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MATRIMONIAL.
4 IJgttl—«• Bwatmtss Carrie* by an
Italian Jearaal.
[Florence (Italy) Cor. Bo.Iod Hereld.l
Newspaper advertisements not unfre-
quently are very interesting reading, not
w> consider their financial aspects at all.
Thev are something in the line of a con
fession of one’s inmost feelings, wants,
wishes, or of expedients “to raise the
wind,” not to a priest’s but to tho world’s
ear, thinly veiled at times by so trans
parent a medium either of self-delusion
or attempts at deception of others, that
we cannot but be amazed at tho naive
simplicity of their authors. Here is an
example of a “personal” which has just
appeared in the Gazette d'Italia, our
chief pajKW, which may have n very
occult or pathetic meaning, but rends so
comically in its apparent innocence that
the public are to l»e forgiven if they do
not consider it in the light of a joke. It
is thus worded, literally translated:
“ An honest, but most unfortunate man,
if, at tho expiration of fifteen days, ho
can not borrow 2,000 fnuics, intends to
kill himself. In coho that some noble
and generous heart is moved to compus-
siou by his misery, write clearly to No.
.— Leghorn.” On this basis all thoso
persons who are suioidally inclined might
combino to form a stool; company to
trade on the gullibility of “ noble, gen
erous hearts,” should this case prove to
bo a paying investment
Here is something merrier in ring from
a Paris paper, of interest to the increas
ing class of title hunters in oiu* very
democratic republic. As it is printed in
English, it proclaims unmistakably the
nationality of the clients it expects to
captivate. Evidently titles are becom
ing a ilmg in their home market,
and purchasers must be sought, not
among the noble, but the ignoble born
of foreign lands:
“ An honorable English lady, monied to
a French nobleman, is well acquainted
with throe Dukes, four Marquises and
five Counts, belonging to the highest
French nobility, who are desirious to
marry Euglish or American ladies having
enough income to keep up a h'gh rank
in tho 8ti Germain Society of Palis.
(Sic.) Tho titled persons. in question
are from thirty to sixty years old. They
do not require titled ladies, but honor
able ones. Tho same English lady can
procure the title of a Marquis and the
title of a Count to a gentleman el
fortune, aged from thirty to thirty-two or
thirty-five, if they consent to marry the
young ladies who* by contract, can give
that title to themselves and to their de
scendants. The greatest discretion is
promised and will be observed. Apply
during a fortnight, to Post Resuute,
Bureau, oto., Paris,”
In tho same paper, on another page,
we find the following very fitting an
nouncement as a counterpart to the
other:
MAURI AGES
TUB OLpEST B9TABLI8HMFMT IN FRANCE
1 oiphau, 19 . ...1,000,tool; 1 widow, 15 3 n,0 01
l orphan. 25 1,000,000111 widow, 32 750,000/
1 M’Ue, 23 l,00o,00ul|M’lle, 22 ....1,2 0.0001
Titleless orphans, widows and misses
are tersely catalogued according to their
years and* pisses with a cattle-show 1 ms-
mess s-tyle which must be very edifying
to their intended purchasers. It is a fair
illustrati »n of the veritable view of the
marriage state taken by multitudes in
Europe, although many of them, how
ever, might object to quite so “burd
pan” a method of proclaiming the only
points they take into account in the
transaction. Doubtless we shall soon
see branch offices advertising wives and
husbands, with • and without tith'8 and
fortunes to be let for the season in lots io
suit transient customers. This might he
an improvement on the life bargain to
the fleeced victims of either sex.
Married by Chance.
T 1 ACViunt do M—- lived in a state of
siogl.".ii'l independent blessedness. He
was yi t y. mug, very rHi, and war sur
rounded by everything which could give
enjoyment t« > life—exc. pt a wife. He had
frequently thought of b.-oming a hus
band, but had alvuvc declared off before
the knot was tied.’ Once, however, ho
found himself very nearly committing tho
folly of matrimony. A young person, the
daughter of one of his friends, pleased
him; her fortune pleased him, not less,
perhaps, than her person and accomplish
ments, and there were other reasons of
convenience, etc., to justify the union.
