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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

give the dress called the wrapped
bodice" the apron front drapery, the
wide long ribbon sashes and the
shoulder knots of ribbon, which will
be features of juvenile toilets at the
fashionable resorts. Even as early as
this, on the brighter and warmer after
noonA such costumes are seen in the
city to some extent. / observed four
of them worn by quartet Of pretty
creatures on the top of a double
decker Fifth avenue stage. You can
now see these new and singular vehi
cles rolling along at all hours and in
all weathers with their roofs loaded
and only couple of passengers inside.
Every one wants to ride outside, be-
cause it is supposed to be fashionable.
/ can remember when there was an
effort made to run double-decker
street cars here. 1t failed because
very few passengers would climb to the
roof. Ii these double-decked stages
had been put upon the avenue at the
start, probably nobody would have
patronized the roof seats. But when
the stage line was started il got to be
the thing for fashionable women to
take trip up and down the avenue on
the seat behind the driver. Pretty
soon the stages were tested to their
fullest capacity for the roof
seats. Then time was ripe for the
double-deckers, and they came into
use in great style. 1t is considered
quite correct for swell girls to make
trips on the conspicuous roofs of these
stages, but they must be careful to
mount at the starting point, and make
the entire round trip to the place of
alighting-not short rides for utility,
but only tours for exploits.
Dinner toilets are now made, for the
sake of oddly, with simplicity hith-
erto unknown in that sort of clothing.
The New York belle has been accus-
toned to dress herself about as elab-
orately for q ceremonious dinner as for
ball There was practically no diff
ference between dresses for the two
sorts Of occasions. Low necks and
short sleeves were characteristics of
both, and so were the most elegant
materials and the most elaborate orna-
mentation. But this spring the fancy
of young women has taken sudden
turn toward simplicity, and at very
swell dinner, the other night, five of
eight young feminine guests wore white
muslin. This simple and cheap ma
terial was made up in corresponding
plainness of style. The instance shown
in our final drawing displays a square
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02
THE TARIFF DEBATE.
McMi,lin, of Tennessee, Attempts to
Defend the Presidents Free
Trade Message.
Burrows, of Michigan, Moves on the
Works, Captures and Spikes Mr.
Cleveland's Guns.
The Mills Bill Exposes to Foreign
Assault Many of Our Principal
Industries.

In the course of speech in the National
House of Representatives on the Mills
revenue bill, Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee,
declared that the internal revenue system
against which the gentleman from Penn
sylvania (Kelley) inve ghed had not been
inaugurated by the Democratic party.
Mr.. Kelley admitted that the Democratic
party had not enacted the law, but declar-
ed that it had made it necessary for the
Republican party, which remained in Con-
,gress during the war. to provide the sinews
for that war, and thus forced that party to
resort to thermal taxes and all the hard
ships resulting from them.
Mr.. McAlillin replied that the gentle
man from Pennsylvania not only inaugur-
ated the internal taxes OF which he COM
plained, but he put tax on railroads and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

-Arbor Day was observed at Hillsdale
College by planting thirty trees on the
campus in memory of the thirty students
from that institution who fell in the civil
war. The endowment of the college is
being steadily increased.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

MosT of the popular hats have wide
brims, intended to be fastened straight
up in the back, leaving the head naked
from ear to ear and collar to crown.
Already misery has begun, and what to
do with the back hair, especially the
loose. flying, ever-curling, scolding
locks, is the coiffeur's puzzle.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

IT is not an uncommon thing to see
a beautiful silver-mounted hand-glass
on the reception-room or library table,
conveniently placed for the fair Gale,
to study her face in.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

SHELL hairpins are made as valuable
as any piece of iewelry that can be
named. The beads form roses, sham
rocks, balls, triangles, bows, stars, and
a variety of other designs set in old
silver, pearls and briliants, turquoise
and garnets, sapphires, moonstones and
opals, with mosaics of gem chips.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

New YORK Girl--So your pa is GO
ing to move to Philadelphia, Maude 2
Don't you think you'll find it awfully
dull there? "Of course, but then the
ferry-boat runs over to Camden in a
very few minutes, you know?"-P,.ck.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

IF the price of coal keeps going
higher it will be the ultra-fashionable
thing for people to move their coal
bins up into the parlor.-SomeruiHe
Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

@I HAVE got the drift of the thing"
the fellow said, as he shoveled snow
three feet deep from his front side
Vineyard Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

C. II. Jackson, aged ffty-three, and
G. A. Jackson, aged twenty-five, the for
mer being the father of the latter, are both
in the present senior class in Hillsdale
College, and viii take their diplomas to-
gether.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

LADY There For the first time
your bill is reasonable. Florist Tex
citedly)-Quick Let me seel must
have made n mistake. Judge.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-02

Next Lesson, @The Lords Supper"
20: 1880
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
Watching the NIeteors.

