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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
Dover and No Dover,

After the Franco-Prussian war, a law
was passed i'll France forbidding any
officer in the army to marry woman
unless she had a dot, or dover, which
was to be settled upon her and her chill
dren, and which would yield an income
of at least $3.50 per annum. The Law
also rules that she must be CONNIE IL
faut, that is, of respectable birth and
virtuous conduct. This law was sug-
gested by the large number of officers
wives, widowed in the war, and left
without either money or education to
provide for their children.
Americans condemn, justly, the mer-
cenary marriages common III France,
and universal rule that girl is un-
manageable without dot. The poor
est PEASANTS daughter knows that she
must have her little sum laid by, before
she can wed, and her plenishing of bed
ding, linen, ETC., with which to begin
her humble housekeeping.
Marriage, says the American, should
be wholly matter of feeling. He holds
man unworthy of good woman's love
who is not willing to take her for herself
alone, without penny of dover.
This is very generous and magnan-
imous for the husband, hut is it the best
way for the girl, or the girls father to
look at the matter ? The French father,
knowing that his daughters dover must
be furnished, as well as money for his
sons start in life, is forced to practice
and teach his children thrift.
There is no nation as habitually econ
omical as the French. The French
girls dot is largely the result of her own
saving, and the habits and prudence
thus taught her are n solid capital, bet
ter than money, with which to begin
married life.
Very much the same custom was OBJ
served by our forefathers. Seventy
years ago, no girl was considered ready
for marriage who had not an "outfit .
chests of table and bed linen, and under.
clothing, sewed and often spun and
woven by her own hand.
How is it with us now? Our girls, as
rule, grow up like flowers. No hint is
given TO them that money, or anything
more gross than love, is necessary fol
married life. Their doting parents &c
custom them to luxurious or idle habits
to elegant dress, to dainty fare furnish
them with an expensive rousseau, and
as they live to the full extent of then
incomes, have not n penny of dover tC
give them, to insure them or their chill
dren against misfortune.
There is certainly much to be said OF
the French side of this question:
Youths COmDaliOn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
Dress.COat Misery.

A man of considerable note in the
journalistic and literary world was at a
crowded evening party in New York,
some years ago, standing III an upstairs
corridor.
To him a lady, in magnificent dress,
and sparkling with jewels, came with
great eagerness. Though she was W.
known to him, he naturally supposed
she had recognized him by the light OF
his genius, shining on his Hyperion
brow, or knew him by reputation. He
was, therefore, prepared to receive her
with smiles.
care you the waiter ?" she demanded.
"No /" retorted he, with looks OF
thurder. care you the chambermaid? 2
Aud he darted down stairs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
THE PHOTOPHONE.
How sound IL Reproduced by Light No
Connecting WiIes Between Stafi0ns
Needed.
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The latest marvel in applied science is
the discovery by the inventor of the Bell
telephone and Sumner Taintor of Water
town that Z" sounds can he produced by
the action of variable light from sub
stances of all kinds, when in the form of
thin diaphrams. In other words, ray
of light is substituted for the connecting
wire, and sounds mt one station are repro
duced at another As is well known the
action of the telephone is due to vibra-
tons in an electric current, caused by
diaphram set in viabration by the
voice, the current thus modified repro
ducing its vibrations on sesitive dia-
phram at the other end of the circuit.
In the "photophone, as the new in
vention is called the changes in the cleo
trio current are made during its passage
through selenium, substance heretofore
known only as chemical curiosity, but
with the strange property of conducting
electricity more easily when exposed to
light than when in the dark. A steady
light allows current to pass through an
even resistance; varied light varies the
resistance, so that the current is stronger
or weaker after passing through the selen-
in telephone, into vibrations OF sound.
Prof. Bell and Mr.. Taintor have already
spoken between points about six hundred
feet apart, and they believe that the re-
suit can be obtained as far as beam of
light can be flashed. The simplest APP
paratus of many devised consists of a
plane mirror of flexible material, as sill
vered microscope glass or mica, which
will culver with vibrations of sound. On
this is gathered through lens beam
of light from any source, success having
been found with kerosene or candle
flame. The parallel beam reflected from
the plane mirror is thrown to distant
concave mirror and focused on piece of
selenium, electrically connected with
telephone. The voice throws the plane
mirror into vibrations which modify in
intensity the ray of light, which rapidly
changes the resistance of the distant sell
enium, this varying the electric current in
the telephone as the voice now does di-
reotly. Another means of affecting the
beam of light is by disk, perforated
with Sits, which is rapidly burned, pro-
ducing in the selenium continuous
musical tone, whose pitch varies with the
rapidity of the disks rotation, silent
motion thus producing a sound. A
strange thing is that some substances
placed in the beam of light do not cut off
the sound. A sheet of hard rubber, for
instance, made the beam invisible, but
the musical note was still heard Other
experiments suggest the possibility of
doing entirely without the electric cur
sent in the telephone at the receiving
station
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

