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The true northerner., 1899-06-14
SIZE OF ANIMALS.
Certain Species of Our Day Are Much
Smaller Than They Were I'm
Early Eras.

Most of the gigantic animals of geo.
logical eras belonged to species which
have completely vanished, and of those
which have living representatives it is
difficult to say whether they have un-
dergone true change of size or wheth-
er their modern examples are merely
survivals of smaller contemporary va
rieties. The larger animals, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer, have a
tendency to disappear first in par
tial failure of food supply. Gigantic
armadilloes closely resembling those of
the present day were formerly abun-
dant in South America. The remains
of huge sloths are found in Cuba and
North America. Sharks attaining a
length of more than 100 feet are found
in comparatively recent fossil deposits.
Another fish which represents a larger
prehistoric species is the American
pony pike, which is one of the few
survivals of the enormous Ganoids of
the secondary strata. The tiny nautilus
of the present day had kindred ten or
twelve feet long in early times. An
other small shellfish, the pteropod,
whose delicately complex structure is
packed in an inch of shell, is found in
fossil remains to have reached the re-
spectacle length of couple of feet.
The true northerner., 1899-06-14
STUDENTS WITHOUT MONEY.
III They Are Affable and Energetic
They Can Readily Make Their
Way Through College.

There is no reason why a students
food should cost him one cent, writes
Jesse Lynch Williams, advising young
men how to work their way through
college, in Ladies' Home Journal.
Every freshman has just as much right,
and certainly has as good a chance, to
get up an eating club among his own
classmates as the upper classmen have.
A club means merely tableful of eight
or sixteen more or less congenial fell
lows, generally classmates. The man
who runs the club does not cater for 1t.
In most cases he does absolutely moth
ing except gather the crowd together
at the beginning of the year, and in re-
turn he receives his own meals free of
charge. When he has once started 1t
man can generally run a club all
through his course. AS for clothes, a
student ought to be able to earn them
during the long three months of sum-
mer. The present generation does not
wait on table at summer hotels, but it
frequently manages the hotels or acts
as clerks. Many hotel proprietors pre-
fer college men because they are apt
to be gentlemen, and they are good at
organizing athletic games, etc. Other
students act as bathing masters, or
managers of boat houses, or corre-
spondents of city papers at Watering
places, or even as professional enter
tainers at summer hotels where young
men are scarce
The true northerner., 1899-06-14

A Strange story from Vienna De-
scribing the Wonderful Eff
feet of Electricity.

Two years ago, according to the vi
emma Fremdenblatt, Viennese mer-
chant brought back from a business
trip in Africa Soudanese negro 10
years old, named Ibual Lacho.
Ibual soon learned the ways of vi
emma, beginning with the German Ian
guage, astonishing the boulevards with
elegant costumes and finally acquiring
certain fashionable nervous disorders.
These famous homeopathic specialist
subjected TO electrical treatment.
Strange to say, Ibual began to grow
white, gradually passing through the
coffee-and-milk stages until he became
in complexion Caucasian, though the
shape of his face remained unchanged.
Ibuals doctor thinks that the black
pigment in the boys skin was gradual
ly disintegrated and washed out, as it
were, by the electric current. The chief
coloring matter, melanin, or pig
mentum nigrum, found in the eye, hair
and skin of the negro, contains iron
and strongly reacts upon electrical ap-
plication.
American physicians will hardly
know how seriously to take this report.
1t is well known, however, that negroes
are much more susceptible to the ac-
ton of electricity than white men.
There have been several cases of the
severe burning of negroes by the ap-
plioation of the Y ray, usually harm
less 10 white skins. 1t is now general
ly considered dangerous to X-ray a
black man.
The true northerner., 1899-06-14
SHIPS CHINA AND SILVER


