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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-21

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-21

H0RSIs.-Ths undersigned will take Horses to
II winter. Terms olo per month Farm ~
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
1t Didn't Suit.

Two or three weeks ago Detroit boy,
after finishing the last chapter of book
called "TLe Pleasures of the Deep"
pleaded with his father to let him ship
aboard lake schooner. The old man
smiled grim smile, took the case under
consideration, and in a few days the boy
was on the rolling deep, having shipped
as greenhorn on vessel in the lumber
trade. He sailed to Saginaw, came
down and crossed to Toledo, and next
day he appeared in Detroit, lame and
stiff, his throat sore, one eye nearly shut,
and a feeling of humbleness running all
through him.
"What back again 2" cried the old
man. as the boy entered the house.
"Yes, father, want to saw all the
wood for winter, bring in all the coal,
clean out the cellar and paint the barn,
and you needn't give me but two meals
day."
Don't you like sailing 2"
Father, you don't begin TO realize
anything about it. The Captain sailed
right along on Sunday, the same as any
other day, and believe he swore even
harder. He wouldn't give me an um
brella when it rained, he made me sit up
most all night, and two or three times
he called me up at midnight and made
me haul on ropes and drag old sails
around. There wasn't a single night
when all of us got off to bed at 8 o o'clock,
and there wasn't day that he didn't
boss us around and break in on us every
time we got to reading anything good
/ like land, father, and 1 wish you owned
a farm !"-Free Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
Cards of Admission to Church.

The Rev. Mr.. Murray's religious So
Getty, which it was reported was rather
apprehensive of not being able t. make
the two ends meet, pecuniarily, this
winter, has taken decided measures to
prevent failure in this respect. 1t has
sold its slips Git worships in the Music
HALL at auction, and issues tickets to all
who buy seats for services. Then on
Sunday it is to station doorkeepers at
its door, and no one who does not pre-
sent a ticket will be allowed to enter
Upon this rule, suppose it is possible
for the poor to have the gospel preached
to them, but it is not easy to see how
this can be done until somebody that is
rich has given them a piece of paste
board that will prevent their being
turned away. This arrangement is new
to Boston, and doubt if it is in exist
ence anywhere else; but Mr.. Murray
has been law unto himself of late
years.-BostOn Cor. Hartford Couraa,t
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
DepOpulatiOn OF PEI Il.

The first census of Peru since it ceased
to be a Spanish colony has just been
taken. 1t was the proposal of the Presi-
dent, Don Manuel Pedro, and its details
will be scanned with much regard by all
who take an interest in the welfare of
the aboriginal races of mankind, as well
as by not few British capitalists whose
money was allured out of their pockets
for investment in Peruvian bonds, rail-
ways, mines, and steamship companies.
The total of the population according to
this new numbering of the people
amounts to 2,720, 1876, lamentable and
awful falling off, which is accounted for
by earthquakes, disease, civil war, and
brandy.
Where the former agents of destruc-
ton have killed their thousands, this
latter has killed its tens of thousands.
In addition to- the importation of hun
dreds OF bottles of spurious spirits, the
Peruvians make their own dgttdicnte, a
liquor stronger than whisky, which is
sold in enormous quantities and at great
profit. The probable consequence OF
the increase in the national drunkenness
will be the displacement of the present
race Of Peruvians by the Chinese and
the Mormons. Examiner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
The Electoral Vote.

Electors meet at their respective State
capitals on the first Wednesday of De-
cember of the year in which they are
elected, vote by ballot for President and
Vice President, and transmit record of
their votes to the President of the United
States Senate. A law of Congress pro-
vides that the electoral vote shall be
counted by the two houses in joint SEES
sion on the second Wednesday in Febru-
airy next succeeding the meeting of the
Electors OF President and Vice President.
The twenty-second joint rule of the two
houses provides that the houses shall
assemble in the hall of the House of
Representatives at p. M, and that the
President OF the Senate shall be their
presiding officer. No vote objected to
by either house shall be counted. In case
OF disagreement, the Senate retires, and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
A Farmers Trick on Spor,smen.

