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Gentleman (entering rail ear)-''Is this 1 seat engaged?-Self conscious young lady | "Yes, sir, that's engaged, too. "-Boston 1 Transcript.
 The current conundrum: ''Will the com I ing work?" has been answered by the | knowing young female with the sententious rejoinder: E'He will if get him." | One of troupe of performing Indians at dime museum owns up to the name of | Ryan. He must be the Ryan Indian bred we | hear so much about.-Lowell Courier. E'What lovely little dog," exclaimed a 1 Boston girl at the dog show. ''Is it an Ex- | pectorationi' ''No ma'an, it's spitz ) She hurried up to the Grand Central station and took the first train for home.
 Miss Rosewood, who took part in amateur theatricals-"Oh, I'm so tired; had to stand all the evening"" Miss Sharp, who was in the audience-"My dear, you have not had to stand nearly so much as we have"
 ''Know ye, sir! I shd think so. Lor', 'ow you do favor your old father, sir. I can most lear i'm now sayin', No honest old laborer as ever worked for me shall want a shillin' for 'baccy g longs got ger a one. .'"-Fun.
 A Lucky Shot.-Harry Bowers was talking about hunting. He remarked to Nathan Kimble as they sat around the grocery store stove out at Onion Creek: ''When reckon up what it costs for ammunition, the clothes 1 ruin in tramping over the country and what I lose by neglecting my business, every quail I shoot costs me five dollars. 2 ''Then you can thank your stars that you only hit one in every ten that you shoot at. It is lucky that you are such poor shot, or yoa would bankrupt yourself. "-Texas Sift- ings.
 ''What a incomprehensible Mirandy's got to be sence she went to thur 'cademy," re- marked Mrs. Homespun to her husband. ''W'y, wot's the gal been doin' now?" asked Daniel ''Doin'r' exclaimed Mrs Home spun, Ew'y, she said she must go to her room to disrobe, she wished to retire early" ''Disrobe and retire.'' murmured Daniel, ''wot's them, ma!'' q dunno" replied ma; "but she didn't do nothin' O the sort. She only undressed and went to bed. Did ye ever hear O sich pevarications" Judging from the groan that came from Daniel, it is safe to presume that he never did.-Presby- terian Banner.
 The peasants of Huntingdonshire are pro- verbal for their boorishness. One day lady, riding through the grounds of friend to whom she was visit, found the gate closed which was the outlet from the fields to the high road; 8 peasant boy stepped for ward, and lowing, opened the gate that she might pass. "What is your names" asked the lady. ''Tummus," said the boy, with another bow ''Ahp' replied the lady, giv- ing him shilling, ''I see you are not a Hunt ingdonshire boy-you are so civil" To which the urchin rejoined-"Thee'rt a liar; I be. ."-Glasgow Evening Times.
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not destroy the vine at the same time. The remedy is not only efficient, but cheap.

l OAAAS~-S, SAANNPs
 There are some encouraging displays of l conservatism in the South in these days.
 Thus, the Mobile Register suggests that it would be bad policy for MT. Cleveland to ap- point southern Democrat to the State de- | partment because the consideration of the treaties with Mexico and Nicaragua might be | complicated by the old northern jealousy of l territorial aggrandizement to the South. Since 1 the abolition of slavery the Register believes that there is no sound reason why the North | is not as much interested as the South in such questions as the Mexico and Nicaragua
 ones, and as likely to be divided upon them
 but it would avoid any chance of arousing sectional jealousy by placing the control of
 international affairs in northern hands,
 In 1866 there were unloaded in the city of Chicago 393, ,OO7 cattle, excluding calves. In
 1874 the number had risen to S43,966. In
 1884 the total, excluding calves, reached the
 enormous number of ,S17, ,697. Within the
 same period of nineteen years, the increase
 in the importation of live hogs was even
 greater than that of cattle. In 1866 the mum
 Der of hogs received was 961, TAG; in 1874
 the number was 1, ,25S, ,379, and in 1884 the
 number was 5 1851 ,967. In spite, however,
 of the rapid increase in this trade, it has for
 the past four years shown a steady falling
 off. Its maximum was reached in 1880,
 when the hogs arriving numbered 7,059, ,355,
 of which only 1894 ,990 were reshipped alive
 In sheep, Chicago shows more modest rec
 ord. In 1866 the number arriving was 2O7,-
 ;r,
 The total number of live animals of these
 three species arriving in 1884 was about eight millions.
 The enormous increase in the fire losses during the past few years has very naturally alarmed the underwriters, who are looking around for some kind of legislation which will reduce the burden of their annual losses. It is claimed that fully one-third of the losses which fall on insurance companies is attrib- uted to design contributory carelessness on the part of the insured, and it is not little significant that fires of greater frequen- cy during periods of commercial depression. The fire losses of 1876 were S64 ,6S0, 800, 1 while those of 1883 exceeded S10O, ,000 900, 1 and those of 1884, 1t is expected, will foot up to at least similar amount. In round fig | urss it is estimated that one-eighth of the | nations annual increase in wealth is burned ! up. Among the suggestions to reduce these l risks is that of a law restricting the amount l of insurance to seventy-fve per cent. of the l value of the property insured. A system of l official inspection is also said to be needed, 1 as well as more severity in the punishment l of those contributing by design or careless ness to the destruction of property. It is 1 quite clear that remedial measures of some | kind are required.
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What a Poor FraII Woman Can Do.


