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NEWS OF The week.



Secretary Blaine is now in Wash
ington. A publishing house in Hartford
urging him to write life of President Gar
field, but he deems the six months allowed him
space altogether insufficient for the labor.
Snow at Bangor, Me-, ice in the Hud-
below freezing in all parts of New England.
Flames destroyed the entire business
portion OF the village of Pulaski, N. Y, involv-
ing loss Of 1900,
The will of James Stokes, New
York banker, which distributes sc, 900, 900
worth of property, will be contested by his
daughter, Mrs. Dale. The will Of the late Mrs.
Jennie McGraw Fske, of Ithaca, N. Y, gives
her husband $500, 200, her mother and five
cousins each 800, 600, and Cornell University
$3.50, 900 and the McGraw building.
A Pittsburgh bartender, whose lin
guistio and musical abilities have been the sur
prise Of those to whom he doled out the
foaming lager and the inspiring cocktail, turns
out to be none other than German Prince
Prince Salm Salm. His family is said to be one
of the weathiest and most noble in Germany.
West.
The grain warehouses of Chicago are
chuck full, and, as they will accept no moro
from the railroads, the railroads refuse to
take grain into Chicago from the interior. Such
a condition of things at this time in the season
has never before been known. The quantity
of grain in store in Chicago on the 9th of Octo-
Der was IL, 592 512 bushels, against 1927, 451
bushels in 1880.
Gen. Terry has ordered three COM
panies of the Fifth infantry to march from
Fort Keogh and endeavor to avert collision
between q band Of Yanktonnais and party of
500 buffalo-hunters, engaged in slaughtering
the animals for their hides.
The Chicago grain firm OF J. b. Lyon
q Co. got badly squeezed in the recent wheat
corner, and suspended. Liabilities, $500, 900.
The steamer Dell Queen was torn
from her mooring at Kilbourne City, on the
Wisconsin river, and carried over the dam, and
four men were drowned in the stream.
A remarkable disease has appeared in
Platte county, Mo-, which is described by some
as black smallpox, and by others as the orig
inal black scourge. Its victims rot before
death. and instances are given OF their bodies
falling to pieces while being prepared for
burial
The Detroit Post and Tribune, in an
approximate computation of the losses by the
recent extensive forest and farm CONGREGATIONS
in MICHIGAN. furnishes the following figureg:
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The insurance on all this destroyed
property is said to be only S623, 632.
Representatives of the different local
relief committees Of Bay City, East Saginaw,
Bort Huron and Detroit met in the latter city
and held a prolonged conference with Gov.
Jerome with the result that the Governor was
unanimously requested TO appoint State Cen
trail Relief Committee, through whom, here
after all aid for sufferers by The recent terrible
fires should he distributed. This will simplify
the work and conduce TO the utmost economy
in the important work, which must necessarily
continue through the winter. Ex-Gov. Henry
p. Baldwin heads the committee.
A casl1et of sheet bronze, with gold
mountings, was rendered by New York COM
pany for the Presidents remains. Mrs. Gar
field went to Cleveland to inspect it, and Or
dered the transfer of the body. 1t is now
thought that a crypt will lie erected in Lake
View Cemetery, and the caslset exposed to view.
Lieut.. Bernard, pursuing the hostile
Indians in Arizona, telegraphed to Gen. Will
cox, on the 7th inst, that the savages would
cross tie Msxice border, and that he would
follow with The sole intention Of Furnishing the
murderer5 and robbers. The Mexican Consul
at Tucson dispatched couriers to various points
on the line. asking the Mexican troops to CO.
operate ia the pursuit.
The corn corner in the Chicago mar
ket burst last week, q decline Of IA cents hsv-
ing taken place in seventy-two hours. The
freight blockade has been lifted in conse-
quence.
Two robbers known as Clark, alias
"Butch," and "Frenchy," both formerly OF the
notorious Stockton gang, were lynched at So
zorro, N. NJ. William Nicholson was lynchod
at Saunders, N. NJ, for murder.
A deadly shooting ARRAY occurred at
Quincy, ILL.,, between ex-Chief of Police John
McDade and gambler named Jackson.
McDade used double-barreled shotgun and
Jackson revolver. Both combatants were
MORALLY wounded.
A collision OF Northwestern trains ut
Fulton Junction, H., caused the death of j. J.
Flanagan, the station agent, and lad named
Arthur Cuddy. Three other persons were
badly bruised.
In case in which the street railways
Of Chicago seek to escape the payment Of Ii
cense fec of 500 per car, Judge Druminoud
gave the city judgment for arrears, which are
estimated at S250,O00.
A mob at Las Lunas, n. NJ, took
from isl and lynched three Mexicans who MUIR
dered James Little.
Advices from Arizona, to the 10th
inst, report exciting events and rumors concern
ing the campaign against the hostile Indians.
Demands command had been sent In pursuit of
one body Of redskins, with instructions to fol-
low them into Sonora and cooperate with the
Mexican forots, provided tie latter were willing.
The telegraph wires along the line of the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Pc railroad had
been cut between Grant and Thomas,
and the bodies Of five line-repairers who had
been murdered by Indians we're found nosr
Wilcox, Arizona. An train ON the Southern
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The above table indicates that the corn cropof
the United States for 1881 Is short about one
third of the yield it was reasonable to expect
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-14

