.
Such an enterprise would surely come
to grief in this country with any pre-
miums less than 400 per cent. on the
value insured.
IT is said that, if the Chinese were to
they could bring into the field upward of
eighty million soldiers, unequaled for
patience and endurance, and for indif-
terence 10 death.
How little France was hurt, in n ma
terial sense, by the late war, is indi-
Gated by the fact that her imports and
exports last year amounted to 1911
$1,000 francs-showing greater COM
mercial activity than existed Mt the most
prosperous epoch of fhe empire.
AT meeting of baker strikers, in FL
gin, Scotland, an enthusiast concluded
his address with the following:
MAY the cock of Scotland never crow.
May the rose of England never blow,
May the harp of Ireland never play,
Till we poor bakers get better pay.
THE indications are unmistakable that
Russia is to be the horse-raising coun-
try of the future, so far, Mt least, rs Eu-
rope is concerned. A recent enumera-
ton shows that there are nearly 90, 000.-
600 horses in that country alone, which
is a surprisingly large number relatively
to the population.
The new Russian military organiza-
ton, based on the principle of universal
liability to military service, came into
force on the 18th of January last. The
whole country has been divided into 25C
depot districts, each of which is to form
reserve battalion and depot battalion
The reserve battalions are to be filled
with soldiers who have completed then
service in the regular army, according
to the plan adopted in the Prussiar
landwehr The peace establishment OF
each of the reserve battalions is fixed n
five officers, ten sub-officers, and 800
men, and they may at any time be place.
on war footing by the addition of the
men the depot battalions. There vii
be n reserve army OF $50 battalions il
addition to the regular army of 6S-
battalions, besides the calvary and ar
! tillery
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
Charcoal and Sulphur for Hogs.

In every hog pen there should be de-
posted weekly a quantity of charcoal.
The hog eagerly devours this substance,
and is greatly benefited and strengthen
ed by its use. 1t prevents many I'M
pleasant diseases and contributes largely
to the fatty secretions. A few spoonfuls
of pulverized birthstone or flowers of
sulphur, in a little dough, should be
administered as often as once fort
night to swine while fattening. Soft
coal forms q fair substitute for both Of
these substances, as it is chiefly car
bon, with which some sulphur is COM
hined.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Queries.

A wistful little face,
With great, brown, solemn eyes,
Comes haunting me each day
With questions OF the skies.
Whether they're near or far;
Whether there are any stairs
Which lead up to the stars;
And "Tell about tho bears,
And bout the lion, too;
And will he roar and bites
And did he make that noise
Called thunder t'other nightf
And, Aunty, If the moon,
That looks 40 big aud bright,
Should drop down on the ground
Some real cold winter night,
+" How could they put 1t back?
And would the man that's in il
Jump out and run away,
Perhaps just in a minute
+" And if the sky is Heaven,
Why don't thoy have doory
And, Aunty, what billion
OF stars are on the floor !"
A wistful little face,
With its great solemn eyes,
SO follows me each day
For knowledge of the skies:
Till oft I'm left to dream,
Until recalled by Maud,
Who whispers "Auntie, dear,
Tell me, how big is Code"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11

AN almanac has been published in Ar
menian, ut Constantinople, for the first
time. Among other interesting articles
is one of the statistics of the race, ac-
cording to which the Armenians are
1900, 900, of which {, 800, 900 are in Tur-
key, outnumbering the Greeks, and
1.5OO. 600 in Russia. The numbers in
the English empire are estimated at
$1,000. The real capital of the race is
Constantinople, where they appear to be
nearly 200, 900 in number.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
THE LAW OF STORMS.

The whirling Movement. and its Causes
How 90 Tell the Direction of "A Storm
Center.
Observations of the weather during
the past few years have established our
knowledge of the important meteorolog-
ical fact that all our storms are accom-
panied by the phenomenon of circular
wind. The fac. is now much more widely
known than its cause. The accompany
ing diagram will enable our readers to
understand the latter:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
FARM AND GARDEN.
Drilling Corn.


At the Michigan Agricultural College,
in 1868, two plots of land were set apart,
substantially equal in character OF soil,
each measuring forty-eight rods IN
width. The ground was plowed May 3,
and manure was spread evenly and work
ed in by cultivator and harrow. Yellow
Dent corn was planted May 81, in rows
four feet apart one of the plots being
planted in hills, the other in drills. The
plots were cultivated and hoed June 10,
and again July 7, the plants being
thinned so as to leave the same number
of stalks on each plot, including the
equal distribution of plants throughout
the subdivision of the plots. AS near
as possible, each of the two plots re-
ceived the same samount of labor and
cultivation. The stalks were cut at the
bottom September II, and stacked in
good order three weeks afterward the
corn was husked and weighed. The
stalks then again carefully stacked, and
were hauled and weighed, in good con-
dition, October H. The corn on the
portion planted in hills was better in
quality than on that planted in drills.
But the drilled portion produced "a 1-6
bushels shelled corn, and three tons of
stalks to the acre, against 65t bushels Of
shelled corn, and q tons of stalks per
acre produced by the portion in hills.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
The Seven Wonders OF the World.