The Count, who had so frequently
made the first step toward matrimony,
but as frequently drew back, lmd not yet
decided upon tho course he should adopt
in this case; he had promised the friends
of the lady repcutedly, but hud made no
outward sign of performance. His lui.no
mother, however, knowing his weakness in
this respect, resolved to bring mutters to
a termination, and therefore demanded
of the Count whether ho would or would
not mam- her daughter, and required
an immediate reply’ The Count found
himself in great embarrassment. At this
moment his fear and hesitation returuep
with more force than ever. Ho trem
bled at the consequences. To give up i i.
cherished habits of bachelorhood h<‘ found
was hard; it wus almost impossible to
abandon them. In this emergency 1 •. o rest>1-
Shoep Raising.
The sheep industry in the United
States is vast and important, and in the
consideration of which there ore two
partially distinct, and at the same time
interlocking interests. Sheep were in
early times grown almost solely for their ,
wool, and with the annual shearing came j
the year’s income ; but in later times,
and never so prominently as now, the
carcass is looked upon as an important
item in sheep husbandry. Mutton as a
cheap and acceptable meat lias of late
grown greatly in popularity, and mutton
now stands as one of the two important ,
factors in the successful raising of sheep.
In view of the fact that the merino is
essentially a wool-producing breed, with
a fleece of the finest and l>est quality, it
is evident that tho pure-blood merino,
though it may supply our manufactories
with the material for the finest of woolen
goods, on the other hand cannot
satisfy the butcher. Tho sheep having
th feed and clothe its koei>er, it is
SoM6 Curious Firnres In Book-Making.
From an interview with Mr. William
Row Brant Went to West Point*
A Columbus (Ohio) letter to the Gin-
ote t
i) let
ters in tue one ho accepted the hand of the
lady, in tho other refused it. He then
put them into a hat and called his servant.
“Take one of these letters, M said he,
“and carry it the chateau of
“Which letter, sir?”
“Which you please. - ’
The servant chose a letter. The Count
burned tho other without opening it. A
distance of ten leagues separated the two
chateaus. The domestic must be absent
twenty-four hours—twenty-four hours
must ellipse before the Count can know
his fate. His situation is any thing but
agreeable. He knows not during tho
twenty-four hours whether he is a married
man or a single one—whether he lias still
the power to dispose of himself, or whether
he is not already disposed of. The domes
tic returned. He hud earned tho letter of
acceptation, and M. de M is even at
this time, one of the happiest husbands in
that part of the country.
A Leaky Church.
Bishop Butler was once holding ser
vice in a dilapidated church in the North
of England, and, a storm coming on,
was nearly “ drowned out ” by the tor
rent of water that filtered through a
thousand rents in the roof. Ho mildly
remonstrated at the leaky oondition of
.things; and suggested that the first sur
shiny day should be devoted to repairing
the edifice. “ But it doan’t neediepair,
your Worship, when it donn’t shower,”
was the answer of the worthy church
warden.
A lady tells something tlmt ought to
have remained a secret with her sex.
It is'that a woman, in choosing her lover
considers a good deal more how tho man
wdl be regarded by other women than
whether she loves him herself.
We are told “the evening wore on,"
but we are never told what the evening
wore on that occasion. Was it the close
of a summer’s day ?
important question : What is the
ln'st breed of sheep to do this ? Evi
dently not the pure-blooded merino.
Though the growing of the pure-blooded
merinos lias its place, and an impor
tant one, ami the demand for their wool
indicates the prosperity of manufacture
of tho finest goods, it is by the crossing of
them with other breeds in which the
uoi
»>P
is produced. A cross-breed is the one
that in most localities is to pay. The
merino is slow of grow lh and Rmall of
carcass when mature ; but when crossed
I with a rapid grower, ouo that matures
early, is a high feeder, and lays on flesh
| rapidly, but not remarkable tor its wool
itity or qualitvfa sheep is
pays for itself in its wool
ility, and furnish)
mantity of mutton as a profit,
character are the crosses of the merino
with the Cotswold and the South-down.
