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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-06

The trouble with picking cotton by
machinery is not found in the machines
themselves, but with the condition OF
the plant. The bolls do not all Iipen
at the same time. The ripening pro-
cess goes on during several weeks. To
prevent wastage it il necessary to pick
the bolls as fast as they become matured.
A delay of few days often subjects
the ripe cotton to injury by rain and
winds. The machines that have been
experimental with gather the cotton
from the ripe bolls we'll enough, but
they tear open those that are not
mature. A machine that will gather
the ripe bolls and not iniure those that
are not mature would be great sue
cess. Such q machine would revolu-
tioniZe cotton production in few
years. 1t would be almost as valuable
as the cotton gin. By judicious selec-
ton of seed it may be possible to pro-
duce flowers that will mature at the
same period. Could this be accom-
plished the success of the machines
that have heretofore been experimental
with would be assured. At present the
expense of picking cotton greatly re-
duces the profit
A "sPY" went on Sunday to hotel ut
Newton, CT, and persuaded the pro-
prietor to sell him liquor. The pro-
prietor was arrested, but when the trial
came on the doors of the courtroom
were found to be locked and the keys
missing. The court was thereupon held
on the front steps of the Town hall, but
the "spy," who was the chief witness,
was found missing. The court adj
journed for dinner But the hotels
were all closed to the prosecuting law
yers and witnesses, and nothing could
be had but some crackers and cheese
which one of the defendants had bought.
Public opinion seemed opposed to the
idea of hiring somebody from another
town to come in and break the law in
order to secure evidence against the To-
cal hotel proprietors The people be-
lieve in home industry and in produc-
ing their own spies. Therefore they
wouldn't allow the foreign one to be
produced at the trial.
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DOES THE MIss1ssIppI RUN UP H1Llq

The erroneous notion that the Missis-
sippi river is actually higher at the
mouth than at its source has obtained
a general belief among intelligent
people. This notion grows out of the
fact that the earth is not perfect
globe, its diameter at the equator being
a little more than twenty-six miles
greater than the diameter from pole to
pole. A mathematical calculation
shows that the average distance from
the center of the earth to its surface on
the parallel of Balize, at the mouth of
the Mississippi, is nearly two miles
greater than the average distance from
the center of the earth to its surface on
the parallel of Lake Itasca, the source
of the Mississippi. But it does not fol-
low that the surface of the Mississippi
at its mouth is two miles higher than
Lake Itaska. Actual survey has dem
onstrated that it is not so; but, on the
contrary, that Lake Itaska is l, ,575 feet,
or thereabouts, above sea level. The
rapid revolution of the earth on its
axis, at the rate of 1000 miles an hour,
causes the waters of the earth to flow
from the poles to the equator and re-
main at a general surface height OF
about thirteen miles more from the
center of the earth than the surface at
either pole. So long as the earth main
tains its present rate of daily revolu-
ton The level of the Gulf of Mexico is
likely to be kept lower than the source
of the Mississippi, but it is easy to un-
derstand that should this diurnal rota-
ton cease, the ocean would recede from
the equator toward the poles, and not
only would the waters of the Gulf Of
Mexico rise higher than the source oi
the Mississippi, but all North America
except the portions nearest the equator
would be submerged. At present the
earth's rotation on its axis serves as ;
thoroughly effectual centrifugal pump
to drain the United States and enable
Uncle Sam to give every one Of hi
boys who will cultivate it farm. Chi
cdgO Inter Ocean.
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The Motor Management Pronounced
BlomefeSs by the Coroner's Jury-The
accident Resulted from the Horse Being
PuIIed AcToSS the Track, Combined trith
the 4ttempt of the Deceased to Jump from
the Carriage.
The jury in the Chitty inquest met yes
terday at the residence of Mr.. Philbrook,
University avenue, to take the evidence of
Miss Philbrook, who was with Miss Nellie
Chitty in the carriage on the evening of the
accident. Dolly Philbrook, on oath, testi-
fed substantially as follows:
Was in the carriage on the evening of
the accident; we drove off Seventh street
on to First avenue; we were laughing and
talking, and the horse was going slow; first
saw the motor when we were twice the
length of the horse and buggy away; the
horse stopped when about one length of the
horse and buggy away; stopped still and
didn't appear to be frightened; only prickea
up his ears; Nellie and screamed, and the
horse turned partially around; the motor
struck the side of the buggy and that
threw Nellie out; the buggy tipped and
that threw me over to the driver, we were
dragged some distance; neither Nellie nor
took hold of the lines, but I believe I put
one hand on PALMS shoulder; Nellie fell
out in front and to one side of the motor;
l am positive she did not jump out of the
buggy; she was taken out from under the
first car next the engine; after being ta
ken out the only remark she made was at
the house, where she said, "Is that you,
Palm?" didn't tell Palm the accident
wouldn't have occurred if he had not driv-
en- there.
W. W. Allen, recalled, testified as to how
the accident occurred, and then the jury
retired and rendered the following YER
dict:
That in our opinion the accident was
caused by the horse being pulled across
the track; and we believe further that Mel
lie Chitty met her death in attempting to
| jump from the carriage; we further believe
that the motor was running at slow rate
of speed and instantly stopped as soon as
it became apparent that there was danger
of an accident, and that no blame attaches
to the management of the road or any Of
its employees.
This verdict is in accordance with the
testimony of the various witnesses exam
in ed in the case and is complete vindi-
cation of the management of the motol
line. 1t may be said supplementary t.
this, that Col. McCrary has acted yer,
generously in paying the expenses of th
burial of Miss Chitty, together with tn
travelling expenses of her mother from
Duluth and back to that city.
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just like that. The dial plate is the
sky, and the marks upon the dial plate
are the stars. That one hand is the
moon, and the sailor has the means of
telling the exact Greenwich time by
that clock by simply noticing the exact
position of the moon among the stars.
There is published in London won
derful almanac, called the Nautical
Almanac" which is published every
year five years in advance, and in that
almanac there is laid down the exact
Greenwich mean time for every possible
position of the moon among the stars.
Consequently, all that the sailor has to
do is to find out the exact position of
the moon among the stars and to turn
to his Nautical Almanac" and having
found that position against it he will
see marked the exact Greenwich time.
That is what is called the lunary theory
of finding the longitude. I don't know
of anybody else ever having attempted
to make that most abstruse subject
clear to popular audience. .--Dat1amd11,
IN Talks about Science.
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COLD WINTERS,