A Slippery Gulcher says that on return
ing from Virginia on the night of the 10th
instant, when it was supposed meteoric
shower might occur, he found two men who
had "struck 'em rich"
They accosted him with:
"Say, friend, d'y'r see'm-d'y'r seer
zhuttin' starzp'
"Shooting stars?n
"Yeez, zhutin' starr. It's err night fur err
great metomorphic shower, y'r know. Look
up yonder at ZEN. Jack an mes been
watchin' of them las two hours"
"Fines' display kind ever [hic saw" said
Jack, enthusiastically, raising his dropping
head of his breast, and trying TO elevate
his eyes toward the heavens.
"Jack an mes been tryin' to count 'em,
butts impossible millions an myriomes
zoff EN-"
"Myriomes zan' myriomes of 'emP' ex-
claimed Jack, whose chin was again repos-
ing on his bosom.
GAN goin' in stream in one direction
fom'r nor'eas' tor sou'wes'-zhutin' an
zhutin' all er time"
"Zhutin abr time ~ echoed Jack
"We've been obzerv'n' 'em las two hours,
amt we, Jacx.'
LAS two hours" assented Jack, and he
began to feel round the tails Of his coat for
something. His companion saw the move
ment, and feeling IN the same place, brought
out a bottle, which he held up against the
sky to note its condition, then took big
pull
The Slippery Gulcher soon satisfied him
self that the meteoric shower seen by the
two men was the sparks streaming out from
the Imperials smokestack, a cabin on the
hill short distance above the two booty
amateur astronomers hiding from their
giOht the ton of the staclr
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COMPILED cURRENclEs.

For over two hundred years shorthand
has bean practiced, but not until within the
last fifty years has it been general,
IT is calculated that in the United States
three million women work for money. OF
these 100000 are engaged in agricultural
PURSUITS.
NEARLY one-third Of the human beings of
earth are unprovlded with houses and the
provisions of civilization, some living In
caves ard huts, and many in the open air.
EXPERIMENTS werc first begun en- nlumi-
nation by coal gas in the year 1526. The
first practical attempt at gas lighting was
carried out at Soho, near Birmingham,
Eng, In 1909.
A PROFESSOR of the Ohio State University
lately purchased some red flannel under
clothing which, when worn a short time,
seriously poisoned his skin. Although of
the best quality, one of the garments was
found to contain sufficient poisonous matter
to kill dog.
A FEW Of the very wealthy people Of the
United States have made their money in
the newspaper business. The proprietor of
the Baltimore San is said to have accumu-
lated fifteen million dollars and several
others as high as ten million.
Or the seventy-five thousand words COM
piled for the use of English speaking people
fully sixty thousand are thought to be su-
perfluOus. Tho fullest known vocabulary is
said to have embraced only sixteen thou
sand wards, while the average university
graduate employs but about four thousand.
A NOTED safe burglar, recently inter
viewed, says that safes should be set on
blocks and placed in a corner in such a po-
sition that the door will shut toward the
wall. This makes it necessary to move the
safe in order to got at the door with the
wedge and jimmy, and she difficult
and dangerous.
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EXCHANGE EXTRACTS.

