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Hear-ShootinE Extraordinary.


4 Portuguese living at Texas Bar. near the
mouth Of Indian Creek, was aroused from his
peaceful slumbers on the night Of the 12th by
and found his dog barking at the foot Of pine
tree, and, on looking up, discovered something
sitting among the branches, about fifty feet from
the ground He had no arms but shotgun,
which was loaded at the time with fine shot
With that, however, he blazcd away in the dark,
and had the satisfaction Of seeing his game
como tumblng to tho ground, when 1t proved to
be black bear, Weighing 500 pounds. 1t is
hardly probable he was morta1ly hurt by. tho
shot; it is more likely that the pain he felt on
being ''pepperod by the fine ehot made him
lose Lis hold, and the fall from such great
height killed him. Tho Portuguese cut piece
from the bear md offered it to the dog, which
smelt OF it aud walked away, whereuuon the
man concluded the CARCASS unfit for eating; for
he 'would eat nothing his dog wouldn't"
Othors, however, wero not quite SO fastidious
and Nicman. having bough: the bear for IS, took
OH the lido and about 100 pounds Of fat, and
distributed the bearsteaks among his Douglas
CITY friends.
, 1874-01-04
EUlIOR,

Broken spirit-A brandy smash.
We all havc cur trials. Even the Claimant
has his.-Judy.
A Parior Match-popping tho question il
What is the proper age for q paraon? Why
the parsonage, OF course.
One great difference between Byron and
Burns in carly youth was that the one was Har-
row boy, the other plowboy.
The girls in Boston's High School are to be
taught photography, perhaps to impress upon
their minds the grammatical rule TINT two mega
tivcs don't always mako IN Affirmative
"A man writes to an editor for 81, "becanse
he is 60 internally short" and gets in reply the
hcartless response. ''Do as do; stand up on
chair
Divorces are hardly known in Spain, for the
reason that the husband find some one to shoot
his wife for Is cents when ho gets tired Of mat
rimony.
A LADIES' club in London is about breaking
up, the members being hopelessly divided on the
great question as to the propriety Of using seal-
ing-wax for ordinary business letters:
-conseentions ions party,Go r.. Now, nc 18th, then, dfqp
1t yer yer with them g1arses on ?" Nearsighted
party" How the deuce am to hit you il I
takc em off ?"
In California obituary it is stated that
''11c acce:cc:a YES person OF romantic nature.
He placed the breech of his gun in the fire, and,
looking down the muzzle, departed hence in
simultaneously"
Domestic young lady (naking pie)-" Frank,
tho kitchens no place for boys. Has dough such
an attraction for you7t' Clever youth-'' 1t isn't
-" Building castles in Spain. Mr. s. 2" said
the land1ady to spicer, who was thoughtfully re-
garding his breakfast cup "No, ma'am," said
Spicer, a only looking over my grounds in Java. y
Housemaid-'' I'm Borry to hear
you've lost your uncle, MARY. MARY" Yes,
it was quite sudden. Dut-ain't it . real comfort
az got that black dress instead OF the green one
you wanted me- to buy 2"
-'Fellow-travelers," said colored preacher,
"ef had bean eatin' dried apples for week,
an then took to drinkin' for mont, T couldn't
feel moro swel1ed up than I am dis mint Eld
pride an vanity ut seein' such full tendance har
dis eyenin'."
Mathematics is delightful science. A
Maine woman ate gallon Of oysters tho other
day for 500. After deducting 1876 for funeral
expenses, how much did she ''clcar?'
"A young beau, at his sisters evening party.
began to sing. ''Why Am So Weak and Weary :"
to sudden close by yelling out, - Aunt Mary
says it's cause you come home 80 late and drunk
most every night"
Forty pairs Of hands flying wildly in the air,
forty mouths in distressful pantomine. - hat
do you want :" asked the te.cher. 80 Your hair
is falling on,'' answered the chorus ..na...;o.
What is the difference between temptation
aud eternity one is the wife ct the devil, and
the other ID devil OF while.
An undecided fellow courted lady for
twent5-cight years, and then married her. She
turned ont perfect virago, tut deg ia TWO
years after the wedding. Now" said be, in
eelf~congratulating tone, "see what l have
escaped by q long cou1tship-"
The friends OF wit expressing some sur
prise that with his age and fouduess for the bot
lie, he should have thought it worth while to
marry. IA wife was necessary, he said they
, 1874-01-04
A NEW YEARS D1RGE.

