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The true northerner., 1876-12-01
Coloring Human Hair by Eating Eggs.

The much-vexed question, How to get
gold hair, is solved at last. While the
Germans shrink from being held fair
haired nation, who knows, but the suf-
ferers, what other nations have gone
through to win the hair despised by
Prussia Z Ladies have borne unheard of
torments in pursuit of this fictitious
gold. One who had to be turned round in
the sun for hours during the process,
bore with stole fortitude the terrible
headaches involved each week, nor ever
complained of what she had to pay,
though, after all, she was scarcely even
electro-plated. Some run other risks,
in robbing Teuton corpses of their long,
fair locks and all is Intellectual while
eyes and skin remain to give the lie to
hair. Now, no more dyes, migraines,
or wigs will be necessary. Everybody
may sport the "glad gold hair nay,
blue eyes, too, and snowy skins. All
you have to do is to go and live on an
island and eat penguins' eggs-and the
more you eat the fairer you will get.
None need despair, for hair too dark
to turn to gold turns red, and red hair,
being more the rage than faxen, ta,at
naiettr. The isle in question is one of
the Crozet group, on which the survivors
of the unfortunate Strathmore were
wrecked last year, and rescued after six
months durance vile. They had little
to eat but penguins' eggs (and doubt
less the eggs without the island would
be of no avaiD, but the slight inconven-
ience of a sameness of food would be
readily encoun tered by the votaries of
fashion. Asurvivor writes "The eggs
did every one a great deal of good.
A most remarkable thing
was that every one had fair skins and
light hair, dark faces and hair being
quite changed, black hair turning brown
or red, and fairer people quite faxen."
If some enterprising Englishman does
net Immediately set up hotel on this
enchanted spot, we shall never givs
John Bull credit for knowing how to
make his fortune. London Echo.
The true northerner., 1876-12-01

up with broken limbs. One was placed
at the front entrance in sitting posture
against box of fruit, and the other,
young man of high degree, was taken
into Yu Hum Choy's-the manager OF
the theater's-office. A few moments
later DIR. Stivers, the City and County
Physician, arrived and examined him.
AS the unfortunate fellow lay upon a
low bench covered with mating ut one
side of the room, he was turning over
and over and groaning in agony. As
the doctor felt his limbs to ascertain the
nature of his injuries, he yelled, "Oh,
no, no; me no hurt" as if fearing that
his excruciating agonies were to be in
creased. The other man, somewhat old
er, who had been placed near the door
way, sat in stold silence, his pale face,
under the fiickering rays of a gas-jet, re-
cording the most excruciating suffering.
About fifteen minutes was consumed In
the passage of the crowd of Chinese from
the theater, and the acting of the play
by the company was continued until the
last deputation had departed, when the
actors and actresses rushed in body to
the doorway to discover what had trans
pired, indulging in many cultural ex-
clamations of terror at the long line of
dead bodies placed upon the pavement.
With much trouble the crowds which
had assembled upon Jackson street were
driven by the police up to Dupont
street, where an unsuccessful effort was
made to disperse them. Nineteen of
the twenty y-eight taken from the hallway
and removed to the street were found to
be dead. DIR. Stivers examined several
who betrayed no outward signs of in
Jury and said they seemed to have been
sufocated to death. Eight or ten bore
marks of violence, several bleeding at
the nose and ears, the crimson stream
running across the walk into the gutter,
while the faces of three or four others
turned upward in the light were black
and discolored. Several of those taken
from under the door lived few mo-
ments after being removed, their agoniz-
ing shrieks filling the air and exciting
the lamentations of adjacent Chinese who
witnessed the writhing contortions. One
Chinaman, who broke frantically through
the line of policemen and passed one of
the dying men, threw up his arms and
yelled in horror at the agonies of his
countrymen. As soon as the bodies
were taken from the hallway, and the
wounded who could walk had been led
into adjoining houses, the Coroner was
notified, and the dead bodies taken to
the morgue.
The true northerner., 1876-12-01
WAITING.


