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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-04

FJIHE BEETHOVEN AND CONCORDIA
i Singing Societies will give pic mic al
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-04
THE FINEST
Commissioners Sale
OF 452 ACRES
Valuable Short Creek Land,
THURSDAY, JUNE 70, 1873,
ON THE PREMISES.

In pursuance Of a decree entered by the
Circuit Court OF Ohio county, West Virgin
Ia, on the 10th day OF May, 1873, in the
Chancery cause in sid Court pending,
wherein Elijah Marlin, Jr.. is complainant
and Isaac b. Kelley and others axe defen-
dants, l shall, as Special Commissioner
named in said decree, offer at public sale,
on
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nFMAINrNG UNCLAIMED IN THE
II Postoffice at Wheeling, Friday, July
To OBTAIN any OF the following, the appN-
cant will please call FOR advertised letters
siyipg date Of this list:
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NEND rs CENTS FOB THE

For lists Of papers In other States, addreF
GEO. r. RoWELL q Co., Al Park Row,
New York
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
Old Shoes.

Everything tangible seems to have two
or more states of existence. Now it is
quite possible that you think, if you look
very sharply at an old shoe when you
throw it away, you will know it again If
it ever comes back to you. But that
doesn't at all follow. One of these days
you may button your dress with an old
pair of slippers, comb your hair with a
boot, or grasp cast-off gaiter while you
eat your dinner. You don't see how this
can be? Well, we'll tell you. Old shoes
are turned to account by manufacturers
in the following manner They are cut
into very small pieces, and kept for a
couple of days in chloride of sulphur.
The effect of this is to make the leather
hard and brittle. Next, the material is
Withdrawn from the action of the chic
ride of sulphur, washed with water and
dried. When thoroughly dry, it is
ground to powder, and mixed with some
substance like glue or gum, that causes
it to adhere together. 1t is then pressed
into moulds and shaped into buttons,
combs, knife-handles, etc. So you will
see how it may come to pass that you
will comb your hair with boot, and
fasten your clothes with slipper.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
4 Sensible HnmOriSt.

Almost every man who obtains any
particular reputation, or who deems
himself remarkably clever, is inclined,
whether invited or not, to come to the
metropolis, where he may have larger
audience and truer appreciation.
Charles f. Browne, Mortimer Thomp-
son, Bret Harte, ID. II. Locke, and
others, did or have done this and sew
eral of the newspaper publishers have
made an effort to induce Montgomery
Bailey, the Danbury Ne,Ds humorist, to
change his residence from the Still
river to the Hudson. Bailey is wise as
well as droll, and, therefore, declines
the invitation, though it is backed by
abundant shekels. In recent letter on
this subject, he said 81 like this
town, where l have lived most of my
life, and the town likes me-. My small
paper is only weekly but L own it, and
am content with the little but satisfac-
tory independence that enjoy. 1 know
I've gotten a good deal of reputation
lately; it won't be any less if stay
here; and, if go to New York, L am
dreadfully afraid 1 should soon be an
old story, and dwindle down to an i'm
perceptible point. Your big city likes
fresh oranges but it very quickly sucks
them dry, and throws them away. /
don't want to be sucked dry right off ;
so think I'll remain where 1 am. I've
seen from my country-home how clever
fellows turn out who go to New York
with grand expectations. They gave up
something, and in the end found moth
ing. 1 am glad you want to have me
come, and I'm gladder that don't want
to come. Danbury, insignificant village
as it is, is good enough for me and as
don't want to steal anything, or get
murdered, or get up reputation for
genius, | respectfully bnt firmly decline
to pitch my tent in Gotham. "-Ncw
York Letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
A Lesson for a Lazy Boy.

