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Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-22

Our entire stock ol Summer
Dress Good. Silks. parasols
Fans. Laces. Hosiery. GLOVES
Lawns. White Dress Good
&c. Will positively be closed
out.
SPRING a COMPANY.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-22
HELD UP" BY ROBBERS.
4 BOLD ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.
T"o Men OF Fulton 81. t1ase Resoisers
Placed al Their Noses no
Booty Secured.

Al about II O'Clock last night John r.
MardeH, teamster who hyes al the fuilmer
House. and John Hamilton who works al
tie Barnard House, met al the corner Of esst
Fulton and Calder streets directly opposite
Bennetts wood and ooai office. Mardell
was formerly market gardener and hAInIi-
ton worked for him. While the two we're en-
gagged Ia conversation they were passed by
two men Who after walking about twenty
feet turned about, came back and presenting
reyolyers ordered wardoll and Hamilton 10
throw up their hands aud shell out TO
o - With you said hardell aud he made
big jump and ran toward
the Union depot, followed closely
by one Of the robbers, who coon gave
up the race and returned 10 where hIs CON
paniOn Was holding the InuzZlo of cock cd
revolver against Hamilton nose, Hamilton
stood on the inside Of the walk next 10 the
fence around the gas reservoir and had no
chance 10 get away. He says that be did
not think Of running because he had nothing
with him that robbers would want, 80 he
stood with his hands up unts they searched
ms pockets and removed the revolver from
his face. When the man who ran after War
dell returned, the one who held Hamilton
said: why didn't you shoot the s- OF "A
b.. II this man tried 10 run | would
shoot him too quick" After searching
him they left Hamilton ia
hurry. evidently thinking that
Nardell would give All alarm. and ran down
Fulton street 10 Waterloo and turned up
Summit street. Wardell had small
amount of money with him, n gold watch
and chain and wore diamond pin which
he says Is worth $50 He ran 10 the depot
thinking he would find Depot Policeman
Cowell, but he found Sergeant Hurley first
who rode 10 the scene of the attack at once.
but the robbers were not 10 be found. The
man who gave his attention 10 Mr.. Wardell
moustache and goatee. The other Is short
man of medium weight and wore n mask
which covered his face below the eyes. They
are described a. rough looking customers
and their language, a. reported by their in
tended victims, was extremely profane
Noted French Atheist Converted
PARIS, July 2l.-Leo Take, the notorious
French atheistc writer. has become dis
gusted with his anti religious principles and
comes out with a violent attack on republi-
cans of all shades of opinion. He states
who forms the republican brotherhood and
stlgmatZes its profession of principles a.
hollow lie. He has formally recanted all AT
guments and statements which he has made
in his writings and has offered a pentent
apology To Roman Catholics and entered the
convent of Carthusians.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-22

GAsTrN, July 2l.-Emperor William il
much better.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

ESTABLISHING bank-thats easy
enough. 1t begins like an old story
"Once upon time there were four
thieves. From the French.
Wharf is the dollar of our daddies 2"
asks a college paper. 1t is what the
average undergraduate pays his wagers
and anti-temperance subscriptions with.
Free Press.
Our collector says we have many
close friends in this city. He went out
the other day with big wad of bills,
aud found them SO close that he only
brought back one dollar and forty-five
cents.-Ecdnspille Argus.
A New YORK editor complains that
"the silver dollar is too big and the
gold dollar is too little" The peculiar
part of this is that the editor should
have had chance to see both at the
same time.-BOston Post.
WHAT treasure Smiffkins got when
he married that womanl" @Did hep
did hel should say; $4,000 cash
down, and good for three times as
much more when the old man dies "-
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
The yhited SepuIchers of New Orleans.