EUROPE and America are now connected
by nine cables. Thore are thus $4,000
miles of cable employed.
FoRTY-Two acres of land near Omaha
that he bought 81 years ago for 1900, are
about to be sold by a Westminster (Md.)
clergyman for 100000
A RECENT paper by q noted French writer
places The number Of lives already lost
through the Panama canal at forty thou
sand.
SCOTTISH pipers are coming into demand
in this country through the efforts of some
noted Americans who have introduced
them from abroad.
TwENTY-NINE million dollars worth Of
goods are made by the 5000 convicts of
the United States. This is estimated to be
equal to the work of $4,000 free laborers.
A BOON in poll-parrots is the latest
thing in the circle of fanciers. Fabulous
prices are paid in the East for birds that
are accomplished, some bringing as high as
two hundred dollars.
WALL STREET, the center Of finance for
America, was originally so called because
it was laid out along the line of the pail
SADIE, or fence, erected in 1914, and strength
ened in 1853 until it was the city wall.
PASADENA and Los Angeles will be one
city in a brief period, and form continu-
GUS municipality from the Sierra Madre to
the sea-an extent of thirty miles in length
by at least six in width, with 10000 people
contained therein, and will be the capital
Of the richest State in the Union. The
claim of New York rs the Empire State is
already in dispute, but the dispute will soon
be settled by the prominence of South Cal
ifornia.
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IN STUDY AND SHOP.

A NEW dismfectant known as "creolin,n
and said TO be superior to carbolic acid has
come into prominence.
SHEETS Of steel are being experimental
with by galvanizers, with view to ascer-
tanning the qualities applicable to the pro-
cess, and 1t Is thought that steel will sup
plant iron in this industry
A GERMAN authority recommends as very
enectual an apparently very simple method
OF protecting iron from rust The article is
immersed in nearly saturated solution of
chloride Of tin, then washed in water. and
afterward with weak ammonia. The tin
solution must not be too acid, or il will at
tack the iron.
MANY times fire balls seem to be dis
charged during the lightning display, and
they seem often to play queer antics.
The true nature of fire balls is not well
known. 1t may be possible that they are
the luminous end Of gentle discharge of
current electricity passing between a
charged cloud and the earth.
BY a well-lKnown law Of electricity. two
bodies containing opposite sharges have a
tendency to rush towards each other. COM
oine and neutralize. This action is illus
trated IN an ordinary thunder shower. as
When they arc able to overcome the resist
ance Of the air between them the opnosinv
charges Of electricity leap together with a
fash and a report
BLUE vitriol is still the popular name for
sulphate Of copper, which may be obtained
on large scale in various ways, but most
simply by boiling copper in an iron pot with
dilute sulphuric acid, by which means we
obtain a salt chat crystallizcs in oblioue
prisIns OF a clear blue color. which are solu-
bic in four parts Of cold and two of boiling
water, and, when moistened, redden litmus
paper.
THE process for the manufacture of celln-
loid Is little known yet very simple. Paper
Is sprayed with acids until thoroughly sat
urated, then compressed and washed with
water and reduced to a pulp. 1t is next
olcached, mixed with canphor. colored-
ground and spread in thin layers on slabs
Finally it is placed under hydraulic pres
sure and passed between heated rollers.
coming out in elastic sheets.
RECENT estimates have satisfactorily de-
termined snat the dynamic value Of a pound
OF good steam coal has been estimated as
equivalent to the work Of one man ono dav.
while three tons would represent his work
Ior twelve years, counting 800 WORKING
days In year A four-foot seam Womb
yield one tom of good coal to the square
yard, and one square mile in area would rem
resent the labor Of over 100000 men for
/ twenty years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
AMONG MECHANICS.

