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Strange Meat Indeed.

In South America, the tapir, the
sloth and the cafybara-a great, am
phibious Guinea pig-are eaten by the
natives. Roast armadillo, with lemon
and spice sauce, is q favorite dish, and
its flavor is delicious, though the plat
may be objected to as too greasy. The
opossum is also held in high estimation,
and the South American practice is to
bury it in the earth until the flesh has
lost its offensive odor. The monkey
and the parrot are distinctly edible,
though both may be criticised as dry
and insipid. The octopus, or devil fish,
of the Mediterranean is in great demand
throughout certain districts of Italy and
Austria as Lenten meat, and the
Greek and Italian fishermen at San
Francisco are much addicted to the
same unsightly delicacy. A deviled
devil" prepared as one would prepare
deviled crab, is regarded as some
thing celestial, and even when cooked
in the ordinary fashion the octopus is
looked upon as superior to the clam,
which in consistency and flavor it some
what resembles. The favorite size is
ten to twelve inches from the extreme
point of one tentacle to the other. At
this size they are very nice and delicate.
In preparation for the table they are
first opened, and all the black liquid,
called ink, is squeezed out. They are
then washed, put into pot with sliced
onion, carrots, garlic, cloves or other
seasoning, and boiled and eaten with
olive oil and squeeze of lemon OF
lime. The shark, when young and
tender, furnishes very excellent outlets,
which in taste and appearance resemble
sturgeon, but when the fish comes tc
maturity it is detestable, being both
tough and rank. The natives of the
South Seas, however, regard it as 6
dainty. Fried porpoise liver has been
landed by competent authorities; but
though the animal figured as a dainty
dish in the great banquets of the middle
ages, its flesh is most coarse and in
different. Whale is worse, being tough
and harsh and permeated with the
taste and odor of train oil, but whales
milk is by no means to be despised.
Of white ants fried to a crisp eminently
satisfactory accounts are given by disin
terested eaters, and marine annelid,
which abounds in the coral reefs of the
South Seas, is Landed as thing su.
premely excellent when washed in Goa.
coanut milk and baked in banana leaves
in an earth oven. The rat is much
affected by certain classes of Fijians as
well as by The Chinese
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
CuriOus Indian Belief.

The Sanpoel tribe number about 400
Indians and they all belong to sect
known as the dreamers. They are
looking for another flood, which they
expect soon to come upon the arth. In
order to be prepared they have secured
all the necessary material for the build
ing of an ark, in which to sail of, as
Noah did, when the flood comes.
Among the material is $4,000 feet OF
lumber The ark is to be fifty feet
long and about fifty or sixty feet wide.
The dreamers have small following
among the Indians of the Palouse,
Snake River, Warm Springs, Umatillas
and other tribes. They believe that
the whites will all be drowned when
the flood comes, and that they only will
be saved. and will be enabled to live off
the fat of the land without having to
work at all.-Seattle (W. I'D PoSt-Ia-
telligencer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
THE FOURTH OF MARCH.
How the Day Attained Its Precedence In
Our History.


In very early times, when March 3
was supposed to be the last day to
which Congress could extend itself in
the odd year with propriety, it would
occasionally be found hard at work a.
the 81 passed into the 4th. AS the 4th
of March is the day for the Inaugural
tion of the Executive Department Of
the Government of the United States,
that date has become the first in this
nation. 1t was fixed upon in 1888 by
the Continental Congress, which ON the
18th of September adopted the follow
ing resolve, preceded by preamble
which set forth in order the reason for
the action of that Congress at that
time: THAT the first Wednesday in
January next be the day for appointing
electors in several States which before
the said day shall have ratified the con-
stitution, that the first Wednesday in
February next be the day for the elect
ors to assemble in their respective
States and vote for a President, and
that the first Wednesday in March next
be the time, and the present seat of
Congress New York; the place, for
commencing the proceedings under the
said constitutions. The first Wednes
day in March, 1889, fell on the 4th of
March, and hence the precedence of
that day in our history under the con-
stitution. 1t was not till the 30th of
April, 1889, however, that Washington
became President, owing to various Cir
cumstances; but in 1893, when he en-
tered upon his second Presidential
term, he was inaugurated on the 4th of
March.
Our century of Presidents will be
completed on the 4th of March, 1889,
and the President to complete it will
be chosen in 1889, ii we shall insist
that the work be done by newly
chosen President. Properly, we should
say, the man who shall go out in 1889
will be the completing Chief Magistrate
IF this nation, as will regard the first
century Of the nations constitutional
life. 1t will be soon enough to discuss
the matter almost six years hence. Pos
sibly the Both of April, 1889, the Tooth
anniversary of Washington's first inau-
guration as President of the United
States, would be selected as the most
fitting day on which to have national
celebration of the beginning of our ca
reer as people with a fixed govern
ment of limited powers, and with the
principles of liberty admitted in every
wsy-saYe where the colored race were
concerned.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.

