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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

would be only a candor like that of the
World which would describe his action
rs sham. Mr.. Grant" says the
U'Orid-with a spirit akin to that of the
old British Tories who called Gen.
Washington Mr.. Washington -" still
has the handouts on, and the dirty poll
ticians he now turns upon, after favoring
and assisting them SO long, may defy
him. "
This remark suggests one observation.
The President is constantly held person
ally responsible, and often by those who
are not unfriendly 10 him, for every IN
efficient and corrupt officer in the service,
and for all the conduct of office-holding
politicians. This is the sheerest inius-
tice. Nothing is more evident than that,
under the system which has SO long pre-
vailed, and with the acquiescence of the
country, the President can know very
little of the character or of the qualifica-
tons of the great multitude of office
holders, while the office holding politi-
clans are disciplined and organized
body which, as the World says, may in
sense defy the President. They natur-
ally wish to sustain an Administration
Under which they are in place, and whose
friends in the Senate have declined to
repeal the Tenure-of- Office law. If they
are accused of coercing a convention or
o1 controlling Legislature, they are in
stantly declared to be the agents of the
President, and the fact that every one
who takes part in it is not removed is
instantly cited as evidence of the Presi-
dents completely.
The President, however, has never de-
clared, nor do we suppose he thinks, that
those who hold office should abdicate
either proper interest or activity in
politics. Indeed, his executive order of
last year, upon this very subject, shows
that he is not of that opinion. But his
present action is the plainest possible
intlmatlon, and, together with that to
which we have referred, is the cOmpletest
declaration, and there is an improper
and excessive interest and activity in
politics which he condemns and will not
countenance There is very Just and
proper lmpatlence among self-respecting
citizens with the presence, and what may
be called the admonitory supervision, of
national office-holders in conventions
and similar assemblies ; and nothing was
more agreeable at the Philadelphia Con-
vention that renominated the President
than their conspicuous absence. The
present executive order is a suggestion
to those gentlemen to continue to be
modest. There must, indeed, be parties
and organizations, and consequent sur
render of Indifferent and minor prefer
ences. But there must be reason in all
of these things. And the President is
plainly of that opinion. -Harper'S
IVeekiY.
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Double Olilce-HOldiny.

The Presidents executive order, an
nouncing that persons holding Federal
positions who accept Office under the au-
thority of the States and Territories will
be considered to have resigned, is an
other evidence of his sincere interest in
the improvement of the civil service.
The New York World calls it ga sham. Z"
But it Immediately proceeds to show
that it is not. The Tenure-of-Offic act,
rs it states, is still unrepealed, and under
that law the President can only condi-
tionally remove. But when he says that
the acceptance of n State office by Fed
eral officer will be regarded as a resigna-
ton he announces that he will nominate
n successor TO the Senate, and the Senate
must assume the responsibility of retain
ing the officer.
1t is not the Presidents fault that the
law is not repealed. His opposition to
il is well known. But as he cannot dis
pense with the laws even to secure a bet
ter service, it is ridiculous to call his
resolution to do all that he legally can a
sham. 1t is so only upon the theory
that he has an understanding with the
Senate to resist his order of suspension,
and TO continue the officer, which is as
silly as the theory of last year, that he
had agreed with certain Senators TO pro-
pose a method of improvement which
they should defeat. The President sus-
pended Consul-G General Butler, and has
nominated successor. But if the Sen
ate should refuse to confirm him, il
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Spiders,

