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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
Tn WAS not exnectod ,ho. tba por;s II,

In was not expected that the Paris Ex-
position of 1878 would be financial
success, yet the Government Commits
sioners already feel that they are out of
financial difficulty. The cost of build
ings and maintenance is estimated at
about $1,000, 900, and a revenue OF
nearly $1,000, 900 is already assured.
The attendance has exceeded e1pecta-
tions.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19

BUFFALO HORN, the Bannock leader,
is described as small, gracefully built
Indian, with beautiful eyes, not unlike
cross between an eagles and an ante
lope's. One side of his long hair is
bound round with threads of brown
bark, which, resembling buffalo horn,
is probably the occasion of his name.
He is very daring rider, a good shot,
brave, intelligent and proud as Lucifer,
but seems to enjoy the society of the
uhitae
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
Dingbat.

Anderson, in his slangy letter to Mrs.
jerks, told her that she could whistle
for her dingbats," and a correspondent
asks us to define "dingbats." The
word is net in the dictionary. At the
Methodist school at Wilbraham, Mass,
the name "dingbat has always been
applied to large raised biscuit that is
brought to the table hot and eaten with
butter or molasses in the morning. It
is palatable to the hungry, but is about
as indigestible as brickbat. WHY the
lovely jerks should whistle for them
must remain a mystery. Graphic.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
The United States Fish Commission

Food-Fishes will soon be fully restocked
in the waters of all the large rivers of this
country, if the work of the United States
Fish Commission shall continue to meet
the success of its early experiments. The
Commission has been at work for FIVE or
six years, but the first two years were main
ly devoted to an investigation of the sub
ject committed to their charge. Then the
work of propagating fish began, and about
four years ago the process of stocking the
headwaters of the interior with foolish
was fairly undertaken. California salmon
have been widely distributed, and reports
of the size reached by some captured spec
linens show that the experiment is sue
cess. Equally favorable reports have been
received of the growth of two hundred
thousand young shad put in the headwat-
ers of Allegheny river, in the western part
of New York, four years ago. The calcu-
lation was that they would travel to sea
before reaching maturity, making trip
Of two or three thousand miles, would stay
there for three or four years, and would
then attempt to ascend the rivers toward
the region Of their youth. The time has
arrived for verifeation of this calcula-
ton, and we have intelligence that shad
were caught this spring near Louisville
while making their way up the river, and
that the number was sufficient to supplant
in the market the shad brought overland
from the Potomac. The fish Matching
boxes on the upper Delaware have been
arranged so as to be lifted up and down,
partly out of and in the water, by steam
driven machinery, and the aeration of the
eggs thus secured is said to have produced
yield of twelve million fish, where other
wise scarcely one million would have been
Obtained.-PhiladeIphia Ledger.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
Is Cold Weather Healthy ?

The cold weather which we have been
recently experiencing has been character
lied on all sides as "seasonable" and ''very
healthy" When one is shivering even
with all the wraps possible to be carried,
ii is little irritating to be assured of the
healthiness of the weather and its season.
ableness. We are not prepared, however,
to cavil at the assertion of cold being in
season. Undoubtedly bright, clear, cold
days are more pleasant and cheerful-look-
ing than the dull wretchedness of the
gray days, that have no movement along
with their grayness, that are characterized
by muddy lanes in the country, and doub-
y muddy streets IL town.
But that the cold is healthy is utterly
untrue. Cold kills; it lowers the vital
powers even of the strongest. A hale,
well-fed, well-clothed man in the prime of
life, capable of taking active exercise, and
so stirring up his circulating organs to in-
creased action, may be able with pleasure
to himself to Withstand the effects of the
cold; but he does this because he is already
in god health, and possessed of the means
of keeping himself so. He is not made
well by the cold. On the other hand.
when the powers of resistance to the lower
ing effects of cold are feeble, as in the case
with with infants and with old people, the
cold catches hold of them, and the death
rate of those at the beginning and the end
of life is unusually high while the cold
prevails.
The temperature of the body is lowered
by poor and deficient food; and when, in
addition to the scanty meals which are the
normal lot of many poor people, the cold
of the atmosphere comes to lay its heavy
burden on them, they die in increased
numbers. On one day in last week five
inquests were held on the bodies of per-
sons who had died from the effects of cold
acting on frames already weakened by
want of food. Good food and warm cloth
ing can alone enable the human body to
resist the destructive effects of cold, and
those who deal out at this season soup and
meat, Goals, and flannel garments, are real
physicians of the bodies of poor men,
women, aud children, and deserve the
blessings Of those ready to perish.
Nor is it only in causing death that the
cold weather shows its i'll effects. People
who tell you that the weather is "healthy,
almost in the same breath will say that
they never knew a time when so much
illness was about. Coughs and colds,
rheu..atisms and bronchitis, are familiar
ailments in almost every household, and
the bitter east wind almost literally cuts
into the skin and the delicate air passages
of many suffering creatures. The well
come that is given to the least appearance
of thaw, or to any tendency of the wind
towards warmer quarter, is convincing
proof, if there were no other, that the
sayings about the healthiness of the cold
are purely conventional, and are borne out
by no correspondence in fact
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
The Dardenelles.

