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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
A British State Secret Ont.

Official circles in England are agi-
tated just now by the fact that secret
for which Mr.. Gladstone's government
paid a heavy price appears to have
been resold to the German government
For the exclusive knowledge of how to
make the destructive "fish torpedo
the sum of $4,000 was paid, and the
manufact ure of this new engine of naval
warfare has been going on at Woolwich
with the most careful secrecy, the
slightest allusion to il being tabooed.
The German Admiralty, however, has
paid to an Englishman, who claims to
be the inventor of the torpedo, very
large sum for the secret of its manufac-
ture, and experiments with the torpedo
have been made in the presence
of the Emperor. The British au-
thorities do not believe that the thing
has been twice invented, and is per-
suaded that some person employed at
Woolwich has proved treachcrous.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
EnternriSe.

The New York Arcddi0n a literary
and dramatic weekly of riginality and
ability, has changed its shape. 1t has
come out in pictorial garb, with cuts
from pencil as well as pen. It's list of
artists is as follows "Our heads will
be drawn by Heade, our pleasing faces
by Smillie, ugly ones by Guy, chignons
by Blackjack, confagrations by Burns,
rivers by Poole, places of worship by
Church, fairies by Fay, provisions by
Baker, interiors by Hart, cupboards by
Old Hubbard, snowstorms by Frost
Johnson, bucolics by Swain, woods by
Deforest, meadows by Field, Sheriffs by
Marshall, feathered songsters by Mar
tin, metals by Nicoll, games by Piquet,
weapons by Sword, tricks by Wiles and
our donkeys by De Haas"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
Contrasts in New York.

It is the common thing to contrast
the old style of doing business with the
new; the old style of politeness and
courtesy with the new style of impertin-
ence and incivility the eighteen hours
of labor at the little pine desk with the
"down at IL and off at 3" which marks
many of the modern business men. But
there are other contrasts. 1t is fash
ionable for the young operators in the
street to dine at Delmonico's at an ex-
pense of from 50 to So day, when a
good lunch could be had for fifty cents /;
cab is hired for So, while the Astors
ride up in an omnibus for ten cents. /
saw young man the other day who had
on a rough outfit. l had known him ON
the street as smart operator and fash
ionably dressed. 81 have been on the
street," he said, "ten years / have
made great deal of money and lost it
all / made $28, 900 in puts and calls in
one day the next was flat on my back.
L had to eat what / did not wish, drink
what l knew hurt me, and go into COM
binations that my judgment did not
approve. I am now in the lumber bust
ness. / make s., 900 a year. | live
better, have more money, have more
comfort in my family, and sleep sweeter
than L have for ten years." The two
great merchants OF the city, Peter
Cooper and William E. Dodge, ride
about the city on business in a plain
one-horse buggy that the youngsters on
the street would be ashamed to drive
upon the road, yet these gentlemen
have more money to give away, and are
not afraid of being ruined every day of
their lives. The economy and modesty
of this class could be safely studied by
the fast young man of our city and day.
-Ne1O York Cor. Boston Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
journalism as q Profession.

The Secretary of the Treasury, in G
decision rendered has given the profes-
sion of journalism a new distinction.
He has recognized it as one of the
learned professions, to be ranked, at
least so far as classification in the
tariff laws goes, with medicine, juris-
prudence, and theology. An American
journalist, who was returning from Eu-
rope, bringing with him considerable
quantity of books, amounting in value
to several hundred dollars, for use in
his own library, claimed that the books
were entitled to he entered duty free
as a portion of his professional journal
library. He bases this application upon
that section in the customs laws which
makes provisi on for the free importa-
ton of books for the use of library
of a physician, lawyer, and a clergy
man. The Custom House officers at
Baltimore, at which port the books
were imported, decided that Journal
ism is not a profession, and that these
books could not be imported under that
provision. An appeal was taken to the
Secretary of the Treasury, who has de-
cided that journalism is profession to
such an extent as will give journalist
the advantages of this provision of the
law.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11

CUB1os1THs or FIGURES Any num-
Der of figures you may wish to multiply
ny will give the same result if divided
by2-amuch quickeropera but you
must remember to annex a O to the an
swer when there is no remainder, and
when there is remainder, whatever it
may be. annex a B to the answer. Null
tiply AGA by 8, and the answer will be
1920; divide the Same by 2, and you
will have 232, and as there is no re-
meinder you add cipher. Now, take
359, multiply by 8, the answer is l, 1856 :;
and dividing this by 2, there is I79
and remainder You therefore place a
o at the end OF the line, and the result
IL again l,79J.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11

