The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-26

In Persian Jheaters the female parts
are all played 10y boys.
1T actually improves the bicycle
record to have il broken.
STRIKE while the iron is hot, but let
some other fellow hold the iron.
The life of beautiful woman is
never monotonous. There is glamour
over her most commonplace perform
ance.
THERE are no newsboys in the City
OF Mexico. The papers are all sold by
women, who hold them out to passers-
by, but never say word.
DURING the first week in October an
international congress will discuss eli
matology, mineral and thermal springs,
and allied subjects, at Biarritz, France.
WEEPING WIDow-And such a good
man, sir. Busy Undertaker-No doubt,
no doubt; but little wide--a little
wide for the average man.-Nel0 York
Graphic.
MADNESS in cattle was once supposed
to arise from distemper in the inter-
nal substance of their horns, and furi-
Gus or mad cattle had their horns bound
with straw.
TIGHT corsets cause red noses and
bad digestion, and bad digestion
safiron-colored skin. Both are hideously
unbecoming to twenty-five-dollar hats.
Put pin in this.
PLANTAIN water was q remedy in COM
mon use with the old surgeons. In
Romeo and Juliet" plantain leaf is
70 ha N =, o,-.-o g.
your broken shin.
The source of an offensive odor was
lately traced by watching two blue
bottle flies, which pointed out the To-
cality of decomposing rat by settling
on the floor above it.
WHEN the forenoons of life are vast
ed there is not much hope of peaceful
and fru ,tful evening. Sun-risings and
sun-settings are closely connected in
every experience.
A WRITER has discovered that the
word love, in the Indian language, is
spelt thus: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
en-" 1t may not be as expressive, but
there is certainly more of it.
ANOTHER metal has been discovered.
We have never been able to discover
why q man should go foundering
around looking for new metals, while
gold and silver are SO plentiful.
PLEASURE and diet ought to be k nd
of concert, and bear just proportion
to one another. Immoderate pleasures
pCt nature into disorder; but then a
sparing and dry way of living dulls the
spirits and lnsensibly extinguishes
them.
The orange crop of Southern Cali
fornia is estimated at about 5000
boxes. The crop of Florida was esti-
mated, before the freeze, at /, 800, 900
boxes. The foreign crop received in
tne Western States is likely to reach
100000 boxes.
DRY. PoULAIN believes that the rea-
son that cows milk so often disagrees
with children is to be found in the fact
that cane sugar is used to sweeten il.
He says that for thirty-three years he
has used the sugar of milk with the
best possible results.
SLAVERY in the ancient Roman world
was in part sustained by practice SO
revolving and inhuman as hardly to be
comprehensive to modern ideas-the
systematic exposure and abandonment
of the children of the poor, and of fe-
male and defective children by the rich.
There are innumerable illusions to this
inhuman treatment throughout Latin
literature In two different comedies
or dialogues the husband, on starting
on journey, is represented as ordering
his wife, who is soon to give birth to
babe, to destroy it if it prove girl;
and the plot of one turns on the wife's
foolish weakness in exposing rather
than killing the female infant.