A sprightly son of Gallia's cline
Did once, in choice Parisian, state
That everything must come in time
To him who knows the way TO wait.
will not charge with gross untruth
The wit who gave the saw to fame,
But have waited since my YOUTH
For hosts Of things that never came.
For years I've waited for girl
Who quietly TO church would go,
And there become my "priceless pearl
without the usual nuptial show.
/ think a wedding feast bore
sought maid who'd think the same.
My dream of bliss, alas is o'er..
waited-but she never came.
had q vote and kept II, till
Some honest candidate arose,
Who'd bow beneath no leaders will
To join with either "Ayes" or Noes"
Some man who, spite of party strife,
Took justice as his highest aim.
never voted all my life.
waited-but he never came.
longed to grasp the hand Of one
Who'd be an honest, faithful friend
As constant as the rising sun,
And love me with no selfish end:
Who, when misfortune cast me down,
Would still in all things be the same.
I've not friend in all the town.
waited-but he never came.
hoped to see the golden days
When honest men would fare the best
When modest worth would win the bays,
And virtue boldly rear its crest
When DER the dark and dismal land
The torch Of Truth should brightly flame,
thought those days were near at hand.
waited-but they never came.
The true northerner., 1876-12-01

ployer, who agreed to take my sister for
short time as saleswoman. We came
back to our temporary home, somewhat
encouraged, to find Brent had been
there, and fully enlisted mamma on his
side.
While she was repeating his argu-
ments, and Meta listened with a smile
of quiet happiness at her lovers con-
stancy, Freddie burst in.
"Come quick quick +" he cried.
"We've found big iron box under the
chimney-place 1 can't lift it, it is 80
heavy. Oh, come T"
He was fairly dragging mamma from
her seat, and, hastily throwing a shawl
around her, she followed him, Meta and
myself bringing up the rear.
Truly enough, there was large box
under the chimney-place, in hollow,
bricked all around, which had evidently
had an opening we had never seen. 1t
was large and heavy, requiring the
united forces of the family to pull it
from its resting place, and carry it to
the barn, where we put it down upon
the floor.
There was no key, but strong lock,
and after long dehberation we sent for q
hatchet, and by dint of much persever-
ance and strength burst il open. Within
as by that time we half expected-we
found Uncle Gordon's boarded treasures.
Bonds to the amount of fifty thousand
dollars, with the coupons untouched
for six years some six hundred dollars
in gold case of uncut gems, not very
valuable package of private letters ;
an old fashioned watch and chain and a
miniature portrait of lady, opening
out field for our speculations as to
some romance of the past we had never
suspected in our uncle's life.
There was no one to dispute our
mothers claim to the property, all
safely deposited in bank before sunset
and our troubles seemed, at last, to be
over.
John Ellis, whom hate most cor
daily, and shall while live, called upon
mamma in few days, and most gra-
ciously withdraw his opposition to his
sons marriage. We took his conde-
scension for exactly what it was worth,
but were more than happy at the
thought of rewarding Brent's faithful
love.
Our new house, built upon the site of
the old one, is but roomy, two story
cottage, but homelike and cosy, and our
house-warming was the wedding of
Brent and Meta, where Freddie and /
officiated as groomsman end bridesmaid,
and dear mamma seemed to throw off
twenty years of her age when she put on
her lavender silk dress and wound her
heavy hair in q coronet upon her head,
in honor of the bridal.
Brent would have none of mammals
money settled upon his wife, but was
loving adviser as to its investment for
our support, and we make occasions for
present-giving toward the housekeep-
ing treasures of the young couple, to
keep up something of fair division Of
the income.
Freddie plumes himself greatly upon
the fact that his bright eyes discovered
the hoard that 80 improved our for
tunes and it has become habit with
us to date all events in our family history
as having occurred "before the fire, or,
"after the fire."
The true northerner., 1876-12-01
The Art of War.

Col. Valentine Baker of railway car.
riage note is now regularly engaged in
the war Office at Constantinople, and is
busy organizing plan for the remod-
cling of the whole Turkish cavalry. II
his scheme is followed out, the Ottoman
mounted branch of the service will be-
come one of the finest bodies of mount
ed troops in the world. Part Of the pro-
posed scheme is that, at any rate for
some years to come, commands in both
cavalry regiments and squadrons are
only to be given TO English officers, or
to officers trained ip English cavalry
regiments. 1t is believed that this ar
rangement will net only give employ
ment to considerable number OF half
pay English cavalry officers IN Turkey,
but also induce many young turkish
officers to go TO England for training In
cavalry regiments.
The true northerner., 1876-12-01
A FastidiOus Beggar.

