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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
Making Up the Complexion.

A very curious industry in Paris, and
one that is more extensive than might
be supposed from its nature, is that of
paints, pencils and powders for making
up the complexion. Most of the great
performers, such as Guerlain, Pirer,
etc, have back room to their shops,
especially devoted to this mysterious
commerce.. The ordinary method of
daubing the face, first with white paint,
and then with rouge, finds no favor with
the consummate artists who teach the
use of these identifying compounds.
For whitening the skin, preparation is
shown that is composed of insoluble
powder in liquid the bottle must first
he well shaken, and avery small quantity of
its contents must then be taken Oh fine
old linen rag or bit of cotton and rubbed
round and round till the preparation has
penetrated the skin thoroughly. This
wash makes the complexion beautifully
white, without trace of the fouriness
of powder or ordinary paint. 1t is very
costly, being sold at $12 for small bot
tleful. Next comes the rouge, which is
also very costly, being valued at S18 for
a box of the best quality. From this SUI
perine article the grades descend
through different prices till we reach the
coarse 60-cent rouge, which no well-bred
beauty would condescend to use. DIFF
ferent shades of rouge are, sold for differ
ent occasions there is shade for day
light, one for the theater, one for the
ballroom, one for the race-course, etc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

by other capitalists, and unwittingly
guided their investments. he
spent large sums in public improvements
and increased the capital stock OF the
Bank of California to s., ZOO, 600 IN order
to allow him to continue to satisfy his
ever-increasing and over-ardent desire
for speculation. His aims were unnatu-
raj as his energy and ambition were I'M
tagging. Socially he was no less re-
markable. Though his mental energies
seemed strained to the utmost during the
regular banking hours of the day, at the
immediate close of business he appeared
rs an entirely different character. Then
he was "hail fellow well met" with
everyone, and his hberality in any other
country than California would have APP
peared a mania. He built palatial resi-
dence for his own use in a beautiful val
ley twenty-five miles south of San Fran
cisco. There he entertained constant
stream of guests. The gardens were IL
Illuminated nightly with variegated col
ored lamps, and the residence was an
Oriental palace i'll its sumptuousness.
The cost of maintaining this prodigal
home was $4,000 a year. There is
limit to everything human. An excess
Of enjoyment is certain to be followed by
its proportionate depression of spirits,
if not of actual suffering; and SO, too,
the persistent mania for speculation,
however great the means at command,
and however apparently successful for
the time being, must inevitably result,
sooner or later, in disaster and ruin. In
no case has this principle been better il
Illustrated than in the story of Ralston.
His vanity had been increasing with sue
cess till death itself was preferable to life
with the certain reverse which at last
overlook him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
The State Debt of Iowa.

Iowa seems to be sort of paradise for
the taxpayer, and the playground prop
erty owners of this and other States will
read enviously of the simple ways of the
people up there, people who have not
yet learned the ineffable blessings of big
public debt. 1t fact they just seem to
keep a few State bonds outstanding
against their Commonwealth to show peo-
pie that they know how to get that sort
of thing up, and are not OF a mind to
do more of it. Iowa claims the smallest
debt of any State in the Union except
Oregon, which owes only S21S, 900, and
may owe a great deal more when 1t has
had more time to iss' ebonds. Iowa owes
100000, and has 1925, 900 now in its
treasury. The amount of the State valua-
ton is 800, 442, 40, making the amount
of wealth per capita about $3OS. The
State tax is 1888, 428, or 20 cents on the
300. This revenue exceeds the expen-
ditures every year by about $3.50, 900,
and this surplus is appropriated every
two wears to the State University, Agri-
cultural College, Reform School, Insane
Asylum, Blind Asylum, Penitentiary,
and the new Capitol.-.St. Louis Repub-
Hcun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
The Home Doctor.

