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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09
Tit for Tat.

We naturally resent being paid back
in our own coin, especially if it has not
quite the true ring. We can easily ex-
cuse ourselves for cheating a neighbor,
but for him to do the same thing to us is
an act not to be extenuated or condoned.
To have the measure out of which We
sell taken as the measure out of which
to sell to us is very hard to bear. II
have weighed the two pounds of butter
you sent me this morning" said an irate
customer to dealer in the above-men-
toned article, "and am surprised to find
that it is short weight just three ounces.
If that is your way of dealing l must
buy my butter somewhere else" The
butter merchant looked up surprised,
but, without declaring his innocence,
replied, "Well, that is very strange, be-
cause put the two pounds of sugar I
bought of you in the scales, and gave
you the full weight in butter" To do
as you are done by and to do as you
would like to be done by seem to be very
different things.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09
Department Of Public Instruction.

The forty third annual report of the
Superintendent of the above-named de-
partment has just been issued from the
press of the State Printers. In the item
of school attendance it is stated that,
while the increase of school children
during the year has been 10,1S7, the
total attendance upon school is II, 564
less than in 1878. With about the same
increase of pupils III each, the attend
ance Mt graded schools has increased
2,269, and decreased 1883 in the pri-
mary schools. The decrease in the per
cent. of attendance has been 80 in the
ungraded primary schools, and Clio of
per cent. in the graded schools.
Since the Inauguration of the town
ship system the standard of teachers
qualifications in the rural districts has
deprecated Mt least 80 per cent, and
wages have decreased % per cent.
There have been fifty-six institutes
held during the year, conducted by
some of the most prominent educators
in the State The enrolment mt these
Institutes aggregate Ala, or 40 per
cent. over that of 1878, and nearly 20
per cent. over that of 1877. The class
of teachers attending these Institutes
may be seen from the fact that of every
100 twenty-eight held first-grade certiti-
Gates, thirty-four second grade, and thir-
ty-eight third grade.
The total number of books in the
township and district libraries is 24S,-
100, an increase of AL during the
year. The amounts reported as paid for
library books are $l6, DAB. IA by districts
and Sc, S67. 43 by townships.
The graded schools are reported to be
in healthy condition as whole. The
Superintendent refers to the fact that
formerly some of them were attempting
too much, thereby failing and inviting
criticism.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09
Useful Lives.

In an article on "Ideals of Feminine
Usefulness" in the FOrtnighHy ReUie,O,
Edith Seincox considers the lives of
those two philanthropic women, Dorothy
Pattison SISTER Dora) and Mary Carpen-
ter. In the course OF the article she
touches upon point which has probably
occasioned not little thought to all
those interested in the lives of women of
special careers. She says: "We are
tempted to ask whether this (happily
elastic) theory of the 'womanly sphere
is in any way answerable for the under
current of melancholy, common to the
lives of two women as strong, as differ
ent and as successful as Dorothy Pattison
and Mary Carpenter. Both were thor
oughly sane in body and mind, with we'll
proportional, equally developed natures,
free from any morbid leanings, and both
found their way at last to the work for
which they were Supremacy fitted. And
vet, reverenced, adored and valued as
the memory of each and the work of
both must be, it is certain that most old
fashioned believers in the 'womanly
sphere will turn from the two memoirs
with compassionate sigh: Poor
things they would have been happier
married and with pack of children
Clearly it is more important that the
Bristol ragamuffins should be reclaimed,
and the jails of Bombay and Montreal
reformed, than that one more non-con-
formist minister should have an exem-
plary wife; it is more important that as
many as are sick or sorry III Staffordshire
should have Dora for their sister than
she should be happy Off she could) in
Frightening single home. But the very
question that we wish to raise is begged
by this way of stating the alternative
1t is not i'll sane human nature to feel
permanent regret because things mutu-
ally exclusive cannot be possessed to-
gether Women, as well as men, can
find genuine happiness in the best pos
sible' life; they are not condemned by
nature to spend strength in yearning
after some composite impossibility; and
it may be that if our two sane and SEN
sible heroines fail to find content i'll the
best possibilities open to themselves, the
fault may not lie with them, but in the
arbitrary external limits of the posi-
bility."
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SSGentS."

