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Big Thing.

When people talk about millionaires
they usually mention Rothschild first,
but there is man in England named
Ward, in comparison with whom any
Rothschild is a pauper. This man
inherits a vast property, with accumu-
lated investments and estates, which
give him an enormous income he has
the most magnificent house in London,
the finest collection of art, and the finest
country seats in the kingdom his wife
is celebrated for her beauty, and her
display of diamonds at the recent festi-
val given by the Emperor of Austria, at
Vienna, made all the other ladies, the
expresses, queens, and princesses, look
poor. What the income of this British
Cresus is we have never seen any state
ment of, but a Manchester paper gives
an account of his annual profits derived
from his coal mines, which amount to
the enormous sum of 100000. So
the income from one source alone of
this inordinately wealthy person is not
much short of twenty-five millions OF
dollars year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Egypt.

Ever since the time of the great
prophet the attempt has been made to
hold all the people that believe in the
Mohammedan religion under the same
government. Lately, however, it be-
came apparent that the Sultan could not
rule, in matters temporal, all the nations
who accepted the doctrines of the Koran.
The latest breaking away from the pow
er of the Sublime Porte is in the case of
Egypt, whose government was intrusted
to Viceroy. This officer showed so
much executive ability, and so great
genius in everything he undertook, that
Egypt became one of the most progress
i've nations of the old world. His rule
now extends over about eight hundred
thousand square miles of territory, in
habited by over 10000 people. There
have been, from time to time, rumors
that the Khedive or Viceroy was about
to revolt against the Sultan, but it is GER
tain that at least a show of good feeling
has been kept up between them. Quite
recently, however, the Sultan has issued
an order granting an Independent gov
eminent to the Khedive, authorizing
him to augment his armies, and to con-
clude treaties with foreign nations. At
the same time treaty was concluded
between the two countries, one item Of
which makes it binding on the Khedive
to furnish the Sultan 80, 900 equipped
soldiers when they may be necessary to
defend the territory of Turkey.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
An Exciting Scene on the Plains.

Out on the plains, about 200 miles
from Denver, is a vertical bluff seventy
five feet high. A party of hunters
recently stampeded herd of buffaloes
right to the brink of the precipice. The
foremost brutes, approaching their criti-
cal situation, attempted to avert the
calamity, but the frightened hundreds
behind crowded forward with character
istic persistency. The front rank, with
legs stretched toward each cardinal point
of the compass, beloved in concert and
descended to their fate. Before the
pressure from behind could be stopped,
the next rank and the next rank followed,
initiating the gesture and the below
ing of the first. For 80 seconds it
rained buffaloes, and the white sand
at the foot of that bluff was incarnadine
with the life-blood of wild meat, and
not until the tails of fifty or seventy-five
of that herd had waved adieu to this
wicked world did the movement cease
DeDpe1. Mems
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Zanzibar Slave Trade Closed.

After all, though that slave merchant
who calls himself Sultanrof Zanzibar re-
fused to sign the slave-trade treaty
which Sir Bartle Frere presented to him
with the compliments of Queen Victoria,
he has since been frightened into the
desired result. He had proclaimed his
triumph over England by bombastic
proclamation, in which he told his sub
jects to do as they always had done.
With the sanction of the Viceroy of In
dia, Admiral Cumming, commanding q
British squadron before Zanzibar, treat
ed this proclamation as a bravado
against England, and notified the Sui
tan of his intention to lombard the cap
ital, and, deposing him, place some
chief tributary to England on the throne.
With more discretion than dignity, the
Sultan ate humble pie, withdrew his
proclamation, signed the treaty, closed
the slave market, and resolved to wait
for better times. In future British
man-of-war will be stationed at Zanzibar
to keep the Sultan up to the mark, and
it is expected that an Indian law
speedy, short, and sharp-will declare
that to support the slave trade is fell
ony. That will stop it, if any moral
suasion cau.-Phitadelphia Prc'S.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Water asa Preserver of HITTER.