"THERE are Christian families" says
the examining committee of the Boston
Public Library, in its last annual report,
Sin which the Old Testament is for
hidden book to the young"
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STATES.
Total .,42s,sel, OcIl, lso oSa oOO soo,2ll ooo

For Kentucky the yield for 1881 is 40, 3JO, OOo
bushels, against a crop % "a, So, 900 bushels In
1879 and 80, 03s 600 In $780, the last figures be-
ing those OF the Agricultural Bureau.
Tennessee reportsa shortage Of 4s.6 per cent,
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III IL to be regretted that the returns regard
ng the corn crop render necessary a less-favor-
able summary than that OF wheat There ia
little TO be said regarding the corn crop beyond
giving estimates, rave what il already notorious.
The story Is uniformly Of the effect of the ter
rble drought. On the river bottoms, in some
Of the Western States, the drought affected the
corn crop very little, but this is the exception.
IL Is specially worthy of note that striking i'm
crease in corn acreage has tended to equalize
the defective yield.
-. The following table gives the yield for the
western States named for 1879 according to
the census report OF the Arcultural Bureau
estimates for 1880, and a summary OF our re-
turns or 1881:
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THE early riser is doomed 10 I'll an
early grave.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-14

WHAT lovers swear-To be true until
death. What husbands swear-Unfit
for publicatiOn
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Total .... 1886, O54 900 S4357O,oOO e4s, 1877 900
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Pacific was passing Wilcox, the passengers
could hear sounds Of fight between the citi-
zens of that plaoe and the Indians, the latter
having evidently attacked the town.
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How Providence is Slandered.
Take, for example, young girl who ha

Take, for example, young girl who has
been bred delicately in town, shut up in a
nursery in childhood, in boarding-school
through youth, never accustomed to either
air or exercise-two things that the. law
of God makes essential to health. She
marries her strength is inadequate to the
demands upon it; her beauty fades early,
and her friends lamentingly exclaim
"What a strange Providence that a
mother should be taken, in the midst of
life, from her children y
Was it Providence? No! Providence
had assigned her three score years and ten
"a term long enough to rear her child
ren, and to see her children's children
but she did not obey the laws on which
life depends, and, of course, she lost it.
A father, too, is cut off in the midst of
his days. He is useful and distinguish.
ed citizen, and eminent in his profession.
A general buzz rises on every side, of
"What a striking Providence p The
man has been in the habit of studying
half the night, of passing his days in his
Office and the courts, of eating luxurious
dinners, and drinking wines. He has
every day violated the laws on which
health depend.
Did Providence cut him off? The evil
rarely ends here. The diseases of the fa-
ther are often transmitted, and feeble
mother rarely leaves behind her vigorous
children.
1t has been customary for some Of our
young ladies to walk in thin shoes and
delicate stockings in mid-winter. A
healthy, blooming young girl, thus dressed
in violation of heavens law, pays the pen
alty-a checked circulation, cold, fever,
and death.
"What a sad Providence p exclaim her
friends.
Was it Providence, or her own folly?
A beautiful young bride goes night af-
ter night to parties made in honor of her
marriage. She has slight sore throat,
perhaps, and the weather is inclement; ;
but she must wear her neck and arms
bare. She is suddenly seized with infam-
nation of the lungs, and the grave re-
ceives her before the bridal days are over
"What a Providence p exclaims the
world, ''cut off in the midst of happiness
and hopes. !"
Alas did she not cut the thread of life
herself?
a girl in the country, exposed to our
changeful climate, gets a new bonnet, in.
stead of getting a new garment. A Arheu-
matism is the consequence. Should this
girl sit down TRANQUILITY, with the idea that
Providence has sent the rheumatism upon
her, or should she charge it to her own
vanity, and avoid the folly in the future :?
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What Not to Do For Sick Paonle.