HIGHLY polished brass may be kept abso-
iutely bright and free from tarnish by thin
ly coating the ARTICLES with varnish Of
bleached shellac and alcohol.
SoMB Of our Western towns are Offering
to supply manufacturers who will locate
there, the free use of gas for fuel both in
their factories and homes. Thus the settler
may obtain light, heat and power in unlim-
tied quantities for nothing.
A VERY thin coating Of glycerine applied
10 glass will prevent frost forming on it in
the coolest weather. This is specially in
teresting to engineers, who are much an
noyed in frosty or foggy weather by the
forming Of q film on their instruments.
A WELD can hardly be made, says a me-
chanic, by mixing iron scales with borax and
using the mixture as a fiux. Mix iron fl
ings with the borax and the thing is simpli-
fed at once. The scales are oxide of iron, and
If not removed from the iron at welding
heat, the iron will not weld.
THE best preparation for the prevention
Of rust on iron is boiled linseed oil, as it
will not interfere with painting. The OBJ
ject is to keep the air or oxygen from COM
ing In contact with the iron. The iron alb
serbs the heat of the air and leaves the
moisture of the same ON the iron, which
produces the rust.
For annealing small pieces Of steel, take
q piece Of gas pipe two or three inches in
diameter and put the pieces in it, first heat
ing one end Of the pipe and drawing it to-
gether, leaving the other end open to look
into. When the pieces are of a cherry red,
cover the fire with sawdust; use charcoal
fire, and leave the steel in over night.
A GOOD can for shellac NAV be made by
taking two cans of the same height, but
with one half-inch higher in diameter
than the other. Have the smaller can
soldered fast in the center of the larger
can, leaving quarter of an inch space all
around. The cover should project down in
to this space about two inches. If this
annular quarter-inch space be filed with
water 1t will prevent absolutely any evap-
Grafton from the shellac when the can is
closed.
A SHAFT that is bent may be Strengthened
by fixing three or five points of stone or
iron, so that fire will not affect them, aud so
that the upper surface will be in exact line.
Then lay the shaft upon them and fix it
firmly, so that the bend will be up Build
fire along the shaft and heat it evenly the
whole length, when comparatively light
pressure will bring it down until it touches
the points previously levelled or fixed in
line. Then allow it to cool, and it will be
found to be straight.
IN some parts Of Germany and Austria
natural pumice stone has been superseded
by an artificial stone, TO which suitable
shape can be given and different de-
grees of flneness of grain obtained, which
allows the stone to be used in all the in
dustries where natural pumice stone was
formerly employed. The ingredients are
white sand, feldspar and fre-clay, mixed in
suitable proportions to obtain the desired
composition, and the paste is poured into
plaster molds, being finally placed in fire.
clay receptacles and baked in ovens.
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MATTERS OF HISTORY.


GOLD wire was first made in Italy about
1850
APPrUs CIAUDrUs invented aqueducts
about 300 b. G.
TIE first copyright bin passed by Con:
greSs became law in 1890
The plague which visited the city of
London il 1903 killed %, 900 persons.-
THE University Of Edinburgh was founded
in 1851, and Trinity College, Dublin, IN 1898.
ANUSD founded the kingdom of Sweden
in 1919; and Canute the Great made himself
King of Denmark in 10l4
BoNBs were invented at venlo in 1895,
and used for the first time by the Turks at
the siege Of Rhodes, in 1922.
STEREoTYPISG was invented by William
Gid, Scotch goldsmith, who first designed
the process in Edinburg in 1876.
TIE foundation Of the Mogul Empire was
laid by Mahamond, the Mohammcdan Sultan
Of Glizna, who, about A. ID. 1000, invaded
India twelve times.
ANTHRACITE coal was first used by two
Connecticut blacksmIths named Gore, in
176S69. Judge Jesse Fell, Of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, was the first TO use il for domestic pur-
poses, in 1S0S.
THE origin Of yankee Doodle' is in
volved in obscurity. IL is said to be che
tune Of an old English nursery song called
"Lucy Lockett," which was current in the
days Of Charles /.
JOIN WALKER, an English chemist, in
vented friction matches in 1879. Alonzo s.
Stephens, Of Springfield, Mass, was the
first 10 secure patent on the invention in
the United States.
The present city Of New Orleans was
founded by the French Governor Bieuville,
in Ills, when a party Of convicts was or
dered TO clear up the swamp that was
chosen as its site.
THE longest criminal trial on record was
that of Warren Hastings for maladminis-
t-ation in India 1t was commenced Feb
ruary Is, 17SS, and continued for seven
years and three months.
Coal gas was first produced by DIR. Clay
ton in 1879, and first applied as an illuminat-
ing medium by Murdoch in Cornwall, Eng,
in 1792. The first display of gaslight was
in Birmingham, Eng, in 1902.
THE origin Of the Hohenzollerns, the pres
ent Imperial family Of Germany, is ascribed
to Thasillo, who, about A d. 500, built the
castle of Hohenzollern in Southern Ger
many. His descendant, Frederick of Nurem-
berg, was made Elector of Brandenburg in
1417
THE great seal of the United States was
adopted by Congress June 20, 1882. The
device was submitted to Congress by
Charles Thomson, and was largely sug-
gested by Sir John Priestwick, the eminent
English antiquary. The motto E pluribus
unum" is SAID to have been suggested by
its appearance on the title page of an En-
glish magazine.
SPEEDwELL was the name of one Of the
two vessels in which the Pilgrims en-
barked at Southampton for America IN 1920
Soon after leaving port the Speedwell was
declared unseaworthy, and the two vessels
put back into the port of Plymouth. In the
latter place the company was divided, and
those regarded as most desirable for col
onists went on board the Mayfower, which
proceeded on the voyage alone.
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YARNLETS S.