CURE FOR RHEUMATIsM.-Two ounces
OF black cohosh put into one pint of
good liquor. Dose, one teaspoonful
three times day.
For nervous deafness Glove of garlic
wrapped in cotton, or few drops of the
garlic juice introduced into the ear, will
often prove very etiicacious.
RUBBING warts, night and morning,
with moistened piece of muriate of
ammonia, is said to cause their disap-
pearance without pain or scar.
A SUPERIOR LINIMENT.-Dr. Oliver
Holden, of Chicago, informs the Western
Rural that one of the very best lini-
ments ever made for man or beast is
composed of equal parts of laudanum,
alcohol and oil of NORWOOD. He says
its effect is almost magical.
To CURE FELoN.-As soon as the
parts begin to swell, wrap the parts
affected with q cloth thoroughly saturat-
ed with tincture of lobelia, and the
felon is dead. An old physician says he
has known it to cure in scores of cases,
and it never fails, if applied i'll season.
Group can be cured in one minute, and
the remedy is simply alum and sugar.
Tine way to accomplish the deed is to
take knife or CRATER and shave Off, in
small particles, about teasponful of
alum then mix with about twice its
quantity of sugar to make it palatable,
and administer as quickly as possible.
Almost instantaneous relief will follow.
To PREVENT chills and fever, avoid ex-
posure to the damp air of the early
morning and the early evening, except
when ex srcising, and then do not remain
in the open air to cool off. Avoid great
fatigue sleep eight hours out of twenty
four. BE sure that the water used for
drinking and cooking is perfectly pure.
Wear flannel under-clothing at all sea-
sons. Keep the feet dry and warm.
NITRIC ACID IN WHooPISG CoUGH.-A
foreign medical journal contains an ac-
count of the successful treatment of un-
complicated whooping cough with diluted
nitric acid, in doses of from 5 to 10 min
inns, according to age, with simple sirup,
given every three or four hours the
effect being to alleviate the cough and
spasm, and apparently cutting short the
disease. The operation of this remedy
is believed to be that of tonic sedative
and antiseptic, its refrigerating proper
ties being also of some account. An
aperient combined with an Alternative is
given in all cases where required by the
state Of the digestive organs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

The Smack at school.

A district school not far away
From Hampten's Hills, one spring day
Was humming, with its wonted noise
OF three-score handsome girls and boys
Some now upon their task intent,
But more on furtiye mischief bent,
The while, the masters downward look
Vas fastened on a copy-book,"
When suddenly, behind his back,
Rose sharp and clear " rousing smack"
Az twere battery of bliss
Let on in one tremendous kiss
What's that ?" the startled master cries.
That thir, little imp replies,
"Wath William Willuth, IL you please,
i thaw him kith Thu-thana Peathe,"
With frown to make a statue thrill.
The master thunder'd hither WILL"
Like wretch oertaken in his track
With stolen chattels on his back,
Will hung mis- head with fear and shame
And to the awful presence came,
great. green, baseful simpleton,
The butt OF all good-natured fun,
The smile suppressed and birch appraised
The threatner falter'd-" I'm amazed,
That you, my biggest pupil, should
BE guilty OF an act so rude
Before the whole set school to boot,
What evil genius put you TO ito"
Twas she, herself, sir :" sobbed the lad,
~ didn't mean to be so bad,
But when Susannah shook her curls
And whispered was ''fraid of girls.
And dursent kiss baby's DOLL
couldn't stand 1t, sir, at all,
But up and kissed her on the spot.
knew, (boo-hoo) ought to not
But somehow from her look, (boo-hoo)
thought she kind o. wished me to-"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
An Item for the Boys.


The amusement of flying kites does
present time as in former years. The
amusement is very ancient one. In
Central Asia 1T is as popular as in
America or Europe, but is made to
yield double qualification. 1t delights
the ear by an emission of soft, melodi-
Gus murmurings at the same time that it
pleases the eye with its graceful, bird
like motions. Each kite is so construct
ed as to produce the effect of an Eolian
harp, and thus the flight and song or
winged warblers are both initiated in the
ingenious plaything. A traveller gives
the following description of these musi-
cal kites: Each kite is q square
formed upon two diagonals of light
wood, whose extremities are connected
by tight string, forming the sides of
the square. Over the whole paper is
pasted. A loose string upon the upright
diagorA. receives the string by which the
kite is TO be held. and a tail is fastened to
its lowest extremity. The transverse di-
agonal or crossstic is then bent back
like strong bow and fastened by thread
of catgut. OF course, every breeze that
passes the kite vibrates this tight cord,
and the vibrations are communicated to
the highly sonorous frame of the kite,
and, as numbers of these kites are left
floating in the air all night, the effect is
that of aerial music, monotonous, but full
of melancholy interest. We suggest to
some of the experimentative youths of
Utica that they equip their kites with an
Eolian attachment and test the effect on
quiet evening. The wild hayward
music of Eolhs is far more enchanting
than any that can be drawn from instru-
ments played upon by human hands.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