Helen c. Candee gives an interesting
view of Housekeeping on an Ocean
Steamship" in Ladies' Home Journal,
thus describing the vessels china and
silver: There are thousand spoons
for soup, the same number for tea, and
half that number for coffee and dessert.
The heaviest fork drawer contains a
thousand dinner forks, and next to that
is the same number of breakfast forks.
For raw oysters there are 300 forks pro-
vided, and for fish about the same num-
Der. Knives follow closely the same
figures, 1000 each of dinner and break
fast sizes, GOO for dessert, and 260 for
fruit. The pantry is lined with shelves
which are fitted with racks in which
stand high piles of china, secure from
the motion of the stormiest sea. The
plate-warmer holds many of them, but
there are enough left to stock china
shop. There are 1,2OO cups and saucers
for coffee, tea and bouillon; there are
over 400 water tumblers, and other
glasses in smaller proportion. The
plates of the popular size number 2,2Oo,
and the soup plates are only 49,"
The true northerner., 1899-06-14
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Thousands of remarkable testimonials
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Rev. Chas H. Young. OF Ann Arbor. Mich. says:
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CHANCERY SALE.--1n pursuance and by
~ virtue OF an order and decree of the circuit
court for the county of Van Buren,, in chancery,
made and dated on the 5th day of May, 1899, in a
certain cause therein pending, wherein John w.
Sterling and the New York Security and Trust
Company, corporation doing business in the state
of New York. trustees of the estate of Charles F.
Park, deceased, are complanants, and David H.
Francis, Harriet Francis, Elias III. Gault Triphena
Goodenough, Eugena =. Mudica, Eugena s. MUIR
dock, Philo A. sheldon, william Mulligan, as ad-
mnistrator of the estate Of Caroline e. Muiligan
deceased, Chas. f. Park and Anna @. Gilman, are
defendants.
Notice is hereby given, that shall sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, at the front door of
the court house, in the village of Paw Paw and
county of Van Buren, lsaid court house being the
place for holding the circuit court for said couutyl
the 30th day of June, A. ID. 1899, at ten O'Clock
In the forenoon, all or much thereof as may he
planants for principal, interest and costs In this
cause, of the following described parcels of land
to-wit The southeast quarter of the south least
quarter al of section ten [10l containing forty
of land aud the southwest fractional quarter
14l of section eleven III containing one hundred
and thirty 130 acres more less, all of said land
being In township four [4 south, of range thirteen
[13l west in the county of Van Buren and state of
Michigan.
In making said sale the first one of the two par-
cells hereinbefore described will be first sold and ~
the moneys received on the sale of said first de-
scrbed parcel shall be insufficient to pay the afore-
said principal sum, interest and COSTS together with
the expenses of this sale, then and in such ca so
the second parcel of land hereinbefore described or
balance remaining due with interest and costs will
be next sold In accordance with the terms of said
decree.
Dated May 18th, 1899.
Circuit Court Commissioner, in aud for Van Buren,
County, Mich.
JAMES III. KINNANE.
Solicitor for Compainants. [4t7ol0
The true northerner., 1899-06-14
HOW 1T SPREADS.
PEOPLE ALL OVER MICHIGAN TALKING
ABOUT 1T.


How it spreads. Can't keep a "good
thing" down. Ever notice how "good
things" are initiated? Better the article,
more imitators. Fortunately the public
has a safeguard. Praise can't be imitat-
ed. And true praise takes root and
spreads. Claim is one thing, proof is
another. Proof is what the people say.
Everywhere in Michigan people say
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys
w. 5. Kilmer, passenger engineer on
the NJ. G. Ry residing at No. 2l4 Orange
street, Jackson Mich, says:-"In 1895
had considerable trouble with my kid
neys from the result of severe cold
which settled there, and though / tried
every means at hand and treated with
doctors, the pains through the small of
my back became more persistent and
severe. To add to my troubles the kid
ney secretions were unnatural and ir-
regular. At last / was obliged to lay off
work. When at home getting no better
under the treatment | was then taking,
someone advised me to use Doan's Kid
dey Pills and | procured box more out
of curiosity than from any expectation
that they might help me. Now, | want
this thoroughly understood; when l
finished the box | went back to work
without pain or ache. But to make
matters doubly certain, took second
box. Since that time and that is three
years ago, / have neither had an ache
nor pain. Is it any wonder that at
this date, 1898, recommend Doan's Kid
ney PillsY"
Doan's Ointment for sale by all deal
ers. Price, 30 cents. Mailed by Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents
for the u. S. Remember the name
Doan's and take no substitute.
The true northerner., 1899-06-14
A GREAT MAN.
He Was Kposvn Only as ''Biooker"
wien His Identity Was
Discovered.

