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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-12-04

has devoted 10 the education OF this number
si SIS Oss, with S5l50-l for school buildings
aud repairs. tn. Increase " schoelhouses
for 1878 being 6s6, and that OF enrolment
1907.
Nebraska. with . school population Of g.
los. has on her school rolls q -ss2, and has
raised for school purposes ss9s, Go.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-12-04

REv. Z. III. HOPKINS. Of Jackson Centre.
Shelby Co.. o., says: MY wife had the con-
sumption for ten years. and had been confined
TO her bed for some time. heard OF DIR. L..
q. c. Wishzrt's Pine Tree Tar Cordial, snd
after using four bottles ste was able 10 DO the
work for her family
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-12-04

A PRoTRuDNG toe Is not pretty sight.
and j. never seen where children wear Sill
YER TIPPED Shoes. They will save half
your shoe bills. For Sale by all Dealers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-12-04
rice rs cts. per Box. Sold by Druggists.
Read FALSE AND TRUE"

s~nd one ietters,smp to RADwky q Co, No. 70
Warren street. View York lnfOrm4non worth thou-
vasds vill be seat yo1-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
How Dry / Am!

On sleeping-car the other night,
one lady exclaimed, in slow and sol
emn voice. "Oh, how dry I am ~
There was a moments pause, and again
rang out, "Oh, how dry am % An
other moment passed, and the doing
sleepers were once more startled by the
sepulchral information, "Oh, how dry
/ am !" Won't somebody get that
woman drink 2" howled an old gentle
man, who, being rheumatic, and occu-
plying an upper berth, could not very
well do it himself. The demand was
complied with, and the grateful sound
of gurgling water was soon heard.
There was a moment of silence, and fol-
lowing it came the same solemn tone,
" Oh, how dry l was !" There appeared
to be no doubt about it by the occu-
pants of the car, and if the truth could
have been known, they were unselfshly
glad that she had found relief and they
composed themselves afresh for sleep.
Then the voice again smote the air,
Oh, how dry L was y Everybody
started, and every eye was distended.
/" Oh, how dry / was % repeated the
grateful woman. Then dry up p
screamed the gallant gentleman in
the upper berth. She did.-TUckee
ReDubLicdn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
Billings Proverbs.

All flatterers liv upon flattery, and the
best way to git rid ov them IL not to
flatter them i'll return, and they will
soon leave yu.
We are very apt to be displeazed with
thoze who reprove us, but reproof IL
allwuss safe, and praise IL dangerous.
Thare are thoze whom to praZe will
strengthen, but they are the few who
are more anxious to merit it than TO re-
ceive it..
If it want for kuriosity | don't sup
pose thare would be mulch enterprise
or improvement in the world but the
kuriosity that prompts n man to stick
hiz fingers into a trap to see whether it
will spring or not, seems to me amt
with the investment.
Luv must be weakness, for it makes
its wilkins talk and zeal and akt very
weak
Nobody really luvs to be cheated, but
it duz seem as tho everybody waz anx-
ious to see how near they could cum
to it.
never knu woman yet who didn't
hav a fust-rate excuse for everything
she had ever done, or ever intended to
do.
L am afrade thare IL more fear than
humility in most kinds ov repentance.
A weak man is like ginger pop, thare
amt nothing that will reduse him mulch.
Whenever yu kan extrakt bunny from
NORWOOD then yu may expekt to git
happiness out ov unlawful plezzures.
One reason viii us old phellows be-
KUN so mulch disgusted with the world,
is, bekaus& we neglekt to form nu ac-
quaintances old friends, and well tried
ones, no doubt are the best, but the
tree that IL never grated after while
ceases to bear either blossoms or fruit.
Every boldly notisses q flaw in di
mond, but flaw in pebble excites no
interest
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
The Beard.

