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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-26
$40 Reward.

TAKEN PROM 6LATER,S HAYWARD.
brown Ulster, plaid lined, containing some valu-
able papers beo ging to Adam Bay. The above reward
will be paid for the return OF the coat the papers
B. F. SLATER,
Carson, September %, 1850 Tod.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
SuperstitiOus Customs.

Among the many strange customs OF
savage nations, not the least curious are
the ceremonious observances offered to
wild beasts which they hunt and kill.
The boldest native hunters of British
India would shudder at the thought of
leaving the corpse of a tiger till they had
singed off its whiskers to the very roots
without which precaution they believe
the ghost of the dead beast will haunt
them into their graves. In many parts
of Russia the killing of wolf is not
thought complete without cutting off the
head and right fore-paw. The Lapps
and Firms, whenever they kill a bear,
surround the body with loud lamenta-
tons. One hunter then asks the dead
beast "who killed thee?' and answers,
"a Russian" when all the rest exclaim
in chorus, "a cruel deed; bloody decd"
hoping by this means to divert the bears
resentment from themselves to the I'M
aginary Russian. The tribes of the
Northern Siberia never kill polar bear
without extracting its two largest
teeth, which, in their belief, is the only
safeguard against its coming to life
again.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Secretary of the Treasury has or
dered an investigation of the disaster to the
steamboat Narragansett, which colided with
the Stonington.
Secretary Schurz says sufficient mill
tary force will pc employed to protect Indian
Territory from parties of prospectors and inl-
migrants.
A Washington dispatch gives the de-
tails of the expenditures decided upon by the
Cabinet in the matter of river and h arbor inn
provements in the vicinity of the great lakes.
1t is proposed to expend the appropriations at
the rate of $3.50, 900 monthly.
The President has appointed Orange
Judd, of New York, of the american AgricuH-
u'ist, to be a member of the Board Of Indian
Commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned.
For twenty-five consecutive days the
temperature at Washington varied between 81
and 9918 degrees longer continuous season
of extreme hot weather than was ever before
experienced in that city.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
Dog Travel in the Winnipeg Country.

For winter travel dogs have hitherto
been largely used, as with light loads
they are swifter than horses. To drive a
team of dogs it is said that one must be
able to swear III English, French, or
Cree, while to be first-rate dog-driver
requires fluent command of profanity
in three languages. Some years ago a
well-known Winnipeg ecclesiastic was
making an extended winter trip; the dog,
though frequently whipped, made little
progress, so the bishop demonstrated
with the driver. The functionary re-
piled that he could not make them go
unless he swore at them; absolution was
therefore given him for the trip, and the
dogs, hearing the familiar explosives,
trotted along briskly. Dog-driving, how
ever, is passing out of use in the North
west, as it is becoming much more eX-
pensive to keep dogs than it is to keep
horses While buffalo were abundant
and every post and wigwam could have
unlimited pemmican it was easy for any
man to keep kennel; but as the buffalo
are rapidly disappearing, andas the dogs
must be fed throughout the whole year
while the horses can forage for them
selves Mt all seasons, horses are being
used almost entirely on the prairies, ex-
cept in the more northern districts where
game and fish are very abundant. -
GOOH IEOTIS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Favorable weather prevails in Ireland
and the potato crop promises to be enormous.
Pierce Egan, the well-known English
novelist is dead.
Harvest prospects are bad throughout
Prussia, and it is scarcely possible that there
will be more than one-half of the average crop.
A dispatch at the State Department,
Washington, officially announces peace III
Buenos Ayres, the instruction having been
suppressed.
Greece and Turkey are actively pre-
pairing for war.
Another man-of-war, the Powhattan,
has been sent to Cuban waters to see about the
outrages on American vessels in that locality
In Ireland the Land League is assum-
ing a bold front, and matters wear a threaten
ing aspect.
China assures Russia that her senti-
ments toward that power are Of the most
friendly character.
Spain has decided to indemnify the
owners of the American steamer Octavia, which
was illegally captured in the waters of Porto
Rico.
A movement to obtain Fenian amnesty
is being organized by Mr.. O'Connor Power
and other Irish members of the British Parlia-
ment.
Famine fever prevails in County Mayo,
Ireland. and the British Government has sent
and extent.
Turkey will offer to Montenegro a
money indemnity instead of territory. There
are rumors of ministerial changes The Porte
has ordered the Government Arsenal to manu-
facture 100, 600 shot and shell.
Switzerland has been visited by a
severe earthquake.
Another revolution has broken out in
Hayti.
Paul Broca, French surgeon, scientist,
Senator and radical. is dead.
The Civil Tribunal of Pesth has SEN
fenced Baron Mathenyi, member Of the up
per house of the Hungarian Diet, TO six weeks
and Deputy Verhovay to fortnights imprison-
ment for lighting duel on the 10th of January
last.
Forty persons were drowned III the
rapids of the Dneiper, in Russia, by the upset
ting of a lumber raft.
A Paris dispatch says that 1870 magis.
trates and other legal functionaries have re-
signed their offices rather than aid in the en-
forcement of the DEGREES of banlsEment against
the unlicensed religious orders.
Rochefort, the noted Communist, has
returned TO Paris after an exile of ten years
He was enthusiastically welcomed by his SYM
pathizers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
A Firp.Rcd Aurora.