The following statistics of the good
winters are curious: In 401, the Black
sea was frozen over. In 76S, not only
the Black sea, but the straits of the
Dardanelles, was frozen ever; the snow
in some places rose fifty feet high. In
S62, the great rivers of Europe-the
Danube, the Elbe, etc.-were so hard
frozen as to bear heavy wagons for a
month. In 1860, the Adriatic was
frozen. In 991, everything was frozen ;
the crops totally failed, and famine and
pestilence closed the year. In 1867,
the most of the travellers in Germany
were frozen to death on the roads. In
1133, the Po was frozen from Cremona
to the sea; the wine casks were burst,
and even the trees split by the action
of the frost with immense noise. In
1886, the Danube was frozen to the
bottom, and remained long in that
state. In 1916, the crops wholly failed
in Germany; wheat, which some years
before sold in England at 6 shillings
the quarter, rose to 60. In 1889, the
crops failed in Scotland, and such a
famine ensUed that the poor were re-
duced to feed on grass, and many per-
ished miserably in the fields. The sue
cessive winters of 1882 '3333- -'334 were un-
commonly severe. It once showed forty
days without interruption. In 1913, the
wine distributed to the soldiers in Elan
ders was cut with hatchets. In 1854,
the winter was excessively cold Most
of the hollies were killed. Coaches
drove along the Thames, the ice OF
which was eleven inches thick. In
1909 occurred the cold winter. The
frosts penetrated three yards into the
ground. In 1716, booths were erected
and fairs held on the Thames. In 1744
and 1745 the strongest ale in England
exposed to the air was covered in less
than fifteen minutes with ice an eighth
of an inch thick. In 1909. and again in
1912, the winters were remarkably cold.
In 1914 there was fair on the frozen
Thames Scientific American.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
TIE CLOCK IN THE SKY.

You will thus see that had you got
clock which always kept good time,
and could carry that with you, you
could always tell your longitude by
looking at the stars or sun, and com
pairing Greenwich time with their time
Unfortunately, clocks and chronome-
ters, although constructed on most ap-
proved principles, and very wonderful
machines, will not keep right for very
long together; consequently, on long
voyage, the chronometer, however well
1t may behave when it is always in the
same temperature, will invariably get
out OF order; you cannot, therefore,
trust to your chronometer. There is
clock that you can trust, however.
When you look at an ordinary clock
you see that it consists of a dial on
which are marked certain figures, and
that from the center two hands move
round it. But .supposing, instead OF
having such clock as that, you had
one with the marks put on, not at.regu,
lar distances, but anywhere, and in
stead Of having two hands It mad only
one, which, instead of going regularly
round the dial, simply wandered about
In a peculiar manner. now over one
dot, now. over another, with the
most irregular motion, you would say
you had very bad clock, and that the
man who made. that clock ought never
to make another. Very true; but sup
posing it was the only clock you had
and you could not possibly get another.
you would set to work to learn ito
learn what was the exact time for every
possible position of that one hand over
and among the various marks on the
dial Well. sailors have got clock
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
NIINNEAPOLIS PERSONALS.