Downward they go-still On and on
Passing awsy-anotler is gone,-.
Gone away, with its hopes and fears;
Gone away. with it's smiles and tears;
Gone. with the thousands that went befor8
Swallowed for aye, in the Never More.
Ring out the nel. and let It swell
In the nourpful tones Of sad FAREWELL
Ring out the kne11, In many chime,
Primitive and allow, for the child OF Time
That, with hts record, has passed away
For the year We bury deep to day.
niue out the kneu on the wintry air.-
requiem -dirge for the young and fair
Who met us with love one year ago,
But ,rho sleep to-day, lonely and Low.
Ring out the kneI Of the vanished hours,
CIouded sunshine, and withered flowers,
Hea1,Iy and bloom, that hare faded ALL;
Rinst out tho knen-let the tear-drops faH.
Riu9 out The k,en Of the dead end gone,-
The Young and lovely, many one
The mother, brother, or sister fond.
-Gone. with The year. to the = Land Beyono'
MANY friend We shall meet no more
Hss 9one. .at last, to the "Other Shore;"
1Tanv flower has felt the frost;
The earth ia fresh DER the 1oSed aud LOST.
let the kuell ring out-the year is past,
It's deeds are done, and its lots are cast;
Au. Ill is gone, and beyond recall,
Lei he night come down, ind the shado"s G.1 Ia.
, 1874-01-04

Ny love sat dreaming one sunny day,
Under the naples with shadows gray,
While down each check the bright tears stole,
Telling Of grief shat filled her soul
With strange alarm,
Az OF coming harm
Adown Lfe's way.
Had I s1ddcned her heart with doubts and fears
OF her truth to me through tho coming years7
Or burdened her soul with cry for more
OF the old-tiMe love, now gone far DER
The ocean wide
And ebbinE tide
or aborcless Timo?
Ah, no! for tho tears she wept that daY
We're tears Of grief that the dowery way
We had walked together since long ago
Must be trod alone when the larkeued flow
OF the river OF Death
Should drink tho breath
OF the first to 60.
CHICAGO. T. g. MORRISON.
, 1874-01-04

began to say OF me that drank too much FOR a
single man."
"A young man in Indiana sues his father for
loaned money, which the father claims Was l,s
property. The fathers counsel in summing up
the case Of his client, remarked: ''Iwice has
this prodiga1 son returned to his fatbers house !;
twice had he been received with open arms !;
twice for him has the fatted calf been killed, and
now he comes back and wants the old cow.''
How much our home comfortsare dependent
upon the capacity OF our servants finds daily
illustration. Old lady at dinner party-Oll
Indy deaf and provided with ear trulnpct-Old
lady lnterrogated by we.l-meaping waitress !:
twill che have somo squaBh:" Old lady irre-
sponsive, and extends ear-trumpet toward wait
ress, who deposits squash therein and passes on.
, 1874-01-04


AT his residence. at L1kc Forest, on Dsc. % %,
var, In tile 66th yeas of bis oxe.
, 1874-01-04

-. Would that could coal her mine" e.
c1afm the hopeless suitors for the hand Of @ the
Lady Caroline Guest Ct H9gland "no o.i 44n 1ena na
III Wales.
, 1874-01-04

EAuDA1..-GAGE-A Elsn. III, Dec p, b the
Rev. William s. Bnlc', Fir, Harry Eand.fu. Of Chicago,
aud Florence A., daughter Of Staodiah Gage Esq, Of
Eixiu
Fall. Ohio b. tho Raw. Z. X. Squeir George Ii.
Church. Of Chicago, md Miss Georgfe Daley Of Casa
REEVEs-To ToLEoRD;-Att tho resiacnee Of tho brides
Parents, on Doc. H. Er tho Roy. Mr. Campbell,
M Joseph Mcoses Of Chicago and Miss Kills Woltord os
Asise: sTF fS:Ss-squ1nE- II the residence Of Miss c.
BayIis - South Magst. by he Rev. Robert Laird Cal
lier, benjamin. A. Stevens, OF Toledo, and Emma F.
BOOrli-hIcNiiR-At Castilc. N. Y. jan I. By the
Rev. ). T. Nassau, f. II. Booth. Of Chicago, Ill, and
bliss II: Alel!a AeSair, Of Castillo. No cards.
At St. Pauis Church. by the Rev. F. r AIilispauxh, F.
M Bradshaw, Of Chicago and Grace Il. Loteu, OF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
Prof. Agassiz-His Methods OF Work.