On the morning of Nov. ID, 1887,
there occurred one of the periodic re-
turns of the meteoric showers. such rs
had been annually witnessed for the six
preceding years. The next day fall of
snow at the north covered the face of
the country with mantle of the purest
white. In the evening, about o'clock,
while sky was yet thick with the fall
ing snow, all things suddenly appeared
as if dyed in blood. The entire atmos-
phere, the surface of the earth, the
trees, the tops of the houses, ETC., were
tinged with the same scarlet hue. The
alarm of fire was given, and our vigilant
tiremen were seen parading the streets
III their uniforms, which, assuming the
general tint, seemed i'll excellent keeping
with the phenomenon. Such was the APP
pearance exhibited over a large portion
of the country where the clouds were
not SO dense rs to obscure the auroral
display. The false alarm of fire was
not confined to one place, and super
stitious fears of some impending
awful conhagration generally prevailed
among the IGNORANT throughout the
country. 1t is remarkable OF this great
heavenly exhibition that it was observed
over the whole eastern portion of the
country rs far south us Culloden, in
Georgia, and also in Ohio and ST Louis,
Mo. AT the North, as observed
particularly in New York, the exhibition
ceased after having been seen for an
hour, again appeared at half-past Z
and lasted more than half an hour, and
returned little before 9 o'clock in in.
Vulnerable bright arches, shooting up
from the northern horizon, of the most
brilhant-colored light resting around the
horizon upon an obscure bank, all the
more dark and mysterious from the
vivid display above. At half-past 10 all
this disappeared but after ! there was
another return of the phenomenon, last
ing for more than an hour. At Staten
island, in New York harbor, the specta.
Gle is described as the most magnificent
ever beheld. The illumination was sc
great that the objects outside of Sandy
Hook were seen as clearly as at midday.
And the city of New York appeared t.
he only mile or two distant. Chris.
tim ut Work.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
The Suffering Conductor.

There is no greater display of imbecility
In any insane asylum than on most rail
road trains, says the Albany Argus.
What wonder then, that the conductor
occasionally looses all patience and ans
wers rather CURLY. Only the other day
an old lady on her way to Montreal, with
dozen bandboxes and bundles, would
frantically gather them up every time the
train stopped Mt side station, and rush
for the conductor and ask if that was
Montreal, or if she had to change cars,
and every time was told, "No, no, no
you've got two hundred miles to go vet
keep your seat" The conductor was
growing livid over this continual vexation.
and would probably have jumped the
train and fled in terror, but that juno
ton was reached where that coach was
set off, and another conductor took his
turn Mt the rack of torture.
A conductor, who leaves the city in the
morning and returns in the evening, got
off small station, not far out, the other
evening on his return trip. He was APP
preached by grim visaged individual.
who addressed him in tone that showed
he was very much provoked. "Say, did
you know you left me this morning ?"
The conductor responded pleasantly,
NO, did not I; and where were you ?"
" was i'll the depot here" "Well, my
dear sir, you must recollect that the
depot never goes out. L never load my
passengers on with a stretcher. If you
want to ride with me, you must climb on
the train. The angry man was COM
pletely nonplussed, andremarked, "'Well,
that's so" he turned and walked away
apparently satisfied.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16

