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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

Few people have correct notion of
the extent to which artificial ice is being
manufactured in the South. The sue
cess of the process employed has been
so marked that from Florida to Texas
the machines are being put in operation
at frequent intervals. The actual cost
of manufacturing ice on the st. Johns
river is said to be but 70 cents ton,
including the storage and delivery. AS
Northern ice used to retail at from $40
to $15 ton there, it is plain that a
handsome profit remains for the manu-
facturer after putting his price so low
as to drive all natural competition from
the market. One of the machines, in
which ammonia is used to do the freez-
ing, turns out ten tons of ice daily in
the form of blocks about two and half
feet long and ten inches in thickness.
The congelation is perfect, and many
are said to prefer ice thus made to that
formed in the laboratory of nature.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
One Can Testify to His Own Age.

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has recently decided that person is a
competent witness to testify to his own
age. The case was Henry Hill and
others against William r. Eldridge,
brought In the Superior Court for Nor
folk county. Action was brought to re-
cover for goods sold to the defendant,
whose defense was infancy and that the
goods sold were not necessaries. At
the trial in the Superior Court, without
a jury, the defendant was witness,
and, under the plaintiffs objection, was
permitted to testify that, when the
goods were purchased, be was 16 years
of age, and that he was, at the time of
the trial, % years of age. 1t appeared
that the defendants father was dead,
but it did not appear whether the
mother was living or not, and no other
evidence was offered. The Superior
Court found for the defendant, and ex-
captions were taken by the plaintiffs.
The Supreme Court has now overruled
the exceptions, holding that the evil
dence was admissible. 1t is decided
thst person may testify to his own
age, and such weight may be given to
his testimony as the court or jury try
ing the case may think it entitled to re-
ceive.--BOStOn Advertiser.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

CINCINNATI has society for the pro-
motion of matrimony, which was organ
lied two years ago, and has had the sup
port of good people. Its President is
a member of the City Council, and all
the other officers were men of local
prominence. Over 2,000s have joined,
and there are branches in forty cities.
Next month a picnic will be given in
commemoration of the second ami
versary of the organization, and on the
occasion it is expected there will be
over 100 couples publicly joined in
matrimony.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

Lo, the sun doth compass us around
about, and the heat thereof doth prevail
nightly against the son of man.
1t catcheth him in the seventh hour
of the morning, and it tarrieth with him
even until the seventh hour of the even
ing, and there is no good in him.
He sweateth like unto street-sprink-
Ter. Yea, verify, like unto a hose-cart,
and his bowels yearneth for icewater.
If so be he hath ice-water wherewith
to quench his thirst, what pro6teth it
him; it boweth his soul in anguish and
vexeth his reins sore.
o daughters of Jerusalem, why art
thou grit about with wrappers, and
wherefore dost thou slam the doors all
the day long when the men folks enter
into thy habitations?
Why dost thou array thyselves in
slender raiment AMI laugh unto scorn
the son of man when he cometh unto
his home at the third hour?
Is thy servant dog that he shall be
snubbed in his own habitation, and who
art thou, o daughter of Jerusalem, that
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
THE late G.. VIM. REYNOLDS acquired

The late G.. w. M. Reynolds acquired
from the copyright of his sensational
novels fortune larger than was ac-
CURED by many of the most distin-
guished authors in Great Britain, his
earnings having been estimated at
100000, or about $4, 900 for each novel.
Matthew Arnold, it is said, has realized
only about $4,000 from his pen.
Carlyle, after career of continual ac-
tivity, and the publication of forty or
fifty volumes, has, in his Saith year, an
inc ome of little over $4,000. Robert
Browning could not have lived from
the income of his poems. He has a
private fortune to fall back upon. Ten
nyson and Dickens are probably the
only authors of our time who have real
lied from their works more than
Reynolds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
A Young Mans First "StOve. Pipe"

