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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Purity OF Ice.

Besides the fact that the ice is lighter
than water, there is another curious
thing about it which persons do not
know, perhaps-namely its purity. Ice
melted always beco me purely distilled
water. Water in freezing turns out of
it all that is not water--salt, air, color
ing matter and all impurities Frozen
sea water wakes fresh water ice. If you
freeze basin of indigo water it will
make it as pure as that made of pure
rain water When the cold is very sud-
den these foreign matters have not time
to escape, either by rising or sinking, and
are thus entangled with the ice, but do
not form any part of it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
a Drummer's Joke.

A gay and festive travelling man at
Ovid was basking in the sunshine of a
grass widows smiles one evening, and
he thought it would be awful funny"
to have a st. Johns man perform a mar
riage ceremony. After considerable
urging the st. Johns man consented,
and after the ceremony was performed
and their names properly entered in a
note book, the festive man of samples
found to his horror that the st. Johns
man was a full-fedged Justice of
the Peace, clothed by the law of Michi-
gan with full modifying powers, and
that the ceremony was legal one The
man of samples didn't feel so funny
then, for he was engaged to nice
young lady in Detroit, and had no idea
of taking the widow "for keeps" He
offered the Justice V. for the leaf on
which their names were recorded. The
Justice accepted, the money was paid
over, the leaf was extended toward the
unhappy bridegroom, when the too
willing widow swooped down on that
leaf and gathered it in. At last accounts
she had the record and legal husband.
st. Johns Republicans.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

marketed at Chelsea this season. In
good seasons as high as $4,000 barrels
have been marketed.
Maple Rapids has an oar manufacto-
ry which does a business of $25, ZOO
cash per year. An English firm has
sent large order which is being filed.
1t is stated that $50, 200, 900 feet of
logs are atloat on the raging Muskegon
and that the rear of the drive is IA few
miles above Big Rapids.
The Bangor Chemical Works manu-
featured last month 100000 pounds of
acetate and 1000 gallons of alcohol.
Over 3,OOO,O 900 feet of lumber were
sold in Saginaw last week, at prices
ranging from SO to S3S per | 200.
Bay City has shipped this season 40
544, ITO feet of lumber; 79,712,000
shingles; Is, Ill 900 lath.
The Muskegon Furniture Company
has capital of sec, 900, and will erect
seven buildings for their business.
s. S. Haywood, of Jackson, sends be,
tween 100000 and 100000 pounds of
butter to Boston yearly.
The Calumet and Hecla Mining Com
pany has declared it's regular quarterly
dividend of $4,000
Col. Fuller, of Muskegon, is putin g
in 26, 700, 900 feet of logs in Glare coun-
ty.
The Court House and Jail at Bad Axe
will be heated by steam.
Grand Traverse potatoes are being
shipped TO Florida.
A. Durand, of Chelsea, has castor
bean plant ten feet high.
OF the %, 1Sl immigrants who landed
at Castle Garden in August, 1856 were
bound for Michigan.
A beet at Bay City is three feet long
and weighs % pounds. 1t is not of the
species known as dead beat.
Isaac Colvin, of Battle Greek, raised
$50 bushels of corn from six acres of
land.
+. w. Barber, near Jackson, has a
vein of coal on his farm four feet thick.
Potatoes bring 40 cents bushel in
the field in Ogemaw county.
Men for the lumber woods are scarce
in the Saginaw district.
Manistee will have water works soon.
Bay City will use no gas after Jan.
The Flint people have contracted for
new water works, and they talk of a
new Opera House, telephone line to
Detroit, and union depot.-Lansi,1g
Republican.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

tells of case where man went out
from the play the other night under
cover of an excuse TO the lady who ac-
cempanied him that he wished to look
at the weather and find out which way
the wind was blowing. When he came
back she said: 81 know it's turned pleas
ant and warm" "What makes you think
SOP" he asked son. she replied,
"from the smell of cloves you have
brought back with you L should Judge
the wind was one of those spicy breezes'
which, as the hymn says, blow soft DER
Ceylon's isle, and l am sure it cannot
be stormy under such circumstances. ="
And the Young man knew not where
with to answer her.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

