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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12
England,s Decline.

A member of the British Parliament
in recent speech adverted to the curl
Gus speculations concerning the decline
of England. The period of this decline,
he thought, was far distant, inasmuch
as English agriculture is not only -four
ishing, but more fourishing than ever
before. The annual value of the agricult-
ural produce of the United Kingdom in
fair average year is about e300, OOO,-
600. This is as near as can be calculat-
ed-no very accurate statistics being
made on the subject. "This," said the
speaker, els about double the amount
of the produce of our looms, three times
that of our FORCES, and four or five timee
q years produce of our Mines"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12
A RascaIIy Treasurer.

Lewis Myers, the Treasurer of An
glaize county, Ohio, who was found tied
to chair and gagged, and who said that
robbers had held him over the fire and
scorched him until he consented to open
the safe, from which they took about
S32, 900, has now confessed that there
were no robbers save himself and his
confederates. His story now Is that
about eighteen months ago he left the
Auditor, j. F. Smith, in his Office alone,
and soon afterward missed $1,000 from
the safe. The loss was covered up, and
then Smith and he robbed the treasury
between them. The Auditors house
was searched, and 81, 795 was found hid
den under carpet.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12
Grant and the Working People.

The English workingmen are taking
pardonable pleasure in lionizing Gen.
Grant, and the ex-President gives them
a rare qualification in submitting grace
fully. The guests whom England de-
lights to honor are not in the habit of
visiting Newcastle on Tyne, Sunderland
and these haunts of toll, nor of attend
ing mass-meetings of thousands of
miners, assembled on the heath in
trades unions. These demonstrations
are under the immediate auspices of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12

A. e. OUTBRrDGS, in the Philadelphia
Mint, has obtained, by experiments in
electro-chemisiry, films of gold 80 thin
that 2,500,000 would be REQUIRED 70
make an inch in thickness yet the Aims
when examined through the microscope
are seen to be continuous. They are
transparent, and of bright green color:
but by reflected light they resume the
true gold color.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12
What Becomes OF Cotton.
Where does all the cotton goto2 Lat
year some of It went as follows:

England manufactures 43 per cent. of
all cotton goods, the United States %
per cent, the continental countries of
Europe 33 per cent.
England exports one-half of her manu-
features, the United States only Z per
cent, which is not very fiattering ex-
hibit for the enterprise and activity of
our manufacturers. IL is, however, at
tributable to some extent to the almost
prohibitory tariff with which many of
the articles used in cotton manufacture
are weighed down.-Ne,0 Orleans
Dispatch.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-12
Amount ofAn-
Total. .............4,3 $50, 1913

Interest in Federal money equal nearly
to $150,0O0,00O. A popular-loan bond,
principal and interest payable in cur
rency, would undoubtedly be subscribed
for by millions of people in this country,
just as has been the case in France and
Great Britain. Chicago Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
EInhffnn TOR a. Home.

Professor W. K. Brooks writes in st.
Nicholas for June: A woodpecker's hole
is such very convenient place for nest,
that many other birds. are glad to find one
unoccupied. Sometimes a Fair of wrens
will watch the motions of the wood
peckers while they are at work, until an
unfinished hole is left unguarded, when
they will take possession of it. As soon
as the lawful owners return, the thieves
are driven of, but they are SO persistent
and troublesome that, although a
woodpecker is larger and stronger than
twenty wrens, the owners sometimes
abandon the place, and make new nest
Still the wrens are not always allowed tc
keep the house they have stolen, for the
blue-birds are equally covetous of it, and
sometimes fight fiercely with the wren'
in their attempts to gain possession of it
Occasionally, both wrens and blue-bird
also prize woodpecker's holes yer.
highly. The fierce battles between thes
various birds over an abandoned hole ar,
very amusing, and often last severa
days; for they all are very obstinat
birds, and as each one is determined no
to give up, the matter is not very easil.
settled,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
Jtn,pfna at Conclusions.

