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Show ; THE LADIES. Every liusl)and thinks that he can tame a ahri'tf, except the poor Jellow who has her. "Plecse cum aroun and talk me to the apeliu mach this cvniag," wrote an Ookosh yiri to her beau. An ainbitik.ms Milwaukee wife has named her nrst-boru Zero, because it is nothing to the number sha expects to have. "I always thought I should never rear that "child," said an old lady ot lX on hearing ol the death of her sou aged 70. At a receut wedding iu Ohio, the minister was about to salute the bride, when she staid him with "No, mister, I give up them vanities now." Jlrs. Bhbkins says she is very glad chignons have goue out of fasluou, "because now every topknot will have to stand upon its own bottom." A berpftved female, who has read every word of the testimony, and lost her "laith in mankind, pensively observes, ob-serves, "It's a real comfort to be a widow, new." ' An old lady died recently in China, Me, leaving hidden about her room $oG0 in gold which she hud accumulated accumu-lated previous to the war. Had she sold it and put the money at interest when gold was at its highest it would have amounted at this time to $1,300. Queen Victoria compliments Miss Emily Faithful!, editor of Women and Work, in this style: "Her majesty the queen wishes iUiss Fat h full every success in the laudable undertaking by which new branches of industry are opened to tho female portion of her subjects," An old dear lady was on her death bed, and her mind, always eccentric, had begun to fail. "Ann," she said to her attendant, "It I should be snared to be taken away. I hope my j nephew will get the doctor to open my head, and see if anything can be done for my hearing." "It's well enough for you to name your boy Elias," said aunt Hepzibah, ' 'but for gracious goodness' Bake, don't name him Alias, cause those Aliases is always a cuttin' up bad. Here's Alias Junes, Alias Brown, Alias Thompson, Alias One-eyed Jake all been took up in iS'ew York lor robbin' and stealing." It may not be generally known that Queen Victoria, though not actually on the staff of any public journal, nor regularly engaged to perform editorial work, sometimes does contribute leading lead-ing paragraphs, if not leadine articles, arti-cles, in tho daily paper self-entitled "The leading journal of Europe." A dying Covington woman asked that her bonnet, which she had never worn, might be placed on the table at her side. Her request was complied com-plied with, and alter gazing long and sadly at the thing of flowers ahd ribbons rib-bons she remarked in a mournful whisper, "I shall never see it again," and soon after breathed her last. There is a young fellow in Portland whose future depends upon the result of the Brooklyn trial, because the girl ha loves has promised to marry him if Beecher is oronounced innocent; otherwise sho declares that her confidence con-fidence in man will be destroyed and she will never wed. As he thus discoursed, he kept hitching a chair nearer the dear object of his affections until he got within arm's-length, when reaching out he took her tiny white hand in his and commenced, "Wilt thou dearest, dear-est, share a little cot a-a-l-i t-tle c-c- cot-co " At which the damsel jumped up, exclaiming, "You wretch, you; ain't you ashamed of yourself !" and left the room highly indignant. He says he was going to say "cottage;" "cot-tage;" it stuck in his throat, and he says he thinks . the youug lady is painfully modest. |