Coral is n marine production, of which
there are several varieties. 1t was well
known to the ancients, but it was reserved
for the moderns to discover its real ma
ture. 1t is, i'll fact, the indus or nest of
certain species of Uegmes. AS an orna-
ment black coral is most esteemed; but
the red is also highly piized.
Coral is found In very great abundance
in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, in
the Mediterranean, on the coast OF
Sumatra, etc. 1t grows on rocks, and on
any solid submarine body; and it is
necessary to its production that it should
remain fixed to its place. 1t has gen.
orally shrub-like appearance. In the
Straits OF Messina, where great deal is
fished up, it usually grows to nearly a
foot in length, and its thickness is about
that of the little finger 1t requires
eight or ten years to arrive at its greatest
size. The depth at which it is obtained
Is various-from ten to one hundred
fathoms or more: but it seems to be
necessary to its production that the rays
of the sun should readily penetrate to
the place of it habitation. Its value
depends upon its size, solidity, and the
depth and brilliancy of its color; and is
SO very various that, while some of the
Sicilian coral sells for eight and ten
guineas an ounce, other descriptions of it
will not fetch one shillinga pound. The
pale and fashionable pink hue, at present
so much sought after, naturally realizes
very high price; in fact, the charge for
the specimens is purely arbitrary. 1t is
highly priced by opulent natives in In
dia, as well as by the fair sex throughout
Europe. The inferior or worm-eaten
coral is used in somesparts of the Madras
coast, in the celebration of funeral rites.
1t is also used as medicine.
The manner of fishing coral is nearly
the same everywhere. That which is
most commonly practiced in the Medi-
terranean is as follows: Seven or eight
men go in boat, commanded by the
proprietor; the caster throws his net, if
we may so call the machine which he
uses to tear up the coral from the bot
tom of the sea; and the rest work the
boat and help to draw i'll the net. This
is composed of two beams of wood tied
crosswise, with leads fixed to them to sink
them. To these beams is fastened a
quantity of hemp, twisted loosely round,
and intermingled with some loose net
ting In this condition the machine is
let down into the sea; and when the
coral is pretty strongly entwined i'll the
hemp and nets, they draw it up with a
rope, which they unwind according to
the depth, and which it sometimes re-
quires half dozen boats to draw. If
the rope happens to break, the fishermen
run the hazard of being lost Before
the fishers go to sea they agree for the
price of the coral; and the produce of the
fishery is divided at the end of the sea-
son into thirteen parts, of which the
proprietor has four, the caster two, and
the other six men one each; the thir-
teenth belongs to the company in pay
ment for boat-hire. etc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
The Wool CrOn.

The wool clip of the world has in
creased five times since 1880, when it
was about 800, 900, 900 pounds in weight.
In 1S7S-the latest year for which there
are complete fgures-Europe produced
TAO, 600, 900. River Platte, 10000, 600;
United States, 20S, 900, 900; Australia,
$50, OOO, 900, and South Africa, AZ, 900, 600
pounds, making total of 1855, 600, 900
pounds. Great Britain and France con-
sumo each about the same quantity of
wool-3SO, 10000 pounds year. Ger
many consumes about 165, ZOO, 900
pounds; United States, 100000, 900
pounds, and Russia, Austria, and other
countries, 400, 900. 900 pounds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
Wnnders of the Yellowstone.