Don't do it. When you commence
reading an article, read it through. AS
sertions, apparently leaning to one side
of the question in the beginning, may be
modified or explained before the close in
such way as to put an entirely different
face on the matter. The Dutch Justice
was satisfied to give his decision when he
had heard the evidence produced by the
plaintiff in the case, without waiting for
the story of the defendant. A cattle
doctor in Massachusetts,, who was called
in the dusk of the evening to prescribe
for a sick COW, entered the stable and
commencing his physical diagnosis in the
manner usual with quacks. He took
hold of the tail, exclaiming, "Just as l
expected Horn-ail is the trouble. Here
are all the symptoms: Softening of the
tail-wasting of the bone: No mistak.
ing the cause of the difficulty, this time. u
Going thence to the head of the animal,
and attempting to take her by the horn
to further diagnose her, he found she
was mulleyl
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
An Exchange of Bites.

The Hartford Courant says that some
Glastonbury parties recently captured a
couple of rattlesnakes-a large and a
small one-and brought them in a box
to town to exhibit. The larger snake
was about three feet long and eight or
ten years old. Last Sunday, at East
Glastonbury, while number of people
were looking at the reptiles, man
named Grover, butcher. came along,
and, announcing that this kind of cattle
didn't scare him bit, he took the big
snake out of the box. Holding it around
the neck be performed number of dare
devil tricks with it, and at length
actually put its head into his
mouth several times. Then, getting
bolder, he announced that instead of the
snake biting him he'd bite the snake, and
he made pass toward it with his head
and planted his teeth on the snakes
throat. But in doing it he brushed his
cheek close by the creatures mouth, and
in an instant like flash, it drove its
fangs into his cheeks. The blood spirited
out in needle-like stream, and the fun
was over. The spectators at once (it by
good luck being at handy produced an
abundance of gin and stuffed the man
full of it. DIR. Stocking was sent for, and
ordered continuance of the treatment
Against all protest the patient was
deluged with liquor, and by Monday he
had so far recovered as to be up an6
around. On Tuesday he was at worl
again as usual. He will probably mo-
bite that kind of CATTLE" as he called
! it, any more,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
" W1raf's Dat IRON p"

ASpring6eld Republican correspondent
writes from Charlestown, S. c.: DR..
Shepard pointed out to me the position
of General Gilmore's swamp angel" :"
battery, and said that only the other day
his workmen dug up one of the unex-
ploded shot in the Medical College yard.
1t was rather large for war souvenir,
and about as dangerous as rattlesnake.
The cap was perfect, all ready for the
light tap that would explode it. No
soaking would ruin the powder filling,
and SO after looking it over he had it
carefully and deeply .reburied, he hopes,
beyond resurrection. Anegro some time
ago found one of them, and thought he
would break it up and sell it for old iron
He got a sledge hammer and struck it or
the point. 1t exploded, blew the roof O.
the house of, and dealt destruction il
every direction, but strangely Sambo wa
not injured beyond being stunned by th'
conclusion. He reused himself, looked
wildly around and exclaimed: "Lord,
massy, whar's dat iron ?"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
j. Wilkes B00th-Absurd Stories
About His Re0ldias-1he
True story.


A number of absurd stories are going
the rounds of the press as to the DISPOSE
tion of the remains of ]. Wilkes Booth.
The lates is by Captain Oliver P. Leslie, of
Pittsburg, who states the body was sunk
in lake seven miles below Alexandria,
Virginia. The incontrovertible facts are
as follows; The remains were ordered to
be delivered to the friends of Booth by
President Andrew johnson. John H.
Weaver, the undertaken of this city, was
sent to Washington by his family to
bring them here for interment. A box
was taken up from the arsenal building,
and delivered to him. 1t was brought
by him to Baltimore and was examined
by him and reporter of the Gazette, at
his room on West Fayette Street, near
Holiday. They found in it skeleton,
wrapped in an old army blanket. When
the blanket was taken of, the skeleton
was covered with powder having the
appearance of soapstone, and on being
rubbed between the fingers, it disap-
peared, just as soapstone will do. On
the right foot was an army shoe, cut
open at the top its entire length, as if
to accommodate swollen foot. On the
other was large cavalry boot. The re-
porter of the Gazette examined the bones
in and above the shoe, and for some time
could find no injury. Believing the re-
mains to be those of Booth, the reporter
made persistent examination, and Mt
last discovered the leg was fractured
clean through, just above the ankle.
The fracture was clearly marked, and the
portion below the fracture being lifted
out of the box, the ends of the bones
were of pure whiteness, leaving no doubt
as to the fact that Booth in leaping from
the box had fractured his right leg, and
notsprained it. Still the identity of the
remains were not satisfactorily estab-
ished, especially as there was no portion
of the spinal vertebre missing, and no
mark of any bullet upon them. A
brother of Booths was sent for, who was
told by Mr.. Weaver of the doubts as to
the identity of his remains, and Mr..
Weaver requested him to think of some
popularity, if any existed in the struc-
ture of his brother, that would forever
remove any doubt. After thinking for
brief while, the brother said that all he
could remember was that his brother had
his tooth plugged with gold in apeculiar
manner. He described the location of
the tooth, and drew with pencil the
shape of the plug, which was of unusual
size. The teeth were taken out, and the
tooth was found plugged justas described
by the brother, and forever setting at
rest any question of the identity of the
remains. The remains were buried in
Greenmount Cemetery, in the same lot
with his grandfather, father and other
children of the family.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
" Tfn-ton Good Rou.,,


