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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
In Biiah's Court.

It was mild-eyed, long-haired young
man OF twenty-seven, who answered to
the name of Donald O'Grinnel, and he
wanted to know of the court If he
couldn't have a glass of lemonade before
his trial.
Guess not" answered his Honor.
"Bijah had lemon around here five or
six weeks ago, but ten to one the cock
reaches have logged it off and traded it
for gum drops. 1t won't hurt you any
to DE tried"
81 feel all gone"
Eyes, I suppose so. I've never had
the sensation myself, but I've seen so
much of il here that L can imagine what
it is. What allied you last night q
81 felt bad"
"And what did you do for it 2"
Took prescription.
Just SO. 1t was humping big
drink of whisky on top of two beers,
wasn't it ?"
II believe so, but I'm so gone that
| can't tell. -
Poor youth You are assistant to a
florist in the suburbs. You came to
town about dusk last night with your
hat on your ear and desire in your
heart to mash some one. You took a
prescription to give You further courage,
and you went into Michigan avenue
store and offered to chew the proprietor
into shavings for two cents"
Did do that %
"Of course you did. You called
yourself the War Eagle of Detroit, and
you annoyed the man until he made
your heels hit the ceiling and then flung
you into the alley"
And then what ?"
"Then you slept the sleep of the
drunk, and your snores guided the Off
GERS to the spot"
"Well, I'm awful sorry"
4" Yes, so am I. It's pity You are
not statesman instead of loafer."
+" guess I'll begin from this very
morning to be stateman.
" guess you WON'T You'll begin
from this morning to go to the Work
House for three months u
"That finishes me; L might as vel
die at once"
"Well, do your dying in the corridor.
and please don't kick around and smash
Bijah's new coal stove. Fall back and
die and make room for the next. DE
troit Free Press
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
Animals as Surgeons.
[Youths' Companion.l

Youths Companion.
Foxes and wolves, and probably few
other animals, have been known to re-
lease themselves from the jaws of trap
by cutting off with their teeth the leg
which was caught; but it has been
asserted very often that the raecoon
does not perform any such heroic sur
gerry. Now, as to this exception in the
case of the raccoon, there is a mistake.
On the banks of the Mississippi river
some men were engaged In cutting saw
logs. They had felled large sycamore
about three feet and half in diameter,
and, while cutting it through at point
about thirty-five feet from the ground,
the saw came upon something which
operated on the teeth exactly like iron,
and the workmen could go no further.
They removed the saw and cut the
tree in two several inches farther along,
when they found it was hollow, and the
entrance to the whole was still higher
up the trunk. AT the foot of the hollow
they found the obstruction which had
stopped the saw-a foot or two of small
chain, attached to rusty old steel trap
which was clenched tight upon the full
set of bones belonging to the right hind
foot of some animal about the size of a
raccoon. No other bones were found in
the tree, and therefore the little animal
could not have died there. When the
trap was shown to me the bones were
still he'd in it's jaws, and L said the
animal must have been q raccoon; but
was mot Mt once with the answer that
the raccoon never cuts its leg of.
A few days afterward party ofyoune
men were speaking Of the circumstance
as have related 1t, when one of then
stated that, nearly two years ago, he
had been ont with hunting party one
night, and that about mile from where
this tree was felled they killed a raccoor
which had only three feet, the right
hind one being gone. Now, this was
doubtless, the raccoon whose foot was
found in the trap.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
Teachers and Their Salaries.

New York has 8, 164 male and %, sos
female teachers. Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Illinois have more male teachers
than New York, the number in those
States being, respectively, 1l,456, 1907
and 1878. New York, as intimated,
stands at the head of the list of female
teachers, the other States nearest her
being Iowa, 1859; Illinois, 12,757
OHIO, 1901; Pennsylvania, 11,603.
The largest average monthly salary to
males is paid by the District of Column
bia, $SS.47 Nevada next, $S4. 46; and
Arizona, $S4 Nevada pays an average
monthly salary of SS3. 90 to her female
teachers, and Arizona 500. The others
are below that sum down to So. 80, paid
i'm New Hampshire.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
The Boston Girl.