Col. McCrory betrayed the expenses of
Nellie Chitty's burial and also the ex-
penses Of her afflicted mother, who came
here from Duluth.
John Fewer was not robbed of a watch
and chain in a second street saloon as
stated in yesterdays papers. The gentle
man resides in south Minneapolis and does
not frequent places where robberies are
committed.
A. G. Jordan, managing editor of the
Journal, had his right eye removed yester-
day by DR.. Graham, the oculi5t. Mr.. Jor-
dams eye was injured when he was quite
young and to preserve the other eye this
operation was deemed necessary.
Julius Crosse has returned from New
York city, where he went with his family
who sailed for London on the 22d instant.
Mr.. Crosse will join his family in London
early In the spring, when they will accom-
pany him to Germany. He declares that
since leaving Minneapolis he has not seen
any city that showed such hustle and
activity.
Prof. VIM. McAdams, member eff the
A, A. A. S., who exhibited remains of e1-
tinct animals during the late session of the
$G cience association in this city has been
.excavating mounds through Dakota and
scGiled at the GLOBE Office yesterday to tell
OF his success. Along the Elm river which
is branch of the Jim river he. unearthed
pavements made of the leg bones of buf-
falos with buffalo heads on top of them
he also exhumed stone implements of
Indian manufacture. He visited six
Anounds that were from eight to ten feet
nigh and fifty feet across the base. He
GhiREs they are of recent origin and alto
gether different from any to.be found else
whs-e- Prof. McAdams is connected with
Ghe SSete geological survey of Illinois and
IA az enthusiastic scientist.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
Minneapolis Markets.

The following were the receipts and
shipments at and from Minneapolis yes
terday:
Receipts-Wheat 1880 bushels; corn
1000 bushels; lumber 10000 feet; mill
stuff II tons; hay 80 tons; coal 5O3 tons;
barrel stock cars; wood SO cords.
Shipments $3.50 barrels; wheat
5000 bus. oats 800 us;mill stuffs III tons;
lumber 100000 feet; coal 80 tons; wood &c
cords; barrel stock 1 car.
Grain Inspection-The inspection of
grain at this point to-day is as follows:
Wheat, No. hard IA cars; No. hard 3
car; No. regular IL cars; No. regular
IL cars; No. 3 regular, 10 cars; condemned
5 cars; rejected, car. Oats-No 2, cars.
Total number of cars inspected 81.
Wheat-Market quiet aud weak and
prices 11ac lower than on the day previous,
basing estimates on No. hard. The,e was
somewhat more activity than on Wednes-
day, and fair number of sample cars
changed hands. The bidding was more
for year wheat-No.1 hard-than for any
other future. The market closed with
$1.O4 bid and $1.05 asked. $1.05 was bid
for seller December and not found at that.
Among the sample sales we're 3 cars old at
$1.09, 3 cars No, new $1.09, car old SOC,
car No. new choice $1.04, car old ST.
10, Is cars on private terms, 1 car 1 hard
| old 81. 13, car old 90c, car No. new
with transit $1.01, car No. old $1.O6.
When not otherwise stated quotations are
sin store' and Swlthout transit"
FLoUR-Steady, with fair demand for
upper grades and an active demand for
the lower. Quotations: Patents, $6.25@7;
straights, $5.50@6; clears, 81. .75@5.5O;
low grades, $2.5O@3.25. The feeling was
| not so strong.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
first board o. directors, and the officers of
the corporation consist of president, vice
iseaI Estate Transfers.

The following are the principal real es-
tate transfers filed yesterday:
Eben Howe to George HUM, property
Cd Third and Lyndale avenues, $1,650.
Alice Amelia Todd, part of lot 6, block
8, in Mattison's second addition, $4,000
Elizabeth E. Beach, to Isaac II. Board
man, lots 10 and 20 in block SO of Grove
land addition, $4,000.
Robert G. Kalkhoff to Frederick T. Peet
lot and part of lot IL in block 80 of
Murphy's addition. $4,000.
Lonis Nedin to Levering Uolgate, lot 3
in block 6 of Morrison & Lovejoy's
addition, $4,000,
Frederick T. Peet to Robert G. Kalkhoff
lots and 2 in block Washington Yale
addition, $500.
Philo Remington to Louis f. Menage
lot II in block SO of Calhoun Park, and
lots l, ., Is and IA in block 81, Reming
toms second addition to Minneapolis, 81,
$50.
John E. Starr to Daniel Chase, land in
section &c, town 30, range "a, $3,500.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
A LOOK ,4HEAD.

