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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06
A Large Church.

The corner stone of ST. Patrick's Ca
thedral, in New York, was laid by
Archbishop Hughes in 1858, and, al
though work has been continued ever
since, with the exception of the years
1861, 1862 and 1863, the building is now
only about half finished. When COM
pleted it will be the largest and finest
church building in America. Its total
cost will be more than $4,000, 900, and
everything employed in its construction
is paid for before it is used. Each church
in the city subscribes a certain amount
annually toward its construction. The
foundations are immense blocks of gran
tie, laid in cement. The base course is
of Maine granite. Above the base
course the whole structure is of fine
white marble. The style of the build
ing is pure Gothic or Decorated" and
it will be very nearly like the great ca
thedral of Cologne. The towers, sit
uated at either front corner, are each
1913 feet high.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06
COlOr.Blindness.

There Is no more interestesting phe-
nomenon than that known as color
blindpes. Two men looking at the same
object, and each possessed of what he
believes to be healthy visual organs. re-
port the color different, and vet, as i'm
the case of a chameleon, of which our
school-books told US, there remained no
way of deciding the question until n
referee was called in. AS an aid toward
settling all such disputes, we learn that
there has lately been invented, in Ger
many, an instrument for testing color
blindness, which is of so simple a con-
struction that any doubtful observer may
settle the question once for all. This
instrument, as described in the Quar-
terry Journal Of Science, consists of a
rotating apparatus, which moves disk.
whose center is a circle one-half black
and the other white outside of this is a
ring half red and half green then an
other ring of violet and red then the
outside ring of violet and green. When
rapidly rotated the center appears to be
colored gray-that is, black and white
mixed. To green-blind person the
middle ring will appear gray, that being
a result to him of q mixture of violet
and red. The outer ring will appear
gray to a red-blind person, and the inner
one gray to one who is iolet-blind.-
ApptetOns' Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06
Blasting by Electricity.

The Aberdeen Free Press says that
an experiment was made with electricity
as a means of firing blasting charges in
the quarries at Kemnay, Scotland. A
huge breast of rock, calculated to weigh
about 1000 tons, was bored in eleven
places, charged, and fred almost stimuli
taneously by a currentof electricity from
a battery which was under the care of
an electrician. The huge mass was
started with little noise from the report,
but with rumbling like that of distant
thunder. A second blasting was fired
the next day, and though the ground
was covered with snow, and a heavy
snow-storm was falling, wires extending
1890 feet in length being laid, and
current of electricity put ON, in an in
slant tremendous explosion was heard,
which shook the ground like an earth
quake. Great masses of granite were
upheaved in the air, and about 5000
tons were displaced. 1t is the largest
blast which had ever been witnessed in
those quarries, effected by means of
electricity applied by new apparatus
most ingeniously constructed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06
Items for Housekeepers.

Do everything at the proper time.
Keep everything in its place. Always
mend your clothes before washing them
Alum or vinegar is good to set colors,
red, green or yellow.
Sal soda will bleach one spoonful is
sufficient for kettle of clothes.
Save your suds for the garden and
plants, or to harden yards when sandy.
A hot shovel held over vanished furni-
ture will take out spots.
A bit of glue, dissolved in skim milk
and water, will restore old rusty Grape.
Ribbons of any kind should be washed
in cold suds, and not rinsed.
If fiat irons are rough, rub them well
with salt, and it will make them smooth.
If you are buying carpet for dura-
bility, you must choose small figures.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges of
doors will prevent them from cracking.
Scotch snuff, if put in the holes where
crickets run out, will destroy them.
Wood ashes and common salt wet with
water will stop the cracks of the stove,
and prevent the smoke from escaping.
Green should be the prevailing color
for bed-hangings and window-drapery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

