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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
A Heroine Dead.

OF the Countess Benedict, who died
q few weeks ago in Paris, French cor
respondent says: She was very beau
tiful woman, of the Greek type, and as
remarkable for her esprit as for her
beauty. Her attainments were charm
ing. She was daughter of M. Anas-
tasi, or an adopted daughter, for the
story runs that M. Anastasi found the
little girl for sale in an Eastern slave
market, and purchased her. He sent
her to Europe to be educated, and af-
forwards adopted her as his heir and
daughter. 1t was while he was Grecian
Consul at Alexandria that NJ. Anastasi' S
daughter met and married M. Benedetti.
Her life was romance. The beautiful
Greek aided her husband as he rose
from Vice Consul to Ambassador to
Prussia, with the title of Count, but
when he fell the old life seemed to leave
her. The attacks of the journals were
too much for her sensitive nature, and
she began to pine, and has now sunk
into the grave after two years illness.
Nine. Benedict was only 4S. She
leaves son, who is now Secretary of
Legation Mt Stockholm.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Extraordinary ResuscitatiOn.

A remarkable instance of recalling life
by medical skill has lately occurred at
Brussels. An unfortunate workman,
overcome by drink, had fallen into the
canal at Charleroi,' which passes through
the lower part OF the town, and his body
was not recovered for some considerable
time, when it seemed hopeless 10 at
tempt to recall the drowned man to life,
and the bystanders, after exhausting the
common remedies, came to the conclu-
sion that the man was dead. DR.. Joux,
the medical officer of the division at
Brussels, was at home, and his assist
ance was called in, and at once he re-
solved not to regard the case as hope
less. For three hours, however, the
most effective remedies suggested by
modern science were applied in vain,
when DIR. Joux determined TO have re-
course to more stringent treatment,
and Mt once proceeded to employ plates
of iron heated to white heat to the
upper parts of the body near the more
vital organs. After some short time, TO
the astonishment of the assistants, faint
signs of breathing were observed, and in
the course of half an hour the drowned
man awoke to life. At the present mo-
ment he is perfectly restored to health,
and the only inconvenience which he has
sustained results from the severe eau
terization which his skin necessarily UNI
derwent. The novel treatment which
DIR. Joux extemporized so successfully
on this occasion may well deserve the
attention of the medical profession.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
A Terrible Tragedy i'm Belgium.

We quote from the Belgian papers
the following account of dreadful
tragedy that occurred three weeks ago
in little village near Brussels
A farmer and his wife had plotted to
murder their niece during her sleep, to
rob her of / 800 francs that she was tax
ing to her sick mother. In order to
foil the future searches of the police
they, previous perpetrating the crime,
were engaged in digging large hole in
the garden, so as to bury the body in it,
when the young girl, not being asleep,
had heard her terrible sentence, rushed
out by the window, and ran to the police
station, distant one mile only.
But as soon as she was out the daugh-
ter of the wicked farmer, who was not
expected home that night, came back,
and, not wishing to awaken anybody in
the house, went noiselessly into the bed
where her cousin had been lying a few
moments ago. She soon fell asleep, and
thus her mother, not being aware of the
providential substitution, owing to the
darkness of the night, broke her own
daughters head with an axe.
This being done, the two were going
w shO o'iNcii, vail yhS VIC COipsc, cu-
veloped in bed-spread, when two gen.
darmes, accompanied by the fugitive
girl, rushed into the house with lanterns
in their hands.
AT the sight of their niece, whom they
thought they had murdered, the two
wretches took off the covering andfound
their unfortunate child killed by their
own hands.
The man, taking Urge butcher
knife, plunged it into his breast, and
fell dead on the ground. AS to the
woman, who was prevented from COM
hitting suicide, she became insane, and
is now shut up in lunatic asylum,
where she is expected soon to die from
mental exhaustion. A more horrible
account has rarely been registered in
the annals of crime.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
How to Destroy Some NOxiOus Insects
At this season of the year we are
made to feel the truth of the line

