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The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Corn for Fuel.

We are glad to see that many of our
citizens are taking advantage of the low
price of corn TO lay in heavy supplies of
it for fuel. We have experimental with
it last week, and find that it is an ad-
mirable substitute for both wood and
coal, and that at present prices there Is
both economy and comfort in its use.
A ton of corn, 33 bushels, at II cents
per bushel, issS5.60. We consider this
equal to a cord of hard wood, as sup
piled and measured in our market, at
81; the cutting of this cord, $l.50-
total, IS so. Thus making saving of
nearly So cord.
For kitchen fuel it is superior to wood,
except hickory, and cheaper than that.
1t makes very hot fire with great
deal Of blaze. We judge that three
tons of corn are equal to the heat of
one ton of hard coal, while in economy
of its use it is equal to one and a half
tons of coal. In small families and
small houses there is always great waste
of hard coal, while there is none in the
use of corn. Besides this, there is the
public benefit of retaining in the coun-
try all the money we send TO Pennsyl-
vania for coal, and feed our farmers by
consuming their products-COuncl Bluffs
IoVa) NonpareiL.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
A MOnOnaniac.

Here is queer story, the truth of
which is absolutely guaranteed by one
of the most respectable of Paris news.
papers, lie Temps. A certain NJ. de Is.
has long been insane. He imagined
himself Chinese, wore the costume of
the Celestial Empire, and spoke a
strange jargon invented by himself,
and which he seriously believed to be
pure Chinese. This was a very inoffens-
i've monomania. His family had there
fore taken no precautionary measures
further than that of preventing him
from going out.
NJ. de b. awoke the other day with
cold sweat, declaring that the Emperor,
Tchoag- -Tcheon, had condemned him to
implement. He asked to be left alone.
When, at the end of two hours, his
friends re.entered his room, he was
found on chair, sitting bolt upright,
with his hair standing on end. Heav.
ems how / suffer y he gasped. It's
going through and through me |" A
doctor was sent for, and NJ. de b. was
placed by force in reclining position
at is too late," he cried "the stake i.
broken in my body ~ and he expired
under the full conviction that he wai
actually impaled.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
A Champion Old LADY

The champion old lady of them all
closed her career in Greenup county.
KY, a few days ago. Her name was
Mrs. Mary Gray and at the time of her
death she was ll3 years months and l6
days old. She came of a long.lived
race, her mother having reached the age
of 100, but her husband, who was born
only four years before her, in 1855.
dropped off something over half cen.
tury ago, at the untimely age of "a. She
was the mother of l3 children, all but
four of whom she followed to the grave.
the survivors-two sons and two daugh.
ters-being SS, SO, 73 and 20 years of
age. Mrs. Gray lived to see the fifth
generation of her descendants number.
ed by the score-the full list of her
lineal descendants being as follows
Children, l3 grandchildren, 65; great.
grandchildren, eli; great-great.grand
children, 337; great-great great grand.
children, 44-total, l,076. With such a
record to fall back upon, Greenup coun.
ty, KY, may safely challenge the world
on the subject of old ladies.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
"When l was Born l Died."

DR.. Hammond, who attended Greeley
in his last illness, makes this statement:
I" suppose Mr.. Greeley said hundred
times, while | was with him, Now
mind! When / was born | died, and
when / died | was born This idea
seemed be perpetually in his mind,
and when he repeated the words he
would look his listeners very attentively
in the face. In order to test his con-
sciousness | asked him if he knew Mr..
Dickens. / knew that he did, for was
present at the dinner to Mr.. Dickens,
at which Horace Greeley presided. He
exclaimed: | never heard the name in
my life Now, mind When | was born
died, and when | died | was born. L
then told him that Thurlow Weed had
been to my house and was inquiring for
him. He answered as before: Il never
heard the name before. Now, mind
When / was born | died, and when L
died | was born 1t was evident to me
that no gleam Of consciousness remain.
ed. He very rarely answered the ques-
tions asked him, and whenever he did
the answers were wrong"
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Sure Test of Death.

