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MONDAY MORNING, OCT. %, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.
A bad style of Standardization among
antilles.
''Nobby looking young snips" is what they
| call the beaux of New Orleans.
Slandered politicians have only one week
longer to be ''vindicated'' in.
"The amateur who paragraphs events
with pair of shears) for the Boston POST
is what the st. Louis Globe calls him.
Charitable Boston now classes staggering
inebriates among the sufferers from Lorse all,
(ale) The sun runs too high for sun stroke
Mummies do not look as though they were
in hurry, yet it is certain that at first they
must have been pressed for time.
Musical cigar cases are the latest, but play
the ''last cigar so often that they are not
popular with the gentlemen.
To make a boy decetful, parent has only
to require him, whenever he returns home, to
give an account of his doings during his alb
sence.
'Liberty, Equality and Fraternity''-woris
painted on the public buildings of Paris, to
make visitors believe France lives under re-
public.
Many OF the young ladies who import their
costumes from Paris declare that they get
them cheaper than they can have them made
here.
A Western editor kindly says that politi-
clan with whom he does not agree, was made
about two days after the old contract for
brains had expired and before the new one
was made. .F
Ancient manuscripts were written without
accents, stops or separation between the
words; nor was it until after the ninth CEN
tury that copyists began to leave spaces be-
tween the words.
Of what use are forms? exclaimed pet |
ulant legislator to DR.. Franklin; you cannot |
deny that they are often mere empty things! |
Well, my friend, and so are barrels, but nev-
ertheless they have their uses, quietly replied
the doctor.
M. Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne, in
Paris, has published card contradicting the
statement that Miss Nellie Grant, the pres:-
dents daughter, is about to give him her |
hand in marriage.
Wachtel, the tenor, well-known in this |
country for his proficiency in breaking en-
will return with Lucca's enemy,
Madame Mallinger. Dessicated chignons will |
be the result.
Under the head of fashionable intelligence
an exchange gives the following: Ladies'
bustles will be enlarged at the end of the
present month, by the addition of one more
newspaper" "The engagement season has
opened well, and there is good reason to be-
lieve that the services of our parsons will be
in demand.
A second and very clumsy attempt on the |
life of King Amadeus is stated by the Iberia |
to have been made at Madrid. Two men
threw large stone at him from behind the
statues in front of the Royal Palace, shouting
as they did so, ''Vive la Republiquer'
Chicago women have resolved in solemn
conclave that ''the absolute chastity and
of the people is attainable'' and
are preparing crusade against crime which
will probably drive it shrieking to the ends of
the earth, after which a cordial invitation
will be extended to the millennium to partici-
pate in future mundane festivities.
Poor old Briggs, of Boston, labored. under
two great natural defects, the one being his
inability to pronounce the letter v, and the
other "pecuniary retentiveness," vulgarly
known as parsimony. ''What a queer pro-
nunciation your uncle has, observed some
one to nephew of Briggs. "Ah, yes,'
replied the graceless youth. ''It is impossible
to get V out of himr'
''Fanny Fern" was said to be the senior of
our female authors, and she leaves Mrs.
Stowe as next in this distinction. American
literature for many years could boast but two
popular writers of the fair sex, Miss Sedgwick
and Mrs. Sigourney. Oflate, however, they
have rapidly increased, and the first novelists
in America are found in Mrs. Stowe and Miss
Evans. In addition to these we have Mrs.
Southworth, Mrs. Mary ]. Holmes, Mrs.
Terhune (''Marion Harland"), Mrs. Whit
ney, Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames, and Miss
Dodge (''Gail Hamilton.')
The public is plunged in grief by the recent
unsuccessful attempt at suicide, made by Mrs
Lane, mother of Mrs. Fair, when the $780,
suit went against her. Her subsequent stormy
interview with the vindictive daughter was
void Of practical result, though, as both are
armed, all may yet be well if they can oe fire.
quently brought together. As an atonement
for these two fizzles side show is served up
in the shape of divorce-suit. A hitherto
undeveloped ramifcation of this tribe is one
Hunt, brother to Mrs. Fair, and husband to
the niece of Col. Criftenden, who at the in
stigation ofthe artless Laura, married him at
13, and now volunteers to furnish complica-
ton of the family matter by divorcing herself.
A Fair news depot will be established this week
to furnish the public with the salient points
of all future ebullitions of these irrepressbles.
GEN. WHITAKER AND THE SPENT BALL.
"A spent ball, striking with loud thud like
a stone thrown bY some strong armed man