Don't make fuss. Don't hustle, don't
fidget, don't prognosticate. Don't hold
consultations in or about the patients
room, recounting all your own and your
neighbors experiences in what you sup
pose to have been like cases. Don't med
die and advise and experiment. We all
need a great deal more letting alone than
we get, and when we are sick it is one of
our prime needs. If mortuary lists were
honestly tabulated, we should find that
more people have been bored to death than
have died from neglect. The pest of the
sick-room is the inevitable friend who
drops in to "cheer up" the patient, the
glistening eyes and flushed cheeks which
such ministrations evoke being hailed as
evidence of success by the well-meaning
prosecutor. Don't tease the patient with
questions about food or drink, but present
the proper quantity at suitable intervals;
and if one article is found TO be disagree
able, quietly substitute another without
remark Don't think, because the patient
declines nourishment, that it becomes less
necessary to administer it. By quiet, firm,
methodical; persistent in presenting food
at stated periods, objections will become
feebler and cease, in selfdefense. Solid
food need not be insisted upon unless by
special direction of the physician, but milk
and beef-tea should never be. omitted.
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How to Hang Thermometers.

"Old Weathercock' writes to the st.
Paul Pioneer Press "There seems to be
so many erroneous notices among the many
amateur meteorologists of the city about
the minimum temperature of the twenty
four hours, and how to obtain it correctly,
that few lines from an 'old weathercock,
I trust will not be altogether lost. La the
first place, then, the temperature of the
wall of any building, at any hour of the
night or day, is not the true temperature
of the circulating air and is Of no use to
science. A wood wall radiatcs its heat
more rapidly than brick CT stone, and
the amateur scientist who hangs his ther
mometer on a wood wall can force his
mercury down below the amateur who Sc
lects a brick wall. The proper way to
expose your thermometer is to surround it
with light wood frame covered with
Stats, like shutter work, and rooted over.
This will protect it from the direct rays of
the sun and reflected heat. Run light
wood bar across the center of your instru-
ment shelter, to which you can attach the
thermometers, which should be, when
properly exposed on the north side of the
building, and the thermometer at least
one foot from all the objects. If these di-
rections are followed, erroneous reports of
extreme cold weather will not find their
way into print so often. 1t is not very
funny thing for the press to report 250
below zero, when 150 represented the true
temperature of the circulating air. 1t
gives persons abroad wrong impressions of
your climate"
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Fight with a Python.

The Straits Times gives an exciting ac-
count Of an encounter with python =
GA sportsman who penetrated into the
jungle lying between Buddoh and Stran-
goon came upon lone hut, in district
called Campong Batta, upon the roof of
which the skin of an enormous boa or
python was spread out. The hut was oc-
cupied by Malay and his wife, who told
the sportsman the following extraordinary
story One night about week previous
the Malay was awakened by the cries Of
his wife. Supposing in the darkness that
she had been attacked by thieves, he seized
his sharp prang and groped his way to her
sleeping place where his hand fell upon
Shiny reptile. 1t was fully minute be-
fore he could comprehend the entire situa-
ton, and when he did he discovered that
the whole of his wife s arm had been drawn
down the monsters throat, whittier the
upper part of her body was slowly but
surely following. Not daring to attack
the monster at onoo for fear of causing his
wife's death the husband seized two bags
within reach and commenced stufing them
into the corners of the snakes jaws, by
means Of which he succeeded in forcing
them wider open and releasing his wife's
arm. No sooner had the boa lost his prey
than he attacked the husband, whom
he began encircling in his fatal coils, but,
holding out both arms and watching his
opportunity, the man attacked the mon
ster so vigorously with his prang that it
suddenly unwound itself and vanished
through an opening beneath the attap sides
of the hut. The Malay's clothes were
covered with blood, as was also the floor
of the hut, and his wife's arm was blue
with the squeezing it received between the
boa's jaws. At daylight the husband dis
covered his patch of plantain trees nearly
ruined, the boa having In his agony broken
off the trees at the roots, and in the midst
of the debris lay the monster dead. The
Malay stated that he had realized $50
from Chinese, who came long distances to
purchase pieces of the flesh on account of
its supposed medicinal properties, and that
he had refused Sc for the skin, which he
preferred to retain as trophy
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Children in Ancient Greece.

