The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-17
Pith and Point.

Pith and Point.
RUSSIA wants to bone Turkey.
ALWAYS ready to take the stump-The
dentist.
ENGLAND, over her bitter beer zoo
will care for mother nowp
MAKE little fence Of trust
Fiji the space p-s With loving work,
And therein stay.
A "DowN EAST" paper says there is
fog bell on that coast that is "no moro
use than boiled carrot hung in boot
leg."
81 FUNERALIzED the Rev. Mr.. Phil
lips yesterday" says a reverend writer
in the Methodist. He should have been
content without butchering Webster
next day.
AT the Winchester Sessions In Eng
land four men were indicted for stealing
beans. A gentleman asked another,
"What have they been doinga" Been
stealing" was the answer.
SERVANT Ito Irish laborer)-" Here In
some beer, Pat, If you care to have it,
but I'm afraid it's quite dead" Pat
"Och dead, is its Sure, then, dar-
lint, I'm the boy to bury it I"
LOVERS.
Upon the front piazza, beneath the silver moon.
Ignoring the old gentleman, they'd gurgie ana
they'd SPOON"
Till he grew sick of watching them, and left with
Remarkng: al must now turn in-this damp atr
makes me sick!"
CoCKNRY tourist" What is the namo
of this vessel, mister ?" Fellow traveller
-" Iona, siri" Cockney tourist
"Do you, indeed, sir But I don't ask
you who owned 'er, sir, but what 'er
name was -
AN exchange inquiries why intemper-
ance has increased so greatly since tho
beginning of the century. One reason
we believe to be that the ACCORDION did
not come into general use until about
the year 1906.
CROWD at depot waiting for late train:
Affable young man accosts old gent
"Sr, think 1 have had the pleasure of
meeting You before. Your face looks
familiar" Old gent" Does, ehl SOIL
yours fore you're old as l am. ."-EI-
change.
How LATE may lovers stay is the
vital question just now. OF course there
will be difference of opinion, but per-
sonally we should set the time to leave
at about the moment when he became
aware that man out in the back bed
room has arisen, and is tucking his shirt
in his pants, and getting on his boots.-
Fulton Times.
friends. and at the close of the dinner
says: Now, You must drink glass of
wine of my own making" They do 80.
"Well, how is it 2" "Oh," replies one
of the guests, CT had had some of it
BEFORE" "Where 2" "On the salad"
parts Paper.
THE time for husking- bees is at hand
The husking-bee is a delightful enter
tainment given by farmers, and is gen.
orally attended by eighteen young men,
VINO kiss each of the girls in the house
seven times, husk four ears Of corn, and
go home as soon as they have disposed
of what cider theycan find.
THEODORE Hook once dined with
Hatchett, at his delightful village of
Belle Vue, famous for its culi-
nary completeness. "Ah, my dear fell
low, said his host, deprecatingly, 81 am
sorry to say that you'll not get to-day
such dinner as our friend Tom Moore
gave us" Certainly not" replied
Hook from a Hatchett one can ex-
pect nothing but a chop"
SATURDAY forenoon, while laborer in
the city's employ was scraping the mud
off a Woodward avenue crosswalk, the
careless driver of a carriage ran the
horse against him and knocked him over.
Pulling up as soon as possible the driver
leaped down, helped pick the old man
up, and, crowding piece of money into
his hand, said: "There Bless you
bless you-never saw you-didn't think
of such thing-take this and say moth
ing !" AS he drove away the old man
inspected the gift. 1t was 10-cent
shin t,lootar DctroSf Elroo preee