@The press" says Chambers Jour
nal, "is every year becoming greater
power in the land it is already one of
the greatest resources of civilization, ,
and might as soon try toget along
without steam or railways, or the post
Office, as without our newspaper. II
we must have newspapers, we must
have editors to direct them, and the
editors must march with or in advance
of the times. There is therefore good
reason to hope that better things are in
store for the coming generation of Jour
nalists than there have been for those
that are gone, and that on the news
paper press the best talent, the matur-
stludgment and the most cultivated
taste will yet find congenial and appro-
pirate work"
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
Nety CORPORATION.

Articles of incorporation Of the Cabinet
Consolidated Mining company were filed
yesterday with the register of deeds. The
business of the corporation shall be mining
and milling and dealing in mining and
milling property. The capital stock shall
be 81, 900, divided into 100000 shares
of $14 each. The principal place of busi-
ness shall be Minneapolis, and the compa-
ny shall also establish an Office at Socsrro,
New Mexico. The amount OF Indebtedness
at any time shall not exceed 800 above
the cash in the treasurer's hands, except as
provided in the general laws of this state
for the year 1881.
The names of the persons forming the
corporation and the places of residence
are as follows: Joseph G. Howard and
John A. Leach, Minneapolis; Charles C.
Hughs, Chicago; Daniel B. Burdett, Fargo;
Eugene G. Stewart, Winona; John F. Reed
and William G. Tonkin, Socorro, New Mex
leo. The above named persons form the
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
M1tnicipGL Court.
| Before Judge Bailey.I


Catherine Kelley, drunkenness; sentence
suspended.
Thomas Durham, disorderly conduct;
continued till ?. N. to-day and defendant
goes on his own recogn;zance.
&c. P. Russell, concealed in house with
intent to do mischief; sentence suspended.
John Bessenger, obstructing streets; paid
fine Of s. and costs making total of $500.
Fred H. Johnson, obtaining money under
false pretenses; dismissed by request of
prosecuting witness on payment 81 IS
costs.
Thomas Mortons larceny from the per-
son of E. j. Aver; examination on Sept. 4
at 8 a. m.
Charles II. Ogburn, embezzlement;
bound over to grand jury in $500 bail
which prisoner furnished.
Claude Adams, keeping house of ILL
fame; paid q fine of $50 and costs.
Mary Clark, frankie King, Maggie
Smith, Anna Rockwell, Willie Logan,
Minnie Gray, Jennie Jones, Kitty Brown,
Jennie Clark, Emma Wood and Ma ry
White, occupying tments in house of
i'll fame; paid fin g SO and costs
aach
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
TIE PROOF-READER.

a journal III the North OF England
recently contained the following cor
rection: "We have to thank the intel
igent proof-reader for the necessity
which compels us to make this state
ment. In our editorial yesterday on
Irish affairs we were made to say, The
Government police should be hanged
whereas we wrote: 'The Government
policy should be changed"
That is the editors side of the ques-
tion, and the unfortunate proof-reader
never gets a chance to put in a word of
defense, although he now and then has
apartner in taking the blame--4he Sin
telligent" compositor. The proof-reader
is patient person, with green shade
over his eyes, who must know a little Of
everything and who is the only man on
earth who reads all that appears m a
paper. On daily paper there are, OF
course, several of him, and collec-
lively he reads every word Of
every issue of the journal he is
connected with. This, of itself, ought to
excite pity for him. Yet the proof
reader is sworn at and reviled more
than any other attache of the paper.
The proof-reader has an assistant called
the copy-holder, if [ remember rightly.
I don't know whether the copy-holdeF
is used all the time, or only when there
isn't a great pressure Of work, or, per-
haps, in some particular state of the
proof or the revise; but, anyhow the
copy-holder as a general thing smokes
and interjects a word now and then, as
he follows the reader on the copy which
he holds, the reader reading from a
long printed slip. If any writer on a
paper has little too much self-conceit
about what he scribbles, he is sent up
to hear the proof-reader go over his az
ticle, and that forever takes the vanity
out of him. The proof-reader reads
the funniest paragraphs with the same
monotonous, unaffected, inappreciative
tone that he uses on the market reports
or the advertisements, the copy-holder
finging in a remark now and then.
Thus:
Proof-reader.-"A Justice of the
place"
Copy-holder.-"Peace."
P.-R.-"Peace in the interior of Mich
igan had chase before"
C.-H-"Case."
P.-R.-"Case before him seven days
a"
CHI" Some"
P.-R.-"Some days ago in which the
defendant, who had been arrested as a
sumptous-"
CHI Suspicious"
PR" Suspicious character" etc.
The youthful journalist who imagines
the world revolves around the articles
he writes is the only one that climbs up
| two steps at time to demand the head
of the proof-reader on charger. When
person can view with equanimity a
typographical error in his own article,
he is considered as having served his
apprenticeship in journalism. Still,
some people never get over their desire
to murder the proof-reader, but then
there are persons who always want to
blame somebody anyhow, and a proof
reader seems to. be more able to stand
it than any one else.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
DR.. Al. DEXTER
ELECTRO O-BIOLOGIST,

