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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

the "Jolly Bachelors and the "Jolly
Maids" were about to make a grand
climax, n feminine shrek was heard in
the dress-circle, and half second later
young lady was observed to Jump up
into her chair, gather her dress about
her and stare at the floor. This was
instantly followed by chorus OF
squeals, and all the ladies in that part
of the house, moved by some common
impulse, climbed into their seats, caught
up their skirts, and craned their necks
to look underneath. Presently little
scream arose from the other side of the
aisle, and another young woman jumped
into her chair. Everybody looked to
see what the panic was. Some of the
performers laughed, others were amazed,
and all stumbled through their parts
though that made no difference, rs no.
body in the house was paying the slight
est attention to the play. 1t was
mouse.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

A story is afoat to the effect that q
foreign authoress who went to belmont
co.'s uptown restaurant to dine found
that the waiter who came forward to wait
upon her was her own brother. The
item was shown to the manager at Del
monico's and he was asked if there was
any truth In it. He shook his head and
smiled.
every now and then" he said, ''some
story of the kind is set afoat. General
ly, however, it Is about waiter who Is
a nobleman."
sis it not fact that occasionally you
have nobleman among your"
'It is not at all unlikely. There are
plenty of nobleman abroad who are very
poor, and sometimes are hard put to it
for good meal. In such cases they
often drop their titles. If they come to
this country, why should they not work
at waiting as well as any other business?
Then there are fast young noblemen
who run through their means and emil
CRATE. They have not been brought up
to any business; they are unacquainted
with the American ways Of life. But
they know about table service, and job
as waiter is the thing they are best fitted
for. Noblemen are not scarce in the
Old Word. In Germany the title goes
to all of the sons of nobleman. have
no doubt there are noblemen jerking
beer in the Bowery. We have had
noblemen occasionally among our corps
of walters. There is nothing surprising in
it. We see men-merchants, brokers,
etc.-who make great deal of money.
They live fast, spend freely, and make .
big figure in the world for q time, and
then comes smash, and they disappear.
Perhaps we may afterward hear of them
working in mine or herding cattle on
the plains. There is nothing to surprise
anyone in finding that the waiter who
takes your order is baron or o count"
-[New York Sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

lated upon the completenss and value of
this work, upon which he has bestowed
SO much painstaking labor. With such
a book placed, as it is designed to be, in
the hands of all persons seeking inform
alton as to the character and resources
of the State, the cause of Michigan and
her claims upon thrifty and intelligent
immigrants, will be quite as eloquently
and effectively urged as those of any
State in the Union. And it may be rs
well to say, in closing, that upon such
immigrants alone is it worth while to
make favorable impression.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

THE question of increasing materially
the speed of ocean steamships is now
exciting considerable interest in the
commercial world. Some time ago M.
Raoul- Pictet, the well-known French
chemist, undertook at Geneva the con-
struction of an experimental vessel, which
was to mark great stride forward i'll
rapid sailing. Very little is known of his
plans, but the mathematical and phys
ical principles involved in the construc-
ton of the new ship were recently
brought before the French Academy.
The vessel will be broad and compare
lively flat, and the bottom will con-
stantly receive an upward thrust, tending
TO raise it out of the water, and dimin-
ishing the draught of water in proper
ton as the speed increases. 1t will be
understood that, beyond certain veloc-
ity, on account of the considerable in
crease of work expended with this We
locity, there may be some advantage in
vertical thrust diminishing the drauglt;
the benefit will be represented by the
difference between the excess of work
expended to keep up this thrust and the
dimiaution of work resulting from dim
mutton of the immersed surface. NJ.
Pictet calculates that speeds OF fifty to
sixty kilometres (thirty to thirty-seven
miles) an hour may be got thus. At
present the average does not exceed
eighteen kilometres, or thirteen miles
per hour.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENER-
AL HATToN has made ruling that the
sender of any request matter (mail mat
ter requested to be returned if not deliv-
cred in a specified time) has right to
lengthen or shorten the time originally
named on the envelope, but the letter or
matter must remain as long as three
days in the office of destination. Post
masters shall return the matter upon
such requests without charge of addi-
tional postage. The same ruling applies
to card matter containing simply the
name and address Of the sender.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

