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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
seventh, inclusive:

This, it must be noted, is the record
of the House alone A like increase in
Senate bills and resolutions brought
the aggregate for the last Congress to
more than 10000; but for the present
purpose, that of showing the degree of
increase, the statistics of the House are
sufficient. But while the number of
bills and resolutions introduced into
Congress, the number of petitions and
circumstances favoring or opposing
them, and the number of reports of
committees have so greatly increased
in twenty years, it strangely happens
not only that the relative number of
bills passed has diminished, but even
the absolute number has of late fallen
off. This will appear from the follow
ing official summary for the Senate and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

THREE Of twelve prisoners In the Bay
County Jail are insane.
sHIAwAssEE COUNTY has i22 school districts,
which require Ia teachers.
THE new hospital of the State School at
Coldwater Is in running order.
OVER $4,000 worth of work Is already done
on the Saginaw Court House.
PETosKEY makes u good showing in Inn
provcments the past ycar-the total figures
up si52,7o7.
walked nine miles In ninety-four minutes on
n wager recently.
A LARGE number of corals, agates and other
curious geological formations are found in
the vicinity of Charlovoix.
EGGS are 10 scarce around Adrian that the
bakers are compelled TO send to Detroit to
procure them for their business.
In the Mutual Gas Works at Detroit, Au-
gust Heintz threw n bucket of naphtha over
Charles Re ch&a and the fluid catching fire,
Reschka was fatally burned.
TwENrY-sIx legislative acts, which consti-
tuted portion OF the legislation OF Michigan
during the year 1908, are missing. Nothing
is known OF how they disappeared.
THERE are 500 patients In the female de-
partment of the Michigan Asylum for the
Insane ut kalamazoo, and there has been
but one 6eath in the department in four
months.
ONE Conner, aged 10, q bag-opener In the
poetofice at Detroit, confessed that he ritled
5000 letters in the past six months, his OBJ
ject being TO secure enough money to marry
his sweetheart.
PATRICK BARRETT, Of Alpena, had his
tongue half bitten of. The accident hap
pened while loading logs, log striking him
in such manner as to catch the tongue be-
tween the teeth. The tongue was sewed to-
gether by the surgeons.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
For the week ending Feb. 2. 1891. the reports

For the week ending Feb. 2. 1884. the reports
indicate that consumption. erysipelas, and re-
mittent fever increased, and that diarrhea, in
termittent fever, typhoid fever, and typho-
malarial fever decreased in area OF prevalence.
At the State capital, the prevailing winds dur
ing the week ending Feb 2were northwest: and,
compared with the preceding week, the tempera-
ture was considerably higher, the absolute
humidity consid rably more, the relative hui
Nudity more, and the day and night ozone less.
Compared wi n the average for the month OF
January, In the preceding six years, neuralgia
was more prevalent, and diphtherta, rheuma-
tism, typho malarlal fever bronchitis, scarlet
fever, consumption, pneumonia, and remttent
fever were less prevalent In January, 1884
For the month of January. 1884, compared
with the average of corresponding months for
the six years ls79-lss4 the temperature was
considerably lower, the absolute humidity less,
the relative humidity more. the Jay ozone more,
and the night ozone the same.
Including reports by regular observers and
others, diphtheria was reported present during
the week ending Feb. 2, and since, at eighteen
places, namely: Utica, Arcadia, Bedding, De-
troit, East Saginaw, Flint. Grand Rapids,
Jersey. Hillsdsle, Linden, Worthwhile, Newaygo,
Owes o, Otsego, Pontiac, Ronald, pr.Rgfield.
Saginaw. Scarlet fever at thirteen places
Detroit, Grand Rapids. Hersey, Kalamazoo,
Lake View, Mason, Monroe, Orleans, Otisoo,
Roxana Saginaw. Salem, Sc. CLAIR. Measles at
seven placesTElk Rapids, Flint Township,
Monroe, North Adams, Owosso, Pontiac and
Saginaw. HENRY Ii. BAKER, Secretary.
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KILLED BY BANDITS.