come by hundreds and thousands, with
troops of ugly drummers, called beetles,
and millions of accomplished swords
men, named mosquitoes. And these
Lilliputian swordsmen are as cruel rs
any Hessian soldier that ever fought in
the British army.
They are not content with rioting by
sunlight; they must attack us by night
also, and that is the worst of it; for
fresh achievements are ever ready at
night-fall tocommence their attack. Then
stealthily moving with doleful song the
light-footed warriors creep through the
crevices of building to wreak their
vengeance ON it's inmates.
1t is rather humbling to.think that, af-
ter all our efforts to overcome the enemy,
we should he tormented through all the
loveliest weather of the season, and
when the cheerless days OF winter come
again one breath OF our fearless ally,
Jack Frost, should kill them all.-E.c-
chdnQe.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16

l4lA pounds. For the past two days, however,
he has lost only three-fourths Of pound daily.
He spent most of his time to-day OH his cot and
great deal of the time lay prone upon his face
and stomach. He did not sleep well last night,
and was unable to-day to make up his rest, and
along toward tonight he became quite peeyish
and irritable In the evening he took walk
accompanied by his watchers.
The new Board of Managers of the
National Soldiers Home met at Boston last
week, and elected Gen. w. b. Franklin. of Con-
necticut. President.
The gross receipts of thirty three rail-
roads for June show an increase Of S4,085,364
over those for the corresponding month last
year.
A telegram from st. Johns, n. f.,
states that Capt. Howgate's Arctic exploring
steamer Gunare was turned into that port in a
disabled condition. She is undergoing repairs
Four murderers, all negroes, were
executed in the country on Friday, July O.,
namely George Price, of Cincinnati. Ohio
Daniel Washington, of Charleston, s. c.; Alex
ander Howard, of Goldsboro n. c., and Henry
Ryan, of Waynesboro, Ga.
Capt. Bogardus has won the third
pigcon-shooting match with George iIimell,
champion of England.
The National Board of Health believes
that the country will be free from yellow fever
this year.
The propeller City of ST. Catherine
coided with the steam barge ]. H. Morse in
Lake Erie and sunk. All hands, thirty in num-
Der, were saved.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

A TABLESPOONFUL of salt will weigh
about one ounce.
Cool rain-water and soda will remove
machine grease from washable fabrics.
Cur bread fine for filling for fowls;
this is better than TO crumble 1t. No
sogginess.
LARGE holes in a loaf of bread are
proof of careless cook. The kneading
has been sighted
MnK-cANs or pans not kept clean are
liable to impart to the milk dangerous
fermentive poison.
To CLEAN kettles easily, pour little
hot water into them and put cover ON;
the steam will soften the dirt so that 1T
may be easily removed.
To KEEP seeds from the depredations
of mice, mix some pieces of camphor
with them. Camphor placed III trunks
or drawers will prevent mice from doing
them injury.
PAPERED walls are cleaned by being
wiped down with flannel cloth tied
over broom or brush. Then cut off
thick piece of stale bread with the crust
on and rub them down with this. Be-
gin Mt the top and go straight down.
CHOCOLATE COOKIES. Take the white
of six eggs, half a pound of sugar, half'a
pound of grated chocolate, five ounces
of flour first stir the whites of the eggs
and the sugar together, then add the
chocolate. and lastly the flour; drop by
the spoonful on creased tins, and bake
in moderate oven.
BRANDY CHERRIES. Choose fine, firm
fruit, wash, pick the stems off, stick the
cherries i'll two on three places with
needle; pour over them o sirup made
by boiling "A pound of sugar Ito every
pound of cherries) i'll a gill of water;
add ii pint of brandy for every four
pounds Of sugar pour the sirup hot
over the cherries cork and tie up care
fully when cold. They will be fit to eat
III week, and will keep for an indetin-
lite time.
SALr-AND-WAT CUCUMBERs. i Put
fifty freshly-pickled cucumbers in a
stone jar, separating each layer with
fresh grape leaves, and a sprig of sweet
fennel. Pour over them n pickle made
by boiling pint and "a half OF salt i'll
gallon of water, and tablespoonful of
cayenne pepper; only let it come to a
boil have it perfectly cold before put
ting it over the cucumbers ; cover well
with grape leaves put clean piece OF
light wood and a brick on top to keep
the cucumbers down; they will fer
ment, be slightly acid, and be ready for
use i'll three weeks. This is Holland
recipe.
RASPBERRY VINEGAR.-Pick and wash
five pounds of raspberries and pour over
them a gallon of the best white wine
vinegar let it stand twenty-four hours,
then strain through flannel jelly-bag
and put this liquor over five pounds
more of raspberries. Let it stand again
a day and night. Strain second time
through a flannel bag, and add ten
pounds of lump sugar. Put i'll three
gallon stone jar set the jar in pot OF
hot water and let it simmer for twenty
minutes, Swimming any froth that may
arise. When perfectly cold bottle and
cork carefully. Keep i'll cool place
during the summer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16

