The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-12-13
MEN AND WOMEN.

MEN AND WOMEN.
Mrs. Paralee Haskell has been State librarian
Of Tennessee for four years.
George william Curtis lectures on Bryant
tins winter.
George Eliot has recently bought 100000
estate. Who talks about the penury Of authors
1t is declared that Nellie Grant made mis-
cradle marriage, and already looks like woman
OF forty.
The right hand OF r. II. Stoddard, the poet,
is useless from paralysis, and his left hand is
now his write hand.
The Indiana Womans Prison is under the
control Of women, and 32 per cent Of the in
mates have reformed.
The gossips are senced Clara Louise Kel
logg, by her own statement, is just "a years of
age.
Messrs. Pentecost and Stebbins, the revival
lists, will begin the evaugelzing of Chicago next
January.
At ball recently given by the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, in Paris, the prettiest women
present we're Americans.
The Methodist Rev. Mr.. Beale, of New Haven
is under the harrow for too much kissful salu
tation of the ladies of his flock.
How kan you expekt to find people in the
world who are alike when you kant even fud
wun who iz alike haff the time Josh Billings.
What an awful blow that was at Oberhn at
the co-education Of the sexes. Four girls were
actually seen conversing with four young men !!
The ladies of Port Huron have formed a we'll
planned literary club, with Mrs. L. Fl. Stone,
the well known teacher and traveller, as director.
Lady Caroline Norton left $4,000 by her will
to "the good cause OF Woman Suffrage" and
Mrs. George Oakes, another English woman,
has lately contributed s2,500 to the same cause.
One consolation, if men are the exclusive
law makers of the world, they are compare
lively, exclusive law breakers. There is not in
tue prisons of the country, one woman to every
one hundred men.
The London Echo says Coughs lectures are
weak IN detail" But the weakness can't be
in de tail Of his coat, for that is as active in
England as in America.
Jessie Shirley, the 10-year-old daughter Of a
Chicago minister. has undertaken to support a
native missionary in India, and gives readings
from the poets in order to raise the funds.
There are ten shades Of red this season in
woman's toggery and 3i7 shades OF blue about
the husband and father who foots the dry goods
and millinery bills.-Catskill Recorder.
Miss Helen Mcdonald argued her own case
in an infringement OF her dress protector pat
ent IN the United States Court in Boston the
other day. Ben Butler was on the other side.
An Amencan lady recently bought the cost
lest braid or switch of hair that was ever
made in Paris. 1t was composed OF hair yard
and quarter in length, snow white, and ex-
ceedingy soft and glossy. It's price was $500.
man rose up at the Murphy meeting in
New York and denounced the temperance re-
former, saying Murphy, you are traitor to
your country and your Goi." Mr.. Murphy's
only response was, "God bless you. brother !"
A young lady of Harlem, ". Y, who was in
haste to get rich, answered an advertisement
promising to reveal the rare secret for the pal
try sum Of 25 cents. The answer came as fol-
lows: "Work like the devil, and never spend
a cent
Fannie Gatewood reformed prostitute, an
nounced lecture at Kokomo, but could get no
audience and was advised by the local news
papers to get herself out Of sight and keep
quiet. II she had been reformed rake she
would have been far more successful; she
would have had a crowded house and women
would have wept over her regardless of expense.
Indianapolis Journal.
Professor Silliman, OF New Haven, recently
closed Smithsonian lecture by giving the fcl-
lowing sensible advice to young men: III
therefore, you wish for a clear mind and strong
muscles, and quiet nerves, and long life, and
power prolonged in old age, permit me to say
although am not giving temperance lecture,
avoid ali drinks above water and mild infusions
of that fluid shun tobacco, opium and every
thing else that disturbs the normal state OF the
system rely upon nutritious food and mild,
diluted drinks, Of which water is the base; and
you will need nothing beyond these things, ex-
cept rest, aud due moral regulations Of all your