The Captain of vessel off the Mas
sachusetts coast the other day espied at
a long distance what he was willing to
swear was veritable sea-serpent, and
gave chase. On coming up with it the
monster proved to be of the species
sugar hogshead The old salt VOWS it
is the last sea-serpent he will ever give
chase to.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

though let down by gentle hands, or as
though some celestial pilot guided it
through the wild currents of air, not
letting it drop into lakes or rivers, leafy
wood, or impenetrable swamp, where
this strange, unchildlike experience
might have been closed by death of
unspeakable horror but causing it to
descend as softly as q bird alights ON a
spot where care and human pity await
ed it.
The sun had not yet risen but the
morning twilight had come, when the
little girl, looking over the edge of the
car, saw the dear old earth coming nearer
"rising toward them," she said. But
when the car stopped, to her great dis
appointment, it was not ON the ground.
but caught fast in the topmsst branch of
a tree. Yet she saw they were near a
house whence help might soon come, so
she awakened her brother, and told him
the good news, and together they watched
and waited for deliverance, hugging each
other for Joy and warmth; for they were
very cold.
Farmer Buxton, who lived in lonely
house on the edge. of his own private
but on this particular morning he awoke
before the dawn, and though he turned
and turned again, he could sleep no
more. So ut last he awoke his wife and
said, "It's no use; I'll just get up and
dress, and have look at the comet"
The next she heard was a frightened
summons to the door. 1t seems that no
sooner did he step from his house than
his eyes fell on strange shape hanging
III large pear tree about twenty yards
distant. He could see in it no likeness to
anything earthly, and he half fancied it
might be the comet, who having put out
his light had come down there to perch.
In his flight and perplexity he did what
every wise man would do in q like ex-
tremity; he called on his valiant wife.
Reinforced by her, he drew near the
tree, cautiously accommodating. Surely,
never pear tree bore such fruit Sud
denly there descended from the thing
n plaintive, trembling little voice:
" Please take us down. We are very
cold I"
Then second littls voice-"And hun
CRY, too. Please take us down %
why, who are you? And where are
you2"
The first little voice said: "We are
Mrs. Harwood's little boy and girl, and
we are lost in balloon.
The second little voice said "It's us,
and we ruined away in balloon. Please
take us down."
Dimly compromising the situation,
the farmer, getting hold of dangling
rope, succeeded in pulling down the bal
loon. He first lifted out little Johnny,
who ran rapidly few yards toward the
house, then turned round and stood for
few moments, curiously surveying the
balloon. The faithful little sister was
so chilled and exhausted that she had to
be carried into the house, where, trem-
bling and sobbing, she told her wonder
full story. Before sunrise a mounted
messenger was dispatched to the Har-
wood home, with the glad tidings of great
JOY. He reached it in the afternoon,
and few hours later the children them
selves arrived in state, with banners, and
conveyed in a covered hay wagon and
four. Jolly bells were rung in the
neighboring town, and in the farmers
brown house the happiest family on the
continent thanked God that night. an
the Year Round.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

The reason Capt. Webb was success
ful IN his recent great feat of swimming
across the English channel, says the Chi
cago Times, is because he was Webb
footed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
TO CORREsPONDENTs.

All communications for this paper should be
9rnied 10y the OF the author necessarily for
publication but evidence of good faith the pat
ct tho writer. WHITE only side of the paper De
particularly careful! giving and dates TO have
the letters and figures plain and distinct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
IOTAS.