They are wonderful in structure as
they are curions in their habits and gen
eral economy. Most Of them have six
eyes on each side of the head. in two
rows at the point of small nipple-like
papilla. One set are telescopic, while
the other six are microscopic. Next,
spiders are right-handed, working more
adroitly with the right claw than the
left in extending the cords of web.
The orifces through which the shy
fluid is forced out at will that instantly
hardens into an elastic thread, vary in
number in different families of spiders.
In some of them quite a number of
threads unite in the spinning process to
make strong line. Those minute open
ings are termini of ducts from the bags
III which web material is secreted con-
trolled by sphincter muscles acting in
obedience to the will.
All their movements in weaving and
arranging fy-trap indicate calculation.
and are therefore a step quite beyond
blind instinct. An examination of a
broken cord-mending it and seeking the
best point for an attachment TO keep the
web tense in al directions, certainly ex-
hibits thought Their manner of APP
preaching entangled game, securing
each limb of the prisoner artistcally,
binding them so no resistance can be
offered that would be injurious TO them
selves before savagely eating into their
vitals, is marvellous proof of the ele-
ments of mind, far superior to most of
the quadrupeds, and yet spiders are
without brain
Nothing is more surprising i'll the nat
ural history of this very common, but
poorly understood, insect, than the
ferocity of the female toward the male
which she pounces upon when the fer
tilization of the eggs has been secured
and rarely fails of killing him instanter
and then feasts deliberately on tn
mangled carcass.
Without spiders, which subserve tn
same important purpose on land tina
sharks do in the ocean, vegetation coul
hardly survive the unrestrained depreda
tions of millions Of vegetable-eating III
sects. BY the silent warfare of spider
upon them their too great multiplication
is regulated SO that balance of powe
is maintained i'll nature, essential to I'll
preservation of order without the extinc
ton of any.
Spiders, therefore, humble as they ar
in the scale or being, are just as import
ant to the comfort of man as man
! higher orders that seem TO have NOR
| prOminpnt claim To distinction
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or Brains.

Prof. Burt G.. Wilder, of Cornell, re-
Gently delivered very interesting lecture
Mt New York, on the brain. Many OF
his facts, although doubtless well known
todoctors and people who are well-read In
anatomy, are new to the general public.
His comparisons of the capacity of tho
crania of different races and nations OF
men were especially interesting But
his list very singularly omits the Celtic
and French and all the Latin nations, SO
that it is very incomplete. OF the ma
tionalities and conditions of human or
semi-human life given by him, the
Swedes have the largest brains, ranking
Mt 100. The Anglo-Saxons come next,
mt 80, and others rs follows Firms, 80 !;
Anglo Americans, %. 30; Germans, 81 ::
American Indians, 81 American negroes,
50. 50; Hottentot, 1870; gorilla, 81. 90 !;
idiot, %. 81. Thus the great American
stock ranks below the original British
Germans and below the Laplanders, and
the Germans below us. A century and
half of American slavery and civiliza-
ton have raised the negroes only %
points, but they are not yet up to the
Indian standard. But it is no longer
proportional to the general intelligence,
and these figures indicate that such cam
not be the case. The Swedes are not
smart people, and the Firms certainly
are not. The American people, of
course, cannot admit that principle for a
moment. DIR. Holden, of the Central
Park Museum, i'll an article on the Flat
head Indians, in Hearth and Home,
alleges that, although their brains are
much diminished by the peculiar and
inexplicable habit of compressing the
foreheads of infants in kind of brain
tweezers, nevertheless the tribe is of
usual intelligence and thrift. he cites,
also, the case of the ancient Peruvians,
people of extraordinary civilization
and genius, as leaving behind them in
their tombs crania whose capacity Is
only seventy-six inches, while that of
the Shawnees of to-day is 100 The
pure blooded Flatheads are also more
healthy and long-lived than half-breeds.
Prof. Wilder cites some facts in re-
gard to the weight of brains more con-
soling to the Yankee mind The brains
of our soldiers in our late war had an
average weight of 52.06 ounces, while
the European onlyaverage -. so Cuvier' S
brain weighed "a ounces, jim Fisk's 90,
Webster's SO, and Moderated min
eralogist got along with 43 ounces. All
of which goes to show that the connec-
ton between intelligence and ounces of
brain is as yet very little understood.
/ The brains of men are heavier than
those OF women, but, proportionally to
the weight of the rest of the body, as
! far as statistics have been collected,
women's brains are trihe the heaviest.
There are some birds that have a still
large proportion of brain to other meat
than man. The proportion of brain to
body in man is about l to 36. The
brain grows faster from | to years of
age, slower from to IA, slower yet from
If to y, and then ceases. From 80 up
ward it diminishes in weight about one
ounce in ten years. -,Sprinafeld Rcpub-
Hcan.
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Romance of Alexis.