But with tho great mass of American
sheep on the Western plains, wool is the
important product, and here the cross
must be with the merino upon the
“native”—a race of sheep which has
grown out of a variety of early impor
tations to this country—on intercrossing
of various breeds in which many of tho
good points have been lost. In this field
the merino has a great work to do to
raise the yield of wool one, two, or more
pounds per head, and give it a higher
value.
Where Booth Is Burled.
Tin’ Washington correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial writes: It was only
after some patient inquiry that I could
ascertain the facts, which are interest
ing, and, so far ns I know, nro yet un
published. Booth died, as will be re
membered, in a barn in Maryland from
a wound received from the musket of
Boston Corbett, nis body was brought
to Washington, and, after having been
identified bv tho court-martial before
which his fellow-conspirators were tried,
was dissected by tho Surgeon General of
tho armv. The brain and heart and
some other parts of the body were pre
served in alcohol, and ore now on exhi
bition in the medical museum of the
Surgeon General’s office. The building :
in which the assassination occurred was
Ford’s Theater. The Government eon- |
tisented it, but afterward Ford was paid
its full value, and it has since been used
as the headquarters of the medical corps (
of the army. The brain and heart of ,
Booth are in jars, standing in a case
that is situated very near the actual
scone of the assassination.
After the surgeon had done with
Booth’s body, it was buried iu a grave
i:i the .Arsenal grounds. Only half a !
dozen persons knew the exact spot, !
which was unmarked. In 1867 Edwin
Booth the actor, sent Mr. Weaver, the
sexton of Christ’s Church, Baltimore, to
Washington, with a request that the re
mains of liis brother might be taken up i
and removed to the family burial-place.
After some delay the request was grant
ed by President Johnson, who was final
ly appealed to, and Mr. Weaver took tho
body to the cemetery in Baltimore and ’
buned it beside the elder Booth and |
others of the family. The removal was ■
conducted with great secrecy, and was
concealed from Secretary Stuuton, who !
had refused to give his consent.
Slow News.
Much that is not very important is
but into “ news ’’-papers nowadays;
put the ideas of the more-ancient editors i
as to what is really worth telling were
very defective indeed—as much so os
were their means of getting news and
sending it abroad.
Wendell Phillips, in a lecture deliv
ered in Nyw York city, noted the
wonderful growth and power of the
press in ^ tho direction of journal
ism. This is an agent of civilization j
that has developed chiefly within fifty
The account of the battle of Waterloo,
which, Phillips said, was the grandest
event of European history in this cent
ury, occupied only one-tnird of a col
umn of the London Times. Compare ,
with this journalistic enterprise that
which lays a full-page history of the
Uto massacre of ton persons in Colorado
before the readers of our great dailies.
Garrison was mobbed in Boston in
1835, and narrowly escaped being
hanged. With all the files of the Bos- j
ton papers of that year before him, Mr. |
Phillips could not find anything like a
detailed account of the event. “ which 1
shook the city while it lasted.”
When President Harrison died in 1841, |
it took ten days for the news to reach
Springfield, III., from Washington, and
then Ahmhnin Lincoln disbelieved tho
report because it seemed impossible it
could reach there so soon.
Now in the newspaper you buy this
afternoon you “may read the words
Queen Victoria spoke to ner Parliament
since the sun rose in England,” or what
a congress of European representatives
said and did on the banks of the Bos-
f ihorus the evening before. As Phil
ips pertinently says : “ The man who
reads the paper has a telegraph wire that
connects him with the world, and the
man that does not read might as well be
Robinson Crusoe on his island.”