We recently heard of good joke per-
pctrated by Chemung county farmer,
a member of the Elmira Farmers Club.
He had been bothered greatly by hunt
ers from the city who had entered his
woods with a perfect abandon and
slaughtered the squirrels in great num-
bers. One day he procured two or three
squirrels, took them to a taxidermist,
and had them stuffed. He then took
them to his woods and nailed them fast
to the limbs of as many trees. in such o
way that they could be easily discovered
by the hunters. How much powder and
lead has been wasted on those squirrels
it is impossible to tell, but many good
marksman has wondered why he could
not bag the game. The old farmer has
doubtless enjoyed many hearty laugh
at the discontinue Of the hunters.
Havana ~ W Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
Large Churches.

The following statement shows the
size of the largest churches of Europe !:
st. Peters, at Rome, will hold $4,000 /;
Milan Cathedral, $1,000; st. Paul's,
London, $4,000; st. Paul's, at Rome,
80, 200 st. Petronia, Bologna, "a, 1000 !;
Florence Cathedral, 24,300; st. So
pbia's, Constantinople, $500; st.
John, L,tersn, $4,000; Notre Dame,
Paris, $1,000; Pisa Cathedral, 1900 !;
st. Stephens, Vienna, $4,000; st.
Dominics, Bologna, IL, 500 Cathedral
of Vienna, 1000; st. Marks, Venice,
1000; Mr.. Surgeons Tabernacle,
London, 1000. In America very few
churches will accommodate more than
1900, the exceptions being DIR. Tai
IMAGES splendid Tabernacle at Brook
Ign, which seats 5000 persons, Henry
Ward Beecher's, which seats about
5000, and DIR. Halls, in Fifth avenue
New York, which seats $500.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
BESEFICIENT BEAST.


The Gamers Good Points--How they Use
,fn Him on the Desert. iani s..n
My camel was tied down in the sand
patiently awaiting his burden You tie
q camel to himself that is when he has
shut up his legs under him like knife
blades you slip leathern bracelet over
his knee and there you have him, for it
is impossible for him to open his leg SO
long as this bracelet is around it, bind
ing the leg above the knee and the shin
bone together like pair of tongs. OF
course it is not easy to find anything in
the desert to which You may tie your
camel securely a beneficent Providence
has therefore made every camel his own
hitching- post, likewise his own cistern
and vegetable market and step ladder
in fact the camel is the most complete
machine ON four legs that we have a
knowledge of. His machinery is clumsy
and needs oiling. His great joints show
through his sides, and his tail is the
barest apology and unworthy of notice.
You would think your camel went on
stills if you were to start off suddenly,
sitting in nest of luggage on that high
uoCh va LIS. IOu WOuiu tuiuh ut uh,t
his feet in poultices if you were to look
at the soft, spongy things as they fall
noiselessly on the earth and spread un.
der his tottering weight. And that tear
full face of his, with its liquid and pa
thetic eyes, and those deep cavities
above them, big enough to hold hens
egg his aquiline nose, with its narrow,
slanting nostrils, that shut tight against
the sand-storms and the whitening KAN
sin, and give very scornful expression
to the face /; the whole face looks as if it
were just going to cry. The absurd I'M
der. lip is puckering and pouting to the
most charming extent, and you are not
at all surprised when the beast finally
bursts into tears and cries long and loud
like a great overgrown baby. This is
the pudding footed pride of the desert,
whose silken hair is mans raiment, and
whose milk is meat and drink. While
my camel was still kneeling with his
strap over his leg, l stepped into the
curve of his neck and went up the front
stairs to the top of his hump. His sad
die was tree of wood, with thick rugs
lashed over it. 1t was little like swing
ing in sawbuck, riding that camel to
Sakkarah. He edged his way over the
desert, putting the two legs on one side
of him forward at the same time, and
then keeling over and pushing the other
side ahead. was continually rocked
back and forth until my head swung
loosely on my shoulders, my sides ached
and all my spine was sore. Many PEG
pie are seasick when they mount q camel
for the first time. The motion is not
unlike that of small boat in chop sea.
There is certainly no pleasure and very
little elegance in your rest as you toss to
and fro on the summit of that animated
of india rubber. Cairo Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
Anti.Pigtail Movement.

