Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-02-01
Female gatherings-Ladies rufles

] FeLuAlE A1AAN@s
Which is the better of, tea or eof-
fee? Coffee. 1t settles itself, but tea
has to draw.
What is the key note to good breed
ing? B natural.
When does a chair dislike you?
When it can't bear you.
Why are there 40 eggs in San Do
mingO? They banished the whites
and cast Off their yoke.
Are there any birds that al sing
the Lays of Ancient Rome? Nesi
Macaulays.
What sort of a day would be good
for running for a cup? A muggy day.
Why should one never sleep in the
cars? The train runs over the sleep
ers.
Why is the letter 6 like death? 1t
makes ghosts of hosts, and is always
in the midst of slaughter.
Experience is one of the oldest and
best teachers, but her prices are ruin
ously high.
To deny, as Peter did, is bad but
not to weep bitteraly, as be did, when
we have denied, is worse.-LPayson.
Wherefore is a darkey with no
hair on the top Of his head like q can
didate for 8 club who has been reject
ed by its members? Because he's
black bald individual.
Mr.. Chauneey Rose, OF Indianapo-
lis, has given to some organization,
the Presbyterian we think, the mu-
nifceut sum of 100000 for the pur-
pose of founding and endoWing a
female college.
In his autobiography, John b.
Cough tells ofaman in New Hamp-
shire, who, when he was o to be
married to hts fourth wife, and the
minister requested the happy couple
to rise, remarked, sententiously IRE
usually sdL"4
Henry Clay, at fourteen, was an
Ierrand boy in Richmond drug store,
|. At fifteen he became a copying clerk
in a law court; vas a most dlllgent
. reader; while his companions spent
! their evenings in pleasure, he studied
his books. He never degraded him.
: self to low vice.
. You may depend on it, religion is,
in its essence, the most gentlemanly
thing in the world. II will SlOne
! lgentilize. if unmixed with cant and
I know nothing else that will, alone.
Certainly not the army, which is
thought to be the grand embellisher
of mRnners.-CColerid Table Talk.
Fanny Fern says a good thing about
/ BOSTON is, "that ladies al go to pub
lie places evenings alone orin couples,
even if John or Tom don't wantt to 60,
; orare AWAY from home. It ought to
be so everywhere; but in New York,
where people go out from their own
=, doors. snd are sometimes q heard
of afterward, and for the matter OF
/. that, 90 into their own doors and are
never seen alive fterward, itisa risky
Undertaking"
= Jimmie Dolphin, of PontOosuc,
Mass, alad quite well known in Pitts
field for remarkable ingenuity in mis-
chief, was whipped the other day by
his mother for some delinquency, and
in revenge he ordered from the un-
ldertaker a hearse and carriages fol
his mothers funeral, and they drove
up to the house in solemn procession
much to the horror of the good wo'
imam. Jimmie is now an inmate of the
Reform School.
"How dismal you look" said
: bucket TO his companion, as they wer'
I going to the well. "Ahp' replied the
= other. 81 was rejecting on the use
) Iessness Of our being filled for let u;
90 away eVer so full, we always CONT
back empty" "Dearme! how strange
i to look at il in that way,n said the
d bucket: f'noW 1 enjoy the thought
= that, however empty we come, We
D always go away fun. Only look at II
% in that light, and you will be as cheer
full as I am"