A door furnished the only light and air.
Inside of one such room whole family
are supposed to find dwelling place. In
brief, they live like rats in a hole.
When it is necessary to cook, they set
up sort of little furnace, right out in
the street, and broil or bake, as the
case may be, before the gaze of all the
world. Judge the women comb their
hair only on high saints days. They
cannot perform the operation for them
selves, either, apparently. Neighbor
wives club together, as it were, and
comb one another's hair, sitting in the
front doors for friendly gossip mean
while. Foreign letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

A correspondent writes that he was
riding in stage with half a dozen COM
panions, upon side hill where the
bank upon his right was about on the
level with the window of the stage. The
horses were walking very leisurely, and
the passengers We're all in balf-drowsy
condition, when suddenly there rang
ont upon the air within six feet of their
heads the rattle of snake.
There is nothing, the writer says,
very attractive in the looks and name
OF the rattlesnake; but his war-cry
launched upon the air by score of dry
hard bones at the tip of his tail, sounds
like the knell of death, and could hardly
be mistaken, even by one who has never
heard it before.
Every one of us started as though O
bomb had exploded in the coach. Each
passenger looked in the direction of the
sound. There on the parched, verdure-
less ground was a veteran snake, wind
ing his slow way along. Our blood was
at fever heat, and in a state of cold
chills by turns.
The driver, with a swift turn wound
his reins around the handle of his break
and sprang to the ground. He caught
up piece of broken branch, with
crotch in the end, and pinned the snake
TO the ground, about six inches back of
the reptiles head. The snake shook it's
head and snapped its fangs maliciously.
"Come on now, boys. Here help me
kill him. will give the rattle to the
man who will do it first"
1t was remarkable how readily the
whole company resisted the temptation
to accept the offer.
Very brave we were! exclaiming "No"
with a most heroic air.
Each man stood nervously on the
ground, lifting first one foot and then
the other in quick succession with his
eyes fastened upon the dry grass as
though it might open and reveal a score
of reptiles to avenge the wrongs of the
drivers captive.
"Why don't you take another stick,
some of you, and pound his head?"
cried the impatient driver.
Not man in the brave crowd moved.
At length, however, a fat and happy
foreigner, travelling with his wife, and
spurred on by the brave dame, did con-
sent to hold the stick by which the
driver had the reptile pinned to the
earth, while that hero despatched our
struggling and venemous enemy.
But it was q brave crowd / was
proud to be one of the heroic men who
had exhibited so much self-restraint and
valor The fat man seemed>quite self
satisfed-though from the twinkle in
his wife's eve, | imagine she felt that
she was more entitled to the rattle that
the driver had given him, than he would
be willing to acknowledge.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

Mr.. PETTIT, New York merchant,
having placed his new silk hat in a
chair at Delmonico's the other day, Mr..
Travers, veteran Wall street operator,
took the chair while talking with an
acquaintance, and, not seeing the hat,
sat down on it, with disastrous result.
81 almost sat onyourhat," he remarked
to Mr.. Petit, with winning smile,
but said no more. Petit picked up the
wreck and deposited it with the clerk,
saying, "That is left in your care for Mr..
Travers whenever he chooses to call for
it." Mr.. Travers did not apologize nor
offer to make good the loss, although
he broke the hat in two and utterly
ruined it, Petit. therefore, determ-
ined to sue him, but the lawyers adj
vised him not to, as Travers would get
more satisfaction ont of being sued for
IS than Petit would in making him
pay. So he sent him a note, inclosing
a bill, advising him that the hat he sat
on was awaiting him at Delmonico's.
But Travers paid neither the bill nor
any further attention to it, except to
say, whenever anybody referred to it,
" Oh, yes, Pettit's hat; it's a joke; that's
all 7"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Naples.