Yes, son, you are correct. The first
time you wear stove-pipe hat, every
body looks at you. Not, as you may
vainly imagine, because you are the
first young man who ever wore a stove
pipe hat, but because it is apparent
even to the old blind man who sits in
the back pew, without any cushions in,
away back under the gallery, where the
poor have the gospel preached to them,
that it is the frst time ever you wore a
hat of that description. Your old father
claps one on the back of his head, and
walks off down the streets in a gale of
wind, and never thinks of his hat. But
you, son, you put yours on at the most
graceful angle it Can be posed, and you
go teetering along, both hands ready to
fly at the hat at the slightest provoca-
ton of the ghostliest phantom of puff
of wind. You don't look comfortable,
SON Your hat is always trying to come
off; you bump it against everything you
pass; you rub it the wrong way when
you try to brush the dust off it. When
you carry it in your hand up the aisle,
everybody smiles, because you first hold
IL ny Vic Dllhl anu lCb Vic CIOWu
gracefully over your arm and, by the
time you have hit three or four wor-
shippers in the head with it, you change
and turn it under your arm and try to
carry it that way without touching it /;
and, the first thing you do in that pose,
you put women's eye out with your
elbow. Then when you sit down, you
set it down on the floor, setting it on
the brim, fatal mistake. And then,
before the sermon is half through, you
put your feet on it three times. But
never mind; you have to learn some
time. Only don't imagine that people
never saw anything of the kind before,
because they have. And finally, con, if
you are only five feet three inches tall,
don't think that hat three feet five
inches high improves your appearance,
or makes you look taller, because it
doesn't. 1t may make you look as
though you clerked in a secondhand
clothing store, but it doesn't make you
look taller. By-and-by, when you have
worn high hat two or three years, you
will wear it so naturally that &c will be-
come you. But the first timC-Oh,
my son, my son !-Burlington Haaok-
Eye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

chickens In the yard. Some people,
though, 50 live ont beautiful principle
and in their deeds it is SO plain that we
think they must be saying it.
Granny was gospel all the time say
ing: Love your enemies"
II WILL" said Ting. Il will"
! Squawk-k-k-k"
| What was the matter? 1t was not
only the squawk of hen, but the howl
Of a dog, the snarl of a cat, and the
squeak of a rat, all in one.
Ting Ling rushed into the yard.
Granny wanted to rush, but she con-
Guided to wabble.
Grandpa awoke, and he came out
also.
And there, hanging from the fence,
was Chang Bangl He was suspended
by his pigtail-hung at last, as Grandpa
Foo Choo had prophesied. d
Chang had tried to climb the fence,
but somehow his pig-tail had caught in
a nail near the top, and there he hung
The nail was on one side of the fence
and Chang was on the other.
"Let him hang" something said in
Tings heart.
"No, no." Granny seemed to say,
though she really said nothing.
And grandpa, he called out: "Ting,
you just go round on the other side of
the fence, unhitch Changes pig tail, and
l will take him down on this side"
So Ting unhitched on one side, and
grandpa lowered on the other.
The hen, the dog, the Cat, the rat
were still making piteous cutlery in
Changes voice, and he was stroking his
head, as if in pain.
Ting's revengeful desire to crown
Chang with bunch of lighted crackers
all went now, and he called out
Granny, let me go and get piece
Of ice and cool Changes head with it,"
run, little Ting"
Ting ran and brought the ice. But
when he touched Changes head, he
squirmed and said: 1t hurts"
1.-The ice?" asked Ting.
"No, no! But what / did to you and
grandpa. That hurts. 1 am sorry"
And then little Ting knew how
piece of ice laid on an enemv's head to
cool and comfort it could start the con-
science more than bunch of crackers
all on fire.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
What is n Boom!