A very uneasy feeling has been ex-
cited in Chinese fashionable circles by
the doings of the secret society founded,
or rather revived, for the purpose of
emitting off the pigtails which every
Chinaman who respects himself makes a
point OF displaying. The earliest trav-
elers in the Flowery Empire have told
us of the care which the Chinese bestow
upon their hair, which is plated with
adroitness and perfumed pro usely, the
ends being tied q knot of blue or
black ribbon. The golden youth of China,
like the ladies' in countries nearer home,
resort even to artificial means TO lengthen
these pigtails, which are the nearer to
perfection in proportion as they come
nearer to the ground. 1t seems that the
secret society whose mission it is to re-
move these baubles has not been formed
with view to gain, nor is it acting In
this way as practical joke. The mem
bers of the society believe that the habit
of wearing pigtails tends to effeminacy,
and they hope by shipping them off to
rouse wearers to q sense OF the duties
which they owe to their country. The
Chinese believed at first, when their pig
tails disappeared as if by enchantment,
that they we're the victims of some evil
genii. The Chinese authorities, :"
more matter of fact, at once arrived at
the conclusion that the ancient sect of
"pigtail cutters" had been reconstructed.
They have, it is said, accordingly de-
creed that any person found with
scissors in his hand in crowd shall be
strangled, and it is hoped that in this
way the evil may be stamped out. The
operations of this sect commenced in the
South of China several months ago, and
have since been extended to the northern
part of the Empire, and the terror is
general. A Chinaman who suddenly
discovers that his cherished appendage
has vanished while he is taking his
walks abroad presents most pitiable
spectacle of distress, and invariably dis
appears around the first corner.-LOndon
Daily NeWs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The Sunday Baby.

The Sunday Baby.
You wonderful little Sunday child
haf OF your fortune source you know.
Although you have blinked and winked al
Full seven and twenty days below.
"The BARN that ia born on Sabbath day"
80 say the old wives over their glass
Is bonny and healthy, aud wise and gay!"
What do you think Of that, my lass?
Health and wisdom, and beauty and mirth!
And (as If that were not enough for dower),
Because OF the holy day of your birth,
Abroad you may walk in the gloaming's hour.
when we poor bodies, with backward look,
shiver and culver and quake with fear
OF hend and fairy, and kelpie and spook,
Never u thought need you take, my dear
For " Sundays child may go where II please,
Sundays child shall be free from harml
Right down through the mountain side 1t sees
The mines unopened where jewels swarm
Oh fortunate babyi Sunday lass!
The veins of gold through the rocks you'll see
And when DER the shining sands you pass,
Yon can I II where the hidden springs may be.
And never fiend or an airy sprite
May thwart or hinder you all your days.
Whenever IL chances in mlrk midnight,
The lids of your marvellous eyes you raise,
You may see, while your heart is pnre and true,
Tn angels that visit this lower sphere,
Drop down the armament two and two,
Their errands OF mercy to work down here.
This is the dover of a Sunday child
What do you think of it. little brown head,
Winking and blinking your eyes NO mild,
Down in the depths of your snowy bed?
-Alics Williams, 81. Nicholas for NOUentLer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.
A Touching story From ssva nnah.

