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Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1882-02-05
Die funlme @eise.

Sisnor Barseup, Elm rei4er penetianis
f6er SonbeIsberr, 1T trcs ieineS alters
unb isiner Grdnflidfsit in eissner gerion
mad Grenona setommen, unt nit DietIter
9intoniO Elm 0eidaft ab5ili6IieBen. Dem
beriibmten 2autenma9er bat nod gies
mano einen beiferen Sanbel aneeboten,
barauf tann Der Benetiansr idiporeR.
Gin SdIas glbornboIs aus GroatisnL
ibpn iebr alt unb troden unb nit ipuns
bsrlb0nen breiten JIammen, Elm SoIS
bas unier Serreott eisenS fir 0eigen bat
ipa1Ien Iallsn I! llnb ipis tpOblfeil babel
Sp3uiasen fiir gar ni1ts. BarseIlo pers
Iangt tein @elb oafiir, ionosrn nilr eine
Geige, cine ein3ise @eige. Mber Der Meis
tier mub lie eioenbdnbig bauen Bon ben
Snitrumenten, tpeIhe leine G6bue Onios
bono nno SranceSco untes ieiner 9luffidi
ausflbren, nil Baroello, elm aeuner,
nidts tpiilen. Sub discipline Stradi-
varii," baS iit alass gang gut unb iosar
portrefilih, aber fein ,,Stradivarius ia.
ciecat". Der AIfe 5ipitidert bod nod
befier, aIs bic Sunsen,.er brauht nur Az
ipcllen. Asnn man iba Il, ieiner gDerf,
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l;ebt, lang ,inb nlaser, ait8stban nit BEN
ipeiben Gdur;fea, bic tpeibipoQene wlab,
auf ben tveiben 0aaren, Elm Bib unge,
brc@snsr grbsitSlraft 10 gdbt man Jpn
|ipatrtaftiS isins fsdlaiS SABRE, nnb Rsute
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Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1882-02-05
Das taelid)e Dolkstlatt

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q ID sas baIbs 5asg uan $3.50 sas nisrsspbr. nit
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unh s2s0 has Etertsttahra
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04
FAME.
BIZ PARNIENAS MIX.

al don't want to discourage you, bu. lately I've
been filed
With certain strong misgivings, son, that somehow
won't be stilled
There's something tells me plain as words that YOU
with all your wit,
Have erred in marking out your course, and you'll
repent of il.
90 The time will come when YOU will SIGH had but
only known
What do now, the good old farm, with all it's hills
and stone,
Would not have driven me away TO find, when hope
is dead,
That Fame does not bestow her wreath on any sort
Of head
"rm talking plainly, that I know, but Reuben,
mind you this,
That Fame's far-oG target that million marks
men miss,
Then, some fine day shot is heard that rings
throughout the land,
And Genius pops the buifseye, square, with steady
eye and hand.
"You may turn out genius, Rube.. I rally hope
you will +;
You know Fames temple crowns the top of an enor-
nous hill,
And tens of thousands bound that way, with resolu-
ton stiff,
Have found their way completely blocked by stu
pendous If
This If is very hard to climb-it seems to touch
Montgolfer went over in his primeval balloon
But all along the way this side you'll hear the dreary
OF the rising Smith and Jenkins, and the gifted
Brown and Jones.
SNOW, Reuben, when you reach that IF you'll
show good Judgment son,
By striking crosslots for the farm and homefoks
run;
Stay there and toll as have done, and you may get
to be
A deacon in the church. perhaps, or. may be,
school trustee.
"'AH that be blowedr Wen, so your way, you'll
have my earnest prayers;
Well always keep in order, son, your coy bed up
stairs,
For you may yet return, convinced that wreaths Of
Fame are rare,
And that your old straw hat best suits the color Of
your hair"
Detroit Free Press.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04

