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Show THE LADIES. The only way to look at a woman's faults is to shut your eyes. Why, if Dr. Mellia Walker wouM only go to Turkey and join the bash-ful-bazouks, Baker would be her valentine. val-entine. Three ladies were put up at a raffle in Kansas city, but when their photographs photo-graphs were exhibited it put a stop to the sale of tickUs. Mis. Ayers, a resident of Alliog-ton, Alliog-ton, Conn., saw a man attempting to fire the woods' on Tuesday. She fired a revolver at him several times, but missed him. A lady in Covington, Ky., held a rabid black and tan dog down by the throat for more than two hours, until un-til her husband came home and dispatched dis-patched him. A little boy in Augusta, Me., who was told that he would go to heaven when he died, told his mother he would like to come back to Squirrel Island to spend the summers. It was a respectable resident ot Richmond who, on Sunday, asked a Cincinnati man to visit Libby Hill. The westerner declined on the plea of being a married man. i It is useless for papers to say that the hair dyes are poisonous, becauee when a woman wishes to use them she will do it. She is brave enough braye anything but a boii on the nose. An Iowa paper tells of a smart wile who helped her husband to r itse seventy acres of wheat. The way she helped him was to Btand in the door and shake a broom at him when he sat down to rest. A woman in Minneapolis parted from her husband because she believed be-lieved be did not love her, and then he killed himself because she had deserted him. Evideutly they did not understand each other. "Postal card proposals," read Mias Pertt indignantly, Irom tho Washington Washing-ton news: "If a man has not got stamps enough for a letter he has not got stamps enough to (ret married. 'No cards' for me, if you please." The Atlantic says some women are too beautiful to die young. They do around here, however, aud the same grand, inflexible, inscrutable law of nature preserves ft niaidan as plain aa the hack side of a tomb stone to the age of ninety-seven. A San Francisco court has recently decided the value of a kiss to be $700, gold. At that rate it wouldn't take a lellow ovur half an hour r so to run through with pretty considerable consider-able of- a fortune, and he'd have nothing left to show for it, either. A little girl who nat on the front s(ep of a house on Montcalm street, yesterday, was asked by a strange girl why she didn't havo On a better dress. "I can wear silk if I want to," qaietly replied the little one. "Your folksain'las richaslhtim folks over there," sneered the big one. "Yes, ws are, and a good deal richer. They was beating their carpets, yesterday, yes-terday, and we was beating ours, and we had twice as much dust as they did 1" That settled the big one, aud she moved ou. Detroit Free Prees. |