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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
A Child Charmed by a Snake.

Pat McCarty, who lives in Anderson
county, about four miles from Law.
renceburg, was badly-scared Irishman.
He was sitting on his porch one day last
week, when his little child, about fifteen
months old, crawled out to a rose bush,
and, bending down, appeared to be in
tent upon some object underneath it.
He called the child several times, but il
made no response and did not move.
This 80 astonished him that he went TO
the bush, and, peeping under, saw the
child's face within two inches of the
head of an enormous snake, which was
coiled about the root. He seized the
little one and ian with it into the house.
1t appeared perfectly helpless, and Pal
was so frightened that he was almost az
helpless as the child. Upon returning
to the bush, which was the rose known
as the sweet-briar or wild eglantine, and
which grew low to the ground, the snake
had disappeared. To avoid recur
renee, however, Pat grubbed mp the
bush and turned his hogs in the yard
He is now firm believer in the pow
er of the serpent. baltimore Sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
Turkey and Trimmings.

A correspondent supplies curious
record of events, which has special in
terest at the present time. He says: A
century is not much in the life of ma
ton, and the following dates may be of
interest to your readers. From this it
appears England has been alternately
friend and foe of most of the European
powers on the Eastern question:
TAO. Austria and Russia agreed to d.
vide Turkey. Great sea fight at 8 40.
ITO. England and Russia fight Tur-
key.
i790. Austria and Russia fight against
Turkey, and Turkey loses 200, 0O0 men.
1898. England joins Turkey against
France, and drives the French out OF
Egypt.
1907. Russia joins Turkey against
Eng and, and almost destroys the En-
elish feet in the Dardanelles, under Sn
! John Duckworth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

In each one of the principal cities in
Australia there is plat of ground which
is called the "domain," and which is
granted by the Government for park
purposes. Generally it is strip OF
ground half-a-mile wide, which sur.
rounds the city in hollow square. II
is plated, shaded, grassed, and rendered
beautiful and inviting in hundred
ways. Paths for promenades, benches
for resting, and fountains of water fol
drinking, abound. Botanical gardens
and geological gardens are frequently
connected with them. Museums, library
buildings, agricultural and industrial
exhibition halls, cricket grounds, and
nursery plats for maids and children,
are located on them. And, when the
cities grow until all the space within the
domain is occupied, the people must &c
beyond it to build. There it is, and
there it will remain for ever, blessing
and sanitarium for the poor of an over
crowded city, easy of access.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

The Collectorship of the port of Sitka,
Alaska, is not a political prize, though
the salary is 81, 500, and the man who
essayed to fill it, but was rejected by
the Senate just as he had reached his
slab-board Custom House, is now in ter
rible straits. He exhausted all his re-
sources i'll transporting his family to the
inhospitable shores of our northern
possession, and had no sooner reached
there than he received knowledge of the
fact that he wasn't wanted. He had nc
money and no friends, and no way either
to give his family bread or to bring them
back; and for time they were all in
sore need. At length, by the kindness
of a foreigner who had known some Of
the Collectors family abroad, he was
enabled to borrow a sufficient sum to re-
turn to San Francisco, and finally sue
ceeded in reaching Washington, where
nothing can be done for his relief.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
A Hard Test.

Ten or a dozen men were enjoying the
hotweather which baked the shingles on
ferry-dock saloon yesterday, when a
stranger stalked in and inquired of the
bartender:
Have you any mint ?"
"Yes, SIR" was the reply.
"And you have sugar, lemons, gin,
brandy and so fort ?"
CT have"
The stranger turned around to the
crowd, noted the sudden increase of in
terest in each face, and kindly said:
Gentlemen, I'm going to treat every
liar in this room. Let the hars-the
monstrous liars-come forward"
Not a foot moved.
Gentlemen" continued the stranger
in a plaintive tone, "don't be backward.
Juleps wait for all. Every one of you
who is known as a liar will please stand
up"
Not man stood. The strangers
face betrayed keen disappointment, as
he ordered a rousing big mint" for
himself, and not a word was spoken in
the place while he slowly slipped the
cooling liquid through a straw. When
he had finished he wiped bis mouth and
said:
"Well, every truth-tellerin the crowd
will now stand up"
Each man rose up with the prompt
ness of soldier.
"And sit down again." softly said the
man as he made for the door.
They would have sat down on him,
but great truth-tellers are poor runners.
Detroit Free Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
Burned MoIasses Candy.