1t seems that Fred. Grant brought
back from Europe bit of Imperial gos-
sip. We were fiattering ourselves that
the Grand Duke was sent to the United
States for the purpose of studying our
institutions and the characters, manners,
and SO forth, of the people. 1t was the
first time, we were assured, that a son of
the Gar had been sent to Republic.
1t turns out, however, according to
Fred, that this is all delusion. The
Prince Imperial had become enamored
of a lady not of the blood royal by any
manner of means, and wished to marry
her. This did not meet the approval of
the Imperial family, and so, to get clear
of the meSduiance, the young man was
sent abroad. But love laughs Mt lock-
smiths when he has latch-key), and
the young girl followed her Imperial
lover as far as London the two were
united, on the sly, in the holy bonds.
This coming to the ears of the Imperial
father, resulted in n Punishment that
will probably last his life, and the young
gentleman will probably go travelling up
and down the earth like the Wandering
Jew for long time, to-wit, forever.
When this gets out we suspect the
Young Mems Christian Association will
engage him to lecture, unless he accepts
an offer made him by Teutonic gentle
man in Chicago last summer to 90 into
the lager-beer business. Our German
friend thought the Grand Duke would
be such an attraction that he could afford
to pay him half the profits. - Washing
tom Capital.
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What is a Chrome?

The american AgriculturliSt gives
an interesting account of the manner
IN which chromos are produced, and as
this style of picture is very popular just
now, we transfer the account to our col
umns, feeling sure that it will interest
the reader. The stone used is peculiar
limestone, capable of receiving a polish,
and yet absorbent of water. To paint
a Autograph, the stone is first polished,
and then whatever design is required is
the purpose and which contains some
greasy matter. Let us suppose that the
artist draws a picture or, what is sim
pier, prints out the words American
Agriculturist. The stone is then wetted,
and the water sinks into the pores every
where except the place where the greasy
ink formed the words. Ink, or paint, is
then applied to the whole stone with q
roller just as it is to types. This ink
does not adhere to the stone where it is
wet, but to the words drawn with the
greasy pencil the ink will stick Thena
sheet of paper is laid over the stone, and
the whole passed under a press when
the paper is lifted off it will be found to
have taken up the ink left adhering to
the words upon the stone. This process
can be repeated over and over indefinite
ly by mixing the stone and keeping it
wet. There must be as many stones as
there are colors and tints in the picture
to be copied. One stone must have all
the red parts drawn on it, another all
the blue, another all the brown parts of
the picture, and SO on. Sometimes one
color is printed over another to get the
proper. shade, so that, to reproduce the
picture, the chrome has to be printed q
color and a bit at time, on from ten to
twenty or more stones, every touch of
the painter being faithfully copied.
When the chrome picture has received
sixteen or eighteen paintings on so many
different stones, so that it is Swallowed
every way like the original, it is finally
pressed upon clean stone, which has
been cut in grooves like the threads of
canvas, and it now has all the appear
ance of being real painting on canvas.
The reader will see that it is an immense
work to prepare the different stones at
first so that each shall have some of the
picture in just the right place and color,
1t takes three to six months to prepare
a set of stones for one picture, even if
but one copy was to be printed But
after the stones are once prepared, cop
les can be transferred to other stones in
few minutes, and after that they can
go on and print as many thousand, or
| tono az tbousonde ~ ORC desired
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

