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Show 1-ou the IjAdt ks. They have a girls' base ball club at Lancaster, Obio. A young lady of Botou counted among her wedding presents, recently, eleven pie-knives. Tc begins to look ominous when tie woman of the period wants her club ; she used to be satisfied with her broomstick. broom-stick. The English girls call I'riueess Louise Lou-ise the "opera-glass of fashion" now, because she intends to make a Lorn-ette Lorn-ette of herself. After a wedding it was formerly a custom to drink honey dissolved in water for thirty days a moon's age. Hence the origin of the honeymoon. There is a letter at the Bridgeport, Conn., post office, awaiting an owner, addressed as follows : "picas send to the lady who lives in street near Main .St, with a black fence with steps giting up." A young lady at a ball was asked by a lover of serious poetry whether she had seen Crabbe's Tales. "Why, no," she answered, "I did not know that crabs had tails." "I oeg your pardon, miss," said he, "I mean have you read Crabbe's Tales ?" "And 1 assure you, -ir, I did not know that red crabs, or any other kind of crabs, had tails." A child, while walking through sn art gallery with her mother, was attracted at-tracted by a statue of Minerva. "Who is that?" said she. "3Iy child, that is Minerva, the goddess of wisdom." "Why didn't they make her husband, too?" "Because she had none, my child." "That was because she was wis:, wasn't it, mamma?" was the artless art-less reply. The wife of a manufacturer in an inland town, whose daughter was about to be married, sent notes to her friends requesting that, if they intended to make wedding presents of silverware, they would send the money instead, as she was about to visit New York and would prefer to buy the articles herself, her-self, "for it will be so nice to have the things match, you know." On arrival of the ferry boat at Detroit, De-troit, the other day, a robust young man was seen to lift bis mother in his arms and carry her to the train. Seeing See-ing her condition, a policeman ventured ven-tured to ask why they did not stop over a day or two aud let the invalid rest a little. "Because," said the son, in a cool business tone, "because this o'd lady's got the consumption and won't live niore'n a week, and I want to put her through to Iilanoy afore she drops the figgjr." |