A farmer went to town one day, ac-
companied by his little son, Thomas.
"See," said he to him on his way,
" there is ia broken horseshoe in the
road pick it up and put it in your
pocket" 80 no, father" replied
Thomas, it lint worth while to stop
and pick it up"
II s father answered nothing, picked
it up and put it in his own pocket. He
sold it to the blacksmith of the next vii
lage for three farthings, and bought
cherries with the money.
After this they continued their Jour
ney. The son was burning hot. Neither
house nor tree nor spring, nor anywhere
to be seen. Thomas suffered much thirst,
and had great difficulty in keeping up
with his father.
The latte, then, as if by accident, let
fall cherry. Thomas picked it up with
as much eagerness as if it was gold. and
put it in his mouth. This game con-
tinued until all the cherries had been
picked up. When the last had been
eaten, the father turned to his son,
smilingly, and said:
You see now that if you had been
willing to pick up the horseshoe you
would not have been obliged to do it a
hundred times for the cherries.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
Better Than Gold.

We often hear little boys telling of
the wonders they will do when they be-
come men. They are looking and long
ing for the time when they shall be large
enough to carry a cane and wear a tall
hat and not one of them will say he ex-
poets to be poor man, but they every
one intend to be rich. Now money is
very good in its place but let me tell
you, little boys, what is a great deal bet
ter than money, and what you may be
earning all the time you are waiting to
grow large enough to earn large for
tune. The Bible tells us that ga good
name is rather to be chosen than riches,
and loving favor than silver and gold" A
good name does not mean q name for
being the richest man in town, or for
owning the largest house. A good
name is name for doing good deeds
a name for wearing pleasant face,
and carrying a cheerful heart for al
ways doing right no matter what we
may be.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
Advance Of Population.

A writer in the Independent, discuss
ing the subject of the advance of popu-
lation and its relations to prices of food
staples, says:
As matter of fact, food is relatively
scarce and the question is, Why? That
cause is evidently the more rapid growth
of civic than of rural population.
Let me point out some of the facts in
the relative growth of civic population.
We claim to be great producing
people, and so we are but our civic
population is growing much faster than
the rural, and, as consequence, food is
growing dearer. This fact appears in the
price of meat, and, taking gold as a
standard, the cost of meat has doubled
in the last thirty years and as corn is
in this country the chief element in the
production of beef and pork, the price
of corn has also doubled. Now, in
order to show why this is so, had the
curiosity to look into the relative
growth of civic and rural population in
the three greatest and most populous
States of the American Union. These
three are New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio. The tables below give the growth
of civic and rural population i'll these
States from 1850 to 1870, taking all
towns over 900 inhabitants
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
The Wonders OF the Grave.

The tomb of Edward the First, who
died in 1907, was opened Jan. 2,
ITO, after 463 years had elapsed. His
body was almost perfect. Canure (the
Dance, who crossed over to England in
1017, was found in 1776 by the work.
men who repaired Winchester Cathe-
dral, where his body had reposed nearly
$50 years, perfectly fresh. In 1863,
three Roman soldiers, fully equipped
with warlike implements, were dug out
of a bed of peat in Ireland, where they
had lain probably 1000 years. Their
bodies were perfectly fresh and plump.
In the reign of James H., of England,
after the fall of the church at Ashley, in
Warwickshire, there was taken up the
corpse of Thomas Gray, Marquis of
Dorset, who was buried there the 10th
of October, 1880, in the twenty-second
year of Henry VIII; and although it
had lain there seventy-eight years, the
eyes, hair, flesh, nails and joints remain
ed as though it had been but newly
buried.
Robert Braybrook, who was conse-
Grated Bishop of London in 1881, and
who died in 1404, and was buried in st.
l. uul WIS bdhtI Oub VI ulS bOIuO dlbcI
the great fire in 1866, during the repairs
of the cathedral, and although he had
lain there no less than 262 years, his
body was found firm as to skin, hair,
joints and nails.
Pietro Rodriguez, Portuguese jew
eler, while pursuing his occupation in
the City of Mexico, was, in 1896, ac-
cused before the tribunal of the inquisi-
ton, and, after suffering a variety of
tortures, was condemned to be buried
in the Convent de st. Domingo, in that
city. He was then 3S years old. The
Convent de st. Domingo was lately de-
molished in search of treasure supposed
to be concealed there, and the body of
Rodriguez taken out of the vault exactly
as when placed there go years before.
His daughter, p years of age, was lying
under her fathers feet, and as perfectly
preserved as himself. The evidences of
torture on the body of the jeweler are
fearfully apparent. Marks Of the cord
and of the burning iron are deeply re-
corded on various parts of his body.
His hair and beard are firm, his skin
natural in hue and texture, without the
least trace of decomposition in any part.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