Ex-senator Cooper, of Tennessee, Murdered
and Robbed in the Mexican Mountains.
dispatch from Culiacan, Mexioo.l
Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United
States Senator from Tennessee, was killed by
robbers near this city yesterday. No
further particulars. He was manager Of the
famous Polk silver mine, and left home in
Now mber with $50 900 in United STATES ex-
change 20 pay Off the debts of the concern
and start mill. Soon after his arrival In
Mexico no wrote back that he had struck very
rich ore, many pockets running to thousands
of do lars PER ton. and would start the mill as
soon "a supplies were received from Culiacan.
He was on his way there for that purpose
when killed. The mine Is high up In the
Sierra Madre Mountains and The country
between there and Culiacan is infested with
robl o q.
Judge Henry Cooper was elected United
States Senator from Tennessee AS a
Democrat defeating Andrew Johnson), to
succeed Jose h 5. Fowler, Union Republican,
and served from March 4, 1871, TO March 3,
1877.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

A JAPANESE correspondent of the
London Daily Ne,cs having assumed
that the Mikado was unpopular be-
cause he received no cheers while pass
ing through the streets in state on his
birthday, japanese gentleman writes
to explain that cheering would be re-
garded there rs disorderly. He fur
tier explains that the act of young
lady who wrapped up a piece of cake
and put il in her sleeve at the Foreign
Minister'S reception, is quite "good
form." and is accepted as an indication
of q high satisfaction which she wishes
to enable those at home to share.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

THE most recent authority on white
elephants, Mr.. Carl Book, tells us that
the sanctity of white elephant dates
from the earliest period of Buddhist
history. One of the proudest titles of
the King of Siam is Lord of the White
Elephant Not very long ago real
white elephant, who excelled all his
fellows in beauty, was brought into
Bangkok with all the pomp and cere-
mony Of an emperor. According to
Mr. Book, he was quite an albino, the
whole body being of pale reddish
brown color, with few white hairs on
the back. The IRIS of the eye, the
color of which is held to be good test
OF an albino was pale Naples yellow.
He was blessed and baptized in the
presence of the King and the nobility.
One of the high priests presented him
with piece of sugar cane, on which
was written the elephants name in full,
and which he very readily ate. The
following is translation OF his descrip-
ton, painted on a red tablet, hung over
one of the pillars of his STALL AN ele-
phant OF beautiful color; hair, nails
and eyes are white. Perfection in
form. with all signs Of regularity Of the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
CHIPS.

HOLMAN HUNT, the artist, believes that
Shaksreare's sonnets were addressed TO his
wife, Anne Hathaway.
DANIEL O'CoNNELL, the grandson of the
"Liberator," lives in London and bears a
striking resemblance TO his grandfather.
VENTILATED or perforated bedclothcs are
an English invention which will not prob
ably be adopted In this country before spring.
CANADA sleigh-riders keep warm by plac-
ing a common coal-oh lantern between the
feet and covering the lap with large blanket
Gait. RATH. who was Provost Marshal at
the time OF Lncoln's assassination and who
a. ecuted Mrs Surratt, Ia employed In the
railway mail service and Is stationed mt De.
troit.
JoE. ENNET's 5000 dog Rector, has since
his purchase cost his mater sl,bo0 in repairs
to n bill ard room which the animal occupied
ovor night, and In which every breakable
piece oil furniture was broken or otherwise
damaged by the Immense brute.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

BISHOP HUNTINGTON is out In an in
dictment of the public school system,
on the score of it, alleged inability, as
things are managed now, to impart to
the rising generation anything like
moral education. "The supreme indi-
vidual and national good" says the
Bishop, sis character. Character in
cludes elements that are moral ond re-
ligious, as well as the intellectual; it
includes conscience, affection, and will.
Morality, as well as religion, gives way
before the idolatry of the brain, and
we are thus brought to confront the
vast defect of our public school sys-
tenn" AS to Sunday schools, the
Bishop has but little respect for them
as moral agents, while as to parents,
"they are not moral themselves, or they
lack the care, skill, and ability to dis
charge this chief parental trust" The
conclusion arrived at is that the Chris
tian life is inseparable from Christian
dogma, and that religious freedom does
not mean freedom from religion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