The London Field says that the rea-
son why American horses trot so fast Is
because our fast trotters derive their
qualities mainly from Barbary horses !;
Barbary being rough, stony, billy, in
tersected with ravines, the horses were
unable TO gallop and accustomed them
selves to the trot, which was the safest
gait. The galloping English fast horses
are of Arabian origin, where the country
is fat and carpeted with sand, allowing
them to gallop with ease.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

A MASSACHUSETTS clergyman on going
into his pulpit the other Sunday found
it already occupied by man who an
nounced his. intention to preach. Think
ing he had to deal with "crank " he
handled him very judiciously and final.
ly told him that he wasn't aware that he
had asked anybody to preach for him.
The stranger said he had come to take
Mr.. Marsh's place, and, on learning
that Marsh usually preached over the
way, the stranger rushed to the church
across the street, where he arrived in a
state of perspiration to find all there in
a state of great anxiety, the organist
having played the prelude through three
times, and the worthy deacons were on
the point of taking up the collection and
then dismissing the audience.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

A FARMER living near Client, N. Y,
was proceeding along the highway,
driving team of horses drawing load
of hay. On top of the hay was small
boy, son of. the man driving the team.
The air being chilly the boys prudent
mother wrapped around his neck and
around his head and ears a muller. As
the team proceeded along the wagon
was drawn under the branch of tree,
when, singular to relate, the limb passed
under the muller at the top of the lads
head and hauled him off the load in
short order. leaving him suspended from
the limb. The father discovered the
perilous position of his son in time to
Jump from the wagon and relieve him
from the limb, which had yielded to the
pressure upon it and was gradually let
ting the boy down. Altogether, it was
a very narrow escape for the lad.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

DIR. BLISS is now engaged in prepar-
ing took of details i'll regard to the
Presidents case. He received during
the period the President was Frustrated
hundreds of letters making suggestions
as to treatment, etc., and those he pro-
poses to incorporate in the forthcoming
volume. He will also make use ct the
newspaper comments on the treatment
of the case, and intimaCes that he may
take occasion to answer some of those
criticisms.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

For the week ending Dec. 3, there
has been slight increase in the area
of prevalence of neuralgia, bronchitis
and diphtheria, and a considerable de-
decrease in that of intermittent fever.
One case of small pox aud one case of
varioloid, in addition to the cases men,
toned in the last bulletin, are reported
from Hartford, Van Buren, county. The
disease is supposed to be now under con-
troll at that place. Six more deaths are
reported from Bingham township,
Leelenaw county.
HENRY b. BAKER,
Secretary State Board OF Health
LANSING, Mich.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

Hon. EDWARD MCPHERSON has al
ready been for twelve years Clerk of the
House of Representatives at Wash ing
ton. III he lives to complete the term
for which he has now been elected he
will have had the longest service as
Clerk of the House of any incumbent OF
that Office from the foundation of the
Government. Already he has had the
longest continuous service.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

BLooD-CURDLING tragedy was re-
Gently enacted in Lamar county, Ga.
Winchester Armstrong, well-to. do and
highly-respected farmer, left his home on
business to neighboring village, leav-
ing his wife and infant child and aged
mother-in-law the only occupants of the
house. During his absence crazy ne
gro, whose insane deeds had not previ-
ously attracted much attention in the
neighborhood, suddenly entered the
house, and, before the mother could pre-
vent, snatched up the babe and attempt
ed to escape with it. The frightened
woman mGde frantic effort to rescue
her child, which only aroused the luna
ties frenzy, and, snatching up an AK
that stood near, he dealt her an awful
blow upon the head, opening the skull
and causing a wound from which she
SOON died. Her aged mother then at
tempted to secure the babe, when the
Infatuated monster fell upon her and
beat her to death in few minutes.
While he was still enga gid in his muir
derous work, Mr.. Armstrong, totally I'M
conscious of the terrible tragedy that
was being enacted in the little home
Which he had but little while ago left
in such peace and tranquility, ap-
preached the house. The scene which
met his gaze almost froze his blood, but,
soon recovering his mind, he rushed for
his gun, and secured it just in time to
prevent the maniac from completing his
bloody work by killing the babe and its
father. The negro was advancing upon
Mr. Armstrong with his bloody AK raised
and his terrible eyes rolling in madness.
when Mr.. Armstrong leveled his gun
AID shot him dead. The child, amid all
the butchery, escaped unframed, and ii
is all that is left Mr.. Armstrong to cheer
his desolate home.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

