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Show THIS LAMES. A Virginia woman of 2S is ft grandmother. grand-mother. She was married at tho age : ol 13 years?. London Timcli describes a woman aB ft creature endowed with a eelf-ornamental eelf-ornamental iuetinct. Two young men in Wayne county, Ga,, want to marry. Each oflera 50U acres ot hind for a wife. . Why aro all famalo lecturers luft-handedr' luft-handedr' Ex. Are they? Maybe that's gesture way of looking at them. "Grandma, why don't you keep a servant any longer?" "Well, you seo, my child, I am getting old now, and can't take care of oue aa I uacd to, you know." Miss Anna E. Dickinson will make her firat appearance on the stage in New York, in the Eiigle theatre. She will fint play Anne Boleyn in her own drama, "A Crown of Thorns." Young ladies of the highest social Bphero are now sewing for charity. The "cutting out" is done by a uro-feBBiorjftl uro-feBBiorjftl dressmaker in order that the garments made may be worn. The eenate of Connecticut has passed a bill giviug married worn on tho samo property rights which they held before marriage, but prohibiting husband and wife from conveying property to each other. An Odhkosh man, who was married by a miuister of that city, slipped into the hands of the latter un envelope, en-velope, which, when opened, was found to contain 25 cents, and now the minister wonders regarding the life the fellow's wife will lead. Ladies' dresses will fit more closely than ever this spring. Their dresses will be made eo tight, that lovely woman wiil lose her last relic of superiority supe-riority over man she won't be able to put her clothes on over her head any more Burlington Hawkeye. A married man up town had blue glass put in hia wife's sitting room to match her eyes, ho said. Sbe returned re-turned the compliment by having red glass put in her husband'B library to match his nose, she said. He didn't seem to appreciate the compliment. a new aance nas been miroaucen into Paris. It is called "The Boston." Though not described it is presumable that it is one step forward and nitch eye glass, two isteps back and repeat, noae up, toes in, all hands around and waltz down stairs to a lunch of cold beanB. Dr. Mary Walker who was recently re-cently expelled -from the treasury building by a clerk, has received a note from Secretary Sherman, admitting admit-ting her to all the facilities of the building. He Bays "X shall trust to your good sense not to abuse a right which 1 fully concede to you." The widow of General Custer has declined a theatrical benefit proponed to be given her in New York on the ground that the money she received lor the general's life insurance will enable herself and family to get along comfortably. Mrs. Custer has insisted upon paying all of her husband's debts in full, and there is a mortgage, of about $2,500 upon the little home' stead, which ought to be paid ofl'. The Hindoo widow, though no longer burnt on tho funeral pyre of her husband, is subjected to a process for the rest of her life which may sometimes causo her to doubt whether the latter state is really any better' than that which British law terrain-J aled. No matter how beautiful the young widow's tresses, they are cropped ofl, all her ornaments are taken away, the very notion of a second marriage regarded as worse than murder, and the poor thing never permitted to leave her room. This is simply the substitution of ira prisonment lor life in placo of death.' |