davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-12-05
A Living Barometer.

st. Nicholas.
1t is well known fact that several
Of our smaller animals are so sensi-
tive to changes from heat to cold and
from dry to moist that they tell
those changes some time in advance.
In the Smithsonian institutions
list of animals valuable to man the
tree toad is mentioned as an excellent
weather prophet, and l can testify to
it, power of foretelling the change in
the weather. | have in my posses
sion paper weight in the shape of a
bronze frog supporting upon its back
a glass tube with a bulb at the bot
tom. Some months ago | was fOrtu-
nate enough to catch a tree toad and,
having heard of his ability as a
weather prophet, put him into my
glass tube and made from matches a
small ladder SO that he could climb
up or down within the tube. | soon
found that the approach of a change
in the weather was always noticed by
the little prisoner, who climbed to-
ward the top whenever the air grew
moist or before rain, and as invaria-
bly, descended toward the bottom Of
the tube in advance of the coming o.
dry weather.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

A CHEMICAL examination of water
brought up from great depths in the
Mediterranean proves, as suspected,
that the deep sea water is more salt
than that at the surface, though moth
ing can be found to show the existence
OF bed of salt at the bottom to pro-
duce such extra saturation; in fact,
strata of water of less density are met
with below those of greater density.
Thus it appears that the outer current
in large part carries with it the excess
of salt produced by the surface evapo-
ration, the cause of the circulation be-
ing due, it is believed, to hydrostatic
action purely. That is, the water of
the Mediterranean is continually losing
by evaporation larger amount than is
returned to it by rains or rivers, and,
consequently, the inflow from the At
lantic must take place to keep up the
level. If this inflow consisted of fresh
water, the total quantity of salt in the
Mediterranean would remain the same,
and the density, therefore, would I'M
dergo no increase; but, as the upper
current of salt water brings in certain
quantity of salt in addition to that
which the Mediterranean basin previ-
ously contained, the density of this
water is increased, and column of it
reaching to any given depth becomes
heavier than a corresponding column of
Atlantic water, the excess of downward
pressure consequently displacing the
lower portion of the column of water.
which will flow outward as an under
current
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12
Improving on an Auihor.

Wilkie Collins had reserved all rights
to his novel. "Man and Wife," but I'M
fortunately he dramatized his own
work. An infringement speedily took
place. Wilkie Collins sued. The
spoiier defended himself, and set up in
his defense that his adaptation was bet
ter than that of Mr.. Collins. He had i'm
proved upon the denouement, he claim
ed. The Judge agreed with him, and
gave verdict for the defendant.
@But," expostulated the novelist, II
expressly reserved all rights"
@That is not disputed" replied the
Judge grimly.
"Then what is the use of my reserv-
ing any rights?"
II don't know said the Judge,
quietly. "You have written an excel
lent novel. You signifed your inten-
ton to dramatize it. The presumption
was that the public would benefit most
by your dramatizing it. That presump-
ton has been rebutled,' continued his
Honor. growing moro stern. "Your
machine has been improved uponl"-
Ingleside.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12
Its Mission Not Ended.

AS long as the Democratic party chops
open ballot boxes in the North and prevents
men from voting in the South ON account
of color, the mission of the Republican
party is not ended.
As long as ree-fourths Of the foreign
appointments are filed by ex-rebel officers,
and there are deserving Union soldiers, the
mission of the Republican party is not
ended.
AS long as the Democratic party en-
dangers American labor by agitating free
trade measures, the mission of the Repub-
lican party is not ended.
As long as the Democratic leaders in
Northern cities corrupt the ballot-boxes
and change tally sheets, the mission of the
Republican party is not ended.
AS long as one vote in the South has the
power in the Electoral College of three
times as many in the North, the mission of
the Republican party is not ended.
AS long as Union soldiers are removed
from Office and men are appointed because
of the part they took in the hanging of "old
John Brown" the mission of the Repub-
lican party is not ended.
As long as Legislatures gerrymander
States SO as to give Democrats two repre-
sentatives for the same number of votes
that the Republicans get one, the mission
of the Republican party is not dead.
As long as Southern paper prints in its
editorial column that il proposes ITO have
the blood of any white hound who will dare
to vote the Radical ticket" the mission of
the Republican party is not ended.--BIoom-
in0ton Telephone.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12
TURKEY AND THANKS.
Presldent Cleveland Preclaims the Last
Thursday In November -
Thanksgiving Day.

