The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-12

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devise, but has not been successful
The madness shows itself in the rabbi
in about three weeks. M. Galtier find
that the virus of mad dog will be a
powerful, when preserved in water
twenty-four hours afterward, rs it wa
at first.
THE DAAIPosooPE.-This is the nam
.xgiven by it's inventor, Prof. Forbes, O
kAnderson's College, Glasgow, to IN in
strument designed to detect the pres
ence of fire-damp in mines. The prin
ciple embodied in it is that when tun
ing-fork is sounded and brought near
tube of certain length full of air, tn,
tube will resound to the note produced
by the fork. BY this machine the fire
damp In mine can be estimated to the
amount of 0.5 per cent. 1t has already
been adopted in some of the mines IL
Lanarkshire, Scotland.
ANCIENT MoUND.-An ancient mound
resembling the Aztec mounds of the
Mississippi valley has been discovered
in Japan. A scientific examination OF
kthe remains that have been dug up
NrOm it furnishes reason for believing
that cannibaism was practiced by the
Japanese In prehistoric times. The
human bones that were found among
the bones of beasts gave evidence that
the flesh upon them had been cooked,
and the marks still left upon the joints
are such as could have been made only
by human teeth.
DESERT OF SAHARA.-Lieut. Seaton,
U. S. N, attributes the origin of the
Desert of Saraha to the destruction of
the forests with which the banks of the
Saharan streams were once lined. The
inhabitants, being pastoral people,
destroyed the fores IS to secure pastur
age. Consequent upon the destruc-
ton of TIE forests, the periodical rains
were replaced by short, though violent
storms, the waters from which, instead
of soaking in, as in the past ages, slipped
by on the rocky masses, carrying away
the rich surface mold, and bringing
about the drying of the springs, and,
as direct consequence, of the rivers"
The HUMAN EAR. - Imagine two
harps in room, with the same number
of strings, and each string perfectly at
tuned to corresponding string In the
other. Touch string in one, and the
corresponding string in the other will
give out the same sound. Try another
string, and its CORE spending tone will
be sounded. So with all the strings.
So with any combination of the strings.
1t would not matter how you played
the one harp, the other would respond
No doubt the response would be weak
er. That is what one would expect;
but the response, az regards pitch and
quality, would be almost perfect. Now
substitute for one harp human ear,
and the conditions would, according to
theory, be the same, except that the re-
sponsive mechanism of the ear is mucn
smaller than that of the responsive harp.
In the ear there are minute cords,
rods or something, in such state of
tension as to be tuned to tones of vari-
Gus pitch; sound tone, it's correspond
ing rod or cord in the ear will respond,
perhaps feebly, but still with energy
sufficient to excite the nerve filament
connected with it; the result is q nerv-
Gus current to the brain, and sensa-
ton of tone of a particular pitch
Good Words.
MAN AND HIS PRESENT COSTUME
Sight and hearing are the two senses
which the natural man, In common with
the lower animals, possesses in great
perfection, and it is evident that, in adj
dition TO its usefulness to him as mere
animal, the eye affords him interest and
delight long before his other senses be-
come intellectually developed. In the
very earliest stages of his existence we
have proof In scratched outlines of ami
mails that he observes with curiosity and
pleasure the varieties of animal form
which surround him. In his progress
toward modern civilization he rejoices
in beautiful combinations of line and
gorgeous arrangements of color. All
through the long ages till the seven
teenth century this is distinctly visi-
BILE, but growing fainter from the six
teenth, and it is when modern discov-
cries and appliances in the nineteenth
lave placed almost unlimited means in
dis power of gratifying this instinct
that it disappears altogether. Costume
Svanishes, utensils and weapons cease to
be ornamented, or are ornamented with
q conscious effort instead of natural i'm
pulse, beauty of form and color no long
er has any charm, and the eye becomes
indifferent. The ugliness of most things
connected with our ordinary habits is
most remarkable. A well-dressed gen.
tleman ready for dinner or attired for
any ceremony is pitiable example-his
vesture nearly formless and quite fold
less if he can have his will. His legs,
unshapen props-his shirt front, void
his dress coat, an unspeakable piece
of ignobleness. Put it into sculpture
and see the result. The genius of
Pheidias might be defied to produce
lanything satisfactory. We see with
put disapproval ugly, shapeless, ignoble
/. lorms, aud it must be remembered that
ithese form the language in which the
artist has to speak. The human form.
the noblest and most interesting study
for the artist, is distorted in the case of
mems dress by such monstrors gar
ments, and in the case of woman's dress