There is a stately dwelling house in
Philadelphia which has singular his
tory. 1t stands in a grove of walnut
trees; the woodwork is all of walnut;
carved panels representing walnut
boughs decorate the dining-room, and
on the carriage of the owner, instead of
coat of arms, is bunch of walnuts
just bursting from the husks.
The story is this: About forty years
ago poor woman kept cent store in
an alley in the lower part of the city. A
piece of dried beef and two or three
brooms were the heavy part of her stock.
One day when making molasses candy.
to be sold to the street children, it was
scorched. The woman was in despair.
The loss was serious one in trade
whose profits were counted by pennies.
She was quick-witted, however, and
ready with expedients. She cracke d
some walnuts, mixed the kernels with
the candy, and wrote a placard, "The
new Nut Candy, one cent cake"
The children dropped in on their way
to school. The candy was liked. They
came back for more the next day. The
fame of the cheap CONNECTION spread
from one school to another. The maker
shrewdly confined herself to making
that
Presently she took larger shop in
the alley. In year or two she again
moved, but this time it was into one OF
the principal streets. To-day her orig
inal walnut candy is sent to all parts of
the country. The woman disposed of
her business few years ago for sum
which made her rich for life. Is it any
wonder that she took ripe walnut for
her crest?
But it was not to the walnuts nor to
the lucky chance that she owes her fort
une. How many women have burned
their candy, and the result was only
scorched molasses? How many men
saw apples fall before Sir Isaac Newtoni
1t is the keen eye and ready brain that
can seize on failures and make them sue
cesses, and which, with honesty, make
the best capital for man or woman.-
Youths Companion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
" THE DIPPER."
A Remarkable Fact About the Constella
ton or the Great Bear.

A Remarkable Fact About the Constella-
ton or the Great Bear.
In the constellation of the Great Bear
is "The Dipper," composed of seven
bright stars, two of which are called the
pointers, for the reason thata line drawn
through them would always intersect
the polar star, which is 2Sl degrees north
of the upper star (of the two called point
ers). A writer saws:
There is something remarkable in the
fact that large group of stars in the
northern heavens, bearing no resem-
blance whatever to bear, should yet
be so called; and what is still more re.
markable is that this great region of
stars should always have been known by
that name by nations of the northern
hemisphere of the earth, however re-
motely situated from each other, or to
whatever remote period we go back
back until we become lost, without rec
ord or tradition, and still wondering that
the name and place of the constellation
should yet be all aglow in that far, far,
misty past.
Great physical changes on the earth 8
surface undoubtedly have occurred in
the ages that have gone. thereby sepa-
rating and isolating nations that once
knew each other. Each nation after
the cataclysm occurred probably kept
its traditions, though it became lost to
its once neighboring people, and thus
we have a probable reason why the
Asiatic, the Egyptian and the American
Indian are all, at the same time, familiar
| To- q
name.
The Great Bear is pictured on the old
Egyptian hemispheres as stately, march
ing westward around the pole of the
heavens, and is placed in very high
latitude, and, in fact, directly over the
home of the polar bears of the earth
Was it intended to typify the region
If so, then the Egyptian was familiar
with the home of the animal. Or was
it some mirage, projecting a vast image
of the animal upon those misty polar
skies, that gave rise to thought of sc
placing it
This constellation can be seen on any
clear night throughout the year in this
latitude, except the stars located in the
bears paws. Thousands of people have
per, and noticed its handle high above
the pole star, then again sweeping around
westwardly, and then seen low on the
northern horizon, swinging around tC
the east, and again above the pole, ant
on to the west-all accounted for by the
earth's daily motion on its axis-causine
an apparent movement of the constella
ton westwardly around the pole of tn,
| heavens
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

THE Danish Government has pub
lished a small book of statistics. The
total population of the kingdom exceeds
1900, 900, of whom l, $50, 900 live in Den
mark proper, ~, 600 in Iceland, 9, 800 in
Greenland and $1,000 in the West In
dian colonies. The population of Co
penhageu and its suburbs is about ESQ.,.
600. The average duration of life in
Denmark is 30 years, while in England
it is As, in France 30, and in Italy only
80: but the number of suicides is very
large and increasing every year, the ma
jority being by hanging.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
THE English railway corporations are

THE English railway corporations are
brought to book whenever passenger
takes his grievance into court. A solic-
itor bought ticket at Paddington for
Ludlow on the day before Whit Sunday.
When he reached Shrewsbury, the train
being seventy-fve minutes late, he
found that the evening train for his
destination had already started. He
requested the officials to run him spe-
cial, but they declined, and told him he
must wait for train at 3:15 the next
morning. The passenger thereupon
posted to Ludlow, mourning an expense
of over $40, for which he proceeded To
sue the company in the Hereford County
Court. The company pleaded that the
train was delayed because it was holi
day time, and that it was stated on Their
time tables that they would not be re
sponsible for the due arrival or depart
ure of any trains. The Judge gave {
verdict for the plaintiff with costs, ant
refused to grant case for a superior
court. Heaven hasten the day when i
will be as easy and as cheap to prose
cute railway corporation in the Unitet
| States as it now is in England
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