quickly followed his sister to welcome
her, leaving Night with diamond stars
to sparkle for some more faithful wor-
shipper. And again and again he and the
unknown Princess danced together until
nearly daybreak, when, servant sum-
moning her hastily-for the farmer IA
ther was tired of waiting-she flew to the
dressing room, and, one of the rosettes
bursting from its fastening on the way,
away went the shoeit had helped to hold
in its place, down, down through the
well of the winding staircase, to regions
far below.
And Viola, having the enchantment of
the night still strong upon her, never
missed it, but, hastily drawing on her
stout boots, ran to the old wagon,
jumped in and drove away in the dim
first light of morning from the Prince
and fairy land. But when she awoke
from the deep sleep into which she sank
as soon as she reached her home-the
sun was then on its westward way-she
discovered her loss, and, while she was
bewailing it, the Prince rang at the
door.
CT have found a slipper, or shoe, or
something of the kind, he said, taking
it from the breast pocket of his fur
trimmed coat; "and as it will not fiteither
of my sisters, or nay cousins, or any Of
my lady friends who with them bide, I
thought it might tit YOU"
SIT does not really" said truthful
Viola, with her lovely blush. 81 could
not have worn it had it not been cut
open at the instep-I have not an aristo-
cratic foot-and that is how, the stitches
that held the friendly rosette giving
way, came to lose it.
"That THANK fortune might find
it. And now, Viola dearest"
But what need of saying more? You
can all end the story yourselves, I am
sure. even to guessing that madame
lived to be 100 years old, and that never
was fairy godmother so loved and
petted as she.-H0rpers Weekly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04
DEATHS FROM LIGHTNING.

According to the census Of 1870, light
ming alone disposed of more of our fell
low-citizens in that year than came to
their death through yellow fever, gout,
scurvy, hydrophobia- of which there is
now so much dread-chorea, cancer of
the mouth, calculus, Addison's disease,
carbuncles, lead-poisoning, or suicide
by cutting the throat or by drowning !;
nearly as many as were killed by ex-
plosions, and about one-fourth as many
as died of the so-called American dis
eased, dyspepsia. The statistics are as
follows: Deaths by lightning, 202 by
yellow fever, IT.; by govt, 43; by sour
w, So; by hydrophobia, 60 /; by chorea,
76; by cancer Of the mouth, 1865; by
calculus, 100; by Addison's disease, -;
by carbuncle, 1853; by lead poisoning,
81; by dyspepsia, 81; by explosions,
290; by suicide by cutting the throat,
1873; and by suicide by drowning, 119.
Large, however, as is the number of
deaths by lightning stroke in the aggre-
gate, yet only one person out of 246, 722
comes to his death in this way. The
ightning-rod man" who does most of
his business in rural sections and who is
the standing butt of country journals,
may be nuisance, yet he evidently is
not without his reason of being when the
number of lives and the amount of prop
erty destroyed every year by the "fuid"
which, by the way, is not fluid at all
lis taken into consideration. -Neac
York World
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04

DR.. Cuyler says of Jerusalem, which he re-
Gently visited: Jerusalem was in one sense ter
rible disappointment, in another an exquisite
delight. He found here an institution, TeIetha
Kuli, q arise), for the education of girls,
managed much like American schools. The
governor is an intelligent Ottoman, far in adj
vance of his countrymen, who aims to rule
well. The city is unlighted, many of ito
streets are arched over and, owing to lack of
water, are very dirty. Right under the city
wall is a pool, in all probability that of ST.
loan. Gehenna is now a well cultivated little
valley, and just across from the brook Ked.
ron, is the most beautiful flower garden kept
by monks, and occupying, if not exactly, very
nearly the location of Gethsemane. The only
building standing which Christ could have
seen is the lower part of the Tower of David.
and the only spot, the road from Jerusalem to
Bethany, which sweeps around the mountain
of Olivet. Bethany is little hamlet of twenty
houses. and just behind it is small hill.
which am satisfied is the one from which our
Lord made his ascension.
bill pending before the United States SEN
ate, relating to the japanese indemnity fund
has already been passed by. the house and
there seems to be no doubt it will be con-
CURED in by the senate. It directs the presi-
dent to pay to the Japanese government ST.
$4,000 in bonds now under control of the
state department, and to pay the remainder of
the Japanese indemnity fund, amounting to
1924 600, to the officers and crew of the United
states ship Wyoming, or to their legal repre-
sentatives, for extraordinarily valuable, es-
pecialy meritorious and perilous services in
the destruction of hostile vessels in the straits
of Shlmonoski July 16, 1863; snd to the off,
GERS and crew of the steamer Takiang, or to
their legal representatives,, for similar ser
vice in September, 1864.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04

