The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-29
Men and Women.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is said to have
been converted to spiritualism.
Mrs. L. s. Trowbridge Of Detroit is credited
with beng one Of the best violin players in
that city.
Miss Smiley, the preacher, is writing Com
fills 800 pages.
Miss Yonge's new novel, Three Brides is
said to be written with purpose to break down
races and racing.
Lord DuffeIn has an annual income from
land Of S105,215; Lord Dunmore, $50, 1906, and
the Earl Of Dunraven. s174,s45.
Pittsburgh is said to have more shop-girls,
more business enterprises, and successful ones
too, conducted by women than any other city
Prof. Moses Colt Tyler. OF Michigan Uni
versity, will lecture during the coming winter
on The Humorous Element IN the American
| Revolution.
Grace Greenwood says that Miss Braddon is
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romances, but rosy, plump, gentle-mannered
lady OF middle age.
1t Ia said that the reason why George Eliot
undertook defense, or rather precise de-
scription, of the Jewish character is, that her
husband, Mr.. Lewes, traces his descent from
that race.
Rufus Choates rhetorical turnout was a
substantive and six" When new edition
Of webster's Unabridged with 10000 additional
words was issued, Judge Shaw exclaimed -
For heavens sake, keep it out OF Choate's
hands p"
1t Is now announced that the dynamite feud
was driven into bis wickedness by the extrav
agance OF his wife. A Danbnry man whose
wife supports him by taking in sewing, said il
Merrlls grocery. yesterday, that he mad nc
doubt OF it.-Danbury News.
special meeting Of the Alumn@ association
OF the Woman's Medical college OF Pennsyl
vania is to be held in Philadelphia, October 8
Miss DR.. Rutherford, Of Grand Rapids, grad
uate Of the class of 6S, and at present one o
the board of censors Of the association will b.
present at the meeting, which is called in homo
OF this centennial year. The association mum
bers among its members some of the mos
eminent lady physicians in the country.
, George Eliot is the daughter OF Dlssentin,
clergyman. Her principles OF dissent wer
/ carried to an extreme that her reverend fathe
, never contemplated. and her first literary work
, accomplished in early life, was translation
= from the German of Strauss's Life OF Jesus.
Q Fer some time about the same period, she wa
3 JOINT editor Of the Westminster Review, Al
Q heterodox organ and il 10 q well known fac
Z that since that she has not been, either i
: theory or in practice, an adherent OF an Evan
t geical denomination.
At the Congressional District convention hel
at Three Rivers on the ed inst. there were z
votes cast The ladies there all participated /
their right to vote, and did it without anythin
> dreadful happening to the household in the
absence. Men so often say IL woman had tn
!. right Of suffrage she would not exercise it,
!, THIS is not so Women would use the privileg
righteously, and the ballot box would be cleanse
Of all the degradation that at present surroun
It 1t. The highest privilege that free people CO
! exercise, to be defiled and degraded by whisk
b and corruption, belongs only to an age {
barbarism and ignorance.-T for the Peopl