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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-31

The enormous amount of money left
for charitable purposes in England is
forcibly exhibited by the following state
ment of requests, announced within a
single week:
The will of George Marley, sworn
under go, 900, leaves 81 900 to each of
the following four hospitals, viz: the
Middlesex Hospital, st. Mary's Hospital,
the Consumption Hospital, and the
University College Hospital. Thomas
Norris leaves "a, 900 to the Church of
England schools at erosion, GA, 900 to
the Bury Dispensary, and large sums to
other charitable and educational institu-
tions. the total sum bequeathed being
GlO,45O. A sum of f5, 900 has been left
to the Royal Berks Hospital by Mr..
Palmer, formerly NJ. p. for Berks.
The following sums have been left by
Lady WHEELER Church Missionary So
cietv. $1,000; Church Pastoral Aid So
cietv. $4,000 British and Foreign Bible
Society. Go, 600; endowment of Heworth
Church. 80, 900; endowment of Drax
Vicarage, G5, 900; London City Mission,
e4.OOO. the Religious Tract Society,
60 900: the Irish Society, CO, 600 the
Jews Society, 81 900, and the Colonial
Church Society, 81 600 Total, ga, 900.
The London charities are computed at
49,, 10000, 900 year
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-31

Silence IL still noise.
One ov the hardest things for a man
to do liz to keep still.
Everybody wants tew be heard fust,
and this IL jist what fills the world with
nonsense.
Everybody wants tew talk, few want
to think, and nobody wants to listen.
The greatest takers among the feath-
cred folks are the magpie and ginny
hen, and neither ov them are ov mulch
account.
If man amt sure he IL right the best
kard he can play IL blank one.
l have known menny man tew beat
in an argument by just nodding his
head once in while and simply say,
" Jess so, Jess So.
1t takes CRATE menny blows to drive
i'll a nail, but one will clinch it,
Sum men talk just rs French pony
trots, all day long, in half bushel meaz-
Zure.
Silence never makes emmy blunders,
alwuz gifts az mulch credit az liz due it,
and oftimes more.
When see man listening to me
clus alwuz say to myself, "Look out,
Josh, that fellow IL taking your meaz-
zure."
L hev heard men argy pint hours
and half, and not git emmy further from
where they started than mule in bark
mill they did a good deal of going round
and round.
hav sat on jurys and had lawyer
talk the law, fakts and evidence ov the
kase all out ov me, besides starting the
taps on mi boots.
l hav been tew church hungry for sum
gospel, and cum HON so phull ov it that
couldn't draw a long breth without
starting button.
Brevity and silence are the two CRATE
kards, and next to saying nothing, say
ing little IL the strength ov the game.
One thing liz certain, it IL only the
CRATE thinkers who kan afford tew be
brief, and thare has been but phew vol
umes yet published which could not be
cut down two-thirds, and menny ov them
could be cut clean back to the title-page
without hurting them.
1t liz hard to find n man ov good sense
who kan look back upon emmy occasion
and wish he had sed sum more, but it IL
easy tew find menny who wish they had
sed less.
A thing sed liz hard tew recall, but
unsed it kan be spoken at emmy time.
Brevity IL the child ov silence, and IL
great credit tew the old man.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-31

There is a good deal said in censure
of the custom of jumping off and on
cars when in motion. 1t is righteous
condemnation, but is not consistent when
coming from railroad companies. If
they truly desire reform they must
begin at home, for rs long as employees
will jump on train when In motion,
and persist i'll doing it rs gracefully as
they do, an initiative public will be the
sufferers. People don't Jump on train
before it stops, because they are in
hurry, but because they have seen
brakeman or conductor do it, and have
a terrible dread of being surpassed.
Now, ut the station the other day, Con-
ductor Phillips, of the Eastern train,
after giving the word to start, waited
until the last car reached him, and then,
raising one hand to the raj, and one foot
gently from the earth, he swung ma
jestically around, and was at once firmly
on the car. Mr.. Phillips weighs 200
pounds, but there was such grace and
poetry in his motion that he seemed to
blend with the car. First, there was
yellow paint, and then gold leaf and
maroon and Phillips. There was an
elderly person who saw Phillips do this,
and his eyes glistened with anticipation.
He was going on the Western train, and
when it came along he waited until
fine rate of speed was gained, and then,
raising his hand and leg just as he had
seen Phillips do, and looking carelessly
away, just as Phillips did, he reached
out for the rail, and the next instant was
trying to push his head through the
platform planks, and fighting the air
with his heels, and madly paving around
with his hands, and swearing and pray
ing at an awful rate. They stood him
up on his feet, and rubbed his head with
some snow, but it was a long while be-
fore they could convince him that the
locomotive had not exploded. -Danbouy
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The StraM.Paper SMindle.

