The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-16
For the BOYS and Girls.
A VALENTINE.

A VALENTINE.
I'm not in love, my love, oh, no
lis thou, as 1 can prove;
For thou art folded closely in
And sheltered with my love.
II hovers DER thee oil the time;
II follows all thy ways;
IL folds thee, sweet wheIe'er thou art
And compasses thy days.
I'm not in love, my love. oh. no
But thou art held there tight.
Send me (the poor ousider) dear
One little ray OF light.
Bid me approach, and enter liz,
So, both our lives may shine
That may also be IN love
Like thee. my Valentine.
--scribner's Magazine.
Fifty young women go to school at Cornell,
There are DOW 269 boys at the State School
1t Coidwater. E
II you want to be in style you must write TO
your girl with white ink.
Tho times are hard, but valentines and girls
are as dear this year as ever.-Cbicago Journal.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore says that girls are
not particular enough about the men they
marry.
The wedding cards OF French BRIDE, who
was recently married, bore the words: Pray
for her.
A number Of young ladies OF Pottsville have
formed an ASSOCIATION for mending second
hand clothing for the poor. The society is
called the " Thread and Needle Band"
On their return from Hillsdale one OF the
Kalamazoo college boys got taken in about five
dollars worth on the old game OF three-carde
monte, while at Pigeon waiting for the north
ern train. Young man, beware as you will
meet an old Kentuckian occasionally. etroit
News.
young man OF Springfield, Massachusetts,,
who has Just gone to his home near Philadel-
phia. was very much embarrassed by the large
number OF pawn tickets he was requested to
redeem III that city by friends Of his who were
stranded there during the summer. o, the de-
lghtful memories of the Centennial
Edith Chat dreadful young flirt)-Do you
know. coz, think shall marry. Cousin (who
has designs IN that quarter himself)- Y on
amaze me Soon? Edith-Well, perhaps in a
name OF the happy man? Edith-The what |?
Cousln-the man, the-er-what is il ?-the
intended! Edith-Ab, by the way-yes
must begin to think OF that, too, mustn't /?
How few boys would expect to develop their
muscles, or enjoy themselves in the least, by
going through a course Of curling. Yet there
are not many pastimes more manly. or full OF
more splendid fun. The name has girlish
sound certainly, and suggests ringlets. and
curling-irons, and what not but we refer just
now to that delightful Scottish sport which is
played on the ice with heavy stones of special
form. A description OF this game will be given
Mr.. IRWIN Russell IN st. Nicholas for March
Talmage, OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle, had
hard work to make SMILES for the clerks whom
he specially preached to last week Sunday, but
he did 1t thus: - on must remember that
while you have goods to sell YOU have q soul to
save. After the last store is closed, after the
last merchantmen has gone down to the sea-
when London, Paris ana New York are no
more, you will be brought to account. What
an opening of ledgers will there be then In an
avalanche OF Judgment will go down all false
accounts. While others will go down into a
sea OF darkness, he whose accounts correctly
balance will mount to the throne Of light"