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Show FOIl THE LADIES. The NVw York SorusU proposes to, tmiU a monument over the remains ot" j Alice Carey. I When Adam and Eve partook of! the tree of knowledge, did lliey study j tlie hiclier hraQchof? The women of MasachucU3 jay taxes on 132,UO0,lXU, nearly oue-teuth oue-teuth of all the taxable property of the State. It U Kiid Charles Kcade, ia his last novel, "A Terrible Temptation," tock Ada Isaacs Menken as a model for his heroino. There is a woman in a London poor-house, poor-house, who has wet nursed over fifty infants during the last two years. Beer keeps her up. They have turned a sexton's wife out of church in California i'or trying to induce the parson to run away with her to .Nevada, and turn sinuer. A young wife in New York gave birth tho other day to twins; a boy and a girl, both of whom were endowed en-dowed with sets of beautiful teeth. A young lady heiug interrogated as to what her only comfort in life and death was, modestly replied that she would rather be excused from speaking speak-ing his name. An Albany domestic left her mistress because she was not allowed to receive her lo?cr in the drawing-room and treat hi in to twenty -four-year-old port from the wine vault A woman in Franklin villc, Iowa, who had five children in seven years went out and hatigcd herself the other day on discovering prospects of another addition to her family. Louise Collet, ono of the most distinguished dis-tinguished female authors of France, died a lew weeks ago at Nice, where sbo had delivered a course of lectures, in her sixty-second year. A woman suffrage lecturer in Iowa calls upon all women who want to become be-come voters to forget there is such a thing as modesty. "Put it oft'," she says, "and become like men." A young lady at Richmond commenced com-menced orjing the third of last month, and has not stopped yet; and her father fa-ther say? she won't get any two shillings shil-lings out of him to buy a bustle. A lady in Dorchester, N. H., during the illness of her husband this spring, tapped their sugar orchard, cut her wood, gathered the sap, nnd made about four hundred pounds of sugar. A fond mother in Kingston, N. Y., keeps an old-fashioned rocking-chair Bitting in a corner as an ornament, because be-cause in it she has rocked ten babies, all of whom grew up to he men, and are now living and married. The other evening, says an exchange, ex-change, a lady propounded to us the following conundrum : "What kind of potatoes are most popular among the ladies?" We modestly remarked that we were not aware which species of potatoes the fair ses were most fond of, when the lady horrified us with the answer, "Palpitators." |