MODERN journalism is not faultless by
any means, but its faults are of the head
rather than the heart, and seldom very
serious. IF the fault-fnder would only
search for and point out the merits they
might help to cure much Of which they
complain.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04

seems no objection to the plan Of put
ting the COWS to useful labor"
TAN BARK FOR MANURE.-Spent tan
bark as received from the tanneries is
valuable as fertilizer, and it would pay
for the trouble Of drawing it some dis
lance. The tannin or fannie acid
which the tanner extracts from the bark
is of no value as fertilizer in reality,
because this is obtained from the atmos-
phere; it takes nothing which comes
from the soil, and is of value when re-
turned to the soil Leaves contain more
potash and phosphates than the limbs
or timber of the tree. Bark contains
nearly as large a quantity Of these min
erals as the leaves, weight for weight.
You will find much larger bulk of
ashes after burning wood IF bark
from the tannery is placed in hill and
mixed with quick lime, decomposition
will be accelerated and pile of fertiliz-
ing matter obtained which would be
equal in value to many of the cheap
fertilizers sold. Your pile made up this
fall and turned over a few times in the
spring Of the year would no doubt make
good fertilizer. Cmltiyotor.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04

CuIuUCICQ WlGiA VIZ NASoN FAANSAfASo - ~ 49,
ferson and A. jackson"
The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, member OF con-
press from Brooklyn, N. T., is said to be in
tensely disguised with his house membership
and has no taste for congressional Life. He
intends to retire at the end Of his term, where
upon a contemporary feels moved to remark
cit seems to be a very wisely ordained law
that a good preacher is fit for nothing else,
and, if he tries to embark in any other profes-
sion or calling, almost invariably makes q
mess of it. The moral is very easily discern
ible."
bill for the punishment of wife heaters in
England, introduced in parliament, proposes
that persons convicted of assault on women
may be exposed in public pillory, the words
"woman-beater" or ''wife.beater" to be
placed on a board over the pillorY. On sec
ond offense within three years the offender
may be whipped. Wife-beating used to
be particularly an English offense, but
it has been largely imported into this country,
and we now have wide field for such an en-
actment here.
The Cincinnati Commercial wants Secretary
Teller to make pacific animal of the Indian
and put hira in pantaloons of the Oscar Wilde
fashion. ssWhat the Caudine forks were to
the Roman soldier, pantaloons are to the In
dian warrior" he says. "His spirit is broken,
he has no need for bow or gun, and he no
longer hunts the antelope over the plain. !"
After he has pantaloons, be will want some
Cincinnati whisky, and, when once he gets a
draught of that, he will want to run for con-
gress from Ohio.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-15
Words VS.. Things.

Our education has been and is vet, to
q large degree, process of examining.
It is largely an exercise of memory
We are dropping out of the old eystem
to some extent. Teachers begin to see
that it is of more Importance that
knowledge of things should be obtained
than that retentive and quick memory
should be secured at the loss of the
power of thought. The old method is
passing away. The new and better one
is coming on to take possession of an
educational system. A writer in the
Popular Science Monthly says: with
his gentle lance Emerson pricked many
a bubble and, though collapse did not
always follow Immediately, the wound
was always fatal. In 1914, in his essay
on New England reforpers, he charged
popular education with want of truth
and nature. He complained that an
education to things was not given.
Said he: We are students of words;
we are shut up in schools and colleges
and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen
years, and come out at last with bag
of wind, memory of words, and do not
know thing We cannot use our
hands, or our legs, or our eyes, OF our
arms And again, speaking of
the exclusive devotion of the
schools to Latin, Greek and math-
ematicS, which, by wonderful
drowsiness of usage had been stereo-
typed education, as the manner of men
is he says: In hundred high-schools
and colleges this warfare against COM
mon sense still goes on. Is it not alb
surd that the whole liberal talent of
this country should be directed i'll its
best years on studies that lead to moth
ing? This is evidently too severe, but
we must admit that Emerson anticipated
and greatly aided reform which has
been gathering strength for whole
generation. Hence it is to-day scarcely
necessary that L should present argu-
ments in favor of manual education.
The great tidal wave of conviction is
sweeping over our whole land, and the
attitude and aspect of men are greatly
changed from what they were ten years
ago. What 1 said in 1873 in public
address in favor of technical education
was held to he rank heresy. fear it
would be regarded rather commonplace
to-day. The progressive spirit of the
age has actually penetrated our thick
hides, and we are trying to keep step
with the universe. In every community
the demands of technical education have
been discussed, and, in every instance
when the old system has been subjected
to the test which good sense applies to
business, it has been found wanting
Indianapolis Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-15

