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Show THE LADIES. Jet car-rings in the form of fern leaves are en reyle, Mmr. Nilsson is lending her voice to charity concerts in New York. The young lady who thought Spain was riiiht hits several acquaintances in the navy. A Pittsburg squnw is heir to a million mil-lion dollars. Indigent gentl.Qieu describe des-cribe her as very beautiful. Ladies, this winter, will wear the same things they wore lust year if they can't buy others. There are fifty widows in a retired Vermont village, and all the mills are running on lull time. Another queen of the ballet has died in a Parisian garret, and was buried at tne public expense. Susan B. Anthony had a man put off a railroad train in .Rhode Inland for winking at her. The young ladies at Yassar are sa id to be growing near-sighted. They can't see you until you get up close. The Patti hraul dress is a butterfly of lace with a rose or brilliant in the centre. Long ends of lace hang down the back. Blue Lyons velvet muffs lined with blue salan and having blue satin bows on either side, have just been introduced. intro-duced. Bridal fans arc shown of 'white satin in the shape of a heart with a complete com-plete covering of fine net lace. They arc very handsome. Mrs. Andrews of Vermont ea'ul sh( 'didn't care a darn whether dinnei suited her husband or not," and s Justice fined her $7. Miss Godfrey, of Bennington, Vt.; is under arrest fur dragging her fathei down stairs feet foremost, because h( opposed her dancing round dances. A girl at Youngstown, Oliio, brokf. her arm the other night while striving striv-ing to kiss a young man at spelling school. State prison is too good fui her. j Broad, flat, low herls for boota an now considered the thing among th . ladies of Paris. This is the mosl sensible move fashion has made re- ccntly. A female justice of the peace ir Wyoming fined her lover ten dollan ! for getting drunk, and paid the fint herself rather than see him go tt jail. ( A young lady in Indiana was res-cued res-cued from drowning the other day, and she has sent the young niair foiu quartz of butternuts as a token of ap-' ap-' ureciation. John Carpenter, of Jersey City, said that his daughter shouldn't go to a party, and she got up and informed him that she had been married for eighteen months and was her own boss. An Illinois farmer presented lii daughter with a chirm o, wash-tub, axe, three flat-irons and a dish-pan on her marriage day, and she was bo mortified that she uLLempled to commit com-mit suicide. Fashionables have seized upon yellow yel-low again as a favorite color. A huge yellow blush rose stuck on the side of the peculiar bonnet or hat of the yeriod is regarded as the tip of the fashion. Ladies now have their handkerchiefs handker-chiefs hanging at their side by a .gold gilt chain, instead of the fan. Thii is a temptation to the thieves whe seldom have the article in their outfit. out-fit. Twentv-seveu Nashville Wlies determined de-termined to practice economy, vowed not to wear anything more expensivt than calico dresses to church, and they stuck to it, as none of them lmv attended church since. It can be said with truth of Londor ladies that they never carry fjishions, Parisian or otherwise, to extremes. Tbe fortliiono n-w in v.pn Uior u.rj the prettiest and most sensible seen for years. At leuet the fashion journals journ-als say so. At Clmtfield, a few eveuinfiB ago; a spiritualist lecturer observed a ladv in deep mourning costume leaving: the hull during his lecture. lie calico her back, saying the spirit of hor husband hus-band wished' to communicate witr her. She replied " Sho knew it, af he was waiting for her at the door tt escort her home." John Paul says whon they want tt find out in the country ii a gill ii courting or not, an old lady steps ii and remarks: " I say, there ain't nc one sick in this here house or nothin, is there? I seen a light burnin' nigl onto twelve o'clock last night, but don't smell no camphire nor nothin1 round." |