The Erening Journal says that a Chi
cago man thought he needed an errand
boy, and so he hired one. He advertised
for him, and picked him out of drove of
two or three hundred, or maybe more,
because he seemed to be brighter and
smarter boy than any of the rest, and
the man had the pleasure of telling his
wife and all his friends that he had got a
"tip-top good boy"
The first errand the man sent that boy
only took him about three minutes to do.
1t was to go down the street and back, to
take letter to the mail box. Evidently
he was ".tip-top good boy"
The second errand was to carry book
to friend near by, and occupied an
hour. Evidently he got slow very fast
for a " "tip-top good boy"
The third trip was to carry bundle
of papers to a lawyers Office, and the
boy was gone until the next day, giving
as an excuse that he thought it would
be Just as well to hand in the bundle
when he came from home in the morning
Evidently the boy was very slow boy
for "tip-top good boy"
The next errand the man sent that boy
was for a quarters worth of envelopes
The boy got the quarter and started out
Three minutes passed. An hour passed
A day passed. 1t has been six months
since the boy went out after those en-
velopes, aud he hasn't got back yet. Ev
identity he is an awful slow boy for s
"tip-uop good boy" Still, when he get
back it shall be our pleasure to finish
this item, and let everybody know JUS
exactly how long "tip-top good boy }
usually stays away on his fourth errand
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
The Lady Who " Bagged' Gladstone

The Civil and Military Gazette has
the following: There is Russian lady
in London at present who has perhaps
done more to promote the Cars pur-
poses in Eastern Europe than his whole
army of diplomatists. 1 am precluded
from mentioning her name, butt open
to me to state that the deft intriguante is
singularly accomplished, very pretty,
extremely well-bred, apparently wealthy,
and possesses the most fattering tongue
in the world. 1t is said that the famous
pamphlet of Mr.. Gladstone was a good
deal due to her instrumentality, and that
she also completely charmed Lord Gran
vile, who, as all men know, is the "my
dear Granville" of Mr.. Delane, the
Times editor. She is likewise reported to
have essayed her destinations on Lord
Beaconsfeld, but the willy Benjamin was
not "the sort of a man" to be tickled by
fair fingers into betraying English inter
ests. He afterwards declared that madam
was charming, very charming, but
rather too much inclined to talk poll.
tics" Mr.. Gladstone, on the contrary
was bagged at once. His emotional ma
ture proved very susceptible to the
glamour of beauty pleading for the cause
of humanity, and he consequently suf
fered himself to fall into the trap, SO fal
at least as carrying on long and highly
interesting correspondence with the fai
Russian. And it is rumored in Pal
Mall and whispered in St. James Street
that she now holds over his head, in ter
rorem, certain letters which do NOR
credit to his heart than to his head.
Moral-Beware ofpretty patriots whel
they are of Muscovite lineage.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
The Po,per of Nfaaara.