$4,000 apple and from 1900 to 5000
pear trees, finds that "those with low
heads of the same varieties show at least
two-thirds more fruit, as large or
larger, and as high colored as those
with high tops" To test the matter, ne
cut off in certain rows all the limbs from
four to six feet from the ground, and IN
others encouraged the limbs to start
close to the surface, and in the latter
case neither thinned nor pruned, ex-
cept occasionally to lop away too lusty
shoot in order to preserve symmetri-.
cal appearance, or an evenly balanced
head and the above is the result.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

DIsGRACEFUL If TRUE.-A Halifax
letter on the interment of the bodies of
the passengers of the steamship Allan
tic says: The graves or trenches in
many cases are scarcely deep enough to
allow the collins to rest more than a few
inches below the earth's surface. The
heavy rains have washed away what lit
tie earth covering there was, and to-day
there are hundreds of collins exposed to
view. In many instances, two bodies
are crowded into q single box, and in
some cases even three and, in order to
economist in the matter of space, they
are often placed in trenches two and
three deep. At the feet of these shah
by graves and rude collins are modest
tablets, which record the sufferings and
deaths of hundreds of men, women and
children.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

to us, and causes the skin to itch and
sting and smart and swell, which would
be somewhat relieved by washing care
fully with water; but is made much
worse by rubbing the stung part, be-
cause it spreads the poison that was put
into it. On each side of the trunk CT
sheathis beautiful eather-like antenna,
or feeler, on the male, which prevents
il from singing us, for, 1T is said, only
the female stings.
The buzzing or singing, as we call it,
of the mosquito is caused by the rapid
motion of the wings. / think it would
be difficult for us to move our head up
and down more than two hundred times
in minute, but this little creature
moves it's wings three thousand times in
a minute which produces the sound or
buzzing.
The gnat or mosquito, like other flies,
is found almost everywhere. The most
of you have studied geography, so you
will know where to find South America,
when / tell you that III that country
some of the people bury their bodies in
the sand and cover their heads with
handkerchiefs when they sleep that in
Lapland the mosquitoes are like fall of
snow, and fill the mouths and nostrils
of the people while they are obliged to
rub their bodies with oil and the juice
of birch bark and other things, to pre-
vent the sting of these troublesome in
sects. In the southern parts of Europe
the Russian soldiers sleep in sacks, to
hide away from the gnats. In Spain
and Italy and on the Danube, they are
far more troublesome than in New York.
In the East Indies they are most pois-
onous. Sometimes they look like a
cloud of smoke, they are so numerous ;
and places have been named after them
AS Mosquito Bay, Mosquito Country
in North America Mosquitoes, town in
the West Indies.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

Root crops, which pass rapidly
through the various stages of growth
from the seed in maturity, cannot af-
ford to waste time in searching for sup
plies, and the early stages of growth are
especially critical. A turnip starved in
youth becomes stunted, but if literally
fed it takes strong hold of the ground,
and grows away rapidly. Solvents,
therefore, applied on the surface at seed
time unlock the cupboard at the right
time, so that the tiny roots find food
when they want it, and where alone they
could reach it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

A YOUTH of Danbury went off riding
with questionable company, Sunday:
When he came home at night his aged
father took him by the small OF the
neck, and, to use worldly expression,
"lifted" him. The young man came
around to the back of the house where
his mother was, and complained bitter.
ly of the treatment. He was inclined
70 feel hard towards his father, but his
mother smoothed him down. She said /:
lyon mustn't mind it, John; your
father is getting old and childish. -
Danbury Ne,os.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
Important Lesson.

The great doctrine to teach child is,
that he must labor for what he wants.
Is it riches ? Let him stop envying
those who make money by industry, and
go to work and make it himself. Is it
the position which character gives
Let him build up good character for
himself. Is it talent Let him study
to improve his mind. He may come
honestly by somebody else's money,
without working for it; but he cannot
inherit an education.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Baby Cricket's Troubles.


