The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03
OLLA PODRTDA.

-Fiftv-nlne newspapers IN towns and cities
on the Pacific coast have perished during the
present year.
When a mans business ls rapidly running
down II is time for him TO think OF winding it
mp.
A Cincinnati court Of Justice has decided
that man who gives intelligence TO a newspa-
per, Is as liable IN a suit for libel as the journal
which publishes the information.
An old criminal, sentenced by Judge Bed
. ford TO five years, natlvely remarked: =" That
Judge Is nice little fellow bnt / guess he's
never been to Jail himself, OF nc wouldn't have
tucked it on 80 hard"
-" Brethren" said a speaker at late mis-
sionary meeting. ~ want YOU TO turn your
backs upon tins Board OF Missions your green
backs, mean, and, II you presume to speak to
them, talk in silver tones"
"A gentleman visiting Glasgow for the first
time, and falling in with very wet weather, ln-
quired Of person in the street il 1t always
rained in Glasgow. Ma" was the answer, ~
it snaws sometimes"
"A certain lecturer asserts that woman's
sphere Is bounded on the north by her husband
on the east by her baby, on the south by her
mother-in-law, on the west by her maiden aunt
"A we'll known English Lord is said to have
pl!OL Viz iOitON u tils EICNdIu
9 We are coming down, q large party, in day
or two, to eat strawberries AMI cream. We
shall want plenty Of the latter, so don't let any
OF the cows be MIXED meanwhile"
=" What brought you to prison, my colored
friend?"
Two, constables sah."
Yes; but l mean had intempersnce any
! thing to do with it 2"
/" Yes, sab, dey was bofe OF EN- drunk"
Mark Twain says: 81 hare seen slower
people than am-and more deliberate people
than am-and even quleter, and more lstless
and lazier people than l am. But they were
dead"
A new thing in church music and Sunday
school amusement was exhibited ut DR.. Vim
| tons church, in New York, on Christmas Sun
day. In the Doctors remarks he recited the
words
Ring out the bells for Christmas,
The happy. happy day;
Ring out the bells for Christmas,
The happy, happy day."
aud touched wire with his foot Hardly had
ring, aud continued until the whole tune had
been plavad, amid the deepest silence.
Seventeen years ago there was not a hou 20
nor even single human being in Leavenworth
Kansas. Now there are $4,000 inhabitants,
| twenty-seven schools. thirty churches, two
theatres. seven public balls, two jails. and ho-
tells. stores, factories, aud foundries in abun-
dance.
Plain people have the advantage over the
beautiful duriog part of life; that is, when
old age comes. Homeliness wears we'll il
| seems TO mend with years, or, at least, II has
nothing TO spoil. As gener rule, the most
worn and time-tonched faces are the faces OF
those once handsome. There are chsracters-
tics which dety the ravsges OF time, but mere
personal beauty is eyanescent.
-"Do you know the prisoner Mr Jones Y''
Yes to the boue. What ia his character p
Didn't know he had any. Docs he live near
you. So near that he hsB spent only ono dol
lar tor freEood in eight years. Did he ever
come ln collision with you in any matter Only
once, and that was when he was drunk and
nistOOk me FOR q lamp post. From what you
know of him, wluld you believe hm under
oath {? That depends upon circumstances II
! he o. -'""tod Diet ne did not
Ill, II not, 4