The amount of water passing over Nj
agara Falls has been estimated at 100,-
0OO,0 900 tons per hour, and its per-
pendicular descent may be taken at one
hundred and fifty feet, without consider
ing the rapids, which represents further
fall of one hundred and fifty feet. The
force represented by the principal fall
alone amounts to 16,sOO, 900 horsepower,
an amount which, if it had to be pro-
duced by steam, would necessitate an
expenditure of not less 366, 600, 900 tons
of coal per annum, taking the consump-
ton of coal at four pounds per hour. In
other words, all the coal raised through
out the world would barely suffice to pro-
duce the amount of power that annually
runs to waste at this wonderful fall.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
same PeoDIe n, AsuIt,n,,

1t is about as difficult as ever to get
sane people out of the English private
lunatic asylums. A committee of the
House of Commons have lately had be-
fore them four or five outrageous cases.
Mrs. Lowe, a minister's wife, who was
simply Spiritualist, was confined in an
asylum fifteen months, during which she
was twice held to be insane by two of
the Commissioners in Lunacy. She was
transferred from one asylum to another,
Notwithstanding the Superintendent of
the first asylum refused to sign the nee
essary papers on the ground of her sanity.
Her letters were not posted; even one
of her cousins, Charles Kingsley, the
late well-known author, was withheld
from the post by DR.. Maudsley. A Mrs.
Petschler, photographers wife, was got
into an asylum by her sister for the
Enthusiastically British reason that hel
sister occupied good position and OBJ.
jected to a relative of hers being engaged
in trade in the same place." The caste
of society as distinguished from trade
people must be vigorously insisted on
In this case clergyman was frightened
into assuming the Office of committing
magistrate. In another case a man wa
incarcerated by his wife. There is ,
strong demand for the entire abolition o
private asylums.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

In ancient Rome, in the period of
from two to five hundred years after the
Christian era, the average duration of
life in the most favored classes was
thirty years. In the sixteenth century
the average longevity in Geneva was
twenty-one and one-half years. Between
1914 and 1888 it increased to nearly
forty and three-fourths. In England the
average life of annuitants in 1893 was
twenty-six years, but in 1870 it had in
creased to thirty-three. The average in
this country is over thirty-fve, and is
slowly increasing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

NORWICH Bulletin: The crude en-
bryonic condition of society in the west
is shown in the fact that they have fairs
out there where kisses sell for forty cents
piece with no wholesale rates. This
explains why SO many Norwich men
who have gone west with fortunes rang
ing from 100000 to 100000 have re-
turned in few months bankrupt.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

In the year 1928 the Russians lost
thirty.six thousand men by sickness
alone in Bulgaria. In the following
year they lost sixty thousand between
the Pruth and Adrianople; whilst out Of
one hundred and twenty thousand men
not over six thousand ever recrossed the
Russian frontier alive.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

An aborigine of the Andaman Islands
is generally under five feet in height.
Not a very Anda-man, SO to speak, to
have about the house when you're taking
down stove-pipes or putting up clean
window-shades.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

NoRRIsTowN Herald: Professor Swift
says that the comet discovered by Bo-
relli of France, on the Sth of February,
has neither nucleus, tail, or envelopes"
If Borelli can't discover any more perfect
comet than that he'd better retire from
the business and hand over his telescope
to man better posted on comets. A
comet without either tail or nucleus is
bad enough, but one without envelopes
and perhaps minus postage stamps also
is glaring swindle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
Pofsonfnn Rodents.