The New York journal Of Commerce.
calls the attention of the press of the
country to II covert attempt to again re-
vive the patent straw-paper swindle III
Congress. The dodge now attempted is
proposed amendment to the patent
laws, now before Congress, in which is
the following clause: "And no extension
granted prior to the passage of this act
shall be held invalid by reason of the
fact that the certificate of extension was
not annexed before the expiration of
such patent. The journal of conn
D,erce says there is no other case to
which this amendment will apply except
to revive the old French Mellier patent
straw paper swindle, which was defunct
five years ago. This amendment has
been read twice, and in a few days will
be put upon its passage. The effect of
its passage will be to add one cent to
every pound of paper purchased by
newspaper publishers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-31
Facts About Presidents.

There are some very curious facts
connected with the Presidents Of the
United States. Glen. Washington,
the first President, had no children. He
was reelected. John Adams. the Sec
ond President, had children-sons and
daughters. He was not reelected.
Thomas Jefferson, his successor, had no
sons, but two daughters. He was re-
chosen. The fourth President, James
Madison, like Washington, had no chill
dren. He was reelected. The fifth,
James Monroe, had IA daughter, but no
son. He was President eight years.
After him came John Quincy Adams, who
had children-sons, and, we think,
daughters. He failed of reelection.
The seventh President, Andrew Jackson,
had the fate of Washington and Madl-
son in being unfortunate as to have no
descendants. Martin Van Buren,, the
eighth President, had sons, and was CON
tinued in Office only n single term. Gen.
William II. Harrison, his successor, had
children of both sexes. He died III one
month after his Inauguration. After
him came John Tyler, who had family
of sons and daughters. He was an as
pirant for the Presidency, but was de-
feated. Then came James *. Polk,
whose domestic condition was that OF
Washington, Madison and Jackson-ht
had no children. General Taylor, who
followed him, died in office i'll ffteer
months after his accession. He hac
both sons and daughters, one of the lat
ter of whom was the first wife of Jetfer
son Davis. The thirteenth President
Willard Fillmore had daughter, but NJ
son. He was not reelected Franklin
Pierce when he came to the Presidential
chair was childless man. So also Wa
the fifteenth President, James Buchanan
who was bachelor. Abraham Lincoln
who succeeded him, had children, boil
sons and daughters, and he was the onl,
man who had that was ever twice chosel
President. Andrew Johnson had chill
dren of both sexes, but was not re-elect
ed. Grant has both sons and daughters
and is chosen for the second term.
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Astounding MesmeriC Power.