Talking about bishops, the other
afternoon a distinguished, stately man,
clad in the garb of minister, was over
at the fish commission spending half
hour in watching the gyrations of the
specimens in the tank, says the WASH
ington Post. One of the scientists of
the institution, young ichthyologist.
whose papers on the subject of deep
sea investigation are attracting atten-
ton throughout the world, happened,
in passing by the tank, to notice the
minister. He studied the stately visitor
for a minute, and then walked up to
him.
Am ! right" he inquired, lin sup
posing you to be Right Rev. Lucien
Lee Kinsolving, Episcopal bishop of
Brazil?"
You are" replied the stately man,
regarding his questioner wonderingly.
"Well, then, hello, 'Blooker!' said
the scientist, jovially, holding out his
hand.
"Why, hello, there, Charlie!" warm
ly replied Right Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolv-
ing, Episcopal bishop of Brazil, squeez-
ing the young scientists hand.
Diagram: The two men had been
chums in boarding school down in
Virginia when they were boys, and
they hadn't seen each other since. The
bishops nickname among the boys was
"Blooker"
The true northerner., 1899-06-14
Silken Fabrics.

Never has silk been SO popular as it
is to-day. 1t would be impossible for
woman to get along without it. The
silkworm and the mulberry tree upon
which it feeds are natives of east
Asia and silk has been made from time
forgotten. Nearly 5000 years before
Christ a Chinese empress is said TO
have raised silkworms and from the
earliest ages webs of the shimmering
substance woven from the cocoons
Were important articles of commerce.
To-day the silk trade of China and
Japan is the largest and most impor-
tant of all their branches of commerce.
The white mulberry upon which silk
worms feed, can be easily raised. In
April the leaves appear and then the
silkworm grower takes down his cards
of silkworm eggs which he has kept
from the preceding summer and hangs
them in some airy place. In a few
hours the tink silkworms appear and
are fed with chopped mulberry leaves.
They grow for over a month and eat
enormous quantities of the big leaves.
When ready TO spin the worm is 5000
times as large as when il emerged
from the egg and is almost transpar-
ent.
4 cocoon consists of single thread
from 800 to 425 feet long and it takes
a week TO finish. Out of every 100
only about forty are perfect. The
rest, however. are worked up into
coarse floss silk.
Perfect cOcoons which are to be
reeled off into thread for weaving are
placed in the sun and steamed to kill
the silkworm inside. Japanese raw
silk ranks next to that of France and
Italy.
The true northerner., 1899-06-14
pRosATEoRoER.-state of Michigan.


At a session of the probate court for the county
OF Van Buren, holden at the probate Office, in the
village of Paw Paw, on Friday, the 26th day of
May, in the year one Thousand eight hundred
and ninety-nine.
Present, Hon. James II. johnson, Judge of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate OF John Bacon,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
of Mrs. Susan L. Bacon, widow of said deceased,
praying for reasons therein stated that adminis-
tration of said estate be granted to Mrs. f.
Bacon.
Thereupon il is ordered that Monday the 26th day
of June, 1899, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, be
assigned for the hearing of said petition, and all
persons interested in said estate required
to appear at session of said court, then to
be holden at the probate Office in the village of
Paw Paw, and show cause If any there be,
why the prayer of the petitioner should be
granted.
And IL is further ordered that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said of
the pendency of said petition, and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the True Northerner, newspaper printed
and circulating in said county of Van Buren,, for
three successive weeks at least previous to said day
Of hearing.
JAMES III. JOHNSON,
23O6t4o09l Judge of Probate.
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HAPPY NEWS TO
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LEGAL NOTICES..
4 OMINIsTRAToR's SALE In the