A stage driver in California whipped
up his horses until every possible second
was knocked out of the mile. A pas
senger who was ou the roof seat, alxivo
and behind the driver, suddenly became
insane, and declared that he was pursued
liy two men. Drawing a small now
Imteliet, he held it over tho driver’sheod,
threatening to bury it in his brain if ho
(lid not drive faster. The driver, utterly
helpless, ton his team at full speed for
some seven miles, and finally drew up at
the terminus, when the lunatio sprang
down and took to the hills. The driver,
seeing his life in imminent danger, tried
to upset his coach, but the road was too
smooth.
“Your house is a perfect conserva
tory, Oldboy,” admiringly remarked his
friend, gazing at the beautiful windows,
crowded with blooming plants. “Ah,
yes,” replied Oldboy, nervously, glanc
ing at a woman with her head swathed
in a dust cap, just coming down from a
step-ladder to fondle theoUti dog with
a mop stiok, “ Oh yes, it’s * " *
house.”
H. Appleton, of the firm of D. Appleton cinnati Commercial relates the follow-
& Co., printed in the New York Herald, ing entertaining story on the alleged au-
we extract the following : i thority of a Republican ex-Congrees-
“ How was Mr. Bryant as a maker of man of that State, who says that Gen.
manuscript?" Grant told it to him just before bis first
“ Mr. Bryant did all his laboring over nomination for the Presidency; “ When
the first draft of liis poems, ana tho I was a boy,” said Grant, “living in
manuscript as we received it was like Georgetown, my mother ran out of but-
copper-plate.” tor one morning, and, needing some be-
“ How did his works sell ?” fore it could be had at the store, she
“They have sold better sinoe his i sent me over to the next-door neighbor’s
death than before, for some reason or I to Ikutow some. Well, I was just as
other.” well acquainted there as I was at home
“ What is the best-selling book you almost, and opened the door and went in
publisb, if not too impertinent a ques- without knocking, and just as I went in
tiou ?” a : one of the folks, the old gentleman, I
“The best-selling book we publish is believe, was reading a letter from a son
4 Webster’s Speller, and it has the larg- | who waa in West Point. Well. I didn't
est sale of any l>ook in the world, ex- ' want to disturb them while tiiejr were
copt the Bible. We sell 1,000,000 copies rending the letter, and stood there and
a year." # heard what was read. Well, the son
“A million copies a year 1” said in this letter that he had been
“Yes, and have for forty years, mak- found—that is, ho had failed to pass ex-
iug 40,000,000 of 4 Webster’s Spellers ’ 1 animation, and ho would have to come
that have issued from our presses. The j home, and he had sent the letter one
year following the emancipation of the moil ahead, so that the surprise
slaves wo sold 1,500,000, because every 1 at his return might not be so great I got
negrO in the South thought it only noc- the butter and took it home, and then
(•usury to have a 4 Webster’s Speller ’ to I rush eddown to Thomas L. Homar’s of-
rend. After that year it fell back to the 1 fice—ho was our Congressman then-
original million, and has never varied, and I asked him if lie wouldn’t send me
We sell them in cases of seventy-two 1 to West Point He told me that he
dozen, and they are bought by all the I couldn’t send mo until this other boy
largo dry-goods houses and supply . got through, and that wouldn’t lie for
stores, and furnished by them to every three years yet ‘But, Hamar,* said I,
cross-roads store in tlm country.” ‘supposo tins boy should foil to pass ex-
“ Can you always tell whether a book j animation, and should be sent homo,
will be successful?” < will you send me, then?’ 4 Well, Uly,’
" No more than a manager con pre- said lie, 4 1 guess if he can’t pass there’.l
diet the success of a play. For example, be no use of your trying it’ 4 But I
when 4 Lothair ’ was written we deter- want you to promise that you will send
mined to publish it The firm held a me,’said I. 4 All right,* said lib. 4 if he
consultation, and some of the members ( can’t get through, I promise to let you
v ere for printing an edition of 2,000, I try it. Well, during the day Hamar
while others thought that was too many, i heard about the other fellow, and the
and doubted whether 1,000 would sell, j next day I went and asked him if he had
Finally we agreed to venture with 2,000. ! heard the news. He said he hod t and,
You may imagine our surprise when I , after laughing at me for the protqise, he
toll you that we sold 80,000 copies of | said it was all right, I should go. Well,
that novel.” | I went, and because my mother hap-
Another successful novel was Miss i pened to l»e out of butter has made me
Muhllutclt’s “Joseph II. and His Court,” j General of the army of the United States,
Mr. W. W. Appleton, while traveling I and I don’t know, after all, but what it
down South, came across a copy of tliis j may make me President.”
