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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

nothing but how they can get through
the day with the least trouble, and from
whom the customers turn away in dis
gust. 1t is the latter who cause people
to speak scornfully of shop-girls. The
former command respect everywhere,
in the shop or out OF it,
1t is very much better, more honora-
BILE, and more profitable to be good
saleswoman than poor teacher, or
painter Bnt then the work must be
undertaken in earnest, as vocation,
not rs a means of getting along till
something better offers. OF course,
when something better does offer, or
when the Prince comes along and leads
Cinderella away, she will follow him
with light heart. But the Prince will
not come any the sooner, or like her
any the better, if she has been neglect
ing her work in waiting for him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
Alas F! the Man.

A man with more heart than taste
was secretly pleased not long ago when
his wife decided to take her children
and visit her mother in another city.
He Immediately set to work to surprise
her on her return, got in painters and
grainers and fresco workers, and reno
waited and tinted the house from top to
bottom, and then awaited her exhibit
ton of delight. 1t differed in kind,
however, from his expectations. She
stood few moments in mute astonish-
ment, then burst into tears, and finally
managed to inform him that not tint
nor tone in the whole thing blent with
a carpet or bit of furniture they owned.
The money that unfortunate man parted
with to make things tally with his first
artistic impulse has given him new re-
spect for the judgment of the weaker
vessel in some things.-BoSton Tran
script.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

UNEMPLOYED Australia still contains
prizes for enterprising travellers. The
great central desert theory and other
myths have long been exploded, but an
immenss area of country remains prac-
tically Hntrodden. In two colonies
alone-South Australia and Western
Australia-there are upward of 500, 900
square miles of which little or nothing
is known, and in the northern peninsula
of Queensland another 10000 square
miles remain unexplored. Mr.. Christie
Palmerston, a Government surveyor,
has just opened up the table lands be-
tween Herberton and the Queensland
coast. He reports that this highly-fa-
vored region possesses q flora of incred-
ible luxuriance, broad sheets Of water
falling over high basaltic precipices,
and the richest soil in Australia, and is
inhabited by tribes exhibiting charac-
teristics which distinguish them from
the other natives of Queensland. Some
of them are said to reside in scrub so
dense that they have never seen open
country. They are armed, not with
spears, but with wooden swords resem-
bling in shape the weapons which the
Dyaks of Borneo carry in their head
hunting expeditions.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

For the week ending April 7, 1888,
the reports indicate that remittent
fever, measles and tonsilitis increased,
and that consumption, dysentery, bron-
chitis and typho-malarial fever de-
creased in area of prevalence.
At the State Capitol the prevailing
winds, during the week ending April
Z, 1888, were northeast; and, compared
with the preceding week. the tempera-
ture was higher, the absolute humidi-
ty and night ozone more, and the rel
alive humidity and day ozone less.
Including reports by regular observ-
ers and by others, diphtheria was re-
ported present during the week ending
April 7, and since, at thirteen places,
scarlet fever at nineteen places and
measles at twenty-four places.
HENRY b. BAKER, Sec'y.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
A Word for Saleswomen.

One of the reasons why saleswomen
have so hard time and are so hardly
and often unjustly judged is that there
are SO many Of them who practically
depreciate their own occupation. 1t is
all very well to point out other kinds
Of work in which women might profit
ably engage, but most of these require
a special training that is not always cas- Y
to obtain, and it is not strange that so
many young women as well as young
men seek employment in some branch
Of trade. But when young man goes
into a shop he usually expects to devote
his time and thought to learning as
much as he can about the business. Too
many girls. on the other hand, look on
their employment only as disagree
able necessity which they are to get
away from as soon as they can. While
they feel thus about it they can never
make good saleswomen; they can never
be successful; they can never gain
respect either for themselves or their
calling.
In these days it is not worth while
for either man or woman to undertake
any business merely as temporary
makeshift A girl in dry-goods shop
needs to apply herself to her business
just as much rs she would if she were
learning a profession, and when she
does SO apply herself she is pretty sure
to gain recognition. Go into any large
dry-goods shop, for example, and you
will readily recognize which are the
women who are interested in their work,
who are well informed about the goods
they have to sell, and who understand
the art of pleasing their customers, and
which are those who are thinking of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

