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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-14

An of the abdominal viscera presented largo
sccumulstions Of fat. They were normally SIT
uated.
The liver was congested. The gall bladder
contained little bile. The spleen was lobu-
lated and enlarged. 1t weighed eighteen
ounces. The capsule was BLUSH ; substance
brown. The malpighian bodies were hyper
trophied. The pancreas was normal The
stoinach contained food. The mtestlnes APP
peared normal, and were not opened. The
Kidneys were congested. There was small
superficial Serious cyst on the right one.
/. A considerable quantity OF dark blood ran
out OF the heart in the separation OF the heart
and lungs
a DR. Young states that the man was sub
iect to malarial attacks while in jail.
8. He had eaten dinner about an hour and
half before execution.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-14
THE remarkable growth of the Aus

THE remarkable growth of the Aus
tralasian colonies since the discovery of
gold, which occurred in 1851, is attesred
by recent statistics. The population in
creased in the period 1851-'81 from
214, 600 to 10000 The wool clip has
more than doubled in the past ten years.
There were over 50, 900, GOO head of live
stock on the pastures, and nearly 7,000,-
600 acres of land under cultivation, last
year. Since 1851, gold to the amount
of 81, 460, 900, 600 has been produced in
the colonies. In 1881, $500, 600 tons of
shipping entered at and cleared from
the ports.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-14
FOREIGN NEws.

There are said to be in Dublin $50
Irish Americans without visible occupation
The Egyptian authorities are combining
in the arsenal at Alexandria all natives who In
suit or modest Europeans.
All but four OF the Irish members of
the House Of Commons withdrew in conse-
quence Of the adoption of a motion offered by
Gladstone declaring urgency for the Repression
bill.
A London dispatch says that En-
gland, when satisfied of the necessity of armed
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Brother Gardner on Croakers.

What I was gwine to remark, began the old man, as Elder Toots finally got his feet drawn back under the bench, "am to de effeck dat one-half of de solid injoyment could take in dis world if let alone am split by set of men whom I airnestly hope de nex' ginerashun will cast into de sea. can't pick up a paper widout bein' startled by de announce tie, sit up too late, go to bed too airly, much or too little. De croakers am con stantly at work to put de rest of us on de ragged aige of anxiety.
 "One day we hear dat consumshun has become our nashunal complaint. Mex day it am predicted dat de fewel supply of de world am runnin' short. Next fing we h'ar of am de statement dat de aiverage of human life am growth shorter, or dat eight men out of ten have liver complaint, or dat comet am 'proachin' de airth. Oars suthin' bein' hunted up an shot off at us ebry day in de var, an it has got 10 dat pass dat de man who lies down at night dreads dat he may nebber see de moon again, an he gifts up to wonder if de confagra- shun gw1ne on Tn de sun won't burn up his garden truck befo night.
 "I has bin thinlzin' all desc fngs ober. has been worried an harassed an hat scart to death ober de drift period, de predicted climatic changes, de astronom- ical changes an de sudden diskiveries dat human life am shortenin' up like an old clothes line on a rainy day. has got to dat pitch dat I'm goin' to sot down in my cabin wid pan of apples on de right han an pan ob popcorn on de left, an let de world turn bottom up an be hanged to her. If white folks want to go on worryin' ober science an philosophy an predickshuns an prophe- cies, let 'em do it, but my advice to de culId race am to worry ober nuthin' highern de roof of house or deeper down dan de bottom of cellar. When your days work am dun, sot down in de big cheer, light yer pipe, and let de chi Zen an de big dog loose fur 8 good time" -.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
A F0rgIying Nature.