l»ook printed at Atlanta, Go,, during the , —- —
war. He bought it as a curiosity, for it
wretchedly printed on wrapping
STi.
Living in Quiet*
i r living hni
at once i i 8 to avoid having stocl
A rule for living happily with others
tk subject!! for dia-
como to have certain set topicB, around
which, from frequent dispute, there is
such a growth of angry words, mortified
vanity, and the like, that the original
subject of difference Iteeomes a standing
subject for quarrel, and there is a tend-
<truck by the elements of popularity in j putation. It mostly happens, when
it, and it was published by tho firm. ; Peopl« “ve much together^ they have
Every one will remember the success of ' “ 4 *■ *"
tliis story, and how it was followed by a
long senes by the same author. Before
the accident that led to the publication
of “Joseph IL” Muhlbuch’s novels had
l»een offered to nearly every publisher in . - r ‘7 y.—; ?
New York, the Appletons among the I o«cy in all minor disputes to drift down
number, and refused. i k> ll - Again, if people wish to live well
Two verv successful Amencan books ! together, they must not hold too much to
are “Seward’s Travels Around the , logic, and suppose that everything is to
World,’’and “Gen. Sherman’s Memoirs.” | be settled by sufficient reason. Dr.
Tnhnonn this clearly with regard
* * he said;
. above all
names of wretchedness, who should be
doomed to adjust by reason, every morn
ing, all the minute detail of the domestic
Gen. Sherman, Mr. Appleton says, is ns j Johnson saw this clearly wit
fust a writer ns he u a talker, and he t<> uinrnod People when
seldom has to correct his manuscript. ; “ Wretched would be the pair,
4 1 should like,” said Mr. Applet)
taking up a pencil aiul sheet of pop
“to show you the cost of book-making. I j in 8, all tho minute detail of tho domestic
don’t believe that people, when they | day.” But the application should be
buy a book for 50 cents, have any idea much more general than he made it
of the capital invested to bring it down I There i
at that price. For example, it cost us ' nothing that^
•lungs,
_ worth them. And when
Amer- we recollect how two lawyers or two pol-
ien,’ and tlmt without adding the cost of I itieians can go on contending, and that
printing. To bo sure wo made a good | there is no end of one-sided reasoning on
profit on it. Forty thousand copies wore | any subject, we shall not be sure that
sold and $2,400,000 turned in by our I B « c h contention is the best mode of ar-
agents. An even more profitable vent- I riving at truth. But certainly it is not
ure was the ‘American Cyclopedia,’ for j the way to arrive at gdod temper,
which the public has paid $5,700,000. Of
course, all of this is not profit. It costs
an immenso amount of money to carry
on our factory in Williamsburg. We
employ 600 hands, and pay out $293,470
in wages annually.”
Testing Ten.
i well known that the quality of tea
purpose there are largo tables with
round revolving tops. A circle of tea
cups is placed along the edge of these.
The tea-taster sits down before the dis
play of crockery and tastes one cup after
another, moving the table-top around.
In the center of the table is a pair of
scales with a silver half-dime in one of
the balances. One or two large kettles
are kept constantly with boiling water
in them. When a sample of tea is to be
tasted, as much is weighed out as will
balance the half-dime. This is put into
a tea-cup and the boiling water poured
on. The tea-taster then stirs up the
leaves, lifts them on his spoon, and in-
i your
Be Honest.