L
and MAGNETIC PHYSICIAN.
Cures all diseases, speedily and permanently.
Has effected large number of miraculous cures
in this city and ST. Paul Read the names of a
few of those who have been cured. Can furnish
names of hundreds of parties cured in this ard
other states. No testimonials or afhdavits pub
ished without the parties CONSENT George P.
Wallihan, commercial editor Pioneer Press, kid
ney disease; l.. Swift, Jr., cashier Minneapolis
Tribune company, sprained ankle, on crutches,
cured by two treatments; A. g. Jordan, manag-
ing editor Evening Journal, rheumatism, cured
in two treatments; c. H. Langworthy, of the
firm of Drury, FELTON, & Co., 1912 Third avenue,
rheumati>m m and kidney disease for thirty years,
cured in ten days; Ed. A. Stevens, late clerk of
municipal court, cured of rheumatism in three
days; Judge Flanagan of this CITY, cured of
rheumatism In ne treatment; Charles McWhee-
ney, Nicollet house, cured of deafness in one
treatment; c. H. HoSt, contractor and builder.
1913 Park avenue, cured of kidney and liver
complaint in three weeks; Ernest G Love, SAG
Robert street. s.. Paul, cured of general debility
and rheumatism in two treatments; August Mo
dry, 16 South First street, kidney and heart dis
ease, cured in two weeks; Thomas Goudie, Wash
burn G mill, rheumatism for Dire years. cured
in one week; J. Bingham, kidney and Theuma-
tism, cured IN two weeks; j. W. Warriner, st.
Paul, general agent for Michael Mcnamara, var
nlsh, Detroit, Mich, rheumatism, cured In three
days; R. H. Broat, 405 Hennepin avenue rOHth,
loan broker and real estate dealer, cured Of rheu-
matism in two days; numerous testimonials
from ladies cured, on exhibition at the Office.
See the Diamond Mccall, on exhibition at Harry
Legg's jewelry store, presented to the doctor by
patients cured.
Especial attention psid to chronic diseases and
cases given up by regular practitioners; also dis
eases of women and children. Patients at dis
tance treated by mail wherever practicable.
Consultation free. Send for copy of ''The
Magnetic Journal;' sent free.
OFFICE-SYNDICATE BLOCK, Rooms and 5.
Residence, NrooLIET HOUSE, Minneapolis, MINI.
OFFICE HOURS: a. N. to / p. M, to $50 pm.
Open during the evening only from to 8
o'' lock, and on Sundays from a. IN. to { p. m,
nnlv. Office on second floor, at head of stairs.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31

When tribe of Bedouins goes our to
fight it is their custom to place one or
two young maidens on the best horses
at the front. These dusky Amazons
encourage the desert cavaliers by their
cries and gestures, and plunge into the
thick of the fight. Wherever the dam
sels lead the Arab chiyalry follows, but
if they are killed or captured their fol
lowers lose heart and retreat.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
THE COURTS,
District COfI1.t.
NEW CASES AND PAPERS FILED

NEW CASES AND PAPERS FILED.
Nettle G. Pickett vs. Charles H. Rome ct
al; complaint filed.
A. P. Poapa, respondent, vs.. Thomas
Rae, appellant; return of appeal from
justice court. Bond on appeal and JUS
tice's certificate filed.
Bradner Smith Paper Co. vs.. Samuel N.
Halliday; writ Of attachment issued to the
sheriff of Ramsey county.
Daily globe., 1883-08-31
4GsrLnils .Icci1Ient.

The driver of Volunteer" William
Beach, was seriously injured on the fair
ground yesterday. Pe was thrown from
mis- sulky right under the horse, whose hind
feet struck him, one on the face, disfgur-
ing it very much, and the other on the
right arm, bruising it considerably. The
injured man was conveyed to his residence,
323 Twentieth avenue south. He is an
employe of George F. Jackson, the real
estate man