IMMIGRATION depends greatly upon
national prosperity. British and Irish
emigration is now seeking Australian
fields. In 1882 we took lS1, 1903 from
the United Kingdom. In 1883 we took
thence 1872, 04O. In 1881 Australia took
but 22,6S2 from the United Kingdom
but in 1883 the number rose to 1899.
But for this increase in Irish emigra-
ton in 1883 there would have been n
great falling off in the emigration from
the United Kingdom to the United
States. The increase of emigration
thence to Australia is said to be caused
by the present prosperity of those
colonies.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

SOME official tables, which have just
been printed, says the New York Sun,
set forth in q striking form the steady
increase of demands for Legislation in
Congress. Among them is the follow
ing statement of the number of bills
and joint resolutions introduced into
the House of Representatives from the
Thirty-eighth Congress to the Forty
seventh inclusive:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

Those who have never seen the much
talked of dynamite explosive will be in
terested to know that il looks very
:-.uch like moist brown sugar. Nitro
glycerine, which is formed by the action
of nitric acid upon glycerine, at low
temperature, is the active agent in
dynamite, but is mixed with some alb
sorbent substance to render it safer 20
handle than the liquid glycerine. The
absorbent material thus used is sill
cious earth-a fine white powder COM
posed of tho remains of infusoris, and
resembling powdered chalk; this takes
up two or three times its weight of
the nitro-glycerine, without becoming
pasty, and the ingredients are easily
mixed, leaden vessels and wooden
spoons being used to avoid dangerous
friction. When flame is applied to this
mass it burns with strong flame, with
out any explosion; but when ignited by
decorating fuse, or even 10y sudden
blow, its explosive force is tremendous.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
House aggregated:
Beer.

The United States Consul at Nurem-
berg reports that the hop crop of the
German Empire in 1888 was q mid
ding one, estimated at about AZ, 600, 600
pounds, or 427.5 pounds per acre, The
consumption amounts to about 80, 800, {.
900 pounds. The production of beer
aggregated 1.0i1 ,27s,000 gallons, and
the consumption per head 134 40 quarts.
In other European countries the con-
sumption per head in quarts was as
follows:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

THE Michigan Associated Press met at Kali
amazoo and transacted some necessary bust
ness. The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Maj, w. w.
Van Antwerp, Of the jackson Patriot: Vice
President, L. f. Harrington. OF the Grand
Rapids Eagle; Secretary and Treasurer w. l..
Eaton, OF the Kalamazoo Telegram. Execu-
tive Committee-E. ID. Cowles, OF the East
Saginaw Courier; T. T. Bennett OF the Bay
City Tribune, and II. w. Ball, OF the Grand
Rapids Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
GASOLINE MUST GO.
Citizens of Alliance, Ohio, Rolling Barrels
of the Fluid Into the Streets.

dispatch from Alliance, Ohio,l
IL is impossible TO obtain n quart of gaso-
line In this place. Since the recent terrible
explosion general feeling has ari' on
a ainst the use OF gasoline. Me- chants,
thoroughly frightened and warned, had rolled
their barrels out in o the streets and refused
u handle the internal stun. Gasoline stoves
have received very severe condemnation
hero and men who visited The scene of the
catastrophe have almost unanimously sworn
to dis oni the use of them. One man
who had been using vapor stove said that
he had ususally kept more gasoline in his
house for the past year than had been the
cause OF this explos on. Said he "Gasoline
must 70 I would rather h4nde nitro
glycerinc or giant powder. You know where
TO find these terri bic explosives. but gasoline
will spread out and find the fire..
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

high family. The color OF the skin is
that OF loins. A descendant of the
angels nj the Brahmins Acquired as
property by the power and glorv of the
King for his service. Is equal to the
crystal of the highest value. Is Of the
highest family of all in existence. A
source of power of attra ton of rain.
1t is as pure as the purest crystal Of
the highest value i'll the word" The
elephant has for companies. a white
monkey.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

The Deputy Sheriff of Texarkana,
Tex, owns a game-cock and is as con-
spicuous in the numerous cock-fghts at
that place as the most prominent
sports.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
Che Jrns Aurtheruer.