TIE Senate, at its session on April y,
passed House bills relating 10 telephone com
panies and 10 regulate the use and rental OF tel
ephones I'm the State; TO amend an act 20 pre-
scfibe the manner OF selling leasehOld interest in
lands on execution; also senate Dill 10 amen, ,i.
ing 10 the ca ablishmcnt opening, improvement
and maintenance of highways and private roads,
and the building, repairing, and preservation OF
bridges within the State. The House passed no
bills.
The Senate passed Senate bills on Tues
day, April ~ 10 amend an act to provide tor the
ascertaining and giving notice of title TO tho
lands of the heirs OF deceased persons: making
appropriation for an additional boiler at the
Eastern Insane Asylum, and making appropria-
ton for the STATE Pioneer Soci ty. the House
passed House bills To amend an act relating to
public instruction; requiring mutual insurance
companies doing business in this State 70
make yearly schedule or circular of itemized
reports Co each member thereof residing in this
State OF moneys received and discussed and
from what source received and for what purpose
disbursed, and TO amend an act to revise the
laws relating TO publ instruction and public
schools. The House spent all the after
noon IN a fierce wrangls over the disposition
of a House bill for the incorpora ION OF cities
and villages 20 which n local-option amendment
tackled In the Senate, and in which the
House unanimously concurred through ignor
ance or the Senate amendment. The temper
ance men were victorious at every point. The
bill has been signed by the Governor, but was
returned to the House at his request Temper
ance men claim it is already law and subject
to no further action.
In the Senate the joint resolution propos-
Ing prohibitory amendment being under con-
sideration on Wednesday. April IS, two substi-
tutes were offered in terms the same a. those
adopted in Ohio-one for prohibition and the
other for taxation of the liquor traffic. but they
were lost-yeas, IL; nays, II. The resolution
was then placed on its final passage and lost
yeas, 20; nays, ll-not two-thirds. The Senate
passed the House bill providing that two
terms of court for the county of Ingham shall be
held I'm the city OF Lansing In the House the joint
resolution proposing prohbitory amendment
was placed on the order OF third reading. The
Governors request that was suppressed yester-
day, asking the return to him OF the local option
act, was complied with, and the act IA now on
file in the office of the Secretary OF State, which
is a victory for the temperance people, and all
the villages ia Michigan can have local option
for the next two years at least.
THE House passed the following bills on
Friday. April 81 Appropriaong $1,000 for the
Agricultural College and $135, 800 for the Deaf
and Dumb Institute and the bill TO punish for
placing on record bogus conveyances of real
estate; Senate bill No G5, relating to executions
ON Judgments in courts OF record, and Senate
bill No. l4l requiring the Clerk OF the Supreme
Court to give bonds. The Legislature ad-
iOurned until Monday evening.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

through tho head in his Office. has
history. A New York correspondent
writes: In Connecticut, when the war
broke out, Morse's voice was loudly
heard on the side of the Rebellion
through editorials in his newspaper,
the Bridgeport Farmer. He ridiculed
he Union army for its defeat ut Bull
Run, likening its soldiers to frightened
towards running away from heroes de-
Tending their homes and their rights.
1 remember Morse's career well. He
presided at the peace meetings, pulled
up the white flags, and advised his
hearers to fight the enlistment officers
of the tyrant Lincoln. He called a
country peace meeting at Stepney,
which, 1 remember we'll, raised great
white flag, and was on the platform
speaking in behalf of "the cause of the
South" when hundred or two Bridge
port boys under command of P. Il.
Barnum appeared over the hill with
Union flags flying. Morse and his COM
patriots fled to On adjoining corn-feld,
where they drew their arms and
made sally to retake the platform.
Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing ma
chine, who was on the platform, shout
ed: IF they fire gun, boys burn
this town, and I'll pay the Union mems
damages" There was no fight. Morse
retreated to his Bridgeport Office and
was writing an editorial about
the outrage perpetrated on peace
loving citizens, when he heard an
angry shout on the street, and, looking
out, saw several hundred of Lincoln's
hirelings making for the office in state
of high excitement. He fled to the
roof and escaped by adjoining build
ings, while the crowd entered, threw
the type and fixtures in the street, and
broke the presses with sledge-hammers.
Two hundred clubs for defense were
found in an adjoining room. Morse,
hooted at and grossly insulted where
ever he appeared on the street, shortly
fled to Washington, and escaped thence
across the Potomac and James to the
land of his choice, becoming the editor
of a paper in Augusta, Ca, which he
published during the war, raising no
more peace flags, but repeatedly calling
on the Confederate hosts to rally"
He raised considerable cotton, and was
about selling it when the Unsuitable
Sherman came along and burnt it up.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
Divorce In California.