GEN. GRANT is 50.
A BoUNTIFUL harvest.
TILDEN il recovering.
SECRETARY New Is A.
SPURGEoN has the govt
WAR in South America.
MoRToN's health is better.
GLADSTONE is fine singer.
TAXES in Spain are enormous.
CUBAN insurgents still hold out.
FLORIDA alligators chew tobacco.
NITRIC acid cures whooping-cough.
The locust has invaded Switzerland.
DoN CARLOS is getting discouraged.
The Turkish rebellion is spreading.
THERE are 10000 clerks in Chicago.
CHICAGO is going to have dog show.
EXCELLENT tea is grown in Louisiana.
WHAT has become of the Keely mo-
tore
CANADA apprehends another Fenian
raid.
ASPARAGUS and celery clue rheuma-
tism.
THEY sell tramps at auction i'll Mis-
souri,.
IT takes 1000 men to cover Barnum's
show.
Mrs. LINCOLN is a believer in Spiritu-
alism.
TIE whipping-post is advocated in
Texas.
An Iowa man hiccoughed himself to
death.
RA1sroS had weakness for fast
horses.
New ENGLAND is cursed with 10000
tramps.
PITTSBURGH is paving her streets with
rubber.
A CALIFORNIA scorpion has committed
suicide.
THERE is hope of Robert Dale Owens
recovery.
JOSEPH EcCLEsroNE JOHNSTON is his
full name.
A. L. STEWART was educated for the
ministry.
KAISER WILLIAM will shortly visit Vic
tor Emanuel.
RALsToN lived in a palace that cost
81, 500,0 600.
DELAWARE peaches are being shipped
to England.
IT is about time old Bender was being
arrested again.
TEXAS will turn out 80, coo head of
beeyes this year.
BANGOR, Me-, has dog whose princi-
pal diet is fruit.
THAT swim across the English Channel
was a Webb feat.
Edwin BOOTH has nearly recovered
from his injuries.
JOCKEYS give their horses whisky to
make them run fast.
WATERTowN, n. Y, has a steer that
weighs 4,6l7 pounds.
AN Eastern pa woman carried fly
III her ear for ten months.
O'BALDwIN, the giant prizefghter, is
dying with consumption.
SMOKERS will mourn the strike of ,00f
cigarmakers at Key West.
THE Louisiana census makes the popu
lation of New Orleans 205, 900.
The meetings of the Salt Lake City
Council are opened with prayer.
Mr.. GuN LOCK and Miss Hop Joy
were recently married i'll Oregon.
MoVIcKER's New Chicago Theater il
the handsomest theater in the West.
BARNUM's monkeys are getting civil
lied. They nearly all chew tobacco.
Two CHILDREN in Cedar Rapids wer,
nearly killed by chewing green card
board.
DEPOSITS of silver of extraordinary,
richness at Rife River, Mich, are re
ported.
THURLow WEED has had so many mar
row escapes from death that he has mad'
his will.
THE damage done by insects in tn
United States amounts to $500, 200, VO'
annually.
OREGON has town named Pay Up
and they are talking of calling it See
yOutomorrow.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

A SAN Francisco book-keeper named
Chauncey Watson, working on 81, 500
salary, kept stallion worth $1,000,
saddle horse worth $500, and trappings
worth $4,000. Strange to say, his de-
falcation amounted to only 100000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

IowANs feel proud of the fact that the
little mare Lula, now champion of the
American trotting arena, is native of
the Hawkeye State. She was foaled near
Muscatine, and was formerly owned by
a man named Perry, who sold her to Mr..
De Forrest, her present owner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

WILLIAM G. RALsToN, the unfortunate
President of the Bank of California, who
committed suicide after the collapse of
the gigantic financial balloon which he
had himself inflated, and which he alone
directed in its dazzling course before the
eyes of its multitude of worshippers on
the Pacific Slope, was most remarkable
man. He left home of limited preten-
sions in the East and entered the Bank
of California as cashier, when its capital
was small; he finally became President of
the bank, and then commenced a career
of daring and successful speculation
little less than miraculous Every
thing he purchased Immediately rose in
v.,.ae; every enterprise or scheme he
favored appeared to be successful; it
orly needed his investment in any min
ing stocks to have them Immediately
and permanently "bulled." He was
watched in Lis business investments
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

The spirit of rebellion is on the in
crease in the Turkish European prov
inces Northern Bosnia is now in full
sympathy with the movement, and Servia
has taken sides with the insurgents, and
is at the same time endesyering to incite
the Bulgarians against the common
enemy. Albania and Croatia are in open
revolt, and Montenegro is liable at any
hour to be drawn into the tide of war.
Evidently the " Sick Man of the East +"
is growing sicker every day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
FRESH TOPICS.