After being duly packed water-tight,
the packages may be placed in good,
cold water, such as is found in good
wells and springs anywhere. Any such
good well of water may be used for this
purpose, only be sure the package is
completely under water always; and if
under water several feet deep, it is no
detriment, but probably an advantage.
1t is not necessary, but probably best,
that the packages should not rest on the
clean ground at the bottom of the
well-not that any harm would happen
to the butter, but the outside of the
packages might get soiled and muddy.
A deep tank, kept full of water from
flowing spring and continually flowing,
may be the most desirable reservoir for
keeping the butter in, if the tank is well
covered and kept from freezing.
No one need be surprised if butter
stored in this way may be kept for years
as good as when packed. Possibly lard
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
The Lions Fear of Man.

Lichenstein says that African hunters
avail themselves of the circumstance
that the lion does not spring upon his
prey till he has measured the ground
and has reached the distance OF ten or
twelve PAGES, where he lies crouching
upon the ground, gathering himself for
the effort. The hunters, he says, make
it rule never to fire upon the hon TIL
he lies down at this short distance, so
that they can aim directly at the head
with the most perfect certainty. He
adds that if a person has the misfortune
TO meet lion, his only hope of safety is
to stand perfectly still, even though the
animal crouches to make spring-that
spring will not be hazarded if the man
has only nerve enough to remain mo-
tonless as statue, and look steadily
at the lion. The animal hesitates, rises
slowly, retreats some steps, looking
earnestly about him, lies down, again
retreats, till having thus by degrees got
quite out of what he seems to feel as
the magic circle of mans influence, he
takes to flight in the utmost haste.
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Danberries.
from the panbury News


-Corbin * Merker's sign fell to the
walk, Saturday evening, and knocked
down four heirs to estates in England.
The most widespread case of liver
complaint on record is in house on Pine
street, where thirty boarders have it.
But it is cheaper than other meat.
"A dog belonging to Danbury man
was killed by mowing-machine on
Friday. The owner was deeply affected
by the loss, but he said we must all re-
member that death is no respecter OF
persons, and sold the hide for dollar.
The authorities will do well to re-
member that fashion news indicates a
change in ladies' dresses which abolish
es the trail, and should bestir them
selves early in the matter of furnishing
suitable means for cleaning the cross
ings.
Now that watermelon rinds are be-
coming plenty it is no uncommon thing
to see an elderly man paving the air
with blue-button umbrella to save
himself from falling, and finally going
down with a violence that throws a
rusty beaver halfway cross the street,
and fills the air with store receipts,
mortgages, tax-ists, protested notes,
and yellow-silk handkerchief.
The surfeiting we all undergo dur
ing this season of fruit brings into ac-
ton the family pill-pox. 1t is a little
singular how much hunting has to be
done to find that box. The party who
last needed its services doesn't remem-
Der where he left it, and doesn't care to
think OF it at all, while he whose turn
now occurs isn't exactly tortured to
death by anxiety. We are not quite
sure but that there is faint hope down
somewhere in his breast that it may not
be founnd at all. He feels Jumps form
ing in his throat as he peers among the
bottles and boxes which constitute the
pharmacy at his house, and when the
box finally appears, and he feels it in
his hand, there is sensation at the pit
of his stomach as if somebody was try
ing to turn that organ over with an old
brass candlestick. Some people swallow
a dose of pills without qualm, and af-
forwards go around looking as proud
and overbearing as a boy whose father
plays in, band, but the most of us are
more delicately constituted, and count.
ing out dose of pills while some one
else gets the water, and observes that he
doesn't see how any one can swallow the
awful thing, is about as serious an un,
dertaking as can be found on record
There is something too awfully solemn
about it to describe. And it is little
singular that while a man can swallow
whole whortleberries, cherry pits, and
even buckshot, without any un
easiness at all, yet single pill
will catch in his throat, at particularly
ticklish spot, and hang there for hours
and make faces at his stomach. And /
man in fix like that is not exactly tn,
party we would select to concoct mot
toes for festival.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
EOundered Horses.