Many of our trades derive their
names from the articles they work at or
deal in. A saddler fabricates saddles
and other horse-gear blacksmith
fashions black metal or iron white
FORCES nothing less than gold, unless he
expands his title as gold and silver
smith. A jeweler tells you plainly what
he deals in. The BARRIERS name does not
come from the English beard he shaves,
but from the Latin 6drbd, the Roman
beard, doubtless through the French
6drbicr Our beard is Saxon. The
beard hes never been matter of indif-
ference, but has even given rise to re-
ligious wars. The Tartars prosecuted
the Persians as infidels because they re-
fused to conform their mustaches to
the Tartar ritual There existed at
least a plausible reason for Alexander
commanding the Macedonians to shave,
namely, lest their enemies should clutch
them by the beard, and so cut their
Threats. Less clear are Peter of Rus
sias motives for his pitiless onslaught
on Muscovite boards. If he had any,
he was much too great man TO tell
them. He would have been happy had
all Russia possessed but one beard, SO
that he might have it cut off at a single
stroke. But so little willing were his
loving subjects to yield their boards at
word of command, that he had TO en-
ploy gangs of officials to catch them,
hold them down, and shear them, as the
shepherd shears sheep. What became
of the ravished boards, is not recorded.
Had the clipping been deferred to the
present epoch, money might have been
make of it as materials for chignons.
The kings of Persia had their boards
woven and braided with golden thread.
The early French kings also adorned
their boards with gold
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
Habit OF Eating.

A highly edifying and amusing CORE
Bpondence has been recently going on
in the columns of Public Opinion, a
London periodical, upon the subject of
regularity in meals. One scientific
feeder subsists upon two meals day
and grows fat upon it. Another takes
his regular rations four times daily. and
declares his readiness to attack fifth.
One hygienic individual cannot get
along without his regular "nips be-
tween times, while another holds that
life would be fleeting show without u
regular allowance of beer at dinner. The
subject is an interesting one, not only to
the bulls, whose adipose tissue is
generally supposed to equal their vo-
racity, but to the American, whose lean
aud hungry aspect suggests dyspepsia
and concomitant evils. Upon the adj
vantage of regularity of meals all medi-
cal men agree but the quantity and
frequency thereof are matters to be de-
cided by climate, strength of digestive
power, occupation and many other
causes. The healthiest rule appears to
be to eat little, but often; and most
people err by keeping the stomach too
long empty, and then giving it too much
to do. The general custom with us of
three meals day is good one, and to
it may be attributed, we think, the gen.
eral healthy and robust appearance of
our men, as compared with those of
many othercountries. Where there's dys-
pepsia-and where is there not pit is
less the result of want of regularity
than of too great rapidity of mastica-
ton, too great and highly seasoned
variety OF food, too many drinks be-
tween times, and too generous use of
tobacco and the salivary glands. The
English are much more sensible in their
cooking and eating than we are. The
man in London who breakfasts on one
egg and piece of dry toast, and dimes
upon a cut from the Joint and a pint of
porter, is much more likely to have II
sound sleep, pleasant temper and a
hopeful disposition, than the citizen
who bends over his hotel table sur
rounded by a small fleet of side dishes,
which, taken in the aggregate, repre-
sent an amount of indigestion which no
picture in Dores illustrations to the
Inferno " could possibly paint within
thousand miles.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
A Hard Nut to Crack.

Here is little domestic incident
which is liable to happen in almost
every family. A little boy while stroll
ing through the cemetery Sunday
found butternut He took it home
with him. He knew it was, wrong to
crack butternut on Sunday, but he
sitting in his little chair, to fondle 1T
in his pocket. Pretty soon he stepped
into the kitchen, and seeing there a
hammer and a fiatiron he thought he
would give the butternut little tap on
the head to start it. But one little tap
did not suffice. He gave it another, and
then another. Every time he raped
it he would hold it up and look an
xiously over it's surface. 1t was during
one of these observations that shadow
darkened his gaze and the voice of his
father smote suddenly upon his ear /:
"Gimme that butternut, you young
rascal" This was about all he said
But he took the butternut, and me-
chemically fitted the fatiron to his lap,
and abstractedly poised the hammer in
the air, gazing absently at the abashed
and shrinking boy. Then he dropped
his gaze on the butternut which peered
temptingly from between his thumb
and fore-fnger, and next dropped the
hammer down upon it with force and
abruptness that made the boy leap from
the floor. And he scarcely reached the
floor again, when he was called upon to
dodge the hammer, he happening to be
in line of the window it was going to
exit through. The butternut went
through chrome worth ten dollars, but
owing to the great number which the
paper it came with was obliged to or
der, the actual cost was about fifty cents.
The fatircn not being by nature of u
roaming temperament, fell whereit was,
and came down in time for the scream
ing father to turn his ankle upon it, as
he grasped tight hold of a mutilated
thumb, and bounced from the char.
1t is sad thing to see strong man
weep. Let us think of something else.-
Dan6urg NetCS.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
Norway Rats.

