The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-02
BITS OF INFORMATION.

'IHE Orlmeu was Settleu ny TIC Oc-
noese in 1893, but they were expelled by
the Tartars in 1474.
The battle of Arbella occurred 331
years b. c., in which Alexander, by the
defeat of Darius, established his power
in Asia.
The early method of spinning cotton
was of course by hand, but about 1857
Mr.. Hargreaves, OF Lancashire, invented
the spinning jenny.
In Copenhagen there is manufactured
from the blood of cattle chocolate,
which is said to be the most nutritious
article yet known to science.
"CAPE of Storms was the name
originally given to the Cape of Good
Hope, in 1885, by Bartholomew Diaz,
the celebrated Portuguese navigator. Its
present name was substituted by King
John III.
PARIS, in the course of its history, has
been besieged ten times. The first time
in 80 B. c., and the last in 1870. 1t
was fortified until the time of Louis
XIV, who RACED the defences, as, in his
day, the idea of a foreign army reaching
the heart of France was laughed at.
Napoleon 1. did not fortify Paris, and
the allies, in 1914, found only few
hastily built redoubts in their way.
THE drink known as "gin sling" was
invented by John Collins, waiter at
Limmers Hotel, Conduit street, Lon
don. John was corrupted into gin, and
Collins into Gins, and thence sings.
The old lines on the hbation ran:
My name il John Collins, head waiter at Limmer's,
Corner Of Conduit street, Hanover square;
Ny chief occupation IL filling of brmmers
For ali the young gentlemen frequenters there.
Limmer's had a long heyday. and only
flickered out within few years. Tips
were so liberal that the walters paid Mr..
Collins high premiums for their places,
! and he accumulated handsome compe-
tence.
IT does not exactly appear when the
first use of tea was made. Tradition
speaks of it as early as the third cent
ury. A legend relates that pious her.
NIT who, in his watching and prayers,
had often been overtaken by sleep so
that his eyelids closed, in holy wrath
against the weakness of the flesh, cut
them off and threw them on the ground.
A god, In admiration of the piety dis
played, caused tea shrub to spring up
from the spot. and decreed that ever
after the shape of the leaf should be in
the form of an eyelid bordered with
fringy lashes, aud that it should possess
the virtue of hindering sleep. 1t was
after the year 600 that the use of the tea
became general in China, and about the
year SO that it was introduced into
Japan. In 1914 it found its way to En-.
gland.
A CONDENSED explanation III regard to
the needle pointing northward and south
ward is al follows: The magnetic poles
of the earth do not coincide with the
geographical poles. The axis of rota-
ton makes an angle of about % degrees
with line Joint to the former. The
northern magnetic pole is at present near
the Arctic circle on the meridian of
Omaha Hence tho needle does not
everywhere point to the astronomical
north, and is constantly variable within
certain limits. At San Francisco it
points about II degrees to the east of
north, and at Calais, Me-, as much to
the west. At the northern magnetic
pole balanced needle points with its
north end downward in q plumb line.
At San Francisco It dips about 60 de-
grees, and at the southern magnetic pole
to the south, and points directly down.
The action of the earth upon the mag
netic needle at its surface is of about
the same force as that of a hard-steel
magnet, forty inches long, strongly mag
netized, at distance of one foot, The
foregoing is the accepted explanation of
the fact that the needle points to the
northward and southwark. OF course
no ultimate reason cal be given for this
natural effect any more than of any 9TH
er observed fact in nature.