In many parts of the West, and es-
pecially in California, squirrels, pocket
gophers and other species of rodents are
SO very destructive to crops that it be-
comes necessary to poison or, in some
way, lessen the number of these animals.
Strychnine has been extensively en-
ployed for this purpose and is generally
quite effectual, but a correspondent of
the Live Stock Journal has been trying
phosphorus, and finds it quite as certain
death, besides being far cheaper. He
gives his method of using it, as follows:
A fve-gallon oilcan is good vessel to
prepare it in, and one I usually use.
1 fill the can one-third full of
water, and set it on the stove till it
comes to boil /; then 1 take one-half corn
meal and one-half -four, and stir in till
have stiff mush then 1 add two pounds
sugar, and carry the can out of doors
and let it stand ten minutes to cool then
take stick OF phosphorus in a pair of
plyers and plunge it in the mush till the
stick is all melted. (Melting in the
mush, instead of in the water, prevents
it settling, and takes less poison, and is
more thoroughly mixed through the
mass. 1t is quite important that the
mush should be considerably below the
boiling-point or the phosphorus will take
Gre.) Then add wheat as long as you
can stir it. The wheat becomes coated,
and when swollen will absorb the water,
and you can break it into Jumps of a
suitable size to use. A piece as large as
a walnut is large enough for squirrel OF
gopher hole, ana should always be put SO
far into the hole that no domestic animal
can getat it.
1t is no reason, because an animal does
not die Immediately, that it has not beer
poisoned. 1 call to mind an instance Of
poisoning by phosphorus of child o.
one of the physicians of San Diego. It
in some way, got hold of bunch Of
matches, and though it seemed to have
swallowed but very little of the com
pound, it was taken violently ill, and
every known remedy was applied and the
child partially recovered, and fingered
for six months, but finally died from the
effects of the poison. 1 write this tc
impress upon all who use the drug tht
necessity of extreme care in its use; for
like the "Mill of the Gods" 1t some
times grinds slow, but nevertheless
grinds very sure. In using it to poison
gophers, dig down to the main runway
and put in piece as large as walnut
and, believe me, you will soon be rid o
them. For kangaroo-rats and mice, pu
it into clumps OF bushes, piles of brusl
or stone, where nothing else can get a
it. The opinion prevails that it is liabl,
to take fire after being mixed, and ever
after being put out, but I have the bes
of reasons for believing it mistake
having inquired of parties who hav
used it for fifteen years, and they scou
the idea.
In conclusion I will say that fift,
cents worth of phosphorus will be NOR
efectual in Kidding your fields ant
orchards of squirrels than two dollar
worth of strychnine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

AN instrument for shortening human
legs, by fracturing the thigh bone, was
exhibited at the Boston City Hospital a
few days ago. 1t is for the benefit OF
persons having one leg longer than the
other.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

A RUSSIAN commissariat officer at
Odessa was detected adulterating -four
about to be sent to the army with lime
and other substances. He was i'm
mediately tried, and shot within twenty
four hours after the discovery took place.
The Russian Government trust that this
summary execution will put stop to
these practices, which caused SO much
suffering to the Russian soldiers during
the Crimean war.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

TURKEY has a population of 2S,165,-
00O-of which $685. 900 are in Europe !;
16,O5O,OOO are in Asia, and 3,SOO,OO0 are
in Africa.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
LOTE SONGS.

draw each day some happy thought
From my rich memories Of thee,
As Orient pearls the driver brings
Up from the gem-producing sea.
Each night pass the gates Of sleep
To walk thy gracious form beside,
As II one entered Paradise,
And met the soul of his dead bride.
So is my life, by love Of thee,
Made night and day alike divine;
Like some rude, worthless cup Of clay
Filled to the brim with priceless wine.
SPECIFICS through all the cherries night,
Stood Memnon's statue butat morn
The stone lips hailed the Day-god bright
With sounds of love and rapture born.
Lo here an image Of my heart,
That has no voice bereft OF thee;
But into songs of joy must start
If thy sweet presence shines on me.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
Space.

Business cards Of five lines or less s. per annum-
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion
Simple announcements Of marriages and deaths,
md church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. ANY additions to obituary notices win b
charged cents per line.
Favors MUST he handed in ss early as TuesdaE
morning to insure insertion the same week
Communications upon subjects Of general % 10
cal interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
1DOON THE LANE.

Upon one stormy Sunday,
Coming adoon the lane,
Were q score Of bonnie lassies-
And the sweetest / maintain
Was Caddie,
That took beneath my pladdie,
To shield her from the rain.
She said the daisies blushed
For the kiss that had ta'en;l
] wadna hae thocht the lassie
Wad sac o. a kiss complain.
Now laddie,
I wanna stay under your pladdie,
If l gang home in the rainl"
But on ane after Sunday,
When cloud, there was not ane;
This self-same, winsome lassie,
Ichanced to meet in the lane
Said Caddie,
Why did'na ye wear Jour pladdie?
Who kens but it may rain 2"