Two thousand years ago! Do you ever
think about the little boys and girls who
lived so long ago? Well, in the celebra-
ted country of Greece they were as fond
of sport as the children of the present day,
only they had not so many wonderful toys
made for them as are manufactured now.
But could we look back at them at some
of their sports We should find them very
happy children, and it might surprise you
to know how many games have been
played century after century, and are still
played and enjoyed to-day. The babies
had their rattles and bright colored balls,
and what we call ''blind mans buff" was
favolite game among them. Perhaps
you know about the old giant Polyphemus,
who was master of a race of one-eyed
giants, and who devoured the Greeks that
were round his cave, until they succeeded
In putting out his eye, and how, after
wards, he still groped about and endeav-
ored to find them, but in vain
Well, the boys and girls of Greece used to
represent this story by the game of "blind
mans buff" The one blindfolded was
called Polyphemus, and the others would
hide and pretend they were the Greeks
whom he was to find. Another way of
playing this game was for the children to
run round about the blindfolded person
and one of them touch him. If he could
tell correctly who it was the two exchanged
places. In Athens and other cities and
towns as we'll, you might almost any day
see whole group of children hopping
along on one foot as though the other was
hurt; but no it was only for the fun, as
every child of every nation knows of see-
ing who could hop farthest Sometimes
boy would be allowed the use of both his
feet, and the others would try to overtake
him by hopping only on one foot, and for
those who could do this it was accounted
a great victory.
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A Snake Story.

George Finney, driver of the Virginia
and Bodie stage, says that snakes of sew
eral species, including hoops and rattlers,
are getting to be so plentiful along the
road at this end of the route that it is dan
gerous to leave the coach, and it is great
wonder he hasn't lost his team before
this. In coming in one day last summer
he drove into lot of snakes that literally
covered the road for about five hundred
yards. He couldn't turn out, SO he sent
the silk into the horses and dashed through
on dead run. How the team escaped
injury puzzles him. One big hoop-snake,
about ten feet long, that was lying in the
center of the road, as soon as it heard the
coach coming uncoiled itself just as the
team was passing over it, and made vi
cious strike with its spiked, bony tail at
the body of the nigh wheeler, but missed
him and struck the pole. The force of
the blow was so sudden that the tail was
driven into the hard wood some three
inches. The snake, being unable to with
draw it, was dragged along for about one
hundred yards until it was killed by one of
the wheelers stepping on it and breaking
off the spike. The venomous reptile
gave frightful yell, denoting pain min
gled with rage, as it expired, and before
reaching the next station the wagon-pole
was swollen up as big as an ordinary saw
log, while poison was dripping out from
under the irons at each end like green sap
from afreshly-cut sappling.-Bodie (Cal)
Ne,cs
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For the Democratic Adrocdte.
Germanisms.

In the German language we find some
compounds, which when compared with
their English equivalents, present them
selves to us as oddities of literal express
sion; thus in German a parasol is sun
shield, an umbrella, a rainshield; Polar
bear, an ice-bear; towel, hand-cloth; a
handkerchief, pocket cloth; carpenter,
room man; thimble, Gnger-hat; a
dictionary, word book; glove, hand
shoe; a surgeon, wound doctor; floor,
is ootground, and cotton is tree-wool.
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How Godfrey Horton Chose a Wife.

