The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-27
PITH AND POINT.

MEN whose business drives them to
the wall-Bill posters. h'
WHEN is a mans motive like his moth
er? When it's apparent le.e orI
WHAT part of "MassanniellO" could
dog execute? Bare a-role. a
WHAT does husbands promise about
giving up tobacco generally end IN F?
Why, In smoke.
A CORRESPONDENT writes, "What ales
the politicians ?" Well, we suppose
the lager beer saloons, if the "politi-
chens credit is good.
HOMER, who is supposed to have writ
ten nearly 5000 years ago, alludes to
the use of the razor, and yet we are told
he did not live in age of barbarism.
"Do YOU ever have malaria here?"
said lady to an illiterate hotel men.
"Yes," said he, "we'Ll have it every day,
for I've got the best French cook i'll the
city"
THE public have been warned of the
new loan that is 4th coming, and there
is but little doubt they will be A armed
very soon after the said loan is ready
delivery. rse.
KEEP your temper, my dear SIR"
said an old Judge to an irritable young
lawyer; keep your temper-it is worth
great deal more to you than it is to
anybody else"
A GENTLEMAN, on walking out one
Sunday evening, met a young girl whose
parents lived near his house. "Where
are you going, Jenny?" said he. Look
ing for son-in-law for my mother, sir"
was the reply.
How WISE is the tramp who sleeps in
the fence corner, and has no fear of hotel
fires and six-story leaps tD stone pave
ments. Go to the tramp, thou archi-
tect, consider his ways, anu be wise =
Detroit Free Press.
A COUNTRY girl wrote to her lover
Now, George, don't you fale to be at
the singing-school tonight. George
wrote back that Sin the bright lexicon
of youth-Webster's Unabridged
there's no such word as fale."
CONTRADICTORY may seem strange,
bus it is fact well known to those who
have but a slight and superficial ac-
quaintance with science, that if you keep
fire thoroughly coaled You will proba-
bly, keep yourself thoroughly warm.
Ir was Richard Grant White who cas-
ually remarked that she who can write
what is worth the reading may make his
OWN grammar" Whereupon the reli-
able mocker OF the H0,o&-E'ye responds,
"Those is which we has always did,
MIR. White"
IT is very fine to laugh at womans.
"tantrums when mouse makes its ap-
har
merriment should be reserved for the
man who "plays circus" while a June
bug is walking up the inside of his,
clothing with the slow and measured
steps of day laborer.
A LEARNED lawyer Was once accused
of having dsgraced the bar by taking
silver from client, the etiquette of the
profession requiring that his fee should
be in gold. g. took silver" he replied,
because I could not get gold but 1
took every farthing the fellow had in the
world, and l hope you do not CAN that
disgracing the profession.
TURNING THE TAB4.Es. person
(applicanj for housemaid's " situation y
=" May ask, sir, if you keep boy %
Old gent-"A boy mol Why?" Young
person" Oh, to clean boots and knives,
carry up Goals and" Old gent" All,
may ask-can you play the piano ?"
Young person (dubiously)-" No, SIR"
Old gent" All, then, I'm afraid you
won't--thatis, we shall not suit you. land
my wife always carry up the Goals and
wash the dishes, and all that sort Of
thing. All we want is some one to play
on the piano Punch.