New Orleans, being built in marsh,
cannot have cellars for the houses of
the living or graves for the dead. AT
a burial the services of mason, and
not of gravedigger, are required, and
the coffin is walled up in brick or
stone cell, painted white, which makes
a graveyard resemble the parked
wagon-train of large army Often
families or associations have large
tombs, containing several rows of cells,
one above the other, and there are
some monuments IN each one, the most
prominent ones being to Confederate
officers and tiremen. In the National
Cemetery, on the old battle-ground,
there are II, 1872 graves, of which 6,913
are known" to contain the remains of
Union soldiers from twenty-three
States; 5,279 graves are marked sun
known. Cor. Providence Jottrnal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

In 1862, Fat Helena, Ark, we were
troubled a great deal with sharks in
shape of human beings, who followed
the army with goods for which they
charged the soldiers exorbitant prices
"a sly way they had of robbing us.
They were q sort of necessary evil, but
the boys soon tumbled to their little
game, and were generally prepared for
any emergency. or rather flank move
ment whereby the sharks proposed to
get the best of them.
Late one afternoon steamboat land
ed at the wharf at Helena, with load
of goods belonging to one of the afore-
mentioned sharks. On account of the
lsteness of the hour when the goods
we're unloaded, they had to be left on
the wharf all night; but Mr.. Shark got
guard, of course-such men could
generally get guard, you know; but
occasionally some of the boys would
pass by those goods, look the ground
over and slyly wink at each other, and
there was an alfred amount of express
sion in those winks, which meant bust
ness from the word go. About nine
o'clock that night most of the soldiers
in the brigade had assembled in the vi
cinity of the wharf-drawn there by a
magnetic impulse hard to explain on
paper-and by sudden freak peculiar
to soldiers bent on mischief, the crowd
ran over those goods and guards, and
when the crowd dispersed, 10 and be-
hold the goods had disappeared, and
the shark was left sitting on the wharf
gazing at the vacant space and weep
ing and wishing he had stayed in Gin
cinnati.
The boys had great times the next
day to get boots to fit, as most of them
got all rights or all lefts, and many of
the watermelons were green; and they
experienced great difficulty in keeping
the chickens quiet under their beds
while the officers were searching for
the sharks property. They were also
afraid that the searching party would
break the bottles they had hid, while
carelessly digging around in the quar-
tiers; but the shark did not make a
fortune out of that speculation.
RiUersjde Enterprise.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

The State Geologist of Indiana does
not believe that the clearing of timber
ed lands along the Ohio River system
is the cause OF excessive floods. His
conclusions are:
THAT floods are owing to recent
causes is not absolutely true, as 1t is
evident from alluvial deposits that
foods have occurred in the Ohio Val
ley long before the country was known
to white men, although recent con-
ditions may have contributed to their
magnitude. There is evidence from
these deposits that there have been oc-
casional floods much higher than any
that have occurred since the country
was settled For this reason floods are
likely to occur again, as they did prob
ably hundreds OF years ago. The IN
huence of forests IS not regarded as so
great as is frequently ascribed to them.
They have little effect on the aerial
currents which produce continental
storms, and which often extend over
1000 miles, producing great floods.
The heights of the several principal
foods are given, showing no material
change in their magnitude for the last
half century or more, the time when
most of the native forests were stand
ing, and since most of them have been
removed"
The chief cause of extraordinary
floods however, seems to have been
ignored. The cutting away of forests
on hillsides and opening the soil to cul-
tivation permit the water to flow with
out obstruction Immediately to the wa
ter courses, while the debris of the for
ests and the dead, matted grasses hold
water like a sponge. Forest lands,
while they may not prevent occasional
great floods, do hold the waters to a
great extent that otherwise would do
serious damage; in other words, where
there are forest lands to hold back the
waters serious foods are of rarer occur
renee than where a country is denuded
of trees. Another well-settled propo-
sition is, that deiuging rains are more
frequent in treeless country than In
one of average forest growth, yet the
annual rainfall may be the same in the
one case as in the other. Chicago
Tribune
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
The Baby's Growth.