"Godfrcy, old boy" said Henry Clay
ton, as he tilted back his chair, and put
his feet upon the mantlepiece, "when is
the wedding to be?"
Whose wedding?"
Miss Laura Somers, or Jenny, which
is it?"
81 do rot know, | am sure"
Now don't be mysterious, Godfrey ;
you know you are most constant visitor,
and all 'our set are talking about the
match. Don't pretend you have not Sc
lected one of the sisters
"How DO you know either of them will
have me-"
Don't be absurd, old boy. You, young,
handsome, talented, and with large for
tune, need be over bashful? Come, be
frank-which is the favorite sister,"
"Wel, frankly then, Henry, I cannot
tell you. [ have visited the family for
several months, as you know, but [ cannot
decide Laura is certainly the handsom-
est, with her flashing black eyes and queen
ly manner; but Jenny seems, although
the youngest, to be the most womanly and
useful of the two. Yet, | cannot be sure
of that. My entrance is the esignal for cor
dial welcome and smiles aud, let me en-
ter at what hour | will, they are always
well dressed, and apparently disengaged.
To be sure | always, in the mornings,
have to wait some time before Laura is
visible
Pop in unexpectedly, and notice the
internal economy"
GLOW can L? \ card at the door will
put any lady on her guard, Or even the
notice of gentleman visitor"
$50 there in disguise--as a washer
woman, for instance.
"Good I willw
evil you 90 there as washerwoman,"
cried Clayton.
"Not exactly; but l will obtain admit
tance to mornings privacy"
"Well, let me know the result"
Laura and Jenny Somers were the only
children of a widower; who, although in
moderate circumstances, moved in very
fashionable society. At the period of my
short sketch he was about to supply the
lamented Mrs. Somers' place, after nearly
ten years mourning, and, although kind,
lndulgent parent, had no objection to his
daughters marriage, and, indeed, had told
them So Laura, whose high spirit resent
ed the probable supremacy of step-moth-
er, had already selected Godfrey Horton
as her future husband and Jenny, who
was younger and gentler in spirit, tried to
conquer carefully concealed preference
Tor the same purpose. All his attentions
were ascribed, by her, to brotherly re-
gard, though every act of kindness or
courtesy touched her very heart.
1t Was the morning after large ball,
and the sisters were in the breakfast room
together. Laura, her glossy black hair
pushed negligently off her face, with the
rough tumblcd braids Of last evenings
elaborate coiffure gathered loosely into
comb, wearing a soiled wrapper, torn
stockings, and presenting rather an alarm
ing contrast to the brilliant ballroom
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The o. S. Supreme Court.

The daily session of the Supreme Court
is opened at noon. From the robing-
room, the Justices, attired in their black
judicial robes, cross the corridor and,
through the justices passage, enter the
courtroom in single file. The approach
of the Court is announced by three raps
of ponderous gavel. The audieuce rise.
Then, with the Chief Justice in advance,
the Justices enter at the right of the
chamber. They file through the aisle to
the back of their seats, and arrange them
selves to the right and left of the arched
entrance at the centre, through which the
Chief Justice appears. The latter makes
a graceful obeisance to the standing So
Ions, and all take their seats. A stroke of
the gavel is made and the audience seat
themselves. The crier now announces
the opening of the Court, commencing
with the old English form, "Oyer Oyer!'
and concluding with "God save the United
States" The Deputy Marshal bows to
the Court the room once more takes on
its air of sepulchral silence, and the high
est tribunal of the land is ready for bust
ness.
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IF a musket ball be fred into the water
it will not only rebound but be fattened;
if fired through pane of glass it will
make hole the size of the ball without
cracking the glass; if suspended by a
thread it makes no difference, and the
thread will not even vibrate.
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The progress of languages spoken by
different peoples is said to be as follows :
English, which at the commencement of
the century was only spoken by 22,OO0,-
900, is now spoken by 90,000,00O; Rus
sian by 63, 100000, instead of 10000, 900;
German by &c, 6,OOO,O 900, instead of IS, ,OOO,-
900; Spanish by 44,OOO,OOO, instead of
32,OOO,OOO; Italian by 3O,00O,O 900, instead
of 100000; Portuguese by 13, 3,OOO,OOO
instead of 100000. This is for Eng
land an increase of 80 per cent; for
Russia, 110 per cent; for Germany, 20
per cent; for Spain 36 per cent, &c. In
the case of France the increase has been
from 34,OOO,OOO to 46,OO0,0OO, or 36 per
cent.