IN the quarters of Constantinople in
L Iau,'eu exclusively by Turks there has
t Seeh ia force till now a usage called the
o oasA,ne, primitive piece of lynch law
Tontinued Tor the protection of morals.
a.! IA virtue OF this usage the people had
tne right to break into any house 10 sup.
press and punish immoral practices.
Ihls custom became a cover for many
abuses, and now the police are directed
70 suppress it. - ''-- '0'0'
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11

AETHoNY CoMsrocK, chief detective
of the New York Society for the Sup
preston of Vice, told Brooklyn meet.
ing the other evening that nineteen tous
of obscene publications have been
seized this year, with account books
showing the names of $500 dealers all
over the country. One hundred per-
sons have been convicted during the
year. A few nights later Comstock's
face was terribly gsshed by dirk in
the hands of one of the dealers whom
he had arrested. But for his great
physical strength Comstock would
doubtless have been murdered.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11

THE HEA1rHFULSEss or APPLIES
The frequent use of apples, either be-
fore or after meals, has a most health
full effect upon digestion. Better eat
less meat and more fruit. An eminent
French physician thinks that the de-
crease OF dyspepsia and bilious affec.
tons in Paris is owing to the increased
consumption Of apples, which fruit, he
maintains, is an admirable prophylactic
and tonic, as well as q very nourishing
and easily digested article of food. The
Parisians are said TO devour lOO, OOO, 600
of apples every winter-that Is, they
did before the war. The French hre
extravagantly fond Of apples and other
fruit.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11

ODE. PETER GUNsoLUs, says Texas
paper, "now residing in the neighbor.
hood of Fort Griffin, and who is rs
years old, stout, hale and hearty, and
who lived on the frontier the greater
portion of his life, informed us that he
was now living with his sixth wife I;
married young girl each time has
fifty-four children, forty-eight of whom
are still alive, and scattered from here
to the Poetic, md all doing we'll"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11

THE Richmond Va. } Enquirer says
Lynchburg is to have n likeness of
Senator Thurman, taken by her own
photographer. Daring his recent visit
to his native town the Senator gave
Van Ness a sitting. and the vainest
town in the State is supremely happy
in the possession OF her favorite sons
negative"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24

lunr dear five hundred friends, collective
Iy and individually, want your shadow for
their albums.
They assure you that they should prize ii
beyond gtl else earthly. IL will be so en-
chanting 20 have it, They own to you that
LIES great end will not be attained until II is
received! They don't care for the photo.
graphs of people in general, but yours is al
together different. |. Will be such an Orna-
ment To their albums!
Then y1u maze uerogatory remarks upon
your personal appearance. You tell them
you never get Il picture fit to be seen, The
expression is wrong and unnatural The
eyes are too small, the mouth much too large,
etc, ttc.
You are afraid of smashing The "machinc."
And YOU ough; not To have your picture at.
tempted until everybody else has secured all
they want because the artist Will never be
able To take anotheI--and SO on dd iRfaifuIR
Then all your friends hasten to assure YOU
that you were never more mistaken in your
life, your picture will come out lovely, and
your eyes and hair are just the color which
looks well in photograph. You must have
your hair flowing-you have such beautiful
hair, and your shoulders bare because they
are so plump and white.
Thus flattered and assured, YOU proceed
to get yourself up for the photograph. You
will hardly know whether 10 have a full
length picture or vigneite. Feet and hands
are so frightfully magnified in photograph
but, then, you would SO like for all those
lovely pulls and lace fiounces TO showl
| But dresses go out of style, 50 YOU finally
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24
LoNGFELL0ws NEW POEM.
A Boston Literary Event I;raGing of 1.-THE
Hanging of the Care"

The great literary event OF the season has been
Dr. Henry W. Longfcllow's poem Of" The Hang
ing of the Crane" which was read in Boston on
Thursday evening by Mr.. Sidney Violet, OF Lon
don. There was large and intelligent audience
assembled Mr. Woolet was introduced and went
on with Mr.. Longfellow's poem, as follows:
HANGING or THE CRANE.
Pendp Ia c,emaie,y to hang the crane, is the
French expression for house warming, or the
first party given in new house
The lights are out, and are all the guests
That thronging came with merriment and Jcsts
To celebrate the hanging Of the crane
In the new house-into the night are gone;
But still the fire upon the hearth burns on,
And | alone remain.
D fortunate, 0 happy day,
When a new household finds It's pace
Among the myriad homes of earth
Like new star just sprung TO blrth
And rolled on its harmonious way
Into the bOundless realms OF space.
So said the guests in speech and song,
As in the chimney burning bright
We hung the iron crane tonight,
And merry was the feast and long.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24