So much has been said about the
Boston girl of late that she has been
attracting unusual attention all over the
country. BY the majority of people
she is regarded as an aesthetic of the
utterly too awfully too brand, who can
sustain life on a diet of peanuts and the
occasional odor of lily, with now and
then chance to make Nocturnal raid
upon the pantry in which the baked
bean reposes In temporary peace. A
writer who has been making q study of
the Boston girls rs they are, says
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THE length of the East River Suspen-
sion Bridge is 5,993 feet.
The nectarine is q native of Persia.
1t was introduced into England in 1862.
THERE are seventy-two national ceme-
teries for the burial of the Union and
Confederate dead.
In early times cotton was spun by
hand, but in 1857 Mr.. Hargreaves, of
Lancashire, invented the spinning
jenny.
The phrase "He's brick originated
with King Agesilaus, who, on n certain oc-
casion, pointing to his army, said "They
are the walls of Sparta. Every man
there Is a brick"
STEEL needles were invented by the
Spanish Moors, before which thorns or
fish bones, with hole pierced for An
eye, were used. The first needles made
III London were made in the reign of
Henry VIII. by Moor.
COFFEE was first sold in London in
1862 by Greek, whose handful read:
"The virtue of the coffee drink first
publiquely made and sold in England by
Pasqua Rosee, in st. Michaels Alley,
Cornhill, at the sign of his own head"
The first book published in the North
American colonies was. it is supposed, an
almanac calculated for New England,
by Mr.. William Pierce" which appeared
In Cambridge in 1889. 1t was printed
by Stephen Daye, but not copy of it
now exists.
HERCULES was the son of Jupiter and
he 6 ~.
after his dedication, of Hebe. He was
the god of strength, and the guardian of
riches, on which account tithes were
offered to him. He was also the guide
of the MUSES.. Juno was the wife of
Jupiter, at the same time his sister. She
was consequently the Queen of the
heavens.
The iron crown of Italy is said to have
been forged from the nails of Christ's
cross. Charlemagne was crowned with
this crown, and after him all the Emper-
ors who were Kings of Lombardy !;
Napoleon l., at Milan, May 26, 1906.
put it on his head, saying: "God has
given it to me; woe to him who shall
touch it" He founded the order of the
Iron Crown, which still continues.
AUSTRALIA is a land of drought and
flood. The annual rainfall at Sidney
has varied from twenty-five to twenty
eight inches. Lake George, near Goul-
burn, was, in 1924, twenty miles long
and eight miles broad. 1t gradually
shrank till in 1897 it became quite dry,
and its bottom was converted into a
grassy plain. 1t 1866 it was a lake
again, seventeen feet deep; two years
later it was only two feet deep, and in
1876 it was twenty feet in depth.
CELLULoID is made from the cellulore
obtained In cotton cloth or raw cotton.
The cotton is treated to a weak solution
of nitric acid. This has the effect Of
making pulp of cotton very much like
paper pulp. After the acid has acted
the pulp is treated to a copious water
bath that in large measure washes out
the acid. Then it goes through partial
drying process, aud large quantity
ofcamphor gum is mixed whit, and tits
rolled into sheets ready for the drying
room, when it is dried on hot cylinders,
the same as paper is dried. 1t eau be
softened by steam, but hardens again
when it is dry. Celluloid, when ready
for the market, burns as readily as ordi-
nary sealing-wax.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

WHEN the Omaha Indians visited the
Secretary of the Interior some time ago,
he asked them why they did not more
willingly assume the habits and condi-
tons Of civilized life, and was told in
reply that, until they were granted pat
ents for their lands, they did not feel
safe in their inheritance, but expected
to be told to move on at moments
notice. They were situated, they said,
directly in the line of the march of civil
ization, and could not-iudging from the
experience of their brethren-expect to
be unmolested. The Secretary then
promised them that he would do what
he could to have law passed this win
ter which would give them patents for
their lands. He is in favor of making
their titles to these lands inalienable
forever, and believes that such course
on the part of the Government will dc
much toward making good citizens OF
these Indians.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