The course of true love seems to run
no smoother in circus-tent than else
where, as the cannibal girl in Phila-
delphia show can testify. She was no.
really cannibal, but was a native of
the South, and attracted the attention
OF the living skeleton and his wife, the
mammoth fat woman, when they were
once on a pleasure trip down there, by
the peculiar formation of her thumbs,
which were long and curved. They
saw in her the foundation of frst-class
side-show, adopted her, trained her
hair into standing erect, and brought
her out full-fedged cannibal. All
went we'll until the girl fell in love with
, the prize-box man. She did not LET
concealment like worm prey upon her
dusky cheek, but told her love. Per-
haps she told him she loved him well
enough to eat him, but, at all events,
the box-man did not reciprocate, and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

The deepest sea sounding ever
reached in the Atlantic was made by
the United States Coast Survey steamer
Blake, on the 10Th of January last. In
latitude - deg. Al min. north, longitude
66 deg. "a min. west, about los miles
northwest of st. Thomas, the plummet
touched bottom after 1861 fathoms of
line had been reeled out. This depth
is over five and onesixth miles. The
British ship Challenger, near the same
place, made the deepest previous sound
ings-3, S62 fathoms.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
The Ownership Of the Fish.

We hear curious law point dis
cussed. A man was driving past q lake
where some lines had been fixed by O
fisherman. He noticed that there was
q bite at one of the hooks, sprang out,
pulled in q Observation-Disclosures fish,
flung it into his sleigh, and was off be-
fore the fisherman could reach him.
Was it theft? or, in other words, to
whom did that fish belong? 1t seems
probable that it belonged to the man
who pulled it out, for the rule about
game-fsh, flesh or fowls that it be.
longs to whoever actually gets posses
sion of it, and to no one till in his actr.
al possession. Pretty sharp practice,
though.-Litchfeld (Ct.) Enquirer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
A Rat Among Postage Stamps.

In the manufacture of the stamps, for
which the contract is held by the Amer
lean Bank Note Company, the greatest
care is taken. The sheets of blank
paper are kept in safe and are
counted out with all the care of green
backs. Every square inch of that piece
of paper has to be accounted for, either
in perfect or imperfect condition, and
when so much of it as equals the size of
a postage stamp is missing there is
then trouble. Some time ago sheet of
postage stamps worth Sc disappeared
and great excitement followed. Every
employee interested felt it to be criti-
cal time. All went to work to solve
the mystery of the disappearance and
the whole matter was sifted and sifted
until it was made clear that the en-
ployes were innocent. Then q rat was
suspected. AT length the rat-hole was
discovered, and it was penetrated far
enough to reveal that the animal was
the thief, for part of the sheet was
found in the hole. This was not suf1i-
cient. The work was continued until
the rat was discovered, and then the
employees were at peace.-St. Louis
Republican.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

The Emperor William invariably
wears his military uniform when at
home. His study overlooks the Inter
den Linden. While at his writing ia
BILE he loosens the upper buttons Of his
double-breasted coat and throws back
the lapels; but every day, when the
troops march past, he hastily buttons
his coat and stands in the window, in
full view of the soldiers. A visitor,
noting the trouble he took, asked him
why he was so particular to button even
the top bottom of his coat. MY sol
diers," said the Emperor, "have never
seen me with my coat unbuttoned, and
do not intend they ever shall. For,
let me tell you, it is the one button left
unbuttoned that is the ruin of an
army"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
An Angel on Earth.