And now ! sit and muse on what may be,
And in my vision see, or seem to see,
Through floating vapors interfused with tligh
Shapes determination, that CLEAN and fade,
As shadows passing into deeper shade
Sink and eludc the sight.
For two alone, there in the hall,
Is spread the table, round and small
Upon the polished silver shine
The evening lamps, but more divine
The light oflOve SHINES over ALL
OF love that says not mine aud thine
But ours, for ours is thine and mine.
They want no guest to come between
Their tender glanccs like a screen,
And tell them tales Of land and sea,
And whatsoever may bctide
The great, forgotten world outside;
They want no guests they needs must be
Each others own best company.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24

As one who walking in the forest sees
a lovely landscape through the parted trees,
Then sees it rot for boughs that intervene,
Or as we see the moon sometimes revealed
Through drifting clouds, AID then again con
cealed, .H
So helcid the scene
IherG arc two guests at table now:
The king, dcposcd, and older grown,
No longer occupies the THRONE
Tho crown is on his sisters brow;
A priacess from the Fairy Tales,
The vhry pattern girl of girls,
All covered and embogcrcd In curs,
Reset tinted from the Isle of Flowers,
And sailing with soft silken sails
From far of Drcamland into ours
Above their bowls with rims Of blue
Are looking, dreamy with delight;
Limpid as planets that emerge
Above the oceans rounded verge,
Soft shining through the summer night
Stcadfhst they gaze, yet nothing see
Beyond the horizon Of their bowls;
Nor care they for the world that rolls
With all its freight Of troubled souls
Into the days that are to be,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24

Again the toasng bOuglia shut out the scene
Again the drifting ,apors intervene,
And the moons palld disk Is hidden quite;
Aud now | see the table wider grown,
As round pebble into water thrown
Dilatcs a ring Of light
see the table wider grown,
see it garland with guests,
As il fair Ariadne's crown
Out Of the sky had fallen down
Maldcrs within whose tender breasts
a thousand restless hopes and fears,
Forth reaching to the coming years,
Flutter awhile, then quiet lie,
Like timid bird, that fain would ly,
But do not dare to leave their nest
And youths, who il their strength clatc
Challenge the van and front of fate,
Eager champions to he
In the divine knight-errantry
OF youth, that travels sea and land
Seeking adventures, or pursucs
Through cities and through solitudcs
Frequented by the lyric Muse,
The phantoiu with the reckoning hand,
That still allures and still cludes.
sweet illusions Of the brain
. sudden thrills of fire and frost!
The world is bright while yc remain,
And dark and dead when yc are lost!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-19
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-19

PARIS, Aug. IN Marshal Bazaine
arrival at Mayence yesterday from
Basic and will go to Brussels via
Cologne. France will make no de-
mand for his extradition.
Lesoir states that Marshal Bazaine
arrived at Genoa on board the steam
yacht Baron Ricasoli, disguised as a
servant, at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
He must consequently have escaped
from the Island Of Sainte Marguerite
by 9 o'clock the previous evening.
The statement of the Governor of the
fort that he went to bed at 10 clock
Sunday night is therefore untrue.
Lesoir says the fugitive certainly had
accomplices among the prison author
tiles.
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-19

The new freight tariff raises the
transportation On Iowa wheat FIVE cents
per bushel
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-19
Dissolution Notice.
For Sale.

OUSE AND LOT on Sixth street. lst
IL Ward, known as the Mitchell proper
ty, story frame dwelling house, with
wing, containing ten rooms, good we'll of
water, large cistern and good size frame
barn. Price, $l,e0e. Those wishing to
purchase will apply to Mr.. n. w. Pierce,
Junction Office, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way.
Wstertown, June 22d, 1874
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-19

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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
Wouldn't Give Up His Ticket.

AN old man who for several decades
has dwelt upon lands entered In the vi
cinity of what Is now Murrayville
bought railroad ticket and got aboard
a train on the Chicago, Alton ~ st. Louis
Railroad for this city on Saturday last.
II was the first ride on n railroad that
the old man had ever taken, and some OF
his actions and EXPLANATIONS were anus
ing enough. The conductor came around,
mt length, to collect fare, and was search
ingly eyed in his approach by the old
man, who, whenever ticket was taken
up and dropped into the conductors ca
pacious pockets, apparently made note
of it. The conductor reached the old
mans seat at last, and held out his hand,
which the kind-hearted passenger shook
warmly, at the same time declaring he
was snortin' tickled to see the boss Of
SIGH nice keers." The conductor smiled
in his confusion, but managed to make
himself understood that he wanted q
ticket. "Oh," said the old man, that's
what you want. No, you don't. That
tickets mine. bought it and paid for
it with my own money, and intend to
keep il. You can't get it, nor any other
railroad boss in the country. Not much;
he didn't low to be cheated in any such
way" And keep the ticket he did, and
no persuasion could get it from him,
though he was free to show the conductor
that he had one. That was his only
show for ride, and he meant to hold on
to it. The conductor finally passed on,
laughing heartily, as were all lookcrs.on,
leaving this verdant passenger in full
possession of that highly priced ticket.
(IH, J0,lyuaL
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
Plain People.