AN eloquent Chicago divine drew one
of the most important lessons from the
life of Gen. Garfield for the considera-
ton of young men from the sentiment,
HE was not ashamed to work." 1t I'M
derlies all the grand structure of his life.
He did not sit idly on the street corners
and cry out for more wages and fewer
hours, and refuse to labor unless his
demands were met. Whether it was the
pittance of SO per month on the canal, a
slender income as % teacher in q log
school house, or generous allowance
as a General of the army or n legislator.
he was at all times earnest and diligent.
The greatest failure in life Is the neglect
of small things. Young men are too apt
to despise them, or pass them as trivial
and beneath their capacity. Men have
had "greatness thrust upon them," but
no man ever carved his own way to a
place by the side of the intellectual peers
of earth who neglected little duties.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
The Michigan Sufferers.
The Mayor of Port Huron, Mich, has issued
the following

The Mayor of Port Huron, Mich, has issued
the following
PORT HURNN, Mich, Sept. 81.
To the People of the United States:
We are glad to announce that we have all
the clothing that we need. Bedding, under
wear, provisions, grass and clover seed. tim
ware, tablewear and money are imperatively
needed. Our cash receipts up to noon
to-day are S121,000 Donations have been
generous and timely, but the needs are vast.
The generosity of the American people has in
spired the sufferers in the burned region with
new hope, and, their first needs being supplied,
they are industriously engaged in building new
homes.
To the Mayors of The Cities Of the United
States:
We will have $4,000 people to house and feed
during the approaching winter. Grateful for
the donations already made, l am compelled to
ask you to continue systematically in your sew
eral cities in this great work of charity. 1 can
only renew the assurance that contributions
received will DO faithfully used, and am con-
fdent that this appeal for aid will not be in
vain G. T.. CARLETON.
Mayor Of Port Huron, Mich.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

A MONSTER mill is to built III Mime
apolis, Mimi, which will turn out five
and half barrels of -four per min
ute, 1913 barrels per hour, 5000 barrels
per day, 2, 400, 900 barrels per year GOO
days.. 1t will require 10000, 900 bush
els of wheat per year to supply it, and
the value of its annual products will be
at least $14, 100000 1t will make one
third of the present wheat crop of Min
nesota into -four, and require an army
of men to carry on the work growing
out of its operations.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

In addition to giving Mrs. Lincoln the
remainder of the years salary due her
husband, voting her pension of $4,000
--precedents which will doubtless be
followed in Mrs. Garfeld's case-Con-
gress ordained "that all letters and
packages carried by post to and from
Mary Lincoln, widow of the late Ebra-
ham Lincoln, will be carried free of
postage during her natural life." This
is a distinction rather than valuable
privilege, but it is an honorable dis
tinction such as will also be accorded
Mrs. Garfield.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
INITIATED Coins.

United States coins, when mutilated
by cutting or abrasion, lose by such
mutilction their legal-tender qualities,
and the United States will not receive
them in payment of dues.
Such coins, therefore, are valuable
only to the amount of their intrinsic
worth as metal and are rated by dealers
as follows:
Silver dollars, mutilated ...............75 cents
Silver haf-doars, mutilated. .35 cents
Silver quarter-dollars, mutilated. 15 cents
One, 9, and scent pieces have no
money value.
Mutilated money and foreign coins
not received.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
Tn a Honefnl Frame of Mind.

