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Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-17

As 10 A REPORT that Billy Shepard Of
the Palace Saloon, Virginia, vas down
with pneumonia the Virginia chronicle
SAYS: There was no truth in the report
circulated yesterday tina. W +. Shepard
Of The Paiuce saloon was dangerously
i'll of pneumonia, nor has lie been dan
cerouslv i'll, but has been confined to his
room for three or four days with an al
lection Of the liver.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-17

Gxc. TUr.r, The Hos. If to st.
Charles Hotel. has So far recovered from
his recent Hines. as to resume his
place down stairs. Yesterday was tho
first time for many weeks that he was
able - make his appearance th,Ie.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-17

LErcfEs are held tor postage at the
Carson Postot,icc addressed to NJ. VIM.
J. Miller in care OF Orlando Wright.
San joaquin CO., I.ilir Station. c. L. L.
Z. Cal; also to Ms, Nettio IL. Cole,
Lincoln, Neb., BOX ~.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31

Upon all these considerations, for all these
reasons, we think you should send Republic
ans and not Democrats to the next Congress.
II you cherish the deeds of the recent past,
and would not see them undone; if yon respect
the present and would not disgrace it, or if
you have hope of the future and would realize
that hope, we urge you to send Republicans
and not Democrats to the next Congress.
The address is signed by Senator Chandler
and thirty-eight Senators and Representa-
tives, members of the committee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31
A Paris Penchant.

A Paris correspondent writes CT
hear that one cause of the Count de
Paris unpopularity, or rather want of
popularity, is his extreme penurious-
ness, feature in which he resembles
his grandfather, Louis Philippe. An
English lady who was his near neighbor
in London told me that when he broke
up his establishment there to return
France he gave not the smallest presen
to any one of his servants, some of
whom had lived with him for years, but
dismissed them with their usual wages
merely. A petty bit of gossip this, it is
true, but valuable as affording some
clue to the reason why this fine soldier
ly looking young man, with his royal
blood, honorable antecedents, and un-
sullied past, should not be popular with
the Partisan people, for if there is one
quality which they value above another
in their princes it is profuse and splen-
did expenditure. Louis Napoleon never
did more popular act than when he and
| the Empress drove from ST. Cloud TO the
opera one simmer night ten years ago.
in carriage open at the sides and
| lighted from the top, so as to display to
the people the dazzling magnificence of
the Empress, who wore that night her
peerless parure of diamonds, diadem.
necklace, and all, for the representation
at the opera was court and gala one.
and given in honor of the King of
Spain. The Parisians say that luxury
and extravaganza on the part of their
rulers is good for trade and encourages
commerce and manufactures %
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31
Taking Off the Shoes.

In Syria the people never take off their
caps or turbans when entering a house
or visiting friend, but they always
leave their shoes at the door. The rea-
son is that their floors are covered with
clean mats and rugs, and in the Moslem
houses the men kneel on the rugs to
pray and press their foreheads to the
floor, so that it would not be decent or
respectful to walk in with dirty shoes
and spoil the SHADY on which they
kneel to pray. They have no mat or
scrapers, and it is much cheaper and
simpler to leave the shoes, dirt and all,
at the door.
1t is very curious to go to Syrian
school-houses and see the piles of boots
and shoes at the door. There are new,
bright red shoes, and old tattered shoes,
and kob-kobs, and black shoes, and
yellow shoes. The kob-kobs are wooden
clogs, made to raise the feet out of the
mud and water, having little strap
over the toe to keep it on the foot. You
will often see little boys and girls run
ming down steps and paved streets on
these dangerous kobkobs Sometimes
they slip, and then down they go on
their noses, and the kob- kobs fly off and
go rafting over the stones, and little
ALI or Yusef, or whatever his name is,
begins to shout: " Va Imnle! Va
Ioan,e !'-(Oh! my mother !'')-and
cries out just like children in other
countries.
But the funniest part of it is to see
the boys when they come out of school
aud try to find their shoes, all mixed to-
gether in one pile. When the school is
out, the boys make a rush for the door.
Then comes the tug of war. A dozen
boys are standing and shutting on the
pile of shoes, running their toes into
their own, stumbling over the kob.
kobs, and then making dash to get
out of the crowd. Sometimes shins will
be kickedand hair pulled and tarbooshes
thrown off, and great screaming fol-
lows, which will only cease when the
teacher comes with "Asa," or a stick,
and quells the riot.
That pile of shoes will have to an
swer for good many schoolboy fights
and bruised noses and hard feelings In
Syria. You will wonder how they can
tell their own shoes. So do L. And
the bows often wear off each other
shoes by mistake, or on purpose, ana
then Won will see Selim running with
one shoe on and one of Ibrahlms IN his
hand, shouting and cursing. Ibrahim S
father. grandfather and his family, I'M
til he receives back his lost property
The Women Oft Arabs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31
4 Rat-ty Ruse.