Among Montgome1y's most violent critical as ailants was R. H. Horne. After twenty-eiSht years arrangement. I had reconcied Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt, so I resolved to try similar ex- pertinent on Horne and Montgomery. I therefore, without acquainting either with my design, asked them both to dine with me. Upon my arrival at my house with Montgomery, on the evening in question, I was privately informed by my servants that Horne was in the libra ". Taking Montgomery into the room I introduced them to each other under the assumed names of Smith and Jones. Excusirg myself on plea of dressing for dinner, l left them alone. As neither had seen the other before, they were puzzled they sat for few seconds gag ing at each other in state of pleasant bewilderment. At last Mir. Horne broke the spell of silence by saying "Sir, as am not MT. Smith, perhaps you are not Mir. Jones. My name is Richard Henry Horne"
 To which the other replied And I am the Rev. Robert Montgomery. , And extending his hand he added "l am very glad to meet you, my dear Mfr Horne"
 "The devil you are p exclaimed Mir. Horne, grasping the protfered hand When I returned, in few minutes, they were laughing and chatting as though they had been friends their whole life They were mutually pleased with each other, and maintained a pleasant social intercourse from that time.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11

gether, you may be pretty sure that she can grow an imperial if she will only take the necessary pains. Hirsute adornments are not so frequent in young women, although they sometimes oc- cur. A girl often has heavy growth of down upon the upper lip or chin. It annoys her, and she keeps feeling 1t and pulling it continually. Perhaps she en- deavors to clip it with scissors, or, in some cases, to shave 1t away. The re- suit is heavier growth next time, which becomes so prominent tn it must be removed. The most frequent place where the hair makes its appearance is on the upper lip or the chin, although it sometimes appears on the side of the face, and even on the throat. In the course of my practice I have seen more than one woman who could raise a heavy beard if she only wished to cultivate il"
 "Do many women shave?" "Why, yes, great many more than is generally supposed. They hide the traces that the shaving leaves with heavy doses of pow der and plaster. Whenever you see lady, especially if she be middle-aged, and more especially if she be dark featured, wearing heavy coating of lily white, one of the conclusions is that she has been shaving, although 1t is not the only inference. One thing is certain, a lady who slaves must use powder in large quantities, and there are many ladies who shave"
 els the facial decoration easily removed?" "No. it is not. All the books recommend depilatories, but these are usually of little service. They are composed mainly of quick lime and orpient, which is a prepa- ration of arsenic, and the only effecct is to cut hair to the surface of the skin, leaving the root intact to grow again. There is also another mode of treatment, but it is so slow and painful, and requires the aid of so skillful an ope- rator, that it is seldom used In this latter, which Is known as the electric method, the patient sits in chair, hold ing in her right hand sponge which Is connected with the negative pole of an electric battery. The operator holds a needle or fine wire which is connected with the positive pole, and this he thrIlsts with a quick motion down into each cell or follicle, thus destroying the root. Every time the needle touches the skin a severe shock is caused, which will cause 8 nervous person to scream out with pain, and, if the operator is a bungler, or if his nerve is notvery steady, he will miss his mark and cause more intense agony. Not more than one, or, at most, two dozen hairs can be attend ed to at one sitting-indeed, very few persons can sit for one-fourth of the Ia
 number-and hence you will see that the operation IS exceedingly painful. Some times women attempt to operate upon themselves. They heat needles and en deavor to introduce them into the capil larry cells. The usual result is that the carbon, which accumulates in the needle during heating, is imbedded in the cpl dermis or underskin, and frst-class case of tattooing is the result. Then, again, many ladies use acid for the pur- pose, and permanently scar their faces. Others remove the hair with tweezers, etc." ~S
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Western Life.