Naples has half million inhabit-
ants, such as they are. Naples is quite
the proper place to visit, on account of
Mt. Vesuvius, and the view Of the bay
You will be gladder to get out of it.,
though, than any place you were in ever
in your life, not even excepting the sta
tion-house. L do not see how any
American can live in comfort in any
Italian city, owing to the notions of
cleanliness and decency that are pecul-
lar to the country. But Naples is the
worst. Squallng children make the
streets hideous from daylight to mid
night. The houses seemed To be turned
inside out, back foremost, and all domes-
tic and toilet operations to be performed
upon the street.
The lower classes are no more than
half civilized. They repudiate and re-
ject utterly commonly-accepted notions
of delicacy. They are primitive in many
of their ways as if they had lived in the
times of Moses. One of our party saw
woman spinning with distafF pre-
cisely as women did in the DAYS of
Homer. The lower stories of the houses
often have no windows toward the street.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
The RazOr.Back Hog.

To the traveller through Texas one of
the strangest and most peculiar fea-
lures of landscape is the razor-back
hog He is of Swiss cottage style of
architecture. His physical outline is
angular to degree unknown outside of
a textbook on the science of geometry
The country razor-back prowls around
in the woods and lives on acorns, pecan
nuts and roots; when he can spare time
he climbs under his owners fence and
assists in harvesting the corn crop. In
this respect he is neighborly to fault,
and, when his duty to his owners crop
will allow, he will readily turn in and
assist the neighbors, even working at
night rather than see his crop spoil for
want of attention. Crossing the razor
back with the blue-blooded stock makes
but little improvement. The only eff
fective way to improve him is to cross
him with a railway train. He then be-
comes an imported Berkshire, or Po-
land China hog. and If he does not
knock the train off the track, the rail-
road pays for him at the rate of 81 a
pound, for which they are allowed the
mournful privilege Of shoveling the re-
mains off the track. The ham of the
country razor-back is more juicy than
the hind leg of an iron fife-dog, but not
so fat as pine knot. Western Plough
man.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

SPEAKING of his popular poem "The
Moneyless Man, Maj. Henry T. Stan
ton, editor of the Yeoman, of Frank
fort, Ky, says: Il wrote that poem in
the time it took me to drink bottle of
wine, the stanzas measuring the drinks.
ALI Burnett came to Maysville in 1856,
and wanted me to go to his room to
read number of Coates Kinney's
poems, including the Rain on the
Roof" While there he said: Write
me something for my public reading to-
night" He left me, and shortly
after sent me a bottle of wine. 1t was
just before my marriage, and the luxu-
ry OF the wine, together with the knowl-
edge of my financial condition, inspired
the thought, and away my pencil flew
over the paper. 1t struck q
popular chord among the people, for
Burnett was recalled three times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

THE worst verdict yet pronounced
upon Brooklyn has been uttered by a
Brooklyn clergyman who has been in
vited to Chicago pulpit. In his letter
of resignation he says: Il feel unable
to endure the pressure of work here
The storm is too great, the burden too
heavy. / have longed and prayed. for
relief, and now that it has come l ought
not to decline it." A clergyman who,
after n long experience in Brooklyn,
looks upon conflict with sin in Chi
cago in the light of relief and an
easier situation, pays tribute to Brook
lyn's wickedness that surpasses in elo-
quence all the rhetorical resources of
the Brooklyn pulpit.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

Two SAN Francisco boys, less than
u years of age, procured two knives
and played cowboys meeting on the
the plains for deadly conflict" After
few passes, one boys knife slipped and
penetrated the others ribs, infiicting a
fatal wound. He fell to the ground
gasping: Fred, you've hurt me. "
Two women who had seen the affair
from window rushed out and took the
lad into the house, where he died.
Both boys were habitual readers of the
dime-novel stories of blood-curdling ex-
PLOTS performed by border despera-
does.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Poor Hunters.