Any one who has listened to the
usual talk Of the mother or the nurse
about her baby will have noticed that
she endows it with degree of intelli-
gence which it is quite impossible that
it should possess. She has no hesita-
ton in infusing grown-up mind into
the helpless bundle in her arms, and
in attributing to it likes and dislikes,
perceptions, expressions of will and of
temper, and various virtues and fail
ings which are incompatible with its
stage of development. 1t is q very
natural misconcepton. Mothers may
be interested in comparing their chill
dren's progress with that OF the typical
baby; we therefore subjoin the follow
ing table:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

That dire disease, pneumonia, is
working sad destruction TO life in New
England In the present spring months.
1t claims its victims among the young
and vigorous, as we'll as those more
open to the attacks of ordinarily fatal
diseases, and it cuts down untimely many
useful careers. 1t is to be hoped that
the worst form of its manifestations is
past: yet word of caution to the pub
lie is still not inappropriate. 1t is we'll
to remember that we live in climate
which is peculiarly threatening to life
in the months of the year when violent
changes are to be apprehended. The
belief in the balmy spring of New En-
gland is altogether delusion. Mild
ness of atmosphere seldom prevails at
that time beyond brief period, and,
when it does appear, the indication is
one for warning much more than justi-
flying confidence. Deadly disease lies
in wait under spring in her most at
tractive aspect at this period. If one
is deluded into the belief that our eli
mate can be trusted, it is only to be be
trayed to danger, If not to death: and
of late there appears to be a tendency
to breed epidemics in the atmosphere,
from the effect of which the most eau
tious often fail 10 escape. Sudden
changes in the weather have become
almost the rule in spring: and if they
are not fully established as the rule,
the safest course is to assume that they
will come, and to be prepared as much
as possible to resist them. IL the South
has its malarial epidemics, the North
has its climatic ones as we'll; and pure
and cold breezes bear with them at
times an element as destructive to life
as do the tainted airs poisoned with mi
asma which are engendered in tropical
climes. Death lies in wait in more than
one form, and, with the frequent warn
ings that have been furnished, it is evil
dent that the human system cannot be
too sedulously guarded against his APP
proachcs. boston Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
Waste of Bullets i'm War.

Our readers may have seen or heard
the statement that it takes soldiers
weight of lead to kill him in battle, and
they may have considered it to be mere
ly rhetorical hyperbole, suggested by
the obvious fact that comparatively few
out of the whole number of shots in
war take effect. 1t seems, however,
that the assertion, which originated
with the famous Marshal SAKE, was
proved by Cassendi, after careful
mathematical calculation, to be no ex-
aggeration, and, with all the improve
ments that lave been made in muskets
and in the art of using them effectively,
it is still not far from the truth. At
the battle of Solferino comparison of
the number of shots fired on the Aus
trian side with the number killed and
wounded on the part of the enemy
shows that 700 bullets were expended
for each man wounded, and 4, 200 for
each one killed. Now, .as the average
weight of the ball used was thirty
grams, it must have required at least
126 Kilograms, or about III pounds of
lead, to kill q man. In the Franco
Prussian war the slaughter caused BY
the needle-gun among the French shows
how much superior that frearm was
to the Austrian carbine; but about
1900 shots were required then to ac-
complish the destruction, of a single
soldier. 1t is found in practice that q
great majority of the wasted bullets 60
over the heads of the enemy; hence re-
sort is sometimes had 20 the expedient
of pressing down, by means of staff,
the muskets of platoon of men about
to fire; sergeant being detailed for
the service. When the shots are aimed
at an isolated soldier, the chances
against him are, of course, greater
but even then the waste of lead is some
thing enormous. In the Franco-Prus.
sian war, according to an officer who
witnessed the performance, a French
company of chasseurs fired for quar-.
ter of an hour at German mounted
sentry posted on a hillock about three
hundred yards off. Full four hundred
shots were fired before either man oil
horse was hit. A really expert marks
man would probably have picked of
the man at the very first attempt, OF
certainly at the second Popular Sci
e1lce Nelcs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
Architecture of the Oyster.