Tho following proclamation has been
issued b President Cleveland:
BY the President Of the United gtates-
The American people have always abundant
prosperity for which 10 be thankful 10 Almighty
God, whose watchful care and guiding hand
have been manifested In every stage of their
national life, guarding and projecting them In
time Of peril and safely leading them m tho
hour OF darkness and danger. II is fitting and
proper that a nation thus favored shoua one
day m every year, for that purpose especially
appointed, publicly aclsnoNledge the goodnsss
OF God and return thanks 10 Him for all His
gracious gifts.
Therefore /, Grover ClevelssS. President Of
the United States of America, 10 hereby desix-
nate and set apart Thursday, me 18th day Of
November instant, as day Ct pablo thanks
giving and prayer, and do invoke the observ-
ance Of the Same by all the people Of the land
That day let all secular business DO suspended,
and let the people assemble in their usual
plhces OF worship and with prayer and songs
Of praise devoutiy testify their gratitude 70
the glver OF every good and perfect gift for all
that He has done for ms in the year that has
passed; for our preservation as q unised ma
ton, and from our deliverance from tbs shock
and danger Of political convulsion; for the
blessings of peace, and for our safety and quiet
while wars and rumors Of wars have agitated
and afflicted other nations Of the earth: for our
security against the scourge of pestilence
which in other lands has claimed its dead by
thousands and filed the streets with mourning;
for plenteous crops which reward the
labor OF the husbandTnan and increase
Of our nations wealth, and for the con-
tentment throughout our borders which follow
IN the train OF prosperity and abundance. And
les there, also, be on the day set apart reunion
Of families, sanctifed and chastened by tender
memories and associations, and let the social
Intercourse of friends with pleasant reminis-
eences renew the ties Of affection and strength
en- those Of kindly feeling And let us by no
means forget, while we give thanks and enjoy
the comforts which have crowned our lives,
that truly grateful hearts are inclined to deeds
of charity, and that kind and thoughtful re-
membrance will double the pleasures of our
condition, and render our praise and thanks
giving more acceptable In the sight Of the
Lord
Done at the city Of Washington this I'd day of
November, eighteen hundred and eighty
II. 81 live, and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND, President
BY the President: Thomas f. Bayard, Secre-
tary Of State.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

The movement to confer on the
women of China and India the benefits
of Western medical science has brought
brilliant opportunities within reach of
female physicians. DR.. Woodruff, who
began to practice her profession the
day after her arrival at Foochow last
winter, writes that the calls upon her
services are more than she can meet.
The hospital for Chinese women re-
Gently opened at Shanghai. under the
charge of American women, is already
well filled with patients. Lady Duff
ferin is President of the association
that has been established in India to
import skilled women physicians from
Europe and America for the purpose
of training capable native nurses, mid
wives, and medical practitioners. Every
white physician in Oriental countries
is asked almost daily if he cannot
prescribe for suffering women without
seeing them. Declared by social Gus
toms from consulting men doctors,
Oriental women are the victims of great
and unnecessary misery. They are
thus shut out from the advantages Of
Western medical art, although they
know its value and desire to avail them
selves of its resources.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12
THE STEEL CRftIsERs.
A Plan for Their Completion Decided Upe
by the Navy Department..

A Plan for Their Completion Decided Upon
by the Navy Department.
At the conference at the Navy Depart
ment, between Secretary Whitney, the chiefs
Of the bureau Of steam engineering and Of
construction and repair, and the members
of the naval advisory board, the plan for
the completion of the unfinished cruisers
Chicago, Boston and Atlanta was ar
ranged and decided upon. The work
on the vessels will DO continued at
the yards where they now lie by the
Bureau of Steam Engineering and
Bureau Of Construction and Repair, and
they will bear the same relation 10 the
Government as the original contractors did.
The bureaus will be held responsible for
what is done, and the work will be con-
Quoted under the direction of officers repre-
senting the bureaus. The Naval Advisory
Board will have its representatives at the
yards, who viii supervise all work and
material, as formerly. If any changes or
notifications in the original plans are
deemed necessary the same course will be
pursued as before the Government took
CHARGE
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