The Dardenelles toward which so much
attention is now directed, fairly teens
with historic and poetic memories. Its
navigation was first attempted by the Ar
gonauts under Jason in their search for
the Golden Fleece. At Abydos, Xerxes
built his famous bridge of boats FOR the
invasion of Greece, and it was here that
the loves of Hero and Leander became
world renowned. Leander, who lived at
Abydos, on the Asiatic shore, was in love
with Hero, the beautiful princess of We
nus, at Sestos, and regularly swan the
strait to meet his mistress. One dark and
stormy night he failed to appear, and when
the luckless Hero visited the shore the
next morning the waves had washed the
dead body of her lover upon the sands.
Overcome by her loss, she plunged into
the sea, and the spot became ever after
sacred to her memory. On the Sd of
March, 1910, Lord Byron swan the Oar
danelles at the same point in seventy min
utes. He was accompanied by Lieuten-
ant Akenhead, whose name has been
handed down to posterity in the line:
"Which Leander, Mr.. Akenhead, and did. {"
The swim from Abydos to Sestos is still
repeated yearly by Byron inspired tourists,
and will probably continue to be as long
as the glamour of poetry and tradition
hangs round the spot In the days of
Leander the strait was called the Helles-
pont
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09

is the entrance to the cathedral. We
must ascend the belfry tower, from which
we have grand view of the city, the dis
tant mountains, the river, stretching far
away to the west through the green
valley.
From this point you look down into the
gardens of the city and into the courts of
the houses, paved and filed with flowers
and orange trees. The cathedral below
you looks ike village Of low buildings
covered with tile, and gives no indication
OF the beauty within. One object in the
distance attracts your attention. 1t is
massive bridge across the swift river. Its
arches look little irregular, for they have
stood for twelve centuries on foundations
laid in the swift current by the Romans.
This cathedral is the finest and most COM
plete specimen of Mohammedan architec-
ture in Europe. But there is one thing
to mar the unity of the grand structure.
In 1923 the Bishop, Alfonso Marique, not
satisfied with the low roof of this immense
mosque attempted to add to it by building
up from the centre coro, grand in itself
and beautifully ornamented and rising into
a lofty dome. Charles the v. well de-
scribed this change when he said to the
Bishop: "YOu have built here what YOU
or any one might have built anywhere
else; but you destroyed what was unique
in the world"
Seventy years were employed in build
ing this coro. 1t has 109 stalls for the
choir and clergy, and over every stall are
most beautiful carvings in wood, illustrat-
ing Scripture scenes of the Old and New
Testament, beginning with Adam and
Eve. The wood is mahogany, and some
of the scenes have fifteen figures in relief.
most exquisitely done All the sides of
this lofty coro are most elaborately wrought
for fifty feet high in this fine wood-carving.
with lifesize figures of the Saviour and the
Virgin Mary above ALL
The immense number of columns rang
ed over this great space of 400 feet BY
$50, give the singular appearance of aisles
running in every direction. They form
nineteen longitudinal and transverse aisles,
and look in the dim light like forest of
precious marbles, jasper and porphyry.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
The City of Paris.

