The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-10-17
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Troy Times
gives the following explanation of the
origin of hurrah:" Hip, hip, hurrah
was originally war-cry adopted by the
assailants of German city, in which
many Jews had taken refuge. The
place was taken, and they we've all put
to tie sword, amid shouts of Hero
sylma est perdita!' and from the first
letters of those words an exclamation
was contrived."
THERE is only one country in the
wor d in which there are no iliterate
people. 1t is the Sandwich islands.
The population of the islands is So, 900.
They have eleven high educational in
situations, 1863 middle public schools,
and forty-three private schools. The
public instruction is under the super
vision of committee appointed by the
King, and composed of five members,
who serve without remuneration. The
committee appoint General Inspector
and number of sub-inspectors. The
Government takes cafe that every per-
son shall be able at least TO read and
write, and pursues theoretically all
parents who neglect TO send their chill
dren to school.
SIR HENRY BULwER, uncle of Lord
Lytton, for months fancied himself af-
fected with paralysis of the legs, and
refused to put foot to the ground, but
was wheeled in a chair by servant.
One day the Rhone steamer, on which
he was travelling, caught fire, and the
Captain having run the boat ashore q
plank was thrown out by which the pas
sengers might land. The first person
on this new bridge, and stepping nim-
bly, down, was Sir Henry. When safe
on shore he remembered himself, and
called out TO his servant: "Carry me,
Forster" But it was too late. Forster
refused to hear more of his masters
folly, and Sir Henry walked very well
to the day of his death.
The difference in quality between
the coffee imported into this country
and that sold is remarkable. OF thirty
four samples of ground coffee lately
analysed, thirty-one were adulterated,
more or less, with chicory. Roast corn
was In twelve, and Deans and potato
-four in one. Chicory itself is as often
adulterated as coffee. Horse chestnuts,
acorns, wheat, red earth, carrots,
parsnips, saw-dust, and Venetian red,
enter freely into the composition. A
company which desiccates cocoanuts in
New York finds market for its shells at
the coffee mills, which grind and mix
them with coffee. Peanuts and burnt
sugar are also used for adulteration,
and unground coffee is by no means ex-
empt from foreign particles.
EXACTLY 100 years ago an obscure
and unknown Yorkshireman, Richard
Tattersall by name, emigrated from the
borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire
to London, in the hope of mending his
fortunes. He had previously tried his
hand as wool comber, but failed
thereby to get a living. Between
1742 and 1850 the founder of the Tat
tersall family had so improved his time
and opportunities as to be able to open
his now celebrated Repository for
Horses at Hyde Park corner, on the
edge of the marshes on which now
stand Eaton and Belgrave squares.
There take place all the great English
racing sales, and in its paddock is the
great betting exchange known as
"Tattersall's" which regulates the odds
over much of the world. ..., ,,e..,..
LEwINBEcK tells, of an insect seen
with a microscope, of which 27,000,00O
would only equal mite. Insects of
various kinds may be seen in the cavi-
ties of grain of sand. Mold is forest
of beautiful trees, with branches, leaves,
and fruit. Butterflies are full feathered.
HAIRS are hollow tubes. 1.-THE surface
of our bodies is covered with scales
like fish /; a single grain of sand would
cover $50 of these scales, and yet each
scale would cover 500 pores. Through
the narrow openings the perspiration