Californians rejoice in the fact that
there are no statistics of divorce for the
State at large, so that whatever the
sins of their people in that direction
the figures cannot conveniently be
quoted against them. San Francisco,
however, is an exception to this rule.
In the last three years the divorces in
that city were as follows: In 1880, the
DEGREES were 1913; in 1881 the divorces
were 364, while in 1882 the total was
two greater than in 1881. Leaving the
Chinese out of the account, one divorce
for every 600 inhabitants was granted
in the year last ment oned in San
Francisco, which has thus O worse
record than Chicago or st. Louis. 1t is
paper of San Francisco which admits
that, while Maine has bad reputation
for divorces, the average in that State
is one to $40 inhabitants, a much better
showing than San Francisco. Connect
icut, too, comes out we'll in the compar-
ison, having, proportionately, only one
third as many divorces as the Califor-
MAN city. Less than 10 per cent. OF
the San Francisco divorces last year
were for the scriptural reason, and
nearly SO per cent. we're for desertion,
failure to support the wife, and neglect.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

For the week ending April Il, 1888,
the reports indicate that influenza, con-
sumption and whooping cough in
creased, and inflammation of the brain
and diarrhea decreased in area of preva-
lance.
AT the State Capitol the prevailing
winds, during the week ending April
81, 1888, were southeast and southwest;
and, compared with the preceding week,
the temperature was lower, the day and
night ozone more, and the absolute and
relative humidity less.
Including reports by regular observ-
ers and by others, diphtheria was re-
ported present during the week ending
April 81, and since, at thirteen places,
scarlet fever at eighteen places and
measles at twenty-five places.
Four case of measles came with i'm
migrants arriving at Port Huron, April
20. HENRY b. BAKER, Sec'y.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
MINOR NOTES.

Go1D has been discovered in Alachua coun-
ty, Fla
LAND in Hot Springs. Ark, recently
brought SAP per front foot
OVER EXERCISE on roller skates has killed
four ambitious Louisville girls
THE hat for general wear will continue "a
be q black, blue or brown Derby of medium
height, with slightly wider brim and binding
A MEXICAN woman residing in st John,
Apache county, Arizona is said to be IL;
years Old She is childish, and viii Y T
cake and candy like a child.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
DIR. Wayland's Decision.

The late DIR. Wayland, the we'll
known President of the Brown Univers-
ity, was noted for his fatherly ways with
the students. A former pupil tells this
anecdote of his teacher, which shows
that the doctor possessed one paternal
trait, decision.
When 1 was Sophomore, my chum,
Junior, was going out of town to
preach. strongly desired to go with
him that L might hear his sermon, and
told him so.
"Well," said he, "all right; glad to
have you come, but L don't believe
Prex'll let you off, For it was rule
that who ever wished to leave town
must get the Presidents permission.
"I'll try anyway" said 1, and de-
scended to the Presidents office.
Knocking, / was saluted with high
keyed "Come in!' and found myself in
the awful presence.
1t was evening and the doctor sat at
his desk writing, with a green shade
over his eyes. AS he looked up inquir-
ingly, began:
Doctor, III called to see, err
if ! could leave town for day or two?"
well, ahem Sick, my SOM"
"No sir-but"-
well, you can't go!" and the doctor
resumed his writing, and went out
knowing 1 couldn't.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

WHATEVER may have been Shaks-
peare's own religious beliefs land some
of his critics have doubted whether he
had any he respected the outward OBJ
servances of the church. When his
brother Edmund was buried in st. Saw
ior's. Southwark, the poet paid 20 shil-
lings for forenoon knell of the great
bell, and some years later there is the
following entry in the Stratford cham
berlain's accounts: item: for one
quart of sack and one quart of claret
wine, given to the preacher at the New
Place, Xxx d." But the good that
the poet has done for the material in
terests of the clergy has by no no means
been Entered with his bones" On
the contrary, it appears, from dispute
now pending between the Vicar of
Standardization and the corporation,
that the proceeds of 6-pence toll lev
led on oil pilgrims to Shakspeare's
tomb are devoted to paying the stipends
of the curates. The corporation are
the lay rectors, and as such have rights
over the chancel, where the poet is
buried; and they have now determined
TO insist that, if the charge is continued
at all, the proceeds shall only be spent
on the fabric Of the church.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

TABOR says he shall soon start q
newspaper of his own in Colorado "tc
get even with the low-lived press" OF
the State. He also talks about the
election of successor to Senator Hill
as if he might himself be q candidate,
and assures the world that his last
winters campaign and thirty-days SER
vice cost him but $4,000, instead Of
$500, 900, as reported.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