Probably thu surest method to test if
one be living or dead is that of DR.. Mag
nus, of Breslau, Germany, whose exper-
iments, extending over many years,
have been carefully and studiously made.
The experiment Is so simply made as to
be equally sure and practical, tried by
the laity as by those belonging to the
medical profession. lie ties string
snugly and securely around finger or
toe. If the subject be a living one, the
member thus tied about becomes red and
grows constantly deeper and darker
colored, till it is tinged blue red from
the end to the point where it is litigated.
Just where the string rests upon the
flesh there will be small white ring.
If the subject have calloused, hard and
skinned fingers or toes, it would be well
to ligate the lower pendant of the ear,
since the test cannot be so satisfactorily
made upon a larger member of the
body; the numerous large and deep.
lying veins could not be so readily com.
pressed as in muscles with close prox-
unity to the bone.
His experiments have, in every in.
stance, proven satisfactory; the appear,
ance described upon the living body
never having produced on the cadavar
The explanation OF the phenomenon
is simple. The bandaging of any mem
Der OF the body causes mechanical OBJ
struction to the return of the venous
blood it itstagnates in the capillaries and
veins, and hence the dark blue color.
The white ring under the string is the
result of partial arterial anamie, which
exists in the entire member, but is moi
seen elsewhere because of the venoui
hYperamie.=BOst1n TRANSCRIPT.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Fossil Elephants i'm Alaska.

1t has been generally supposed by
scientific men that the fossil elephant
OF Siberia had mp representatives. in The
same latitude on this continent. Re-
cent examinations on the Yukon river,
in Alaska, however, have estab-
tablished the fact that the remains are
even more plentiful on the west than
on the east side of the North Pacific.
Enormous quantities Of bones are found,
and a supply of ivory sufficient to last
the world for centuries. The valleys of
all the streams and all the low grounds
are filled with bones and tusks, so that
every vessel now arriving from those
remote possessions has part of the cargo
made up in part Of these new found re-
mains. The elephant, whose range was
formerly almost universal, is now con.
fined to a small portion of Africa and
Asia, and it would seem as il the species
was in process of slow extinction.
Neither Europe nor America, which
once swarmed with them, has now either
a climate or vegetation fitted 10 their
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Thad. Stevens as a Leader.

A few days before Thad. Stevens died
some admirer intimated that in the
event of his death there was no one
then in the House to take his place as
its leader. The cynical old man repeat
ed the word " Leader ~ saying: 4" Does
anybody think that | am such a fool as
to think that have ever been leader ?
dangerous work done, and were too de.
cent or cowardly to do it themselves,
have approached me, trying to make
me believe that was leader. | have
been fool enough TO take the bait many
times, and, on vote, the towards have
always to a man abandoned the leader.
Oh, I've been a great leader"
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
What to Do i'm Case of Accident.

Prof. Wilder, of Cornell University,
gives these short rules for action III case
of accident. 1t would not be bad
thing TO cut them out and carry them
in ones pocketbook, or, better yet, COM
NIT them 10 memory
For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing
dash water in them; remove cinders,
etc, with the .round point of lead
pencil.
Remove insects from the ear by tepid
water-never put hard instrument
into the ear.
If an artery is cut, compress above the
the wound; if a vein Is cut, compress
below.
If choked, get upon all fours and
cough.
For slight burns, dip the part in cold
water: Il the the skin is destroyed,
cover with varnish.
Smother a fire with carpets, etc. +,
water will often spread burning oil, ana
increase the danger. Before passing
through smoke, take a full breath and
then stoop low; but if carbon is sus'
pected, walk erect.
Suck poisoned wounds, unless your
mouth is sore enlarge the wound, or,
better, cut out the part without delay !;
hold the wounded part as long as can be
borne to hot coal or end of cigar.
In case of poisoning, excite vomiting
by tickling the throat or by warm water
and mustard.
For acid poisons, give alkali7; for
alkaline poisons, give acids-white of
egg is good in most cases; in case of
opium poisoning, give strong coffee, and
keep moving.
For apoplexy, raise the head and body;
for fainting, lay the person flat.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
The Ear Of Man.