A correspondent, writing from Tawas
to the Bay City Call, says that, the
hunting season being now open, roast
venison is not an uncommon thing to
see. The deer are plenty, and good
and fat. Hunters are plenty and poor
They generally come to my house and
borrow piece of pork till they kill a
deer, which sometimes never happens.
l have one piece yet to get from two
years ago. guess the fellow is honest,
but his gun is poor and he has no dog
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

The English Lloyds and British ma
rine underwriters generally have of
late been seriously nipped by over-com-
petition and underwriting of rates,
much rs our fre-insurance companies
have suffered from similar causes The
statement of English journals, as yet un-
contradicted, is that the marine losses
for the past year have amounted to
nearly 81, 900, 900 1t is added, that in
consequence of this formidable blow, a
considerable number of underwriters
have been compelled to quit taking
risks, while others have retired from
the business on account of the hopeless
prospect of affairs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Bismarck's Eccentric Enemy.

A singular enemy of Prince Bismarck
is man in Potsdam, who, by diligence
and economy, from simple masOn's
apprentice has become a well-tO-do cap
italist and proprietor of several houses.
In his successful career hemet with but
one terrible blow, his only son having
been killed in the war of 1S70-a war
and calamity for which he has since
held and still holds the Prince respon-
sible, against whom lie wreaks the fol-
lowing original vengeance: He is the
owner of lot in the cemetery OF Pots
dam. where, since the internent of his
son, he has erected fine mausoleum,
on the top of which is placed an artisti-
callv sculptured owl, the head and fea-
lures of which bear striking resem-
blance to those of Prince Bismarck, the
well-known "three single hairs" in
cluded. A few years ago our man built
house over the cornice of every win
dow in which is carved Bismarck
head, the historical three hairs being
represented in the shape of as many
cannon. Quite recently he built another
house with the same portrait decora-
TONS this time, however, having three
serpents take the place of the cannon in
the Princes capillary ornament-PdriS
american Register.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Territorial Changes.

The following item will be of interest
as showing the successive changes in
the Government of the State and the
various divisions of this Northwestern
Territory: Timber Woods, of Steam
boat Rock. the pioneer lawyer of Iowa,
built house near Burlington, Iowa,
which has queer history. At this
house one of his children was born in
the Territory of Michigan. The next
child born in the self-same cabin was a
native of Wisconsin, and the third was
in the Territory of Iowa"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Montcalm County's Midget.

Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Peasley, of
Gowen, have little girl which was
born April Z, 1881, and weighed three
pounds and three ounces dressed at
birth. A lady's finger ring could be
passed over her hand and up to the
elbow joint of her arm. She is now
nearly 10 months old, sits alone and
can bear her weight upon her tiny feet,
can speak several words plainly, and
weighs, clothes and all, but nine pounds
and nine ounces. - Detroit EUening
Nelrs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

IL 1864, while Gen. Sherman was
marching through Georgia, the Kings,
a wealthy family of Roswell, owned a
factory worth about $4,000. In order
to keep Sherman from burning it they
transferred it without consideration to
Theophile Roche, a Frenchman en-
ployed in the factory, whereupon the
Frenchman raised the French flag upon
the property and claimed protection of
the property under it. Sherman dis
regarded the flag and burnt down the
factory and put Roche under arrest.
Roche now sues the United States for
$4,000 and interest, damages for the
destruction of the property, and $40, 1000
for his arrest and Imprisonment, in
terest and all aggregating about S125,-
600.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

In recent account of religious
meeting at Liverpool daily newspaper
stated that the hymn Jesus lives no
longer now was sung, but it proved,
on further investigation, that the actual
lines were Jesus lives; no longer now
can thy terrors, death, appall u.s." The
reporter refused to take the response
bility of the mistake, but declared that
the choir sang it in that way, and, not
having any hymn-book, he had no
chance of getting the correct version.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Queer.

Concord township was organized by
the Board of Supervisors of Wexford
county in 1879. It's township officers
are recognized by the State, but not by
the county Board of Supervisors. They
levy their own township and school tax,
but no county or State tax, and hence
pay none. Their election returns are
always regularly canvassed and their
Justice of the Peace performs all the
functions of that office.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
East Saginaw Accidents.

