The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-16

While they are raising tho ITALIA
pooss wouldn't IL be q good thing 10
raise the rest of the navy just little?
Merchant Traveller.
A MAN near Santa Rosa, Cal, sheared
10 sheep in one day. The same day
Wall street man sheared one lamb. It
is safe to state tho Wall street man got
the biggest fleece. =
SINCE they got in the habit out West
of going down cellar to escape cyclone
it is remarkable how often q man with
q barrel of hard cider in the cellar
thinks he sees cyclone coming.
SINGLED all the same: First small
boy-"Hello, Bill! Bin gittin' yer head
shingled? Second 8. b., weeping
~No; 'twan't my headl' First 8. b.
bowls in derisive and haunting man
ner.-bstTdette' '--ss
They now fill teeth with electricity.
A woman with tooth full of electric
ity and an eye full of fire will be
balmy object for man to meet ON the
top landing when he comes home from
balancing the books at 2 a. m.
when do you think of celebrating
your wooden wedding?" asked Bur
lington citizen Of another. "Shhl"
waB The cautious reply; don't mention
it. There are altogether too many
broomsticks and rolling-pins in the
house already" 80
II say, Jones, dine with me at the
house tonight, will your" Certainly
with pleasure. Will your wife ex-
pect me?" "No; that's the beauty of
it. We had q quarrel this morning
about the sea-shore business, and
want to make her mad"
Reckless dude Ito burglar, whom he
has discovered in closet: 90, you
nasty, saucy thing, to hide in nv bed
room! There! I'll break your UNI
brel1a, so can't go out without getting
soaked, for it's raining like anything
outside" Burglar faints.
VERY Big Boy-"Please, Miss Blank,
I don't think father would like to have
me kept in after school" Pretty
Young Teacher-"Why not, if he knows
it is for breaking the rules?" Big
Boy-"This is leap. year, you know"
She let him off.-Philadelphha Call.
Truth crushed to earth: Would
you say" asked the professor, 81 iooalld
rather walk, or 1 had rather walk?
Mary" replied the new boy, II should
say I'd rather ride" He did, too; he
rode all around the big recitation room
to the lascivious pleasing of slate
frame. --Batrdette.
COMING THRo' THE FOG.
When a steamer meets another.
Coming thro the fog,
Which should turn out for the other?-
Coming thro the fog
This question is quite hard to wrestfe,
Until we read the log,
Which clears from blame The lucky vessel
That has come thr0 the fOgl
Puck
"WHAR'D yer git dat hatchet ?" asked
an old negro of his son. "Foun' it in
Mr.. Johnson's yard on er stump"
"Dat's all right, den, chile; was
Altered dat yer'd stol'd it. Allus be
keerful how yer pick up things what
doan' long ter yer, but when yer finds
er thing, lessen de owner is er lookin'
at yer, it's your'n. "-Arkansa,o Trar-
eler.
"WHAT is the breed of your calf?"
said would-be-buyer to a farmer.
"Well," said the farmer, call 1 know
dDOub ~ 10 tAuo LID lothCi SOiCi ~ uo"
tice of the Pace to death, tossed book
agent into the fence corner, and stood
Gghtning-rod man on his head, and
his mother chased female lecturer
two miles, and if that amt breed enough
to ask 81 on you needn't take him !"-
Ne,o York Tribune.
If there is an impression that ne
groes are laying aside the habits of
singing quaint melodies visit to a ne
gro camp-meeting will destroy the
theory. At large meeting held lately
the singing was notable. One hymn
began:
IL onct get inside the door.
You'll neber fin me we're no more.
And another verse ran
When am dead an gone
don' want no one TO grieb over me.
One melancholy refrain, though music
al for all that, was
Daniels got in the lions den,
i ralv do belieb.