The current word to expresses per
culiar and frequent phenomenon in our
politics is "boom." 1t is derived from
the Western idiom describing the fresh
cts in rivers and creeks. In those streams
that are far from the stable equilibrium
of tidal waters there are very great in
CAPABILITIES of volume. Some of them
vary from six inches of dust in dry
time to sixty feet of water during q sea-
son of rains, and all have their times
when the usually thin and shallow
streams come pouring down in yell
low flood, bearing fence rails and corn
stacks, and other signs of the invasion
of the riparian farms, and laden with
the dog-gonc explosives of the settlers
and the vexations of the travellers de-
layed at the fords. The stream is power
ful while it lasts, but that is only for a
day or two, and while it is Mt It's height
of temporary greatness it is called
a boom" Lost creek or the Dry
Fork is a booming" is the way in which
the natives describe these passing ebul
litions of nature Providence Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

SIMULTANEOUSLY with the eruption
of Etna, in Italy, the inhabitants of
village in the Russian province of Po-
dolsk were suddenly frightened by a
subterranean thunder, followed by an
earthquake. The people flew out of
their houses, and beheld startling
spectacle. The houses were moving,
together with the ground beneath them,
down the slope toward the river
Dniester; a number of the houses fell
in ruins; many trees were thrown down
and buried in the ground, and cracks
appeared in the earth, filed with water.
In five minutes everything became
quiet. There was no loss of life; tut
thirty houses had been destroyed, and
others were carried twenty feet from
their original location, and rendered
unfit for habitatior.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
AT boarding school in the Russian

AT boarding school in the Russian
town of Pscov there were two pupils,
one of them 10 and the other 13 years
of age, vino almost lost their wits in
reading an account OF the charms of
life in the United States. They de-
termined to fly to this happy country,
where, they had learned, the school
masters are kind and food is abundant.
They stole away from their boarding
school, got hold of some ham and
bread, and started secretly for America
The police were informed of their es-
cape, took up the pursuit, and got upon
their track. Very soon the exhausted
and desolate adventures were caught
and taken back to school. They had
travelled forty miles from Pscov.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
A BUSINESS RETROSPECT.
Dun, Barlow & Co.'s Last Report.

Dun & Co.'s semi-annual circular,
just issued, shows that the business of
the country has been in a good condi-
ton during the last quarter. From the
figures furnished the following is taken !:
"The failures for the second quarter
in the present year are 1884 in number
and $22 100000 in amount of liabilities
These figures are notably less than in
any single quarter of the past five
years. AS compared with the second
quarter of 1878, the difference in favor
of the last three months is very marked,
indicating decrease of over 900 fail
ures in that period, with a decline in
liabilities of $26,000,000 in the quarter
"a lessened loss or lookup by bad
debts of over $2,000,000 per week"
The following table shows the COM
parative number of failures during this
time and preceding years, and the
amount of capital involved:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

AT New Haven few days ago three
boys went hunting for turtles in Beaver
pond. One of the party, while stand.
ing on bank, tripped and fell head
down into the mud. which was covered
by skim of water He sank rapidly,
and before assistance could be given
had gone under.
HUeH MoPHArEN, of Bismarck, Da-
kota Was passing along the bank of
Heart river, when he saw two small
boys struggling beyond their depth.
They were breasting a rapid-running
current. Hugh threw off his coat and
leaped i'll. He succeeded in pulling
both boys to smooth water and safety,
but was himselfso much exhausted that
he sank and was drowned.
FREDERICK SPARDY and Martin Ruck-
welt, of Wilbur, N. Y, started in skiff
down Rondout creek. To the ques-
ton, Where are you bound?" Ruck-
welt held up the heads of two puppies
that were in the boat and replied: ooh,
just down here to drown q couple of
dogs" An hour later the whining of
two wet puppies along the stream called
the attention of passer-by to an over
turned skiff. He looked into the mat
ter and soon found the bodies of both
Spardy and Ruckweit. 1t is supposed
that the latter fell overload and Spardy
vainly attempted rescue.
JEREMIAH GALvAN, wealthy Texan,
took passage at New Orleans on the
steamer Robert Mitchell, bound up the
Mississippi. He retired early, carefully
laying aside his garments and valuables.
Next morning when porter visited the
Texans sleeping berth there was moth
ing in it but tumbled bed-clothes
Search was made about the steamer for
the missing man, but no trace of him
could be found. A deck hand said that
after midnight he had seen tall man
in long white gown walk to the steam
er's side, but did not interfere, believ-
ing the passenger to be after air. 1t is
thought that Galvan was walking in his
sleep and tumbled overload. His body
was found in the river below Green
vile, Miss. He was a man of large
wealth, owning several steamers on the
Rio Grande.
CITIZENS of Salem (Ore.) were aroused
the other morning by the ringing of the
fire bells. They focked down tie
thoroughfares to find that two boys, the
sons of Stephen Fl. Jory, were missing,
and had been since the day before.
Thehope prevailed that they might have
sought shelter in some ones house and
the bell was rung to elicit inquiry, but
to no purpose, for about half an hour
afterwards the almost distracted father
found two black caps afoat in the water
near boom of logs at the Capital mills,
which told part of the story. Later
in the day the bodies of the boys were
found, locked in one another's arms.
No one can understand why they should
thus have persisted, unless the elder, 10
years old, saw the 8-year-old lad drown
ing and bravely sought to pull him out.
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Tn regard to the facts revealed in


