The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-31

When four score years recall their dreams,
And the old man goes back
4 4hro' all the streams, how long il seems
now little or Forever T. L.
-szz. g o.
ST. LOUIS has not woman's hotel. but il has
boarding house for working glrl-, built and
owned by an association OF ladies' who provide
food and lodging at from $3.50 to s4aweek.
1t Is handsome homeke place having teach
ers and glrls from the best class OF working
women among it's borders.
The author Of the interesting letters from y
convent school near Paris, entitled, "A Queen
at School, that were published in the Nav
Scnbner, is Miss Henrietta Dana. daughter
OF r. Ii. Dana, Jr. She has recently embraced
the Roman catholic faith.
During DR.. Reynolds campaign in Chicago
10000 Chicagoans joined the red ribbon arms.
In ancient days the precept was, Know
thyself. La modern times it has been supplant
ed by the far more fashionable maxim. Know
thy neighbor and everything about him.
Col. Ingersoll says be would rather be in
hell with one woman than ia heaven with all
men, Why? Because he knows even one
woman could make a heaven out Of he'll and
he remembers the trouble that masculine
Luclfer made in heaven.
A young lady in Wisconsin refused an offer
OF marriage on the ground that her father was
not able to support larger family. She evi-
IDENTIFY appreciated the worth Of young men OF
the present day.
Chicago has mi!Iiner, in Mr.. Balienberg,
that bids fair to rival the famous Partisan mil
liner, Worth What about mems sphere
1t is said that it costs sl77,444 year to sup
ply the American army with tobacco. The
sxtrsvagance OF women is running the country
Mrs. Belle French, who has started the
american, at Austin, is the first woman editor
IN Texas.
Apropos OF Edison's alleged slovenliness in
dress. correspondent pertinenty remarks:
ou may perhaps have noticed th&. no man
who shaved and changed his shirt every morn
ing ever invented a phonograph aud took ont
l62 inventions before he was 81 years oiG.
There is no truth in men," said LADY.
they are like musical instruments which sound
variety Of tones In other words. madame
SAID Wit you believe that all men are lyres.',
The Rev. Mr.. Oliver said, in the Atlanta
Methodist Conference, that revivalis,s we're
religious tramps, and more trouble than they
we're worth.
James Bragley, a wealthy manufacture OF
Buffalo, with an estimable wife and daughter.
secretly procured divorce in the West last
fall, married the dashing Young Miss Young
December IL, kept the whole affair secret from
his family until the other day when he took his
blushing bride to Europe, and left Buffalo
standing with its eyes and ears wide open in
amazement.
May Croly, sixteen year old daughter OF
the fashion writer, Jennie June, has gone upon
the stage under the name Of lEsther Herndop.
Lieut.. Hoxie and Winnie Ream were married
in Washington last Tuesday night, Gen. ster-
man giving away the BRIDE
III newspaper man." ssys Gen. Butter,
points lis finger at a member O. Congress,
the member incontinently runs into a hole,
True, Benjamin And what a very small hole
some OF them are crawling into this yesr-De-
trot Telegraph.
Many Iowa towns have elected women TO the
office OF School Director, under the new Jaw of
that State permitting women to hold Office.
Whittier says bis poem. Answer" beginning
with the lines Spare me dread angel or re-
proof, contains all his views about the future.
They undertook to shut down on Ingersoll
IN New Haven, for fear he would undo all that
Moody and Sankey had doue.
Three hundred woman suffrage pet,uons
have been presented TO the House during the
present session.
There is good reason why little man
should never marry bouncing widow lie
might be called the widows mite
Eighty men are learning to use the phono-
graph IN New York. with the design Of taking
the lecture field and exhibiting the interesting
invention. The owners Of the patent arrange
to furnish them with instruments and take
one-fourth Of the receipts. The rate Of ad-
mission is fixed by the company at 25 cents
1t is true that many exquisite andl lovely
characters die With their music in tbemn
Even natures that have what we call individual
ity and force pass away often without having
reached expression in any adequate form. On
the other hand, as our experience increases, il
"a common 10 lind that what We had deemed
the inadequate expression OF a sturdy and vital
nature was on the contrary, the incoherent ex-
pression of nature in reality feeble and COM
rnonpace-s nature having only the illusion of
profundlty. Nowadays, the mute, inglorous
Millions generally manage TO get an educs-
tion." and 1t must be confessed that most OF
them turn out TO be intolerable bores. Tho
Old Cabinet" Scribner for June.