The tramp of the period keeps bank
account. He begged dinner at the
house of farmer in Amherst, Mass.
and a supper at an Irishman's hut sew
eral miles further on. After supper he
sat down in the kitchen, smoked pipe,
and finally remarked that he thought he
would stay all night. The cottagers
told him they were poor and could not
afford to keep him over night He re-
plenished his pipe and coolly informed
them that, if that were the case, he
would pay for the entertainment. This
he did, showing at the time handbook
with 81, 900 to his credit in Boston saw
ings bank.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

The returns of life insurance in En-
gland do not compare favorably with the
same business in this country. The
largest English company has only $780,
600, 900 of assets, against $50, 900, 900 in
the largest American; the ten largest
companies in this country have $780,
100000 of assets, against $l93, 900, 00O
in the ten largest English companies.
The English companies average only
AIS per cent. on their investments, ours
$50 per cent, which accounts for the
great difference in income and in the
rapidity of accumulation. OF the
twenty-nine leading companies in both
countries, the English supported ST.,
1OO,0 900 of risks on an income of $48,'
600, 900, and ours risk of 81, 621, 900,
900 on an income of $50, 000,0 900.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

THE Peruvian railroads over the Andes
climb the mountains by sharp grades
and turns. One road winds up the
mountains in zigzag and oftentimes al
most circular path, and at one point there
are two tunnels through the side OF the
peak, one directly above the other in the
same lateral direction. The rarefed at
mosphere at the great elevation reached
on the summit presented many new feat
ures in railroading, as locomotive had
never before been worked at these
heights. 1t was supposed by engineers
generally that it would be impossible to
keep up steam above 5000 or 10000
feet. This problem was solved in yer,
simple manner. At great elevations il
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

SHIPMENTS of live cattle and hogs are
steadily on the increase from this coun-
try to England. The principal cause of
loss in shipping live cattle is the lack of
proper ventilation in the holds of ordi-
nary steamers, and nearly all the deaths
among cattle are caused by suffocation.
In order TO overcome this difficulty it is
proposed to organize line of steamers
especially for the transportation of live
cattle, with padded stalls and adequate
facilities for ventilation, and, if the bust
ness increase as present indications
promise, the steamers will probably be
bought and retitted so as to be running
next season.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

without any supper On it, and turned the
gas 10, Just tiny little bit of lite. After
a vile there wos raps, and the man wich
they was in his house said "Wot
spirit is present." but no aLser. Then
the raps they began another time, and
the man he said the alfabet over and
over. bout hour, and wen there was a
rap they took down that letter on q
piece of paper, very solemn. Jest then
a pet owl slept out from under a sofy,
wunk its big eyes like sleepy, much as to
say: 81 guess its time this here say
ance was goin' home to bed"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

SOME time ago at a funeral the officiat-
ing clergyman. in his words of consola-
ton to the mourners, used the following
language He has left this world oil
pain and sorrow, and gone to a blissful
cline, where sorrow and parting are un-
known. There is no death in that happy
world, no graves, no collins, no under
takers" However consoling the fore
going may have been to the bereaved
ones, it is certainly not hattering out
look for the undertakers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

AT last there is a prospect that the
Washington monument will actually be
completed before the end of the century.
Tie foundations are to be strengthened,
and then large force of men will be
kept at work until the monument is fin
lshed. 1t is a disgrace to the country
that it has 80 long remained mere un-
slightly heap of stones and mortar, while
millions have been spent upon other
structures in and about the capital
which could better have been postponed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
The elevated railway in New York

The elevated railway in New York in
Sixth avenue is estimated to have in
jured the property along its line to the
amount of $50, 900, OOO The residents
and shopkeepers are leaving the locality
as rapidly as possible, and landlords are
in despair over future prospects. The
noise of trains in the air, with each sup
port acting as telephone, is said to be
past endurance. Ellison is experiment.
ing for the cause and remedy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

THE report of the French commission
sent to this country two years ago to ex-
anime into the American system of com.
mon schools is favorable one. The
distinctive and admirable feature OF the
American system, i'll the commission
opinion, is the effort to develop the in
dividuality of pupils, to strengthen the
Judgment 80 that it may be relied upon,
and to cause the children to think and
act for themselves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
THERE was q scene of wild exciteme