Hon. FREDERIcK T. FRELINGHUYsEy,
who succeeds Mr.. Blaine as Secre-
tary of State. is a native of New Jersey,
and Ga years old. The family has long
been prominent one in New Jersey.
This Frelinghuysen is a nephew and
adopted son of the one who ran for Vice
President ON the ticket with Henry
Clay, in 1874. He has served two terms
in the United States Senate and filled
other distinguished positions in New
Jersey.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

The capital OF the 2, 10 national banks
in operation on June 30, 1881, was
$3.50, 227, S35, not including surplus,
which fund at that date amounted to
more than 1926, 900, 900, while the aver
age capital of all the State banks, pri-
vate bankers and savings banks for the
six months ending M y 81, 1880, was
but $2lO, 73S, 2O3. The latter amount is
but little more than one thild of the
combined capital and surplus of the ma
tional banks.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
Poor Pussy.

swell. Pussy cat, what are you thinking Of, say
Sitting there close by the IRE all day,
And blinking your eyes,
And looking as wise
Az II your knew everything under the skiesf
"Perhaps you are thinking how nice It would be
IL you were wee little girl, just like me,
With curls in your hair,
And ribbon TO wear
Tied up in bow on the top Of Il there
sand some nice little dresses Of blue and Of rcd
With ruin and peatings, and them for your head,
You poor little cat,
How sorry am that you cannot have thst
"And you would be able to read very we'll;
You know h9w tried, dear, to teach you TO spell,
But you never would say
so much AS sBAl
had all my trouble for nothing, that day.
" But, Pussy, tits really the saddest Of an
That you pever can play with dear little DOLL
How can you live 30
Ia more than know
II were pussy cat, what should d.
"My dear little missy, don't think BIZ
As here by the nice, cozy IRE ait;
But tits pleasant TO stay
And do nothing all day.
"I don' think I'd Ike to have ribbons and ourls,
And be n~sed up and fixed UP Like you little girls;
you mean TO be kind,
But never you mind
IL suits me to dress like pussy, nnA.
"MySoat you may notioe, Is glossy and white,
And Ats me-is neither too loose nor too tight
And, as for hat
I've no need Of that,
My head dress Is just in the styfo-for eat
" And lessonsl Oh, dear tits blessing, indeed,
That 1t isn't the fashion for pushes 10 read
hid in the hay
For the rest OF the day
When you were worried and bothered TO make me
say A
"And doll Did you ever try catching mouse,
Or rolling marble around IN the house?
That's all / can do,
But IL surely Ia true
That I'd rather be your httle pussy than you"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

THE New York Staats-Zcituag says
that the Berlin kraut dealers are so ex-
cited by the fact that German cabbages
have been shipped to America that they
have made preparations to create cor
ner in sauer kraut in anticipation of an
immense American demand.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

IT is estimated that 1000 persons
died of diphtheria in Nova Scotia during
the past year. The Medical Society of
the province is consulting with the
Government with view to checking
the spread of the disease. 1t is reported
that there are now 2l5 cases of diphthe-
ria under treatment at Brockville, Ont.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

Reports to the State Board of Health.
Lansing, for the week ending Dec. 8,
1881, by sixty-nine observers of diseases
in different parts OF the State, show causes
of sickness as follows:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23
Area Of the United States.