Ip Il firm can afford to pay S26, $50
for the privilege OF selling pools at two
racing meetings in Kentucky, how
much chance is there for the man who
puts his mony in the box?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
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 Feb. 2, 1884. as follows-number Of OBJ
servers heard from, 80:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

KILLING alligators for their skins and
teeth employs a large force of men in
Florida. who have engaged to furnish
900, 900 skins to French tannery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

The total product of the three districts In
1859 was 81, 4s3 tons $40 pounds, against 1871
tons 800 pounds in lSs2.-OntOndgon Miner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

A SAN ANTONIO man has an old Mexican
dollar, triangular in shape, composed OF lead
aud silver, bearing the date OF i70s- IL was
found near Laredo. four years ago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

THE Mississippi legislature refuses TO let
reporters see any part OF the bills or
measures before that toiy except the title.
Tho State papers denouuce IL rs fragrant
outrage
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
The Copper Product

Below will be found n list Of the producing
copper mines of Like Superior, with the fig
ures representing their output of mineral In
1888, compared with that Of the year before:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

A DEs MONIES youth who received tho
present OF n hard painted white satin hat
crown from his girl didn't know what Il was
aud had IL framed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

THE scene of the battle of Pittsburg
Landing was visited the other day by q
correspondent of the Call, of Peoria,
Ill. He says that farmers still gather
lead and iron in the field, and that one
merchant shipped over 5000 pounds of
bullets last year. The other day q
child found a she'll that exploded after
it had been buried for twenty-one years.
OF the $500 soldiers whose remains
lie in the cemetery, 1851 were unrecog-
nized. Two large iron cannon serve as
columns at the gate of the cemetery.
The grave nearest them is that of the
Drummer Boy of Shiloh. Albert
Sidney Johnson died under large tree
that stood near by; but of the tree there
is only the stump remaining, and the
spot is marked by a young evergreen.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

The prize of $1,000 offered by tho
French Academy of Medicine for cure
for diphtheria WAS demanded at their
last meeting by all sorts of people,
among whom were glass maker, ma
chinist, an iron-founder, q hotel-keeper
and O Justice of the Peace. Two
women applied for it, one lawyers
wife and the other the wife of veteri-
nary surgeon. One man proposed that
the patient be beaten until he expelled
the membrane. and another that he be
exposed to scarlatina as q counter-irri-
tant. There were several who wanted
their expenses paid to Paris, so that
they might explain their method of
cure, and large number who refused
to disclose the secret before receiving
the 5000. No one had found the in
fallible remedy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

WOLVES are uncommonly numerous and
fierce In the lumber woods this season
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

He is wise who never acts without
reason and never against it.
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PHoroGRAPHINo on silk and linen b now
successfully practiced in London.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

CASADXs Indian population is estimated 1t
13l,0O0.
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Total for Europe. 100, 800.
Amcilca ................. 3I6,1I5,
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tNo stamping done till near the end OF the year
Total for 1883 .........3,3ll tons /, ITO pounds
Total for 1882. ....... $3.50 tons col pounds
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-27
Mada,ne Rlstorl,s Return.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Mr.. Dickson, Of Brooks & Dickson, who will
have charge of her interests in this country
received letter this morning which announces
her intention to sail from Havre, on Oct Is, on
the St Germaine. She expects to be here on
the 18th. and is extremely sanguine of repeating
her successes Of many years ago. She writes
that she is looking forward most impatienty for
an opportunity to greet her friends in America.
Mime. Ristori will play first in Philadelphia, on
Nov. 10, in marie Antoiuette.p She win bring
withher to this country in hercompany Kiss Kate
Clinton, Edmund Teale, brother of Osmond
Teale, who was Mr. Wallack's leading man last
season; Ivan Shirley and Charles Leverson
Lane. She will appear in this city at the Star
Theater, on Dec. % She win speak English in
the following roles: Marie Antoinette, Mary
Stuart, Elizabeth, Medea and Macbeth. After
brief season she VIII visit the West
Mime Ristori Is in excellent health. She spent
the warm months at her villa in ITALY, and Trou-
vile, France. Her success, her managers think,
is assured as the influence which she left behind
her, in 1875, is still present among her admirers
and is perhaps more potent than ever She APP
peared first in Paris in 1885, and visited in this
country in 1867 and in 1875 She was born in
1921, and is consequently sixty three years old.
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Al Hotel in the Sea.