We regret to say that the bad feeling
between Rev. Aminidab Bledso, of the
Austin Blue-Light Colored Tabernacle,
and his wife has not diminished, but,
ON the contrary, there is some talk of a
divorce.
Uncle Nose met Mrs. Bledso on Aus
tin avenue, and he remarked that she
was looking so happy.
81 alters feel happy when nay hus.
band is out hunting" responded Mrs.
Bledso.
"Bekase yer expects to hab mess OF
cartridges for supper ?" asked Nose.
"No, sab but bekase when he am out
wild gun dar's hopes he'll blow de TOP
of his fool head off befoah he gets back. '
--Terds Siftings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

AS IS well known, the late President
Garfield was very supersttious, and sew
eral incidents have been published to
illustrate the notions he had IN this re-
gard. He believed in omens and pre-
monitions, in the significance OF coinci-
dences. and in the old superstitions
about lucky days and dates. The figures
AZ had a great significance for him, as
has been repeatedly published, and he
considered it very unlucky to forget
anything ne intended to carry upon a
journey. Itappears that last winter ut
the banquet of the Williams College
alumni at Wormley's Hotel, at Wash
ington, there were thirteen at the table.
This was not noticed at the time, but
was discovered by Gen. Garfield when
he read the papers next morning and saw
IA list of those in attendance. He spoke
of it to several of his friends, and was
inclined to take melancholy view OF
the matter. The President also had a
notion that death would some day over
take him on an anniversary, and Gen.
r. B. Mussey, of Ohio, says he once
told him he believed he should die on
the 10Th of September, as he did, that
being the anniversary of the Battle OF
Chickamauga, where he particularly dis
tinguished himself, and was made a
Major General.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

FIVE United States Senators have re-
signed and one has died since the 4th OF
March--an unusual number of changes.
Three or four other Senator's are in any
thing but good health.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

In the case of contract signed by a
person, who in the signature describes
himself ~ an officer, the contract itself
not indicating in any way the corpora
ton of which he is an officer, the SUI
preme Court of Iowa decides that the
signer is personally liable.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

"They are self-poised, ready for any
emergency, and carry mental quivers
full OF Enersomiau trrcts. They are
largely ceramical. The fair booths are
filed with their efforts in amateur GER
amics. Music is general accomplish
ment. But seldom are these girls heard
in the streets late mt night raising their
voices iii discordant chorus. They wear
red mits on their hands and blue or red
leggins on their legs"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
Definition.

can agnostic is man who doesn't
know whether there is God or not, does
not know whether he has soul or not,
doesn't know whether there is a future
Ife or not, doesn't believe any one else
knows any more about these things than
he does, and thinks it is a waste of time
TO try and find out. IN. Y. Sun.
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tors were through with the illustrious
patient when he was dispatched wat
really-useful purpose is served by the
Acknowledgement? 1t can make no diff
ference 20 the dead, but the living-are
not their natural feelings to be respect
ed? Is there no friend of the family
who will at once put an end to this out
rageouS exhibition
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

or perpetrating marriage engagement.
She vigorously discourages the Platonic-
affection theory, and places marriage as
"consummation" confidently to be ex-
pected, whether it is "devoutly TO be
wished" or not. Charles Reade more
explicitly putiorward the same idea years
400
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

BY what right-pertinently asks the
Chicago Times-did the surgeons of the
late President reserve certain fragments
of the body of their patient for exhibit
ton Mt national museum? 1t was
supposed that all that was mortal OF
James A. Garfield was deposited at
Lake View. 1t is now learned that
pieces of bone from the vertebra and
ribs and that some of the intestines
have been taken in the name of science,
and that, in the name of nothing if not
sacrilege, the piece from the vertebra is
to be mounted as companion piece to
n similar bone cut from the assassin
Boatb 1t was concluded that the doc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

A DOG that hears through an ear
trumpet and wears spectacles belongs to
Patrick Nichols, of Milwaukee, Wis.
This animal is said to be 80 years OF
age, and has lost his hearing and sight,
and his master, for his many years OF
fidelity, procured these aids to cheer
him. A set of artificial teeth are being
made for him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

IT il estimated that the Mormon pop
ulation of Utah will be increased fully
10000 during the present year. And
this in spite of all that is said against it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
PlatOnic Friendship.