Many horses are called little foun-
dered when it is only stiffness of the
cords of the neck and shoulder caused
by the check rein. You have often
seen horse step back in his stall after
he had been out to show off his best
points, and put his nose to the floor.
The groom, with wise look, will re-
mark, "The old man gave him hard
one to-day" while in fact the horse was
only stretching out the cords of his
neck and then, to make the matter
still worse, the ignoramus ties the halt
er shorter, so as to make him ''stand
up in his stall. :" Chat action was an
error, for if you "gag him up" and then
refuse to let nature restore the equilib-
rum, you will in short time create a
contraction in the cords of the neck and
shoulders, and the horse shows stiff
ness which appears to be founder. }
My preventive is to feed from manger
on IA level with his feet and over twenty
inches in front. This lets horse feed
as he was made to eat horse never
was made to eat like giraffe. Another
objection to high managers (and 1 never
saw anything in their favor is, they
irritate the throat and windpipe, and
create tendency to heaves. If horse
men would use more common sense they
would need less medicine. Ne,t
Yorker.
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and some other articles of food may be
stored in this way.-Cor. Utica Herald.
saving Seed Corn.

G.. Snyder, Scott Station, Kalamazoo
county, Mich, states that there had
never before been such failure of seed
corn. in coming up as the present season.
His observations and those of his neigh
bors had shown that the corn that had
been selected and hung away from all
heat had its vitality destroyed by freez-
ing. Corn husked and thrown on the
floor, and covered with snow had (seven-
eighths of it, grown. Corn left in the
shock in the field had produced. Corn
put in the crib had failed. He con-
cluded, from these observations and this
experience, that all seed corn, if husked,
should be kept from freezing during the
winter: that if husked, it should never
be allowed to lie on the ground over
night and that corn that is hung up in
cold room for seed should never be
husked until the planting time arrives.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Mexico.

According to memorial addressed to
the Government of Mexico by the Di-
rectors of the Mexican International
Railroad Company, Mexico produces
coffee of quality that is not surpassed
by any other country in the world. II er
coffee-growing regions are capable of
supplying theall United States consume.
For the production of sugar, also,
Mexico has regions especially adapted
and of great extent. Besides this, the
city of Mexico is destined, we are as
sured, to become the Paris of America.
To escape the heat of the summer and
the cold of the winter, both in the
United States and in Europe, thousands
of persons of wealth and leisure will be
led to seek the perpetual spring of
Mexico as soon as the railway in ques-
ton is completed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
To Make Manure for Grass Crops:

Make large compost heap mainly Of
stable manure and muck, or good rich
soil, with plenty of sulphate of lime
(plaster), and then a small addition of
sulphate of ammonia and sulphate of
potash; mix all thoroughly together and
cover the pile from the rain until wanted
for use, say at least ten days or two
weeks; in the meantime prepare the
fields for sowing or planting the seeds,
then spread and harrow in the compost
and plant Immediately. If crop of red
clover is grown it will, without any ad-
dition of heterogeneous manure, make sew
eral good forage crops, and then the
sod when plowed in will supply to the
soil sufficient ammonia TO dispense with
the sulphate of ammonia in the next
compost heap; but the compost heap
must be made for each crop. By thus
adding sulphates instead of nitrates to
the compost heap, you have more per-
manent and less wasting fertilizer, and
yet it is sufficiently soluble to be assim-
Hated by growing plants. The sulphate
of ammonia is much better for leachy
soil than the nitrate of soda, as the lat
ter is so very soluble that its nitric acid
in heavy rains is sunk so deep in the
soil as to get beyond the reach of the
young plants.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25