Because Legitimate abridgment of a
certain word is excellent, it by no means
follows that all abridgments, whether
legitimate or not, are equally excellent.
"Cabriolet" and caravan belong to a
class of words with which one may take
liberties; but there are words which re-
fuse to lend themselves to indignity.
Gentlemen is fine, strong word, and
gents is very feeble substitute. 1t is.
moreover, all arbitrary contraction, for
we do not say "gentlemens. Even the
garment which gents always wear is less
Objectionable than the wearers themselves,
for pants is honestly cut of "pantaloons. y
Of course the reply to this will be that
gents is the natural plural of gent But
our colored brethren, who say "genP-
men," are the contractors to whom I
would give the job of pruning the word
gentleman, if it must be pruned. To be
sure, they lop it rather cruelty, but they
at least manage to leave little of its
original signiicance.-Atlantic Monthly.
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MICHIGAN NEWS.

The Marshall people have commenced
the foundations of the new jail.
A WILLIAMSON man thinks he has
fou:d deposit of mineral paint on his
farm.
THE Episcopal Church at Albion is
undergoing extensive repairs and i'm
provements.
A NEW hotel is to be built mt Common
wealth, on the Menominee range, cost
ing $4,000.
Mrs. RICHARD SPRAGUE died in Me-
costa county, last week, from the effects
of stepping on n carpet-tack.
A COMBINATION of leading Detroit
brewers has advanced the price OF lager
81 per barrel. 1t now sells ut SO.
The Gratiot County Fair, this year,
will be held Sept. p, %, 23 and "a, the
week following the State Fair at Detroit
The Liberal State Convention and
Camp Meeting commenced at Lansing
June 26, and continued until July 8.
The new opera-house to be erected at
East Saginaw will be an elegant little
structure, modelled closely after Wal
capacity of 1000.
The Detroit police made 2,417 arrests
in the year ending June l. The aggre-
gate time for which sentences were made
was A, 403 days III the House of Cor
rection, or an average of 49, days each.
AN Indian pipe of dark stone, highly
polished and of beautiful shape, was
recently picked up on Perry Mayo's
farm in the town of Marshall. 1t was
found on marsh which had not been
cut before, and was ten or twelve inches
below the surface. 1t was lined with
some kind of metal fastened with a
rivet, and brass chain some eighteen
inches in length, composed of very
small links, was fastened to the lower
part of the bowl.
An extraordinary accident recently oc-
CURED a few miles from Battle Creek.
George Benedict was ut work logging off
n clearing when his oxen became fright
ened and ran away. A long cable-chain
was attached to the yoke, and the hook
whipped around, caught in Benedict's
ankle, and tore through the flesh be-
tween the heel cord and the bone. The
oxen bounded over logs and brush-heaps,
poor Benedict dangling at the end of the
chain, his clothing torn, and his flesh
frightfuily mangled. The oxen turning
corner in the field, Benedict was
pulled through three lengths of rail
fence. Soon after the Infatuated ami
mails were stopped, and the injured
man, almost dead, released from the hook
and carried home.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09

scend, air can, by a simple mechanical
contrivance, be pumped into the COM
pressed air-bag until the total weight of
the machine exceeds the buoyancy or
lifting power of the hydrogen bag. To
change the direction of the machine a
rudder is provided, to be worked by a
small steam engine, while by simple
arrangement the position of the center
gravity of the whole apparatus can be
altered SO that the resistance of the air
shall affect the machine in the most ia
vorable mannerpossible. The machine,
in fact, is designed to act the same way
that bird does. When bird wishes
to change the direction of its fight it
lowers one wing and raises the other,
and, as it works the latter rapidly and
diminishes the speed of its flight, the
resistance of the air on the oblique sur
face presented to it turns the bird aroand
into the required course. In the new
aerial machine this principle is applied,
but whether it will be possible to over
come the difficulties which may arise re-
mains to be seen.-NetO York Telegram.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09
Smooth the Road.