A lady living in the country had her
attention drawn one day to some rats in
an outer room, surrounding pail which
had been prepared for the pigs. Observ
ing them carefully, she soon discovered
that young rat had fallen into the pail,
and that his friends, TO the number of
five or six, were in consultation as to
the best means of rescuing him. The
lady called others of her family to wit
ness the rats maneuvers, while they
continued busy at work, regardless of
the presence of the spectators. By
twining their feet together (the hind
feet of the foremost rat being entwined
with the fore feet of the next, and so
on) they formed a chain extending over
the side of the pail. The foremost rat,
supposed to be the mother, then reached
down, grasped the young one in hen
arms, and both were drawn out on the
floor. Unfortunately their delibera.
tions had occupied so much time that
the young rat was drowned before he
was extricated, and apparently the in
telligence of his friends did not extend
so far as to attempt resuscitation.
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Voting i'm California.

Would not the method of voting pre-
scribed and practiced in California, if
introduced in this part of the country,
obviate some of the evils usually at
tending elections? Would it not tend
to preserve the peace, to guard against
fraud. and make the voter more indie
pendent of dictation? The method is
thus described There is no crowd
around the polling place as in the East
ern States. The crowd is half square
or more distant. The streets and side
walks are almost deserted for hundred
feet away from where the judges sit.
Over that vacant space goes now and
then voter with his folded ballot in
his hand. He is not allowed even to
open it within hundred feet of the
box in which he is to deposit it. He is
not permitted within that distance to
talk to any one about his vote. All the
electioneering must be done at a dis
lance, and the man, when his mind is
made up and his ballot folded twice.
marches all alone from the crowd. ali
alone over the vacant space, realizing
that he is perfectly free and individually
responsible. He marches up like n
man, with no canvasser or candidate to
watch him, and deposits his folded bal
lot in the box.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ORGAN
A Spanish Fable.

Nightingale, who CHANGED 10 hear
An Organs deep and swelling tone,
Was wont to lend q careful ear,
That 30 she might improve her own.
One evening, while the Organs note
Thrilled through the wood and Phiton,et
Sat tuning her melodious throat
To initiate it's wondrous swell,
twittering Sparro,c, hopping near,
Said, "Prithee, now, be pleased TO state
What from those wooden pipes you hear
That you can wish to initiate?
" do not hesitate To say
Whatever the stupid thing can do
To please US, in vocal way,
That very Organ learned from you!
"Of all sweet singers none IL greater
Than PhiIomet but, on my word!
To initiate ones imitator-
Can aught on earth be more absurd?'
Nay" said the Nightingale, " If aught
From me the Organ ever learned,
BY him no less have been taught,
And thus the favor is returned;
"Thus to my singing-dont you see?
Some needed culture impart,
For Natures gifts-as all agree
Are finest when improved by Art
whate'er the foolish Sparrop thought,
The Nightingale $50 Wisdom votes)
Was wise in choosing to be taught
Fen by an Organs borrowed notes.
And hence the Student may obtain
Some useful rules to guide his course:
Shun self -conceit; nor e'er disdain
instruction from the humbest source!
by John q. Sa1e.
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Pith and Point.