1t is superior to that organ in all races
OF animals below him, as man alone APP
preciates harmony and cultivates music.
Anatomists who really understand its
mechanism are lost in admiration.
Nature has bestowed so much care in
the extremely minute structure of the
innermost parts of the apparatus that it
may well be considered the masterpiece
in the dominion of divine mechanics, to
the apprehension OF our limited ac-
quaintance with what lies within the
compass of ordinary vision.
Long before birth the internal ear,
those apartments in which are dis
tributed millions of terminal filaments
OF acoustic nerve, are completely finished
and securely protected in a very hard,
bony box. There are three irregular
chambers, varying in size, scarcely larger
than the head of pin. There are three
noises, sudden conclusions, ETC., in
which there is no particular law of
vibration in force. In the next we
analyze sounds both of voice and musi.
cal tones. Within the third there are
erect, flexible rods, like elastic bristles,
liked at one end-the other being un-
attached and movable to and fro-bend.
ing as the heads of wheat stalks in the
field yield to the gentle force Of air.
Those rods are innumerable-thous
upon thousands-there being one for
every varying impulse of musical in
strument or change in voice. But a
sense of hearing is in the brain, the ear
being nothing more than contrivance
for conducting aerial vibrations to the
acoustic nerve, which transmits the inn
preston to the soul.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Renaissance of a Louisiana States
man.

The name of the glittering Pinchback,
of Louisiana, was not always Pinchback,
though it never was pure gold or gold
eighteen carats fine. His name, when
he ran on the river and put in an occa-
sional appearance in this city, was
Pinkey Stuart. He was gay and fes-
tive youth and priced, with all the in
tensity of his ardent African nature, the
smiles that beauty bestowed. He wore
great deal of glittering jewelry. The
dusky maidens at whose feet he sighed
had heard that all that glittered was
not gold, and concluded that the mas
sive chains he sported were pinchbeck,
and called him after the adornments
which he had heaped upon his comely
person. The name stuck to him, until
he adopted it; and now he has made it
bright in the long list Of great American
statesmen. As we have heretofore re-
marked, he is not foolish. His eye
shines, and his diamond breaJt.pin
shines, and his teeth shine, and his hair
is brilliant. If Death loves a shining
mark, he will take shot at Pinohback
some Of these times Cincinnati COM
ruerctdL
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Amusing Ignorance.

In a recent English book ga Burgun-
dian Vintage") by Amelia b. Edwards,
who has written some charming novels,
there occurs a passage well calculated to
amuse American readers. Speaking of
a busy scene, the writer says; Gall day
long, like an overseer in Massachu.
setts cotton field, Claude PAGES back
ward and forward between the court
yard and the vineyard, obsevant Of
everything" etc. 1t appears singular
that an authoress, whose books show
that she is evidently both an educated
and cultivated person, should betray
such ignorance.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03

Five-sixths of an animal body is made
up of water. A man weighing two hun
dred may be dried into a mummy not
weighing over about sixteen pounds,
including bones of the skeleton. Water,
therefore, is largely employed in giving
form, fexibility and beautiful lines.
Enough is taken in with food to meet
all demands of the system.
The precise quantity, and indeed
quality, is regulated by a sense of thirst.
But that vital sentinel may he corrupt
ed by excessive indulgence. When
simple water Is taken, morbid thirst
never follows. If, however, stimulating
fluids are swallowed, morbid craving
may be generated, which, if not re-
strained, may become an unsatsted
passion, to the positive injury of organs
on the regular functions of which sound
health depends.
There is danger from indulging in
artificial drinks. Nature distills over in
the stomach by her own chemical pro-
cesses-sep parating the water from them,
which is used for legitimate purposes,
but rejects all the rest, throwing 1t out
of the body through the kidneys and
skin. By working the renal apparatus
beyond normal gauge, to carry off of
Tending elements, they fall into disease
beyond the resources of medicine.
This explains prodigious advance of
Bright's disease-that is, a degeneration
and loss Of ability in those organs to do
what they must accomplish for stability
in health. None of the lower animals
have kidney disease, because they never
drink to excess or burden the stomach
with compound beverages.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Wintering Cattle.