At this season of the year we are
made to feel the truth of the line
"Oh! we must fight if we would win."
for insects are preying upon our cab
bages, parsely, etc., and if allowed to
eat at their own sweet will, we shall
soon possess bare stalks instead of thrift
ty plants.
The young cabbage-plants are now
the prey of black grub which comes
out of the ground and cuts them off at
the stem and when you see the fallen
plant, you will usually, by digging near
the roots, find the grub close at hand
but if not there, dig around the other
plants and you have him. Sometimes a
spoonful of fine salt around each plant
will drive them away, but usually you
must dig for them and then destroy.
These grubs, like the hares, go in
pairs, and you must kill two near to one
plant if you would rid the ground of
them. A email flea appears in great
numbers to devour the leaves of young
cabbage plants, either just from the seed
or after planting. To drive them of.
we find a sprinkling of freshly Stacked
lime very efficient. Put it ON while they
are wet with morning dew, and it will
not only kill the fleas but help the
growth of the plants.
And next comes the greenish worm,
which attacks the half-grown cabbage
plants and makes them a thing of hor-
ror. Carbolate of lime, or white helle-
bore, sifted over the leaves, will effect
ually destroy them and hand picking
is also desirable, if commenced in their
earliest stages, while the worm is hardly
discernible. Take a penknife and scrape
the leaves clean, or cut them off and
burn them. The great black-ringed
worm which devours the leaves of cell
lery, parsley, parsnips, and carrots, will
also only succumb to hand-pickings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Wonderful French Inventions In Teie.
grADhing.

l am sorry We are not represented in
telegraphic apparatus, as we have several
things in America that would be worth
seeing. The French telegraph depart
ment is the best in the Exhibition, and
some OF the inventions are exceedingly
interesting. There is machine that
prints an autographs dispatch, not
chemically, like the other autographs
instruments, but on white paper with
printers ink. 1t cannot be described in
writing, and SO viii not attempt to say
how it is made, except that there is syn
chronous action of two rollers one may
be in New York and the other in San
Francisco, or III any two other places
connected by a telegraph wire. A writ
ten message, sheet of music, the por-
trait of burglar, anything that can be
drawn with pen-not with pencil
may be telegraphed from one end of the
world to the other and reproduced with
printers ink on white paper, like that
whereon the patron of the Mail reads
this letter. Then they have a machine
by which four operators can work over
q single wire at once in one direction,
just as one operator does with us, and
by putting on four operators the other
way, you can make the capacity of one
wire equal to that of eight by the old
system. We are now using in America
a system by which a wire may be
operated both ways simultaneously. The
French machine is exactly four times
ahead of US. They have, also, an cleo
magnet that works over 100 miles
of wire, and they will tell, within half a
yard or so, exactly where a pneumatic
tube has become obstructed. Suppose
you have q tube between New York and
Harlem, and wad of paper, rat, or
something of that sort, gets into it; you
don't know exactly where to look for
the obstruction, and it is serious mat.
ter to go and dig up from one end until
you find possibly'not 100 yards from
the other. This machine tells you just
where to go, though it will not tell You
whether it is rat or wad of paper that
stops the tube. - Vienna Cor. NeW Yorh
Nail
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Destructiveness Of Tigers i'm India.

The destruction of human lives in
India by wild animals has become so
appalling that at last the English Par
lament is seriously debating different
plans to remedy the evil. The state
ments made by Lord Ettrick, who has
spent much of his time in India, almost
transcend belief, and read like romances
of the jungle and wilderness. In Lower
Bengal alone, no less than ID, 400 per-
sons are known to have been killed by
wild beasts in the six years Immediately
preceding 1870, and for the peninsula it
is estimated that 10000 persons are
killed annually. Capt. Rogers, of the
Bengal service, recently read paper
before the English Social Science Asso-
citation, In which he stated that in 1869,
one tigress stopped the traffic on a pub
lie road for many weeks, and was known
to have killed 127 people and, in Nay
dunka, a tiger, in 1867, 1868, and 1869,
killed, respectively, twenty-seven, thir-
ty-four, and forty-seven people. 1t
would attack party and kill four or
five at time. Once it killed father,
mother, and three children, and the
week before it was shot it killed seven
people. 1t is stated that there are
shikarries, or hunters, whose business
it is to kill these animals, and who re-
ceive rewards for doing so, but they
have no desire to kill off all of them and
thus cut off their source of living. They,
therefore, only kill enough of them to
show that they are not idle and to make
living. The English Government now
proposes to enroll body of men for
this purpose, and to make systematic
slaughter of the tigers, wolves, pan
theirs, leopards, and hyenas, until they
are exterminated.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Indians as Israelites.