A CHARLESTON landlord charges 81
extra per night for sleeping in room
Ut xt to an alderman.
A PROMINENT business man in Cleve-
land bears the name Jtdtjst, and peo-
pie seldom inquire if he is in.
The great difference between Byron
and Burns in early youth was that one
was Harrow boy and the other plow-
boy.
SINCE the temperance crusade COM
menced one Ohio man has signed AZ
temperance pledges and "sworn off " AZ
times.
The gas made in Erie is twenty-four
candle power that is you have to light
twenty-four candles to see when gas is
burning.
A Sioux CITY hotel has q black-and-
tan dog that killed thousand rats in q
month. This is good puff for the dog,
but is hard on the hotel.
SAND did you hear him call her my
dear or anything like that? ?" asked the
lawyer. "No, sir; of course not why,
she was his wife," answered the lady
witness.
THE Brooklyn argus announces
some of the most fertile and industri-
Gus of American painters has just
passed away. He was employed in the
navy yard"
SOME ONE has been looking over the
records of the Legislature of West Vir-
ginia and finds that at its last session it
passed a law " to prevent the owners of
| honc from r1nniptr of lorna -
A ooLoRED clergyman in Philadelphia
recently gave notice as follows from the
pulpit; "There will be four days
meetin every evenin' this week except
Wednesday afternoon"
"BURIAL private" is now inscribed
on Massachusetts funeral invitations.
This grew out of practice of the vii
lage doctors, who were in the habit of
burrowing in cemeteries by moonlight
alone.
A SYSTEMATIC Tennessee reporter
man, and says: "The bullet pene-
trated his stomach, whence it was re-
covered by the use of an emetic, so that
the lead was not lost"
SNEEzING is very seldom heard in par
lors now after the old folks have retired,
for lovers bear in mind the receipt given
by DR.. Brown-Sequard-tha sneezing
can always be stopped by pressing the
upper Ep-and act accordingly.-BOs-
ton advertiser.
LOUISVILLE Cowier-,Journal: "The
old, familiar notice of Funeral services
at the residence of Mr.. John Smith at
4 p. M, will soon be seen no more, and
in it's place will appear, Cremation
ceremonies on the grounds of Mr.. John
Smith The funeral pile will be ignited
at shutdown"
A GRANGER says that where the Welsh
parsons in MERRY Wives of Windsor"
exclaims
"But stay, smell of middle EARTH"
the true reading is evidently:
"But stay, smell a middle man Of earth"
He infers from this new reading that
William Shakespeare was familiar with
dlemen in bad odor.
A KENTUCKY editor received the fol-
lowing note from q subscriber, asking
that false notice of his death might
be corrected "Sir, motifs few errors
in the obituary of myself witch appeared
in your paper of last wensday, was
born in greenup co. not caldwell, and
my retirement from bisness in 1860 was
not owen to i'll helth, but tn little
troubled had in connection with horse,
and the cors of my deth was not small
pox, please make corrections for wich
enclose 80 cents"
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of before. At last he reached the gar
ret, and, as luck would have it, stum-
bled right into Thomas boarding
house.
"Why, how's this ?" cried the great
Cardinal, vastly astonished at seeing the
mean little room so beautifully decora-
ted in charcoal. Have we an artist
among us i? Who occupies this room ?"
"The kitchen-boy, Thomas, your
Eminence.
"a kitchen-boy But so great a ge-
MUS must not be neglected. Call the
kitchen-boy, Thomas.
Thomas came up in fear and trem-
bling. He never had been in the mighty
Cardinals presence before. He looked
at the charcoal drawings on the wall,
then into the prelate's face, and his
heart sank within him.
"Thomas, you are no longer a kitch-
en-boy," said the Cardinal, kindly.
Poor Thomas thought he was dis
missed from service-and then what
would become of Peter?
"Don't send me away !" he cried, i'm
ploringly, falling on his knees. 81
have nowhere to 60, and Peter will
starve-and he wants to be painter SO
much |"
"Who is Peter p asked the Cardinal.
He is boy who boards with me,
and he drew those pictures on the wall,
and he will die if he cannot be a
painter.
"Where is he new?" demanded the
Cardinal
=" He is out, wandering about the
streets to find something to draw. He
goes out every day and comes back at
night"
"When he returns tonight, Thomas,
bring him to me-" said the Cardinal.
"Such genius as that should not be al
lowed to live in a garrett"
But, strange to say, that night Peter
did not come back to his boarding
house. One week, two weeks went by,
and still nothing was heard of him. At
the end of that time the Cardinal caused
a search for him to be instituted, and
at last they found him in convent.
1t seems he had fallen deeply in love
with one of Raphael's pictures which
was exhibited there. He had asked
permission of the monks to copy it, and
they, charmed with his youth and great
talent, had readily consented, and had
nourished him all the time.
Thanks to the interest the Cardinal
took in him, Peter was admitted to the
best school for painting in Florence.
AS for Thomas, he was given a post
near the Cardinals person, and had
masters to instruct him in all the learn
ing of the day.
Fifty years later, two old men lived
together in one of the most beautiful
houses in Florence. One of them was
called Peter of Cortona, and people said
of him, " He is the greatest painter of
our time" The other Was called
Thomas, and all they said of him was,
Happy is the man who has him for a
friend 20
And he was the boy who took
boarder. Charlotte adams, IN st.
Nicholas for AuguSt.
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Yves hang'n out our wash'n',
Don't you see our teenty lines?
The shoestring one is Brides,
The other one is mine.
We alters wash ON Monday,
Cause gran'ma alters does;
And tina coolest ways to housekeep
guess our gran'ma knows.
We've got teenty washboard,
And a cunnin' little tub,
| does most all the rinsn'
Cause Birdie loves 10 rub.
/ tell you she piles soap on
Most more than Bridget does
To DO dreat, big wash'n';
But Bridget never knows.
She'd scold us worse than fifty
II she should find il out:
But we's gen'ally pretty quiet,
And she don't know what we're bout.
II mammal come and see us,
spect she'd scold some more,
Cause we've wetted up our sashes,
And stopped the pantry floor.
We've crinkled up our fingers
Till they look AZ gran'ma's do;
And Birdie stopped some soapsuds
Right on my new blue shoe.
We set II in the oven
guess it'll dry right soon.
There, we've done this dreat big wash N
Aud hung il ont fore noon.
Youths Companion
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The Frog King.