 Yesterday when the snow was knee-deep one poor old horse drew a crowded street car up the steep grade on Griswold street At the corner of Fort three ladies stopped the car and got in. They were obliged to stand up, the car was so full, and in making way for them the men filled the platforms Opposite the Brunswick, just as true as preaching, nine women and three children Notwithstanding the was so over-crowded deliberately pushed and struggled until they got aboard and were packed like sardines in a box, and two men were crowded off to wait for another car. And yet the American woman is called a delicate creature, fragile and all O'that
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Swallows Defending Themselves.

TF ICul.J MefCufy. y.1
 A man engaged near Hurleton lately in filling up an old mining shaft, found that thousands of swallows had built their nests and made their homes in the shaft and they flew out in great numbers as he shoveled After working time he went home, but re- turned the following morning. No sooner had he begun his work than out the swallows flew in clouds Soon he was startled by a cold, slimy, wiggling snake falling upon his back. He supposed it came from bush near by, but on looking up beheld cloud of birds holding snakes in their claws, which they were trying to let fall on their enemy It is needless to say he gathered up his pick and shovel and fled from the spot
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Dr. Villeneuve, in @ paper read before the French Academy of Sciences, stated that, for drinking purposes, he had found distilled water far superior to mineral waters, as the sources of the latter are often contaminated He had used distilled water for three years, and found that there is no foundation for the popular notions that it is disagreeable to the taste, difficult to digest, and does not contain air. It is easily tested; a solution of nitrate of silver gives precipitate when added to ordinary drinking water, but is dis solved in the distilled article.
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MT. Jerome B. Secor, of Bridgeport has received contract for ten thousand sewing machines of the Avery patent. It is high said to be in great demand in the market at this time They are to be manufactured on MT. Secor's premises and in view of it he has had large force of skilled men at work con structing the necessary machinery. He ex- poets to commence operations in a few days 1 and will turn out two hundred machines per week
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The Apache Indians are not as savage as they might be. It is a fixed law among them that man and his mother-in-law must never visit or see each other if it can possibly be avoided
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The books printed in the South during the war are now in demand among collectors. Ons of these was spelling book printed on common wall paper. Another, more ambti- ous, was illustrated with the old trade cuts found in newspaper offices, producing a comical effect. Upon the title-page is the legend: Printed in the fourth year of the war of independence"
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The anti-vaccinationist of London are do- ing all they can to impress the people with their ideas. One of their decives is a process sion headed by a conveyance containing a brass band which gives the fDead March in "Saul" in quick time. A gentleman dressed in deep mourning sits OH the box alongside the driver, and holds up to public view a placard inscribed: ''In memory of 1 900 children who have died this year through vaccination Next follows an open hearse, with childs coffin exposed to full view, and then come a number of mourning coaches, filled with women in funeral garb, who make pretence to be overcome with woe.
 The French minister of agriculture some time ago commissioned professor of the College de France to experiment upon the best method of destroying the winter eggs of the phyl1oxera, it having been ascertained that that line of attack was the most efficient in dealing with that terrible scourge of the vineyard. After several trials, a mixture of oil, naphtha, quicklime and water has been tested on a large scale with the most success ful results. It was easy enough to hit upon a chemical compound which would kill the eggs, but not so easy to find one which would
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Duty.

surely the happiest life for man
 Is not the fevered life that brings storm of stubborn questionings, And baffied ends where all began. But his who neither looks behind
 Nor on the shadowy space before Nor swerving sideWards to explore Lies darkness learns that he is blind Who, needless of all vain dispute, And weary voices of the night
 Seeks only to observe argft The bit of path before his foot
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EDITORIAE NOTES.

| The legislature comes together to-day. May its stay at the Capitol be brief and use- fuJ
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ON WHEEL s.