The seven wonders of the world axe
among the traditions of childhood, and
yet ninety-nine persons out of one hun
dred can not name them. They are the
pyramids, the temple, the walls, and the
hanging gardens of Babylon the Chris
elephantine statue of Jupiter Olympus,
the most renowned work of Phidias; the
temple Of Diana ut Ephesus, which was
two hundred and twenty years in build
ing, and which was 425 feet in length
and 900 feet in breadth, and was sup
ported by 1877 marble columns of the
Ionic order, GO feet high; the Mausoleum
at Halicarnassus, erected to the memory
of Mau solus, the King of Caria, by his
wife Armesia, b. G. 1853; the Pharos. at
Alexandria, lighthouse erected by
Ptolemy Softer, at the entrance of the
harbor of Alexandria, $50 feet h;gn, and
seen at distance of 100 miles and
lastly, the Colossus at Rhodes, brazep
image of Apollo, los Grecian feet in
height
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
Thorough Culture.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette writes: In 1869 had field Of
16 acres of like fertility. expected to
plant half the field in corn, but for some
reason L did not. In the half that had
been plowed for corn, after the ground
had been broken, the weeds grew more
rapidly. Consequently broke it again
the Goth of June. On the 1st of Sep
TENDER following, 1 plowed the entire
field, and sowed in wheat. The result
was as follows : The half which had
only received single blowing yielded
per acre 13 bushels and Is pounds; the
half that received three breakings yield
ed per acre 23 bushels and 40 pounds,
which made difference of more than 10
bushels per acre At one dollar per
bushel, this would pay for the extra
blowing and leave net extra profit of
six dollars per acre besides.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11

A WEALTHY farmer of Stratton. En-
gland, successfully pleaded his own il
legitimacy as exempting him from lia-
bility to support his aged mother, then
in the workhouse.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11

for. hands. It's native of Australia.
The frigid zone is the coolest animal. =
Des MOines Register.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

ILLUSTRATING the necessity of
cleanliness and keeping the pores of
the skin open, it is said that if q
coat of varnish or other substance
impervious to moisture be applied
to the exterior of the body, death
will ensue in about six hours.
The experiment was once tried
on a child in Florence. On occa-
sion Of Pope Leo the Tenth's access
sion to the Papal chair, it was de-
sired to have living figure repre-
sent the Golden Age, and so child
was gilded all over with varnish and
gold leaf. The child died in a few
hours. If the fur of a rabbit or the
skin of a pig be covered with so.
luton of India.rubber in naptha, the
animal ceases to breath in a few
hours.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
Chr Maristta acarnal.

THE Grazing capacities Of Texas
are prominent among other features
of that State. 1t is estimated that
100 cows bought for 81, 200, number
1900 head, worth $4,000 in ten
years. Sheep husbandry is more
commended, as this country inn
ports 50,OO0,000 pounds Of wool an
nually. Texas can raise every va.
riety required as cheaply as Buenos
Ayres. The pasturage is illimitable,
and the natural increase 100 per
cent. annually. Both cattle ana
sheep can begrazed the year through,
in most Of Texas, on bunch ana
gramma, and other nutritious gras'
ses. and when hay is wanted gras-
aes cnre themselves The Platte
Valley alone has 100000 acres
Of rich lands, and the country y
GOO. 100000, that will sustain as
many sheep, and give fine wool and
mutton at the lowest cost, IN an an
nuaI temperature Of fifty degrees
Fahrenheit. The water is good
and abundant, and the grazing belt
which stretches vest of the Rio
Grande, will be reached at Fort
Worth by the Texas and Pacific
Railroad in 1874.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
GUILDS SIGNAL.
BY BRET HARTE.