At meeting of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
paper was read asserting that the ex-
treme age of an oyster is twenty years.
Now 1 have previously demonstrated
that an oyster might be in fair edible
condition at the age of thirty years.
Here are tho shells of one of the oysters
on the characters of which the statement
was based. This double shell Is thirty
years old, and the inclosed mollusk was
large and in fair condition.
In building its shell the oyster starts
with the hinge end, at the spot known
to conchologists as the jumbo. A small
plate or single scale now represents
each valve, and that is the first seasons
growth. The next season a new growth
or plate shoots out from underneath the
first one, just as the shingles do. The
oystermen call these laps, or plates,
Shoots" and they claim that the num-
Der of shoots indicates the years of the
oyster. They certainly do contain a
record of the seasons, showing the slow
growing and fasS-growing seasons.
But there is often great difficulty In
clearly differentiating these shoots.
The record is often obliterated in places
by the growth of parasites, which build
their shells or tubes upon the oyster.
/ have likened these shoots to shingles.
Now, at the gable of house these
shingles may be seen edgewise. So on
the one side of an oyster shell is series
of lines. This is the edgewise view of
the shoots or season growths.
Another factor is this purple spot. or
scar. in the interior of the shell. 1t is
the place of attachment of the abductor
muscle. It's first place of attachment
was close up to the hinge. Had it staid
there until the shell had become adult,
how difficult would be the task of pull
ing the valves togetherl the leverage to
be overcome would be so great; for we
must bear in mind the fact that at the
hinge end the valves are held by this
black ligament, which is, in life, elastic,
swelling when the shell opens and be-
ing compressed when the animal draws
the valves together.
SO with every years growth or elon-
CATION of the shell the mollusk moves
the place of attachment of the muscle
onward; that is, an advance further
from the hinge. AS it does so it covers
up with white nacre all the scars that
are back of the one in actual use at the
point of attachment of the muscle.
This you can prove by eating off with
nitric acid this covering, and thus ex-
posing the whole life series of scars OF
attachments. Lockwood.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
What Free Lunches Cost.

Millions in free lunches are spent
every year in New York. No other city
in the world can equal it. There are
over 10000 saloons in the city that run
free-lunch counters. Some of them
are at great expense each day to sup
ply free lunch to their customers.
The cheap saloons have reduced the
matter to science, and know almost
exactly how many ounces they have
consumed each day. The New York
Mail has gathered some statistics as TO
the expenses of the various saloons and
made an average of them. The follow
ing table will not fall far short of the
exact daily expenses of the free lunches
of all the saloons. The Sundays are
left out in the estimate:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

MRS. Stintem,' remarked Fogg,
with one of his most insinuating smiles,
@this cake reminds me so much of my
mothers cooking?" -
"Does it, Mr.. Fogg?" replied the
landlady, her face lighting up with
pleasure. II am sure you are very
kind to say so. You fatter me. indeed
you do" III
"Not a bit of it, said Fogg. Every
time i taste of it it reminds me Of my
poor old raother's cake"
"Yes?"
Eyes; il was cooked so long ago, you
know. Dos Transcript.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

at is true" said lady, Il scarcely
know a girl who wants to marry. They
are learning something in the way of a
profession, something that will interest
them as we'll as support them-two
roles in which husbands just now fail.
The truth is, we are all scared away
from any desire to marry by seeing
how wretched those who do marry are
Where should we look for husbands ?
Among the 'snips, and sports and
characterless young men that fill our
drawing-rooms? They are insufferable
as mere acquaintance and beaux; who
could contemplate them as husbands ?
/ have always thought that If could
find young man at all like my father
] could love and marry him; but that
school of men has vanished frem the
younger ranks"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

In asking man questions concern
ing his wife, You should not say "How
is your lady?' This is vulgarity, and
invariably betrays lack of cultivation.
The term of wife is far more beautiful,
and appropriatexand refined, whatever
may be said to tie contrary. Suppose
lady were to say, instead of my hus-
band, my gentleman" or suppose we
were to speak of MRS. Fitz Maurice
and her gentleman" The thing would
be positively ludicrous, and its diverse
is none the less 80 il rightly considered
A mans wife is his wife, and not his
lady. Tho term should be tabooed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
First With intention
.BdbyhOod.
A Tonic in the True Sense of the Word.