There is no subject Of greater import
ance to the farmer, and especially the
dairyman, than the wintering of his cat
tie. They should not be allowed to
stand out of doors through long, stormy
water them by artificial means in their
stables, but they should not be COM
PEELED to go to distant brook or spring
to drink. A good waterins trough
should be in every barn-yard. Then, as
1t is rare thing for it to storm continu'
ously all day, an opportunity should be
watched during cessation OF the storm
for the cattle to be turned out to drink
and exercise. The latter is as requisite
and necessary as the former. As IA gen.
eral rule cattle ought in winter to be
kept in the barn, and only allowed to
run out srnny and pleasant days for
such length of time as is necessary for
exercise. As matter of economy, all
feeding ought to be done in the stalls,
except such coarse and refuse stuff as is
q <purposely intended for littering the
'barn.yard. Once every day the refuse
should be taken from in front of the
cattle, and put in some convenient
place, and at least once each week these
should be we'll brined and refed to them.
In this way all the hay and feed will be
consumed and none wasted. l object
to feeding cattle in the barn-yard, be-
cause they run over their food with
their muddy feet, and tread it into the
manure, thereby wasting large per
cent. A warm stable is also indispensa-
able, not only as matter Of comfort,
but because heat thus produced saves
food. A good barn.yard is equally as
requisite. The fence should be not less
than four and half or five feet high,
and made tight with boards from top to
bottom, and should be shielded at least
>on the windward sides. Above all, cat
tie should be given all the food that
they will consume without waste. "Pinch
your cattle and they will pinch you" is
an old and true saying. 1t is my custom
to feed my cattle the last time at 9
o'clock IN the evening, so that in the
long and bitter cold nights of winter
they may have full stomachs to resist
the cold, and not lie down so long nor
get so badly chilled during the night.
Most of tho losses and drawbacks upon
cattle are either directly or indirectly
the result of a want Of proper care and
sufficient feeding. Cows poorly win
tered will yield but poor return dur
ing the ensuing summer. On the other
hand those well fed, carefully tended,
and skillfully managed will yield a
handsome profit. The same facts hold
good in raising young cattle. Those
raised by some men are as large at two
years old as those raised by others are
at three. Much, or nearly all, rests with
the farmer. If small results, and large
per cent OF losses overtake him in the
management of his cattle, it is his own
fault. But if good returns, and gener'
ally satisfactory results, are his lot, it is
because he used proper and judicious
management in the wintering of his
cattle. w.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Glanders.

Chronic glanders are said not to be
contagious. A veterinarian in the Kan
sqs Fdrmer recommends the following
treatment
To remove or neutralize the poison,
give one. half TO ounce doses of the sui
phate of soda at night, in cut feed, for
several weeks, and five grains of the
powdered Spanish fly along with it.,
which will act not only as a powerful
tonic, but as an agent whereby the pro.
duct of the disease will be removed
from the body of the animal by the kid
news. This treatment will not interfere
with the other medicine, which Is
powdered gentian root, three drams ;
powdered sulphate of copper, two drains;
mix. and give the whole for dose, and
Give one dose morning and midday.
The horse must be well and highly fed,
and removed from other horses while
the treatment is going on. Change the
feed often. Remember that glanders
associated with tubercles of the lungs
cannot be cured.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Professionalism i'm India.

The Protestant Christian faith has ad.
vanced in India during the past twenty
years surely, and with constantly in.
creasing rapidity. The number of
Evangelical Christians during the first
ten years of that period, from 1851 to
1861, rose from little less than a 900
to more than l3S,000, the rate of increase
being little less than, As per cent.
From 1851 to 1871 these numbers have
risen to more than 2ll 600. at a rate of
increase of more than 81 per cent.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Rural Items.

CnrroRYIA farmers fatten ther cattle
on sugar.
The hog crop in the State of Indiana
is estimated at 2,50O,OOO.
FRrEPoRr, ILL.,, has beet.sugar factory
which employs $50 hands.
An oystershell put isto teakettle
v;Il nreyent its being covered with scale.
TuE corn.burners think two bushels
of corn on the cob equal in heat to one
bushel Of coal.
"Ir YOU catch any man building a
orairie fire, shoot him on the spot" is
The watchword OF Kansas farmers.
WOMEN should keep their feet dry and
usrm-no matrer how clumsy they
The true northerner., 1873-01-03

may look if properly clad. Try this and
be happier and healthier.
TWENTY years ago the United States
did not export more than million
pounds of cheese. Now the annual ex.
ports amount to more than sixty mil.
lion pounds, and America has taken
from England and Holland their mo-
nopoly of the cheese trade in Europe.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
II Never Comes Again.
BY r. X. srODDARD.