when freed from its rocky matrix, and
surpasses in tcnacity all other coppers.
Among the leading products of this
State not already mentioned are rye,
buckwheat, potatoes. hay, peas, hops,
garden vegetables of oil descriptions,
live stock. butter. cheese, honey, maple
sugar plaster, bituminous coal, slate
and building stone. Its manufactures
are in striking degree diversified and
thriving, and in the last census year the
value of their products was about $780,
100000.
Michigan is also healthy State, and
its death-rate compares favorably with
that of other States and countries. 1t
abounds in delightful resorts for sum-
mer recreation, and in mineral wells
whose waters prove efficacious in the
treatment of painful and dangerous
maladies.
The State is practically free from
debt, it's public buildings are we'll
equipped and paid for. 1t is prohib-
tied by its constitution from borrowing
money in excess of $4,000, except in
time of war. The entire local indebted
ness of all its cities, villages, towns,
counties and school districts is less than
$lO,0OO,OO0. It's taxes are low, and one
third of them all is applied to educa-
tional purposes.
The school system of Michigan makes
education free to all. The primary
schools, the Agricultural College and
the University are open without charge
for tuition to rich and poor alike.
With all the advantages of healthy
climate, a fertile soil, easy access to
home and foreign markets, extraordinary
facilities of transportation, settled
society, generous school system, estab-
lished institutions, freedom from debt,
and low rate of taxation, there are in
the State several millions of acres of un-
occupied farming lands, suitable to al
most every variety of husbandry, and
within reach of moderate means
The facts thus presented in concise
form are set forth in detail in pamph-
let of 166 pages, containing an accurate
map of Michigan, which has been pub
hshed by authority of the State for free
circulation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-15

and hay fever tragweed beginning to
blossom at Lansing).
For the week ending Sept. 2, 1882,
the reports indicate that rheumatism,
typho-malarial fever, tonsilitis and
bronchitis increased, that dysentary
considerably decreased and that infiam-
nation of the bowels and cholera in
fantum decreased in area of prevalence.
At the State Capitol, during the week
ending Sept. 2, the prevailing winds
were northeast; and, compared with the
preceding week, the average tempera-
ture was lower, the average absolute
humidity and average day ozone were
slightly less, and the average relative
humidity and average night ozone were
slightly more.
Including reports by regular observ-
ers and by others, diphtheria was re-
ported present during the week ending
Sept. 2, and since, at eleven places,
scarlet fever at six places, measles at
three places, and smallpox at two
places, as follows: At Grand Rapids
Zone case convalescent), Aug. %; in
Sebewa township, Ionia county (con-
valescents), Aug. 30.
Aug. ~, case of cholera, resembling
Asiatic cholera, was reported to have
occurred in Adams township, Hillsdale
county. No other case has been re-
ported.
HENRY b. BAKER, Secretary.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-15
STRAW LUMBER.
It's Manufacture and Use.
From the American Architect. !


There can Be no question that straw
lumber is admirably adapted to many
kinds of finishing work, barrels, table
and counter tops, fine doors and orna-
mental work; and we are assured I'll at
it can be produced and sold in competi-
ton with wide walnut at about one-half
the price of the latter. The standard
manufacture is in widths of thirty-two
inches, length of twelve feet, and q
thickness corresponding to that of sur
faced boards. These dimensions may be
varied TO suit such orders as may be
given, and embrace any width, length or
thickness. Unlike lumber, however,
narrower widths are the most costly.
The straw lumber may be ripped with
the hand saw or the buzz saw; may be
run through the sticker for the manu-
facture of holdings, and takes nail or
screw about as well as oak. 1t may be
finished with varnish or with paint, and
is susceptible of high polish. 1t is
practically water and fire proof, being
manufactured under 500 degrees Of heat,
and we are assured has been boiled for
some hours without any apparent change
of structure. It's tensile strength is
greater than that of walnut or oak, and
its weight about one-fifth greater than
the former when dry. 1t is made from
any kind of straw, including hemp and
flax fiber-in fact, from any material
that will make pulp-and ton of straw
will produce 1000 feet of boards. The
pulp is rolled into thin sheets, a number
of which, corresponding with the thick
ness of the lumber desired, are placed
together with peculiar cement, which
is claimed to be waterproof and are
then rolled under q pressure sufficient
to amalgamate them into q solid mass,
which may be worked with plane if
desired.
When it is remembered that it takes
100 years to grow tree to maturity,
suiting it to commercial purposes-and
tree producing 32-inch lumber will re-
quire fully twice that time-while 90
600 feet per acre is large yield under
the most favorable circumstances, it will
at once be realized that where 5000 feet
can be taken from an acre of ground for
an indefinite number of years, the pro-
cess which enables such result TO be
accomplished, and which will yield
really valuable lumber, is one of vast
Importance. We look for valuable re-
suits in the future in the manufacture
of lumber from what is practically a
waste material but which will be pro-
duced in endless quantities SO 'ong as
the United States maintains 10 charac-
ter as grain-producing country.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-15