ACCORDING to the Norfolk Journal to-
bacco-chewers have one imitator among
the lower animals that is willing to come
down so low as to chew the vile weed
the only instance that we remember to
have seen recorded: There is a mule
owned by Mrs. Cotton, lady living
within a mile or two of Portsmouth. and
driven to market every day, that has
been an inveterate chewer of tobacco
for many years. Whenever the mule
becomes obstinate, it is only necessary
to give him chew, when he becomes
perfectly kind and gentle. The lady
purchases tobacco for him regularly,
and always keeps it on hand.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Do Hens Pay

propose answering this question by
the following correct account, showing
the amount of eggs and chickens pro-
duced from 63 hens in one year, COM
mencing January l, 1872, ending Janu-
airy /, 1873: The number of eggs sold
during the year was 557 dozen, for
which l received $S4.43; raised 90
chickens, sold them for % cents apiece,
which amounted to $22.50. This, united
with the $S4 43 received for eggs, makes
total income for the year of $10693.
The amount of feed consumed during
the year is as follows: 70 bushels shelled
corn, worth in this locality 80 cents per
bushel; 2 gallons sour milk per day,
worth , cents per gallon-$l4.60; 2
bushels lime, 80 cents total amount of
expenses 5000 Expenses deducted
from income, leaves net profit of
$50 SO. The bulk of the eggs were sold
at II to - cents per dozen. ! am salts
fed could not have obtained the above
result had it not been for the milk,
which seems to be very good substi-
tute for meat. The fowls had the range
of the farm in winter they had the
shelter of the barn. The hens kept
were species of the thoroughbred mon
grel, being White-crested Black Po-
lands, Bolton Grays, and Spanish
crossed.-J II. an Poultry World.
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To XIII CaterpiIIars.

The following method for removing
caterpillars from fruit trees l know by
personal experience to be sure Bore a
hole in the tree about a quarter or half
an inch in diameter, and about one inch
deep. Put -four ofssulphur in sufficient
to nearly fill the hole, then plug the
tree. Cut off the plug close. The hole
may be bored anywhere in the main
trunk of the tree, and will not injure it..
Try it, all who are troubled with cater
pillars, and in three days every one that
is in the tree will be dead.
JOHF s EIKINS
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Starting n Ball<y Horse.

A correspondent residing at Santa
Barbara, California, sends the following
"secret" for starting a balky horse:
sect him to think about something
else while starting. One convenient,
sure method is to put the hitch rope
around the fore foot, draw the foot for
ward off from the ground. In few
seconds the horse steps forward to get
his foot on the ground, and is in mo-
ton. Away he goes. Let him go.
Drive with loose rein, without blind
ers, check and stag chain. Never worry
his mouth when he is in motion.
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The Goat and the swing.

A little story, with moral
For young folks who are prone TO quarrel.
Old folks are wise, and do not need IL,
o: course They therefore will not read 1t.
vicious goat one day had found
His way into forbidden ground,
When, coming TO the garden-swing,
He spied most prodigious thing
A ram, a monster in his mind,
With head before and head behind
It's shape was odd--no hoofs we're seen,
But without legs IL stood between
Two upright, lofty posts of oak,
With forehead ready for IA stroke.
Though but harmless ornament
Carved on the seat, IL seemed intent
On barring the intruders way;
While he, advancing seemed to say:
Who is this surly fellow here?
Two heads, no tail-it's mighty queer.
most insulting couLtenance-"
With stamp of foot and angry glance,
He curved his threatening neck aud stood
Before the passive thing of wood.
. You winked as was going by.
You did not p? What! Tell me I lie?
Take that! !" And at the swing he sprung;
sounding thump. 1t backward swung,
And, set in motion by the blow
STayed menacingly to and fro.
. Ha you will fight? quarrelsome chap;
| knew you were. Youll get rap!
I'll crack your skull" A headlong jump;
Another and louder bump.
The swing, as if with kinding wrath,
Came rushing back along the path.
The goat, astonished, shook his head,
Winked hard, turned round grew mad and said
COR seemed To say" You rascal ram,
To pick fight with me, when l
80 quietly am passing by.
Your head or mine :" A laundering stroke,
The cracking horns met crashing oak.
Then came dull and muiiied sound,
And something rolled along the ground,
Got up, looked sad, appeared to say,
Your heads too hard J" and limped away
Quite humbly, in rumpled coat,
A dustier and wiser goat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25