Near Beaver lake, in the National park
of the Yellowstone, party of explorers
came upon remarkable mountain OF
obsidian on volcanic glass which rises in
columnar cliffs several hundred feet i'll
height. 1t being desirable to pass that
way, the party cut road by building
huge fires on the glass to heat and ex-
pand it, and then dashing the cold water
of the lake against the heated surface
the sudden contraction thus produced
breaking large fragments from the side
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

much bad blood. If systematic exer-
else is begun, it should be kept up and
gradually increased. III man sticks to
his regular exercise for any length OF
time, he will not be disposed to give it
up. The physical and mental results of
a proper amount of exercise amplyrepay
for investment, and make life thousand
times more pleasurable.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

One of the most interesting and pa
thetic of volumes could be prepared
from the newspaper reports OF colliery
explosions in England. The searchers
in the Seaham colliery after the recent
terrible disaster came upon several
affecting memorials of the doomed men
shut up in the fiery mine. On an old
ventilation door was chalked, "All alive
at 3 o'clock. Lord have mercy upon us.
Together praying for help.-Robert
Johnson" In another part is written
with chalk on plank the words, in "a
bold. clear hand: 1.-The Lord has been
with us. We are all ready for heaven.
Richard Cole.-Half-past q" An
other poor fellow, Michael Smith, had
scratched with nail upon his water
bottle the following message to his
wife: "Dear Margaret: There were
forty of us altogether mt Il. m. Some
were singing hymns, but my thoughts
were on my little Michael. i thought
that him and 1 would meet in heaven at
the same time. Oh dear wife, God
save you and the children, and pray for
myself Dear wife, farewell My last
thoughts are about you and the children.
Be sure and learn the children to pray
Tor me. Oh, what a terrible position
we are in" Little Michael was the
child he had left at home i'll. 1t died
on the day of the explosion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

CHESTER Dixon, Choctaw Indian,
aged II, killed squaw. 1t is believed
that he was temporarily insane, but no
such defence was interposed at his trial,
and he was convicted of murder. The
sentence was that he should be shot at
noon on certain day. In the mean
time he was allowed to go free, on his
pledge that he would present himself Mt
the appointed time to be punished with
death. lie quietly made the arrange
ments for his own funeral, gave away
such property us he had, and consulted
with an aged Choctaw seer as to the
Indian belief in happy hunting ground.
A crowd was gathered at the place of
execution when the condemned man, lat
noon precisely, rode to the spot on a
pony. He was as steady and cool as
though caring nothing for the ordeal.
Some women wept and he smiled at
them rather contemptuously. The shoot
ing was done so well that he died in
staptly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
Walking the Best Exercise.

Physical training puts good blood into
a mans veins. There are many methods
of exercise-boxing, rowing, fencing and
other methods but men always have
some kind of an excuse, and go on suf-
fering from indigestion and sluggish,
poisoned blood. A man who takes a
good swinging walk of mile or more,
as he is best fitted for it, does good
work; for ne has injected some good
blood into mis- veins to the exclusion of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

OF the mountain. In the grand canyon
of the Gibson river the explorers also
found precipices of yellow, black and
banded obsidian rising hundreds Of feet.
The natural glass of these localities has
from time immemorial been dressed by
the Indians to tip their spears aud ar
rows.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