these figures, the circular says:
"To show how completely reversed is
the condition of trade, SO far as indicat-
ed by these statistics, as compared with
last year, we quote sentence contained
in our circular, issued this day one year
ago, referring to the failures of the first
half of 1878: These figures of in.
crease in failures and liabilities are of
very grave import, for never before in
an equal period in the history of the
country have business misfortunes been
so numerous, or aggregated an amount
of loss by bad debts so great To-day,
in contradistinction to this gloomy pict-
ure, it is our great good fortune to say
that never before in our experience in
the compilation of these statistics has
the decrease in mercantile casualties
been so marked; in no previous period
has the comparison of losses by bad
debts been SO favorable, as at the pres
emf hOur."
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The little minnows went swimming about,
Now darling in, and now darling out,
While baby-frog sat up on shelf,
winking aud blinking and summing himself.
Down In the water pollywog
Floated along like bit of log,
TIN AL of q sudden. with flash and CLEAN,
IL seemed tolwake from an ugly dream.
" Pollywogl Pollywogi wait bit,
And don't 20 of in q crazy At.
But tell me truly-Id like to know
What dreams you have that trouble you So"
4" Well, IL You must know" said the pollywog,
IL dream quite often that I'm a frog,
And feel my fingers and toes begin
To poke their way through my ugly skin.
"But wake with sudden start, TO find
The same long tail stretching out behind.
And the same short wasted jacket. know,
That ought to have thrown of long ago."
Next day stood by the pretty tank,
And watched the fishes that rose and sank,
And was startled at seeing another frog,
And nota sign of a pollywog.
How did 1t happeny When and where
Did he hide the clothes that he used to wear?
The froggies looked wise. as II they knew
Just how the pollywog's dream came true.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
THERE are few members of the Bonn

THERE are few members of the Bona
parte family living, and none remarka.
BILE for high mental qualities or for
having in any way distinguished them
selves. The Baltimore branch of the
family is probably the most capable
and cultivated of them all. Prince Ma
poleon and Princess Mathilde (the lat
ter childless) are the only descendants
of Jerome, King of Westphalia, while
the other branch, resulting from the flu
sion of the lines of Joseph and Lucien,
consists of Cardinal Prince Lucien, four
sisters, and Prince Charles, who has
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

For the first six months of 1879
France imported nearly $55,OOO,0OO
worth more of food supplies than in the
corresponding term last year. The in
dications seem to be that this rate of
importation, at least, will have to be
kept up for the remainder of the year.
There should be some comfort in this
fact for American farmers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