AT Kilrush races, in the county Of
Glare. Ireland, the other day, one OF
the animals entered for the race was the
property of gentleman obnoxious to
the Parnellite party, to whom notice
was sent to withdraw the horse, and il
was announced in posters that there
would be disturbin if he insisted on
competing The horse had white stock
ings and star, which would have i'm
mediately disclosed his identity, so a
paint brush was brought into requisi-
ton to efface the stockings and the
star, and the result proved satisfactory.
The animal in this disguise not only
ran but won.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

THE daughter of well-known WON
an is thus described by correspond
emit: The genuine Newport belle, for
she has lived there since she was a
child, is Maud Howe, daughter of Julia
Ward Howe. and who, though vergine
on 30, is still quite as beautiful as when
she sat for portrait now in the Cor
coran Gallery at Washington. which
attracted so much attention when il
was exhibited at the Royal Academy.
She is striking looking woman, with
an "exquisitely turned Jaw" q perfect
neck, and an artistic head-round which
she binds wreath of ivy, in the style
OF the winner of the Olympian games.
She is lady OF caprices. At present
aesthetic garments are her fad, and she
attires herself in limp, loose gowns OF
dull faded colors, which cling about
her in a way that would have charmed
Rossetti. Dogs are, with her, another
manif
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

A WASHINGTON bookseller says Sec
rotary Bayard reads heavy books. The
only work the President is known to
have purchased lately is that of the
Hon. James G. Blaine. Secretary
Whitney reads great deal. He doesn't
confine himself, however, to politics,
history, or philosophy. He is very
fond of novels and reads many. Some
are the best and some are the lightest
He is fond of Hugh Conway, Miss Muir.
free, and Mrs. Alexander's works. He
reads such novels as "The Vagrani
Wife," ~The Tinted Venus" Called
Back" "Struck Down." etc. Secretary
Endicott reads novels, too. But he
never buys anything in English. He
always gets French novels, and reads Q
great many of them. Other member:
of the Cabinet appear to read little, oil
at least to buy few books.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

A cARRIAGE-RoAD is to be made from
Jerusalem to the ruins made at Jericho
by the blast of Joshua's rams horns.
A small modern village now stands
near the ruins, which are sunk 1900
feet below the sea level in a we'll
watered but dreadfully hot valley. A
shrine near the road is a monastery at
the very cave in which Elijah is said to
have been fed by the ravens. The
monastery is literally hung on to the
face of the precipice, and consists of a
series of cells and hall supported on
vaults through which lies the entrance.
A few Greek monks live like birds
perched on the edge of nest in this
singular abode, to which a chapel
pinnacled on rock is attached.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

COMPETENT authorities estimate that
not more than six per cent. of the dig
ging has been done in connection with
the vast enterprise in the hands of the
Panama Canal Company. Financially
the obligations Of the company are said
to be $3.50, 100000. Engineer Menocal
estimates the actual cost Of the entire
work at 1915, 100000 To raise this
sum of money and the annual cash In
terest, will raise the obligations of the
canal to upward of 5000, 900, 900 before
its completion. 1t would require a
Frenchman's fight of fancy to imagine
that the Panama Canal can ever pay
its expenses, and also sum sufficient
to pay any reasonable rate of interest
on the capital and funded debt.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

THE three Oldest consulting libraries
in the United States are those of Har.
ward, Yale, and the New York Society.
Harvard College began its career with
q library which was part OF the be-
qness from John Harvard, but in 1854
q fire completely destroyed its accumu-
lations of 1876 years. Yale College be-
gan it's collections in 100, and was
aided thirty-three years later by the
bequest of 1000 volumes from Bishop
Berkeley, yet in 1764 it amounted tc
only 1000 volumes. The New York
sosiety's library, now containing so, 0OC
volumes, was founded in 100, but il
did not take this name until 1854. The
flourish oldest library is that in Phile-
delphia founded by Benjamin Franklin
and his friends in 1871. The library
has now over 10000 volumes, and,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