The report of the President of the
Texas and Pacific railway to the meet
ing of stockholders in New York on the
10Th ult. states that "the grant of
100000 of bonds by the State of Texas
required them to complete the road from
Marshall, west, and Texarkana, to a
point near Fort Worth, by Jan l, 1874
Four hundred miles had already been
graded. The route west of Fort Worth
had been thoroughly developed, but not
definitely located, except portion of
the San Diego division. A survery was
made of the country between San Diego
and the Colorado river, and the route
entering San Diego from the direction
of San Gorgonia river was adopted
Work has been commenced at San Diego
A contract has been concluded with a
constructing company, and they saw no
reason why the entire road should not
be finished in five years. The SUBMITS
to be crossed on this line are about
thirty-two per cent. less than those on
the present Pacific roads. No train will
be delayed from snow or other obstruc-
ton. The entire rail transportation will
be less than 1900 miles.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

THE Government has at last brought
suit against the Union Pacific railway
stockholders to compel them to pay up
their subscriptions to the stock of the
road, in accordance with the terms of
the charter and the act of Congress.
This subscribed stock amounts to $780,
1880 of which only about five per
cent. has been paid. Government lent
its credit to this road to the extent of
$54, 800, 900, which was more than
enough to build and equip the road if
the money had been iudiciously expend-
ed. Besides this, a grant of land was
given on which the managers OF the road
realized loan of $10,000,000 so it is
fair to presume that the land was worth
twice that sum. At present the road is
paying no dividends and no interest on
the sum due the Government, which
holds only second mortgage on the
property.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

A CURIOUS SToRY-A rumor is cir
culated in London that wealthy baro-
net, long of unsound mind, and repre-
sented to be still living, really died years
ago, but that some affectionate relatives,
to whose care he was committed by the
legal authorities, have invented, with
view of retaining the ample allowances
made to them for taking care of him by
the Court of Chancery, lay figure, an
admirable likeness Of the deceased gen.
tleman, which, seated in an easy chair
and covering over the fire, they show to
the official inquisitors, with the init
nation that he can't bear to be ap-
preached or disturbed.
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Murder Statistics.

In 1850 there were in this country 81
executions and 227 murders, in popu-
lation of 23,191, S76. In 1860 there
were 50 executions and $50 murders, in
a population of 81, 443, 321, and in 1870
there were 81 executions, in a popula-
ton of 3S, 925, 1893. When one murderer
in each ten was executed there were only
ten persons in million murdered.
When we executed one murderer in
every sixteen the murderers rose to 81
in q million, and when we executed one
murderer in every sixty-six the number
of murders was fifty-three in a million.
These figures show that the smaller the
proportion of executions to the number
of murderers, the larger the proper
ton of the murderers to the population.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

PREVENTION OF MERCURIAL Poison
ING.-Jules Meyer, an employe in a
French mirror factory, has lately ascer-
tanned that by scattering through the
working rooms pint or half pint of
aqua ammonia every evening all danger
from the absorption of mercurial vapors
will be in a measure prevented. This
practice has now been in use for several
years in his establishment without the
occurrence of any new attack of mer-
curial poisoning, while no further diff
Guilty has been experienced by persons
who had been previously affected. No
explanation has been offered as to the
theory of the action of the ammonia.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

them just as plain as can be. Come and
see for yourself, mamma" NNWfH
His mother went to the window and
looked out, and sure enough there were
the hollow and the crooked tree. Eddie
greatly wondered why he had never@een
these before. His mother told him to
look through another pane and see
how things appeared. He did so, but
could see no hollow, or crooked tree
either. The yard was level and the tree
all straight.
His mother explained matters to him
just the best she could. She told him
that there were wrinkles and flaws in
the pane he looked through at first, and
these made the objects in the yard look
crooked.
After all these things were made plain
to Eddie, his mother taught very fine
lesson. She said
There are some little boys and girls
who have crooked eyes. L don't mean
that they are cross-eyed, but that they
are cross and hateful, and this makes
them think that everybody else is out
of sorts. At other times they are
pleasant and happy, and then they
think that everybody is pleasant and
happy, too.
"Now, Eddie, if you want other peo-
pie to appear ugly, be hateful and
cross yourself. If you want others to
appear to look through smiling eyes,
look through smiling eyes yourself
and if you want others to be kind to
you, you must be kind to them. do
to othors as you would have others dc
to you.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