Cambridge Cor. New York Tribune.l
He was always Indifferent to money
where science was concerned. He spent
it lavishly whenever he could get it,
often for things which would not make
show for the public, but which were
invaluable for the pursuit of scientific
truth. He was not business man nor
q fnancier. If he wanted money for his
museum he would appeal to his friends
and the public, and was sure to get it.
Then he would spend it rapidly for col
lections or improvements, confident that
he could get more when he needed it.
He was also singularly unmethodical
in his habits. Men who live and work
by the rule would be puzzled to under
stand how Agassiz managed to do so
much without these helps. He lived
and worked by inspiration. If he was
suddenly seized with an interest in some
scientific inquiry, he would pursue it at
once, putting by other work in which he
had just fairly got started 81 always
like to take advantage of my productive
moods" he said to me. Thus often he
had several irons in the fire, only one of
which might ultimately be finished.
Probably he saw that the last iron prom
Used to work up better than the first.
He never could be made to work like a
machine, turning out definite quantity
at regular intervals. He never felt
bound to regard the rule that you must
finish one thing before you begin
another, so emphatically presented in
the old school-books. His was meth
Cd of working which would be ruinous
to any man who had not his wonderful
faculties, his far-sight and insight.
With his great logical brain and his
marvellous powers of observation, there
was united certain telescope intuition
which made his view of probabilities
something more than guess. He never
proposed his own methods of working
as model for others. Once, however,
in my presence a near relative ventured
TO ask him if he did not think he would
accomplish more if he finished one
thing before he began another. every
man must work according to his own
method, he replied. He was in himself
a great contradiction of the methods by
which many have won success. He
achieved, but it was after his own way.
1t was frequently hard thing to get
him to sign paper, or write a letter
Except for somebody else), or to look
over accounts or reports, or do little
routine work. Yet he could never have
attained his great eminence in science
if he had not paid in this department
great attention to the minutest and APP
parently the most insignificant details
Looking at the drawing of fish made
by his artist, he said, after taking sim
gle glance, ct is beautiful drawing
but don't you see you have left out two
or three of the scales ?" This story,
which / have seen elsewhere, is vouched
for by the draughtsman who formerly
drew his specimens for him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
The PhilOsOpher's Stone.

One is surprised TO remember how
many eminent men have believed in the
philosophers stone as IL means bywhich
everything could be turned to gold.
Roger Bacon believed in its production,
and Arnold de VIlleneuve professed that
he could increase the stone at pleasure.
In 1545 Henry VI. granted patents and
commissions to find out the philosophers
stone, "to enable the king TO pay all
the debts of the crown in real gold and
made but the king had forge or
smithy built for practice in Pail Mall,
on the site of the first Carlton House.
Ripley, the alchemist, wrote on the
"twelve gates" leading to the discovery
of the stone, in 1870; but he repented
his wasted life, and begged all men
would burn his books, which were
"false and vain. Basil Valentine, the
German monk, was of opinion that the
metals were compounds of salt, sulphur
and mercury, and that the philosophers
stone was composed of the same ingre-
gradients. Cornelius Agrippa joined
the French alchemist in searching for
the stone. Dee and Kelly sought for
the stone. Boyle and Sir Isaac New
ton joined in a process for multiply
ing gold, for which company was es-
tablished in London. Leibnitz joined
a society of Rosicruciansin Nuremberg,
in the pursuitof the philosopher stone.
Bergman, the chemist, relates a num-
Der of cases in which gold was supposed
to be formed by the use of the philoso-
piers stone though they were the re-
suits of fraud, by secretly introducing
into the crucible gold pretended to have
been obtained by transmutation. Some
times crucibles were made with false
bottom, gold or silver being concealed
at the real bottom when, heat being
applied, the false bottom disappeared,
and the gold or silver was found at the
bottom of the crucible. Sometimes
gold or silver were introduced in char
coal-the hole stopped with wax-or in
hollow rods with which the crucible was
stirred, the ends being closed with wax.
A common exhibition was to dip nails
in liquid, and take them one-half con-
verted into the gold. These nails were
one-half gold and one-half iron, the gold
ceal its color, which the liquid removed.
However, on the principle that "'tis an
i'll wind which blows nobody good"
some benefits have accrued to mankind |
from the ancient practice of an art |
which is now considered low delusion |
and imposture The books of the
alchemist show the effects of expert |
ments and though they were guided
by false views, they made most useful
researches, and thus laid the founda-
ton of experimental science andmodern
chemistry. Two centuries ago, Sir
Thomas Browne regarded alchemical
studies as the cradle of chemistry.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
Speech Making I'm Congress.

