The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-29
PlTH AND POINT.

WHEN is a bed not bed? When it is
a little buggy.
CAN any one define the exact width of
a narrow escape?
NATURE is like baby. There is always
a squall when its face is washed.
WANTED-The receipt which is given
when a gentleman pays his respects.
How SHOULD q husband speak to
scolding wife? My dear, / love you
still
A LATE book is entitled "Half- Hours
with Insects" What a lively half-hour
one can have with flea.
WE can't understand why it was so
awful dark in Egypt when there were so
many Israel-lights there.
"WHEN I die" said married man,
want to go where there is no snow to
shovel" His wife said she presumed he
would.
A KENTUCKY editor remarks that
ninety-nine out of a hundred people
make a great mistake when they cut off
dogs tail, in throwing away the wrong
end.
"PA," said little fellow the other
day, "was Job an editOr?" "Why,
Sammy" because the Bible says he
had much trouble, and was a man of sor-
row all the days of his ife."
LORD NELSON, when boy, used to
make little boats and sail them in his
mothers buttermilk pans but it was
only after she caught him Mt it that he
run off and resolved to be pirate.
g If you wish to have shoe of dura-
BILE MATERIAL" exclaims the facetious
Matthew Langsberg, "you should make
the upper leather of the mouth of hard
drinker, for that never let's in water"
A WESTERN paper, in describing an
accident recently, says, with much can
dor: "Dr. Jones was called, and under
his prompt and skillful treatment the
young man died on Wednesday night"
A WITTY Frenchman says that ga
French Major is a man who has three
decorations. The third was given him
because he had two, the second because
he had one, and the first because he had
none"
SYDNEY SMITHS DEFINITION OF MAR
RAGE" 1t resembles pair of shears.
80 joined that they can not be separated,
often moving in opposite directions, yet
always Furnishing anyone who comes
between them"
g MAKE it my point, madam, to study
my own mind" said gentleman to q
lady who had exhibited some surprise at
an opinion he expressed. "Indeed -
she replied, 81 didn't suppose you un-
derstoOd the use of the microscope"
frrru bo,,oa IS NJ, D.~1o. -
President of the Court of Sessions in
Scotland, having, after his death, become
converted into a smiths shop, a gentle
man wrote upon its door the following
This house larger once enjoyed,
smith does now possess;
How naturally the iron age
Succeeds the age Of brass!
The other day boy started to carry
home yellow-jackets nest to tie to the
dogs tail to have some fun. He didn't
get the nest all the way home, as it be-
came so heavy he couldn't carry it, but
he succeeded in coaxing most of the vel
to accompany him the whole
and they supplied him with 80
much amusement that he hasn't once
thought of fun or the dog since, and
doesn't think he ever will.
NO KISS.
" Kiss me, Will, sang Marguerite
To a pretty little tune,
Holding up her dainty mouth,
Sweet AZ roses born in June
Will was ten years old that day,
And he pulled her golden curls
Teasingly, and answer made:
'lm TOO old don't kiss girls
Ten years pass, and Marguerite
Smiles, az Will kneels at her feet
Gazing fondy in her eyes,
Praying, Won't you kiss me, SWEET
She is seventeen to-day;
With her birthday ring she TOYS
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