With only team and few dollars the emigrant determines to make him. self home in the wiIds of the West. His first care is to build sod-house. as he must have a shelter. That done, about the middle of May he commences breaking prairie, and, if he has good horse team, succeeds in getting from forty to sixty acres broken by the mid de Of June. A few acres of the first breaking are usually planted with corn, dropped into cut made through the sod with an ax, which incision is closed upon by the foot of the planter. This cannot be cultivated, and is wholly at the mercy of the season. Half the time 1t is failure, but of favorable season yields twenty or thirty bushels to the acre. Melons, pumpkins and squashes usually do we'll cn sod, and turnips sown in midsuinmer seldom fail. In the fali he "back-scts his ground with his breaking blow, taking an inch or so of ground rom below the spring breaking.
 The ground should not be ploWel deeper than itis thoroughly rotted. The ground is now ready fer tie crop, and his wheat is sown the last of February, or in March. He has plenty of work to do, and hard work st that No chance to make money escapes him. The first year or two IS almost invariably one of aardships and privations for the average homesteadeT. The weak or shiftless ones usually give way in despair and turn eastw2ra. Tie resolute ones stay, and soon have comfortable homes. But no young man should go West unless he is prepared to work hard in the face of many difficulties.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Turnin~:l,c Fables.

Old Pungleup, the wholesale mer- chant, was very much annoyed at the manner in which his office, down on Front street, was invaded by his daugh- ters, whose tilial affection impelled them to drop in every time they were down town and wanted to buy something, which was six days of the week, so he at last posted sign, 'No admission ex- cept on business. on the door of his pri- vate sanctunn, which had the effect of keeping out the feminine invasion to considerable extent. All three of the Pungleup girls had beaux, however, and as old Pungleup made 1t point to fuss around ill the parlor 2 good deal in the evening, much to the detriment of the festivities, they determined to get even with the old gentleman. And so the other evening when old Pungleup had got through with the paper and conclud- ed to look in on the young people, he was astonished to behold on the parlor door placard bearing the inscription :: 'f No admission except on business.
 Old Pungleup rubbed his spectacles, scratched his head, and repaired to the back parlor door, where the same legend stared him in the face. He rapped loud ly, and, after striving for some time to be heard over the rattle of voices inside, the door was opened brief inch, and a sweet voice said:
 "Private session of the board. Come round in the morning."
 After which MT. Pungleup abstract edly took in the mat, turned down tho hall gas and went to- bed.-Sa'a Fran cisco Post.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Japanese Wax.

Whoever has seen Q pistol or revolver cartridge has noticed that the round, metallic end Is covered with a greasy coating resembling in many ways nut ton tallow, and no doubt has considered it to be that animal product. It is, how ever, nothing of the kind, being simply the product of vegetable growth, and known to the trade as Japanese wax. The Japanese-wax tree from which this comes is tree of great beauty and use fitness. It is a species of sumac and grows twenty-five feet high, attaining diameter of one and half feet Most of the candles used by the Japanese are made from the wax of the berry borne by this tree. These berries are gathered by the natives with great deal of care. and crushed and pressed. Another way of obtaining the wax is by maceration in hot water, skimming the wax from the surface. The wax is yellowish white, softer than beeswax, melts at 127 de- grees Fahrenheit, and commands good price. Beside its use for candles, it is of value in the arts and in many minor industries. The berries are white in color, grow in clusters, and are about as large as pea. The tree itself is ot rapid growth and easy cultivation. Jap- anese wax is also used extensively as a substitute for baybery wax, the latter costing several times as much as the former. It is used as coating for ma- chinery when 1t is to be shipped, as 1t forms a greasy coating impervious to the action of air and moisture. In ap- pearance, smelling and feeling, it close ly resembles mutton tallow.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Death from A Bush Fire.