A writer in an English Magazine
says, The inhuman suggestion of Il
modern writer that our paupers should
be packed in rotten ships, which should
be sent out to sea and scuttled, is some
thing like the method adopted by the
Norway rats to avert the famine which
threatens to annihilate the entire spe-
cies. When the time for the settlement
of the question of partial determination
for the benefit of the race, or total ex-
termination by starvation, can no long
er be delayed, they assemble in count
less thousands in some of the mountain
valleys leading into the plains, and the
vast army of exiles being selected, they
pour across the country in a straight
line, living stream, often exceeding n
mile in length and many yards in
breadth, devouring every green thing
III their line of march, the country over
which they have passed looking as If
it had been ploughed, or burned with
fire. They march principally by night
day, but never seek to settle in any pay
ticular locality, however abundant food
may be in it, for their final destination
is the distant sea, and nothing animate
or inanimate, ii it can be surmounted,
retards the straight onward tide of their
advance. Foxes, lynxes, weasels, kites,
owls, etc, hover on their line of march
and destroy them in hundreds. The
fish in rivers and lakes lay heavy toll
upon them, and vast numbers are
drowned and die by other accidents in
flood and field" but the survivors.
impelled by some irresistible instinct,
press onward with no thought of stop
ping until they lose themselves in the
sea, sinking in the depths as they be-
come exhausted, in such numbers that
for miles their bodies, thrown up by the
tide, lie putrefying on the shore"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
Silent Souls.

The "Animal Psychology of Matz-
dorff cites a case in which blind rat
was carefully cared for by its compan-
ions. The surgeon Morand. of Paris,
had friend, whose dog broke his leg,
which, to oblige his friend, he set and
dressed and looked after until the bone
was firmly united. One evening, some
weeks afterward, he heard n scratching
at his door. On opening it in walked
his late canine patient. followed by an
other dog with broken leg, which he
gave the doctor to understand he would
have him dress.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08
The Village PAPER.

"The little village paper" is the
best paperin the world. No other con-
tains the marriages and deaths, to say
nothing of divorces and births nc
other relates the accidents happening
before the doors of the villagers no
other gives the time of the next ball,
picnic, or political meeting; no other
discusses the affairs of the town and
county, the arrival of new goods on the
merchants counters, or of new hat on
the editors desk. Without paper the
town that has ever enjoyed a well man
aged one, feels indeed lost. The we'll.
edited village paper, is the most well
come visitor at the door of the villager
and farmer, and is, in the same pro.
portion, the best medium for adver-
Using.
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OFFICE OF ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GESERAL)
OF PosrOFFICE DEPARTMENT,


SIR: At your request, l state to you my
understanding of the proper meaning AID in
tendment of the word supplement" in the
following sentence of the 12Sth section of the
regulations of the Postofiice Department
publishers of newspapers may, without
subjecting them to extra postage, fold with
their regular issues supplement"
The next succeeding sentence of the section
was clearly intended to explain and define the
word as then used but so defined, it's exact
mean ing is not free from doubt. In my
opinion the word is used according to its or
binary Specification and meaning matter
supplied for completeness, to that To which it Ia
added or supplemented, which the original
should have contained, but was omitted from
want Of space, time or greater convenience.
As used in this sentence in relation to news
papers, it il printed matter proper TO be in
serted in the newspaper to which it is sup
piled but has not been, from want OF space,
or want of time, or because it liz more con-
venent regarding space and time, or either
that it should DO printed OH separate sheet.
II is not indispensable or necessary that the
sheet should De printed at the office of tie
newspaper TO tchtch is intended TO be a sup
piemeHt but il printed there or elsewhere, to
be considered and treated as a supplement,
it must be printed with the intention and pur-
pose only of supplying an omission in that
particular issue of the newspaper to which it
processes to be a supplement, and not for any
other distinct and separate use.
A supplement- should have direct relation
to the paper supplemented, and without which
the paper supplemented would be incom-
plete. Very respectfully,
(Signed) I. A. SPENCE,
Assistant Atty Gen. p. O. Dept
Hon. j. A. j. CREswELL, Postmaster-GeG1.
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One of HammOnd's Stories.
From a Sermon at st. Louis.