a DEMONSTRATORS SALE = In the
n matter of the estate of Abram G.. Low, de-
ceased. Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of
license granted 10 me by the Probate Court for the
county of Van Buren, state of Michigan, / will sell
at public yendue to the highest bidder, at the prem
ises TO be sold, on the eighth day of June, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-nine, at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon, all the right, title and interest of the
said Abram q. Low, in and TO the following de-
scribed real estate, to-wit: The = of e y of
Il Section % Town No. 2 So. II. No. IA west north
pit Of 4 of e Y of W a Section 27 Town No.
So. r. No, IL west, containing in all fifty of
land.
j. q. MILLIMAN,
Administrator of said deceased.
Dated April 26th 1899. 2301t7
The above sale is hereby adjourned until Thurs
day, June 22d 1899, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon,
at the premises described in the above notice of
sale. j. q. MILLIMAN.
Administrator
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broke out in Jumps all over and when these left
the skin peeled Off" says Mr. John A. Galloway,
Of 7Is 10th ST.. Columbus, Georgia. in a recent
letter to DIR. X. v. Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y. II
had catarrh for four years and also liver and kid
ney trouble; when IL would commence troubling
me would have a slight aching a little below
the chest. used many kinds OF medicine but
received no benefit. My eyes were sunken and
my face was pale; had pimples my face and
there was brown spots on my face. Now these
are all gone. took six bottles Of DR. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery and two of DIR. Pierces
Pellets They are the best medicines ever used
In my life, and do believe that am entirely
well. | have good appetite but before COM
menced treatment had no appetite at ALL Now
am like a child-ready to eat at any time Of
day or night. Last year | weighed one hundred
and thirty-four pounds and now / weigh one
hundred and forty five. Please accept my
thanks; I am so glad found the right kind
Of medicine"
Golden Medical Discovery is free
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The true northerner., 1899-06-14

t'0ott Of 1fItHIkdHf OUUfty OF Hu BUftn-ets-
Notice Is hereby given, that by an order of the
probate court for the county Of Van Buren, made on
the 5th day of June, A. ID. 1899, SIX months from
that date were allowed for creditors present their
claims against the estate of Chauncey b. Palmer,
late OF said county, deceased, and that all cred
itors OF said deceased required to present
their claims to said probate court, al the probate
Office In the village of Paw Paw, for examination
and allowance, on or before the attn day of Decem-
Der, A. ID 1899 and that such claims will be heard
before said court, Monday, the l1th day Of Sep
tember, A. ID. 1899, and on Monday, the 4th day of
December A. ID. 1892 at ten O'Clock In the forenoon
of each Of those days.
Dated, June bth, A. ID. 1899. 07t5oi1j
JAMES II. JOHNSON, Judge Of Probate.
The true northerner., 1899-06-14

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Thomas Thurman, deputy sheriff of
Troy, No. says if everyone in the United
States should discover the virtue of
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles,
rectal troubles and skin diseases, the de
mand could not be supplied. h. b.
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ORDER EoR HEARING CLAIMS.

f. A. x ROBERT Il. CRANE, Attys. for Mortgaqee
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CHANcERY SALE, pursuance and b

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Thanks TO the Ladies

In behalf Of the Ocala Rifles,
we the undersigned beg to tender
our thanks to Mrs. Ditto, Miss
lola Liddon and Miss Sallie Whit
field, together with the ladies Of
Ocaia who so kindly assisted at
the Fort King sociable, given on
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ry, terminating as it did with
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Mrs. Ditto, Miss Liddon and
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heart for all participating IN this
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g. Y. ROBERTS. Captain.