The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-26
Pith and Point.
A BEAU knot is easiest to unite.
A HAsTY man never wants woe

A HASTY man never wants woe.
TR1FLEs light as hair are eagerly
seized upon by baldheaded man.
DEEP thinkers-visitors in coal
mine, thinking if they will get out
alive.
Now that we have the bright silver In
circulation, let no one go to " stocking"
it up.
The flower born to rise unseen is the
flour which rises in the baking-pan dur
ing the night.
ACCORDING to the poet, "Morn awalkes
the world" but, according to other good
authorities, baby with collie does it
LAvATER thought that your real self is
an average somewhere between the opin-
ions of your enemies and your friends.
IT is said the stomachs of persons liv-
ing on the sea-coast, where oysters and
clans are abundant, rise and fall with
the tide.
GA RoNnsH lictor," said Bates, whose
historical information comes by detail on
the fly, ga Roman lictor Well i s'pose
she deserved it. No one but the Roman
knows"
IT takes q servant twice as long to
bang the stove and scuttle, while putting
coal on the CRATE, if you are trying to
talk to somebody than if you are not.
He does it for revenge.
AN undertaken at Providence didn't
know whether subject was dead or in
fit. He boxed him up to settle the
question, but the man kicked his way
fl,ta +oly
THEY think a good deal of their pigeons
in Cambridge, Mass. A boy has just
been sentenced to eight years in re-
formatory for stealing four. Two years
per pigeon.
ECONOMY is good thing to have
around the house, but the police Of
Rochester are making it sad for the man
who beefed his sick COW when told that
she would never see another sun rise.
"BRoTHER, why don't you ask the
stranger to pray9" Because" re-
provingly observed the deacon, s. this
amt no place for practical jokes. That
mans the president of gas company"
AFTER all the talk, neither Miss KeI
logg, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., White
law Reid or Anna Dickinson, seem any
nearer marriage than they were at the
beginning OF the century. Chicago
Journal.
AN auctioneer, disposing of same arti-
cles, and complaining of the lowness of
the price, said: Gentlemen, if 1 sell
any more at that money I'll get my head
in my hand" Whereupon q weaver
present observed, "Itll no burden we,
my man; it's gey hcht."
In the Taunton lunatic asylum there
is patient who for one year refused to
eat, and down whose throat were poured
three quarts of milk daily during that
said, "Well, it's just one year since I've
been willing to eat. Now guess III
eat like other folks" and he did.
WE passed the window the other even
ing, and they were having little family
jar. She called him can old fool, and
he called her ga teakettle." you're
n teakettle," he roared, vehemently;
"youll sing pleasantly one minute and
boil over the next" We didn't stay to
hear more.
IT is an edifying spectacle to see a
top of load of household goods, his
feet quietly reposing on the finest paint
ing, or the new clock, while the head OF
the family sneaks along the fence with q
market basket on his arm filed with old
china and the silver spoons.
HERE is womans rights Two hun
dred women of Guilford, Conn.,, turned
ont Wednesday, with hoes, rakes, spades
and wheelbarrows, and cleaned up the
village green in regular housekeeper
style, while the men sat around g1nning
and whiting dry-goods boxes, and try.
ing to look as though they we're not
ashamed.
A DUBLIN woman, jealous of her hus-
band, threatened to drown herself in a
tub of water that stood on the porch.
"You dare not hold your head in it un-
til / touch you," said the man. Tho
excited woman at once plunged her
head in the water. The husband waited
too long, for when he drew her back she
was dead.