The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-10
JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.

LOVE" says the Philadelphia Chroni-
cte, makes many good right arm go
to waist
CONTACT with high-minded woman
Is good for the life of any man.-Hen9y
Vincent
HE moon, like some men, is the
brightest when it is full, but like them
again, it soon begins to lose its luster.
COOP intentions and n noisy boy at n
public entertainment are alike. Both
should be carried out.
AwoMAN. by hunger of sameness bereft,
Iak's II loaf of bread-they call IL theft;
lady, In shopping, puts under her pauer
trifc of vaut-'tts yclept-a-nauia.
A FLIRT is like dipper attached to n
hydrant; every one Is at liberty to drink
from 1T, but no one desire to carry il
AWAY. II. wits
APTTsBURGm man jumped from bridge
forty feet, receiving fatal injuries, rather
than meet his wife while walking with
another woman.
The Salt Lake Tribune notices with
sorrow that 'holiness in the Lord
whiskey will make Mormon saint stag
ger just like the meanest rot-gut in the
land.
The conversation of women in society
resembles the straw used in packing
china; it is nothing, and yet without it
everything would be broken. -Madanae
he Stdet.
THERE is much talk about the immod-
esty OF the female bathers at the eastern
watering places. We infer from this
that the sea serpent advertising dodge is
played out.-Pecks SIN.
GIN SLING is the euphonious name of
Chinese freshman at Yale. Who knows
but that at some time in the vast future
Gin Sling may become one of the orna-
ments of the American bar.
THE savage of the FIJI Islands. who
knows nothing of chastity, sins less says
recent writer, than the beauty who
plays with temptation and stands on the
verge of danger, calculating how far she
may go without running her reputation.
AN Enoch Arden, at Mount Vernon,
Ohio, is likely to get his wife back, for
he returns with a fortune of $50, 900,
while the Philip Ray is a shiftless fellow,
and has led the Annie Lee miserable
life.
THE Rev. Ira G. Billman preached a
kind of farewell sermon at jackson,
Michigan, and his congregation did not
at the time know what he meant by it.
He deserted his wife to elope with anoth-
er woman next day, and then his mean-
ing was clear
JAS A. LYON advertises that he will
give two dollars piece for newspapers
containing his obituary. 1t was printed
in 1862, when he was reported killed in
the army. He has just returned to his
old home in Iowa, and is anxious to read
about himself.
A MAN at Kansas City could not win
the girl whom he wanted and therefore
married her sister. The wife soon learned
the truth, and advised that the mistake
be rectified The sister assented, and
divorce, followed by marriage ceremony,
has apparently settled matters to the
satisfaction of all parties.
81 can't tell for the life of me-" said
an old farmer at the White Mountains to
a party of city visitors the other day,
''what you fellers see up here to draw
We. For my part these ALFRED hills
have been the worst things we've had to
contend with. Still, it's all right if we
like it; we're glad to see we; only it's
mighty funny"
Phoebe CAREY, wise old maid. said
this: 81 prefer my life to that of the
mass of married people that L see; it is
a dreary material life that they seem to
me to live-no inspiration of the deepest
love in it. And yet l believe that true
marriage holds the highest and purest
possibilities of human happiness.
T.. l..
the religious traveller is occasionally met
with-the preambulating parson of the
migratory missionary "Where are you
going?' said young gentleman to al
elderly one in n white cravat whom he
overlook few miles from Little Rock.
81 am going to heaven, my son. | have
been on my way for eighteen years.
"Well. good by, old fellow! If you have
been travelling toward heaven for eigh-
teen years and got no nearer than Arkan-
sas, / viii take another route.
BETWEEN the Henri Rochefort of the |
Empire and the Henri Rochefort of to |
day there is little resemblance. He used !
to have angular features and frizzly hair |
he has now filled out and has become
almost fat His external appearance is
more correct, and almost fashionable.
He wears light paletot over a black
frock coat and trousers, a lustrous silk
hat, and gray gloves. His hair is now
cut close. and the famous tuft has been
sacrificed. The complexion is tanned,
and the face in becoming fuller, has
caused the prominence of the cheek
bones to disappear. The eye has also
lost its brilliancy and hmpidity Tho
legendary Rochefort has in fact disap-
peared.