Two low whistles, quaint and ciear.
That was the signal the engineer--
That was the signal that Guild. Ills said--
Gave 10 his wife at Providence,
As through the sleeping town, and thence,
Out in the night
On to the light,
Down past the farms, lying white, ne sped
As a husbands greeting scant, no doubt,
Yet to the woman looking out
Watching and waiting, no serenade,
Love song or midnight roundelay
Said what that whistle seemed to say;
ITO my trust true,
So love to you'll
Working or waiting, goodnight it said.
Brisk young bagmen, tourists fine.
Old commuters along the line
Brakemen and porters glanced ahead,
Smiled az the signal, sharp, intense,
Pierced through the shadows Of Providence
Nothing amiss,
Nothing lit is
Only Guild calling his wife" they said.
Summer and winter, the old refrain
Rang DER the pillows Of ripening grain,
ElsFctu through VIC ouuulhB Oo"b"S VI
head,
Flew down the track when the red Ieayef
burned
Like living Goals from the engine spurned
Sang as it flew:
go our trust true,
First Of all Duty.-good night" 1t said
And then one night, il was heard no more,
From Stonington over Rhode Island shore,
And the folk in Providence smiled ana
said,
Az they turned in their beds, The engineer
Has once forgotten his midnight cheer"
ONE only knew
10 his trust true
Guild lay under his engine, dead.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
THE VACANT CHAIR,

A Sabbath Stiffness fills the room,
As twilight deepens into night,
And all around IL darkeued gloom
Thy presence gives no CLEAN Of light
Memory recalls thy absent face,
The sunny smile thou used to wear;
We turn to catch thy warm embrace,
Aud meet, alas thy vacant chair
We miss ihv Remembered form,
Thy silvery voice, 80 SWEET and clear,
The heart whose feelings pure and warm,
Had made thee TO our own so dear.
The books, the flowers thy hand has press''
We treasure with the deepest care;
The very room thy presence blessed,
Now holds, alas thy vacant chair.
A rosebud's broken from the tree,
Thy lute's unstrung upon the ground;
We turn ia vain to look for thee,
And listen for thy footsteps sound.
We miss the clasp Of thy dear hands
Thy words that oft would Danish care,
And memory Yields u magic wand.
As we gaze upon thy vacant chair.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

AMONG the lost arts is that of the
endless burning lamp. 1t is said
that in the time Of Edward Nv. a
lamp was discovered in the grave Of
Constantine, at York, which had
been burning since bis burial to
that time, period Of twelve hun
dred years. Also, in the grave
Of Tuilia, daughter Of Cicero, was
ound burning lamp, which was
lighted at her death, fifteen hundred
and fifty years before. 1t went out as
soon as daylight was admitted. 1t
has been suggested that gold trans
formed to the shape of quicksilver
feed these lamps, but this is surmise
only. Yet it is certainly clever
device Of the ancients to invent
lamp which would illuminate through
all time the home Of their dead.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

An exchange says: A story is
going the rounds about a girl dying
Of tight lacing. These ugly corsets
should be abolished instanter; and
if the girls cannot live without being
squeezed, we suppose men could be
found who would sacrifice them
selves. We would rather devote
three hours day without a cent of
pay, as brevet corset, than to see
our girls dying off in that kind of
style, Office hours almost any
time.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
THE BABY.

Wonderful little baby,
Sitting Oh mothers knee.
Clasping the tiny fingers,
Screaming with childish glee
What causes the baby's laughter I
What does the little one sect
DO you think you could believe me
lfthe sober truth | spoke :
Would you really take it in earnest
Or only think it a Joke,
ifl told you the cause Of his laughter
Was only wreath of smoke2
Close by his side sits Grandpa,
With his wonderful pipe OF clay,
And baby is laughing and growing
AS he pulls the smoke away.
And trying, with eager fingers,
To grasp il in his play.
And we smile al his childish folly,
Little thinking that we,
In some OF our undertakings
Are little wiser than he,
And often mistake for substance
The shadows our eyes may see.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

A RELIABLE paper in New York
says in regard to that city that the
use Of vino among gentlemen at par
ties, has grown to such a magnitude
If it is not banished decent women
will not attend them, and that
the pernicious custom Of furnishing
and drinking is sapping the founda-
ton of social morality. "Throngh
it young men are becoming black
guards, and maidens forgetting how
TO blush.n
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

BE careful how you 30 to sleep at
an auction. A gentleman settled
himself in comfortable chair, and,
his senses soothed by the auction
GERS lullaby, soon dropped asleep.
When his nap was over he left the
place. The next day he was as
founded at the receipt Of a bill for
several hundred dollars worth of
carpets and other things. The auc-
tioneer had received his sleepy mods
for bids.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

In an editorial on the horse dis.
ease, the Congregationalist suggest
ed that it might be well to sit at the
feet Of q horse and learn humility
Gust so, says the California News
Letter, "sit down at the hind feet OF
a mule, and if he don't hnmiliate
you, pull his tail aud tickle the inside
Of his legs with stable fork"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