The following table shows the areas in
miles of the States and Territories of the
United States, the total water area, and
the net land surface, as officially report
ed by Henry Gannett, E. NJ, geogra-
pher and special agent of the tenth cen
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

The following table gives the number,
capital and deposits of private bankers
in sixteen of the principal cities of the
Union:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

TIE Cleveland Piaindedler says:
A highly amusing scene was witnessed
at the Academy of Music matinee.
About the middle of the last act, while
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23
Ghe Trle gurtherusr.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1881.

THE fire losses in this country, during
the present year aggregate 500,
100000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

The percentage Of recoveries from
habitual drunkenness Gnebriety or
dipsomania) is third under competent
medical care.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

How industriously the good grows and
propagates itself, even among the weedy
entanglements of evil.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

Number and PEI
Cent. V Observ-
srs by Whom
Each Disease Wos
Reported
The true northerner., 1881-04-29
Improvement in the Sick.Room

The changes of our time have been as
marked in the sick-room as in the rail-
way car or the telegraph Office. The
frightful doses of calomel and SIENNA and
castor oil, so common a century ago, are
almost unknown. We wonder how our
ancestors survived the administered
drugs, when the disease was not fatal.
In attacks of typhoid fever it was GUS
tomary to bleed patients, and to starve
them also, in order to loosen the hold of
the fever on the system. 1t is now
thought important to retain all the
blood and enrich it by nutritious food,
that the strength may be sustained
against the severe drain made on the
system by fever.
Cold water used to be refused to pa
tients parched with thirst, though they
begged for it piteously. 1t is now given
freely, as nature demands it.
Flowers, also, used to be banished
rigidly from sick-rooms, as they were
thought to consume oxygen by night,
and make the air unwholesome for the
patient. But tests applied in large
greenhouses have found the air as pure
and rich in oxygen in the morning as
at midday, and it may be hoped this SUI
perstition will be alb andoned. A little
beauty and fragrance in the sick-cham-
ber may keep up cheerfulness and hope,
which often are better antidotes than
drugs.
The true northerner., 1881-04-29
Waste and Abuse of Flowers.

Masses of flowers on q dinner table
are an anomaly; there is something al
most offensive In the mingled odor of
their perfume and the reek of the dishes
and lights. At a ball they are not out
of place and keeping for certain pur-
poses. Roses, lilies, carnations, violets
are natural adornments for young
woman, and a bunch of them in her
hand or on her breast is an appropriate
ornament, and the complement OF her
evening dress; but where is the fitness,
the beauty, the sentiment, the common
sense, when she has six, dozen, or
twenty? Are there twenty persons, or
twelve, or even six, at the same time to
send her flowers which mean more than
If they were of wax or tissue paper, or
which have any more intrinsic value to
her who carries them? Are they wit
nesses of love. or, even of admiration?
How many are sent merely to crafty the
demands of vanity? At every ball rival
beauties carry bouquets sent to each by
the same men. Many are sent by mem
bers of the lady's family, which takes
half the significance from flowers sent
by the same kinsfolk on birthdays, or in
sickness, or at time of special Joy or
sorrow. And what is to be said of the
bouquets sent rs bribes to women of
fashion by mon who wish to obtain their
good offices? And what of those sent by
a man to woman whom he admires,
not to give her pleasure, but prestige
to CRAFTY hei vanity and refexly his
ownl There is an instance, well known,
in one of our great cities, of ono man
sending several bouquets for the same
ball, to console her for social slight;
she appeared to be initiated as great
belle and he as the bellies favored cava-
lier. And what of the bouquets stacked
on the front cushion of proscenium
box, in the blast of the footlights and
flung, half-faded, to prina donna, to
whom they are already a drug, who
perhaps is hurryin8 through her part to
leave town by the next train?-Atlantic
MOnthLy.
The true northerner., 1881-04-29
The Color of Lightning.