He was very gentle in manner, he had
a mild blue eye, and nasal twang, no
lieved by a lisp, charmingly beautiful
not to hear. His pull on the bell Wa
gentleness itself and when Nh
Spriggs decided to answer the ring she
felt certain it was some amiable friend
The good mornings" were said with .
heartiness only to be acquired by long
self denial ana training. Have you an
overcoat, missusl I'm poor man
widower with seven small children-five
that have adopted out of pure charity
and thought I'd drop in and 80
about coat"
Mrs. Spriggs' heart moved with pify.
She felt that she could never stand 10 ba
a widow long, and she joyfully replied :
"Ob, YES I have one of 0K.
Spriggs, that he had made to order hs3
March"
"Oni then it is not Of tho lh&s
style I"
"Oh, no I'm sorry to say ono sf
those dreadful tramps stole his best"
The mans face flushed up ssmo -
he asked "Buckhorn buttons or gntAs
peacha
"Gutta percha," said Mrs. Sprigyx
"Oh, they have disagreeable odoE-~ ~
"Oh, well, said Mrs. Spriggs, notie-
ing his look of disappointment, Its n
very nice coat. I'll run up and get u
out of the camphor."
I" No, no, you need not CAmphsr
I detest, and gutta percha buttons
An revoir, madame" and he pe.el
down the steps, the very pictnrs ef
grand manhood.
The true northerner., 1876-12-01

THE editor of the Tehama (Cal.) Toe
sin resents the criticism of his contem-
poraries. "When our ability flags" he
says, "and our supply of brains becomes
exhausted, we will call upon our butcher
friends, Aitken Bros, for supply of
hog brains, which we consider superior
and preferable to the brain matter dis
played by some of our contemporaries. f"
This is not only an impressive method of
vindicating the dignity of journalism,
but it is also pleasant artifice for ad-
vertising the town butcher.
The true northerner., 1876-12-01

THE Minneapolis street-car company
has issued half-fare ticket, for sckssk
children.
The true northerner., 1876-12-01
A NEW ROUTE TO CHINA.

Discovery by a Swede of a New Water
Communication Between Russia, China
and Japan-An Open Way to the Arctic
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-03-01
Hanging Baskets for Flowerlng Plants

OF all the pleasing ways for GROWING
plants the hanging basket is most at
tractive. There is something about Their
graceful beauty that wins the love of ali
Elaborate baskets may be purchased nv
simple ones may be made at home thar
will be quite as pleasing. Some of the
most beautiful ones we have ever seen
were knots of wood from decayed forest
trees. Many Of these are of curious shane
much like ocean shells. With varnish an
piled and slender chains or bright cords
attached, they are ready for use. Others
may be constructed of grapeyines ar
branches of fruit and forest trees. In this
way not only the flowers but the recepta.
Giles in which they grow will become the
admiration of all your city friends. For
basket plants the graceful smilax is first
of the list. Its dainty glossy leaves will
add charm to everything it touches
Next, the English ivy has the richest foil.
age. If you can wait for its tardy growth
you will have an elegant vine. But we
like the German ivy best. This ivy will
do such wonderful things in the way of
adjoining windows and pictures, and do
them SO quickly. The kenilworth ivy is
the best trailing plant we have ever grown
and is unsurpassed for a center basket.
Moneyworth is also a good trailer, but is
prettiest among other plants. All these
are of easy culture. If given much water,
morning and evening, they will delight
you with their constant growth. If these
are too many in home where work must
lead and pleasure follow, two or three
varieties in a single basket or little hang
ing garden will become thing Of beauty.
and give more pleasure than manga costly
adornment.
Any of these vines are exceedingly de-
srable for the lawn, for trelllses or over
rock work, or in rustic vases or lawn
baskets. These may be made Of branches
of trees interviewer with grape vines,
bound with moss, then filled with earth,
and they are exceedingly appropriate for
a country garden where all these materials
are just at hand. In these may be grown
several varieties. The dracsena is very
snowy in the center of large vases or lawn
baskets. Around this set verbenas, with
here and there bright pansy and about
the edge set trailing plants. Ii you wish
vines for baskets with handles. maurantya
is excellent. One such basket will do
more for its possessor, if well cared for,
than whole garden of neglected flowers.
These are as easily grown as the common
kind. A very attractive basket may also be
made of wire, lined with moss, filled with
ferns, wild plantain and lycopodium from
the forest. These will grow all summer
with a little care, in any shady corner of
your rooms, and send up long, graceful,
dropping fronds much larger than those
first planted. In such basket place
bunch OF pansies or forget-me-nots and
you will have one of the loveliest orna-
ments maginable.-Nrs. d. Huntley, in
". Y Herald.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-03-01
Plant More Fruit Trees.

