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Show THE LADIES. A Maine woman has hair ecven feet live implies long too long to bo available for use in butter. Dr. Johnson poked tho tobacco in i his pipe down with his eweelheart'ri finger a warm token of aflcetion. Tho marriage of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr. S.irtoris is now announced as certain to take place next month. Tho Graphic thinks ladies would, if they became proficient in hilliarde, "jnw the hills and run tho ganio out." A young woman in Geneva, Ills., rceoived a gift of S 100 from her mother for reading tho liiblo through in six days. Jennie told a young printer friend that ho might print a kiss on her check, but ho mustn't publish it. Why, Jennie! Grace is a modes! girl and refuses to wear lowdie&ses. "Mamma," she remarks to her maternal, "that is more than I can bare." An Iowa jury recently decided that when a marriage engagement is broken off the paiUcs must return all presents or their value in money. A woman who has been in the poorhouso at Waterbury, Vt., for thirty-three years, says that she has washed 4,9ou bushels of potatoes in that time. The New York Herald thinks that if the medical schools continue to graduate female sawbones it will soon become bo pleasant to be sick that no fellah will want to be well. A party of school girls, out for a walk in Pittsburg, the other day, alarmed all tho saloon-keepers on their route, who thought the praying hand was coming and shut up their s-hopB. A young lady that had recently given an order to a milliner ior her bonnet, said: "You are to make it plain, but at the same time smart, as I ait in a conspicuous place in church," Even dea Hi has no terrors for the strong-minded women. There arc no less than twenty female undertakers in the country, not to speak of those who have undertaken to supply them with subjects. In there were in England and Wales Ho females who claimed connection con-nection with the press. In the next decade the number increased to 2oo. Who shall say that literature is not attractive to the fair sex? A Detroit young woman appeared in the polico court and said that she was an artist she had been painting a man's eye, using a soda-water bottle for a brush. For doing this she received the munificent compensation compen-sation of JO, 400 minutes house of correction. Another hureis ! Ninety-nine years ago the father of Dr. Mark, who is the lather of a young milliner now in St. Joseph, Mo., leased eighty acres of land in New York City lor ninety-nine years. The le;ise has expired, ex-pired, Dr. Mark is dead, and the milliner mil-liner is the only living heir. The property is worth' 17,000,0H). One day at week, says tho New York Com uttrvial, a temperance crusaders, cru-saders, on her return from a pilgrimage pilgrim-age to the beer bhops, was seen to approach ap-proach the pantry, and overheard singing: I-i I'e dmr-nof t.iJ.ly, Ki-i 1 uy mako l.; Jy v-l f i-i.l ni.-o ! |