I tell you, brethren, be honest
dealings; take no advantage, w
child. Be conscientious in your bargains.
Have a single eye and a single heart.
Soak not to do shrewd. Be not ashamed
to be called simple. ’ And let me tell you
a secret, which ought not tolica secret,
seeing it i& written in the scriptures, that
your whole body will then be full of light,
and this in every kind. You will actually
see further and see clearer than shrewd
and cunning men; aud you will be less
liable to lie duped than they, provided
you add to this another part of character
wliioh is proper to au honest man—name
ly, a resolution to protect honesty, and
to discountenance every kind of fraud.
A cunning man is never a firm man,
but on lionestmanis; adouble-minded man
is always unstable; a man of faith is firm
as a rock. I tell you there is a sacred
connection between honesty and faith;
honesty is-faith applied to worldly thini
and faith is honesty quickened ‘
leaves, him mem on ms spoon, ana in- it ff n * c ^ n(! u by —
hale, the aroma. At the.same time he j aven1 ^
g enerally takes a sip of the infusion, 1
olds it in his month for a short time,
and then spits it out. Enormous brass |
cuspidors, holding two or three g
Ions, receive the tea thus tasted and t
contents of the cups that have been ex
amined. One some occasions, when a
large amount of tea of a certain kind is !
to be bought, many samples of this are !
brought in from different houses. The
buyers and sellers sit around the revojv- ;
ing table with the samples made into in- 1
fusions in the cups before them. These
before. As she carried it she
siderably alarmed, as most young women
would bo, to see first one mouse then
another leap from the loaf. On cutting
it opou, a cozy nest was found in the
center, and in the nest were fourteen
littlo mica.
Washington, vi, has twelve men
Nourishment In Food*
In tho following table, common lrny is
taken as the standard, and the numbers
opposite each substance show how many
pounds of eaoh contain nourishment
equivalent to ten pounds of hay:
(Inw clover 45 to 5
WhMt straw 40 to 50
Pm *traw 10 to 15
Turnip*
GiUlMge
Paw* an«l beau* ..
cats (linseed). t to 4
Of course, such tables represent only
general results. Much depends on the
quality of the food, the form in which it
is given, tlio condition of tho animal to
which it is fed, and other circumstances
which tlio intelligent farmer understands.
Circus Time.
“Tho circus is coming,” remarked
Mrs. Goodington, laying down her pa
llor, 44 with no end of trained horses and
caramels, liypothenuses and other bedi
zens of the forest and jungle. How well
I rememlier the first time Daniel took
me to the circus! As we entered the
tinted iucloaure I said to him : 4 How
terribly the wild animalcules growl,
don’t they ?’ I was eonamost frightened
to death till Daniel told me it was only
the vendocs of peanuts and prize pack
ing their rogation.”—Boston
ages plyinj
Transcript.
ire tasted all around, the “body,” whose united ages are 1,056 years, viz.:
4 finances,” “toaatiness” etc., are 8. P. Bailey, 100 years ; Charles French,
eamedly discussed, and the poorer 95 ; Charles Wright, 93 ; Leonard Brad-
specimens discarded. Then those that ford, 89; Jaboz Fisher, 88; Amosa Fair*
are left are tasted again and the number banks, 88; Caleb Carr, 88; Harvoy
further reduced. So it goes on until the | Spaulding, 84; Ziba Crane, 84; William
article which unites tlio desired price - * ~
and quality is obtiined. So delicate is
the taste of an experienced tea-tester
that he will detect not only the quality
of the tea as regards age, strength, fla
vor. fineness, etc., »?ut he ‘
teil
bich of the numerous districts in China
the tea waa grown. The facts regarding
the different Ramples are sometimes put
on the bottom of the cups, where they
cannot be seen. The cups are then
mixed up, and the infusions tasted
again, and sorted out simply by their
flavors. That the occupation is an ex
ceedingly unhealthy one need hardly l>e
stated, as the entire system is impreg
nated with tea.
warden, 82; Joel Severence, 82, and
Amos Russell. 83.
