The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-15
Pith and Point.

The proper name for a qusck doc
tress-Charlotte- Ann.
IT is impolite to speak of man being
confined in Jail. They say he is "tem-
poiarily inhaling strained atmosphere.
TIE bumble-bee, the bumble-bee,
He few TO the top of the tulip-tree:
He few TO the top, but he could not stop
For he had to get home to his early tea.
The bumble-bee, the bumbe-bee.
He few away from the tulip-tree:
But he made mistake, and few intothe lake.
And he never got home TO his early tea.
st. Nicholas for September.
"ALPHoNso, dear, what is the differ
ence between our Thanksgiving and
those revolted Turkish previncesi"
(" Really, Clementina, can't say. what
is itY" "Why, you see, here we hsve
Turkey in Christians: there they havo
Christians in Turkey"
BDDY-" Did yez iver see a finer
wake, q nicer funeral or purifier corpse
than Paddy's9" Kate-"Niver .
wanst." Biddy-" And do yez know
Paddy was that natural loike, had he
come to life and got out of his cofin To
see himself in it, bedad he himself
wouldn't have known he was dead"
ROME has one OF the shrewdest and
most reliable weather prophets IN tho
world. Being asked whether he thought
this would be cold winter or not, hs
looked at the sun, dug up some roots or
grass, examined the husks OF dozen
ears of corn, and then said, impressivelys
"I don't know" Events will undoubt
edly prove that he was right.
A MAN whose reputation was none of
tho lNact ,aaan{lx, raffra1 s,otn fha
try to enjoy his ill-gotten gains A gem
tleman, noticing that he always carried
heavy stick at night, asked Why
this precaution9 Doesn't he know THAI
the road is safe ?" "Ofcourse, replied
friend "he is the last man not to be
aware of the efficiency of the police.
"WHY, husband" exclaimed Chiear
go wife, not long since, "there goes our
old neighbours family in bran-aew rig
coach, horses and coachman. Has he
gone into bankruptcy againY' "NO,
he hasn't gone into bankruptcy" re-
piled the husband, knowingly, "but
you remember he was elected TO the city
Council last year" y. B.-Cbicago
Aldermen get no salaries.
A CERTAIN physician on the Public
Square, says the Cleveland Leader, has
large card hung up in his Office with
these words printed thereon: "Book
agents and peddlers charged five dollars
an hour for conversation" The other
day book agent came and was Just be-
ginning rigmarole about "the latest
and best work on -" when the physi-
clan pointed to the card. he read the
words over but once, when he handed
the ply sician fve-dollar bill and was
about to commence operations again,
when the man of medicine said: Take
chair, please, and keep your money.
HaId me your subscription book" He
has now bought brace of derringers.
If anybody still clings to the idea that
Detroit is an old fogy town that man is
laying up sorrow for his soul. They do
business here without any fooling around
or clawing off. Yesterday, after dinner,
man walked into Grand River avenue
grocery and said 4: "Name's Jones'
No. 18 Smith street-send up butter
nice and hard-four pounds-charge it."
The grocer was posting up his cash
book, and without even raising his eyes
from the page he replied. Buffers
cash-can't do it," "All right-go t.
thunder |" said the customer, as he
turned to go. "I will-good-by," re-
piled the grocer, and in another minute
the store was as lonely as before.-Free
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