To AVOID THINKING. Eber-
hart, the woman who was executed at
Preston, Georgia, lately, while in prison
whiled away the solitary hours by max
ing friends of the rats that had access to
her cell. A man called to see her few
days before her execution, and, after
some conversation, told her that he I'M
destood that she had some rat pets. She
tapped on the floor, when out of their
holes came the rats, until no less than
fourteen of them had answered the call.
They climbed upon her lap, and up her
shoulders, and crawled about over her
head, suffering her to caress and handle
them as she pleased, and not one of
them manifested the smallest symptoms
of alarm.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

PREVENTION OF RoTTINa IN FINE
FRUIT.-It very often happens that fine
fruit, especially pears and apples, is at
tackled by birds and insects so as to make
a wound which, if left to itself, will cause
the fruit to rot. 1t has been found that
by cleaning out the place affected, and
removing all the dirt and disorganized
and bruised matter, and filling up the
cavity with plaster of paris, further de-
cay may be arrested, and the fruit be-
come fully ripe. A little space may be
worked out from under the edges of the
skin, so that when the plaster is pressed
inward it will keep its place. The exclu-
sion of the air consequent upon this
application is all that is necessary to
prevent the progress of decay. This
would, of course, be inexpedient in
many cases; but when large and valu-
able apples and pears are involved, the
trouble will be but trifling in comparison
with the result accomplished.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06
A REMINIsCENCE. English still

A REMINIscENoE. English still
keep mp many old fashions of the days
when there were but few, if any, public
records. Kew bridge, built in 1889,
was only recently made free of toll, on
which day the Lord Mayor proceeded in
state to the bridge and unlocked the
gate, which was then taken off and car
ried away, and all the boys present will
recollect when they are old men that
they saw the thing done. This cere-
mony must be more agreeable than that
observed in Russia, where the magis-
trate annually makes a procession round
the bounds of the parish, and at every
corner catchs a boy, ties him to a stake,
and whips him. They say the boy re-
members that stake as long as he lives,
if it is q century.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

BREAKERS Misunderstanding to the
Judgment of a certain DIR. Trail, there
appears to be a bad time coming for
those who live ten years hence. He has
announced, through the the medium of
Philadelphia newspaper, that the eli
max of a presidential period is at hand.
From 1880 to 1885, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune will be nearer the
earth than they have been for eighteen
hundred years. All manner of unpleas-
antness must be looked for, and fore
most among the calamities will be
plague, famine, and awfully hot and
cold weather. But there's one thing
which ought to comfort us-ten years
hence the Tichborne case will probably
be settled, and the other small matters
referred to we can put up with.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

ADULTERATIoN OF GREEN TEA.-Dr.
Letheby, of London, the well-known
sanitary statist, has just reported as to
the adulteration of green tea in that city.
He discovered, it appears, that some tea
on sale in Mincing lane required look
ing after, and he succeeded in getting
authentic samples from the bonded
warehouses in which the article was
stored. On examination it was found
that this so-called tea contained from
forty to forty-three per cent. of iron
filings and nineteen per cent. of silica,
in the form of fine sand, which had been
cleverly mixed with and added to the
leaves before curling, with a view to in
crease their weight and bulk. After the
leaves were curled they had been thickly
covered with green pigment. When it
was infused in boiling water it produced
very turbid solution, offensive to the
smell and nauseous to the taste.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

QUARRELING BY TELEGRAPH.-J Jack
Hurley, formerly telegraph operator
in this city, is in the Worcester Jail for
little indiscretion, illustrating the Pc
culiarity of his business. Jack was re-
ceiving in the birmingham Office and
once or twice had to ask Worcester to
repeat. Worcester did so, and volun-
teered the information that Framing
ham was fool ON whom it would be
delightful to put head. Straight way
the wire from birmingham spoke, "Im
coming !" and, unable to wait for pas
senger train, the impetuous sender took
freight train, and presently arriving
gave Worcester great drubbing, for
which he was imprisoned as above. Now,
however, from all over New England
comes to Worcester the anxious inquiry,
How's your head ?-SprinGfetd Repub-
EcQn
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

