The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-03

IHk largest schc<l In the world Ia In
Egypt
AS LATE as the time of James /. tho
posai OF the hand Of a young orphan
'eiress lay with the King.
HE salary of the President of the
hepublic OF France is fixed at GOO. 600
!, francs, with an additional allowance of
SVo'oOO francs for household expenses.
HE first baseball club was the
Anlckerbocker, of New York, that is,
the first one to sustain n permanent ex-
Y istence in the United States. 1t was
tarted IN the year OF 1916, and has con-
nued Its existence, We believe, ever
ice. The game, however, did not be-
,me the national one until many years
tterward.
The first meteoric shower which at
racted attention in modern times was
lat witnessed 10y the Moravian nilsson
ries, In Greenland, in 1879. This phe-
,omenon was observed over wide ex-
ent OF territory. Humboldt, then travel
ing In South America, said "Toward
the morning of Nov. ID, most extraor-
binary scene of shooting stars was seen.
Thousands of bodies and falling stars
succeeded each other during four hours.
Their direction was very regular, from
north to south from the beginning of
the shower there was not a space in the
armament equal in extent to three diam
eters Of the moon which was not filled
every instant with bodies of falling stars.
All the meteors left luminous traces or
phosphorescent bands behind them,
which lasted seven or eight seconds.
The origin of the expression $50 to
Halifax Is as follows: The evil repute
OF Halifax implied in this old usage
came to 1T by inheritance from Halifax,
In Yorkshire, England, and is not a
thing to be ashamed Of. Halifax law,
as may be gathered from letter of
Lord Leicester's, quoted by Motley in
his History of the United Neither
lands" was that criminals should be
condemned first and inquired upon
after" In which it resembled "Jedburg
justice" Halifax lay within the forest
of Hardwick, the customary law of
which was that if felon were taken
with 49, pence worth of goods, stolen
within that liberty, he should be tried
by -four firth burghers from four of the
towns, and, If condemned 10y
~ ri the next market day. AZ
III the case might be sent to q
~ Halifax also had the credit of in
zig the rude guillotine of Manuaye,
.ch the Regent, Earl of Morton, in
uced into Scotland. only to have his
head chopped off with it. Natur-
" Halifax was place of terror to
les.
o DR. EDWARD JENNER is due the
lit of discovering and introducing
,cination into general practice. He
IS seven years III the service of sur
on at Sudbury, near Bristol, England,
from the time he was IA till he was
years old, and while there his atten-
was directed to the subject of a
,<ventive Of smallpox. While in his
ster's surgery one day he heard a
ylng cOuntrywoman say that she could
{ take smallpox because she had
ready had the cow-pox, a mild dis
.l.der of the eruptive kind appearing on
- A udder of the animal, and commune
ed in similar form to their hands !;
it had never been known to prove
when thus communicated and
.-he belief was common among the
ltural classes that whoever had
ia the disease was secure against the
IND lion of smallpox. He continued
to vestigate the cause, and 50 conf
DEF was he, finally, that several expert
mems were made upon his son, boy
under years of age. 1t was not, how
ever, Until over twenty-five years of
observations and experiment that his
views were adopted, and then the senti-
ment was as much in favor of his plan
as it had been against it before.