In Western contest of veracity the
first champion was thought to have dis
tinguished himself by the statement that
he had known an Ohio man to refuse
Office. This talented flight of the i'm
agination was distanced, however, by
his competitor, who narrated Iris alleged
experience at the opera house. Before
him sat young lady in q Gainesbor-
ough hat-a very large one. He could
hear voices upon the stage; he could
judge that n sad story was being enact
ed there by the sympathizing faces of
those about him. For himself, he
could see nothing but an expanse of red
velvet and feathers. AS the New York
Herald tells it, "the curtain fell and the
young lady in front turned round for o
look at the audience. She must have
perceived that this gentleman had not
altogether enjoyed the scene just ended,
for she blushed and said, Indeed, sir,
l am but a young and giddy thing.
Pardon me, but my hat shall no longer
annoy you And that beautiful Great
ure of fashion, concluded the gentle
man, took her hat right off and crushed
it down in the seat beside her with n
seraphic smile. For consideration of
the happiness of others, especially at
theaters, young ladies beat the deck. "
-EhicnOO Herald
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

became alarmed for fear she would
make a meal of him. She failed to con-,
vince him that the circus posters lied,
and that she was no man-eater, and in,
her despair she took dose OF laudanum.
She was pumped out, but swears that
life even in q circus has no charms, and
that the public shall see no cannibal
girl this season.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

The Denver Inter Ocean prints this
kindly notice of George Alfred Town
send, the famous newspaper correspond
emit: George Alfred Townsend is gifted.
He is one of the smoothest, most fasci-
mating writer's of the American press
to-day. His reserve fund of informa-
tion on all subjects Of public interest
and his personal knowledge of men and
measures are remarkable. To this add
that rare accomplishment, which is pc
culiarly his own, and which, through
years of industry, he has mastered
that of using the truth with pennrious
frugality-and We have flood of cleo
trio light thrown upon his smoothly
penciled sensational articles. George
Alfred" is the most plausible, ingenious,
profound, picturesque, conscientious,
deliberate professional liar in the re-
public.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Cupid I'm Custody.

Cupid, little criminal,
What have You been doingT
Nothing wrong, oh, nothing wrong :
Just little wooing."
you've been stealing hearts, fear.
Stealing hearts by dozens
mo, haven't, no. i haven't;
They were all my cousins.
Come along. you little fraud:
You will have To tarry
In prison Il | You learn
Wooing means to marry.
very well, here's Bonnybelle:
She shall be the winner.
Bonny belle said, Officer,
Free the little sinner
"Oh, I'll marry-Bonnybellc
Knows my truth and purity;
Here is good Saint Valentine.
He'll be my security
Ifos.,g A I(1.x-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
Health in Michigan.

Reports to the State Board Of Health,
Lansing, by observers of diseases in
different parts of the State, show the
principal diseases which caused most
sickness in Michigan during the week
ending April 7, 1888, as follows
Number of observers heard from, 50.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

AN unusual but highly-successful
method of self-slaughter was adopted
by Norwegian miner of the far West.
He held giant-powder cartridge in his
mouth, exploded it by means of cap and
fuse, and thus caused his head to be
blown TO fragments.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

A NEW YORK letter-writer has this
gossip about the Grants: Gen. Grant
reaches his Office about II o'clock in
the morning, and leaves about o'clock
in the afternoon. His three sons have
offices in the same building. Jesse is
one of the new firm of Grant & Ward,
brokers. Jesse Grant and Ward are
both young men, and said to be very
successful. The General is q silent
partner in the firm. Col. Fred Grant,
formerly of Gen. Sheridan's staff, has
desk in the same office, and is rapidly
becoming we'll known on the street"
as a rising broker. Speaking of him
the other day, the General said !:
while Fred is fond of his profession
and was q good soldier, still, from a
business point of view, he could not af-
ford to go into the army, even to ac-
cept the position of Lieutenant General,
if it were offered him." Col. Fred and
his wife live with his parents in Sixty
third street. U. S. Grant, Jr., or Buck"
Grant, as he is Familiarity called, also
has an Office in the same building, and,
while he affects the legal profession, it
is probable that his largest fees come
from mining and stock speculations.
All three of the young men seem to
have inherited much of their fathers
"horse sense" and have already estab-
lished themselves as prosperous bust
ness men.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
Che TrMe Aurtherner.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1888.