An ant, three-eighths of on inch long,
carrying a burden of one-sixth of a
grain, moves at the rate of one mile iu
eleven hours. The weight (a small one
compared with that they can carry) is
eighteen times their own. They com
pare with a man five and a half feet
high, weighing 140 pounds, carrying a
weight of 2,500 pounds at the rate of
176 milea in eleven hoars.
Grief and Business.
[EplUpb in * French Cemetery.]
Here Lies
Mme. Bertrand,
Wife of
M. Bertrand, marble-cutter.
This monument is a specimen of his work.
Cost, 1,500 francs.
A very weak tenor in Dublin singing
feebly caused one of the gods to shout to
an acquaintance across the gallery:
“Corney. what noise is that? ,r 44 Be-
dad,” said Corney, “I believe it’s the
gaa whistlin’ in the pipe.”
have circumvented the extortionate hack-
man. They stayed over two days to sue
him, bent him, compelled him to refund
his extortionate faro, to pay their hotel
bills aud the cost of the suit. He is a
Bndder hackman, but expects to make
himself good of loss before the season is
half over. ^
A Bohemian of the first water wus re
cently turned out of his lodgings and in
stalled in a miserable little room abso
lutely without furniture. He met a
friend and said to him, 4 4 Lend me a
choir.” 44 What for?” was the answer.
“My dear sir, I should be so ashamed
if burglars should come into my room.”
Ladies who wear sealskin socks are
very liable not to wear them, for in Bel
gium rabbit-skins are successfully pre
pared to resemble sealskin, and thou
sands of rabbits are annually killed in
England whose pelts go to Belgium, and
leave that country as genuine sealskins.
An old miser, who was notorious for
self-denial, was one day asked why he
was so thin. 44 1 do not know,” said the
miser; 44 1 have tried various means
for getting fatter, but without success.’
I 44 Have you tried viotuals ? ” inquired a
friend.
Why is it that a woman’s heart beats
fifteen times less per minute than n
man's ? Is it because her tongue beats
thirty times per minute more ?
Another oomposer has
“waltz (for one finger),” w
the least, must be a my siok \
waltzing.
Tender wife— 44 Say, look here! I’ve
got to have a new velvet skirt right off.
Got to have it. Tliis old thing is all
worn out—actually threadliare down the
front” Brute of husband—“Just the
thing, my dear. All the rage. Fashion
item says velvet skirts will be very much
worn this season. Sandpaper the Iwick
of your dress, and you’re setting the
style.” :
When the Greeks were about to sail
for Troy, Menelaus bought a bundle of
straw and put it carefully away iu hiU
cabin. “What is that for?” asked
Agamemnon. 44 To tell us the direction
6f the breeze,” answered Menelaus.
44 You’re crazy,” said Nestor. “Why,”
remarked Menelaus, 44 don’t straws show
which way tho wind blows ? ”
The members of a young ladies' de
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favor of long courtship. Level-headed
girls. Observation lias taught them that
Biere is wonderful falling-off of confec
tions, balls, carriage-rides and opera
when courtship ends and the stem reali-
itlez of married life begin.
There aro now 97,000 miles of sub
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Nervous debility, woakncoa and decline pre
vented by a timely use of Malt Bitters.
Never jump nt a conclusion. It’s as
bail as jumping out of bed and landing
ou the liUle end of a tack.
Malt Hitters regnlato. purify, strengthen
and nourish tho maternal functions.
About two-thirds of a pint of air is
inlmled at eaoh breath in ordinary res
piration.
Susan B. Anthony’s lecture—“Woman wants
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more convincing aro tho testimonials to the effi
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A mrnelr.
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