Mother Cricket's big and black,
Old aud very tough,
She il used to white frost
Bears il well enough;
But baby Cricket Is SO small,
Legs and arms SO slender,
That with only varnish clothes
He Is rather tender.
He wakes up in the morning
Under his leaf-cover,
Yawns a bit, and rouses,
Stretches 10 turn over;
But his pointed little knees
Curl up with cramp;
"Caught cold" mother says;
"Air is somewhat damp.
Pain tweaks his tiny toes,
Twists every Joint,
Pricks up and down his spine
Like "A needles point
Tingles under every rib,
Chills him till he shakes;
Poor little head of his,
How 1t throbs and aches!
Mother Cricket's very vain
Of her coai-Dlack cap
(When she moves, her iron bones
Rattle like trap.
She was up half the night,
Concert in the grass
She uses baby Cricket's back
For a looking-glass.
When she's dressed to suit herself,
on she goes-hop
Half mile at every step,
Never cares to stop.
Baby Cricket kicks and screams,
Wants To follow after;
Cruel criekets, looking ON,
Almost die with laughter.
He kicks till his back gets warm;
The pain leaves his head
He throws his leaf-cover OF,
And crawls out of bed;
He is hungry for his breakfast,
He hasn't had drop,
80, half a mile at every step,
on he goes-hop!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
Personal and General.

VisOuul ouu UVuViuls
YALE will hereafter punish "hazing"
by expulsion.
PINcHBAoK begun life in steamboat
barber-shop.
A SON of the rebel Gen. ID. H. Hill
has been appointed to West Point.
AFRO PARDEE, of Luzerne county, Pa.
was poor man in 1888. He is now
worth 500, 900.
The German-speaking Catholics have
raised over $500, 900 for daily Catholic
paper in New York.
The New Orleans Picayune saws TINT
Laurence Barrett will soon quit the
stage to study for the ministry.
A DAUGHTER of Georgia juryman
diem during the progress of a trial. and
the father was not allowed to leave the
box.
The wife of Taintor, the New York
Atlantic Bank defaulter, is the daughter
OF Gen. James Wilson, of Keene. n. H..
and has returned to her fathers.
Troy, N. Y, has weeping willow
which has grown to be large tree from
a twig cut by Commodore Wilkes from a
tree overhanging the tomb of Bonaparte
on st. Helena, and the fact is just made
public.
The number of converts in the Prot
estant missions OF the world is computed
at 1900, 63S; OF this number 256. S79
are communicates. The number of mis-
sionaries and native clergy in the mis-
sion field is 2,176.
THE completion of the monument at
the National Cemetery at Antietam will
be delayed nearly year, the stone first
quarried for the colossal figure having
been found 50 defective that it is neceS,
sary to reject it and obtain another.
The storm signal system has been re-
duced to such nice point in England,
that when the storm ball is run ND at
Greenwich it is telegraphed to every
part OF the kingdom. Any vessel that
leaves the port after the ball is ND for
feits its insurance.
BURLINGTON, W., is making prepara-
tions for "great time next Fourth
OF July. The statue of Ethan Allen ia
to be inaugurated on that day with i'm
posing ceremonies, in which all the mi
htia of the State will participate, and
all New England is expected to attend.
Los ANGELES has curiosity in the
fruit line. 1t is small but perfectly
formed orange within larger one. The
outer orange had been picked and a
piece taken from it, when the inner one
was disclosed. The curiosity has been
deemed worthy of preservation in alco-
hol.
WILLIAM PAUL, of Mayfeld, Santa
Clara county, Cal, is entering upon the
experiment of silk culture on a pretty
large scale. He has now about 5000
mulberry trees four years old, and has
recently erected cocoonery thirty by
sixty feet, and sixteen feet high, which
he will use to it's full capacity the pres
ent season. A party of experienced silk
growers-Italans-will take charge of
the work.
The stock-raisers on the Rio Grande
have not yet received any compensation
for their losses through Mexican cattle
thieves. This is partly owing, however,
to the exorbitance of their demands.
Some men sent in claims for 5000, 900
and $500, 900 damages, when $4,000 to
$4,000 would have amply compensated
them. The claims have been worked
up to these high figures by lawyers who
are acting as agents, and who are to get
contingent fee of fifty per cent. 1t is
probable that both lawyers and clients
have overreached themselves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
To Have Apples Every Year.

