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Show FOR THE LADIES. A Virginia girl of .-ixteen has died of homesickness at a Richmond boarding-school. "I'm sitting on the 'style,' Mary," as the fellow said when he coolly sat down on his sweetheart's new bonnet. Miss Glynn, othenvise Mrs. Dallas, who has been reading in New York and Boston lately, has financially run ashore in the" former city, because of trouble with her agent. A man in Braintree, Mass., exclaimed ex-claimed on Tuesday that his fortune was made when he was told that bis wile had presented him with four fine boys at a birtlw The conductor of an omnibus said to a young lady, one of his passengers "Miss, your fare." "Well, if I am," she replied, "I don't want any of your impertinence." An itinerant vendor of pumps traded one of those articles to a Dallas county, Iowa, widow, for her daughter, lie rued his bargain, and went back next day and repudiated the contract. , A Paris letter says that while nine persons, including a lady, were at breakfast, a German shell descended upon the table, exploded and killed all but one of the party. A few years aiio the wife of Gilniiin Jones, of Marlow, N. II., hung lrjr- self. Mr. Jones then married her sister, sis-ter, and last week .she, too, hung herself. her-self. Mr. Jones' next venture will be in another family. Misses with handsome hair wear it in two long braids, tied with ribbon bows. A stylish arrangement is to separate the braids into two strands near the endsj and form two curls, pendant from each braid. Trains for evening wear are very much shortened, for which the ladies should be grateful, as so few are aide to carry a train gracefully, and it-is always al-ways an incumbrance in a crowded assembly, as-sembly, or when dancing. 1 I - This was picked up on a train below Nashville the other day : "Miss Mat-tic, Mat-tic, I want you to talk to me ritenow. I don't want no Iboling abot it. I am iu ernest a bot this thiug. Now dont be a i'rade to talk to me, for they shunt nobody now anything abot what you say to me Whether you love me good a nuff tor a husband or not, as 1 rite here is the place for you my deer Love. " A fuurteen-yeur-old girl was a witness-in a recent Indiana divorce tuit, and a portion f the evidence was as follows: ''Father got mad became uiOlhiT starched hi.-, blockings. Mother picked up I he slic'ingj and bit I'atl or ou the head with iheiu, and itsuuudi'd as thouuli they were tick-, of Wood. Father linn stulli.'d a hot wheat cake dir.vn u.otLiM- s ihru:it, at:d thuu motli-or motli-or set ilie 1J111; on t .1 - li, -r au -I tvi-t, ! the d'igi (ail t' make h 1 in Ixtc harder." |