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Show A Celebrated Celibate. A young and handsome rector was recently engaged for a fashionable church. One of tho vestrymen with a keen relish for a Joko circulated the rumor that the new parson belonged to the order of ,cellbates, thinking thereby to bafflo the spinsters and widows ot the congregation who were many. One matron, with soveral mar-rlagable mar-rlagable daughters, assembled these and a few young friends about her, and gavo tho group a solemn warning. "Now, girls," she said, "you must not fall In love with tho rector. You know he Is a celebrity!" And a celebrity tho poor man 'remained so long as he was rector of that church. |
