The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18
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rk well begun is half ended.

Work well begun is half ended.
A great composer "-Chloroform.
Borrow nothing-not even trouble.
Waste not-neither time, money, mol
talent.
Curiosity about trihes is a mark of q
little mind.
The flowers of speech spring from the
root of the tongue.
OF all struggles, the endeavor to be
just is the greatest.
LARGE lockets of Swiss wood are
popular. They are painted beautifully
and so highly vanished that they have
the appearance of being enameled.
A model husband in Delaware thrash
ed his wife fearfully because their baby
didn't get the prize at baby show, and
wound up by offering to swap the baby
for pig.
A MASSACHUSETTS merchant has been
in business forty-seven years and never
advertised, and never means to. He
commenced on capital of $500, and
has run it up to $500.
A birds nest war recently found in
the keyhole of an old church in Kent,
England. Three or four broken eggs
were discovered, the result of the turn
ing of the key in the door.
An old gentleman died recently at
Allentown, Pa, who had been married
four times, the ceremonies having taken
place on his fortieth, fiftieth, sixtleth,
and SEVENTEEN birthdays.
Duncan Ross, an old gentleman of
Portland. Me-, has suit of clothes
which he bought SO years ago. He has
been married in it four times, and con-
siders it pretty good suit yet.
The citizens of Placerville, Cal, re-
Gently mistook q balloon for a comet,
and at once held prayer meeting. When
they discovered their mistake they
went upon long and vigorous spree.
Here is an ingenious way of adver-
Using horse-trot which will be often
sive to nobody: "Two well-known ami
mails will contend for local superiority
on Monday next at the Agricultural
Park"
Mr.. G.. L. Smith, who erected for the
late Prof. Morse the first line of tele-
graph poles in this country, between
Washington and Baltimore, in 1874,
died lately, at his residence, in Newfeld,
Me-, at an advanced age.
Napoleon Lannes, Due de Montebello,
died lately, in the seventy-third year of
his age. The deceased diplomatist was
son of Marshal Lannes, who persisted
on the field of Essling. He was born
in Paris on the Both of July, 1901.
An astrologer of Utah has prophesied
that Brigham Young will die on the
seventh hour of the seventh day of De-
cember, of apoplexy. And further, that
he will be buried in a California red
wood coffin, devoid of all establishment,
plain and unvarnished.
A STREET beggar in New York says the
panic has ruined him. His collections,
he says, have dropped to So day, but
he wouldn't care so much about that,
but rents had fallen thirty per cent,
and he had two houses and three stores
empty, even at this reduction.
SOME Chicago visitors went into sa-
loon in Cleveland, o., kept by Ger
man woman, and called for whisky She
told them that she couldn't sell any, and
then whispered confdentially to one of
them I" Ven you want visky you must
call for vine and pinch nit your eyes.
A clergyman and his wife, named
Shreve, were killed by lightning, in Ne
braska, recently, just as family worship
was about to begin. The Bible had
just been passed to a brother of the
deceased, also a clergyman, when the
death dealing electric bolt came. The
surviving brother was also struck, but not
seriously hurt.
AGENTLEMAN living on Staunton river,
near Carter's Island, Va, reports that
that section is literally covered with
frogs, varying in size from n grain of
corn to the usual size. These frogs Jump
from the river on both sides, striking
out through the country for miles, de-
stroying in their march the millions of
chinch bugs that lines the fields.
The South Kensington Museum in
London, has cost the nation since it's
establishment So, 1858, $40. A cores
pendent writes Those who have visit
ed this matchless museum will know
that understate rather than overstate
its actual present value when 1 say that
if its contents were disposed of at
auction tomorrow they would not bring
less than $40, 10000
They found the regular confagration
Bible in the ruins of the Allegheny fire;
open, too, at the right place, viz, Lam
entations w., 2: "The Lord has &C
complished His fury He has poured
out His fierce anger, and hath kindled
fire in Zion, and hath devoured the
foundations thereof" The sacred vol
ume was badly scorched around the
edges. The man who picked it up was
a printer, wandering among the ruins.