THERE was scene of wild excitement
in one of the pleasure elevators in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, few days
ago. One of the cars was descending
with an overload of fifty-three people,
when sharp crack was heard, the car
moved quickly downward, and brought
up with a jerk. One of the cables had
parted, and the car became wedged, $50
feet in the air. After an hour of sus-
pense the imprisoned people were res
cued from their perilous position.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

1927. English and Russian fleets de-
stroy the Turkish feet at Navarino.
1928. Russia fights Turkey, and the
"sacred standard" is unfurled.
1888. Russia enters Constantinople,
and makes an offensive and defensive
alliance with Turkey.
1854. England, France and Turkey
subdue Russia in the Crimea.
1877. Russia defeats Turkey, and this
time England looks on.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
THE Rev. Josiah Henson, the coloret

THE Rev. Josiah Henson, the colored
clergyman who recently visited England,
was presented to the Queen, and made
no end of sensation as the original I'm.
Gle Tom, has been recitipg his advent
ures to a Canadian reporter, and claim
ing that he suffered everything told in
Mrs. Stoves book. Mrs. Stowe wrote a
little over a year ago that, though his
story furnished her with many incidents,
he was not the original Uncle Tom,
neither was any one else.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

THE London Globe, the first paper to
publish the Anglo. Russian programme,
is the Oldest evening newspaper in En-
gland. The owner is an old Indian Off
Ger. and has his own notions of settle
ment of the Eastern question. The
queer part of the story about the surrep-
titious publication is, that the Globe re-
ceived $4,000 for publishing a docu-
ment that the London Times or Meas
would have paid handsomely for.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.


The new-mown grass II straying
Over the lawn 80 fair;
This little ones are playing
In merry fashion there;
+" oh, joy T. say they, "comes with the day
When John begins TO cut the hay.
We're happy little children,
SO much to make us glad;
We doubt II little princes
Know half the Joys we We had;
But OF all days the happiest day
Is when we toes the new-mown hay.
- II smells so fresh and pleasant
Nurse says II smells OF spring
We nil our arms with such load,
And at each other fling;
And largh and shout the live-long day
When John begins to cut the hay"
Then away with books and lessons,
And of to the grass 80 sweet,
So fresh and green, 80 cool and clean,
SO pleasant TO ones feet;
For Joy. say they, comes with the day
When John begins to cut the hay.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

was merely necessary to introduce into
the furnace greater quantity of air in
a given time TRAN at the sea Lowell, and
the simple operation of opening the
hampers wider accomplished this result.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
The Trne yurtlleruer.
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1873.

The Turkish territory in Asia, over
which ENGLAND and Turkey will rule
as one power" is CSC. $40 square miles
in extent, and contains population of
$1,000, 900. OF the inhabitants 10, 0O0,-
600 ere Turks, 100000 Armenians,
and the rest Greeks, Jews, Tartars,
Arabs, Syrians, Kurds and Turcomans.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

flece' On OWlb.
Wen you come to see 'em close they
get ollie big eyes, but wen you feel 'em
with yur fingers, which thay bites, you
find thay have only got jest enuf meat to
hold there fethers to gether. Once there
was man thot he would like owl for q
pet, so he tole the bird man to send him
the best one in the shop; but wen it was
brot home he look at it and skeweezed
it, but it didn't suit. So the man he rote
letter to the bird man, and said
"Dear sir l take my pen in hand to in
form you I'll keep the owl witch you
have sent, tho it amt like L wanted, but
wen it is ded you must make me other,
with little eyes, cos L 'spose these is
bout No. lbs, but If pay you the same
price for No. 6's mebby you can afford
to put in more owl.
Owls is very wise, but my sisters
yung man says anybody cude be wise il
they wude set up mites. like owls, tC
take notice. That Teller is comm tC
our house agin, jest as he used to, only
more, and when 1 asst him what made
him come so much, he said he was mar
of science, like me, and was studdyir
orny thology, witch was birds, 1 ast hin
what birds he was studyin, and he sale
angels, and wen he said it was my siste
she look out of the winder, and said wo
a fine day it had turned out to be, but j
was rainin cats and dogs when she sale
il. 1 never seen such goose in my lif,
as that girl, but Uncle Ned, wich ha
been in Indy and evry were, he say
that they are Jest that way in Maddy
gasker.
There was mans house one nit
witch was a spiritilist, and some folk
was there wich bleeved in it too, so the
oil jned hands, and set down to tabl