Old fruit trees, which do not yield re-
munerative crop, and which cannot be
rendered productive by renovating the
soil where they stand, should be dug up,
removed, and their places supplied with
young trees, There is no danger of rails
ing too much fruit. A great variety of
fruit is an evidence of high civilization.
None but enlightened nations have the
necessary skill, talent and perseverance to
transform the ill-tastcd wild fruits into
rich, delicious, cultivated varieties Ev-
cry man who owns piece of land should
at least plant few fruit trees along the
lanes. 1t is due to his children who are
to come after him. 1t is beautiful Gus
tom in Germany to set out one fruit tree
for every child born. This is the special
property of the child for whom it is trans
planted. He protects and cultivates it,
and as he grows up, he looks upon his
tree as twin brother. A feeling of aifec-
ton and veneration is thus engendered,
and love for agriculture and pomology
is tostered and promoted among the whole
population. Besides this, there is great
profit in the production of pears and APP
pies. If all fence hooks were set out in
fruit trees there would be an immense
supply of fruit all over the State. All
such hooks are usually given up to briars
and bushes, whereas they might be made
as productive of profit and pleasure as
any other portions of the farm A great
many intelligent persons believe in the
Anticipated adage that, he who plants
pears plants for his heirs" rather than
for himself, as the assumption is that no
man can expect to survive sufficient
number of years to see his trees in full
bearing. If thrifty fruit trees having
good roots are planted in a fertile soil,
and properly protected and cultivated,
they will yield generous crops of fruit in
five or six seasons. ". !. Herald.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-03-01

So'AS W. - 90 opPesAON'ly SASsA ~J
Observation-Disclosures is one of these causes.
A lady IN certain church not long ago
destroyed the devotion of portion of the
congregation by sitting in front pew in
summer time with child's doll stuffed
in her skirts In the place Of the convcn-
tiQnal hustle. There we're the head and
arms appealing to the congregation for
deliyerance, and the lady, all the while,
was singing like an unc0nscj g angel
An instance of clerical abs minded
ness which we know to be nlle is a. fol
lows: An Irish minister was invited 10
baptize friends child, watch he did,
emitting altogether, however, to put any
water upon its head. The parent took
the bowl and presented it to the minister,
but he declined IT, Thereupon the father
took the water second time, and insisted
upon his taking it. The bewildered
clergyman held the bowl for moment,
and then said: had glass Of water
before came into church, but SO long as
you insist on my drinking this, | will do
it, though assure you am not at all
thirsty" And he actually drank the wat.
ter from the baptismal bowl.
Ignorance Of the true situation is an
other cause of professional mistakes. 1t
is safe rule in travelling to expect every
body to do as other people do, and to take
nothing for granted until first we find out
definitely the simple facts of the case for
ourselves. And there are good rules in
other matters. Some time ago, in a large
Roman Catholic Church, funeral was
appointed to be held at one O'Clock. 1t
was graye-digger and assistant sexton,
who had fallen into drinking habits,
who was to be buried The priest who
was to conduct this particular funeral
was half an hour late, and, on arriving
At the church and seeing the funeral pro-
cession waiting for him, went on with the
service. AS there were supposed to be
many of the old grave digger's friends
present, the priest thought it good OPP
portunity to speak kindly OF the deceased,
and point moral from this sad ending.
So he began as follows:
"This man, my friends, whom we ara
about to bury, though addicted to great
and common vice, was in every respect a
true man."
Father Melaylee, whispered an Irish
man, let me spake word to yez"
No" replied the priest. Z" will not be
interrupted. | know this poor mans
faults before me, but he was true man in
spite of his failing"
80 Father Melaylee," groaned out two
OF the pall-bearers, "just listen to us;
please, Father Melaylee, only word,
your riverencev'
g No." said the indignant priest, 81
will not yield for one moment AS |
was saying, this poor man before me was
ID
z " Father Melaylee," cried out the ire
pressible mou ner, "tother priest has
buried the grave.digger half an hour ago;
this ones a woman we're burying, sure,
and it's Tim Lanagan's wife we've got
here "'--Appteton's Journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-03-01
BY AND By.