The cities showing the largest ratio OF
increase are Atlanta, Ga, 100 per cent.
Denver, Col, GA per cent; Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, 244 per cent; ST. Paul,
Mimi, 100 per cent; Waterbury, CT
103 per cent; Meriden, Ct, 80 per cent.
and Camden, n. J., 81 per cent.
1t will be noticed that there has been
a very surprising growth in manufacture
ing cities such as Camden, Columbus,
Lowell, Meriden, Newark, Pittsburgh,
Wheeling and Waterbury.
The first ten cities in population are
III the order named: New York, Phila-
delphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, st. Louis,
Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, San
Francisco, New Orleans.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
A Tough Snake Story.

Two snakes-one black runner. the
other a viper, each about three feet long
were found in the swamp back of the
Western Maryland Depot, at Mechanics
town. in the following predicament: The
black snake had caught and began swal-
lowing, tail first, the viper; the viper,
retaliating, curved around and began to
swallow the runner, tail first; and when
found, each had swallowed the other up
to the head, there being nothing but the
two heads projecting from the mouth of
the other. baltimore american.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Chief Judge William E. Curtis, of the
Superior Court of Connecticut, is dead.
Jacob Kuntz, of Homestead Station,
N. j., forbade his wife going to picnic, but
she persisted, and he killed her. and then HIM
self. They were both over GO years of age.
Something of a sensation has been
produced in Wall street, New York, by the ar
rest there OF Lawrence Jerome a wealthy young
broker. on a charge of receiving large amount
of stolen securities.
The ninth day of DIR, Tanners fast in
New York was buletned on the evening of July
as follows At IL a. IN. his pulse was So, and
his temperature 90 $40. His time was passed
in short maps, bathing his head, rinsing his
mouth. and talking to the doctors. He seemed
strong and confident. Lying down about 3,
he was very restless, and suddenly pitched
his rubber pillow out into the middle
Of the floor. He then quietly famed
himself with huge palm leaf. Throughout
the day he called for water oftener than pre-
viously, and he caused wet cloths to be placed
upon his head and hands. At 6:15 his temper
allure was 971a and his pulse so. About Z he
took toy marble into his mouth to excite the
salivary glands He was pleasant, and even in
clined to joke
Fire destroyed Lee & Murdoch's mill
and storehouse, at East Douglass, Mass. Loss,
$4,000.
Thirty buildings in Tyrone, Pa, have
been destroyed by fire. The loss is Sl25,OOO,
and the insurance $4,000
Col. William Tilden Pelton, nephew
of SamuelJ Tilden, and famous in connection
with the cipher dispatches is dead.
An examination of DIR. Tanner, at New
e York, on the twelfth day of his fast, showed
the tongue slightly coated pulse, SO temper
allure, 1885 respiration, II weight 1888
pounds, showing loss of about II pounds.
In the evening the doctor was irritable, re-
fusing to be Gained by music, and COM
planned of lack of fresh air. He suffered eY-
cessively from heat. At 10 o'clock, after visit
ors had left the hail. a curious scene occurred.
The doctor, complaining of heat, tore off his
clothes, the lights were partially turned down,
and he promenaded about the railing, switching
himself with towel.
The condition of DR.. Tanner, the
Minnesota doctor, on the thirteenth day Of his
fast, indicated no collapse. His color was rosy
and his condition as favorable a. at any time
after the fifth day. The faster seemed easier,
in fact, and confidence was growing that he
would succeed in carrying out his intention of
existing forty days without food. His pulse on
the evening of the thirteenth day was 96 tenn
peraturc, 100 respiration, II. At z p. m. he
took walk of few blocks, accompanied by
watchers
DIR. Tanner completed the fourteenth
day of his fast on the 18th of July. His weight
was 1873 pounds, loss of twenty-four and a
half pound in the fourteen days. His pulse
and temperature showed him to be growing
weaker, though outwardly he remained the
same.
West.
GA Modern Arabian Night" was pre-
scented at Haverly's Chicago Theater last week
by Days most excellent company. The per-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
THE eggs when discharged from the