A curious case of mesmerism is re-
corded by the civil surgeon of Hoshung-
abad. A young woman named Nunnee,
aged "a, was married some twelve years
ago; she, however, did not go to her
husbands house for two years after
ward. After staying with him for eight
days she became insensible, and re-
manned SO for two or three days. She
was taken back to her mother, and soon
got we'll Then follows very remark
able history. During the next four or
five years she never entered her hus-
bands house without falling insensible
and remaining 80. He was very kind
and attentive to her; she liked him, but
whenever ne came into her presence she
at once sank into this state. This went
on till she became emaciated and ex-
hausted, and ut last her parents applied
to the court for II separate maintenance
for her While she was i'll court the
husband entered, and she instantly be-
came insensible and was carried to the
hospital, where the case was carefully
attended to by DR.. Cullen, in March,
last year. While in this state her pulse
was even, breathing soft, her body pli-
ant, but she could eat nothing. Expert
ments were carefully made to see if
there was no trick about it, While she
was in bed her husband was muiiied up
and made to walk through the ward.
She said she felt he was near her, and
she was by no means well, but had not
seen him anywhere about. Next day
this experiment was repeated, and she
actually became insensible as before.
When the husband left the place she re-
covered. The experiment as to the in
huence of the husbands presence was
tried in all sorts of ways. He was made
to pass behind her and to be near her in
n separate ward, but this had no effect;
but whenever he was brought to look on
her face, though muf1led up, or disguised
~ n policeman, as n sepoy, and SO forth,
she was at once influenced. The expert
ments continued for about month, and
the conclusion was that the husband I'M
consciously mesmerized her. The court
came to the conclusion that it was i'm
possible that she could live with him,
and n separate allowance was ordered.
The husband was asked to try if he
could not remove the effect, seeing that
he had the power to cause it, but he was
quite frightened at the idea of having
the power and could not control it in any
way. -UOnie1Cdrd Mail. of I1ldia.
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Lady ReacOnsfleld and Mr.. Disrncli.

The death is announced this morning
of Lady Beaconsheld, the wife of Mr.
Benjamin Disraeli. Thereby hangs n
tale-in fact, several of them Let us
see how they will all look when strung
together. Lady Beaconsfield was 81
years of age, and Mr.. Disraeli is some
thing like 20 years younger The lady
had been the wife of Wyndham Lewis, "a
man Of immense fortune. Young Dis
raeli and this Mr.. Lewis dubbed to-
gether years ago To represent n certain
double-seated constituency iii the House
of Commons. There was the usual
division of duties in the new firm Dis
raeli furnished the brains and oratory
and Lewis the money. To exchange
positions would have been equally inn
possible to both. People now living
remember having heard Lady Beacons-
field speak disparagingly of her hus-
bands intellectual attainments, and,
indeed, of her husband himself, and
culogize Disraeli to the skies. This was
during the "bargain and sale campaign. y
In the course of time Mr.. Lewis died,
and Mr.. Disraeli married the widow in
less than year. She married for love,
and he for money. The marriage oc-
CURED in 1889, and by lS49 he had been
before the Bankruptcy Court no fewer
than three times. He was once com
PEELED to flee, but his wealthy wife came
to the rescue in every instance. Dis
raeli's solicitor was heard then, and has
since been heard, to declare that he had
no idea what his client did with his
money; no idea how he could spend it
he did not gamble, and there was only
one other channel for its escape, which
he confessed the circumstance strongly
pointed rs to the correct one. Lady
Beaconstield had an immense fortune
settled on her, but it was for her natural
life only, and now reverts to her children
by her first marriage.
Mr.. Disraeli finds himself hopelessly
III debt, with pension of five Thousand
pounds sterling This pension he nc.
quired III shrewd way, too. The Tory
Ministry of 1868 was dissolved i'll No
vember. His colleagues, who were men
of wealth, wanted To retire long before
but he procrastinated until he had filled
up the exact minimum time of service
required for n pension, and then with
drew. 1t is reported, and probably cor
rectly, that there is no great amount ot
affection existing between Mr.. Disrael
and the heirs of Baconsfeld This
would be quite natural mt the best, if al
the circumstances are considered but il
is further said that the hostile feeling
has been aggravated by the action of III
terestcd persons in trying to persuad,
Lady Baconsfield to get her life insured
a proposition she wisely rejected whel
she considered her great age and reflect
ed what the premium must be i'll conse
quence. -LOndon Cor. NeW York POST
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in the United States is raised in New