A correspondent of the Phrenological
Journal, writing from the South, gives
the following statement:
Among the points OF resemblance
which seem to give plausibility TO the
theory that the American Indians are
descendants of a remnant of the lost
tribes of Israel, is custom of theirs
agreeing in its main features with one
described in the book of Leviticus. Ac-
cording to the Indian usage, the near
est of kin had right to STAY the muir
derer whenever he found him, during
the interval that elapsed from the time
the deed was done till the green corn
festival but if the murderer eluded his
pursuers up to that time, and then eff
fected an entrance into the sacred circle
of the dancers, he was safe from the
Avenger of Blood. This Avenger had
it also in his power TO grant the MUIR
derer a respite. An old white settler,
who lived in this country before the In
dams left, tells story of one who was
respited for fortnight, at the end of
which time he was to meet the Avenger
of Blood at a designated spot, to be put
to death. Every day during the inter-
val the doomed man approached the
rendezvous and sang his death song, re-
captivating his deeds of prowess and
his Immortality of glory. At o'clock
on the fair spring morning of the APP
pointed day the victim and the execu-
toner appeared under the shining green
leaves of the beech, in the heart of the
dewy forest glade. The white hunter
had concealed himself near, and looked
on eagerly, half expecting to see the
victim sue for mercy, or the stern exc
cutioner relent from his purpose; but
no! the first placed himself at the right
distance, crossed his arms on his breast,
and looked calmly in the face of the
Avenger, who, coolly taking aim, shot
him through the heart.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
A NEW POWER.
An Invention for which Wonderful
Things Are Claimed-A Great Fuel


An Invention for which wonderful
Things are Claimed-A Great Fuel
Saver.
Mr.. William Wells, of Salem, has just
perfected an apparatus for running
stationary or locomotive engines by va
por power, which, if it fulfills all that is
expected of it, will entirely revolutionize
the method of running engines of every
description. The new apparatus was
set up few days ago, and on Saturday
afternoon it was put in practical opera
ton, for the first time, in the presence
OF several gentlemen well versed in ma
ohinery and the application Of power.
The working of the engine was entirely
satisfactory, and all present expressed
themselves as highly pleased with the
success of the invention, which had been
considered by all but the designer as an
experiment.
The whole apparatus is very simple in
construction, and the new power can be
applied to any engine. The whole pc
culiarity in construction is in the boiler
the engine being precisely like any
other, and the vapor being conveyed to
the cylinder of the engine just the same
as steam. The boiler is an upright one,
and is really a double boiler that is, it
has two heads at each end, one a few
inches from the other. The two cham
bers thus formed, one at each end of
the boiler, are filled with water, and are
connected by tubes. which are for the
circulation of the water between the two
chambers. The second or inner boiler,
that between the two inner heads, is
filed with preparation of bisulphide
of carbon, the vapor from which is the
motive power and takes the place OF
steam. Beneath the boiler is small
fre-box, from which fues run up through
the two boilers to the smoke pipe.
These fues pass inside of the tubes al
ready mentioned, and the fire in passing
through heats the chemicals. BY this
arrangement it will be seen that the
bisulphide in the inner boiler receives
the requisite amout of heat without
coming in direct contact with the fire
fiues, as the water, as has been explained
is kept in circulation through the tubes
Mr.. Wells claims shat with compare
lively small fire great amount of power
can be obtained, and it has been prac
tically shown that, with the water at 6
temperature of DO degrees Fahrenheit
or the boiling point, a pressure of sixty
five pounds to the square inch is oh
tanned on the vapor boiler, and of course
if greater heat is applied to the water
the vapor pressure will increase proper
tionately. 1t should be mentioned thai
the chemical preparation is used ovel
many times, as the vapor, after passing
through the cylinder of the engine
passes into condenser, and is then re-
turned to the boiler to be used again
The waste of chemical material is sale
to be very small. 1t is estimated tina
at least two thirds of the amount of fue
can be saved by the use of this inven
ton, but the exact amount can be bet
ter determined after further experiment
Mr.. Wells has been at work eight years
in perfecting this apparatus, and judg
ing from the test of Saturday, his labol
and pains have not been thrown away
Boston Globe, July IA.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
A COOlingC