Not all medicinal Preparations called tonics
arc such. mere stimulant of appetite, which
gives simple FLIP to Nature which re-
moves no obstacle to her processes in the
human system. is in no true sense a tonic
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters not only far
transcends In purity the ordinary unmedicated
stimulants OF commerce, the cheap local bitters,
and ye-openers vended as tonics, but where
they are poweress to do more than lmpart a
stores digestion, remedies biliousness and in
sures regularity in the habit Of body. 1t IL,
therefore, a tonic in the true sense of the word.
for does it not renew harmony of tone I'm the
most important functions of the body, where all
before discordant, feeble, and inharmoni-
Gus? Besides this, its invigoratng and regu-
lating effects constitute IL the best possible
safeguard against malarial diseases. 1t con-
quers rheumatism, kidney complaints, and
nervousness.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
A SnI Death.

In Philadelphia recently, at Coroners
inquest over the body of a child, the jury
returned verdict that death was caused by
the administration of patent cough syrup,
containing morphia. DIR. Saml X. Cox,
of Washington, states that not one cough
medicine in ten is free from this objection.
After careful analyses and practical tests,
he indorses Red Star Cough Cure as being
purely vegetable, absolutely free from
opiates, poisons, ana narcotics. He regards
it as a most happy and valuable discovery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
An Encouraging Sign.

"I'll tell you great secret, but you
must promise not to give it away"
"Of course not.
Il believe Miss Birdie McGinnis is
gone on me. I've almost made up my
mind to pop the question"
What did she say to your"
"She didn't say anything to me pre-
cisely, but at the picnic on Onion Greek
she patted my dog on the head. Isn't
that an encouraging sign?" t.fft.
eyes, that's the next thing to patting
you on the head. Your turn will come
next."--Teras Strings. 81
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

To RESTORE the original qualities to
steel which has been burnt in the forge,
plunge the metal at red heat into a
mixture of two parts OF pitch, two parts
of train oil, one part of tallow, and a
small quantity of common salt. Repeat
the operation two or three times. Ex-
cellent results have frequently been so
obtained.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

THE Colosseum at Rome had seating
capacity of over $1,000. The building
having the greatest seating capacity in
the United States is the Madison Square
Garden. IL has accommodations for
3, 443 persons.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

MENsMAN's PEPToNIZED BEEF Tonic. the
only preparation of beef containing its en-
tire nutritious properties. Ii contains blood
making, force generating, and DEMONSTRATING
properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys-
pepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms Of
general debility; also, in all enfeebled condi-
tions. whether the result OF exhaustion, nerv-
GUS prostration, over-work, or acute disease,
particularly If resulting from pulmonary
complaints. Caswell, Hazard e. Co., proprie
tors, New York. Sold by druggists.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

The business man or tourist will find first
class accommodations at the low price of 81
and $3.50 per day at the Gault House, Chica-
60, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This
far-famed hotel is located in the center of the
city, only one block from the Union Depot.
Elevator; all appointments first-class.
HOYT 81 GATES Pronrietnrs
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

permanently cured or no pay. The worst
cases guaranteed! Pamphlet aud references,
two cent stamps. Worlds Dispcnsary Med
ical Association. 1858 Main street Buffalo. NY.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

How OFTEN Is the light OF the household
clouded by signs OF melancholy or irritability
on the part OF the laiies. Yet they are not
10 be blamed, for they are the result of all
ments peculiar 90 that sex, which men know
not OF. But the cause may be removed and
Joy restored by the use of DIR. Pierce S
''favorite Prescriptions" which. as tonic
and ncr vine for dcbiitated women, is GER
tain, safe and pleasant IL is beyond Oil COM
pare the great healer of women.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
Recommendation cuure,

would be q truthful name 10 give 20 DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, tho
most efhcac.ous medicine yet discovered for
arrcsting the early development OF pulmon-
airy disease. hut consumption cure" would
not sufficiently indicate the scope of It's in
fiuence and usefulness. In all the many dis
cases which spring from a arrangement OF
the liver and blood, the sDiscovcry" is q safe
and sure specific or all druggists.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16

People who desire to preserve their
health should be exceedingly careful about
their diet, at this season, and at no time
should they be without supply of PERRY
DAVIS PAIN KILLER. 1t is used externally
and internally.