In one of Cooper's Misunderstanding Tales " there is a graphic description of a prairie fire. The novelist also de- scribes how an Indian chief, caught within its fiery embrace, saved his life by hiding himself within the carcass of buffalo, which he had killed and dis emboweled. In Australia similar con- hagration Is known as "bush fire. in South Australia, is relieved by no such thrilling incident as Cooper's h. dian's escape
 Martin Mccarthy, with four of his sons, left their thatched homestead in the Hundred of Hunker to reap the wheat which stood ripe for the sickle at distance of about mile.
 They noticed bush fire about dozen miles of, but, as the wind was in the opposite direction, they thought nothing of 1t, and went on reaping till dinner time.
 Immediately after that meal, which they took in the field, the wind veered round, and, rising to hurricane, swept the fire down upon their farm. Des- perately plunging through the blinding smoke, they barely succeeded in gain ing clearing 100 yards distant before huge tongues of fire fifty feet high rushed past them, roaring and hissine as they licked up every veshge of veg citation in their course.
 When the flames had subsided, Me Carthy, followed by his boys, hastened with terrible forebodings across the plain, to see if any of his family had been spared.
 As he ran toward the chimney, which alone remained to mark the site of his dwelling, he stumbled over the charred corpse of his wife.
 A little further on WAS the body of his 7-year-old boy, and round the chimney lay the remains of his five daughters.
 The eldest, a girl of 19, clasped in her arms the youngest, a baby of ? years old. Accustomed as the colonists are to bush fires, this unusual holocaust cast a gloom over the neighborhood.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Men Who Influenced Their Age.

The course of history is not a mere game played by few great men nor yet does 1t run in an inhexible groove which no single man can turn aside. The great man influences his age, but at the same time he is influenced by his age. Some of the greatest of men, as far as their natural gifts went, have been useless or mischievous, because they have been out of gear with their own age. Their own age could not receive them, and they could not make their age other than what it was The most use ful kind of great man Is he who is just so far in advance of his age that his age can accept him as its leader and teacher. Men of this kind are themselves part of the course of events they guide it they make 1t go quicker or slower, but they overrate the gain which came to the newborn federation of America by find ing such a man as Washington ready made to its hand Or take men of quite another stamp from the Vrginian de- liverer. The course of her history for the last 800 years has been largely af- fected by the fact not only that we un-s derwent 3 foss1gn conquest, but that We underweIta a foreign conquest of par ticular kind, such as could be wroueht only by a man of a particular kind. The course of our history for the last 300 years has been largely affected by the fact that, when English freedom was in the greatest danger, England fell into the hands of tyrant whose special hu- nor 1t was to carry on his tyranny under the forms of law. English history could not have been what it has been If William the Conqueror and Henry VIII. had been men other than what they were. One biushes to put the two names together. William was great in himself, and must have been great in any time or place. Henry, man not without great gifts, but surely not great man, was made important by cir cumstances in the time and p'ace in which he lived But each influenced tle course of events by his personal charac- ter. But they influenced events only in the sense of guiding, strengthening and quickening some tendencies and keeping others back for while. Neither Of them, nor Washington either, belong to that class of men who, for good or for evil, turn the world upside down, tine great destroyers and the great creators of history.-Efcenaal, 5ga Fort1igltty Hecieac.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
4 Stranea Accumulation.

Thomas Dick puts the hoarding of wealth in this striking way:
 Suppose man could lay up stock of clothes and provisions sufficient to last him for 300 years, what would 1t avail him, since he can live at most but from seventy to 100 years? Suppose he laid up in store-hollse 10000 pairs of shoes, to what end would it serve, if he could make use, during his whole life, of only the one-hundredth part of them? He would be il the same condition as man who had 100 dishes placed before him at dinner, but who could partake of only one :; or of person who had 100 mansions purchased for his residence, but could occupy only one. How ridicu- lous it would appear If all that could be said of man while yet he lived was simply this-that his whole life had been spent in collecting and laying up in 8 storehouse 60,0O0 mahogany chairs which were never intended to be used for the furniture of apartments, or TO- GOO pairs of trousers which were never to be worn And where is the difference, in point of nationality and utility, be- tween such absurd practices and hoard ing thousands of guineas and bank notes which are never brought forth for the benefit of mankind. There IS no conduct connected with the pursuits of human beings that appears more absurd than such practices lhowever common) If ex- amined by the dictates of reason.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Are Apartment Houses Hotels? !?

