The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-09
HISTORICAL.

from having been found in the Cardinals
library. 1t was the first book printed
with metal types, and cost g, 500.
The old north of England phrase,
ito carry Goals to Newcastle, finds its
parallel in the Persian taunt of car
ring pepper to Hindostan," and in the
Hebrew, "to carry oil TO the City of
Olives"
AT one time the Finlanders and Lap
landers drove profitable trade by the
sale of winds. After being paid they
knotted three magical knots and told
the buyer that when he united the first
he would have good gale. when the
second a strong wind, and when the
third a severe tempest.
SOME Frenchmen who landed on the
coast of Guinea many years ago, found
negro prince seated under tree on a
block of wood for his throne, and three
or four negroes armed with wooden
spears for his guard. His sable majesty
anxiously inquired: "Do they talk
much of me in France"
ICHABoD PRICE, who died in New
York City in March. 1862, at the age of
eighty-one years, was q sergeant of a
New York State artillery corps, as a
volunteer in the war of 1912. He sug-
gested to the War Department both
rifed cannon and conical balls, which
now perform destructive work at long
distances; but he was not listened to.
President Madison was so well satisfied
of the genius of the sergeant that he
was commissioned lieutenant in the
regular army of the United States.
The room in the tower of London in
which Sir Walter Raleigh was so long
imprisoned is ska feet in size, and so
low that it was impossible for Raleigh
to stand erect in it. The walls of the
room are eighteen feet in thickness,
and there is only one window, an open
ing 10x20 inches, from which the only
thing that can be seen is the blank wall
of an adjoining building. Here Raleigh
lived for fourteen years, never being
once out of the room until the day on
which he was taken to Great Tower
Hill to be beheaded.
THE Temple of the Sun at Cuzco,
called Coricancha or "Place of Gold,
was the most magnificent edifice in the
Persian Empire. On the western wall.
and opposite the eastern portal, was a
splendid representation of the sun, the
god of the nation. 1t consisted of a
human face in gold, with innumerable
golden rays emanating from it in every
direction and when the early beams of
the morning sun fell upon this brilliant
golden disk, they were reflected from
it as from mirror, and again reflected
throughout the whole temple by the
numberless plates, cornices. bands and
images of gold, until the temple seemed
to glow with sunshine more intense
than that of nature.
CARRIER pigeons have beer used from
very early date, and the Castle of the
Birds at Bagdad takes its name from
the pigeon-post which the old monks of
the convent established. The building
has crumbled into ruins long ago by
the lapse of time, but the bird messen-
gers of Bagdad became celebrated as
far westward a. Greece, and were reg
ular commercial institution between
the distant parts of Asia Minor, Arabia
and the East In ancient Egypt they
we're also brought to great perfection,
and between the cities Of the Nile and
of the Red Sea the old traders used to
send word of their caravans to each
other, written on silk and tied under
the wings of trained doves.