HENRY CoTTLH was tried before a
Los Angeles (Cal) Justice for cow
! hiding his mother. The defense was
that he had been "insulted" by the
plaintiff.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

Those who run games of chance are
usually beaten In the end. There has
been in New York but one notable ex-
ception to this rule. Dancer died u
millionaire, and had made it all as q
faro-banker. About year ago." says q
correspondent of the Chicago Herald,
two young men of education and re-
spectacle families concluded to go into
gambling as business. They had lost
a great deal of money at the front side
of the green table, but did not doubt
that they could get rich at the back
side. They learned that the house in
which Dancer had run his most pros
porous game could be rented. They
reasoned that the dead gamblers good
luck would remain on the premises.
During several months they met with
encouragement. Their thousand dollars
of capital multiplied to fifteen, and they
were living like Lords. Then came the
movement against all forms of gam
bling. For ninety days not card was
turned on a faro table except in private.
In this interval of idleness Dancers
luck must somehow have escaped from
the building. 1t was certainly gone
when the doors were reopened. The
two young bankers found their pile of
money less at every days counting, and
ut length the last dollar was paid out. y
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

A Troy debating society has decided
that young man can marry and live
happily on salary of so week. In
lending husbands should take notice.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

S. S. BENEDJcT, Government In
spector of Indian agencies, and q prac-
teal farmer, says two-thirds of the In
dian Territory is of no value for agri.
cultural purposes, but it is the best
Cow pasture on EARTH"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20

SOME of the Philadelphia papers are
showing up that city as divorce CEN
ter. The number of DEGREES recorded
in the past eight years are set down as
follows.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26
VIM. ". DAVIDSON.

The name that heads this article is be-
coming familiar to every household in Alex.
ander county aud in the adjoining counties
of Missouri and Keutucky,-iu fact, in al
that territory around that makes Cairo it's
base of supplies and market, Commencing
business few years ago in store on
Eighth street with plenty Of energy,
and unlimited confidence in printers ink,
he used both TO the best advantage and
with complete success, His advertisement
was, through good and dull times, TO be
found in every newspaper printed in Cairo,
and consequently was read IN every house..
The consequence 10 to be seen in the stock
be now carries, occupying every inch Of
space in two large store rooms on Eighth
street His stock of heating and cooking
stoves is un loubtedly of the greatest va
rety to be found in Southern Illinois. He
has something to suit every customer that
calls, and his stock Of tin and hollow ware
and miscela neous articles Is equally large
He is making a specially of hot air furnaces
and is placing them in number Of the
best dwellings IN the city. Among his
stock Of stoves may be found tho "Argand'
and other standard hard coal base burners.
The latest and best canon stoves; MARS"
and other wood stoves "Etna' and
Brady ranges; "Exposition;" "Grand
Future" aud Excelsior" cook stoves for
wood or coal, and the "Centennial" made
especially Tor use in hotels These are only
the leading ones; his stock comprises an
endless variety 10 all shapes and sizes. He
also does large business in gutter and tin
roofing work, employing good mechanics
and turning off first.cass work. We invite
our readers to study his Advertisement es
found In to days paper and call on him for
anything you want in his line He has it
for YOU
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26

the large number of convictions as com.
pared with the very few acquittals will be
noted with qualification by aw-abiding cit
liens as indicating vigorous prosecution
and enforcement of the criminal code on
the part Of the officers charged with that
duty,
Barton, of the Free Press, while squirm-
ing under the loss of printing for the Nor
NAL University, goes little ont of the way
and with fragrant disregard for the truth to
assall The BULLETIN and it's management.
We simply wish to say to Jno. Barton, and
be wont deny it. that the pressmsn of The
BULLETIN job Office is paid 25 per cent.
more every week than John Barton even
promises to pay the best man in his office;
that the youngest apprentice in the TIE
BULLETIN job Office is paid within 25 per
cent of the highest wages that Barton actu-
ally pays and that even the press boy in
The BULLETIN office earns and receives
more than the pressman of the Barton
office. Understand us, that wages are PAID
weekly, not PROMISED. THE BULLETIN
office is IN debtto DO printer, one cent, who
has worked in it since November Let, 1878,
as far back as the present management goes
II Barton can say as much for bis Office OF
high priced (O printers be has an undeserv-
ed reputation as promising employer
among the fraternity, that needs his prsyer-
full attention. Barton seems 10 think that
the Norma. school, instead of a state insti-
tuition, is u strictly local institution in Car
bondale, and that, though the people OF
the state at large are taxed to maintain it,
only Cafbondalans should be permitted to
bid for what it may have to let in the way
of printing. Barton is s-hog in a certain
sense Of the word
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26
Written for The Cairo Bulletin.
THE CAPTIVE RED BIRD.