When the Italians paved some of those
paths by which we climb to their vii
lagos, they must have carefully turned
each stone with its most awkward side
uppermost, for they have the toughest
of rough roads. One is apt to think
that we might have done better I; GER
tainly we could not have done worse. In
everyday life we meet with individuals
who appear to turn the worst side up
permost in reference to everything they
magnify difficulties, they discover i'm
projections. they create irritations, and
in general they make the worst of every
thing. If an i'll word can be said, they
say it if fault can be found, they spy
it out. Good souls, what are you at
Is there not enough of care and sorrow
in the world already? Better far would
it be if half your ingenuity were expend-
ed in smoothing the road, instead of
wasting it all in making the way of life
more stony than it need be.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09
Postal Cards.

When postal cards were first issued
their novelty provoked some fault-fnding,
and they were made fun of as " stingy,"
"shabby," unsafe," etc. But they
were cheap, and the people used them
and the critics very soon followed the ex-
ample of the people. Now Gas an ex-
change remarks), the postal card has only
two enemies, the man who receives duns
on it, and the manufacturers of writing
paper. The little postal causes decrease
of from twelve million to fifteen million
dollars every year in the business of the
writing-pape trades in this country.
Postal cards are made at Holyoke, Mass,
and forty men are continually employed
at their manufacture. The cardboard is
furnished in packages of three thousand
each, and every sheet is made into forty
postals. Three presses are kept going
night and day. A machine Sits the
sheets into strips of ten cards each, and
these in turn are cut into single cards,
and dumped in piles of twenty-five each,
when they are packed by girls in paste
board boxes containing five hundred
cards. A government officer is constantly
on hand to see that no pilfering of cards
is done. The Holyoke mandatory
turns out about one million cards day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09
Aerial Navigation.

The Miiitar- JVOchenbidu prints de-
scription of an aerial machine, designed
by Spanish artillery officer, the con-
struction of which is, in the opinion of
the German paper, based on correct
principles. The machine, which is of
considerable extension horizontally, but
of very small vertical dimensions, can be
made to ascend or descend at pleasure,
and can, according to the statement of
the inventor, be turned in any required
direction. 1t consists of two air-bags,
as they are called by the inventor, one
of which is filled with hydrogen gas and
the other with compressed air. When
the latter is so far filled that its weight,
together with that of the car and its
load, exactly counterbalances the lifting
power of the former, the machine will
naturally neither rise nor fall. II the
compressed air is allowed to escape from
its bag the weight will be reduced
and the machine will rise, the alti.
tude it will attain depending upon
the amount of compressed all
liberated. If, on the other hand
it is desired to make the machine de-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09
A Successful Woman.

Miss Alice Bennett, Massachusetts
lady, has just graduated from Pennsyl-
vania University, being the first lady
ever admitted there. She passed an ex-
ceptionally hard examination, standing
40, the highest mark being so. She has
since been elected Superintendent of the
Woman's Department of the Pennsyl-
vania State Lunatic Hospital, position
never before given to lady. Miss Ben
nett graduated from the Medical Col
lege of Philadelphia few years since !;
she afterward filled the position of
demonstration of anatomy in that insti-
tuition, beside having an extensive
practice. She has depended almost en-
tirely upon her own exertions, and did
not at first have the sympathy of her
family as they had no faith in her sue
cess, but she now more than realizes the
dreams of her childhood. She is now
30 years of age. 1t is not believed
there are many young men who have
surpassed her III perseverance and cour-
age. During the first year of her study
ing i'll Philadelphia mad dog got into
the clearinghouse all the gentlemen
rushed away, and she quietly went to
her room, procured her pistol, returned
and shot the dog, fortunately before he
had done harm.