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Show FOR THE T. A DIES. I A Jt'reyman eloped with the wrong woman by mistake. An Atlanta belle consumes ten cigarettes ciga-rettes alter dinner. Robert Browuing has a poem on the woman ipurstion in press-. In Wisconsin wife-beaters are sent to the State prison for Live years. Three sisters in Stonington, Conn., were married on New Year's to three, brothers. Tho Baroness Liurdett-Couits is again erecting houses for the homeless of London. An old lady 72 years of age was declared de-clared the best dancer present at a recent re-cent Cincinnati ball. Two female studenls at Ljip.sic recently re-cently had a fencing duel, in which one lost an eye, and the other, part of her noe- i Louisa Muhlbaeh, tho famous authoress, au-thoress, has brought suit lor libel against a Dretdcn journalist, laying damages at $-1,000. Clarksville, Pike county, h:itlt a young gent with a hole in his back, and a young lassie who exclaims, "1 i did it with my little pistol." ! A Bangor (Me.) girl has metamor phoscd herself into what is oouimonly considered as one-ninth of a mau, and as a fashionable tailor, has made incalculable in-calculable sums. The supreme court of Illinois having refused to grant the application of Anna M. llulelts, the female aspirant to legal practice, the lady inteuds to lecture about it. A Western editor's cdiforial statement, state-ment, "We are living at this moment underabsolute despotism," is explained by his contemporaries by the lact that he has lately been married. One of the converts at a Western revival triumphantly told those present at a recent prayer meeting that linding her jewelry was dragging her down to hell, she had given it all to a younger sister. A New Orleans (iil, becoming offended of-fended at her lover, who was a coachman, coach-man, went to the stable one night recently and cut tho top, body and cushions of a haudsome barouche. Tho unfeeling John had her arrested. A blooming BloomingLou widow oi' threescore and ten a few days ago married a gushing youth but half that age, and the 6rst to congratulate the bridegroom was her son, over whose head had passed he winters of half a century. Tho inscription on an Ithaca (N. Y.) tombstone, composed and chiselled by a bereaved husband, after lauding to the ekies the virtues of the deceased wife, concludes with tho startling assertion, as-sertion, "She is in heaven;" then in a parenthesis, is the saving clause, "I hope." A love-sick swain, in order to more fully discover (he mind of his "ladylove," "lady-love," closed a letter with the following follow-ing lines : "If you was a dog, And I was a hog A rootin' away in the yard ; If the old man should say, Drivo that hog away, Would you worry or bite very hard?"' The three fond periods of life arc: The first conciousncss of love returned; re-turned; the summer beforo marriage, when all the course is smooth: and next the early months of the first baby, when a man feels a little queer and the woman is perfectly self-possessed again. |