FROM THE GERMAN.
In pond lived a great many frogs,
big and little, old and young. But one
was extraordinarily big and stout and
fat. They called him their king. A
stork was almost always near the pond,
wading in the grass, and before a frog
gy knew it she would have him in her
bill. and devour him. On this account
the king said to his people every day {:
Beware of the stork. She is sly do
not let yourselves be cheated by her, ="
Whenever the stork devoured frog,
the king would say with scorn, "Why
was he so silly as to be caught ?"
Now the stork wished for nothing so
much as to eat up the king himself.
That fat king" she thought, "must
be real feast" But the frog king
knew well how to keep out of the way
The stork would have liked to have him
out of the pond just once, and for that
end she promised him this and that nice
gift, but the king did not come. At
last the stork thought of a trick, and
said to the frog king, Hear me, my
dear friend must tell you something
that can only be for your own good
Over there in the thicket lives u large
green frog, who is your deadly enemy.
In the first place, he called you water
croaker, and then tried to kill you, so
as to make himself king. You cannot
hear it, and let it pass any longer. You
must STAY him. Go over early to- NOR
row morning at about eight clock, and
you will find him there where the road
bends, at the side of the steep cliff.
Stay him mind, tell you to.
The frog king, who by the by, was very
vain, fairly boiled over with rage at the
saucy green frog, and in his anger for
got that it was the stork who told him
about it, "The green waddler must
die !" cried he in his rage. The next
morning he started out. But first he
said again to the other frogs, " Be care
full about the sly stork while / am not
here. must go and save my honor. y
The frog king had great sharp thorn
for spear, laid by him already. After
while the poor green frog come quiet
ly looking for his breakfast. In wink
the king jumped at him, and in blinc
rage ran the murderous weapon through
his body. But in flash the stork, too
darted down from aloft, sezing the
murderer, and ate him up with the bes
of appetite.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31

A FLoRIcULTURAL correspondent of
Moore's Rural cuts good thick paper
into three cornered pieces, bends them
in the shape of funnel, fills with dirt
and, planting seed in each, buries in
box of soil. When the plants are
ready to remove to the flower bed. lift
the paper out and plant it like roots.
The paper will soon rot, and the plants
will never wilt.
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TO CORREsPONDENTs.

All communications for this paper should be ac'
sariiy for pu BIZ cation, but as an evidence OF eooo
faith the part OF the writer write 0n'y ~, "
ing names and dates, to have the Aau ns"ie
nlain and distinct,
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.
vash-Day.