A POLITICAL and social movement of
Importance is in progress among the
Arabs. Since 1875 they have looked
upon events in the Turkish empire as
sure sign of its downfall; and in that
year the Arabian Messiah, as the Sheik
of Derejah calls himself, issued an APP
peal urging his people to take steps for
their prevention. Sheiks, ameers,
ulemas, mollahs, and dervishes met at
Derejah and debated means of lberat-
ing Arabia from foreign rule. 1t was
decided to establish political organic
alton, the central committee
of the Sheik, five ameers, five ulemas,,
and three treasurers-being located at
Derejah. This central committee has
now established subcommittee in
Arabia, consisting of the principal men
of their respective districts. There is
now no district in Arabia to which the
agents of the movement have not pene-
trated and at the beginning of the
present year 10000 persons were en-
rolled as members, each of whom has
to pay fifty silver piastres to the sub
committee of his district, and to pledge
himself on the Koran to hold in readi-
ness such arms as the central commit
tee prescribes. Even in Mecca and Me-
dina the majority of the inhabitants
belong to the organization, and men go
openly about the streets with parti-
colored stones (denoting a member of
the society in their turbans.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
thou visiteth him with wrath even in
h;a oxv,, tavn p1aSfs tft"f

thou visiteth him with wrath even in
his own temples LII
Our sons and our daughters are sore
chastened by the vengeance of the sun |;
it is hard for them to kick against the
prickly heat.
They go 10 and fro with naught but
a girdle to protect their nakedness, and
their complaint is of the summer, sum-
merry.
The milk soureth in the diaries, and
the smell thereof is an offense unto our
nostrils.
The undershirt is mockery and the
paper collar is full of vanity; there is
no health in shirt-fro
Whittier shall we fee to escape the
calamity that is come upon us, and
where shall we hide from the froward-
ness of the oppressor?-St. Louis
Times.
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THE last Missouri Legislature /,

The last Missouri Legislature passed
a law making it felony for any officer
of bank to accept deposits in the in
stitution if he knows it to be in fail
ing condition, and imposing the same
punishment as that for stealing money.
Under this statute several st. Louis
bankers are to be tried.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

only two daughters. There are also
three sons and one daughter, the issue
of Lucien's Prince of Oanino) second
marriage, but none of these have direct
heirs, the daughter being a nun at
Rome, Prince Lucien being unmarried,
and Prince Pierre's marriage being
deemed invalid.
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che gar a..:5a ,Saratasr'usas,
FRIDAY, JULY 25. 1879.

The Railway Committee Of the
French Chamber of Deputies is said to
be strongly in favor of the purchase OF
all lines in France by the Government.
This move is advocated as a necessity
to counteract dangers or endorsements
that may arise from Bismarck's control
of the German railways. So
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

PRINCE YoUssUPoFF, who is named as
the future father-in-law of Prince Alex
ander of Battenberg, is said to be able
to give each of his daughters SIC, 100000.
He had large fortune originally, and
soon after his marriage went to reside
at Geneva, where he lived very quietly
and amassed great property.
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DR.. johnson Takes Some Tea.

OF Johnson, Cumberland tells an an
ecdote which will bear repeating. Sir
Joshua Reynolds having remarked that
johnson had drank eleven cups of tea
he requested Mrs. Cumberland to
"round up his numbers" by making the
dozen. MADAM" said he, as he took
the cup; II must tell you for your COM
fort you have escaped much better than
a certain lady did awhile ago, upon
whose patience / intruded greatly more
than have done on yours; but the lady
asked me for no other purpose than to
make zany of me, and set me CAB
bling to parcel of people knew moth
ing of so, madam, l had my revenge OF
her, for I swallowed fve-and-twenty
cups of her tea, and did not treat her
with as many words. - Temple Bar.
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A Grammatical Error.

Colorado has the most delightful eli
mate in the world, and bed-bugs. A
mother in Israel residing there requires
her granddaughter, a young High
School miss, to read to her daily some
portion of the Good Book. While so
engaged recently the young lady sud-
denly stopped, and exclaimed: "Why,
grandma, / declare here is grammat-
ical error"
The old lady only replied: "No mat
ter, darling. Kill it, and GO on
Hdrper's Magazine.
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The MiLdsiU is the name of a new
campaign paper at Nevada City, Cal.