VENERABLE BELLs.-In New York the
other day there stood on the sidewalk
three old bells, green with age, honey
combed, and with numerous cracks which
had been filed. They bore inscriptions
in quaint, old characters, and had swung
in belfries for centuries. The youngest
bore an inscription dated 1773, the next
1740, and the most aged 1893. These
bells came from Carthagena, and weigh
1900 pounds, and are to be recast into
single bell, which will be placed in the
clock tower of Carthagena.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

LOCALITY OF THE MATERIAL OF CHI
NEsE PoRcELAIN.-The locality of the
material employed in China for nearly
three thousand years in the manufac-
ture of porcelain has been found by
Richthofen to occur east of Lake Poyan,
in the direction of Hongtchow. 1t is q
stone of the hardness of feldspar, OF
green color, and jaspery appearance,
stratifed between clay-slate. 1t is con-
verified into fine powder by pounding,
the finer portions being repeatedly sepa-
rated and nodded into small bricks. The
Chinese recognize two sorts of the
crushed material, most identical in ap
pearance. The region abounds in most
luxuriant vegetation, including azaleas
rhododendrons, etc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06

NICOTINE IN TOBACCO SMoKE.-Ex-
periments by DR.. Heubel do not confirm
the alleged absence of nicotine from
tobacco smoke on the contrary, 10y
condensing smoke from cigars, and wash
ing it in water and alcohol, he obtained
solution which was capable of pro-
dncing the effects of nicotine, and he
also detected it's presence chemically,
in the form of the salts more permanent
at high temperaturer. The effect of
smoking, he concluded, must therefore
be ascribed, in part at least, to the alb.
sorption of nicotine, though other sub
stances may act with this poison.
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INERAsIBLE STAMPINc-INK FOR LINEN

INERAsIBLE STAMPINC-INK FOR LINEN,
ETc.-Prof. Bottger gives the following
formula of an ink for marking linen, etc.,
that he maintains to be entirely I'M
affected by chloride of lime, cyanide of
potassium, caustic potash, or acids {:
Digest coarsely powdered cashew nuts,
for some time, at moderate tempera-
ture, in closed flask, with petroleum
naphtha then allow the exceedingly
volatile solvent to evaporate. After
marking articles with the resulting sirupy
liquid, moisten the place with aqua am
monia or lime water, and the marks will
instantly assume deep, permanent black
color.
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A $4,000 FUNERAL.-In an account
recently settled in the Probate Court OF
Bangor, the following were the items for
funeral charge For grave, $3,O0O
permit to bury, $4OO; boards, S5oO
twelve pounds of cement, Si,oVQ; IIo
bricks, 81 800; funeral service IN Masonic
Lodge, 1000 sundry small expenses,
$40; total, $40, 200. As the amount OF
the bill was paid in Hayti, in the cur
rencv of that nation, it was in Bangor
reduced to Federalcurrency, and amount
ed to S63.
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The Crooked window Pane.

Little Eddie was playing at the win
dow, when all at once he looked very
much puzzled, and turning to his
mother who sat beside him, said:
Oh, mamma, / did not know that
there was hollow in oar back yard.
Are you quite sure that there is
one there, Eddie ?" asked his mother.
" l think you must have made mis-
take"
Yes, there is one there, said Eddie,
and big crooked tree, too. 1 can see
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The New York advertiser says
" George William Curtis was among the
auditors at Rubinstein's last concert.
He looks just as much as ever like a
member of the English House of Com
mons has the same old benignant ex-
preston of countenance the same old
mutton-chop side-whiskers is ms
fresh and rosy as though he
had never seen days sickness in his
life, and only indicates his WEAKNESS OF
the way things have lately gone, by a
lazy fashion of dragging his legs after
him, as if his boots were half full OF
shot"
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Robbie's Sold the Baby /!

