The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-23

As the bard tunes increase tho convection
/ that missionary money should be spent among
the heathens at hone also increases. --Chicago
Journsl
The new law OF Maryland says that Mary
landers must be married in their own State and
patronize home enterprise. Why not oblige
them to die at home as we'll
The Chicago Journal complains that it is
coolest just about the time man has decided
to get up and build fire. This whole country
should be heated by steam.
A Western clergymans wife received SO
sugar spoons from different persons as Christ
mas presents. They hadn't pound Of sugar
in the house as she counted up the spoons
NJ. Quad
A young lady OF Bellevue, Ohio, bet young
man kiss that nlden would be eected-he to
pay II Tilden won, she to pay il Hayes was
elected. On the morning Of tho 9Th he called
and paid the bet on the 9th he called and took
it back That evening she paid the bet. Next
morning she took it back, and he paid; then
she paid, and he paid, and 30 they have been
kept busy by the contradictory dispatches ever
SINCE and both declare their Willingness and
ability to hold out until Congress decides the
question. They don't like the new compromise
! bill.
As citizens OF the United states, we claim
equality before the law; as mothers, We claim
equal right to the ownership Of our children -
a. women devoting time, strength, and money
to the temperance work, we claim the right to
supplement, emphasize, and legalze our action
by the fundamentally OF the ballot as women
interested in the cause Of foreign and home
missions, devotiDg labor and money to the
work OF sending our Bible to foreign lands, we
claim our right to express our choice in regard
to Its retention in or election from our public
schools as women interested in, and taxed for
the support Of, we claim equal right TO q voice
and vote IN all matters pertaining to the man
agement Of our State universities, free schools.
agricultural, medical theological, legal, scien-
tIfc, and industrial: AZ women taxed for their
support, and as mothers deeply and tenderly
interested in their management. we claim an
equal right to authoritative action and control
OF our national and state asylums and homes
for the deaf and dumb blind, insane, and
motherless children Of the nation. As native
born citizens, jealous OF the fair fame OF father
land, with firm faith in the republican form
of government we ask that you array all of the
virtue, masculine and feminine, against all the
vice, masculine and feminine, and for the first
time IN the history OF nations prove the strength
OF genuine repulic l. o., government OF
the people, FOR the people, by the people, in
lieu of our present government or the men,
So- Al, A. A.
HARPER's MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1877.-Har- /,
pers Magazine for March Is an exquisitely
beautiful number 1t opens with Mr. s. G. w.
Benjamins paper on Contemporary Art in
France" with thirty two engravings most Of
which are reproductions Of the finest pictures
OF French artists executed IN q style Of marked (
excellence. A summer Cruise among the At
lantlc Islands, with ten illustrations, treats OF
the Azores and the Madeira Islands, with espe- :
cisl reference 10 their climate and other fea-
lures interesting 20 lnvahds. The Cape erds !
and Canariss will be treated in subsequent
paper. Herbert Tuttle contributes very inter
sstIng illustrated article on the Prussian Wends /
"a Sclavo2ic people once numerous and power
full, but in the twelfth century conquered by
the Germans. and finally driven into the vast /
swamps OF the Spreevad, IN Prussia. Another
illustrated paper treats of Litchficld Hill Con-
necticut, and its Old law school, where, during /
the later portion OF the last century, Calhoun,
Mason, CLAYTON, and other eminent lawyers |
and statesmen, received their legal education.
s. S. Conant contributes 4 concise but compre-
heusivs review Of Wallsce's recent book on the !
Ga - thu of Ami m vyIth 6va
beautiful illustrations. DIR. John W. Draper
contributes the first OF an important series OF |
papers, giving popular exposition OF some SCI
entifc experiments. The first paper treats Of
red no, bodies, and illustrates the experiments
upon which we're based DIR. Diapers remarka-
BILE memoir ''On the Production Of Light and
Heat" published IN lS47 aud anticipating by !
thirteen years the results dsducsd by NJ. Kirch-
off. in memoir that WAS ct the time Q860) re-
garded ~ the origin OF spectral analysis.
This number contains an illustrated Valen-
tine story About Dolly, by Rose Terry Cooke,
and an illustrated poem especially appropriate |
to the valentine season, by G. p. Cranch The 1
poet is also an artist. and the illustration Is at /
ter drawing made by him. Edward Everett I
Hale contributes one OF his Characteristic sto-
RES entitled Ideals. In more humorous vein
is My Great Aunts Villa story By Elizabeth
A. Smith. The paper on Webster and the Con- /
stitution, by the Hon. Henry W. billiard OF |
Georgia, in the light OF current events, 10 espe-
cislly timely and interesting. The ninth part OF
A Woman Halter nsrrates more Of the dongs
Of the daring Miss Gale, and at the close briggs
together the three most important personages
Of the story in a very dramatic tabieau. Ia
Erema, Mr.. Blackmore's story, We have this
month quaint narrative OF Tom Sawyer's love
for the heroine, with satisfactory explana-
ton OF his broken nose) and OF Erems's de-
parture from the city OF the Golden Gate for
England.
The poetry OF the number Is unusually STIR
king including some lines not htherto pub
lshed, by Barry Cornwall, addressed to the
lady who afterward became Mrs. Proctor
beautiful poem, entitled Estranged, by Phillip