Miss Phelps, in her story, Friends !;
a Duet" expresses frankly and clearly
the opinion that man and woman, with
favorable circumstances, cannot perpet-
uate friendship without contemplating
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

PRESIDENT GARFIELp's favorite poet
was Tennyson, and the poem he loved
best was Sin Mem Oriam."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

The Bote, of Inowrazlaw, Prussia,
gives the following table of wages for
workmen in that city, place of some
5000 or 10000 population. The wages
are for q weeks work of six days of four
teen hours each. A mark is equal 20 an
English shilling, or about twenty-four
cents
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

PRESIDENT ARTHUR is the son of a
Baptist clergyman.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

THE recent fires in Michigan destroyed
twelve Baptist churches.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

Is It any wonder in view of these fig
ures, and they are TO a certain extent
criterion to judge the wages oil over
Germany, that the sturdy yeomanry and
artisans of that country are coming to
the United States by thousands?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07

THE United States has $1,000 brass
bands. The outlook OF this country Is
glooms indeed.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-01

A II. MITcIfEgsI1, Attorney md
IN Counsellor Gt Law, Lake Charles,
Las., win practice In All the parishes 0f
the Nth Judicial District, and the Sn-
prespe Conrt 1T Opelonsas.
Refers 10 Mr., Nathan i, Smart, Lake
Charles, Hon, J. b. Elem. Mansfield,
La.. HDn David ii. Pierson, Nntchitcr
cIies. Hon. rhoa, O. Manning, Alex,
nDdria. La
OtIice, at the old Recordor's Office, on
Pnbiic square.
Feb. >, 1881. Nv.
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f6r u.ealz aAsira[ q5as' IeiII y q Y = -
in onr avan,gs aai ~ pi1e "a ~
hills re proverbia|, 70 suY ac<|Iino 81
timber of leas nosc. h46o uI| III
( iind Il ready naazkot xs azon iii SG1<
railroad Fines allaif be cnIn0'3te,i
through tbo~e see(i0ns III which fIIex
most abouud. h n ne< bdf rutoqso
lnow NJ aIlstie expariHlly t,> zIss 1IIlI
aneo of these timber trocs i,
has been long KNOWN rIo<1e i7
and the cotfon wnod sprjux ~ e0oz'
taneously II Il1ost pnsts - Eani1 |H6x@
and grow ii the afeat&zk pfofdsi.>I,.
They havc until rocont'Y b<<1f bSad
considered pract;eaIly vorfIleas ms
forn,qr viii not burn &nd e1<Iid@ 81
split fiji rsiIs Ths Iy<&sr sIis1EGus III
different fire voosI u Eli 6osn <lis.
covered that both teeez en- now 81
utilized as furuituro tilaber, and fhn(
ones AZ leasty II i'ananreI saIrH M
The visitor 10 tho fnrniture rf& u
Mr.. VIM Endcrs. ID fhis cif<. 1iI[ ri.
cover chairs, bedsteasls. WaaI|r r(S|Is q
etc., naade out Ill tirtber 9hiG |56
cannot rcc0qnixc hcfp7o NJ u Jill Y
and which might y nsistaIseu ex
nut when the paint ia appllaE 4
tho ordinary sweet gum. 81 ii hHsV1
durable, and NJ slieaGp II h Ia 0f tIYS IIi3S4i
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40 Acn,s,s.

\ EIl,MILE B. auILLOieY residing near Lake
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and bounded BY land belonging 10 Il, Il, Gnil-
lory and Mrs. JoAeph Sallier,
For further particulars apply to
EMILE B. GUlLLORY,
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FOa, sale i'll Cost

A twelve horse power HorizoHtai Engine
and Boiler. All complete and HI ilrFt class
order. For further pattieulars apply at W "A.
MEYERS Drug store. Sept. ~, i8Si.