"CATs' feed" says Washington cor
respondent, is one of the items that
make up the miscellaneous entry in the
accounts sent to the Postoffice Depart
ment by the Postmasters in all large
cities. This expenditure is to furnish
food for the small army of cats which
are kept to wage war against the rats
and mice that raid the mail bags for
-four. rice and other eatables sent
through the mails as samples. In their
efforts to get at the food the rats destroy
the mail bags, and in many instances
ruin the mail matter. For years all the
large offices have kept cats, and their
board bills have been sent i'll and audit
ed by the department. The amount
paid out for this purpose averages from
az to so per quarter, and the cats
flourish. The New York Office has the
largest corps of cats, and then in order
comes Chicago, Cincinnati, st. Louis,
Philadelphia, New Orleans and San
Francisco. 1t has been found that there
has been some increase in this item, and
after investigation it is probable that
the Postmaster General will fix n GER
tain limit for the support of these
official cats.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-15
Growth OF Foreign Population.

A comparison of the late census re-
turns with the census of 1860 and 1870
furnishes an abundance of food for spec
ulation to those who are inclined to it.
In 1860 there were only % counties in
the United States in which the foreign
population outnumbered the natives.
IF these, counties were in California,
3 in Michigan (Ontonagon, Saulac and
Houghton). 2 in Minnesota, in Mis-
souri,, in New Mexico, 6 in Texas and
5 in Wisconsin.
In 1870 the foreigners had added 2
counties TO their possession and they
were in the majority in ~ counties in
the Union. OF these l county was in
California, in Idaho, 5 in Michigan, 8
in Minnesota, | in each of Montana, Ne
vada, New Mexico and Oregon and in
Texas. In 6 of the counties of Califor
MIA and 5 of the counties of Wisconsin
in which the foreign population was
most numerous in 1860, they were out
numbered by natives in 1870.
The great stride in the numerical
mastery of the foreign population has
been made since then. The census of
1880 shows that the foreign population
of u years old and upward outnumbers
the natives in Ola counties of the several
States of the Union.
They are the majority in 13 counties
of California, | county of Colorado, 16
counties of Dakota, county of Idaho,
counties Of Illinois, counties of Iowa
and "a counties of Michigan. The for
eigners also outnumber the natives in
AZ of rs counties of Minnesota; in 9 out
of the IA counties of Nevada; in ID out
of 23 in Utah, and in 40 out of the SO
counties of Wisconsin.
The foreigners of voting age also out
number the natives of like age in 2
counties of Missouri, 8 counties of Ne
braska, 2 counties of New Jersey, 3
counties of New York these are the
counties in which Buffalo, Brooklyn and
New York city are located), l county of
Ohio (Cuyahoga, in which Cleveland Isl,
/ county of Oregon, county of Penn
sylvania hackawanna, in the mining re-
gion) 10 counties of Texas and 3 coun-
ties in Washington Territory. In addi-
ton to this they almost equal the natives
in many other counties. In Wisconsin,
as seen, the foreigners are in the major
ity in nearly two-thirds of the counties
of the State, and in Utah they control
more than two-thirds of the counties.
With the exception of Texas and Mis-
souri, they are comparatively weak in
numbers throughout the South. And
in New England, though the foreign
population are numerous and are in the
majority in several of the towns and
cities, they are not in the majority in
any one of the counties. Nor are they
in the majority in any one Of the rural
counties in the Middle States with the
single exception of Lackawanna in Penn
sylvania, and there nearly all the for
eign population are engaged in the coal
mines of that section. If the tide of
emigration continues for a few years
more, with the volume of the past few
years, many more counties will be add
ed to this long list, and before long
they will not only control whole coun-
ties, but also whole States of the West.
Detroit Post