The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-06

DIR. A. Il. Spinney of Detroit, will give two
free. lectures, Sunday morning Mt III a. IN.
and evening at p. m. IN LongweIl's Opera
house. Subject-Pages from the Book of
Human hfe.-What philosophy, march Of
science and religion do We need to gfve the
highest inspiration, greatest hope, best char
| acter aud most moral worth and courage to
lifeI
Among our most valued exchanges. We
| class the Detroit Dolly I'fu.ss. 1t contains
the news of the day in condensed and read
able form, has corps of correspondents
throughout tho state, IL neat in its typo
graphical appearance and tasty in its .'rnake
up" IL asked to state our opinion as to- tho
best two cent morning paper we should un-
hesitatingy excaim q teriporo!
Judging from some of the manuscript vo
have seen recently emanating from some OF
our high school students, we are inclined to
believe that a spelling book could proftably
take tho place of Greek and Latin ixicons.-
P0to P0s Herald. Iixiconsl Iixiconsl
We fear our brother isn't familiar with that
passage in the good old book which says,
"cast out arst the beam on. of thire own
eye" etc
A joint meeting. Of tho boards of school
inspectors of the townships OF Lawrence
and Paw Paw was held In this village last
Friday, for the purpose ofoonsidering the ap
plication Of A. Hayward, Il. fandervere and H
q. Saxton, to be detached from the Wildey dis
trict. in this township and to be attached to
tho Allen district, in the township of Law
renee. Tho boards denied the application
because the proposed change would not con
shtute district Of contiguous territory.
| T1,x.,.a 0LaII ~ -
made which will obviate that objection.
Eli would DO shocked to read the report
IN the kogrzrsRSHR Of the definition of ths
two kinds of wit and humor, which makes
him say s3ns10S for sspssLors.--K ecker cor
Lkc|7far 3sollbsGc1Gs.-W Webster defines "sen-
sual'' "a pertaining 10, consisting in, or
affecting. The senses, or bodily organs of
perception "Sensuous" he defines as aper
tanning to, or addressing tho senses That
seems TO be distinction without much OF a
difference. We don't know whether Eli
would be shocked or not The word was
used by him in the lecture Just as we gave
it We know there il another meaning to
the word sensual but, Hgss s.-ss ors gaal
y pesss
Postmaster Beebe has received a letter
from Jas J. Oliver, Mannboro, Amelia Co.,
Va, asking for information concerning three
children of ]. l. Wyman who were brought
to Michigan somewhere about 25 years since,
from Appalachicola, Fla. The children, he
thinks, were al girls, the oldest one named
Ella. They were too young to remember
their relatives, who are anxious to find their
whereabouts. Mr.. OliYer il an uncle OF the
missing children, their mothers brother If
any OF our readers know anything concern
ing the family they will confer favor b7
communicating with him. Amy paper copy
ing thus notice viii be assisting in good
work.
At the derno-greeuhack caucos last Friday
when the name of s. IL. Jones was mention
&c as a candidate for trustee a gentleman
raised the question as to what political party
he belonged. The prevailing impression
seemed 10 De that he was a republican, but
they thought he was pretty good roan even
if be did not belong to the fusionists, aud so
they placed Dim in nomination. Another
gentleman remarked during the contest for
recorder that be thought it was q shame for
a man to work III the republican caucus and
then come there as a candidate for Office.
During the contest for Sd trustee derro-
crat said that thus far the nominees we're al
greeDbackers, and for one he would like TO
ceding the justice of this demand the re-
suit of formal ballot gave the nomination
to John L. Clapp by vote of 90. to % for
Eli Wise bis greenback competitor.
Among the contents of the first issue of
the JRUB NoRrHKayrR were 'Scenes in the
Kansas election" "rhe Allegan and Paw
Paw railroad" of which John Smoik, Silas
Breed, Il. M. Manning, f. Ii. Stevens and s.
G. Grimes were directors and which was then
in process OF construction on paper. tho
marriages of Joseph w. Luce to Martha
Richmond, by Rev. Daniel Osborne, and
William Hodges to Caroline l.. Haynes, by
Rev. Aaron Rowe, and "Riot at Chicago"
growing out of the Maine law and license
question. The only advertisement was a
notice of az. ). Houses cheap cash
store" in which the enterprising proprietor
advertised under the following head lines,
Extraordinary Speedl Astonishing Rapidi-
tyli Extraordinary velocityili He then
goes on to state that he is in receipt of goods
direct from New York via the Union Express
Company "in the unparalleled short per
iod of seenty dzys." Verify the world has
progressed within the last thirty years.