Col. COLE, once the great railroad
king in the South, is living retired
life of Nashville. He is said to have
softening of the brain, and cannot live
long. Mr.. III. Victor Newcomb, once
the railroad Napoleon of the South, and
the most formidable antagonist of Mr..
Cole, is living in New York in life of
retirement, though almost blind, and
with no possible hope of recovery.
Four years ago their names were waited
on every breeze that came from the
land of sun. To-day they are almost
forgotten, and tomorrow they may be
dead.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

AT q Methodist conference in New
York, recently, city clergyman took
occasion to warn his rural brethren
against confidence men, who were
lying in wait for the unsuspecting in
the Book Concern building and at the
doors of the church. The speaker said
he had happened along just in time to
prevent country clergyman from sign
ing q check for q sharper.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

A WOMAN in Medina, Ohio, has been
coughing more or less for nineteen
years, when one day, not long ago, she
fell down stairs. Up to the time OF
that accident the doctors were per-
suaded that she had the consumption.
But when she picked herself up after
the fall she coughed up shirt-button,
and since then has been cured woman
cured of the consumption.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

The old wagon in which John Brown
used to carry runaway negroes from
Missouri, and which carried arms for
his men at Harper's Ferry, belongs to
81. s. Fairall, of Iowa City.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
Health i'm 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 q. 1855, as follows:
Number of observers heard from, So
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

AT q masked ball in Berlin not long
ago certain young gentleman was quite
fascinated with the grace and converse
ton of q closely-masked incognita, and
at last begged for the privilege of con-
tinuing the acquaintance elsewhere.
The lady agreed, and designated piano
concert the next evening as the rendez-
vous, telling him to be in one of the
front rows. Soon afterward he over
heard her whisper to an elderly lady
"Such luck! have given rendezvous
to fifty different gentlemen at my con-
cert tomorrow night. Fifty reserved
seats will more than pay my expenses,
and every one else who comes in is clear
gain!"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

ALMOST all women will give q sympa-
thizing hearing to men who are in love.
Be they ever so old they grow young
again in that conversation, and renew
their own early time. Men are not quite
so generous.-Thdckerdy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

In the United States last year there
were published 3,472 books, of which
767 were fiction, 326 theological and re-
hgious, 27S were juvenile and 278 were
on law. The fewest number, twenty
one, were on mental and moral philoso-
nhy
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
JOHN G.. WHITTIER thinks that the

JOHN G.. WHITTIER thinks that the
old Indian policy of reservations is no
longer available. "The Western tide
OF immigration" he writes, "is every
where sweeping over the lines. What
is needed" he adds, "is that not only
She Indian schools should be more
literally supported, but that new ones
should be opened without delay. The
matter does not admit of procrastina'
Gon."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

The British sovereign has an alb
solute right to control the custody and
education of all the branches of the
royal family of England during their
minority. This was laid down in the
reign of George H., when all the
Judges signed an opinion that, by vir-
tue of the provocative, this claim on
the part of the King could not be OPP
posed. Mr.. Greville relates in his
"Memoirs" how George ~, anxious to
annoy the Duchess of Kent and Prince
Leopold (afterward King of the Bel
gians), entertained the notion of taking
the Princess Victoria from her mothers
care, but tho Duke of Wellington in
duced him to abandon the project.
LII. Z. % u..a...-... e Ii ...l..o1.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

He who is the most slow in making n
promise is the most faithful in the per-
Torrance of it.-RouSsedu.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

The reigning beauty of Ireland is q
Belfast mill girl. Crowds surround the
mill daily to see her as she takes her
departure.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

Mr.. N. s. MORSE, manager of the
New York Daily Ne,os, who committed
suicide recently by shooting himself
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

A YOUNGER brother of John Brown
Is to be Queen Victoria's personal
servant
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

4 OUR Dominion neighbors are talking
OF restricting Chinese immigration.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

SHEET-rBoN nail kegs are something
new.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04

BAD taste is species of bad morals.
-Bopee.
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1883-05-12

Woman, in reading newspaper,
has distinct method of her oYn.
She takes it up hufriedly and begins
to scan it over rapidly, as though
she was hunting some particular
thing, but she is not. She is merely
taking in the obscure paragraphs,
which she believes. was put in out
Of the way places for the sake of
keeping her from seeing them.
Marriages and dea;hs are always in-,
teresliug reading to her, and the
advertisements are exciting and
stimulating. She cares but little
for printed jokes unless they reflect
ridicule upon the men, and then
she delightsin them, and never for
gets them. She pays Particular at
tenlion to anything lnclosed in
quotations, and considers it rather
better authority than anything first
handed, The column in which the
editor airs his opinions, in loaded
hifaIuun, she rarely reads. Views
are Of no Importance in her esti,
nation, but makes a practice Of
reading it because she thinks she
oaght to do 50. She reads stories
and sketches and paragraphs indis
criminately, and believes every
word Of them. After she reads all
she wants she lays the paper down
with an air Of Disappointment as
she observes that "there is nothing
ia it,"