A impulsive Connecticut young
man sent his girl the piece of sheet
music entitled 81 will meet you at
the Beautiful Gate" Her father
saw the piece when she opened the
package, and after daubing a buck
ctful of tar over his gate, quietly re-
marked to his daughter, Gle can
wait for you if he wants to, but you
won't either ofyou swing on that
gate if tar will keep you off"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
THE sPINrnRs LAMENT

First, wondered srko Ia take,
But could see none TO please me;
And, as older grew, the thought
OF trho I'd get did tease me.
AZ years elapsed, found myself
Advanced in life TO be;
And. finding no result from roage,
| wondered srao'd take nae
[Stll wondering.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

A little Kansas girl, who built a
fire in her fathers barn and found it
getting beyond her control, hasten
ed to hide what she had done by
covering it with boards. The mos
tive was pardOnable, perhaps, bat
the result was not satisfactory,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
A DAY DREAM.

In long.forgotten pocket,
Tied up with silken band,
found it: only letter.
Traced in girlish hand.
/ read It over and over.
All, me as did before,
In the days that were full of sunlight
The days that are no more.
| dreamed OF golden Summer,
Far back IN j1yons time,
When every day was u poem,
Aud every hour rhyme.
There came fragrance OF roses,
And lilacs and mignonette,
And a sound Of sylvan music,
And the eyes that are with me yet.
A food Of purple sunset,
In scintillant glory came,
Till the deep old forests kindled,
And burned like fluid Of flame.
There came girlish figure,
With pillows Of floating hair,
And she bent her face above me-
An angel over my chair.
| saw il all in a moment,
While held the crumpled sheet;
And then, as the vision faded,
The long, gray city street,
With its hateful rush and elamor
Came back to my weary eyes;
All, still the fruitless struggle
All, still the worthless prize.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
THINKING OF you.

I thought my heart had grown cold,
And 10 loving had sighed its adieu;
But in spite OF myself and OF fate,
ann ohen times thinking Of you
The language Of passion is sweet,
And il falls on the soul like the dew
But | know il but lures TO deceive
Then why am thinking of yon'
Could fly from this wilderness world
To heart that was loving and true;
Gould live all my lite by your side,
would live and die thinking of you,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

Philosopher josh Billings says; A
man that starts out on the day of his
marriage, as first lieutenant in his
family need never expect to be pro
NOTED.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

say, Jim, which would you rath-
err, that lion tore you in pieces or a
tiger 7 ''Why, you goose, of course
I'd rather a lion tore tiger in
pieces
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

Mr.. Batkins went home from a
party with banana in his pocket,
and is sorry he didn't think of it be
fore he sag down.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

A Kansas paper describes man
as being "as sOciable as batch Of
of candidates two weeks before cleo
ton.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

Joe, I've great mind to blow my
brains out. "Why don't you i"said
Joe nobody would ever know it."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30

Ladies are opposed to female
clerks because it destroys the ro-
nance of shopping.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-05-30
FOR SALE.

HOUSE AND LOT IN THE
city of Marietta, Ga, situated
inn ON the Sonth-side of Public Square
IEaa and on Powder Spring street
-. aims Eve large rooms and basement,
III nj mastered For further particulars APP
ply TO -. ,s-e
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-16
|, HUGHES AND RAMSDELL
RALLY SONG.
DEDICATED TO THE HUGHES AND
RAMSDEBL CLUBS. .l
rusr-"RoHy Round he F1ug,"

TuNE-"RoHy Round tAe Flug"
Yes, wen rally for Virginia, boys, rally once
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ramsdcll
We will rally from the hillside, Wen gather
from the plain, t l.F1 !.
shouting for Colonel Hughes aud Ramsdell ]
Hughes for governor Hurrah, BOYS, iurrah
Down with dead issues, up with the new
While we rally for Virginia. rally once again,
shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ramsdell
We're fighting for Virginia we never fought
before
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ramslell
Wen iii her empty Golfers from her mines OF
iron ore, ~
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ram sdell q
Hughes for governor Sc, &c.
Wen welcome all who come from the North
ana East and West,
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ramsdelll
We viii build canals and railroad, and We'll
all do our best,
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and RamsdeH
Hughes for governor &C., &c.
lie. Conservatism die, boys. vote for the good
and true,
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ramsdell
Republicans, remember, keep Firginiirs good in
view, SOY
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ramsdell
Hughes for governor &C., sc.
We will do some honest voting and drive KEN
per out of sight,
Shouting for Colonel Hughes and Ramsdel
We are wording for Virginia, and we know we're
doing right, "
VorISd for Colonel Hughes and Ramsdell
Hughes for governor Hurrah, boys, llurrah
Down with dead issues and up with the new
While we rally for Virginia, rally once again,
Shouting fol Colonel Hughes and Ramsdelli-
SURRY.