The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-28
Pith and Point.

Pith ana Point.
UTAH has one Gentle to five Nor
mons.
THE newsb )y's rendering OF the old
Scotch provel is, "Many nickel makes
muckle."
THE boy who was kicked out Of time
by gun said he fred and fell back in
good order.
"I'LL let yol off easy this time" as
the horse said, when he threw his rider
into the mud.
IT has been demonstrated that it is
easier to Ing "a double-barreled gun for
ten hours than to put up Il clothes line.
"PLEAsE send me half a dozen of
Schied-m Schnapps is the way n topper
wrote it when he was SOLDERING off from
his last drunk.
! DooRsTEP picrics are quite common.
They are inexpensive, and parents know
where their children are when left on a
! doorstep.
THE Duke of Welington's saying con-
nected with early rising was not bad
one Let the frs: turn in the morning
be turn out.
THE Lord Mayor of London declares
that great deal of proper accentuation
is derived from the stage. 80, sir, you
M very ke-ynd !''-BOston Post.
The Hebrews, it is said own one-half
of Berlin. g The other half, then,"
says Phipps, (who was over there once).
"must be cwned 10y the he-brewers.
A YOUNG man who started life as a
billiardha keeper in Harrisburg, Pa,
recently sold his interest in Nevada
mine for $29S, ,000
INEBRIATED gentleman who has fallen
down stairs TO another who offers to help
him up" Wharzeuse slabberin' round
feila! l allus come down stairs that
way"
Nothing makes man so mad as to
run a block after Thomas TO borrow
money OF him, and reaching him, to lind
that ne is Jones, a creditor who has been
threatening to sue.
The last words OF the San Jose (Cal.)
ddCeriiSe3' were: 1--WE entered the
journalistic field on a business PROPOSE
tion; and on the same proposition we
know wlcI IT is time to die, and we are
dead. ."
MADAM" said trance medium,
"vour husbands spirit wishes TO com
muuicate with you 3" g. No matter" sald
the widow, If he's gor no more spiri
III the other world than he had III this, il
not worth bothcring about
A MISS of ten or eleven. on her way to
school, was heard saying to herself "A
noun is the name of any person, place,
OF thing, and if any of the girls have
hooked that apple from my desk III
raise a fuss with the whole school,"
A SCOTTISH student, supposed to be
deficient in Judgment, was asked by
professor, in the course of his examina-
ton, how he would discover fool. "By
the questions he would ask" was the
prompt and highly suggestive reply.
\ WISCONSIN editor illustrates the
prevailing extravaganza of the people
Of the present day by calling attention
to the costly baby. carriages in use now,
while, when ne was Il baby, they hauled
him around by the hair of his head.
THE printers of the Philadelphia Ia-
qUirer set (not SAT- up "The Night Be
fore Christmas twentyseyen years ago
and the poem has been kept standing
ever since, and was printed III that paper
from the original types first used in lS4S.
Clement c. Moore is favorite poet in
the inquirer office, and that paper prem
ises to hand him down in this manner TO
the latest posterity.
Ev'RY little grape that clirEs unto a vlne
Expects some day TO ripen its little drop Of wine.
Evry lite pirl, think, Xpects IN time to be
Exactly Ike her own Inamtna-as grand, and sweet,
ant. free.
Eyry little boy who bas pocket of his own,
Expects t. be the biggest ILan the world has ever
known.
Evry little piggywig that makes ts httle wall,
Expects TO be great big pig. with very curly tail
Eyry little laIubkin, too, that frisks upon the green
Expects 20 be the finest sheep that was seen
lYry little baby -cot expects 90 he horse;
Evry little pup expects To be dog. OF course.
+, 'ry Little kitten pet, 20 tender aud 50 nice,
Expects tn he grown up cat aud i've on rats and
mice.
Eyry lttl, fluffy chick in dovny yellow drest
Expects sui, cay 90 crow and strut, or cacke at its
-.
Evry little baby-hrd. that peeps from on; its ues,
xgec's some day to cross the sky, from glowing
EAST - vet.
Now cy'I hope I've mentioned here will bring -
sur went
Providing moth ~ happens to hinder or prcVtDt
ST. NiriuitS.