The style of much of the speaking
shows that the prayer meeting and the
PLAYHOUSE have been its nurseries.
Those who have taken play-actors as
models, are inflated, emphatic and pain
fully slow. Such members say, Mr..
Speaker, ask leave to introduce bill, !"
if the utterance were startling
truth that had never burst upon the
world before, They have the theatrical
gags and vulgarities, and say che-yild
for child, me for my, with much baSSo
profn'do, swelling and posing. Such
pretension promises much, and always
falls short. Those who have taken the
class-leader and the preacher AS their
models, are also unpleasant speakers.
There is, and has been, n tendency in
certain of the priesthood to run into n
nasal, shifting tone in the exercise of
spiritual functions, under the mistaken
notion that it adds solemnity to the
words. This influence is very percepti-
BILE in Congressional speaking, and
sometimes becomes SO marked that we
expect speaker to reach the climax,
raise himself on his toes with tremu-
lous shake and pronounce the "Yea,
NCIl-lO VI lllt luiOC-NiOd DNlCpOlt va
Puritan memory. In the speaking of
Congress, it is worthy of remark, that
great body and prominent stomach lend
certain weight to the words pro-
nounced. The dapper man with an
insignificant voice is thus at a disad-
vantage, for let him speak as he will,
his words do not have the Importance
of the man who delivers his over great
abdomen-supposing them to be of
something like equal talents. This was
illustrated in the presentation of a gold
snuf-box to Lord Jeffreys, Il man of
great mental stature but small in the
flesh. He who presented the box was
large-compared to the diminutive
nobleman-and of dignifed manners
after pronouncing the usual compl-
ments, he handed the box to the noble
man with grand bow the theatrical
ease of word and manner took away the
little mans faculty of speech, he thrust
the box into his pocket and sat down
without saying word. In the same
way, the big men in Congress occasion
ally bear down upon the small, lean ones,
and if they cannot take away their
speech, they do sometimes discomfort
them with their ponderous ways and
utterances. -ScIi6ner'S
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
A Bit of Secret History.

The following extract is from an arti-
Gle in the G0Ldry magazine for Deem
Der, written by Hon. Gideon Welles,
ex-Secretary Of the Navy. The period
alluded to is Immediately after the de-
feat of Pope in front of Washington,
and when the advance of the victorious
enemy upon the national capital carried
dismay throughout the country:
a" At the stated Cabinet meeting on
Tuesday, the 2d of September, while
the whole community was stirred up
and in confusion, and affairs were
gloomy beyond anything that had pre-
viously occurred, Stanton entered the
council-room a few moments in advance
of Mr. Lincoln, and said, with great ex-
element, he had Just learned from
Gen. Halleck that the President had
placed Mcclellan in command of the
forces at Washington. The information
was surprising, and, in view of the pre-
vailing excitement against that officer,
alarming. The President sooon came
in, and, in answer TO an inquiry from
Mr.. Chase, confirmed what Stanton had
stated. General regret was expressed,
and Stanton with some feeling remarked
that no order TO that effect had been is
sued from the War Department. The
President calmly, but with some en-
phasis, said the order was his, and he
would be responsible for it to the coun-
try With Il retreating and demoralized
army tumbling in upon us, and alarm
and panic in the community, it was
necessary, the President said, that
something should be done, but there
seemed to be no one to do it. He
therefore had directed Mcclellan, who
knew this whole ground, who was the
best organizer in the army, whose fac
ulty was to organize and defend, and
who would here act upon the defensive,
to take this defeated and broken army
and reorganize it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
An Editor Pleads His Own Case and
Wins.