The color of lightning is altogether
due to the nature of the substance which
is made incandescent in its track. The
blue, red, purple and silver tints, which
are ordinarily much more brilliantly
marked III warm climates and inter-trop-
ical countries than they are ever in Eng
land, are due to the same circumstances
as the color which is designedly commu
nicated to the light of different kinds of
fireworks, 1t is result of the intrinsic
nature of the vaporized particles which
are made to shine. The vapor of iron
has one kind of sheen and the vapor of
sulphur another. Each different foreign
ingredient that floats in the air has its
own proper hue, which it can communi-
cate to the lightning. The broad flashes
of light which appear III the clouds dur
ing thunderstorm, and that are distin-
guished as sheet-lightning, are very
often merely the reflections from the
cloud mist of the discharges that pass
from one part to another with each re-
distribution of the internal charge, as
the tension of the outer surface is
charged by an external flash.
The redistribution of the internal
CnuTSe Is SOHleJlineS also uiurkeu Ny very
beautiful lines of coruscation playing
upon the dark background rs the storm
drifts away There is a table mountain
Il few miles away from Petermaritzburg,
in Natal, over which this kind of display
is continually exhibited The retreating
storm clouds linger over the flat top of
this mountain, where they can be seen
from the city in the advancing night.
In this dark canopy of the mountain
coruscations, accompanying each redis-
tribution of the electrical charge, can be
watched for hours at a time-now as
Stunning the form of coronals of electric
fire, now running along in machiolated
horizontal lines just above the flat top of
the mountain, and now radiating out in
all directions from central loop, like
he cracks of starred glass. Science for
The true northerner., 1881-04-29
Throwing the Hatchet.

In the fourteenth century the situation
of public executioner to the city of Flor
ence became vacant, and, as it was
place of considerable emolument there
were three candidates. A day was
appointed for public display of their
several abilities. The first candi-
date, with knife, cleverly separ-
ated the head of the victim from
his shoulders. He was outdone by the
rapid stroke of the second, whose gilt
tering broadsword struck terror into the
hearts of the surrounding multitude.
The third and least promising held in
his hand n short hatchet, and, when the
victim was extended with his head on
the fatal block, approached him, and in
low whisper inquired if he was wifi
runner and if he could swim well. On
being answered il the affirmative, he
desired him to spring on his feet and
cross the river. The executioner then
pnt or fierce look, swung his weapon
roundhis head, but, instead OF making
it descend on the devoted crsature's
The true northerner., 1881-04-29

my father pondered upon the possibility
that he might be found worthy to behold
the glorifed spirit of him who was 80 re-
vered by his countrymen. Aud during
the night he did see Washington, and
this is all have to say about it. If l
gave the particulars / should feel bound
to give full explanation of them by
DIR. Hammond, or some other expert in
cerebral illusions and this would oc-
cupy too much space for an episode.
1t may he worth while to say that moth
ing my father saw. or thought he saw,
was useful in confirming his faith in a
spiritual world. His assurance in this
matter was perfect. He believed that
brain action if that is the correct ex-
pression) was at times set up i'll us by
friends no longer in the flesh, and that
his own life had been guided by these
mysterious influences"
The true northerner., 1881-04-29

Think not th't strength lies In the big round word'
Or that the brief and plain mast needs De weak
To whom can this be true, who once has hesru
The cry for help. the tongue that all men speak,
when want or woe, or fear Is AZ the throat,
So that each word gnsped out Is like shrek
Pressed from the sore heart, or strange, wiz note
Sung hy some fay OF fiend? There Is strength
Which dies n stretched too far or spun too hne, ,
Which has mere height than breadth, more uep'h
and length.
Let but this force OF thought and speech be mine,
And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase,
" hica glows and burns not, though II gle"m ana
shine;
Light. but not heat-a flash without blaze.
Nor Is Il mere strength ihst the short word boasts
IL serves OF more tnan Il hit or stofm 10 tell
Tie roar Of waves that dash on rock-bound coasts,
The crash of tall tr, es when the wild winds SWELL
The roar of guns, the groans oi men thai Ole ,
On Dlooi-siained ii, Ids IL h.sa voice as wen
For them that far-otf On their sick bscs iie
For them that weep, for them that mourn tue
dead,
For them that lsugh and dance, and clasp the nano
To Joys quick step. as we'll as grie s low uead.
The sweet plain words We learnt AT first Keep tiine
And thou h the theme be sad or gay. or grand,
With each, with all, these may he made TO chime,
In thought or speech, or song or prose, or rhyme