Touching story From savannah.
A private letter from Augusta, Ca, to
gentleman in Providence contains q
touching narrative OF heroism on the
part of two young men in the fever
stricken city Of Savannah. The writer
explains that some business delay is
caused by the grievous family affiiction
of an assistant, and goes on to say
"The death Of a young brother in
Savannah, Monday morning. has thrown
his whole family into the deepest grief
"A young fellow, not much more than
a boy, who martyred himself for the
good of the people suffering with theyel-
low fever, and himself fell victim. He
was prescription clerk in Lipman's drug
store there, and when the fever broke
out the whole force left but the book
keeper and him. A little later the book
keeper left, and Charlie ran the whole
thing himself, and Lipman ordered him,
by letter, to close the store. Then, in
stead of coming home, as his people
kept begging him to do, he replied no.
He felt it was his duty to stay, and he
went to work in Clays drug store, put
ting up prescriptions, hundreds per day;
no time to rest, no time for dinner. Clay
took the fever, and Charlie nursed him.
but he died. Charlie still ran the store.
His cook took the fever he nursed her,
and she recovered. Then young
friend, Symons-he nursed him, and
got him up, running the store
all the time, day and night. He
wrote his moher: Il have to get
something to eat the best way /
can my cook is down have no time
for myself, putting up prescriptions all
day; when night comes am so tired
can hardly put one foot before the
other have not had my clothes off in
a week, and have not brushed my hair
in four days. This although ordinarily
he was extremely neat and careful of his
person. 1t sounds like old army times.
At last, when Symons was up, Charlie
took sick. He wrote that he had taken
the fever, but was feeling pretty strong
and was confident of soon being up and
at work again. kilograms then began
to pass ten or twenty day, Charlie
improving with good care he will come
through all right and every thing
looked hopeful, when all at once, 'Char-
lie is worse and he began to sink, Sy-
mons nursing him in his turn and keep
ing up constant correspondence with
Augusta by telegraph. Finally tele-
grams could be passed with difficulty,
the telegraph boys refusing to carry the
messages in Savannah. 1t was the
worst quarter in the whole city. The
last two kilograms received from Symons
were Il will stick to him to the last
Il shall not sleep tonight, and the
brave young fellow kept his word [; they
both oied the same night. Symons had
never fully recovered, and wore himself
out waiting on his friend"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
COlOring Matter-TO Eat.

For the coloring OF articles of food
and confectionery, the Partisan police
authorities have recently prescribed the
exclusive use of the following matters
Blue, indigo, and it's derivative, Prus-
sian blue; red, cochineal, carmine lake,
Brazil wood lake, archil; yellow, saffron,
berries of Avignon, Persian yellow Der
ries, yellow wood, quercitron, turmeric;
green, mixture OF logwood aud Prussian
blue; violet, mixture of Prussian blue
and carmine. Forbidden are cuprlc OK.
ide, blue carbonate of copper. oxide OF
lead, cinnabar, chrome yellow, gamoogee
Schesle and Schweinfurt green, ana
white lead. For the coloring OF drinks
are recommended: For Curacao, log
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
Fortunes OF a Pair OF Twins.

On a recently published List OF
English landed gentry appears the
name of Wyndham Honeywood,
minor, heir to 6, 436 acres, worth fS, a35
a year. Wyndham Honeywood is
younger son, younger by quarter OF an
hour than his twin brother, who viii In
herit whatever remains for him of the
family estate. A kind uncle left al he
had to the younger twin because, he was
the younger, and that he,' too, mighanot
he without his due share of the good
things on earth. AS the fates have ip
This instance wiIled it, that quarter of Ia.
hours space which divided the brothers
at birth, and which was regarded by
fond relatives as the most disastrous to
the prospects Of the younger twin, will
be the cause of his becoming fan
weather. man than his elder brother.
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Kendrick's little eirl' here won't want for

anything, if can prevent it," gou
Then turning again to the child, wheee
bright blue eyes we're wide open now,
the engineer said to her: Va .p. fii-2 80,
"I'il take you home with me when we
get up to Wayne. My wife viii ix you
up, and Wen write and ind out whether
those Vermont folks want you or not.
If they do, Mary or l shall go on with
you. But if they don't care much about
you, you shall stay with us and be our
little girl, for we have none Of our own.
You look very like your father, God bless
him."
Just then the Eastern train whistled,
Engineer Frank vanished out of the car
door and went forward to his engine,
wiping his eyes with his coat sleeve, while
the conductor and passengers could not
suppress the tears this little episode
evoked during the twenty minutes stop
at Aliens Junction.-N. Y. Indepen-
dent.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27

M. BUTCHER describes his dilemma in
She Evangelical Messenger. He is
Christian, and therefore feels like at
tending to the souls of dying patients I;
but frequently their physical welfare
seems to require that he should deceive
them by inspiring hopes of recovery.
He cannot make up his mind what a
man under such circumstances ought
to do
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
The Insurance Business of Hartford.

