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Show THE LADIES. Beware of the man with half shut eyes. Hc'a not dreaming. Chicago lias a rich young lady who has a mania for buying dogs. Sue has invested $7,000 m theui so far. An Alabama Methodist girl forces piety upon her lover by making him eay the Lord's Prayer every time he kisses her. Rector's daughter to Sunday-school , "Oh, you have an elder brother; well, how old is he?" "Dunno, miss, but he has just started o'swear-iug." o'swear-iug." Dr. Mary Walker has got into her fall pants. They arc greenish in color, having large, sqaara cheeks, and "bag" as gracefully as the sack ot a schooner's main-sail. It is nothing for Arizona girls to own 5,1 00 cattle and 10,000 sheep; but pause, youug man, she Btumpa around barefooted, tpits through her teeth, and plays a "lone" hand of euctLre. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Allen, who im- plored to be rocked to sleep, mother, when she was a groat strappin' hulk of a young woman over twenty, with a waterfall, is now editing a paper in Portland. i The New York Herald suggests a capital rule for avoiding clerical scandal. scan-dal. Clergymen, in making pastoral cavils at hours when husbands and fathers are necessarily absent, Bhould always be accompanied by their wives. The Brooklyn Argus says that when a Boston woman visits a suburban J cemetery, she sits down beneath the willow to think of the departed ones and worms. She does nothing of the kind. She walks about briskly and steals slips. At a recent commencement in the West a young girl read a fine essay. On the way home from the hall she heard one of the lady listeners remark to another: "Wasn't that fine ?" "Yes," was the reply, "but what a mean little train she wore.', It is said of Katie King, tLe Philadelphia Phila-delphia ghost, that on one occasion a young man attempted to clasp Katie m his arms. She seemed greatly distressed and slipped from his embrace em-brace like a shadow and did not appear ap-pear again that evening, That's right Katie. Miss Gilbert, a blind lady, opened a bliud school in a Hoi born cellar, London, for which she paid eighteen penco a week. She has now 1,000 pupils, whom she has taught to support sup-port themselves. They maintain the institution that gives them a home, an education and an occupation. . The Milwaukee Sentinel ' relates that while a prominent preacher of that city was recently making a pastoral pas-toral visit, the lady brought out a number of engravings she bad just purchased. The cautious preacher flew through the front door, and sent his boy around for his hat afterwards. after-wards. A young lady frr.m Xew Haven was walking in the Central Park under the escort of a Kew York gentleman; gen-tleman; Passing the bust of Humboldt, Hum-boldt, the gentleman called his companion's com-panion's attention to it, "Oh, yes," remarked the lady, with much animation, an-imation, "Helmbold that kept the drug-store. I believe I did hear that he was busted !" |