The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-01
Wit and HunOr.

Wit and HumOr.
Roll cALI-The bakers visit.
DRESSING for turkey-Feathers.
A MOOSE paper-A death warrant.
How TO find girl out-Call when she
isn't in.
The cheapest of housekeeping one
own counsel.
WANTED-A lfeboat that will float o
a 'sea of troubles.
TALES have a strange passion for tell
ing themselves out OF school.
Mrs. PEGGARTY says that her husbands
behavior is enough to irrigate an angel.
THERE has always been trouble about
the mouth of the Mississippi river, it IS
too far from the head.
A New YORK tailor says that if all men
would pay cash down for clothes the
tailors could knock thirty cents off OF
prices.
A KENTUCKY editor tells another that
If his head were as red as his nose, he
would remind one of q bowlegged car
rot surrounded by a cockade.
A BcLT Of lightning struck tree i'll
front CT {. Chicago Alderman's house,
the other night, and III his fright the
Alderman remarked "Hold on. I'll
restore the money
A LADY correspondent, who assumes
to know how boys ought to be trained,
writes to an exchange as follows : "Oh,
mothers hunt out the soft, tender, genial
side of your boys nature" Mothers often
do-with an old shoe.
BROOKLYN Argus: The average Brook
iyn lodger doesn't hunt through his soup
for chicken any more, but, glancing up
sadly into the landlady's face, timidly
asks: ''Are You quite sure You dipped
any feathers in this water
An aristocratic New Yorker, on being
requested by rich and vulgar young
fellow for permission to marry lone of
his girls" gave this rather crushing
reply Certainly which would you
prefer, the housemaid OF the cook =
SAM say, Jim, how does you like
my new sweet OBJ clothes 2" Jim-''Sweet
ob clothes. Go long You mean suit
of clothes" Sam" Go long wild yer
ownself, you black ignoramus Don't
folks as knows French say sweet of
rooms Well, de same am applicable
to clothes. Go whitewash yerself ~
Ir is the ruthlessly contemplative mind
of Perkins. of the Cincinnati Times,
which evolves this exquisite consumma-
ton SIN all this world of woes can it
be possible to imagine another retribu-
ton so stern, so awful, and withal so
Just, as that exhibited in the marriage
of life insurance agent to book can
vasser 2"
eyes, SIR" promptly replied the boy
as the grocer asked him if he wanted any
thug 60 1 want two ounces of Xxi and
two ounces of pepper" Xxi! Kil"
queried the astonished man. "Yes, sir
and some corset-strings on the corner"
got hold of the right M ticle.-DetrOU
Free Press.
WHEN the Earl of Bradford was
brought before Lord Chancellor Tough
borough to be examined upon applica-
ton for a statute of lunacy against him,
the Chancellor asked him. "How many
legs has sheep9' "Does your Lord
ship mean," answered Lord Bradford,
ga live or dead Sheep" "Is it not
the same thing" said the Chancellor.
Z" No, my Lord" said Lord Bradford,
"there Is much difference. A living
sheep may have four legs dead sheep
has only two. There are but two legs OF
mutton the two fore legs are shoulders.
MISTRESS MOUSE.
Mistress Mouse
Built "a house
In mammals best bonnet;
AL the cats
Were catching rats,
And didn't light upon it.
At last they found it,
And around il
Sat watching for the sinner:
When, strange to say,
She got away,
And so they lost their dinner.