A correspondent tells three ways OF
having apples every year:
l. Take scions from a tree in 1873,
and put them into good, thrifty tree,
and do the same in 1874, and you will
get fruit in alternate years.
2. If you cut off the thrifty trees the
growth of 1873 in the last OF June,
leaving three or four buds that would
come out in 1874, you would force out
the next years buds, and gain one
year.
3. If you remove all the blossoms on
one.half of your tree in the bearing
wear, you will have fruit on that half the
odd year. ,s,,
These things 1 have done successfully.
I have now in bearing the Victory apple
of the odd year, produced in this way,
next year the scions OF last year vii
bear on the regular year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

THERE are rumors of difficulties, po-
litical and otherwise, in the way of the
Duke of Edinburgh's marriage with the
daughter of the Emperor of Russia.
They say that there are high personages
at court strongly opposed to it, and that
hints have come from cousins" in Ber-
lin that it might perhaps be as well even
if it did not take place. They say fur
Their that the Duke of Edinburgh will
have his own way, let everybody else do
or say what everybody else pleases.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
Protection Against CutyvOrms.

The Mobile Register says: A thou
sand and one remedies for cutworms
are published in the agricultural papers
from time to time, few of which are at
all worthy of consideration. We know
of two that we could recommend. A
thin layer of pine saw-dust spread
around the base of the plant will gener-
ally protect it, and i'll setting out plants,
as cabbage and the like, nothing equals
leaf wrapped around the stalk. That
will never fail. Roll any kind of leaf
convenient around the stalk and set it
into the ground with the plant. 1t will
dry and become hard in day, and then
no cutworm will trouble it; and when
the plant has grown sufficiently large
to burst off the leaf it it will be out of
danger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

BEpAp! Host-"Are the Irish peas
antry as original in their humor as they
are represented to be ?" Guest from the
Emerald Isle" Take my word for It,
LORI We may always trace the payter-
nity of an Oirishman's jist to his mother
wit I"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
EgyptiaM Joint Popcorn.

A Western farmer says this is the
best corn for soiling purposes. He says
it will give in the hill from five to ten
ears to the kernel planted, and if drilled
thickly, from three to five nubbins, and
frequently good seed enough can be
saved from the fodder.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
Plant Trees.

Every citizen who has no trees about
his residence should see to it, and plant
shade trees about the place. To esti-
mate the value of groves and shelter
belts in this country would be as
difficult as to estimate the value of
good health in dollars and cents no
man knows how to appreciate them I'M
til, having enjoyed either one or the
other, he is deprived of its blessing.
The benefit to be derived from a grove
in summer is that of n shade and pro-
lection from flies. While the belt of
timber, if properly arranged, will pro-
tect the farm from devastation of the
storms of winter, they will both furnish
protection to man and beast from the
chilling winds, and add fifty per cent. to
the value of the place.-CatJornia
Farmer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30
suy.r Better Than the whip.

A correspondent OF our DuhVO h'17-
mails writes 1 have colt five years
old. quite fast and high spirited; but l
have never struck him with the whip
since bought him last March. L have
taught him to obey my slightest wish by
means of lump sugar, of which he is
very fond. He will ask for it by nod.
ding his head and neighing. When
FIRST had him, he would not stand quiet.
iv for one to get into the carriage; and
determined to try sugar. gave him 0
lump, and from that day to tins he
never offered to move until L was en-
tirely ready. Wasn't that better than
whipping?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

PRESIDENT GRANT expects to visit
Gov. Smyth, at Manchester, n. H., in
July, and to prolong his trip to the
Soldiers Home, near Augusta, Me.