A MAN walked into a st. Paul hotel the
other day and dropping his gripsack
seized a pen and scraped it over the page
of the hotel register, leaving broad swath
of ink. When demonstrated with he drew
forth bank book and some checks bearing
similar marks, which he said was his
regular signature.
FRANTIC stranger was seen by some
laborers to plunge into river, and they
pulled him out. He repeated the act three
times with the same result. He was after
ward seen to climb a tree, in the neighbor-
hood, from which he deliberately hung
himself. When berated for not rescuing
him from the rope the laborers replied that
they thought he had simply hung himself
up TO dry.
A QUEER case Of surgery has come to
light. A doctor who was called to attend
a young man who had two ribs broken,
ordered the patients mother to make a big
bowl Of mush and milk and then called
for pair of ladies' corsets. These he pro-
ceeded to lace about the patient, after
which he filed him up with the mush and
milk, and, leaving instructions to keep the
young man well filed with il, departed.
The next day he declared that the broken
bones were rapidly mending.
IN order to avoid injuring the skins Of
offers when capturing them, the trappers
put on wide-legged boots which they I'LL in
with gravel Then they wade in the river.
The moment an otter sees a man coming to-
wards his home he gets angry ana snaps at
the intruder's legs. When once he catches
hold he never opens his jaws until he is
dead. After he once grips the boot it is
easy enough to kill him without harming his
fur.
A PENNSYLVANIA hotel-zeeper was some
time since presented with pair of white
rats In a short time they began to multi
ply, and his pets soon numbered up in the
seventies. One dark night some friends
broke open the cage and set them all free.
The rats fed in all directions, and the town
is now Overrun with rats of all colors and
shades. Tho citizens ase indignant, and
they are loud in denouncing the individual
who liberated the rodents.
WHILE travelling through ARIZONA few
years ago the wife of General Crook threw
some water-cresses out Of che car window
into brook. If rumor be true, the water
cress now grows in luxuriance throughout
the entire Territory, and the ettlers there
abouts have learned TO love it as well as an
Englishman does his breakfast chop. The
finest specimen is called the Crook cress, IN
compliment 10 the lady who is responsible
for its introduction
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OF ground hornets, and tho nest was about
two feet below the surface. II took Ayrcs'
pup about ten minutes 90 reach the nest and
about four seconds for the hornets TO reach
Ayres pun. and thcn affairs ut Fort McRae
begun 70 heat up The hornets divided
themselves into fvc platoons. and tho five
dogs each got Que, and the next moment
each dog raced for homo with a nobulOus
train of dust and hornets In ms wake, and
tho doctors peaceful home, the barracks,
Ayrcs store and headquarters simultano-
ously got a dose Of excitement and inilam-
nation which kept tho hospital busy the
rest OF tho day.
Tho trouble with old Jack was, he never
could lind out whether any thing was
loaded OF not until after no had fooled with
a. He hadn't boon brought up In New
Mexico and he wasn't uscd to the climate
and tho natural history bothered him some.
One day I vas or hunting near Elephant
Bun and ola Jack was along Up on q
ledge about thirty feet high saw bear
and without dismounting took snap shot,
just barking his lex and getting his temper
40 red hot no was cross-cycd. Well, old
Jack heard tho report and suw the bear,
and rushed mp the hin TO retrieve. He
never had seen bear bcforc-thought Il
was some variety n COW, suppose-and
tho more yelled for him 20 come back tho
faster he clawCd gravel 20 get ut tho bear.
Tho bear was mad clcar through but when
ne saw Old Jack tearing up The bin he forgot
All about bis wound and eat down, smiling
I'm d iighthoaricd way, end waited for tho
dog o. come up The dog came. The hill
was steep aud old Jack was out Of breath,
but tho Thought Of how funny Il would DO to
retrieve That bear braccd him mp and no
raced along tho ledge, getting bigger and
bigger with his own importance at every
1nmD. Finally no arrived. but no didn't