The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-30


An extensive exodus OF peasants and lsce-
workers from Basle TO the United States is re-
ported.
The empress of Austria has oifeIed prize
for the best treatise on dphtheiia within the
year-open TO all.
4 patent has been issued 10 Harriet Hos
mer from the United States patent Office for
her process OF making artificial marble.
Il said that half the servant girls in New
York are blind in one eye, but those are the
kind most sought after. They have earned
that the keyholes in the house don't belong to
them.
Bonnets are not worn in heath:n lands.
Hence churches are not popular there. II re-
quires a new spring bonnet to develop the
latent Christianity in a woman.-Nor.istown
Herald.
Says Peck's Sun: -Four new novels are an
noInced as about TO be published, and yet we
have not read more than half tha: have been
issued before. The supply is becoming too
great. Let's have a true story, for change
if anybody can be secured ( } write it.'
Twenty-six female lawyers are known TO be
practising in the United States, most OF them
with marked success.
Bancroft, the historian, is very feeble and
has been obliged to relinouish his fayorite
exercise-horseback riding.
rretty girl +" out west told her bean that
she was mind reader. You don't say so ~
he exclaimed Can you read what's in my
mind - =" Yes.' =aid she, You have i in your
mind to ask me TO be your wife, ont you're just
little scared at The idea pbeir wedding
cards are out.
Mrs. willis, au aged lady Of Cumberland Co.,
Ky died recently. and bequeathed 81 600 TO
the editor OF tue Glasgow (ly.) Times, in
token OF toe comfo-t she had found in reading
his paper. Bear this II mind, dear reader of
this column, when you die Chicago Journal.
The pulpit CT Uniyersalist Church in Water
! town, y. Y, was occupied on a recent Sunday
morning by the Rev. j. G.. Porter and his
father and mother The son opened the ser
vice. the father offered prayer and the mother
preached from Job v l6. II would not live
Away
The New York Sun has drawn attention to
| the fact that so many women are seeking en-
ployment who are educated, refined, accomplish
cd, some OF them to certain extent intellectual,
but a want of practicabity shsckles themiand
interferes with their usefulness. They have
never concentrated, never devoted themselves
to one thing, have no specially. and have
never put in practice their knowledge or at
tainments before being compelled TO market
them.
Buffalo pays the principals of her grammar
schoos-male, Fl 400, female, $3.50. The man
does no more work than the woman--perhaps
less-and gets more than twice as much pay for
it. But Buffalo is not alone in the perpetra-
ton Of this un-Christian outrage upon woman.
Nearly every other American city, az wen,
deserves to be kicked TO death by grasshoppers
for the same thing.-Exchange.
Aud yet when woman demands equal pay Tor
equal work. she is said to be out OF her sphere.
As some lady visitors we're goinS through a
penitenitary under the escort OF superInten-
dent. they came TO a room in which three wo-
men we're sewing. Dear me !" one or the
vistors whispered, what vcious-looking crea-
lures. Pray, what are they here for ?" Be
cause they have no other home this is our
sitting room, and they are my wife and two
daughters, blandly answered the supennten-
dent
Nothing makes an economical man feel worse
than to stand in the postoffice and see those
. chaps 90 at 1t deliberately TO blotch and de-
stroy the stamps which have cos, the pnblc so
much money.