in the United States is raised in New
York.
THERE are 90. $40, 600 cattle in the
United States. Texas alone has over
100000.
CONNECTICUT farmers are Disguised
with tobacco, and will raise beets here
after instead
Mr.. +. s. GRANT, of Winterport, Me-,
harvested $3.50 pounds of Swedish tur-
nips from piece of land ~ rods square,
which he sold for Sl65 cash.
The st. Paul Pioneer says that the
damage to crops and fruit trees, and loss
of stock by reason of the late cold snap,
will amount to millions in the State.
FARMERS should favor long burrows.
The frequent turning of the pillow and
commencement of new burrows involves
much protitless expenditure of time and
labor.
SOUTHERN peanut cultivators report
that the vines used for hay for stock
fully repay the care of tilling the crop.
A bushel of peanuts yields three quarts
Of oil.
IMMENSE amounts of real estate are
being offered for sale in all parts of
Pennsylvania, particularly farming lands,
the present owners of which intend 60
ing West.
A CHARLESTON, S. c., circular esti-
mates the rice crop of the South as fol-
lows: North Carolina, 600 casks; South
Carolina, $1,000; Georgia, 10, 400; and
Louisiana, 10, 500.
A FARMER says it is safe enough for
all practical purposes to calculate that
SD cubic feet of hay in NOW will weigh
a ton. He recently tested the matter,
and found the rule remarkably correct.
ACCORDING to the Dover On. II. Ga
=ette, large quantities of Baldwin apples
are being purchased in that vicinity for
South American markets. The best
quality is quoted at 81. - per barrel.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-31
Curious Phase Of the Postal Law.

One of the curiosities of postal law, as
interpreted by those who do not reason
broadly, is thus stated III Washington
dispatch TO the New York TribunC
"The Department will transport n
daily newspaper printed here from
Washington to San Francisco, and de-
liver it to a subscriber there for 30 cents
quarter: but if the subscriber lives
here in Washington he must pay one
cent for each copy, or rather this must
be prepaid for him by the publishers of
the paper. SO with weekly papers, the
postage on which is five cents quarter.
For this sum the mails will carry paper
from Maine to Texas, and the carrier
will deliver it without extra charge ut
the subscribers door but subscriber
living in the place where the paper is
published must pay 13 cents quarter
if he gets his paper through the mail.
The absurdity of such decision is too
manifest for serious argument. The
wonder is that any intelligent person
could have interpreted the statutes in
such way. There is nothing in it's
letter or spirit that appears to warrant
this construction.
The decision is unjust 1t is difficult
to understand why the citizens of New
York should be required to pay nearly
three times as much for the delivery of
one say published in Boston. And yet
for years this curious phase of postal
law has challenged the criticism of the
people. Let us have an end to such
manifest absurdity.
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4 WeII-sO-tiO Class.

We hazard the assertion that no class
of equal average means live SO well as
American farmers. One Of these, pos
sessing farm and buildings worth from
five to ten thousand dollars, will gather
about him and enjoy more real comfort
than could be obtained from the income
of hundred thousand dollars in New
York. He may live in a more commodi-
Gus dwelling than metropolitan citizen
having ten thousand dollars income. He
NAV have his carriage and horse His
table may be supplied with everything
fresh in its season. His labor is less
wearing than the toll of counting-rooms
and offices, and he has more leisure. -
Scribner's NOnthW.
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A Man Suspended by One Foot for a
Period Of Eight Hours.

On Monday night an unfortunate Irish
man wandered into the Court House
searching for place to pass the night.
He found his way up stairs, where the
doors were closed, and turned to retrace
his steps, when he struck the railing of
the stairs, and thinking it fence, as he
says, he climbed over it at a place where
it was about eight feet TO the stairs be-
low. Luckily or unluckily, as the case
might have been, as he fell from the
railing one of his feet caught between
the balusters, and he hung between
heaven and earth, head downward. His
position was very painful and at the
same time dangerous one, for had his
foot loosened, he would have fallen the
entire distance, TO strike on his head.
In spite of his many and loud calls for
help, he remained in that terrible posi-
ton all night, and was released next
morning. Had the weather been "a cold
az it had been few days before, it is
quite likely he would have died before
morning, IA no efforts were made by
those who heard his agonizing cries to
relieve him.-Poplar Btuf Mo- NcWs.
STOCKINGS made of glass spinnings are
tha lotnat trtt, ,,,h Of i,,c,anttttx-
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Unparalleled Surgical Operation.