He closed his discourse with an illus
tration depicting most wildly the dan
ger of hating between two opinions.
He represented consultation among
the devils in hell, while a revival OF
great power was in progress III Kirk
caldy, Scotland. Satan called all his
devils together to devise some plan to
countaract the influence of the gospel
in that place. He said /: Who will
go to Kirkcaldy to break up that reyiv-
alp" "I'll go" says one. What
will you tell them?" asked the devil.
"I'll tell them that there is no God. "
"Tell Scotchmen there is no God
when he has the Bible in his hand
Avaunt," said Satan. Who'll go to
Kirkcaldy and break up that revival ?"
"Ill go" says another. What will
you tell them p, "Tll tell them that
Christ was not divine" Tell q
Scotchman Christ was not divine, with
the open Bible before him? That
might do in America, where they don't
study their Bibles much, and where
men, pretending to be Christian minis
ters, stand up in their pulpit and deny
the divinity of the Son of God, but that
would never do for Scotland. Avaunt u
Who'll go to Kirkcaldy and break up
that revival ?" ell CO." said a third.
" What will you tell them?" "Ill tell
them there is a God that he has a
government administered by laws that
whoever breaks those laws is under
penalty. I'll tell them that Christ was
divine, and that he is their only hope of
salvation in short, I'll tell them all
their ministers say to them is true, but
Ill also whisper in their ears Time
enough yet, time enough yet. y
Away, away" said Satan, "you are
just the one. Away, away"
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NeMsnaner Supplements.

From the Lansing lAlich) Republican.
We took an appeal from the decision
of the First Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral against the circulation of newspa-
per supplements not printed in their
own offices. The matter being urged
on the Postmaster-Gen attention,
he referred it to Hon. L. A. Spence, the
functionary who defines laws touching
our postal service, and he has given the
opinion printed below. 1t fully recog-
nizes the right of newspapers to issue
supplements printed anywhere, but in
tended to supply an omission in that
particular Issue of the paper to which
it processes to be a supplement.
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THE university founded by Ezra
Cornell is growing in wealth and use
fulness through the munifcence of per.
sons of every kind of religious faith.
The founder of the institution was, by
education at least, Quaker. Mr.. Sage,
who gave $500, 600 to endow college
connected with it, which bears his
name, is Congregationalist. Mr. Nc
Graw, who gave $50, 900, is Method
list. Mr.. Sibley, who contributed $780,
600, is an Episcopalian. Another bene-
factor to the extent of $780, 900 is of the
broad school faith. OF the next two
largest contributors, one is a Baptist,
and one has no religious predilec tons.
And now comes wealthy jew banker,
of New York city, who literally endows
professorship of Hebrew and Oriental
literature and history. The chair is
filed by very accomplished young
jew, DIR. Felix Adler, son of the late
Rabbi Adler, of New York. His fine
abilities and ripe scholarship place him
among the best minds in the country.
He is a graduate of Columbia College,
New York, and of the University of
Heidelberg, Germany.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-08

A SINGULAR but somewhat ludicrous
accident happened at the morning SER
vice in one of our churches last Sunday
One of the deacons, in passing the con-
tribution box stepped ON piece of or
ange peelwhich "A little girl had dropped
in the aisle, and swinging from his bal
ance described lightning circle with
the extended box, and distributed some
seventy-fve pennies in every direction
The good man fell on his back, but was
promptly lifted to his feet, while the
younger portion of the congregation
laughed outright, and the elders smiled
behind their handkerchiefs. Nobody
was hurt.-Danbury NeUs.
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The following is a comparative state
ment of the indebtedness and popu-
lation of the principal cities OF the
country
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Extracts from Letters and TestimopinIs

hAtrncts from Letters and Testimo malls
Chicago 73 Lake ST. April 2lh 1879. "Haye had Caarrf
for two One bottle OF Diamond Remedy
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KNOW a man who wouldn't shave on
Sunday, but would black his boots.
Then [ know some who would Shave on
Sunday, but wouldn't black their boots.
And L know of others who wouldn't dc
either on Sunday, but would shave then
neighbors awfully on Monday. When
went to school / boarded with DIR.
Langbein, and he was good man foI
an icicle can be good. 1 could hook it
down his back stairs, go oft hunting
return and recite my lesson from slip
in my hat. Now, the bread that was
left over at the communion service il
church was sent over for DIR. Langbein' +
table, and, while L could deceive him as
l have told you, j couldn't eat a morse
of that bread. Henry Ward Beecher
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The HoG.-Plutarch says: "The
eyes of the hog are so formed and dis
posed of in the head, that it is always
looking upon the lowest objects, and
can in no manner contemplate things
elevated and lofty. 1t cannot look up
ward unless thrown back with its feet
upward. Although the animal is adj
dicted to the most discordant squealing
and granting, yet as soon as it is laid
on its back it is Immediately silent, so
great is its astonishment at the heavens.
to hesight of which it is unaccustomed,
and which causes such fear that it is
unable to cry"
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