There are gains for all our losses.
There are balms for all our pains.
But when youth. the dream. departs
Ii takes something from our hearts.
And IL never comes again.
We are stronger, and are better,
Under manhood's sterner reign:
Still We feel that something sweet
Followed youth with flying feet.
And will never come again.
Something beautiful is vanished.
And we sigh for il in vain:
We behold II everywhere.
On the earth and in the air.
But IL never comes again.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
NEW YORK TRIBUNE OFFICE, !

- AOV''
My DEAR SIR: In the first place, a
young man who writes to busy editor,
who has no time to consult gazetteers,
without giving the State as we'll as the
village from which his letter is dated,
does not deserve an answer. Besides,
you misspell my name, for which there
is no excuse. But will answer you :
Your verses are neither lost nor forgot.
ten. If used now they would simply be
printed-not published. | am awaiting
an opportune moment to publish them,
as it is likely case will soon appear in
the courts which will give them point
Yours, truly, HORACE GREELEY.
To c. II. Webb, Chamtlain | suppose)
New York.
And that was the last of the poem.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Another Letter Of Mr.. Greeley.

c. II. Webb ("John Paul") writes that
in 1857 he, boy, called on Horace
Greeley, who kindly accepted poem,
promising to publish it in the Tribune.
AS it did not appear, the author, some
months afterward, wrote Mr.. Greeley
on the subject, and received the follow.
ing reply:
The true northerner., 1873-01-03

existence. Their remains, however, are
likely to give Alaska a value mot pre-
viously suspected.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
Mourning.

"Black is the sign of mourning"
says Rabelais, because il is the color
of darkness, which is melancholy, and
the opposite to white, which is the color
of light, of joy, and of happiness" The
early poets asserted that souls, after
death, went into q dark and gloomy
empire. Probably it is in consonance
with the idea that they imagined black
was the most congenial color for mourn
ing. The Chinese and Siamese choose
white, conceiving that the dead become
benelicent genii. In Turkey, mourning
is composed of blue or violet, in Ethi.
opa of gray and at the time of the in.
vasion of Peru by theiSpaniards, the in
habitsuts of that country were it of
mouse color. Amongst the japanese,
white is the sign of mourning, and black
of rejoicing. In CASTLE, mourning vest.
ments were formerly Of white serge.
The Persians clothed themselves in
brown, and their whole family and all
their animals were shaved.
The true northerner., 1873-01-03
A METROPOLITAN hotel telegrah Officer

A METROPOLITAN hotel telegram officer,
early Monday morning-Young gentle
man operator, after repeated calls for
youny lady operator in a branch office,
at last gets response, and then, click,
click, click, click" (fortissimo), be tele
graphs back to her vehementiy, have
been trying to catch you for the last
half hour" In a moment the following
spicy reply came tripping back to him
over the wires from the telegraphic SUI.
bu-ban maiden Pooh That's moth
ing; there is young man here who has
been trying to do the same thing Ssr
the last two years, and he hasn't caught
me yet"
New-York tribune., 1873-01-31
CHARGE OF JUDGE DAVIS.
- ~

congratulate you, gentlemen, that your
labors are concluded. An important duty, however re-
mains TO the Court. and then still more important one
yourselves This is one which has excited great
public interest that has manifested through the
whele trial II Is not because OF the momenous
quences TO the accused party, but because Of It's
connection with the transactions which, within
the few past months, have entered into his
tory OF the city and the county. The defendant
stands indicted before you for alleged violations OF off,
csl duty He is charged substantially by the indct
ment OF Deglecting duty imposed upon him by law;
secondly for having discharged that duty by the grant
ing OF certificate such s required by the law upon
the auditing OF accounts which false and fraudu
lent and known be TO him. That the defendant
public officer at the time and subsequent 10 the passage
Of the act Of 1870 which deyoved upon him the power
mentioned the fourth section OF that act b not in dis
pute He held the office OF Supervisor OF the City and
County OF kewYork. He then President OF the
Board Of 5uDsrV,sors The LsgtGat ,ts opght pfopof