At East Saginaw, on recent Friday,
beside some more serious accidents, q
lady fell down stairs and broke her
nose; a painter fell from building and
severely hurt his back; woman had
her cheek badly cut by being thrown
from buggy and "a man who was try
ing to behave himself on the wharf
caught another mans fish-hook in his
nose apd severely wounded both it and
his temper. Itappears to be cold day
when East Saginaw gets left on acct
dents.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Saginaw Salt.

The sales of an East Saginaw firm for
the past sixty days have amounted to
upward of 10000 barrels of fine salt,
and they are to-day 10000 barrels be-
hind their orders. The Courier says
also: The Stewart Company report
having already contracted over 100000
barrels for the season of 1888, and say
with the present outlook it will require
at least 100000 barrels to meet the
requirements Of their trade
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
In iustrial Notes.

The German Workingmen's Society
at Muskegon has let the contract for
building q new brick hall at 81 900.
Three electric light companies are
trying to outdo each other in selling
the illuminating fluid to the denizens of
Grand Rapids. The city has $50 of
these lights.
The Elk Rapids Chemical Works, be-
side making wood alcohol, acetate of
lime and tar, have added the manufact-
ure of potash. They will make three
tons per month.
About 5000 barrels of apples will be
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
A Bee Hunt with Disastrous Results.

Near Milford, Oakland county
Thomas Galloway chopped down bee
tree, which lodged. Climbing, he par
tally felled the tree He smoked out
the bees and cut ont the honey. When
the tree came to the ground Galloway
struck on his hands and feet The re-
suit was n compound fracture of the
left thigh and the right wrist He was
also severely bruised about the head.
He is probably internally injured.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
AN Arkansaw man secured free pass

AN Arkansaw man secured free pass
over a railroad. He was very much
pleased at first, but, after discovering
that if injured in an accident he could
not recover damages, he approached
the Superintendent and said: Look
here, how about this thing?' whats
the matter with it?" What If / get
killed on the road my wife wouldn't re-
cover damages" mo, sir" "Then I
don't want the pass. amt got no wife
nor no relations, but want to feel that
if I had wife she'd get pay for my
death. Tn much obliged to yer, but
recken I'll have to walk. "-Arkansd,o
T'rdUeler.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Somewhat Strange.

1t is somewhat strange, and yet a fact
unless we are misinformed, that the
township of Bangor returns no children
as attending school, and consequently
receives from the State no portion of
the primary school fund, and yet the
school district tax in that township this
year amounts to l,l90. This looks
like taxation without receiving all the
benefits that should accrue from it,
Bay City Press. ss Ea
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
After Many Days.

In 1862 Charles Turner, then in the
fur and skin business in East Saginaw,
issued large lot of advertising cards
in the form of 1-cent pieces, which in
those days of scarce currency circulated
rs pennies. A few days since one was
brought to him for redemption.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10

The Boston Journal has been keep
ing its eyes on the men who go out of
the theater between acts ITO see man, T"
and it has observed that such person
generally betrays himself by the very
efforts he makes on his return to appear
easy and as if he had been merely in
dulging during the interim in edifying
converse with some philosophical
friends in the lobby. The Journal
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Che TrMe agurtherner.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1882.

ARCHBISHOP BoURGET, of Montreal,
now an octogenarian, has within two
years paid off nearly 81, 200, 900 resting
upon the diocese, being largely aided
by the increase in the market value of
real estate belonging to the church.
He is now engaged in building cathe-
dral modelled after st. Peters in Rome,
to cost $1,000 900, Of which amount
$780, 900 has already been subscribed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-10
Health I'm Michigan.

Reports to the State Board of Health,
Lansing, by observers of diseases in diff
ferent parts of the State, show causes
of sickness during the week ending Oct.
%, 1889, as follows The number of
observers heard from is 81.