Oh, lovely bird with blood red wing,
That swings and SINCE, and sings and swim
From eally dawn TIL sun sets light,
Behind your prison bars 80 bright
oh, bcauteou. bird, with plaintiye song,
What singest thou, the whole day long,
Poor tiny bird, with saddened heart,
In others joys thou hast no part
Alone, oh.b'rd, with blood red wing;
OF thy lost nestlings dos't thou sing'
OF dewy fields, with flowers sweet,
OF shadowy woods where fairies meet
Or sing'st thou OF thy early home,
Where balmy breezes, still, are blown
Amid the boughs Of the tulip tree,
That lst 10 the loves OF thy love and thee
oh, prisoLed bird, In iron swing,
So sadly sweet the songs ye sing
Alone, midst the city's strife
Must thou, oh bird, for aye thy life.
A captive be; nor hope to ewing
On dancing twig or svaying limb,
In freedom sweet nor. freedom sing,
Nor try the strength o'blood red wing,
Nor feel the air beneath Your feet.
Save In thy dreams 'twer heaven sweet
To thee dear bird; a captive long,
Ease thy lone heart In captive song.
Chicago, Sept. 1883.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26
Ladies, beware of limitations. The great

Ladies, beware Of limitations. The great
popularity of BALLS HEALTH PRESERVING
CoRsETs or Balls Corse,s with coiled spring
elastic sections has induced certain unprin.
cipled dealers to palm of on their unsus-
pecting customers worthless imitation for
the genuine article. We have begun pros.
ecu,ons for fraud and damages against sew.
eral dealers tor this practice, and shall do
the same with others az fast as we get evi
dencc of this practice. The genuine article
can not be sold at retail for less than 81 25,
and any one who advertlses or sells for less
than that price, It Is safe to presume are
offering a fraudulent article, Any lady
who purchases one Of the genuine corsets
can return it after two or three weeks wear
il not satisfied with il in every respect, aud
the price paid for 1t will be refunded.
CHICAGO CORSET Co.,
Chicago, Ill,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26
$50 to Chicago and Return.

The ST. L. & Z. X. h. will continue to
sell round trip tickets at $50 to Chicago
and return ior ILLINOIS State Fair and in.
dustrial Exposition until Sept. 25th. Good
returning from hicago Sept Goth and
East st. LOUIS Oct LIST. Tickets good on
any train gong, to Sept. 25th. Apply to
L. B. Church, Ticket AT, Union depot.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26

can recommend Ey's Cream Balm to
relieve all persons suffering from Rose
Cold and Hay Fever. have been agreat
sufferer from these complaints and have
used il. have recommended 1t TO many
OF my friends for Catarrh, and In oil cases
where they have used the Balm freely they
have been cured. T. Kenney, Dry Goods
Merchant, Ithaca, n. Y.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26
A LAWYERS Testimony.

During eight years my attacks of dys,
pepsia were 80 terrible that ! often had to
stop business. Parker's Ginger Tonic
built me up from almost skeleton to
the perfect health now enjoy. j. Jerolo-
man, Lawyer. n Y City.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26
Notice,

A. PERSONS holding city bills against the
firm ,! Chas. o. Patier & Co., are hereby
mott ID to present same for payment at the
stor IN or before the 5th day of October,
1885, After above date all bills not settled
mu. be probated. G. o. PATIER,
Administrator.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-26
NOTICE.

Ali persons indebted to the firm OF Chas.
o. Patier g. Co. will please make settlement
before October 5, 1888, as all accounts not
settlsd-by that time will be placed for col
lection to close the business of the firm.
Attention to this notice will save costs and
trouble. GEORGE FISHER,
If Atty for Administrator.