Mrs. O'CoNNELL. who has just set
tied her boycotting difficulties, is the
daughter and heiress Of very re-
markable man, Charles Binnconi, who
went to Ireland as poor Italian boy
peddler of images, and founded the
celebrated Bianconi cars, which for
many years were the only public con-
veyances in many districts in Ireland,
and the most popular in all. He was a
strong Nationalist, and supported mu-
nificently all O'Connell's movements.
The boycotted lady when very young
welded Morgan John O'Connell, aman
thirty years her senior, a nephew of
the Liberator, and. as Nj. p. for
County Kerry, one of the most pop
ular men in the House. Since his
death and her fathers, which followed.
she has devoted herself to her only
boy. John, who was deformed and q
cripple from childhood, and who, after
being unsuccessfully treated by many
of the first surgeons of Europe, has
been SO completely renovated as to ride
to hounds, through series of opera
tions by DR.. Lewis Sayre, which are
recorded among the special triumphs
of surgery. The lady is winsome and
bright, and has been always charitable,
generous, and patriotic. Her boycott
ting has created universal surprise
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

In some respects, h n unsurpassed BY any
other collection of boa h IN the coun-
try. It's income i about = '0'o0o year.
Of which third is only ~. snasie ior
the purchase Of new books, NSs /" az
tempts. with much success. to 90 the
same kind of service that Is \sccos~ 4
plished by the Boston Public Library,
whose income is $125. ZOO.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12
Ihs Urils Wprthsrusr.


The authorities Of London hospital
have hit upon the novel idea Of using
their extra ambulance for giving chill
dren and convalesoent patients an occa-
sional ride. This benevolent scheme
has been found to pay well also. for the
resulting Improvement in health Of the
hospitalized patients has made IL posi-
bic to give them an earlier discharge.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

Two business men of st. Johns have
purchased 5000 barrels of apples in Clin-
ton County. They have dried 1000 bushels,
yielding 10000 pounds of dried fruit, and
last month paid out $4,000 in their bust
ness.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

Col. John Atkinson is announced for
lecture at Ann Arbor, Nov. 20, under the
auspices of the G.. A. Il. An address win
also be given by President Angel, and
recitation BY Mrs. Garigues, of Ann Arbor.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

A BOSTON physician has given the name
of tennis elbow to q new ailment contract
ed by persons who devote themselves too
Professionally to the game.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

THE amount annually paid TO school
teachers in the United States is $60,-
000,O 900, an average of about 400
apiece.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

Mr.. BLAINE is reported 10 have once
said, In reply to q remark: sIn politics
there is no gratitude. Politics means am
bition and eucceesn
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12
QUADRUPLETS.
A 81. Louis wife Gives Birth 20 -Four
Girls at One CLIP.
rSt Louis sp6ciall

Mrs Michael Gallagher, the wife Of q
policeman living at No. 1904 Biddie street,
became the mother this evening of quad
ruplets, all girls. The mother and children
are all doing we'll. This is the fourth case
of bankruptcies born on that street and in
Mrs. Gallagher were married in New York
City twelve years age, and had six children,
but all single births, before the quadruplets
came.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

THE saddle Of Gen. Robert 4. Lee and
the squadron of gray coated cavalry carried
Virginia with whirl. 1t is the story of the
Gid in politics.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12

1T costs $1,000 year to keep up the
Yale boat club, SIS, 1000 year for the bah
nine, and $4,000 year for a football
team.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-12
THE NATIONS FINANCES.
The United States Treasurer's Regular
Monthly Debt Statement.

The following is a reorganization Of the debt
statement issued on the LIST of November:
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-17
=. d. NWEENEl. C.. l.. -" AikEi
SWEENEY 6I.W ALKER.
Il W. HURST

A T"r0Rr syS AND COZ NSGtI.DRS At LAW.
II bniCc il Es'ns-ron' block, Rock Island. Ill
aug i-dvY
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-17

THROWN DOWN BY TIE BELLIC0Ss
SERvlAN KING.
Ills Troops Cross the Hungarian ironticf
ON Saasuinary Purposes intHi'-A
5ntiI. Itnninent-Eso ycott,u& -
Steamship iine-H"reisn
Notes