Paris is essentially a city of ease.
Everything is easy; life is easy, society is
easy, amusement is easy, economy is easy,
extravaganza is easy, labor is easy, idleness
is easy, and art is easy. You can live as
you choose. If you are poor, and can only
pay the rent of a little apartment on the
fifth floor in some back street, no one
thinks worse of you because of your mod
est home If you have natural tastes, you
can adorn it in thousand ways utterly
unknown elsewhere. You can get literally
for two or three pounds various bargains
in furniture that are elegant aud artistic.
You hang dainty muslin curtains at your
windows, you deck your mantelpiece with
white muslin drapery, you place few del
icate and cheap otgets dart about your
rooms, a pot or two Of day-blossoms
on your balcony, and you have home
that is as pleasant to the eyes as to
the conscience. No one in the wide
world of Paris will dream of reproaching
you for your unassuming household. Your
friends will call in upon you in the even
ing for quiet chat-leavened, it must be
owned, with scandal-they will be quite
satisfied to 90 away without bite or sup,
as the saying is; and if you offer them
cup of coffee or tea with biscuit, viii
consider your entertainments orgies
If some one drops in to tea unexpected
ly, you need be in no turmoil. You have
but to send out, and ten chances to one
that you viii be able to procure soup, and
dish of meat and vegetables cooked-and
nicely eOoked-in your own street. At the
last moment your coffee falls short You
send to the milkman's or cremerie for the
essence of coffee, which they keep ready
made, and which is excellent Fruit of
all kinds is sold in the streets, and no one
thinks it derogatory to buy peach for
penny or half-penny at barrow. have
seen gentlemen of unmistakable blue blood
aud handsome aristocratic appearance and
presence conducting vivacious arguments
with costermongers over the goods dis
played in their carts; and know of no
bleman ofimposing name and distinguished
appearance who does not consider his dig
nifty endangered by carrying home bag
Of fruit, and even at times-let me whis-
per it-an artichoke or tomato.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
Hood on 0ourtship.

Hood in his "visita of the ludicrous side
of life" says, in reference to eourtship:
We like short courtships, and in this
Adam acted sensibly-he fell asleep a
bachelor and awoke to find himself mar
ried man. He appears to have popped the
question almost Immediately after meeting
Mademoiselle Eve, and she, without any
Irritation or shyness, gave him kiss and
herself Of that first kiss in this world
we have had, however our own thoughts ::
and sometimes, in a poetical mood, have
wished we were the man "wot did it,
But the deed is done-the chance was
Adams and he improved it. Welike the
notion Of getting married in a garden. II
is in good taste. We like private we'd
ding. Adams was strictly private. No
envious beaux were there; no croaking old
maids; no chattering aunts, or grumbling
grandmothers. The birds Of Heaven we're
the minstrels; and the glad sky flung its
light upon the scene.
One thing about the first wedding brings
queer ideas to us in spite of its Scriptural
truth. Adam and his wife were rather
young to be married (some two or three
days old, according to the sagest specula-
tions of theologians), mere babies-larger
but not older-without experience, with
out house, without pot or kettle, with
nothing-but love aud Eden.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
dait and 9umur.
A Greater Man than the President.

A Kentucky gentleman undertook re.
Gently to deliver an address before a GER
tain Sunday School. After the children
were gathered before him he began by OBJ
serving that there were some very great
men in the world.
''For instance" said he, ''The Governor
of Kentucky is great man. Now all of
you who have seen the Governor of Ken
lucky stand up"
Seven children arose.
'But," he continued, "theTe is a greater
man than even the Governor of Ken
lucky. That is the President of the Uni
ted States. How many of you have seen
the President of the United States p"
Two children arose.
"NOw, the speaker proceeded, drop
ping his voice to solemn key, "there is
some one greater than the President of
the United States. Do you know who 1
mean p
"Tilden, Tilden," chirped out a half
dozen voices.
Then everybody smiled and cardinal
red flush mantled to the roots of the lee
turer's hair.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
Select puetrp.
BILL AND JOE.
/. BY OLIVER WENDELL HoLxEs.

