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Show THE LADIES. , Dometic "sauce" w kept in fana- J iily jure. A Nashville doctor tells of a woman j I who lost her sight by tho excessive ( " use ol'siiuiT. 1 The members of tho Nevada assembly as-sembly have been gallant enough to elect a lady as one of their clerks, r When he calls her 'My juggy, my f pugyy, my honey, my coney, my dear, my love, my duvo," he'B got it j pretty Dad. There is a woman living in Boston who has for her sole companions 19 doge, varying from a few months to fivo years of age. St. Paul iB the home of a girl so j beautiful that she is obliged to keep ( her breath scented with year-old : onions in order to keep the. beaux at a proper distance. A Cairo man warns people not to trust his wife, and she retorts by eay- ' ing that he'll go without clothes all ( ' summer before she'll take in washing to rig him out again. An Illinois girl drugged her father and mother the other night when she t expected her lover, who is deaf and talks in a loud -voice, and it was forty-eigbt forty-eigbt hours before the doctor could bring the old folks out of it. ) New York boarders object to pud- ding being mixed in a coal-scuttle on the ground that in theBe hard e timea the waste of fuel consequent i. upon the pieces being cooked with the pudding is a flagrant neglect of the poor. A wealthy Russian of good family has just been married to a Cincinnati girl, with whom he fell in love before he saw her. He chanced to see her photograph in Russia, and became bo enamored of her that he came 7,500 milos to make her his wife. The Newark woman who married four husbands out of the same family explained her conduct by saying that the was determined to find out whether wheth-er there was a man among them worth a cent for any earthly purpose. The fourth man is still on trial. They have a ghost at the spiritual seances at Pueblo that claims to be that of a young woman who was drowned in a cistern in Illinois several sever-al years ago. Another apparation that appears nightly is that of a black-whiskered black-whiskered gentleman who dances around awhile and vanishes without communicating anything at all. ' A Christmas Evo scene in Terre Haute holiday store: Music box had just stopped playing; young lady tried in vain to start it. "Oh, pshaw," 6fiid she, "it won't go for me." One of the proprietors overhearing the remark, re-mark, stepped up and said: "I wish I was a music box I'd go for you." "You may go," responded the pert miss. Neat Mary Wrngg, having observed ob-served how cobwebs and dirt accumulated accumu-lated in old and rarely visited burial vaults, left by her will a small sum to have her coffin dusted; and ntiide another appropriation for a dinner to the men employed to dust her coffin. A short time ago the ceremony cere-mony was duly performed in Penge, England, and the officiating clergyman clergy-man received by bequest half as much as the cost of the dinner to the dusters. He? blushed n fiery red, Hur heart went pit-a-pat; She gently hung her kead . And looked down at the mat. He trembled in his speech; He rose from where ho sat, And shouted with a Ecreech, "You're sitting on my bat I " |