In these warm summer days, says q
writer in the Boston Journal, cooling
cup is the desideratum. All shot and
rebellious liquors " should be adiured
but such dainty drink as the following
NAV be taken con anOre: Half-fill a
China punch-bowl with slices of pine
apple (the red cut therefrom), and lemon
cut very thin, arranged in alternate lay
ers, each layer being strewed with
white graduated sugar. Pour over the
fruit as much claret wine as will fill the
bowl cover closely, and let it stand six
hours. Then put in piece of ice, and
when cold turn it into bottle of plain
soda-water, and serve in large goblets
with slices of pineapple and lemon.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
SMELLING PEAS.
Pink runbonnet managing down

Pink sunbonnet hanging down
Der fair face half a frown;
Basket tipped upon her knees
Maiden busy shelling peas.
Looking DER the garden wall,
Youthful figure straight and tall,
Lounges with careless grace,
Straw hat pushed of sunny face
And pair Of lazy eyes
Look with cool and calm surprise
ON the fingers plump and white
Smelling peas with all their might.
"Suoh a little busy bee
Puts to shame poor thriftless me :"
And yawn, half made, half real,
To these words give sign and seal
Pink sunbonnet mods assent,
Fingers give the pod rent,
As though saying, "were these you
I'd soon show you what I'D dow
$50 you think ought 10 be
Quite ashamed of this 'poor me,
Who bewails his lazy lot,
And to better IL tries note"
Pink sunbonnet gives nod,
Cracks fresh new glistening pod,
Which exploding seems TO say,
Answering for her, boldly, "yea."
Lazy eyes dart quick look,
Naught but silence will they brook;
Bending closer they peer down
Meath the bonnet's clumsy crown.
81 would toll and strive each hour,
Working with q will and power,
Had ought 10 pork hard for
Some sweet bright reward in store
Pink sunbonr ct laughs out now
And the face is all aglow,
AS she answers, pointing down
To her basket, with frown-
"Lots of shell and little peas
Words are we'll and sometimes please:
But words are sheil-its .fTttit we need,
Take il easy-prove by deed !"
Quick the lazy eyes fash fire,
And their owner bends down higher,
Till the color in his cheeks
Fades and fiickers as he speaks
"Ah, but tits tcithin the shells
That the perfect fruit first swells
Al my words I'll prove right true,
If my rei0dyd may be you !"
Pink sunbonnet's still and dumb,
Busy fingers quite o'ercome;
Drop the basket off the knees,
And down roll tho half-shelled peas.
"See you work in vain alone
without help naught can be done;
May l then through our lives be
Heipmdte TO you loyally?"
Two brown hands clasp fingers white;
Lazy eyes grow clear ana bright;
Pink sunbonnet, 'gainst her will,
Looks up with cheeks pinker still.
And again it gives nod
Then noise Was il a pod?
Something sounded. As you please,
II all happened-shelling peas
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Pith and Point.