like EN-. The Creator never made a
man to part his hair in the middle and
say "weally" for really" and the Gre
ator didn't intend to have women spend
eighteen hours day over powder and
paint and send their children into the
country to be cared for by some cross
eyed old woman at three dollars per
week.
No, sir! and no, ma'aml If Providence
had His way about it He would have
small boys play in the road, roll on the
grass and carry dusty noses, instead of
being imprisoned in starched jackets and
threatened with thrashing il they didn't
quicker their mouths just like ma"
Ii people want to say "chawming" for
charming, faint away at the sight of a
rat, and lead little poodle-dogs around by
little chains, and have their monographs
painted on their front doorsteps, why,
it's all right, only should think it would
be great bore on 'em for fear that some
mudsill would some day find out that
their grandfathers or fathers sold soap or
navigated tlat-boat.
l knew Jones years ago; | was a boy
and he man, but | remember that he
was glad enough to haul tanbark at three
shillings load, and that his sons and his
daughters picked blackberries and sold
'em TO buy starch and saleratus. They
are "ton" now. Arabella has fashion
able limp and IA fashionable squint, says
"daw" for day, "hawse" for horse, and
1t costs her more to paint her cheeks
than 1t does me to paint my house. Her
brother, Algernon, sports tender little
cane, wears eyeglasses, and his livery
bill for a month amounts to more money
than his old father earned in six. Their
name used to be Jones-plain, blunt
Jones-but now they have it changed to
"Jo-ens," and they draw it out mile
long.
Well, | suppose it's all right, but if the
old man could rise from his grave and
drop in on 'em he'd wonder if he hadn't
struck the wrong house.
And its none of my business if viii
Lakins wears diamond pin, alligator
boots swell collars and mauve pants, and
has three coachdogs at his heels, n
French dancing master, goes to Saratoga,
owns race-horse and stays indoors on
sunny days for fear of getting his fingers
tanned. He stares at me when i go by
him, and if ! nod he prctends that he
didn't see it. It's all right, and probably
he has forgotten how his father used to
hoe corn for my father at fifty cents II
day, and how his mother drove milk
wagon and sold straw hats.
Folks needn't be stuck up because they
have few dollars in bank. Natures
currency is brains and honest hearts,
and money needn't make man forget
that his father run "A sawmill and his
mother was her own servant If any one
can improve on the English language |
have no objections, but let 'em do it with
out puckering their mouths until they
look like mashed water-melOns, and with
out twisting their tongues as if they bad
a peanut -shuck in their windpipes. COT
fins are made to measure, and the earth
never asks whether the dead are bon-ton
or paupers.- M Quad, in Ftreside Friend.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
Religious and Educational.

Miss Chase, of Calcutta, writes to the
Missionary Link that not less than twenty
missionaries and native helpers preach
every morning and evening in the differ
ent bazaars of that heather city. A
special effort has also been made by
holding daily open-air meeting in the
English part of the city to reach the edu-
Gated natives.
Rev. DIR. John Hall, of New York,
said in recent address in St. Louis I:
"In England they distinguish the people
into two classes, churchmen and dissent
ers" In America he thought they might
be divided into churchmen and alb
senters; and the number OF absenters Is
so large as to create great and serious
alarm, and ought to awaken inquiry as
to the condition of home and family
life.
The latest religious statistics for
Brooklyn are: Thirty-eight Episcopal
churches, thirty.four Roman Catholic,
thirty-three Methodist, thirty-two Bap-
fist. thirty-two Presbyterian, eighteeen
Congregational, fifteen Reformed Dutch,
twelve Lutheran, four Episcopal
Methodists, three Unitarian. five colored
Methodist, two German Methodist, six
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20

nunnery is over? The girl earns good
deal of compassion among her friends
because she has been Tilted; and the
young man-who is probably quite inno-
cent in the matter-is branded as mon
ster not fit for this highly virtuous world.
Then the story of her having been Tilted
gets abroad, and spreads and wakes luxu-
RANT, until its branches are as the
branches of the great tree 1gdrasil.
Meanwhile, of course, young men who
might have become suitors are warned OFT
by vague hints and surmises They can
not go to the former lover and ask what
he found wrong about the girls temper,
or about her relations, or about the legacy
her aunt was supposed to have left her.
All these things would be avoided if the
lover were to be allowed to insert brief
notice in the papers informing the world
in polite terms that, after all, he found he
was not good enough for her.-London
Dahl Nelos