A funny suit against an editor has
been decided in the Circuit Court at
Waukesha, Iowa. The Fays, proprie-
tors of the La Belle House at Ocono-
mowoc, brought an action before JUS
tice to recover $97.04 for meals and
cigars furnished Ashley ID. Harger,
editor of the Oconomowoc Times
Harger set ups a counter claim of $50
for quilting" the La Belle House.
Judgment was rendered for the plain
tiff, and Mr.. Harger appealed to a jury.
The case excited much interest, Harger
being well liked, and having a solemn,
earnest manner of making very witty
remarks. He testified that Fay would
say to him: Harger, I've got a nice
dinner to-day-come in. " "No, L thank
you, I'm going home" Fay would pre-
vail on him TO stay, and after dinner the
following colloquy: Everything in
there all right, Harger?" Everything
excellent. Dessert all right ?" Z" Ex-
cellent." " Ice cream all right ?" "De-
licious, Mr.. Fay" every well, re-
member this in your paper next week. ."
In return for dinners and cigars, Harger
says that he told great many lies
acknowledgements more than thousand
dollars. He would never have pre-
scented bill for the lies had not Fay
fallen out with him and wanted pay for
the dinners. Harger pleaded his own
case, and the jury fonnd verdict for
him, which threw the costs upon the
hotel keepers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
A GREAT deal of intoxicating liquor

A GREAT deal of intoxicating liquor
being sold in Alton, Iowa, the undaunt-
ed ladies of that place lately made
raid upon the sinful saloons, knocking
out the heads of the barrels, shivering
the decanters and tumblers and every
where desolating the festive haunts of
Bacchus, IL of them being dreadfully
demoralized. The Mayor did not inter
fere until these moral Amazons had COM
menced operations upon the billiard
tables, he then interfered and persuaded
the indignant wives and mothers to go
home.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02

The Colorado Canal, Irrigation and
Land Company has been organized at
Denver for the purpose of buying and
selling lands and constructing n canal
or ditch across the eastern portion of
the Territory of Colorado, the water of
which is to be used for irrigating the
arid lands of the Territory. Tire canal
will be very large, and is to have a
capacity 20 carry three hundred feet of
water, standing measure. 1t is pro-
posed TO turn the waters of the Platte
river into the main channel or ditch.
There will be subordinate canals, or
laterals, and reservoirs at such points as
may be necessary, aud the water is to
be sold to settlers at a rate not to ex-
coed two dollars per inch of standing
measure. The capital stock is ten mill
ions of dollars, divided into one hun
bred thousand shares.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02

IL the neighborhood of Hammery
Park, Penn, eleven bears have made
their appearance in three days time.
-Four of these were killed, and the farm
ers and boys were, at last accounts, on
the mountains looking for the others.
One of the bears was killed by man
who waded into a stream, and dispatched
1t with a club, after n long struggle,
amid the shouts of men and boys, and
the cries Of frightened women and young
girls.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
CONSUMPTION OF FooD.-As a general

CONSUMPTION OF FooD.-As a general
rule, cattle, horses and sheep eat three
per cent. of their live weight of food
per day-that is, very near their own
weight every month. But there is Il
vast difference among them as to the
probable result of their consumption OF
food. Some will merely keep alive,
while others will increase in weight and
size, or produce milk in much greater
proportion for the food consumed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-02
ESTIMATED.
4 PARIS correspondent mentions g

A PARIS correspondent mentions an
amusing juxtaposition of signs in that
city in the Rue de Faubourg st.
Honore. There doctors Office and a
poulterer's shop are side 10y side, their
signs overlapping each other, so that at
a glance the wayfaring man, though a
fool, may read :" DIR. b. surgeon and
physician, "Kills to order" IT strikes
MS that DIR. b. is interested in having
the position of these signs changed.