bh 0AAh&-E HOLME~.
Come, dear old eomrade, you and
VIII seal an hour from days gone by
The shining days when life was new
Ana All was bright with morning dew
The lusty days oflong ago,
When you were Bill and was Joe.
Your name may haunt titled trail.
Proud as a cockerels rainbow tail;
And mine as brief appendix wear
As 1am O'Shanter's luckless mare;
To-day, old friend, remember still.
That ! am Joe and you are Bill.
You've won the great worlds envied prize,
ana grand You look in peoples eyes,
With II o n. and LII. D.,
IN big. brave letters, fair TO see
Your iist, old fellow OF they 30 -
HOW are you, Billl How are you, Joeg
You've worn the judges ermined robe:
You xe taught your name 70 half the globe;
aou, We sung mankind deathless strain
You We made the dead past live again:
The world may call you what IL will,
But you and are Joe and Bill.
The chafing young folks stare and say,
see the old buffers, bent and gray
They talk like fellows in their teensl
Mad poor old boys That's what IL means"
And shake their heads; they little know
The throbbing hearts Of Bill and Joe
How Bill forgets his hour Of pride,
While Joe sits smiling at his side;
How Joe. in spite OF times disguise
ftnds the old sehOolmate in his eyes
Those calm, stern eyes that melt and I'll
As Joe looks fondly up AZ BIZ.
All, pensive scholar, what is fame?
A atful tongue OF leaping flame:
A giddy whirlwind's ickle gust
That lifts pinch Of mortal dust;
A few swirl years and who can show
Which dust was Bill and which was Joe
The weary idol takes his stand
Holds out his bruised and aching hand.
While gaping thousands come and GO
How vain IL seems. this empty show
Till all az once his pulses thrill:
ispOOr old JOe's God bless you, BilIr'
And shall we breathe in happier spheres
The names that please our mortal ears
In some sweet lull Of harp and song
For earth-born spirits none too long
Just whispering of the world below
Where this was Bill, and that was Joe?
No matter. while our home Is here,
No sounding name Is half so dear;
When fades az length our lingering day,
Who cares what pOmpous tombstones say?
Read on the hearts that love us still,
Hic Jdocf Joe. Hie jaeot Bill.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
A Beautiful House Plant.

The Gala lily, roots of which may be
procured of any florist, is one of our finest
plants for houses growing when properly
treated. The best method we have tried
is to procure an earthen jar-suitably dec
GRATED on the outside if desired, by paint
ing or FASTING on of frieze or flower pic
ture, or by paper open work covering.
In this place rich mold, some five or six
inches deep, and in this set the Gala plant.
Now put on the top of this model layer
Of clean, coarse sand about TWO inches
deep, and on top Of this some small peb-
bles. Then fill the jar with water and re
place as evaporated, so as to always have
the water several inches deep above the
pebbles, Place in warm and sunny win
dow, and the plant viii throw up large,
luxuriant leaves, to be followed by the
magnificent bloom What is still better,
the flower stalks will be sent up in sue
cession so as to afford a nearly continuous
series of flowers. A few minnows intro
duced into the water viii usually thrive
without further care, and afford pleasing
study.-Scientifc american.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
Tnianls Wall.
What II Is, What II Was, and When IL
Was Built.

The events now Transporting IN the neigh
borhood of the Danube bring into curious
prominence the name of the Emperor Ira
jan, the buttresses of whose bridge, we
believe, still stands on opposite banks Of
the Danube, and whose famous wall seems
to be the line along which the tide of war
is rapidly rolling. The bridge thrown
over the Danube by the great monarch
was, in some respects at least, the most
remarkable of all the structures that sue
cessive belligerents have erected for the
passage Of their troops.
1t was not a mere floating bridge, BUT a
permanent structure, carried on piers $50
feet high and sixty feet wide, and it COM
prised twenty arches, extending altogether
four thousand seven hundred and seventy
Roman feet. This giant structure, than
which ancient history records nothing of
the kind equal to it, seems to have been
intended as a fortress as well as a bridge.
Standing eighty feet above the water, it is
supposed to have afforded the command of
the Danube navigation, a garrison posted
on il being, Of course, able to damage or
destroy vessels passing under, while they
would be above the reach of retaliation.
1t was destroyed by Hadrian, and its pre-
else locality has been the subject Of some
dispute. Ruins, which evidently might
have formed the buttresses of a bridge.
occurring on the line of an old Roman
road, however, seems to leave little room
for doubt. Trajan's wall is another relic
of this terribly energetic old Roman. 1t
is, strictly speaking, a rampant of earth
about thirty-fve or forty miles long, and
extends from Rassova, just at the bend in
the Danube to the shores of the Black
Sea. Though only an earthwork, it is a
formidable line of defense. 1t is eight or
ten feet high, with fosse in front of it,
while the western portion is still further
fortified by deep lakes and the swampy
valley of Kara-Su. In addition to all
this, another rampant of a similar charac-
ter lies just in the rear Of it. This is
known as the south wall, the space between
the two ramparts being from / 200 to
1000 feet-LoasIoH Globe.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09

