Show STARBEAHS Kansas City StarA word to the wise Is sufficient and usually even that Is unnecessary un-necessary In France about 80000 widows manage to tit themselves out with new husbands every year The enmity between r Lease and Senator Householder of Kansas may be explained by the domesticity of the senators sena-tors name I was a celebrated German physician who said There Is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse To treat a young woman to Ice cream three times during a single season is held I by a Boston court to be equivalent to an engagement to marry in the fall A rich ChIcago widow has come back I from Europe to live down among her friends of the Lake Shore Drive set the mistake she made In engaging herself to her husbands valet Maria Ricks of Hudson Wis a well i educated woman who has been a teacher and a professional nurse has a mania i for breaking windows which keeps her in asylums or prisons a good part of the I time i Fortune tolling has bscome such a nuisance nui-sance in Milwaukee that the police department de-partment has ben compelled to take steps for its supresslon The town seems to be about equally clvided between the beer sellers and the clairvoyants A messanger took great pains to break gently to a New York woman the news that her husband was at the point of death Then I will go upstairs she replied re-plied and pray that he may die tonight so that I may collect his life insurance Prince Bismarck describes himself as I a bankrupt In nerves The neuralgic pain in his jaws often makes It difficult I for him to open his mouth That is a natural and reasonable judgment said he for all through my lie my chief sins have been those of my mouth eatIng I eat-Ing drinking and making speeches Along the line of the Illinois Central railroad In Chicago clocks are an unknown I i un-known luxury in scores of homes Many families arise at 211 as they call it 1 1 This is the number of the train that regu larly passes at 7 a m The ringing of Its bell is their alarm clock signal Trains pass all day long and those acquainted with the schedule can thus tell the time of day At nIght they know it by the ringing of the bells They are thoroughly familiar with all the sounds and claim that train time is more reliable than clocks Woman teachers and girl scholars were of small account in New York In early days Girls however attend the public schools We find Matthew Hillyer In 167C setting forth In New York that he hath kept school for children of both sexes for two years past to satisfaction Dame schools existed especially on Long Island where English Influences and Connecticut Con-necticut emigration obtained In Flush ing Elizabeth Cowperthwalt was reckoned reckon-ed with In 16S1 for schooling and diet for children and in 1683 she received for SO weeks schooling of Martha Johanna a scarlet petticoat truly a typical Dutch payment Said a typewriter who had been forced by hard times to take a place as nurse in a private family 1 wouldnt for worlds have any of mv friends at home know that I had sunk so low as to go Into service They would never respect mea me-a aln She was an American A girls club in a New England town was nearly broken UD a few years ago because an intelligent well bred Scotch girl who was In service was admitted through a misunderstanding To save the club composed chiefly of shop girls she had to so The battle Waterloo was fought June IS 1815 On June 22 four days later the London Morning Chronicle contained this complete and graphic account of It under the heading Total Defeat of Bonaparte Bona-parte We stop the press to anncnce the most brlllant and complete vllr ever obtained by the Duke of Wellington and which will forever exalt the glory of the British name Last night tte a quarter quar-ter past 1 oclock the Hon Major Percy son of the Earl of Beverley arrived at the office of the Earl of Bathurst with dispatches from the Duke of Wellington containing the account of the actions which have taken place from the 15th to the 19th concluding with the grand battle of Surday last in which the French were completely routed with the loss of 210 pieces of cannon and other trophies |