THE eggs when discharged from the
oyster are irregular shaped objects, only
visible to well trained eye. The shell
is first formed in the shape of ridge
but gradually expands and at length en-
velopes the oyster. 1t now has few
hairs with which it swims close to
the surface of the water for few hours,
until its digestive organs fully develop,
when it seeks hard substance, attaches
itself to it and remains sedentary for the
rest of its life. The food of the oyster
consists Of microscopic animal and vege-
table matter. The sea water contains
much of this and is drawn in the gills OF
the oyster by suction. The mouth always
remains open.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
A New chronological Point.

"You will observe from this word
pater," said schoolmaster to his pupil,
1.-THE great fexibility of the Latin lam
guage. Pater is father, and here we
have Oatruns, an uncle; and propatruns,
great uncle on the fathers side. Can
you make any such change in our Ian
guage? Pater, patruns, 2,rOpatruns-
father; is there any way you can change
father into uncle i'll English?"
81 don't think of any," replied young
hopeful, "unless you get him to marry
your aunt. ;"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
Winking Photographs.

Winking photographs are said to be
produced in the following manner One
negative is taken with the sittcr's eyes
open; another without change of posi-
ton, with the eyes shut. The two neg
atives are printed on opposite sides of
the paper, registering" exactly. Held
before Pickering lamp, or other vari-
able source of light, the combined pho
tographs show rapid alterations of
closed and open eyes, the effect being
that of rapid winking.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS oLRANINos.

Minnesota physician, DIR. Tanner,
maintained that a man could live forty days on
water alone, and to prove the correctness of
this theory went to New York, and under the
watchful eyes of committee of local doc
tors, started out to put it to the
test. A telegram from that city on
July reports progress as follows; ."Dr. Tan
ner at noon to-day closed the eighth day of his
continuous fast. He has lost sixteen pounds
in weight since the beginning, and now weighs
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
Flies.

Many mournful pieces have been
written about "dead leaves, 4" dead
flowers" and "years gone by" but L
have never yet read one word about de-
parted flies. To be sure, flies are not an
honored race indeed, they are quite the
contrary, for they come in the SPRING
time and nearly torment the life out of
man and beast throughout the summer
1t is like tale of war this fighting
with flies we barricade our doors and
windows until the house looks like n
fortress, and we prepare feasts of deadly
poison for the coming enemy. They
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Republicans of Iowa will hold a
State Convention on the 25th of August for the
purpose of nominating candidates for Auditor
and other minor State officers.
Gen. James b. Weaver, candidate for
President on the National Greenback ticket has
gone on a stamping tour through the South.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
City Populations.

The following table shows approx
mately the population of tifty-seven cities
in the United States according to the
new census, population of the same
cities in 1870, the absolute increase.
and the rate of increase:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
A PeSsimist i'm Paris.

Let me note one incident that fell
under my eyes as strikingly illustrative
of the state of things here. In the street
just before me were q mother and her
son, both working people. AS the coffin
was put into the hearse everybody took
off their hats-everybody save this boy
"Take off your cap" she said. He stood
s,lllenly and refused to obey. She re-
peated her order. He took no notice of
it. She seized the cap and threw it on
the ground; it rolled into the flushed ken
mel ''Pick up that cap" He refused
to bulge. When L left them the cap
still lay i'll the flushed kennel. 1t is with
this spirit of INSTRUMENTATION, this disre-
spect of everything, and especially of
everything which touches religion, the
youth of both sexes here are brought up.
Depend upon it, day of fearful reckon
ing is coming; blood will again flow like
water, and the sky again will be invisible,
SO dense will be the smoke of incendiary
fires.-Corospondence Neto orleans
PicdUltne.