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Show i FOIt THK LAIJIKS. Svtii siitCM work their I'atli'.-r'i farm in Wright county, Minn. About one half of the type sotting on the Paris literary papers is dune by women. A wi.hjw at Des Moin-.-s. luwa. ar- i gues that life insurance m the duty of ; all men. Her hu-band was insured lor i"JO,0;iJ, which will set her second hus- i Land up in a first-clu.- grocery. A rather neat hit of juvenile humor, i says the Springfield J--r,el,H,nn., w:i in a reply of a Loy in that city to his excellcrit mother, when she tiied to "point a moral." He Lad crate-fully admired the aiti-tie wny in whi-h his p:nt-i wi;r; mended after a iwcful ac-ci'i'.'rtt; ac-ci'i'.'rtt; and she had s:ied the moment of advantage to show himiow cur-h'ss he wa, and how careful he ought to be. lie h'-ard the little lecture attentively, atten-tively, anil then remarked, in a reproachful re-proachful tone: ''Well, mother, it's quit evident you can't bear pral-iu!?." A .-mart little man of six year- went to a children''! ball. At this ait", and until boy-! pretend to he brave and ' girls timid, the hoys arc los venturesome venture-some than the girls. Our young friend held himself aloof in the corner an idler, dull and bored. The lady of ti e hou--e called to him: ''Come now, play and dance with others here. Hoe tlif-o pretty girls. Choo-e one for ; your little wile. " "A wile," cried the young cynic, "a wile lor me. No, no; 1 doii't want to be plagued like papa!'' A trial has just taken place at Calcutta Cal-cutta involving the riglu of a hindoo woman to choose her own religion. A youm woman, whose friends belong to the Urahmo Somaj, forsook the tenets of her faille 1.3 a:. J Was Laptiz.-J. iler rela: j vi'-i got a tv.ii oi' ha'x-u- corpus, un 1 sccir-'I influential counsel; but the judge decided against them, and gave the woman her liberty. She at. once, in oj'. "i court, in the most unii' tilling way, intimated that she would not return re-turn to her relative-. However, be-lb re jiidgiu' uf was recorded, she was again removed to a private room in order that her mother might again try to fdiahe her resolution. No Christian friend was permitted to enter. Presently Pre-sently wails and shrieks and bowlings of grief were heard. After a painful interval, the young woman was again called forth, evidently much agitated, but she had not been shaken in her resolve re-solve to be a Christian. |