Only a girl on roller skates Only femaia defying the fates; Only step or two out on the floor, Only this, then something more. Only man on the backward glide. With hands outStretched and feet spread wide Only a bold dash, then q dull thud Only a scream that would curdle your blood. Only a mngling of stripes in air, Only shower of auburn hair; Then she sat on him by the ton, Nev r was man so sat upon.
 -Courier-J Journal
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IS. Green. Died at Charlestown, Va, Dec. ?. 1859. J. A. Copeland. Died at Charlestown, Va, Dec. ,, 1859. L. $. Leary. Died at Harper's Ferry, Va, Oct %, 1859. Aged twenty four years. These colored citizens of Oberlin, The heroic associates of the immortal
 


 Gave their lives for the slave. Et nunc servitudo etian mortua est, Laus Dec. ' There is scarcely more touching incident in our national history than the conduct of this man Shields Green, when, though flight was offered him, he chose to Ego down and die with the old man, Frederick Douglass relates it in one of his lectures, telling how he himself withdrew from JChn Browns en- terpfise, deeming it unwise and hazardous.
 In the same cemetery is a monument to that greatest of American evangelists, Charles c. Finney, who served as president of Oberlin college for @ term of years.
 But the glory of the town is of course the college itself. Instead of a feeble school, poorly endowed, and cursed even by the so- called respectable press of the day, we find now the largest collegiate institution i'll this broad continent (except in some years when the membership of Ann Arbor scores the highest mark), splendidly equipped and com manding the respect of the nation. Ober- lins position the slavery question has been vindicated. Nearly everybody sympa- thzes now with the aid formerly lent to fu- gitives here, whereby the history of the town made the most thrillingly interesting of American municipal histories. No longer is it customary for the national press to refer to any recent instance of bigotry as the latest Oberlinism,' and to caricature the struggling young college with illustrations
 Still progressive, Oberlin is remarkable to- day as furnishing the best example of classi- cal church music in the country on large scale, and as the only town of over four thousand inhabitants where there is no sa~ loon. Having helped to settle the slavery problem, Oberlin is now trying to work out a temperance reform, but by legitimate non- political methods. EMILE.
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Characters Froni Uncle Toms Cabin "GeOrge Harris'' Recalls His Life in SIavery-EEis Humble Home in the Classic Town ofOberIin-The EIorIes of the Town and Hts Halls of Learn ing.
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A CAIsD.-To all who are suffering from and nGscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, &c., will send @ recipe 4h,.t will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy discovered by missionary in South America. Send self addressed envelope REV JOSEPH T. MEAN, Station D, New York.
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
Washington special

The Court of Alabama Claims has re-
voked the commission Of Charles G. Olson,
who had been authorized to take certain
testimony in Europe for the court. The
following is part Of his letter to Con-
gresham Leopold Morse, of Boston, for
which the court revoked his commission:
In American politics have always been a
Democrat, but do not allude TO this as mat
ter of assistance, as under the new civil service
act such thing s out OF the question. How
ever this may be, will hereby suggest to you
that IL / can obtain the above mentioned posi-
ton that of Consul at Gothenburg) through
your influence, i shall Immediately upon being
informed to that effect from you forward
my check to the amount of 81 500 for
services rendered. also will render you such
service abroad as in my. power from time
to time without any extra charge. As / UNDER
stand the salary Of this consulate is but little
over 1900 Fer year, IL Is not for the income OF
this that ask of you the assistance to obtain
the position, but the main point is to establish
American trade In Gothenburg that will ex-
hibit American manufactures. and IL Permitted
by your government to hold a commission busi-
ness the official position will bring fair COM
pensation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
How to Work the Mind Cure.

