The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-15
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from the Danbury News.l


From the Danbury News.l
No man can be successful poet
whose liver is not diseased.
The work of improvement goes
briskly forward. Another post has been
set in the park fence.
Understanding that cholera does
not visit granite countries, Gallows-
hill man omits to bury a dog which de-
parted this life on his premises, week
ago.
When you see little girl with odd
CATERS on her feet, n crownless jockey
on her head, three brown paper packa-
ges in her arms, and mouthful of
candy, you may know her mother is
washing.
AT one time Saturday there were FIVE
bald headed men in one of our dry
goods stores, looking vacantly about,
and each one thoughtfully rubbing his
head with finger that had thread
tied about it.
-" What shall 1 give my boy to make
him honored and respected ?" writes an
affectionate father. Education and
moral precepts were once required to
accomplish this purpose, but diamond
pin now covers the ground.
"A Main street clerk, who has charge
of the street hose to his store, thinks he
must have been kicked by eleven
different persons since the advent of
the sprinkling season, to say nothing of
Il number of misdirected efforts.
"A Ridgefield man came to Danbury
lately, and purchaseda COW and its young
son. After making the purchase he was
SO fortunate as to find drover who was
to take lot of cattle through Ridge
field, and raised no objection to incorpo-
rating the Ridgefeld mans purchase in
the drove. Delighted with his good
fortune, the Ridgefield man stood treat
several times on the way, and when the
party stopped for incoming he laid down
and went to sleep. When he awoke he
found himself alone. He says there is
no profit, after all, in keeping a cow that
has got calf.
An aged couple on Wooster street
are very fond of checkers, and play
quite frequently. When he beats at
the game, she loses her temper, and de.
clares she will not play again. 1t vexes
him to have her act so, but he controls
the irritation, and talks to her about it.
He tells her how wrong it is for people
at their age in life to be disturbed by
such trihes, and shows her so clearly
the folly of such course that she be
comes ashamed of her weakness, and re-
turns to the game, and plays it SO vel
that she beats him. Then he throws
the checkers in one direction and kicks
the board in another, and says LIE
will never play with anybody who cheats
so alfiredly, and stalks moodily tC
bed, and leaves her to pick up the
things.
There is a man on Franklin stree
who has been engaged in the past tive
months in mighty effort to kill cat
In that time that unfortunate animal ha'
explored the bottom of every sheet an(
stream of water within six miles of Dan
bury, has had an unintentional taste o
the several new varieties of powder
and has got so it can tell in the dark
without looking around, the difference
between a half brick and whole one
The man himself hasn't got who'll
piece of clothing in his wardrobe, an,
has almost entirely lost the use of on
leg from rheumatism contracted Will
} drowning the cat, and has more scratch
es on him than the survivor of fou
, wives. His aged father says he wi
take chair out in the yard on pleas
, ant afternoon, and will sit there for tw
hours at time, and look at that cat an
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