MAGGIE MITCHELL has been on the
stage for thirty years. She acknowledges
to forty-three, and rs she has made a
great deal of money people wonder why
she does not retire. The truth is that
she is not as rich as she was, and her
work now is for her children. Some
years ago her husband, Paddock, bought
the Forest Place at Long Branch, pay
ing seventy-five thousand dollars for it,
forty thousand of which was cash down.
Time ran on and interest and taxes with
it, but the little commedienne is in no
sense a business woman, and so she left
everything to her husband. One day
the remaining thirty-five thousand fell
due. and could not be met The place
was sold on mortgage and brought less
than her first payment, and she awoke
to q realization of the fact that she had
hard time before her, and so the little
woman is still on the stage
Maggie Mitchell, since her first great
success in New York, nineteen years ago,
has been carryall for her entire family.
She feeds them, lodges them, and clothes
them. She has an old father between
seventy and eighty who is a veritable
" Old Eecles," and the only way he can
be kept from giving way to his weakness
lies in locking him up and feeding him
on regular rations of whisky. In spite
of the familiarity with her plays and
acting Maggie Mitchell is still one of the
great paying stars of the stage. She
makes money constantly and everywhere,
and she deserves to. She has created
school in acting, and in her school she is
beyond imitation. Few women have
given as great pleasure to the public.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

THE present House of Commons con-
tains 241 men who had no seats in the
last. The merchants and manufacturers
have increased from ninety-one to 1919,
and the country gentlemen and aristo-
Gratis have diminished from 300 to 1876
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

A GERMAN professor named Grimmer
prophesies woful seven years for all
the world. 90 From 1880 to 1887"
writes Prof Grimmer, there will be a
universal mortality. Asia will be de-
populated and Europe will become a
desert. America will lose ID, 900, 900 of
her inhabitants.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

The Legislature of New York recently
provided for an annual appropriation of
10000 for the Agricultural Expert
ment Bureau" of that State, the object of
which is to promote the various branches
Of agriculture by scientific investigation
and experiment. The Board of Control
is now fully organized and is composed
largely of members of leading agricult-
ural societies Experiments at various
"stations in the State will he tried
with seeds and artificial fertilizers and
efforts made to discover the best way to
reduce noxious weeds and destroy harm
ful insects. This system of experiment.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

The house III which Daniel Webster
was married to Miss Leroy, daughter of
Herman Leroy, in New York, some
fifty years ago, is still standing. 1t is
on Lower Broadway, now occupied by an
elevated railway for offices. In its day
it was one of the finest residences in
New York.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

AT Lincoln, Neb., while John T., Ray
mond was presenting the trial scene in
"Colonel Sellers" two dogs began to
fight in the center aisle All attention
was instantly diverted from the stage to
the fight. 81 move we suspend pro-
ceedings in this court" said Raymond,
land I'll bet dollar on the white dog"
''I'll take you," cried man in the au-
dience. The white dog won, the dollar
was passed across the footlights to the
star, and the acting of the play was
resumed
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

THE musical festival to be held in
New York, in May, 1881, will, it is said,
be the greatest musical event ever held
in this country There are | 400 Choir
listers already in training in New York
and adjacent cities. The estimated ex-
pen,e is not less than $40, 900, half of
which has been already subscribed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

Hon. ALBERT G.. PORTER, the Repub-
lican Governor-elect of Indiana. was
born at Lawrenceburg, III that State,
April 90, 1924, and was graduated at the
Asbury University in 1S43. The next
two years he devoted to the study of the
law, and in 1916 was admitted to the
bar, and began practice in indianapolis.
In 1853 he was appointed reporter of
the decisions Of the Supreme Court Of
Indiana, publishing five volumes. Sub
sequently he served two terms as At
torney of Indianapolis, and was also
twice elected member of the City Coun-
ell. In 1858 he was elected Repre-
sentative in Congress, serving two terms.
He was appointed FIRST Comptroller of
the Treasury in 1878, an Office which he
still holds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
Che Cruz slcrtllerncr.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1880.