European Letter to New Orleans Times Democrat.
The situation of the hotel where / am stop
ping is especially charming 1t is built over the
water, so that the sea actually passes under the
rooms There is long, glass enclosed balcony
looking seaward. from which one never tires of
surveying the blue Mediterranean beyond and
below. There is always variety in the move
ments of the sea- Now its swash is so gentle
and soothing that it is the most effective Of lul-
Iabies when one wishes TO fall asleep. Again,
the sea is in an uproar, and the spray leaps up
to the very windows. The illusion that
we are actually at sea is quite hard to
shake off at times. The fish have learned to.
watch for the refuse that is committed to the
sea from the hotel galleries, and are consequent
" very tame. Portly-looking fellows foot or
two long come right under the balcony and
stare up impertinently at US. The temptation
is strong to make them atone for their temerity,
and not few of them have been hauled up
with rod and line to the broad veranda One
day somebody got up more enthusiasm than
usual and east a torpedo from the balcony into a
school Of inquisitiye marine beauties. "A boy
sprang in after the explosion and brought three
fat fellows to the surface Many others were
stunned, but not sufficiently to keep them from
evading the swimmer. Nets are also cast in
front Of the hotel, and many bushels of fish
meat captured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-27
TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO.
Maine Went He'll Bent for Governor
Kent, and ''the Ball Is Rolling.
Meeting of the Old Veterans Of 1910 Yester-
day-Address of Thomas A. Goodwin,
Reviewing the Enemy's Record.

The Tippecanoe Club held fuller meeting
yesterday at the mayors courtroom than has
been held for year. Prof Ryland T. Brown
presided, and Rev Thomas A. Goodwin read an
address in which he reviewed the history and
record of the Democratic party. The club is
composed Of those who, in 1910, voted for Gen.
William Henry Harrison for President and, Of
course, embraces the old men, the solid old citi
zens Of the city and county. The club was
much pleased with the address Of Mr. Goodwin,
and requested copy Of it for publication. 1t
was as follows:
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FIGHTING ME SEA.
The GeaseIess Care which Is the Price of the
HoIlander's Security.

Hollander's Security.
Good Words
After delicious breakfast of coffee and thick
cream with rusks, seodes and different kinds of
fasts, we took to the railroad again and crossed
Zealand which chiefly consists of four islands
Noordt Beveland, Zuid Beveland, Sehouwen
and Walcheren. and is less visited by the rest
Of the Netherlanders than any other part of
the country The land is all cut UP
into vast polders, as the huge meadows
are called. which are recovered from the sea
and protected by entertainments. Here if
human care was withdrawn for SIX months the
corps Of engineers, called 'sWaterstaatn are
continually employed to watch the waters, and
to keep in repair the dikes, which are formed Of
clay at the bottom, as that is more waterproof
than anything else, and thatehed with willows
which are here grown extensively for the pur-
pose. If the sea passes dixie ruin is imminent
an alarm-bell rings and tho whole population
PUSHES to the rescue The moment one dixie is
even menaced the people begin to build another
inside it. and then rely upon the double defense
while they fortify the old one But all their
care has not preserved the islands of Zealand
Three centuries ago Sehouwen was entirely sub
merged. and every living creature drowned
Soon after Noordt Beveland was submerged
and renamed for several years entirely under
water, only the points of the church spires being
visible Zuid Bevelend has been submerged in
the fourteenth century Walcheren was sub
merged as late as 1908, and Tholen even in 1S25.
1t has been aptly asserted that the sea to the
inhabitants of Holland is what Vesuvius is to
Tore del Greco. De Amicis says that the
Dutch have three enemies-the sea- the lakes
and the rivers; they Pepel the sea- they dry the
lakes, and they imprison the rivers, but with the
sea it is combat which never ceases