An exponent of the mind cure gives
the rules to be followed by the meta
physician: Find the thought in un-
conscious mind that produced the con-
scious thought or condition called dis
ease; but that which errs is ignorant of
itself or error, and you must find it
out. Always begin by allaying the
fear in the minds of your patients, as
surfing them mentally there is nothing
to fear, for God governs all. Blot out
of mind the image of disease; if it is a
cold, argue down the belief that mat
ter can take cold; or if grief, argue
down the belief that sorrow can chase
away Joy, or that evil is stronger than
good; give error the rebuke it deserves
from immortality, not from matter, but
from spirit Remember man is q
shadow and God is his substance; that
God is his life and intelligence and he
has no other; then to say that humoi s,
tubercles, inflammation, pain, deformed
or broken bones are in shadow. or that
man dies is too absurd to, last another
century. '-Brooklgn Eagle.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

A Young Woman and Two Children
Burned'tO Death In Building
In Cleveland.
cleveland ohio, dispatch.

lCltNtihuu (OuiOl uispAocnl
The occupants of two-story frame
tenement house in Broadway, near the
Nickel Plate Railway station. were awak-
ened by smell of smoke. A few minutes
later the building was in flames, and a ter
rible panic ensued, A number of families
occupied the building. and the thoroughly
frightened people fled by the siairways and
ladders. All but three escaped, The I'M
fortunates were Fannie and Sarah Rosen-
berg. aged 3 and III years respectively,
daughter, of widow, and Rosa Meisel,
their cousin. who was spending the night
with them. Mrs. Rosenberg and her ED
est daughter, Esther. who had been in
the same apartment with the three
who lost their lives. were rescued with
much difficulty. Rosa Meisel was to have
been married next week to Theodore Frau.
who slept in the same building. Frau was
almost beside himself. and rushed madly
through the flames and smoke in search of
bis affianced bride. Again and again he
called her name, but received no response.
He pounded on her bedroom door, but
was not admitted. The flames were every
second growing fiercer and the smoke more
suffocating. Hes was about to give up in
despair when he stumbled against female
figure in the hall. He thought it was his
Rosa. Lifting the girl in his arms, he
rushed TO the window and sprang out,
the girl pressed to his breast. In
the leap he broke his arm and re-
ceived other injuries. Once upon terra
frma, he looked into the face Of the maiden
he had rescued. 1t was not the face of his
afianced wife, but girl named Cohen, of
the same age. and same build as his sweet
heart. At that very moment Rosa Meisel
was struggling with death in her room
above. The noise and confusion had not
awakened Rosa and her two room mates,
the Rosenberg CIR s. until it was too late.
While the other occupants of the building
were leaping from the windows or being
rescued by ladders, the cry ran out that
there were three girls in d rear room. The
firemen scaled ladders. climbed into the
windows. and attempted to search the Sec
ond floor, but amid the flames and smoke
they found no trace OF human beings.
Some time afterward a search was made,
and the three victoms were found in their
room, showing unmistakable evidence of a
desperate struggle. It is reported that
Frau has gone insane from grief
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

PERRY DAVIS, the originator of the
famous "Pain Killer" has for the last
fifteen years been an inmate of the
Mercer County pa. Almshouse. Davis
is Frenchman, and came to the United
States years ago, and at once embarked
in the business Of manufacturing and
selling his medicine. which he generally
disposed of himself, by travelling around
the country with a team and q two
wheeled cart. He began to deal in
financial speculation on large scale,
and failed. His affairs then became
much mixed up and the Sheriff finally
sold his goods for debt. Davis disap-
peared and was found several days
afterward roaming through the woods
lunatic. A large cash across his
throat seemed to imply that he had
made an attempt at suicide. After his
capture he became morose and sullen.
For two months at time he would no.
speak a word, and then would only talk
of his early history. One of his
peculiarities is that he will never take
medicine under any circumstances. Oh
late he has begun to exhibit signs of in
sanity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

THE Rev. John w. Scudder, of Min
neapolis, has been telling his congre-
cation the sort of a girl he likes. "None
of your white-faced damsels for me, !"
he said in sermon Sunday, "nor one
whose face is red with consumptive or
hectic flush. Give me the nut-brown
girl who abandons her sun-bonnet, who
can climb tree with any boy, who
prefers good bread to chocolate cara
mels, and baked beans to angel cake.
The kind of an angel for me weighs 40
pounds, and has more calls for crash
towels than cosmetics. Her waist is
more than nine inches in circumfer-
ence. She Is straight as an arrow,
sleeps eight hours day, has clear
head, bright smile, and is a JOY to
those around her."