Nobbie's Sold the Baby!
hobbie's sold the baby!
Sold her out and out!
And Ill have to tell YOU
How II came about.
When on New Years morning
Robbie's opening eyes
Spled the bran-new baby
What glad surprise!
Constantly he watchad her,
Scarcely cared tn play,
Lest the precious baby
Should be snatched away.
He 1t was who named her
Becky" Betsy Ann;"
Told what he would buy her
When he was a man.
Now he's gone and sold her
For to-day he ran
And proclaimed to mamma,
"fes, I've found man!
Here's the man'll buy heri
Get her ready, krick 7"
With an air of business
Brandishing a stick.
r" Sold my baby, Robbie ?"
Mamma sadly said;
Robbie, quite decided,
Bobbed his little head.
well, If this man buys her,
What will he give your"
ION, two nice, big horses,
And five pennies, too!
What's the good of babies
Only 'queal aud cream
/ can go horse-backin'
When get my team?"
But when quiet night came,
Robbie's prayers were said,
And he looked at baby
In her little bed.
And he said, when baby
Smiled in some sweet dream,
She's wurf forty horses,
Stead of jess team J"
Baby's wee pink fingers
Round his own he curled;
"She's wurf all the horses
In dis whole big world I"
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ATAnn BUILDING" Still higher" is
now the motto of all New York archi-
tects. The building just begun in
Broadway for the Western Union Tele-
graph Company is to be two hundred
feet higher than the Equitable Insur-
ance building, which, until rival struc-
ture added q couple of stories to its alti-
tude, was the tallest building in New
York.
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TEMPERATURES OF THE AIR IN MAKING
BUTrER.-Recent experiments indicate
that the best temperature of the air, as
well as of the cream, for rapid churning
of butter, is from 81 deg. to 50 deg, in
stead of the average of 66 deg, as gen.
orally taken. A cellar with tempera-
ture regulated by means of thermom-
eter, seems most suitable for the pur-
pose, especially in summer.
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The Wren.

The Wren.
One fine spring evening very cock
tailed wren was sitting on twig. 1t
was his birthday he was twelve months
old and, feeling every inch wren, he
could not help being proud both of him
self and his position in the world.
The first thing that morning he had
had set-to with his wife on the subject
of their future nest, which, she had
meekly suggested, should be In the box
tree, instead of the thorn-bush on which
he insisted; she was afraid that the
branches would prick her sides, she
said. He had carried the day, but de-
clares that he was so worn out by the
discussion that he could not really be-
gin building that day. AS he flew over
the grass-plat, much content with his
victory, he saw large worm lazily lum-
bering out of its hole, and fell down
upon it directly but after smart tus-
sic and good shaking, it succeeded in
getting back into its homo
Presently blue tit, hairs breadth
smaller than himself, came flying down
past him flat caterpillar upon which
the wren had just set his eye. "That' S
mine - said he, bouncing agrily upon
it, and successfully driving away the
tomtit. AS he sat on his prey, twitter-
ing boastfully, an old gardener, half
blind, passed by, leisurely eating his bit
of dinner, and cutting his bread and
cheese upon his thumb. He hoped
angrily after the mans heels, and pur-
sued him for some distance the old
gardener, however, did not turn, and
walked quietly on, quite unaware of the
attack of his ferocious assailant.
"Well, I've chased away that dread
full monster - said the wren, painting
for breath. "What an ugly beast it is
and when he has all the advantage of
two legs like me why doesn't he learn to
hop prettily, even he can't fly? And
then those two great awkward, Tapping
things that hang by his sides, which he
fills his mouth with-how much better
it is to pick up ones food neatly with a
bill as do -
When the evening was come he re-
turned TO his twig, and looked back on
his days work with much complacency.
81 gave my wife good set down about
the nest" thought he. 81 frightened
that worm well AS to that most tire.
some, stupid tit, L don't think he'll
trouble me soon again. And then
drove away the great, big, awkward
thing on two legs, that was prying about
where our nest is to be ; / don't think
he'll be back in hurry To be sure
am so great and strong and powerful
that, even if the sky itself should fall
down 1 should not be afraid T. He
tapped his wings majestically as he
spoke. At that moment, in the gloam
ing, dead leaf, which still hung to 6
beech twig above the wren, fell down
upon his head, and, in q perfect agony
of fright he flew away and hid himself
SELECTED.
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The Foolish Little Pig.

It was very quiet night, and nearly
everybody and everything were asleep.
The moon had risen and covered the
farmhouse and the barn and the fields