An exciting incident happened in a re-
cent review Of Austrian cavalry by the
Emperor and Empress. About 10000
cavalry we're in line, and charging down
in a mad gallop to salute the sovereigns,
when a little four-year-old child, escaping
from her mother, ran directly in front of
the rushing horses. The Empress scream
ed and everybody expected to witness the
instant death of the child, when a trooper
in the front ranks bent forward from his
saddle, seized the child without slackening
speed, and placed her at his saddle bow
The crowd cheered the gallant deed lusti-
ly, and the Emperor taking from his neck
the Cross of the Order of Marie Therese,
hung it upon that of the soldier
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09

"But | pass" said a minister in the
west, recently, in dismissing one theme OF
his subject to take up another. "Then
make it spades, yelled a man from the
gallery, who was dreaming the happy
hours away in an imaginary game Of
euchre. 1t is needless to say that he went
out on the next deal, being assisted by one
of the deacons with full hand of clubs.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
Elder Ducks.

There is cold dark land, an island far
in the north-in the Northern Ocean
which is called Iceland The people there
know nothing of green woods, nor tall
trees, with outspreading branches, nor of
the birds that fill the air with their songs.
Iceland has only one bird-the Elder
duck. The down which the Elder duck
has on its breast is very valuable, and it is
for the sake of this that the birds are
protected and cared for by the inhabitants.
When the duck builds her nest all she
wants is a few twigs or some sea-weed,
and the outside is ready, but not the in
side. The tender mother knows very well
how to make her children comfortable.
She herself plucks off the soft down on
her breast and lines her nest with it; then
lays her eggs right in the middle of the
nest, so that they sink deep down and are
hidden, sheltered and kept warm, even
when she flies off for little while.
But the cold is not the worst enemy.
\ morning comes when the mother flies
away in haste to snatch her breakfast, and
when she returns both eggs and nest
have vanished. She at once begins all
again, and comes home once more to find
the bare walls of her nursery. Now she
has no more down; her breast is quite
bare; what can she do? The father at
once comes to her aid, and willingly yields
his down to preserve his family. This
time they are not disturbed. The lee
I, ndar, Lno,r tb,t 80 ~oLLoJ - XII
time, the faithful parents would fly from
the island and return no more, SO they will
not cheat themselves of next years profits.
From $500 to $500 is given for each
nest, but as the feathers are very light
there is large quantity in each. The
feathers are afterwards sold at high
price and the eggs are kept for winter use.
The feathers are used for quilts, and as
wadding for coats and mantles.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09

AT sale of hand made oil paintings,
shipped and sent from a manufactory, and
sold at ridiculously low prices, Mr.. Mid
dlerib was looking at grand painting Of
Niagara, in blue and green water, and
white moonlight and green grass and gray
rocks, and about two sizes larger than a
theatre drop curtain.
"That is a rare picture, sir; very rare
picture" remarked the illustrious artist
who presided over the auction.
"Rare, Ell J" grinned Mr.. Middlerib.
"Rare oh yes, see; not well done"
And then there was silence in the Vi
cinity of Niagara by Moonlight for the
space of ten minutes.-Burlingt0n Hasck-
eUe.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09

A Dewitt county teacher has adopted a
plan, whereby, when a girl misses word,
the boy who spells it has the right to kiss
her. The Clinton Press says: ''The re-
suit is that the girls are fast forgetting all
they ever knew about spelling, while the
boys are improving with wonderful rapid
ity.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09

An orange tree in the Azores in one
year produced 10000 oranges, which we're
exported in perfect condition to England.
In those islands the expectation of oranges
has become a very important industry.
During the past year they have yielded to
Great Britain alone 209, 9,615 cases of the
fruit, worth about $500, 900. The branches
and trunks of the trees are attended to so
scientifically that they usually attain gi-
gantic proportions