BY OLIVE STEVENS BROWN.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-17

The Merchants life insurance company Of
New York was saved $4,000, Saturday, by
causing to be exhumed coffin supposed to
contain the remains of Louisa Germs, aged
%, for the burial Of whose body permit was
granted by the board of health, March 20,
on the certificate OF one DIR. Ernest Uhing,
to whose benefit policy for $4,000 on the
life Of the girl had previously been taken
out. The opening of the coffiu revealed as
all that remained of Louisa--l9 bricks.
Uhling and three or four others concerned
in the affair we're arrested
| A systematic system Of wholesale stealing
| from the gas companies Of Brooklyn has just
come to light 1t appears that by means OF
secret connections with thc pipes under.
ground numerous parties have been getting
their gas for nothing. One party has been
furnishing his house for ten years in this
manner. The proprietor Of an extensive
illicit distillery, recently broken up was
found to have been supplying the concert
with both gas and water free Of cost To
make proper connections with the mains
they had tunneled through an entire block
and laid large pipes. The work was don,
secretly at night, and, though 500 burner
we're kept lighted night and day, the ga
company had no suspicion.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-17
PEACH APPLE AND DUCHESS.

The editors weekly agony and sufferings
dre,' as described in an article last week,
1.-THE very first word of which as printed H.
ustrated the point of the subject more torci-
bly, than all which followed,) is a thing all
too sadly true for testing, if anything else
than testing, as a-relief from suffering, were
possible. The total depravity and lmpish
malice of types are such that it is no wonder
Faust, their inventor, experienced little
surprise when the devil came to visit him
in person Since then "the devil" is in con-
slant attendance on all printers, and the
types, ever bewitched, are ever on the look
out for opportunities to play tricks.
One Of these tricks, (and favorite one it
ISL is to make the writer say just the Oppo-
site Of what he desires to say. Such trick,
among others, was played in our article
About Apples" last week, where, having
written that the Irish Peach apple, though
much inferior to the Duchess of Oldenburgh
in the desirable qualities Of early and heavy
bearing, should not be omitted from the list
Of hardy fall apples" we were made to say
that it was much superior to the Duchess"
in those desirable qualities. The fact is that,
if you can have but one, the Duchess is far
preferable, as was indeed stated farther on.
Among the winter Siberians the Winter
Gem was made to figure as the Winter
Green. And in speaking Of the valuable
qualities OF the improved Siberians, it was
their early and not their "easy" bearing that
We meant to commend. As to the "bodg.
es" Of Good Templars, the transpOsitlOn Of
"the" and "their" in the last three lines
of the article upon Lawyers il
Office" the omission to say where
"Dr Van Rensselaer, alias Fancher,' the
murderer, had verdict rendered against
him, &c., &c, &c, perhaps the less said the
better. It is all summed up in the fact thai
the editor was abroad.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-17
Railroad Taxation in Maine.

The legislature of Maine in its recent ses-
sion seems to have taken the railroad bull
by the horns, and in spite Of an active and
well paid lobby, to have passed some whole
some laws. The LEWISTON Journal (edited
by the Governor of the state) says:
The most important acts are those which
initiate the policy Of taxing property which
has heretofore almost entirely escaped taxa
tion-such as railroads aud insurance COM
panies-with view OF ultimately tightening
the burdens on real estate Railroads are
to be determined from the market value Of
their shares-that portion which is owned by
non.residents going to the state and the bal
ance 10 municipalities where the stOckhOd-
ers reside. ThSir dsPots, &C., are to be
taxed municipality as heretofore.
Railroad corporations are required to
make a return annually, on or before De-
Cember LIST, of their business, rates, &C., up
to the year ending September 30.h
Railroads are required to maintain gates
at such crossings as the municipal officers
think proper Railroads that bring paupers
into the state are required to return them
gratuitously.
Foreign insurance companies are TO b'
taxed two per cent. on their net premiums
with certain deductions for life companies
Savings banks, commencing with next No
vember, are to pay tax Oh their deposits
Of one per cent, annually, instead of half o
one per cent as heretofore, and will b,
obliged hereafter to confne their inves tment
to New England securities and those Of
few leading cities.
Hay, grain, potatoes, orchard product
aud wool owned by and in possession Of tn
producer, will hereafter be exempted iron
taxation. The weight of bushel of apple
is Fixed at forty four pounds Pressed ha
shall have the name Of the person putting
up branded on the iastonings Of the bundle
Highways aud streets MAJ be laid out across
over or under railroads, at the expense @
the railroad corporation