During the late rise in the Yuba river
j. w. Briggs, while passing over low
strip of land ON the Grass Brothers
ranch, met with what he called "drove
of polecats. y They had evidently been
driven from their burrows by water, and
when approached by the discoverer,
trotted along before him for quite dis
lance, like drove of pigs. Finally they
all plunged into one hole. Mrs. Briggs
being aware that the animal is often
hunted by Cinnamon, and that polecats'
gals were rated at 50 each by celestial
physicians, he informed couple of Chi
namen what had occurred, and pointed
out the locality of the burrow to them.
The Cinnamon provided themselves with
shovels and commenced to dig on the
line of the hole. After excavating a Dit
about ten feet in depth and three wide,
they struck upon the nest of polecats.
Notwithstanding the almost overpower-
ing odor filling the air, one after another
they were dispatched until ten large and
fat polecats lay dead at the feet of the
fortunate and victorious Cinnamon. -
MaysriHe (Cdt.) Appeat
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A Queer Cough Remedy.

The gaseous smoke which arises from
the gas-works during the manufacture
of gas has medicinal qualities that are
largely appreciated by certain classes of
people in this city. and strange as it
may seem, the popularity of the medi-
cine is on the increase. The fumes are
credited with speedy cures of whooping-
cough, including, in several instances,
very obstinate cases. The San Fran
cisco gas-works have finally become u
regular resort for people afflicted with
coughs, for whose comfort and convent
ence the company have erected several
roomy benches. Adults upon whom the
cough has disastrous effect, and little
children, who cough and laugh and laugh
cough again, and only seem annoyed
when whooping, may be seen sitting side
10y side on those benches inhaling the
fumes. Thus the exhalations that are
not kindly regarded by healthy persons
become blessing to the sick.-San
Francisco Bulletin.
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Lead Pencils.

In the manufacture of lead pencils, the
Florida red cedar is mostly used in this
country and Europe; some "iben" wood.
as the Germans call it, or English view.
is used in Germany white pine is occa-
sionally used for "A common grade of "A
carpenters pencil. The lead of the
pencils is the well known graphite or
plumbago; the best of this is the natural.
found in a pure state in masses large
enough to cut into strips. OF this there
is but one mine now up to the standard,
which is in the Asiatic Siberia, and pen
ellis made from this graphite are all one
grade. The Cumberland mines in En-
gland were the first discovered, but are
now almost exhausted. What was form
erly refuse in cutting the graphite is now
ground, cleaned and refined, and then
mixed with fine clay.
In mixing the clay and graphite, great
care is taken in selecting and cleaning
the clay and getting the proper proper
tions the mixture, with water, after be-
ing well kneaded, is placed i'll large re-
celver and strongly compressed and
forced out through small groove at the
bottom, IN the shape of q thread, the
thickness and style required, either
square, octagon, or round. This thread,
or lead wire, is cut into bars of the
proper length done by little girls and
then Strengthened, dried at moderate
heat, and packed into air-tight crucibles
and placed in the furnaces the grade of
lead depends upon the amount of heat
it is exposed to, the amount of clay used
in the mixing, and the quantity of the
plumbago. The coloring of the lead is
by various pigments.
The wood, after being thoroughly sea-
soned, is cut into thin strips and dried
again then cut into strips pencil
length. These strips are grooved by
machinery, then carried on belt TO the
gluingroom, where the lead is glued in
the groove, and then the other half of
the pencil glued on. After being dried
under pressure, they are sent to the
turning-room and rounded, squared, or
made octagon, by n very ingenious little
machine which passes through three sets
of cutters, and drops them ready for
polishing or coloring. The former is
done on lathes by boys, and the latter
by machine which holds the brush and
turns the pencils fed to it through
hopper. After pencil is polished, it is
cut the exact length by circular saw,
and the end is cut smooth by drop
knife, the pencil resting on an iron bed.
The stamping is done by hollow die,
which is heated the gold or silver foil
is then laid on the pencil, which rests in
an iron bed, and the die is then pressed
on it by screw lever. The pencils are
then ready to go to the packing room.
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Canine Memory and Affections.