WHATEVER may have become of Don
aidson, there is no question but that he
had high old time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

The enlargement of the Welland canal
has commenced. This canal cuts through
the Canadian peninsula west of the
Niagara river, between Lake Erie and
Lake Ontario, and it is to be enlarged to
a width of 100 feet at the top and 100
feet at the bottom and a depth of four
teen feet, solidly walled for considerable
distances with masonry. 1t will take in
the largest lake steamers. The work of
enlarging the Welland is expected to oc-
.cupy three years, and cost from $l0,-
'010, 900 to $40, 000,0 900.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

DRINKING ones self to death is COM
mon pastime in these degenerate days.
But it is not often we hear of one drink
ing himself to death on cold water. Such
a case, however, has recently occurred,
the victim being ex.Gov. Graham, of
North Carolina. He went to Saratoga
to drink the waters for his health, and
imbibed twenty glasses a day. This,
the doctor says, was too much, and hast
ened his death. The advocates of cold
water should take warning, and not
drink to excess.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

By new French apparatus plates of
glass may be safely and rapidly pierced
by means of the electric spark
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

Mn. MUNcHAUsEN, who makes soap in
Montreal, furnishes his own I've, of
course.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

SOUTH AMERICAN soldiers have had
their pay raised to eight cents per day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

No city in the country-New York
alone excepted-is 80 well supplied with
amusements as Chicago. The city has
an over supply, and all grades-good,
bad and indiferent-and people visiting
there, by any ordinary judgment, need
never be deceived The "New Chicago
Theater" and McVicker's Theater" will
rank with the best in the country. At
either good entertainment is always
presented. Money is lavishly spent by
the managers of these two houses for
the comfort and pleasure of their pa
irons. Both are making unusual efforts
for the Exposition term, and all may
visit them with the certainty of being
pleased.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10

THE son of DIR. S. S. Wallihan, of
Southern Colorado, lad of 10 years old,
was the occasion of most heartrend-
ing tragedy a short time since. Seeing
4 hawk sailing along, he became anxious
to shoot it, and, catching up his loaded
shotgun, rushed, boy-fashion, for the
door of the house, where he carelessly
struck the gun against the door casing,
discharging it. The whole charge en-
tered the neck of his mother, who died
in five minutes. Mrs. Wallihan leaves
five children, one of them babe.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-03-31
THE COMING STRUGGLE.

The sore point with our city IN the
miserable condition OF her finances,
The choice Of mayor II secondary In
Importance 10 the selection Of such a
board OF aldermen as win secure such
measures M viii bring relief IL II a
question ofultimato bankruptcy or Inn
mediate relief The property holders
are the most interested In securing nm
efficient board, for II ~ out OF their
pockets must come the money 10 pay
taxes. II would be much better for
the people Of each ward TO give more
attention 10 Inducing good men TO
run than tollsicn to the wranglingofthe
noble array Of candidates who are being
carried forward struggling 10 be thrust
Into posltlonsthey Of course don't want,
but ARE moving heaven mud earth to
get, The race for mayor VIII
DO decided between one can
dldate who may be tacitly lie
clded upon M the democratic standard
bearer, aud another whom II IL plain
viii receive the most of the republican
votes. Unless the party lines are
drawn, there may be cause 10 regret IT..
The merits Of all the candidates are
familiar TO the people, and they alone
viii be responsible for any conscquen-
ces Tint may follow, Our only desire
IN TO see such men elected rs will best
promote the progress, welfare and H.
nanclal condition of the city.