On Monday, Dec ., surgical opera
ton was performed by Drs. Cable and
Walters, of Pittsburgh, Pa, which is
without parallel A young man residing
in Steubenville, o., WAS SO unfortunate
rs to get mouth plate with five teeth
thereon fastened i'll his throat. Medical
assistance was summoned, and all efforts
to withdraw the plate were unsuccessful,
and the physicians i'll attendance pushed
the plate further down the gullet The
patient suffered greatly, and efforts were
made to employ IA surgeon that would
undertake to cut the man open and re-
cover the plate, but n surgeon could not
be found in the city who would risk the
delicate operation. Finally Drs. Cable
and Walters, of Pittsburgh, consented
to perform the operation. Chloroform
was administered to the patient, and an
incision was made in the neck, and the
surgeon cut steady to the top of the
stomach In the language of DIR. Gable,
1.-the mans heart was beating against
my right hand, while the lungs and ar
teries were throbbing against my left
hand" An instrument was inserted and
the plate successfully removed Our
informant left Pittsburgh on the seventh
day after the operation and the patient
was recovering rapidly, and later re-
port by letter informs him that he is en-
tirely out of danger.
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ImprOying Upon Nature.

They practice strange art IN Japan
which is considered an improvement on
animal expression. Young puppies are
subjected to extraordinary modifying in
duences soon after birth. The upper jaw
is forced up at an angle, carrying with 1T
the lower one. which gives the head the
slope of child's head. The eyes, too.
are sinpularly forced out of their original
plane, so that when the process is com
pleted and the bones are permanently ma
new position. the dog appears something
like a weeping infant looking up. The
distortion is disgusting and certainly a
crnel process in the hands of anybody
but a Japanese lady, whose pets they
are. and objects of tender care.
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An English Example for American
Following.

We learn by cable that w. S. Newton,
late manager of branch London bank
at Chertsey, has just been convicted at
Old Baily of embezzling seven hundred
dollars from the bank funds, and SEN
fenced to five years penal servitude.
With us, in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred, the result would have been
very different, and though the offender
might not have been presented with II
service of plate, he certainly would have
stood little chance of losing his liberty
If the precedent furnished above should
be faithfully followed in the United
States for n twelvemonth, the list of en-
bezzlements and breaches of trust on the
part of bank officers, now SO common,
would be reduced fifty per cent. 1t is
doubtful, however, whether the attempt
will ever be made. We are so kind
hearted.
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Terrible Crime.

News has reached the London JeWiSh
Chronicle of the commission of fearful
outrage upon Jewish family in Russia,
in the district of Michaelow. A jew is
landlord of an inn which is solidarity sit
uated on the border of wood. The
family consisted of husband, wife, broth
er, and four children. On the 18th ult. q,
at about in the evening, two labOrers
came into the inn and called for some
brandy, for which they refused to pay,
and jeeringly asked, III addition, for the
loan of five roubles. As the Landlord
refused to lend them any money, and de-
manded payment for the brandy, the
laborers became abusive, and ulti-
mately were turned ont of the house, the
landlord retaining the caps of the men,
so that they might be afterward identi-
fed when he complained of their con
duct. The laborers went away, mutter'
ing ominous threats. When the inn
keeper and his family had been asleer
but short time, they were awoke 10y
loud cries of Fire" and on rushing
out of the house they were attacked by
eight men, among whom were the tive
laborers who had come to the inn in tn,
early part of the evening. The landlord
and his family were thrown to the grount
and bound. The men then set to plum
dering the house. When they had ran
sacked the place, they caught hold O
the poor landlord, his wife, brother, ant
three younger children, and threw then
into the midst of the burning building
Only the eldest son of the landlord, abou
II years of age, managed TO escape into
the neighboring wood. The others per
ished in the flames. One of the laborer,
had been arrested, and the police were
in active pursuit of the other murderers
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The Cause of Our Hard Winter.

1t is some qualification to know that
the present season of terrible cold and
meteorological disturbance through
which we go shivering can be scientifi-
cally accounted for. The fault is not
with our planet, but with the sun. 1t is
said there are on that luminary group
of spots, distinctly visible to the naked
eye, that have total area of 1000. 600
square miles. We regret that these
great spots have come upon his bright
ness. We hope that he will soon be
able to remove them for our sake. 1t
may also reconcile us to the Arctic con-
dition of things to know that there has
been colder weather before. But this
was nearly a century ago.