A Canandaigua On. Y. correspondent
writes TO our Dump Animats as fol-
lows
" A resident of this village had New
foundland puppy, female, the playmate
of his invalid son, who died about five
years since. After the lads death moth
ing unusual was noticed in the conduct
of the dog until several months had
passed, when it was discovered that she
was in the habit of visiting her masters
grave at least once or twice a week. She
was then watched, and was seen to walk
slowly around her owners cemetery lot,
in which were several graves, stopping
a while Mt each grave, and at last lying
down on that of her young master,
where she remained some time. Her
owner lives near the cemetery, but not i'll
sight of it. She was not seen to follow
her master TO his burial. Had she fol-
lowed other visitors, and seen the dead
buried, and so Inferred the fate of her
master? The frequent visits were con-
tinued about three years, but have since
become more rare, especially since the
erection of an iron railing around the
grave. On cold morning in winter,
after heavy fall of snow, the dogs
tracks were seen leading to the grave"
A New YORK street-car conductor
speaks eight languages.
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Bible Quotations Not in the Bible.

There are many familiar phrases in
constant use which the majority of
people suppose have their origin i'll the
Bible. and use them iii that connection.
The New York Observer corrects this
error in the following manner But, as
the phrases are very fine, we still love
to use them. To prevent misquota
tons from the Scriptures it gives them
thus:
"God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" From Sterne's Sentimental
Journey to Italy" Compare Isaiah
XVI: 6.
"In the midst of life we are in
death" From the Burial Service, "
and this originally from hymn of
Luther rv~~.
"Bread and wine which the Lord hath
commanded TO be received" From the
English Catechism.
Not to he wise above what is writ
Sen" Not in Scripture.
"The merciful man is merciful to his
beast" The Scriptural form is: 4" A
righteous man regardeth the life of his
beast. Prov. xii: 10.
"a nation shall be born in day." In
Isaiah it reads: IS Shall nation be born
at once ?"
"As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a
man the countenance of a friend :"
0Iron sharpeneth; SO a man sharpeneth
the countenance of his friend. PROV.
xvii: II.
"That he who runs may read. +"
"That he may run that readeth. "-Hab.
ii: 2.
"Owe no man anything, but to love one
another. Rom. XIII s.
"Prone TO sin rs the sparks TO fly up
word" Born TO trouble rs the sparks
sv inward. Rom. 5: T.
y" Exalted to heaven In point OF priyi-
leoe" Not in the Bible.
Eve was not Adams helpmate, but
r,srelv help meet for him; nor was Alb
saloms long hair the instrument of his
destruction; his head, and not hair upon
Il having been caught in the boughs Of
Tho tree. Oh Samuel xviii: 81 A Lon
Ion wio-maker once had n sign upon
,,,h;cb was painted Absalom suspended
from the branches of the oak by his
hair and underneath the following
couplet: ,,..u ~.
He'd ne'er been found a hanging there
Tur death of Louis Napoleon has re
,;ved the old question IA to his tru,
,.orontooe. The belief is universal il
Enrope that the dead Emperor was tn
con OF the Dutch Admiral Verhuel, an'
not of Louis Bonaparte.
n.ro,-pv man wears n ten-cent silye
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A VERITABLE NTMRoD. Gilman Saw
telle, of Henrys Lake, Madison county,
Mon, annually kills and markets over
200 deer, elk, antelope and Mountain
sheep, and his yearly catch of trout is
estimated in round numbers at 10000.
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ADAsBURY man wears ten-cent silver
1000 ON his shirt bosom, and calls IL a
iI;me-and pin, which it certainly IL.
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DIS MONIES has female lamp-lighters
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TIE death of Louis Napoleon has re-
,;ved the old question IA to his true
rorentage. The belief is universal in
Enrope that the dead Emperor was the
aon IL the Dutch Admiral Verhuel, and
not of Louis Bonaparte.