bEh1'tAnE oct. u. -S"rVia lHH = 80
agh!a'' tine decision II tie ar't'H AL r, ga
TIE itIumet,rn question, ant htr en-
meheed military operation, ain i'A'-
garia. large force Of HarFI"' l''"l''
Gro sci tho bulgarian frontier from Ai'aa ~
o'c ok Thur ily afternoon
CpNsTANrISnrrE, Oct. Il a I'FF' force
Ct turkish troop. have boon "r4-rse al
vance IN the direction OF Nis5n. a t-tVH
bot"sen the SsrTians nni IU'H5 IS nm
m0'n'.
st lETERSBrEG, oct. III ." 'Ht!.r
ii, 5 Fetersbur-, in cofnm5Dtlos ul ,ha
Bulgarian uu- ton, shows sigH- of lmp4-
tiance at tho delay IN settling the
difficulty AMI sgy7: Russia viii NOT
submit to tue dictatiun uf ". kre
velof, tho Bulgarian primo minister
If the warning Of the am ba-sad r. tn Prin'"
Alexander to g,acify Epumelsa no tho rf-E
OF lp,imz the ,tljnn. doe, not MAKE Lui- .r.E
returl 10 rpl n, tile fresh cont HraH .
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-17

iutcros allowe: q popetUa st .he rs:G Of
ror Can't. per hlnur!.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-17

The entire range of patent medicines
cannot produce preparation which en-
joys among the community in which il is
manufactured. as high and as unrivalcd Il
reputation as Mishler's Herb Btters. EXs
Mayor Sandcrsop. OF Lancaster Pa, was
one of thousands in Lancaster city and
county who have given cordial tests
mony to It's value rs a medicinal prcpara.
ton and we may add that the entire
population of city and county are firm
believers in lis virtues The best emblem
of its worth is in the fact that its sales
are largest where 1t has been longest in
PRODUCED
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-17
ether CAUSES \ SENSATION.


Class Ii" hN I@ Use.
BO>rON OF. II - Ais, Elma Turner, who
caused quito II sensation in this city by
Eating That she ha boon abducted and
robbed by tw" m'n a week age
while waiting Mt the on Colony
depot for the New York train,
confessed that her Atry was false.
Sn0 has been addicted to the use of ether.
She said that ehe went to the Oli Colony
depot, ntau ling to go to Now York, whore
she had secured n position as nurse in the
New York hospital At the depot she was
taker with an nae ,ntrolublo nai unac.
countabta impulse not to go to New York,
and She bIu ;ht tickot for YAH River, and
had her bag gage checked to Tat city. Sha
then won't To a drug store ON Washington
street and purchased bottle of ether.
After hnvin; used some OF tho ether she
wandered about the streets Himlas,ly. and
finally raHcnoi Bow lnin sugIsre Having
in tho meHptim, thrown away he clsckS
for her baggage she toarlei q Clmhrilgo
horse car and rpio to Mount Auburn street
From there shn wnlkal t, her uncle in East
tfTr7TtJwn. Dn her way there She threw
away Lor tnonay, watch, etG., all Of which
has becn recovered. The luggage wa,
found at Fail River and brou5 GIT to thi.
pttV
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-17
EFFECTS or A BOYCOTT.
A Steamship Company Seriously I'm
barraEsed Thereby.

barrassed Thereby.
LONDON, oct. Il. Tho boycotting Of the
Cork Steam Packet line by the local caltl'
dealers is entaiiing very serious con -
qleucc, upon the company. seventy five per
cert of its incoaic has hithorIo been derivci
from cattlo freights, aud the shipments
of Cattle now male by the landlords
and farmer do not begin to equal those for
merly made by the dealers IL the ban i
not removed by the ont of this wock the
company will DO compelled to discharge
many workman and to lay up several
steamers. The consequence of this action
would be widespread distress. Tho shares
of tho Cork Steam Packet company
have always been considered perfectly
safe and reasonably profitable Investment
They have always been favor.to with tru4-
teoS If small estates, aud most OF them are
now held by widows and orphans, vino have
been entirely dependent upJn the small but
regular dividends hitherto paid by the com.
pany. Urgent appeals hove been moda
on behalf of this class of investors to
Mr. parnell begging him t, uso his in
fiuence ana authority So prevent tho do
structon of tho company'S business Mr.
Parnell has been much touched by these
appeal. but hc heJitats7 about Interfering
john D'Cunnur, member OF parliament for
Tipperary, speaking on thi' suffice, mt Dun
garvan. applaudel the action If the Cork
cattlsn,en, and said that tho Nationalist.
would nover rest until every port in irelqnG
was closed against the landlords. A GOV
elnmant reporter was present and Mr.
O'Connor will probably be prosecuted Tor
melting seiiton.
LATER - A break has alrea ly occurred in
the urgnmizt tion Of cattle d'llor. formed
for the purpose of boycatting tho C0rI line