We SOW our seed: 1t hidden lies;
We watch and wait with hopes and fears,
TIL. pushing upward thro' the mold,
The tiny blade at length appears.
Z small and frail, It's green 30 pale;
And yet 1t may not fade and die,
This little plant; bnt well we know
The golden grain comes by and by.
The clouds above Us darkiy lower
Deep Is the shadow which they throw;
With in their tIacknese, one by one.
The eunbeams into hiding 90,
And Nature weeIA: but, smiling, we
Think how the eunbeams hidden lie,
How they will chase the clouds away
With Natures tear-drops by and by.
Why should we fear LIES gloomy days,
The spr. ow C lOnds which may arise,
Aud cast their shadows Ger our hearts
As 4 torn clouds over summer skiesi
For sorrow comes 10 human hearts.
And tear drops dim the brightest eye,
That we may better understand
The joy which cometh by and by.
Some hearts grow weary, toiling on,
Bit blessings earned are ever best;
And for the toiling heart and hand
There cometh by and by q rest.
Yes, by and by. In Gods good time,
All promised blessings shall be given,
Bnt best Of all to claim at last
Our "by and by" the rest Of heaven.
-hittie Cuthbertson, In Detroit tribune
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-03-01
How to Feed Bees.

The following suggestive hints are from
the English SATURDAY. Recien:
1t seems TO be now proved beyond the
reach of further controversy that bees do
eat fruit under certain circumstances,
and that they will on occasion steal sugar
from II grocer's shop as unbushingly as
those hardened sinners s. the wasps But
it has hot been proved that they prefer
fruit to honeydew, or molasses to nat
ural nectar, In many parts Of the coun-
try where 1t was once profitable to keep
bees it cannot be so any longer I'm
proved farming has almost banished
many of the weeds from which the bees
drew their supplies. The closely clipped
hedges of civilization do not allow OF the
free growth of such creepers rs honey
suckle and clematis They rob US of
much hawthorn and elder. blossom.
Then, too, the large fields, which are the
necessary result of steam cultivation,
are against the bees. There may be fine
crops OF clover, beans and buckwheat,
bat at distances too great to be remun-
erative. Long journeys for food, mean
OF course, little honey stored Whether
the Ligurlan bees, now so largely intro
duced into our apiaries are more add
dicted TO helping themselves to fruit
than our native species we do not know
but one thing is certain, they will find ii
10 disagree with them. However, they
are mild in temper, they are easily re.
moved from one place TO another, which
Is the true secret of bee culture On the
Nile, there are bee barges which travel
at night, stopping N the daytime where
there Is good paSturage, and Piny speaks
of the same practice, and tells how they
knew, by the depth to which the boats
sank in the water when the hives were
sufficiently full. With reference to gar.
den bees, ii used to be the custom 10 grow
certain plants for their use. Borage, which
lasts from June 10 November, is an inval-
liable protection to the fruit crop There
are other plants, such as lavender, migno-
nette and common fuchsia, which cost lit
tie OF no trouble To cultivate, and which
are certainly no Disagreement to a gar.
den, while they give a pleasant perfume
to the air not to be had from bedding-out
plants. Bright-p lumaged birds DO not
sing. and great proportion of the vivid.
ly-colored flowers now the fashion have ne
scent and little honey. All dubious plants
are, Of course, an exception 10 this rule.
as they arc both sweet and go2d for food.
Bees should nol be kept in pisces where
there Is not either abundant wild saStur.
age for them, or a succession Of uAricn
plants cultivated for their use. Il is dis
honest 10 have honey at the expense Of