lie INSURANCE DuSlnesS OF HarulOrOs
Twenty-one pages of Scribner for No
vember, are devoted to pen and pencil
description of Hartford, Conn. Mr..
Charles H. Clark, the author of the
sketch, says that it is as sort of City
of Refuge that Hartford is to-day
most generally thought Of. There is
authority to believe that fire will ulti-
mately destroy the world, and death the
body; but, meanwhile, the Hartford in
risks on the realization of either GER
tainty, and, thus far, in spire OF some
hard blows, they seem well III advance
of fate. BY the last official report, it
appears that 2l2, ACT people have their
lives insured in Hartford. If each of
these represents a family of five, then
more than 1,000, 00e people are looking
to the city as their refuge in the time
which the insurance agent. himself
Hartford product, can so pathetically de-
scribe as certain to be, for the uninsured,
of acute financial as well as domestic
distress. Their lives are insured for
$3.50, 600, 900 altogether, and the prop
erty insured in the lire companies is
$645, GAG, 600 more, so that the total risk
which Hartford carries is in round num-
bers, 81, 100, 100000. Rut the business
of insurance has reached such a scien-
tifc basis that the probable losses admit
of close calculation and the amount of as
sets necessary to certain payment is
definitely fixed TIE Hartford compa-
MES. having $113, 00O,O 900, have large
SURPRISES above the amount required.
Yet nearly all of this accumulation has
come within short time. The life in
surance business began about 1850, and
but three fire companies antedate the
exceptional disaster of the Chicago fire.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27

both bodies deliberate on the admission
or rejection of the vote of any State. In
case they agree, on reassembling the
vote is counted, but in. case they are
divided, the vote is not counted.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
A Centennial Incident.

1t is great thing to be able to see o
point. Here is happy instance of
ability in that liue. A countryman,
wandering with his wife through the
art galleries of the Philadelphia Exhibi-
ton, stood before Riviere's picture of
Gree and the companions of Ulysses.
He gazed earnestly at the painting, won
dered what was meant by the handsome
young woman playing on her Tyre, while
a herd OF swine wallowed and tumbled
about at her feet. He then looked up
the picture in his catalogue and pom
dered over the title, "The Companions
of Ulysses" Said he: Well, if that
isn't the hardest slap Old Grants got
yet. "-ScriLner for November.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27

wood; for absinthe, soluble indigo blue
with ssffron; for blue liquids, soluble
indigo blue, Prissian blue, and ultra
marine.
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A WOMAN on FIRE.
slabwood Piled on Her to distinguish the
Flames. f.rr..


Flames. qsrr..
[From the Clinton (Towa) Herald
A heart-rending accident occurred on
the premises of H. Ragis, farmer liv-
ing near Teed's Grove, Thursday after
noon, resulting in the death of his sis
ter, an unmarried lady aged about %.
The young lady was assisting her sister
in-law in cooking some pumpkins in the
yard near the house when the wind blew
the flames onto her clothing, setting
them on fire almost before she was aware
of her close proximity to the blaze. As
the flames enveloped her person she
screamed, her cries bringing Mrs. Ragis
to the scene. As is SO frequently the
case, however, both ladies lost their
presence of mind, and instead of going
to the house or procuring hlankets,to ex-
tinguish the flames, as would have been
the proper course, Mrs. Ragis thought
only of water. She dragged her almost
frantic sister to the pump, and essayed
to force water upon the now-raging
flames, but the water would not come,
and the sufferer was next dragged to the
barn, where her we'll meaning but half
crazed friend tried to put out the fire by
piling slabwood upon the burning girl.
The efforts of the two finally resulted in
the extinguishment of the flames, but
the young lady was terribly burned from
head to foot, all her clothing being
burned from the lower part of her body.
She was conveyed to the house, when
other assistance had arrived, and the
services of DR.. Wetherell, who was for
in the vicinity, were secured.
The doctor, however, at once pro-
nounced the patient beyond hope, but
her sufferings were alleviated as far as
possible. She fingered about twenty
four hours and expired. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Ragis are inconsoiable, and gloom
has been cast over the entire community
by the untoward accident.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27

A CALIFoRNIk Indian went away from
home with the avowed intention of get
ting q new wife. His old wife there
upon killed herself and four children.