BEST size for man-Exercise.
THE cheese is mitier than the pen.
A DIsTAsTEFUL ration-Botheration.
A STANDING drink-Whisky straight.
MORAL Acknowledgment pianos.
THE noisiest body of water-A sound.
IMPECUNIoUs animals-Those who
haven't scent.
WOMAN should study to be smart, but
never shrew-ed.
A MAN cannot see the point of joke
when he is the butt.
UNCLE SANS salute to Capt. Jack
You be hanged y
Two queer creatures to manage
Mules and mulattoes.
THE man that "sticks" to his bust
ness-The drummer.
THE best sewing machine attachment
The engagement of pretty seam
stress.
TIN has gone up, and the can makers
all over the country are getting can
tankerous.
Our present relations with Turkey
will probably not be changed until next
Thanksgiving.
The papers have a good deal to say
about RAILROAD security" but where
can you find them?
How to kill Old Time-Take him by
a nd ha oil
you've got him sure.
AN Irish writer says, 81 know of no
earthly reacon why women should not
become medical men,"
"CAN'T we make your lover jealous,
Miss ?" so, yes, sir, think we can,
if we put our heads together"
A PEG in a Milwaukee mans boot
caused his death in few hours last
week. We cannot be too careful in mat
tiers pertaining to our soles.
THE Selectmen of New England
town have agreed not to make any re-
pairs to the graveyard "unless the &C.
cupants complain"
When we hear men boast of their
talents, we incline to think that their
talents should be reckoned as the East
Indians reckon rupees-by the back.
A MAN advertises for competent
person to undertake the sale of
new medicine, and adds that cit will
he highly lucrative to the undertaken"
THE society formed by the girls of
the San Francisco High School for the
suppression of slang has been dis
banded. The Secretary says, ct
played itself out" and gave itself
away"
WHAT is your business ?" asked q
Judge of prisoner at the bar. "Well,
] s'pose you might call be locksmith. "
When did you last work at your
trader" Last night, when heard
call for the perlice, and made bolt
for the street.
PUNCH thinks that if a young lady
wants to keep her hands free from
chaps, all she has to do is to dress in
the present fashion, and let it be known
that she has no money. Chaps, es-
pecially if they be sensible chaps,
will then let her hand alone very Sc
erely.
THE man who bought dog to keep
off burglars, and had his sixty-dollar
suit of clothes torn into strips and two
big mouthful taken out of his calves, in
trying to enter his own backyard, has
recovered from his canine attachment.
He yearns to realize on that animal
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
Hereditary Sagacity.

Says an essayist in the Leisure Hour.
l had black kitten brought into my
house from deserted shed, where it
had been born. 1t was half wild, like
its mother, and for some days would not
tolerate any overtures of friendship ;
but it grew to be II fine, frisky, compan-
ionable creature, and at last, with much
trouble, taught it, for my little daugh-
ter's amusement, to sit quietly upon my
shoulder during meal-times, in hope of
now and then securing dainty morsel
1t also learned to beg, and to "say
grace" before meals, which it always
did by rubbing its head against the hand
of the person who fed it ; but it needed
no instruction to distinguish the dinner
bell, the sound of which would bring it
from the top of the garden first of the
household to its place. The first kitten
of this cat was given away to neigh
boring family, and surprised them not
long afterwards by jumping upon the
shoulder of the only male member of the
house as they sat at meals-a practice
which it continued; yet it had never
been taught, nor had it been allowed
any opportunities of observing its mother
in parlor company / have since been
told that black cats have peculiar
habit of jumping on the shoulder, but
from my trouble in teaching our cat
should doubt this. The act was more
probably prompted in her kitten by
hereditary habits. In reference to this
subject, have heard that, whereas the
former generations of cows manifested
universal fear at the apprOach of n rail
way train, their descendants will often
continue their nominations undisturbed
The calf of COW accustomed to feed by
IA railway is less timid than the calf of
an animal bred elsewhere. Can an agri-
cultural reader say whether there is
sufficient foundation for this statement +?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25

A PHRENoLoGIsT told a man that he
had combativeness largely developed.
NO." said the other, 81 have not,
and If you say that again I'll knock you
down"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25

THE most stupendous sell of recent
date is that perpetrated by the Central
City Coli Coach upon the press of the
country. 1t related an account of fear
full ride by two boys in a skiff, who with
in few hours, rode a distance of lac
miles with the speed of lightning. II
was nothing that several falls sixty feet
in height were passed without an upset
or drench;ng, nor that the boat went
forty miles IN hour down a sluggish
stream. The article has been every
where copied and editorially comment.
ed upon.
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How to keep up in the world-Never
get down.