The first six COWS are Ayrshires the
seventh and eighth are Short-horns, and
the rest of them common stock. The
COW named &c" has sucked calf for
several months. Gebbard is a COW
bought in March.
The average yield of milk per day for
each of the six Ayrshires was thus s. So
quarts, on an average live weight of ! ,029
pounds; of the Short horns. SO quarts,
with an average live weight of 1,0S3
pounds of the seven common cows,
8. A quarts, with an average live weight
of 1,002 pounds. The differences were
not large, the Ayrshires, in proportion
to live weight, doing little better than
the common cows, and the Short-horns
not quite as well as either.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


The Lire Stock Journal says /: Agri-
cultural colleges have done so little as
yet to increase our practical knowledge
of agriculture, that we take pleasure in
LAYING before our readers the following
table of the quantity of milk yielded by
fifteen cows, which we find among sew
eral other excellent experiments in the
report of the Agricultural College of
New Jersey. for 1872:
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The Three Stoves.

ooh, mamma !" cried little Blanche
Philpott, 81 heard such tale about
Edith Howard l did not think she
could be so very naughty. One"
"My dear" interrupted Mrs. Phil
pott, "before you continue, we will see
if your story will pass the three sleeves. -
"What does that mean, mamma ?" in
quired Blanche.
81 will explain it. In the first place,
Is it tyue?"
81 suppose so. It got it from Miss
White, and she is great friend OF
Edith"
"And does she show her friendship by
telling tales of her? In the next place,
though you can prove it to be true, Is ii
kind 2"
/ did not mean to be unkind, but i
am afraid it was. / should not like
Edith to speak of me as have of her. y
'And, Is ii necessary ?"
ono, of course, mamma there was
no need for me to mention it at all. !"
"Then put bride on your tongue,
dear Blanche, and don't speak of it. II
we cannot speak well of our friends, LEI
us not speak of them at all. "
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How to Make Root Beer.

A good root beer is desirable thing
in the hot days of summer, not only for
shaking thirst, but also because of its
utility as tonic This is the way to
make the real, old-fashioned brew: Take
spruce boughs, black birch bark, sarsa-
parilla, wintergreen leaves, sassafras,
yellow-dock and dandelion roots boil
together in large kettle, with hand
ful of hops and two quarts of wheat
bran, and two quarts of molasses. When
boiled enough-two hours or so-strain
through a seive, cool, and add pint of
yeast. Ii not very sweet to the taste,
add more molasses. Let it work over
night, and bottle. Secure the corks
tightly and it will foam well. The same
can be made in larger quantities, and
put into gallon cask and worked
from the bung-hole for few days, but
it will not foam so well as if bottled.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25

ONE of the wealthiest corporations on
the face of the earth is the New River
Company, which supplies large part
of London with water. One-quarter of
a share was sold the other day for
GAG, 900 sterling, while the face value of
a whole share is 81 only Yet the pro-
jector of this corporation scores of years
ago lost his fortune in the concern and
died in the workhouse, and several COM
panies which took up the business sue
cessively failed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25

The gain in California population, by
all routes of travel, for the last six
months, is 4,4l6, including II, 900 from
China and Japan.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-05-01
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT,

DHENIX SILVER MINING COMPA.
i NY Location OF works, Eureka
Mimi" District, Eureka County, State IT
Nevada.
70 ice is hereby given. that at q meet.
ing OF the Board OF TT Istees he'd on the
18th day Of April, ls75, an asses mett
no 10y OF twehty.1v" cents per MARI
was levied upon the capital stock of the
corporation. payable Immediately In
United States gold and silver coin, to-
the Secretary, at the ofic" of the COM
pany, room % Hayward's building, San
Francisco, California.
Any stock pom which said assessment
shall remain unpaid on the zlst day Of
May, 1873, will be delinquent. and Hd-
vertiSed for sale at pubic auction. and
unless payment is made before, will 10
sold on the 18th day OF June. 1873, to pay
the delinquent assessment, together with
costs of advertising n expenses OF sale.
BO order of the Directors.
JOSEPH MAGUIRE, Secretary.
Oflce-Room 26, Hayward's building.
No. 4l9 California street, san Francisco;
California. apo