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Show FOR THE LADIES. A Cinciauatian lately married tlie tH-vonx'tl tH-vonx'tl witi oi' hm own sou. Twirnty-five Confederate orphan girls are giving concerts throughout ihe Soutli. So much liaa Ijcco said about the Grand Puke's indill'erenl dancing that he has given up even his California trip. An English lady recently took an 1 ounce and a hall' ol' chloral to produce sleep. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. ac-cordingly. Abby Sage Richardson has agreed to give fifty readings after January 1, under the management of the American Ameri-can Literary Bureau. "A girl at Nile, Michigan, made eighty flour barrels last week." She's a staving girl, and no mac will ever coop her up in a house, you bet ! A hoy of five summers in Now England Eng-land recently, while at his devotions, surprised the family by praying that he might have sixty brothers and a hundred sisters. In Greenville, Mich., several married mar-ried women aro enrolled as pupils in the public schools. In this latiLude it I would puzzle any one to teach married I women anything they don't know. Horace Greeley wrote: "Women now manage most of tlie public libraries in Massachusetts," and the compositor read it, "Women now worry most of their public babies by mastication." Mrs. Mary O. Lewis, of Tremor. t, Westchester county, N. V., reports her personal earnings, by stitching only on sewing machines, in '29 months, to be $7,800, averaging per day $12.-50. $12.-50. Old lady to her niece "Good gracious, gra-cious, Matilda! buf it's cold. My teeth are actually chattering." Loving niece "Well, ;don't let them chatter too much, or they may tell whore you bought 'em. A Philadelphia paper makes the rather remarkable statement that tho afghan presented to tlie Grand Duke at a church fair in that city "is the work of an old lady whom it took six years to finish." Kate Field is a good pistol shot, Miss Ilazlctt swims like a duck, Elizabeth Eliza-beth Cady Stanton is a scientific fisherman, fish-erman, and Susan 1!. Anthony plays a stunning garno of draw poker and yet they arc not happy. "New Music." Tho Bristol (Va.) News has commenced the publication of all the births that may occur in that vicinity. This is a new feature irt Virginia Vir-ginia journalism. The Wytheville Enterprise En-terprise suggests to the Neics that "New Music" would be an appropriate heading for this column, While the parent of a four-year-old , boy, residing in Phillips burg, were absent ab-sent a few moments, the mischievous little fellow healed the stove-poker and handed it to his baby sister, burning the inside of her little hand severely, which made the little sufierer scream terribly. Young America, not liking that kind of music endeavored to put a stop to it by filling her mouth with ground coffee, and, no doubt, would have choked tho baby to death, had the mother been absent a few minutes longer. A deserter from the Second United States Cavalry, named llanlon, 22 years old, and intelligent, has rather a curious history. lie is the son of a wealthy Louisville merchant, and about a year ago becamed enamored of a pretty actress and resolved to marry her. The father put in his veto, but the young man persisted in his infatuation infatu-ation until he was driven from home, when, of course, (he actress refused him. Thoroughly disheartened, he enlisted, deserted, was arrested, and now wears a ball and chain. |