No less a parsonage than Gen. Han cock elicited from the Supreme Court some explanation on this subject. He took for his family rooms at one of the leading family hotels in this city. The engagement was for the entire winter, unless the General should be ordered away on military duty. This did not occur, the party remained, and during the winter valuable jewels belonging to Mrs. Hancock were stolen from her apartment. The proprietor of the hotel denied being responsible for the loss, for he said that, when rooms are let for the entire season, at fixed price per month, the establishment is not an inn, but an apartment house. Thus we see that there is opportunity for nice distinctions even important ones-between the three arrangements visiting a hotel without making any bargain, hiring an entire house and lot for the year round, and tine halfway plan coming into vogue, under which the owner of the building retains the general manage ment of 1t, just as in hotel, while the tenant hires a suite for definite term, just as one takes a house. In the Han- cock case the Judge said he. considered the establishment a hotel. It was called a hotel and kept in the manner of hotel on the European plan. And the hiring was not absolutely for the winter, but subject to be closed if the General should be ordered away. Therefore the proprietor was told he must pay, as an inn-keeper, for the stolen jewels. But, If the establishment had been avowedly an department house" if no business in receiving transients had been done, and if the rooms had been hired for the win ter, irrespective of contingencies, the tenants would, no doubt, have been told that their property was at their own risk with respect to thieves.-Not0 York
 Tribune.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
A Word for she sEother-in-Law.

Are there then no estimable mothers with married daughters? The mo Il r. in-law is not responsible for her position probably does not admire 1t. Yet she has been the subject of countless stories, myriads of offensive jests, and quanti- ties of sarcastic rhymes. Into all of these has entered an element of bitter ness which does not appear in the gibes that are hurled at the widow and spin ster. Malice is the inspiration of the assault upon the mother-in-law. Per haps 1t is savagery born of case of de tected guilt-which has been hidden from the too-confiding wife, but detected by the penetrating eye of the nIother-in- law. She is not blinded by love for the man, and to perfect clearness of vision she adds an experience which is as use ful as second-sight in enabling her to see to the bottom of things. Yet, if she be wise, she will not give her daughter the benefit of her experience, but allow her to enjoy her fools paradise as long as possible. A good mother-in-law is really well-spring of pleasure to a properly-conducted husband. She is assiduous in taking care of the baby, and the serviceableness of her knowl. edge concerning the most effective meth ods of carrying the infant through crit ieal periods, the efficiency with which she dispenses paregoric, measures out ipecac, and compounds plasters, fills the minds of just men with sentiments of admiration and thankfulness. Give the mother -in-law her due. It has been withheld from her long enough.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
Intellectual Women.

Much of the old prejudice against | tellectual women remains, because the average man continues to regard the. as inseparable from bookish dowdie and pedantic egot1sts, from tumbled hair, soiled cuffs and personal inele- gance. He has not learned that intel lect no longer expresses itsef-if, ill truth, 1t ever did-in such form and fashion. He may have an intellectual wife and be ignorant of the fact, since she fails to discuss Greek roots and comic sections, and since she fully appreciates the advantages of clothes. His romantic devotion to her is proverbial and he rejoices in the consciousness that he loves, often years after marriage, more than he loved her on their wedding day He never imagines that he is under the permanent spell of her intellect, and there are thousands of men of his nebu- lous intelligence. The woman who knows how to use her intellect has a guarantee for the final loyalty of her lover or husband. He may swerve or wander, but she can be patient and un- disturbed the forces of her mind, work ing at distance, will ill due time bring the truant, contrie and chagrined, to her ever-welcome arms.
 The intellectual woman. properly bal anced, is, in all the relations of life, the best and longest loved, and is always most genial and attractive. He who de- clares that he detests intellectual women simply means that he detests the osten- tation of intellect, the self-conscious- ness of undigested information. When he meets really intellectual woman, he is likely to think her charming from lack of intellect. He is too biased to com prehend that it is her intellect that gives her charm. If most men who are still in love with their wives could make the last analysis of their fascination, they would be pretty certain to find its chiei source to be harmonious intellect.