CONNECTICUT Yankees are making oil
barrels out of paper, and the same ma
terial will be used for tobacco and sugar
barrels.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

THE mercantile agency of Dun a Co.
have issued a comparative statement OF
the failures in business throughout the
United States during the third quarter
and first nine months of 1880 and 1879.
In the third quarter of 1880 there were
go failures, with liabilities of $l2, 121,-
400, as compared with / 1902 failures and
$l5, 275, $50 liabilities in 1879. During
the first nine months of 1880 the failures
numbered 3,476, and the liabilities
amounted to $45,O10,S5O, while there
were {, 1870 failures in the same period OF
1878, with $S1, O54, $40 liabilities. The
report says: During the first nine
months of 1879 the liabilities of failures
were much less than one-half those OF
the preceding year, being only
$S1 100000 600 in 1879, as COM
pared with $197, 100000 in 1878, and,
as will be seen, the casualties for the
past nine months will exceed little
over half those of 1879. Should this
ratio of improvement continue to be
shown during the next three months,
the failures for the year will be less, as
compared with the number engaged in
trade, than at any period since we have
undertaken the compilation of these
figures"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

In commenting on II drinking bout in
Scotland wherein four respectable
and industrious farm servants drank
quart of whisky apiece, one of whom
killed himself, and another threatened
to "whitewash the walls with young
womans brains, the British Medical
Journal admits that there is ca repre-
hensible practice in Scotland OF getting
deliberately drunk periodically at
certain fairs and markets." but char
itably adds that those isolated occasions
are "looked forward to as variations in
a monotonous existence, for which wives
and mothers make preparation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

JOHNNY MULLENs was an industrious
highwayman in Nevada. He saved up
49, 900 from his booty and retired from
business. Going to Colorado, where he
was unknown, he married Elenora Perk-
ms, the daughter of "A herder, and settled
down for II quiet life. His only fear was
that his wife would learn what he had
been and leave him in disgust The fact
was that she had known the source of
the fortune, and had married him for the
sole purpose of getting it. Having at
tanned this object, she lately hired a man
to murder him. Such, at least Is the
charge on which she has been put in
Jail.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

An angry man at Lectonia, Ohio,
drove his family out of the house and
set tire to the premises. He neglected
to provide a means of escape, and per-
ished in the flames.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

THE Paris authorities are intent just
now ON measures TO prevent deleterious
articles finding sale, end have seized
American hams wrapped in yellow
cloth, rendered impermeable by chrom-
ate of lead.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

CHEYENNE papers tell of hunters
paradise not far from that city, where
! ducks are so plentiful that from two to
six or seven can be secured mt one shot.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

Mr.. J. CLEPHANE, now Ewing in
Washington, ID. c., at the age of 90
years, and the oldest resident of the cap
it'd, assisted as a compositor in setting
up the first edition of "Waverly, "and also
read proof with Sir Walter Scott. He
came to this country in 1917, and was
for many years employed on the National
I)lfelli0eUcer
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
4 Slanderer Punished.

A correspondent of the Lewiston
Idaho Ielter tells of two girls at Palouse
bridge who found out that fellow living
half a mile distant had slandered them.
so they went for him. AS he appeared
in sight one of the girls knocked him
down with a stone, and before he had
time to rise the other blackened his eyes
with the club she brought with her.
After giving him thorough thrashing,
they compelled him on his Bonded knees
to promise that he would never insult q
young lady again, which he did with
contrite and humble heart.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
ABOUT 100000 tons of hot

ABOUT 100000 tons of hot water,
averaging 1876 . Fahrenheit are an
nually pumped from the Comstock
mines. To heat this mass of water by
artificial means would require con.
sumption of over 80, 900 tons of coal a
year. The water from some of the deep
est shafts, 1900 feet, has temperatu e
of 157 . Fahrenheit.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

The Syoran and Orenberg railway
bridge across the river Volga, Russia,
which is just finished. cost So, 900, 600,
Where the bridge is built the river is
more than a mile wide. The fourteen
piers which support the girders are 100
feet above the main level of the waters.
and the girders are 364 feet long and 20
feet wide
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

The amount of butter now made in
Iowa creameries is estimated ut 90. 600, :
600 pounds per annum.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22

ing originated in Germany, where it is
said to have been the means of doing
much good.